Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Schaffner Press Lee Marvin: Point Blank
Book SynopsisThe first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles--such as his chilling titular villain in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One --very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.
£17.09
Acclaim Press My Kid Brother's Band: A.K.A. the Beatles!
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£24.30
Museyon Guides French Riviera and Its Artists
Book SynopsisArt, Literature, Love, and Life on the Cote d'Azur Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote d'Azur that's sure to delight travellers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world's most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France - artist Henri Matisse, who was inspired by the Riviera's colour and light; writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired 'Tender is the Night'; Coco Chanel, whose Saint-Tropez tan became an international fashion trend; and many more. Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. These luminaries celebrated life and created art amid paradise, and this book is the ultimate guide to the Riviera's golden age. AUTHOR: John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist and filmmaker; he has called Paris home since 1989. He is the author of numerous books including the autobiographical Immoveable 'Feast: A Paris Christmas', 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris', 'Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light', and 'The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s'. REVIEWS of 'Chronicles of Old Paris' and 'The Gold Moments of Paris': "This richly illustrated and beautifully formatted work" - Library Journal "This lovely, gorgeous and intelligent book examines the Paris of old and not so old, with its many fascinating figures and tales." -Chicago Tribune "Excellent walking tours are accompanied by engaging anecdotes .." - France Magazine "While this is a nonfiction book, it reads like fiction, whereby the reader journeys through Paris at different times in its history, through the stories of famous people and places." - ForeWord Review 100 + illustrations and photos
£16.14
Drawn and Quarterly The John Wayne Code: Wit, Wisdom and Timeless
Book SynopsisJohn Wayne was more than a movie star. He was a symbol for everything good and decent about America, inspiring everyday people to reach just a little bit more and try a little bit harder. During his 72 years and more than 150 movies, John Wayne imparted a seemingly-endless amount of advice, wisdom and good old-fashioned common sense to his audiences, and that wealth of knowledge has been collected together for the first time by the people who loved and knew him best. The John Wayne Code is filled with the icon's most insightful quotes, personal stories from his family and friends, and advice for how to be a better person. This personal collector's item encased in faux leather with gilded edges makes the perfect companion for any fan of Duke's who wants to make their life a little more legendary.
£14.39
Robert D. Reed Publishers StarCatcher: A True Life Hollywood Fantasy
Book SynopsisThis book is about quotes and the headliners who made them. Author John Frederick met, interacted, or worked with some of the most famous, fascinating figures of the day, and was privileged to elicit (or overhear) comments that may give readers a totally different view of such people as John Wayne. While we were preparing for what would be his last film, the author asked Duke what had been the single most difficult thing to accept or overcome in his fifty year career. "Keeping your innocence and enthusiasm in the face of terrible rejection," he answered. This probably does not match up with most people's view of John Wayne. Almost every story in this book is fresh and new, never seen before. There are three such John Wayne stories in StarCatcher . There are dozens of other quotes and names that will hold your attention. Each quote is followed by a story that makes StarCatcher a captivating, easy read.
£15.15
Smithsonian Books Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art
Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of the life of Sara Tyson Hallowell, an American agent, advisor to collectors and artists, curator, and advocate for modern art.In the nineteenth century, women became leaders in a myriad fields but only Sara Tyson Hallowell was able to create a lasting career as a curator of exhibitions. Throughout her life Sara Tyson Hallowell continually challenged nineteenth-century expectations about the proper place of well-born women as she worked to make a name for herself in the Chicago art world of the 1880s and 1890s.Although her name may not be well known a century later Hallowell continues to command the attention of contemporary curators because the model she established and the skills she employed in her own work are those that are fundamental to success in the field today. Presenting the first comprehensive story of Sara Tyson Hallowell's life, Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age, highlights the lasting influence and compelling story of Sara Tyson Hallowell.
