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Flash Gordon, Dale Arden y el doctor Hans Zarkov vuelven al planeta Mongo de la mano del fan número uno de la serie, Al Williamson, que en esta versión del héroe en comic books cierra el círculo de su adoración hacia el personaje y su creador, Alex Raymond.Es un regreso al Mongo clásico y naif, con sus reinos y tiranos, criaturas fantásticas y civilizaciones deslumbrantes...Y por encima de todo la sombra inmortal de Ming el Cruel.

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This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon''s work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in 1993. Gordon is one of a number of Glasgow-trained artists who came to prominence in the 1990s. He has gone on to achieve huge international recognition, marked by major awards, including the Turner Prize in 1996, and by exhibitions in museums in Europe and America. Gordon works with film, video, photographs, objects and texts, examining issues such as memory and identity, good and evil, life and death. He makes great play with the doubling of images often in positive and negative or in mirrored form. This book will show all the important aspects of Gordon''s work, both past and present. In addition, it will be specially tailored to bring out the particularly Scottish nature of Gordon''s ideas and practice.The exhibition book will contain essays by the exhibition curator, Keith Hartley, senior cu

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Covers the brief but groundbreaking career of the self-proclaimed 'anarchitect' Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), one of the most influential American artists of the 1970s.

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Casi treinta años después de su muerte, Maxine Gordon, viuda y representante del famoso músico de jazz Dexter Gordon, completa y termina la biografía que comenzó su esposo.Criado en una peculiar familia afroamericana y compañero de Joe Newman, Ernie Royal o del mismísimo Louis Armstrong, se convirtió en símbolo de la clase baja negra expatriada y formó parte de una generación que luchaba contra los estereotipos quela sociedad impelía.Esta biografía, documentada y acompañada por cartas personales y anécdotas, es también la historia de un desarrollo musical originado por un grupo reducido de jóvenes que querían tocar algo nuevo y auténtico: el bepop.

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Alastair Gordon (b.1978, Edinburgh), is an artist based in London. This, the first major monograph of the artist’s career, includes over 160 paintings, drawings and documentational photographs, along with notes by Gordon himself. The book introduces this accomplished and engaging new voice in British painting.Gordon’s paintings bring the historic languages of genre painting and the quodlibet into a contemporary discourse that pushes the boundaries of realism, figuration and illusionism to focus on everyday moments. His work often elevates seemingly ordinary objects – feathers, matchsticks, postcards – allowing them to speak to wider concerns of beauty, truth, life and death.The documented works, produced between 2012 and 2023, include paintings made in oil or acrylic on MDF, wood, ‘found’ wood, gesso panel, paper, canvas and occasionally linen. Each is distinctive for its style and for the recurring motifs Gordon selects such as masking tape, paper ephemera and repeated, subtly different studies of the same subject. Gordon’s texts describe how objects found mud larking on the banks of the River Thames, shoes from the London City Mission and rags and papers discarded from art students’ studios have been depicted in paintings, incorporating the histories and stories of each item (and each person) into his work. The book also features recent works influenced by rural landscapes and parkland.An introduction by Julia Lucero, Associate Director of Nahmad Projects, London, emphasises the importance of nature and of meditation within Gordon’s practice. Specifically, Lucero brings out the idea of the ‘axis mundi, that metaphysical and mystical connecting point where heaven meets Earth’. She explores the significance of quodlibet, a seventeenth-century trompe-l’oeil painting technique that Gordon favours, rendering brushstrokes invisible and affording everyday objects new significance, even ‘profound value’. Humble objects such as a matchstick or paper aeroplane might be elevated to the realms of the divine.An essay by Jorella Andrews, Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, describes the influence of Gordon’s time on a research residency in the former studio of Paul Cézanne at Les Lauves on the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence. His experiences there proved pivotal to the direction of his practice, in which both the ‘visual misdirection’ of quodlibet and the qualities of wood have become central. Andrews brings art historical texts and works of art into relation with Gordon’s paintings, making comparisons between subject, form and approach. Andrews’ text further details the recent synthesis of two sides of Gordon’s work: precise illusionism combined with looser observations made in the natural landscape.Edited by Alastair Gordon Studio, designed by Herman Lelie, printed by EBS Verona and published in 2023 by Anomie Publishing, London, the publication has been generously supported by Howard and Roberta Ahmanson through Fieldstead and Company.Alastair Gordon (b. 1978, Edinburgh) is an artist working with painting, drawing and installation, based in London. Gordon received his BA from Glasgow School of Art and his MA from Wimbledon School of Art, London. His work has been shown in recent solo exhibitions at Ahmanson Gallery in Irvine, California (2017), Aleph Contemporary, London (Quodlibet (2021) and Without Borders (2020)) and in the group exhibition Unpacking Gainsborough (2021) at Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London.

