Paul Fisher

A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch AwardA bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de si cle culture he inhabited. A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the nouveaux riches as well as the old money, but he reserved his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themes--and on nude drawings of male models that he kept to himself. In The Grand Affair, the historian Paul Fisher offers a vivid life of the buttoned-up artist and his unbuttoned work. Sargent's nervy, edgy portraits exposed illicit or dark feelings in himself and his sitters--feelings that high society on both sides of the Atlantic found fascinating and off-putting. Fisher traces Singer's life from his wandering trans-European childhood to the salons of Paris, and the scandals and enthusiasms he caused, and on to London. There he mixed with eccentrics and aristocrats, and the likes of Henry James and Oscar Wilde, while at the same time forming a close relationship with a lightweight boxer who became his model, valet, and traveling partner. In later years, Sargent met up with his friend and patron Isabella Stewart Gardner around the world and devoted himself to a new model, the African American elevator operator and part-time contortionist Thomas McKeller, who would become the subject of some of Sargent's most daring and powerful work. Illuminating Sargent's restless itinerary, Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de si cle sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life.

Every story has a happy ending . . . it just depends on where you end the story. Like a River to the Sea is the story of an ordinary man, whose life story may have a most extraordinary impact on how you view your own life. Like a River to the Sea is the story of an ordinary man, who, it turns out, has a most extraordinary story to tell. Joshua Davidson was born in Nashville Tennessee; in his forty-first year, he is about to die there. This is the story of his life, his loves, his hopes, dreams, and his fears. It is also the story of what happens to him at the moment he shuffles off this mortal coil, and then what lies beyond. It will change the way you look at your own life and how you tell your own story. Joshua's story will help you to understand how all the seemingly random people and events that collide with us in our lives are, in fact, quite premeditated and full of purpose.

Do you need more laughter to escape everyday nuisances? Maybe you feel guilty because binge watching derails any exercise routine? You aren't alone. We all could use more humor and exercise in our lives. Couch Yoga: Netflix & Namaste makes you laugh while you get fit. This witty companion illustrates how to pose while you escape at the end of the day. It's perfect for loved ones, including you. Couch Yoga: Netflix & Namaste isn't your normal yoga book. It's whimsically illustrated, humorously witty, and perfectly prepped to pair with your binge watching habit. 15 common yoga poses are highlighted. Corpse, Downward Dog, and Tree are some of the featured poses fit for both yoga novices and experts. Each couch yoga pose also includes recommended movie and TV show pairings perfect for the pose. You don't have to pause Netflix, HBO GO, or Hulu to get rippling abs Who knows, maybe Couch Yoga: Netflix & Namaste will make you a yoga master? After a few weeks of couch yoga-ing, you may want to find a studio to take your practice to the next level. This book holistically prepares you. Beyond the yoga poses, it describes the joy of class and how to yoga like a pro. You might fall in love with a new, more popular by the day, form of exercise. Couch Yoga: Netflix & Namaste is for anyone who likes laughter. It's for anyone who "wants" to exercise. It's for family members who are softening like an avocado. It's for patients who are stiffening like a corpse. It's for friends who need a laugh. Paul believes humor, fitness, and family are keys to a happy life. He honed his storytelling prowess leading marketing campaigns at Procter & Gamble, Coty Beauty, and E.&J. Gallo Winery. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies and startups on how to tell product innovation stories. Paul Fisher is a modern day "Renaissance Man" and runs www.peppypoet.com, where people can be moved with poetry, prose, and photos.

"The way Paul Fisher sees the world and writes about it is pure delight An Exaltation of Tongues is full of astounding images and the wisdom of his shaman voice - 'from the green blood of grass / to the moon's missing half.' I love the nuances, the leaping alchemical word magic, and the vision in these poems - 'sweet as stolen honey / ladled from the Great Bear's tongue.' I love the way his poems leap between worlds, and the transparency of emotion is stunning. Every line has the magic I have come to enjoy in Paul Fisher's writing." Diane Frank, Author of Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines "Paul Fisher's An Exaltation of Tongues is accessible and then unusual, for it does not receive a spirit, speaking in tongues, unknowable and nourished somehow on high . . . Authority, instead, is given with such a light touch - to 'my tongue'; to 'your burnt tongue'; to 'double-edged" and 'severed tongues'. His poetry sustains affirmation in an unaffirming, unsustainable world." Judith Hall, author of The Promised Folly

This study investigates the paradoxical dynamics of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who wrote about European art in order to promote and legitimize literary careers. Contrary to the myths they themselves disseminated, American writers in Europe did not escape American culture but rather created and participated in US. Cultural institutions like journals, museums, and universities. Transatlantic careers articulated a cult of Europe in a privileged American space, served social and aesthetic hierarchies, and constructed formidable versions of professional authority of American writers. The book focuses on four art careers Americans practiced in Europe: travel writing, art reviewing, connoisseurship, and salon hosting. It illuminates the careers of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bernard and Mary Berenson, Celia Thaxter, and Gertrude Stein as itineraries of high-cultural formation and self-definition. In four chapters, the study examines these paradigmatic careers as both literary and cultural history, relating them to a diverse American society as well as Bostonian high culture. Americans created and deployed expatriate art careers, the author argues, in a landscape of gender, ethnic, and class relations. The use of Europe was both figural and practical: writers created a fantasized Europe that both enacted social repression and enabled social liberation. Ultimately, as the example of James Weld Johnson demonstrates, elitist and Europhile high culture reflected a much larger America as well as the narrower cultural institutions that historically fostered it.

Learn how to use the core Hibernate APIs and tools as part of the Spring Framework. This book illustrates how these two frameworks can be best utilized. Other persistence solutions available in Spring are also shown including the Java Persistence API (JPA). Spring Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition has been updated to cover Spring Framework version 4 and Hibernate version 5. After reading and using this book, you'll have the fundamentals to apply these persistence solutions into your own mission-critical enterprise Java applications that you build using Spring. Persistence is an important set of techniques and technologies for accessing and using data, and ensuring that data is mobile regardless of specific applications and contexts. In Java development, persistence is a key factor in enterprise, e-commerce, and other transaction-oriented applications. Today, the agile and open source Spring Framework is the leading out-of-the-box, open source solutionfor enterprise Java developers; in it, you can find a number of Java persistence solutions. What You'll LearnUse Spring Persistence, including using persistence tools in Spring as well as choosing the best Java persistence frameworks outside of SpringTake advantage of Spring Framework features such as Inversion of Control (IoC), aspect-oriented programming (AOP), and moreWork with Spring JDBC, use declarative transactions with Spring, and reap the benefits of a lightweight persistence strategyHarness Hibernate and integrate it into your Spring-based enterprise Java applications for transactions, data processing, and moreIntegrate JPA for creating a well-layered persistence tier in your enterprise Java applicationWho This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for developers interested in learning more about persistence framework options on the Java platform, as well as fundamental Spring concepts. Because the book covers several persistence frameworks, it is suitable for anyone interested in learning more about Spring or any of the frameworks covered. Lastly, this book covers advanced topics related to persistence architecture and design patterns, and is ideal for beginning developers looking to learn more in these areas.

The Berlin Airlift by Paul Fisher is a comprehensive account of the historic event that took place between 1948 and 1949. The book provides a detailed description of the political and economic situation in Germany after World War II and the events that led to the blockade of Berlin by the Soviet Union. The author describes how the Western powers responded to the blockade by organizing an airlift to provide food and supplies to the people of Berlin. The book also delves into the logistical challenges of the airlift, including the construction of new airports and the management of a massive airlift operation. Fisher provides insight into the key players involved in the airlift, including the military leaders and politicians who made critical decisions during this period. The Berlin Airlift is a well-researched and engaging account of a pivotal moment in world history. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Persistence is an important set of techniques and technologies for accessing and transacting data, and ensuring that data is mobile regardless of specific applications and contexts. In Java development, persistence is a key factor in enterprise, e-commerce, and other transaction-oriented applications. Today, the Spring framework is the leading out-of-the-box solution for enterprise Java developers; in it, you can find a number of Java Persistence solutions. This book gets you rolling with fundamental Spring Framework 3 concepts and integrating persistence functionality into enterprise Java applications using Hibernate, the Java™ Persistence API (JPA) 2, and the Grails Object Relational Mapping tool, GORM. Covers core Hibernate fundamentals, demonstrating how the framework can be best utilized within a Spring application context Covers how to use and integrate JPA 2, found in the new Java EE 6 platform Covers how to integrate and use the new Grails persistence engine, GORM

"A sweeping biography . . . Fisher] gives fair and sympathetic time to everyone, and provides a lively and detailed social history of the period." --The New York Times The James family, a true American dynasty, gave the world three famous children: Henry, a novelist of genius; William, an influential philosopher; and Alice, an invalid who became a feminist icon, despite her sheltered life and struggles with mental illness. Paul Fisher's masterly biography provides a captivating account of the conflicts--bitter struggles with depression, alcoholism, jealousy, and panic disorders--that shaped the members of this brilliant family, including the two other brothers, Wilkie and Bob, whose achievements were constantly overshadowed by those of their siblings. Their mother, Mary, lent the family some stability, while the mercurial Henry James Sr. nurtured, inspired, and emotionally wounded his children, setting the stage for their intense rivalries and extraordinary achievements. House of Wits is a revealing cultural history that completes our understanding of its remarkable protagonists and the changing world in which they came of age.

This study investigates the paradoxical dynamics of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who wrote about European art in order to promote and legitimize literary careers. Contrary to the myths they themselves disseminated, American writers in Europe did not escape American culture but rather created and participated in US. Cultural institutions like journals, museums, and universities. Transatlantic careers articulated a cult of Europe in a privileged American space, served social and aesthetic hierarchies, and constructed formidable versions of professional authority of American writers. The book focuses on four art careers Americans practiced in Europe: travel writing, art reviewing, connoisseurship, and salon hosting. It illuminates the careers of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bernard and Mary Berenson, Celia Thaxter, and Gertrude Stein as itineraries of high-cultural formation and self-definition. In four chapters, the study examines these paradigmatic careers as both literary and cultural history, relating them to a diverse American society as well as Bostonian high culture. Americans created and deployed expatriate art careers, the author argues, in a landscape of gender, ethnic, and class relations. The use of Europe was both figural and practical: writers created a fantasized Europe that both enacted social repression and enabled social liberation. Ultimately, as the example of James Weld Johnson demonstrates, elitist and Europhile high culture reflected a much larger America as well as the narrower cultural institutions that historically fostered it.

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