£31.50
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Spiderwalk: The High Life and Daring Stunts of a
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University of Nevada Press Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career
Book SynopsisFrom the girl in Red Cloud, who oversaw the construction of a miniature town called Sandy Point in her backyard, to the New Woman on a bicycle, celebrating art and castigating political abuse in Lincoln newspapers, to the aspiring novelist in New York City, committed to creation and career, Daryl W. Palmer's ground-breaking literary biography offers a provocative new look at Willa Cather's evolution as a writer.Willa Cather has long been admired for O Pioneers! (1913), Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918)—the "prairie novels" about the lives of early Nebraska pioneers that launched her career. Thanks in part to these masterpieces, she is often viewed as a representative of pioneer life on the Great Plains, a controversial innovator in American modernism, and a compelling figure in the literary history of LGBTQ America. A century later, scholars acknowledge Cather's place in the canon of American literature and continue to explore her relationship with the West.Drawing on original archival research and paying unprecedented attention to the Cather's early short stories, Palmer demonstrates that the relationship with Nebraska in the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than critics and scholars thought. Readers will encounter a surprisingly bold young author whose youth in Nebraska was a kind of laboratory for her future writing career. Becoming Willa Cather changes the way we think about Cather, a brilliant and ambitious author who embraced experimentation in life and art, intent on reimagining the American West.Trade ReviewI cannot think of any Cather volume quite like this one. It is a welcome and innovative contribution to the existing literature. This book will appeal to the broad cross-section of committed lay readers as well as to practicing scholars." - Timothy W. Bintrim, Professor of English, Saint Francis University"Becoming Willa Cather sets out to account for Willa Cather's emergence as a major figure in American writing in the first half of the twentieth century—in recent years it has become clear that she is arguably the preeminent novelist of the 1920s and 1930s, and perhaps the first half of the twentieth century. Only Faulkner contends with her. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the West generally, and Nebraska particularly, was crucial to Cather's emergence as the significant writer she became. Particularly prominent in Becoming Willa Cather are analyses of Cather's early short stories and also some of her poetry, work that has been either unevenly considered (the stories) or almost completely neglected (the poetry) by critics." - Dana Professor of Canadian Studies & English Emeritus, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Red Cloud and the "Real West": Mapping Willa Cather's Territorial Imagination Chapter 2 Writing the West Otherwise: The Short Stories of the First Decade, 1892-1902 Chapter 3. The Road from April Twilights into the Far Country Chapter 4. "a ride through a familiar country": The Different Process of O Pioneers! and the Emergence of Willa Cather Chapter 5. Emergence, Experimentation, and Evolution: The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and the Fiction that Followed Out West A Note on Texts and Abbreviations Works Cited Acknowledgments About the Author
£999.99
Fayetteville Mafia Press Nothing To Fear: Alfred Hitchcock And The Wrong
Book SynopsisAlfred Hitchcock is not often associated with a social justice movement. But in 1956, the world’s most famous director focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The result was The Wrong Man, a wrenching and largely overlooked drama based on the false arrest of Queens musician Christopher “Manny” Balestrero. Despite a detective’s assurance that the innocent have “nothing to fear,” Manny and his family faced ruin from false charges that he twice robbed an insurance office. Aspiring to documentary-like authenticity, Hitchcock and his team meticulously recreated one man’s odyssey through the corridors of justice. In so doing, they opened a window into New York’s history of mistaken identity cases. The Balestrero prosecution was not an isolated miscarriage of justice. Instead, Manny fell victim to the same rush to judgment and suggestive eyewitness identification procedures that had doomed innocent defendants in earlier cases.
£20.85
The Unapologetic Voice House LLC Born Funny: A Comic's Chronicle Through the Rise
Book SynopsisStand-Up Comedy is a battlefield not for the faint of heart. You either die on that stage or you kill. In 2002, Steve Collin was a brand spanking new comic who accidentally stumbled onto a burgeoning irreverent New York comedy movement in its infancy. Alternative Comedy quickly gained a following as a backlash to the stale 'club style' of the 80's. It was new and exciting, and Steve's loose style of comedy was a perfect fit for the 'Alt' scene. But in comedy, timing is everything…just one misstep and you become a cautionary tale or a punchline. A former class clown and comedic natural, Steve enters the stand-up world wholly unprepared for the rejection, heavy drinking and cut-throat competition accompanying it. Recognized early on by comedy tastemakers as a talent to watch, and swiftly securing a litany of TV credits, Steve soon gets caught up in a whirlwind of endless shows, free drinks and the unrelenting New York City nightlife."Born Funny: A Comic's Chronicle Through the Rise of Alt Comedy", is a novel based on the author's stand-up comedy experience during the significant era that launched a generation of comedy talent. Featuring cameos from many well-known future comedy stars before they made it big, some names have been changed, including the author's.
£16.10
Rutgers University Press Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
Book SynopsisMore than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore to the scrappy Irish immigrants of Gangs of New York. And in films as varied as Casino, The Aviator, and The Wolf of Wall Street, he vividly displays the glamour and power that can come with the fulfillment of that dream, but he also shows how it can turn into a nightmare of violence, corruption, and greed. This book is the first study of Scorsese’s profound ambivalence toward the American Dream, the ways it drives some men and women to aspire to greatness, but leaves others seduced and abandoned. Showing that Scorsese understands the American dream in terms of a tension between provincialism and cosmopolitanism, Jim Cullen offers a new lens through which to view such seemingly atypical Scorsese films as The Age of Innocence, Hugo, and Kundun. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus.Trade Review"Martin Scorsese is a preeminent American filmmaker, and Jim Cullen is a preeminent historian of American culture. Spanning from the director's youth on the mean streets of Manhattan to the closing scene of The Irishman, this book is teeming with brilliant insight into some of the most important films of the last 50 years. Highly recommended for cinephiles and for anyone interested in the story of the American Dream." — Jonathan D. Cohen, co-editor of Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen "Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today. This sweeping analysis of Martin Scorsese’s films through the lens of the American Dream is a must read for the many fans of the director’s work." — Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of AmericaTable of ContentsPreface A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan 1 The Elizabethan Era 2 Redeeming Dreams 3 Impressive Failures 4 Dream Critiques 5 Recurring Dreams Conclusion: Dream of Life Acknowledgments Notes Index
£999.99
Rutgers University Press See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in
Book SynopsisPleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating. During their extraordinary lives, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie enjoyed pleasure as they gave pleasure to both those in their lives and to the public at large. They were Black women who, despite their public profiles, whether through Black society or through the world of entertainment, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure.They left home, undertook careers they loved, and did what they wanted, despite perhaps not meeting the standards for respectability in the interwar era. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of other Black women of the time, who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government, yet still managed to enjoy themselves. Among the voyeurs of Black women was Langston Hughes, whose novel Not Without Laughter was clearly a work of fiction inspired by women he observed in public and knew personally, including Black clubwomen, blues performers, and his mother. How did these complicated women wrest loose from the voyeurs to define their own sense of themselves? At very young ages, they found and celebrated aspects of themselves. Using examples from these women’s lives, Green explores their challenges and achievements.Trade Review"Whatever you think you know about the project of 'respectability politics' in Black life, letters and history will be upended in See Me Naked. A bold feminist examination of pleasure in the Interwar Period through some of our most enduring feminist legends – Ma Rainey and Moms Mabley among others – Green’s astute and captivating assessment here will open doors for new imaginings of blackness." -- Sharon P. Holland * author of The Erotic Life of Racism *"In her careful engagement with Nina Yolande Du Bois Williams, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley and Memphis Minnie, Tara T. Green’s See Me Naked offers a groundbreaking exploration of black women’s pursuit of pleasure during the interwar years. Her careful exploration of pleasure’s fundamental relationship to black women’s self-making offers a necessary intervention into the fields of black studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies." -- Jennifer C. Nash * author of Birthing Black Mothers *Tara T. Green in The Black Writer's Studio * The Black Writer's Studio *"Whatever you think you know about the project of 'respectability politics' in Black life, letters and history will be upended in See Me Naked. A bold feminist examination of pleasure in the Interwar Period through some of our most enduring feminist legends – Ma Rainey and Moms Mabley among others – Green’s astute and captivating assessment here will open doors for new imaginings of blackness." -- Sharon P. Holland * author of The Erotic Life of Racism *"In her careful engagement with Nina Yolande Du Bois Williams, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley and Memphis Minnie, Tara T. Green’s See Me Naked offers a groundbreaking exploration of black women’s pursuit of pleasure during the interwar years. Her careful exploration of pleasure’s fundamental relationship to black women’s self-making offers a necessary intervention into the fields of black studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies." -- Jennifer C. Nash * author of Birthing Black Mothers *Tara T. Green in The Black Writer's Studio * The Black Writer's Studio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pleasure Is All Mine 1. Finding Yolande Du Bois’s Pleasure 2. Lena Horne and Respectable Pleasure 3. Moms Mabley and the Art of Pleasure 4. Memphis Minnie and Songs of Pleasure 5. Pleasurable Resistance in Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter Conclusion: Black Feminist Musings from Nature, The Context of Pleasure in 2020 Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Unfinished: A Memoir
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£15.30
Crown Publishing Group (NY) Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage
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£11.04
Crown Publishing Group (NY) Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of