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Flash Gordon regresa a Mongo y volvemos a encontrarnos con viejos conocidos que habían desaparecido de las previas entregas diarias y las páginas dominicales: Azura la reina de la magia, un breve cameo de Vultan, la aparición de un príncipe Barin a quien, de momento, no acompaña su esposa Aura? y la introducción de Ming, un desconocido vástago del dictador, con su mismo nombre, que ocupa el nicho necesario de villano recurrente, como no pudieron hacer sus ?hermanos? Kang y Zin...

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This title focuses on Jeff Gordon and gives information related to his early life, his time racing in NASCAR, and the legacy he leaves behind. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

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Gordon Parks (1912–2006) was a pioneering figure in 20th-century photography. As well as being the first African-American photographer to join the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and to become a staff photographer for Life magazine, he was also a writer, film director and composer. Although best known for documenting issues such as poverty, race relations and civil rights, he was remarkably versatile, turning his gift for visual narrative to subjects as diverse as news coverage, fashion, art and sport. He also captured prominent figures of his era, from Malcolm X to Marilyn Monroe, in a series of memorable portraits. Working in the US and around the world, he was driven by a commitment to social justice: ‘The common search for a better life and a better world is deeper than colour or blood.'

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Flash Gordon se enfrenta a las consecuencias de dejar en manos de las máquinas los usos y decisiones de la guerra: los humanos se convierten en meros espectadores de un conflicto que se pierde en el tiempo y sin el que en el fondo no saben vivir. Los miedos que hoy sentimos por las IA y sus aplicaciones están ya reflejados aquí.Dan Barry y el novelista Harry Harrison logran con breves pinceladas una radiografía del futuro no como sitio luminoso y arcadia feliz, sino como escenario de conflictos para los que quizás la humanidad no esté preparada. Y lo hacen con dramatismo y también con sátira e ironía. Puro sentido de la maravilla.

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La humanidad está colonizando el sistema solar, se ha enfrentado en una guerra galáctica con los terribles y expansionistas skorpi, pesca con delfines en Venus y se enfrenta a la climatología adversa de Marte, viaja en el tiempo y sufre la invasión de unos seres mecánicos desde la dimensión X, lo que salpica las historias es una pátina de realismo: la especulación sobre la anti-materia, el choque de un meteorito que puede destruir la Tierra, los problemas económicos y alimenticios que puede conllevar la colonización de otro planeta, e incluso la aparición de una Patrulla del Tiempo para evitar desaguisados y mundos paralelos?Harry Harrison y Dan Barry toman de la ciencia ficción escrita lo que nunca se había visto en la ciencia ficción dibujada? y sin saberlo influirían tanto en la ciencia ficción dibujada como en la ciencia ficción escrita de décadas venideras.

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The definitive, jaw-dropping account of the Jazz Age con woman, escort, speakeasy owner, and racketeer Vivian Gordon, whose sensational murder – and the damning list of powerful politicos, gangsters, and businessmen left behind in her diary - captivated Prohibition-era New York, obsessed its then-governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ensnared its mayor, and exposed the city’s dark underbelly of police corruption. From Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning mob historian Anthony M. Destefano.Like so many other pretty butterflies, Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con woman. But given her dangerously intimate associations—from ruthless underworld gangsters

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Inspiring fables to bring out the best in yourself and your team The fables included in The Jon Gordon Box Set have inspired readers around the world. For the first time, eight of Jon Gordon's most engaging and powerful fables are together in one limited edition box set. The collection will fuel your life, work, and team with vision, passion, positivity, and purpose. Gordon's masterful storytelling and meaningful messages makes the set a perfect gift for professional colleagues, students, and families alike. Jon Gordon has worked closely with numerous Fortune 500 companies, professional and college sports teams, hospitals, and leaders in business and education to develop positive and high performing teams. His empowering messages are captured in the timeless fables included in this limited edition box set: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change Soup: A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work The Positive Dog: A Story About the Power of Positivity The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All This powerful and inspiring collection of fables from bestselling author Jon Gordon features lessons and insight that will empower you to make positive changes in your professional and personal life.

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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is a small boy who has a big name - and that's why he likes Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper becasue she has too. So when he finds Miss Nancy has lost her memory, Wilfrid determines to discover what memories are so he can find it for her.A perennial classic, perfect for reading aloud.

