Pdf: The Last Nude

“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financier ...

'When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate... What I asked for? Any life but this one.' When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her m ...

A funeral director reflects on 30 years of serving the living and the deceased while providing us with a behind-the-scenes story told with both empathy and ...

A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe ...

In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's tak ...

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Sarah Waters meets Carol Birch in a breathtaking story of love, adventure and identity. ...

From #1 New York Times Bestseller Vi Keeland, comes a new, sexy standalone novel. It was just a typical Monday. Until the big boss asked me to make the pit ...

Bill Lee, an addict-hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy worl ...

From the creator of the number one business blog comes a powerful exploration of how, and why, businesses had better be blogging: Naked Conversations. Acco ...

Alessandro Bertolotti’s unrivalled collection of books on nudes, amassed over thirty years, allows us to explore the history of photographic creations, f ...

Inspired by the international media flurry surrounding his most recent nude portraiture, Marc Baptiste has branched out from a successful fashion photograp ...

Set in Warrenside, Pennsylvania, Nude Walker is the story of forbidden love seen through the prism of post-industrial America. When Kat Warren-Bineki, the ...

Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the hea ...

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A collection of seventy beautifully reproduced black-and-white photographs by an acclaimed and controversial artist offers unique and artistic nude studies ...

Follows a romantic triangle involving a woman searching for her runaway father, her husband, and a married professor she meets in the country ...

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The deputy editor of The Futurist magazine discusses the impact the increased use of computer-aided forecasting will have on everyday life, cataloging the ...

Manhattan public defender Casi has a perfect record of courtroom victories, but he experiences a personal and professional devolution as his sense of justi ...

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s death, Duchamp’s Last Day offers a radical reading of the artist’s final hours. Just moment ...

"Transform your passion for writing into a career. Regardless of the genre, every novelist faces a difficult task. Creating authentic characters and an eng ...

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Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of ber woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of hcr children : Emmett, Jes ...

Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe (in ...

Leading nutritional therapist Margaret Floyd's Eat Naked will help you strip away the overprocessed, overpackaged, and overdressed junk food from your diet ...

This Naked Mind has ignited a movement across the country, helping thousands of people forever change their relationship with alcohol. Many people question ...

Some companies gather and sell personal information to assist businesses in their marketing campaigns. It this American business at its finest, or simply a ...

As F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the mad glories of the 1920s on the printed page, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) captured them on canvas. A seductive Garb ...

Examines the invasion of privacy in the United States by government, business, and education. Describes surveillance techniques and tools of investigative ...

The Naked CEO's guide to achieving your dream, starting now From suspended schoolboy to disruptive CEO, Alex Malley, TheNaked CEO, has led a life rich in s ...

This is as much the story of Indian advertising as it is about India. Ad veteran Ambi Parameswaran looks at how advertising has evolved, reflecting the cou ...

Following the remarkable success of the 50th year anniversary edition, we're pleased to present Playboy: Centerfolds, 60th Anniversary Edition. The content ...

Now in a mass market edition, the newest novel from Sparkle Hayter breaks new ground with Annie Engel, a secretary content with her life - even though her ...

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic ...

Rising to prominence in Vienna alongside Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka in the turbulent years around the First World War, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is on ...

Detective Ken Goode investigates a string of murders linked to the same beauty school his sister attends, and he must race against time to catch a killer, ...

Recounts the search for a long-lost masterpiece by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Caravaggio, following a young graduate student across hundreds of ye ...