Book SynopsisThe behind-the-scenes story of the iconic funnymen who ruled '80s Hollywood—Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Eddie Murphy—and the beloved films that made them stars, including Animal House, Caddyshack, and GhostbustersNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEW YORK“An enjoyable romp that vividly captures the manic ups and downs of the remarkable group of funny folk who gave us a golden age of small and big screen comedy, from SNL to Groundhog Day.”—Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging BullsWild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes 21 years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other, their illustrious careers, triumphs and prat falls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous '80s, delving behind the scenes of movies such as National Lampoon's Vacation, Beverly Hills Cop, The Blues Brothers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and dozens more. Chronicling the off-screen, larger-than-life antics of Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, John Belushi, John Candy, and Rick Moranis, it's got drugs, sex, punch-ups, webbed toes, and Bill Murray being pushed into a swimming pool by Hunter S. Thompson while tied to a lawn chair. What's not to like?Based on candid interviews from many of the stars themselves, as well as those in their immediate orbit, including directors John Landis, Carl Reiner, and Amy Heckerling, Wild and Crazy Guys is a fantastic insider account of the friendships, feuds, triumphs, and disasters experienced by these beloved comedians. Hilarious and revealing, it is both a hidden history of the most fertile period ever for screen comedy and a celebration of some of the most popular films of all time.Praise for Wild and Crazy Guys“Eminently readable . . . Children of the 1980s, take note: this is a fond, engrossing look back at the making of movies that became cultural touchstones.”—Booklist (starred review) “Nick de Semlyen smartly charts the pinballing career paths of the stars of this new comic wave. . . . His punchy, nonstop narrative . . . tells a [story] where art and commerce smash hard against each other, sometimes causing destruction, but sometimes making sparks fly.”—The Sunday Times (UK)
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire
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£14.00
The University Press of Kentucky A Front Row Seat
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£27.00
The University Press of Kentucky Helen Morgan
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£63.00
The University Press of Kentucky Yves Montand: The Passionate Voice
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£27.00
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers I Thought He Was Dead: A Spiritual Memoir
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£16.00
The Sutherland House Inc. Norman Jewison: A Director's Life
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£19.94
The Sutherland House Inc. Yoko Ono: An Artful Life
Book SynopsisFor more than sixty years, Yoko Ono has fascinated us as one of the world’s most innovative, radical artists. From a childhood of both extraordinary privilege and extreme deprivation in war-time Japan, she adopted an outsider’s persona and moved to America where, after a spell at Sarah Lawrence College, she made a place for herself in bohemian arts circles. She was already twice divorced and established as a performance artist in the Fluxus movement and in Tokyo’s avant-garde scene before her fortuitous meeting with the Beatles’ John Lennon at a London Gallery in 1966. Their intense yet fraught relationship, reputed to have blown-up the Beatles, made headlines around the world, as did their famous bed-ins in protest of the Vietnam war, and their majestic, Grammy-winning musical collaborations.Through it all, and for decades after Lennon’s tragic death, she remained defiantly herself. Yoko Ono: An Artful Life charts her journey of personal turmoil, artistic evolution, and activism, and at last tells her iconic story on her own terms.
£20.89
The Sutherland House Inc. The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan
Book SynopsisA book about power, apprenticeship, and succession in the first family of mediaAn heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert''s empire all his life. In this riveting first biography of a little-understood but hugely influential figure, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning asks: can the dutiful son hang onto the empire, or will the third generation of Murdoch moguls prove the last?Despite a life in the spotlight, Lachlan''s personality, politics, and business acumen remain enigmatic. Is he the ultra-conservative ideologue media reports maintain, or a free-thinking libertarian, as some friends suggest?After emerging victorious from the Murdoch family''s turbulent succession wars, Lachlan is stepping up at a time of unprecedented instability. What can we expect from his time at the helm, and does he have what it takes to chart a future for this century-old company? This is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the global media world, and about America in the age of Trump and Murdoch. It is a book about power, apprenticeship, and succession.
£17.99
Les Belles Lettres Ingrid Bergman
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£23.00
Brepols N.V. Josquin
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£71.37
Brepols N.V. Gaspar Van Weerbeke: New Perspectives on His Life
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Hobrecht and His Singers
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£66.50
Brepols Publishers The Journey of Phil Trajetta
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£136.80
Bohlau Verlag Edwin Fischer (1886-1960) - Pianist, Dirigent,
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£75.59
Bohlau Verlag Wilhelm Stiassny 1842-1910: Judischer Architekt
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£61.51
Bohlau Verlag Musikreisen in innere Raume: Biographische
Book SynopsisIn the 20th century, listening to music in therapeutic methods was combined with hopes for new paths in the art of healing through the possibilities of modern technology. These hopes have become the lifelong theme of the American musician and music therapist Helen Lindquist Bonny (19212010): As a violinist, she first developed an expertise in classical-romantic aesthetic music before becoming active in music therapy and then with Guided Imagery and Music ( GIM) designed a music-receptive set of methods. Her path through life was linked to efforts towards female emancipation and the reception of a zeitgeist in which the examination of forms of altered waking consciousness was fascinating. Musical journeys into inner spaces opens with her biography a panorama of the early history of receptive music therapy in the 20th century.
