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Primer libro del cantante Andrés Borque.
"Echar la vista atrás es bueno a veces, como diría Karina, y otras veces te encuentras con ERRORES. Yo he cometido cientos de ellos, aunque para mí eso no es necesariamente malo, entre otras cosas porque si no, no habría escrito este libro.
En él encontrarás mis "greatest hits": desde desastres amorosos, al habitual horror que es encontrar compañeros de piso. Todo esto contado desde el humor, porque...
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L'un et l'autre se disaient qu'ils se ressemblaient. Leur univers c'était eux. Ils apprenaient à se connaître en bénissant le ciel de s'être rencontrés. Malgré leur passé, ils se découvraient tous aussi ingénus l'un que l'autre. Comment aurait-il pu en être autrement? Johnny avait trouvé sa reine, Sylvie, contrée lointaine, forêt sombre et lumineuse, seule elle aussi, et aussi belle que lui.
Du reste, les histoires d'amour ressemblent...
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Prisciliano Sánchez ocupa un lugar en la historia política nacional y jalisciense, aquella que inició a principios de la década de los veinte del siglo xix, hace ya un poco más de 180 años, vertiente fundada como parte de la formación de historiadores, juristas, políticos, entre otros. La aportación que se le atribuye fue haber sido uno de los principales promotores del federalismo en México, a través de sus discursos y escritos promovía...
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A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian
Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whose career spans 50 years, has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, and worked on such classics as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Complete with personal anecdotes from the...
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In his new prose collection, “On the Eve of Never Departing”, Richard von Sturmer shines his clear, poetic light on a number of subjects, ranging from growing up in Auckland in the 1970's to Zen encounters in T'ang Dynasty China. Landscapes and paintings play a predominant role, and the reader will find him/herself exploring the south-western deserts of the United States as well as the canvases of Antonello da Messina and Casper David Friedrich....
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Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents, recognition, nor much gratitude for his work. Ed later drew sketches as an illustrator for an architectural firm in Grand Rapids, where he met a co-worker...
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In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies–born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon's conscription. His work would become inextricably entwined with the new world he so proudly adopted in his motto "America, my country."
Inspired by the primeval forests and the vast flocks of birds that thrived in them, Audubon spent the next several decades of his life painstakingly documenting the birds of the American wilderness. He traveled...
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#1 Jacob built a red BMX-style bike to carry him across the country. He didn't ride it much, instead opting to hike and camp. He sold his Volkswagen sedan and bought a bike, which he used to travel across the country.
#2 Jacob spent two months riding from California to Washington, and he was last seen in a remote area of Olympic National Park on April 6.
#3 Ranger...
29) Paul Cézanne
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In the words of Matisse and Picasso, Paul Cézanne was the 'father of us all', his approach to color and perspective paving the way for later modernist art movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, as he moved beyond the figurative tradition and towards abstraction.
This book charts Cézanne's journey as an artist, his involvement with the Impressionist movement and his importance as a leading Post-Impressionist. It explores the places where he...
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#1 I always knew I was a girl with certainty, but I had to sacrifice this certainty in order to stand firmly in the murkiness of my shifting self-truths.
#2 I first valued Marilyn, who lived in the same housing complex as my grandmother, in kindergarten. We had many things in common, and I trusted her completely.
#3 I loved visiting Grandma Pearl, the first woman who...
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The Austrian aristocrat Baron Rudolph von Ripper (1905–60) was acclaimed internationally as an artist, military hero and bon viveur before his astonishing legacy was unintentionally erased by history. Fortuitously, the recent discovery of a dossier of his letters and photographs at an uninhabited Spanish villa has led to its resurrection in this gripping biography.
Von Ripper lived – and loved – with brio and befriended many colourful luminaries...
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Book Preview: #1 I had escaped my small town and cornfield notoriety, and was now free to live an authentic gay life in a gorgeous big city. I had become a hairdresser, and was meeting with a magazine about my web series. I was shocked when a woman called me a faggot.
#2 I had been going about my life, just business as usual, when the show came out. People stopped me everywhere I...
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Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family. He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then in 1883 he moved to New York city, where he earned his living as an illustrator for magazines and books and showed easel works in exhibitions. He eventually...
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Book Preview: #1 The failing of an aging parent is one of those old stories that feels shockingly new to the person experiencing it. My father, who was always tough on me as a child, is now frighteningly old and dementia-ridden. He still loves my mother, though.
#2 My father has always wanted to know where I am seeing other people. He is constantly asking me this, and I always tell...
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Book Preview: #1 Africa is a vast, ancient continent with endless plains and forests. It is a country of death and renewal, and humans are only visiting.
#2 A hunter was watching a pride of lions feed on a carcass, when he saw a lioness climb onto her back legs and begin feeding. He never shot the lioness, because he knew that he would be in big trouble if he harmed a female.
#3...
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In Sights is one man's journey from boyhood to manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes that offer insight into male bonding. Few paths have included such diverse experience. From military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour, from academic failure to intelligence work in Northern Ireland; from helping Rudolf Hess out of an ambulance to being tasked with taking the...
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#1 I was a comedy writer for my college radio show. I was wondering how I would get into show business, since it seemed impossible. I didn't know how you enter show business, but I was sure it wasn't through college.
#2 I wanted to be a comedian, and I spent my time talking to comedy legends and asking them how they got into comedy. I was told that John Belushi, Joe...
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Albert Geiger's autobiography tells of a lifetime in the fashion industry. From his humble start as a milliner to his illustrious work in couture clothing, Bert's many successes in design are owed to his indomitable motivation to have his own fashion label. His styles outlived the trends of the times, from the conservative cuts of the forties to the rebellious "Disco Daze" and beyond. Classic lines and casual elegance distinguished Bert's designs,...
39) Godblogs
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And from readers of the blogHeartbreaking and honest. This collection is simply exquisite. Rita speaks and writes for many of us."The awful relief, the fearsome comfort, of being known." Some dichotomies are nothing more than wordplay, pure pretense. This one is pure truth.Rita's writing is beautiful, intelligent, transcendent. She copes with a co-author who morphs, disappears, and refuses to edit. But these reports will likely make your heart hurt...
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Es gibt bereits zahlreiche Literatur (Biographien, Fotobände, Nachschlagewerke) über Udo Lindenberg. Dieses Bilder/Reim/Werk ist das philosophische Gegenstück dazu. Es beschreibt in Versform die Entstehungsgeschichte des Panikorchesters sowie das Leben des Panikrockers aus Gronau bei Münster. Weiter werden in Texten und Bildern einige der Wichtigsten Stationen Udo Lindenbergs beschrieben und beleuchtet. Hierzu diente als Vorlage die Biographie...
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