Jonathan Brown

Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals for most of us have rural ancestors. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, these people have rarely been written about with the family historian in mind. No previous book has provided a guide to the documents and records, from medieval times to the twentieth century,...

Jonathan Brown (1939–2022) was the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute for Fine Arts at New York University and the author of a number of books, including Velázquez: Painter and Courtier; Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe; Painting in Spain, 1500–1700; and In the Shadow of Velázquez: A Life in Art History. Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century...

Chloe can't wait to get out of Dodge, which in her case is Bucksville, California. She's tired of high school, small-town gossip, and most of all looking after her alcoholic mother. Chloe is tough, a straight-A student with a deadly penchant for knife throwing. She's all set to fly to worlds beyond when four bad actors come to town with bad intentions for the sheriff, Jim Boulder. Chloe's fiercely protective of her sheriff. Her attempt to offer...

Amazing true story of an eighteen year old high school dropout in Idaho who traffics high end pot from Canada and makes millions. Now the feds are on his trail.

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Sometimes rumor, sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed, like in other world religions, over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. Misquoting Muhammad takes listeners back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects...