Tag: Glass

September 16, 2024

The Glass Bees

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Free Download Bruce Sterling, "The Glass Bees"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0940322552 | PDF | pages: 221 | 2.4 mb
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of global domination. But Zapparoni is worried that the scientists he depends on might sell his secrets. He needs a chief of security, and Richard, a veteran and war hero, is ready for the job. However, when he arrives at the beautiful country compound that is Zapparoni’s headquarters, he finds himself subjected to an unexpected ordeal. Soon he is led to question his past, his character, and even his senses….

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June 5, 2024

A Body Made of Glass A Cultural History of Hypochondria [Audiobook]

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Free Download A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW2VK5K | 2024 | 9 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Caroline Crampton
Narrator: Caroline Crampton
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well. Instead, the fear lingered, and she found herself always on the alert, braced for signs that the illness had reemerged. Now, in A Body Made of Glass, Crampton has drawn from her own experiences with health anxiety to write a revelatory exploration of hypochondria-a condition that, though often suffered silently, is widespread and rising.

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April 26, 2024

Sea Glass Crafts Find, Collect, & Craft More Than 20 Projects Using the Ocean’s Treasures (2024)

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Free Download Rebecca Ruger-Wightman, "Sea Glass Crafts: Find, Collect, & Craft More Than 20 Projects Using the Ocean’s Treasures"
English | 2018 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 1631582550, 1631586904 | EPUB | 107,0 mb
Sea Glass Crafts includes twenty step-by-step projects for you to create beautiful works with your collection of sea glass. Accompanying each project are beautiful full-color photographs which visually aid readers in the instructions as well as display the finished product.

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January 31, 2024

Engraving and Decorating Glass Methods and Techniques

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Free Download Barbara Norman, "Engraving and Decorating Glass: Methods and Techniques"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 071535597X, 048625304X | EPUB | pages: 200 | 9.1 mb
The history of glass and glass decoration extends back at least to the ancient Egyptians, who made small vessels of dark glass and decorated them with glass threads of contrasting colors. Occasionally glass vessels were also engraved on the lapidary’s wheel. Today, the ancient art and craft of decorating glass continues to flourish among artists and crafters attracted by its combination of artistic beauty and skilled craftsmanship. Unfortunately, until the publication of this book, there were few if any practical instruction guides for beginners in this exciting and deeply rewarding field.

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January 21, 2024

Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass

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Free Download Liana De Girolami Cheney, "Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass"
English | ISBN: 1443885851 | 2016 | 395 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book focuses on the aesthetic, symbolic, and cultural concepts of radiance and beauty in stained glass in modern art; global exchanges between stained-glass artists in Europe and the Americas; and the transformation of stained glass from religious decoration to secular material culture. Unique features of the book include its geographic breadth, encompassing England, France, Italy, USA, and Mexico, and its inclusion of American female glassmakers. Essays consider how stained glass became an art form during this time, and show how the narrative for the figurative design drew from the Bible, mythology, history, literature, and the symbolism of the time, including popular culture such as ecology and materiality. Written for students and the general public interested in the humanities, literature, history, art history, and new media and popular culture, this book examines the visual beauty and symbolism of stained-glass windows in Europe and American cultures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the modern era.

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