£74.10
Brill Fink Das Skizzenbuch Engelmann: Untersuchungen Zu
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£205.20
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Hans Georg Nageli (1773-1836): Einsichten in
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£119.68
Dr Ludwig Reichert Er Ist Original! Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sein
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£28.50
Dr Ludwig Reichert Das Verborgene Band: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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£39.90
Zaphon Bernard V. Bothmer, Egyptologist in the Making,
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£71.25
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El emprendedor: 10 pasos para empezar o potenciar
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£16.96
Planeta Publishing Corp La Verdad Muere de Pie Memorias Truth Dies Standing a Memoir
£14.99
Almuzara Diego de Morón. Biografía del Duende
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£34.69
Ma Non Troppo Aerosmith
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£18.19
Ma Non Troppo El Lado Oscuro del Rock
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£18.84
Ma Non Troppo The Beatles de la A A La Z: La Banda Icónica
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£15.51
Libros del Kultrum Aretha Franklin: Apología Y Martirologio de la
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£16.09
Editorial Tenov S.L. Picasso Barcelona – A Cartography
Book SynopsisA vivid portrait of Picasso’s early life and the city he called home. Part biography of the young artist, part guide to Barcelona, Picasso Barcelona tells the story of the relationship between Picasso and the city that saw him evolve into a modern painter. Rafart takes his reader on a journey through Picasso’s early world, following in the artist’s footsteps and discovering its sites through his eyes. On the way, he pauses to reflect on Picasso’s many friends, his early works, and the places he sketched, painted, and lived. In this portrait of Barcelona at the turn of the century, Rafart conjures up haunting images of a city that no longer exists, but which served as the formative inspiration for an artist set to take the world by storm. Published in cooperation with the Museu Picasso, Picasso Barcelona marks the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973 and the 60th anniversary of the creation of his museum in Barcelona. Trade Review“Many sites in old Barcelona can be explored thanks to a new book, Picasso-Barcelona: A Cartography from which aficionados can retrace the artist’s steps around the city and visit his favorite watering holes. This beautifully illustrated book offers a vision of Barcelona as it was then.” * Guardian *Table of Contents1. The Discovery of the City 1895- 18972. The Bohemian City 1897-19003. An Eye on Paris 1900-19044. Barcelona Sojourns 1904-19345. The Lost City 1934-1970 AfterwordChronologyBibliography
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Paginas Libros de Magia Puro Abracadabra
Book SynopsisUn libro aparentemente inofensivo que te introduce en un tejido, en un universo personal que te atrapa, que mezcla aparentes nimiedades con el sentido del universo, que te asoma a multitud de seres de carne y hueso que han tenido gran influencia en el pensamiento, el arte, la magia y la ciencia del siglo XX… Lo que parece ser el sencillo y frÍo relato de un anciano se convierte enseguida en un tapiz en el que todo encaja y es coherente, y a la vez, en el que cada hebra te invita a tirar de ella y sumergirte en un nombre propio, en un libro, en una imagen... La lectura de Puro Abracadabra. AutobiografÍa de Martin Gardner es solo el fascinante primer paso imprescindible para saborear lo que PÁginas tiene preparado para el aÑo 2018. EdiciÓn facsÍmil de ¡Corta la baraja! Se trata de un librillo antiguo de cartomagia de Martin Gardner, que la ediciÓn original en inglÉs de Martin Gardner Presents reproduce en facsÍmil. Contiene juegos de calidad. Todo un aperitivo que prepararÁ a los lectores para la trilogÍa mÁgica siguiente y una invitaciÓn para atraer hacia la magia a los miles de seguidores de Gardner. TrilogÍa de Gardner: Martin Gardner Presents La Magia de Martin Gardner 1: Matemagia La Magia de Martin Gardner 2: Cartomagia La Magia de Martin Gardner 3: Magia de cerca Con prÓlogos de Max Maven, Stephen Minch y del propio GardnerThis unassuming book may look like the simple story of an old man. However, it soon becomes an immersive experience in a captivating universe populated with figures who defined the thought, art, magic, and science of the twentieth century.
£37.47
Urano Mientras Estes Conmigo
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£18.70
Malpaso Editorial Cronicas I Bob Dylan
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£32.33
Herder & Herder VINCENT VAN GOGH
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