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Tras incidentes sin cuento en su periplo de regreso desde el planeta Mongo a la Tierra, Flash, Zarkov y una doctora especializada en cibernética suben a un cohete robot que no necesita de presencia humana para surcar el espacio? y que se rebela contra los humanos por protegerlos primero y por protegerse a sí mismo después. Flash Gordon ya se enfrentó a un émulo de H.A.L. 9000 ocho antes de 2001 una odisea del espacio.

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A collaboration with Gordon; a collection of images and texts from the past forty years that deal with the idea of visual memory, shared visual knowledge and the interwoven texture of imagined and remembered sounds and images. Also explores the relationship between film and psychoanalysis, and the way these systems of thought have affected the idea of individual biography.

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Whether creating enormous exhibition spaces or designing living quarters for collectors and homes and studio facilities for artists, the acclaimed architect Max Gordon (1931-1990) shaped the physical settings of art in the world's major metropolises during his influential career. Following several decades of work with leading architectural firms in New York and London (during which he designed the headquarters of New Scotland Yard), in the early 1980s Gordon designed the first Saatchi Gallery in London, and went on to become celebrated and sought after as the art world's architect of choice, designing spaces for artists Elizabeth Murray, Jennifer Bartlett, Richard Serra and Joel Shapiro, and gallerists Paula Cooper, Brooke Alexander, Maeght-Lelong and Lorence-Monk in New York and Anthony d'Offay and Annely Juda in London. This first monograph offers a detailed overview of Gordon's projects for the art world, from the 100,000-square-foot exhibition space he designed for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid to the SoHo home he remodeled for Richard Serra, demonstrating throughout his elegant use of light, space and minimal decoration, and displaying his gift for always highlighting the art.

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The bestselling follow-up to Humble Pie, now in paperback. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, Gordon Ramsay never imagined he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Here's how. "In the beginning there was nothing. Not a sausage - penniless, broke, fucking nothing - and although, at a certain age, that didn’t matter hugely, there came a time when hand-me-downs, cast-offs and football boots of odd sizes all pointed to a problem that seemed to have afflicted me, my mum, my sisters, Ronnie and the whole lot of us. It was as though we had been dealt the ‘all-time dysfunctional’ poker hand. I wish I could say that, from this point on, the penny dropped and I decided to do something about it, but it wasn’t like that. It would take years before the lessons of life, business and money began to click into place - before, as they say, I had a pot to piss in. This is the story of how those lessons were learned." This is Gordon Ramsay at his raw, rugged best. PLAYING WITH FIRE is the amazing story of Gordon’s journey from sous-chef to superstar. In his no-holds-barred style, Gordon shares his passion for risk and adventure and his hard-won success secrets.

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Fascinat pels relats d?aventures marineres d?un amic, el jove Arthur Gordon Pym, fill d?un comerciantde Nantucket, se sent cridat a embarcar-se com a polissó al balener Grampus, a larecerca de l?emoció del mar. No pot imaginar, però, els fets terribles que l?esperen, en aquestviatge espantós cap als mars del Sud i l?inhòspit oceà Antàrtic. Dotada d?un ritme implacablei amb factura deliberadament popular i, tanmateix, amarada del temperament fosc i opressiude l?autor, La narració d?Arthur Gordon Pym és un clàssic de la novella d?aventures que, a poca poc, com qui cau en un malson, s?endinsa en les aigües tèrboles del gènere fantàstic i deterror ?tan cars a Edgar Allan Poe?, fins a brindar un dels finals més enigmàtics i misteriososde tota la història de la literatura.

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"I want to teach you how to cook good food at home. By stripping away all the hard graft and complexity, anyone can produce mouth-watering recipes. Put simply, I'm going to show you how to cook yourself into a better cook."GORDON RAMSAYGordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course is about giving home cooks the desire, confidence and inspiration to hit the stoves and get cooking, with over 120 modern, simple and accessible recipes. The ultimate reference bible, it's a lifetime's worth of expertise from one of the world's finest chefs distilled into a beautiful book.Learn how to cook incredible, flavoursome dishes in just ten minutes with Ramsay in 10, the new book out 14/10/21.

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How did a woman with the desire to help others became the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America?Born in 1860 in Savannah, Georgia, Juliette Gordon Low grew up having the finest clothes and education. She was expected to be a prim and proper lady, but "Crazy Daisy"--as she was nicknamed by her friends and family--preferred to climb trees, ride horses, and hike. She also tried to find ways to help people in need. She carried that caring spirit with her into adulthood and used it to develop the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in 1912. Today, Juliette's organization continues to empower young girls, improve their self-esteem, and provide them with lifelong skills and a community of sisterhood. Learn more about this strong-willed woman in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series!

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