A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe watched by a large crowd Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder & drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions Slowly they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion in which the characters' inner lives are reflected by the story's spaces & landscapes ...

This Game Master&s Kit is the key accessory for your Modern AGE campaign It features a three-panel hardback screen that puts critical game information in front of you & hides the adversaries & surprises your game&s heroes will face It also

Includes:: 6 quick reference cards that put stunts & actions at your fingertips & a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers Organize your Modern AGE game with style!

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The World of Lazaru&115; i&115; the fir&115;t campaign &115;etting for Green Ronin&115; new Modern AGE RPG Ba&115;ed on the critically acclaimed Lazaru&115; &115;erie&115; by Greg Rucka & Michael Lark & pre&115;ented by Image Comic&115; the book bring&115; thi&115; noir dy&115;topia to tabletop roleplaying game&115; In the near future time ha&115; rendered death ob&115;olete & life infinitely cheap In the wake of government&115; failure & global upheaval the Familie&115; &115;tepped in & divvied up the world Now peace & order reign in a world of technological marvel&115; & neo-feudali&115;m The Familie&115; quietly war with one another wagering the live&115; of loyal &83;erf&115; while they relax in live&115; of indulgence all while the Wa&115;tetho&115;e left behind by thi&115; new order&115;truggle daily for ba&115;e &115;urvival Play member&115; of a Family in the highe&115;t of high-&115;take&115; game &83;erf&115; fighting for their Family&115; intere&115;t&115; to maintain order & &115;afety or di&115;affected Wa&115;te fighting for a better life in the burned ruin&115; of the old world The World of Lazaru&115; require&115; the Modern AGE Ba&115;ic Rulebook for u&115;e ...

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement & assesses its triumphs & failures The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright Adolf Loos Le Corbusier & Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s revealing the often contradictory demands of form function social engagement modernity & tradition ...

The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups the Realists Impressionists Post-Impressionists Symbolists Cubists & Surrealists It was also a time of rapid social economic & political change encompassing a revolution in communication systems & technology & an unprecedented growth in the availability of printed images Richard Brettell's innovative account explores the aims & achievements
- the beautiful & the bizarre
- of artists such as Monet Gauguin Picasso & Dali in relation to urban capitalism & expansion colonialism nationalism & internationalism & the museum Tracing common themes of representation imagination perception & sexuality across works in a wide range of different media he presents a fresh approach to the fine art & photography of this remarkable era

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Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists from still-lifes by Matisse & Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg & Andy Warhol But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great & lesser-known modern artists writers & poets ate cooked depicted & wrote about food A cornucopia of life in the kitchen & in the studio throughout the twentieth century & beyond the book explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food cooking & eating from Europe & the Americas
- from the early moderns through the Impressionists Symbolists Cubists Futurists & Surrealists up to today's art
- as well as writing about food from contemporary novelists writers & poets Mary Ann Caws supplies numerous delicious modern art recipes from Frida Kahlo's Veracruz-style red snapper to David Hockney's strawberry cake & Claude Monet's madeleines exploring the parallels between the art of cuisine & the visual & verbal arts The Modern Art Cookbook illuminates the significance of particular ingredients & dishes in the lives of some of the world's greatest artists providing a feast for the eyes & the mind as well as the palate Beautifully illustrated & often surprising this compilation is a joyous guide to the art of food

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As public interest in modern art continues to grow as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern & the Bilbao Guggenheim there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers offering them not only information & ideas about modern art but also explaining its contemporary relevance & history This book achieves all this & focuses on interrogating the idea of &modern& art by asking such questions as What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern & contemporary art? Is &postmodernist& art no longer modern or just no longer modernist
- in either case why & what does this claim mean both for art & the idea of &the modern&? Cottington examines many key aspects of this subject including the issue of controversy in modern art from Manet&s Dejeuner sur L& Herbe (1863) to Picasso&s Les Demoiselles & Tracey Emin&s Bed (1999); & the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable
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Buying & selling paintings can be a very lucrative business Five different artists have produced a bunch of paintings & it's the player's task to be both the buyer & the seller hopefully making a profit in both roles He does this by putting a painting from his hand up for auction each turn He gets the money if some other player buys it but must pay the bank if he buys it for himself After each round paintings are valued by the number of paintings of that type that were sold The broker with the most cash after four rounds is the winner ...

Modern Asian Design provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Asian design in the modern period both tracing historical threads & offering a theoretical framework within which to chart the history of design in Asia Rather than a singular " Asian history" this book presents a series of studies centred on trade routes colonial relationships regional networks & cross-cultural exchanges Modern Asian Design builds on existing resources beyond design history in an effort to map the field focusing particularly on relations between Asia & the West & also across Asian design cultures Opening with a brief overview of trade & exchange networks in the 17th & 18th centuries the bulk of this study comprises analysis of the development of modern design in Asia during the later 19th & early 20th centuries a period of rapid modernisation The book's final two chapters bring these central ideas into a contemporary & highly relevant context ...

Build advanced authentication solutions for any cloud or web environment Active Directory has been transformed to reflect the cloud revolution modern protocols & today's newest Saa S paradigms This is an authoritative deep-dive guide to building Active Directory authentication solutions for these new environments Author Vittorio Bertocci drove these technologies from initial concept to general availability playing key roles in everything from technical design to documentation In this book he delivers comprehensive guidance for building complete solutions For each app type Bertocci presents high-level scenarios & quick implementation steps illuminates key concepts in greater depth & helps you refine your solution to improve performance & reliability He helps you make sense of highly abstract architectural diagrams & nitty-gritty protocol & implementation details This is the book for people motivated to become experts Active Directory Program Manager Vittorio Bertocci shows you how to Address authentication challenges in the cloud or on-premises Systematically protect apps with Azure AD & AD Federation Services Power sign-in flows with Open ID Connect Azure AD & AD libraries Make the most of Open ID Connect's middleware & supporting classes Work with the Azure AD representation of apps & their relationships Provide fine-grained app access control via roles groups & permissions Consume & expose Web APIs protected by Azure ADUnderstand new authentication protocols without reading complex spec documents ...