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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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Pursuit in Provence is Jordan Mayfair's debut as an amateur sleuth‚ finding her way through a labyrinth of art‚ rock-and-roll -- and murder - against the captivating backdrop of Provence.
American architect Jordan Mayfair travels to Provence with visions of Roman ruins bathed in magical Provençal light‚ exquisite foods and wines‚ and -- possibly -- an alluring Frenchmen. She will experience all she imagined‚ but she never expected to...
83) The other me
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An architect is diagnosed with a rare eye disease, entering him into a surreal reality in which he sees people's true motives. As the visions become intolerable, he falls for a mysterious woman and confronts the truth about his own identity.
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The Marks of Great Leaders was born out of the undisputed, undeniable, shortage of leadership: in the homes, the church, and in the wider society. The constant falling away of leaders is appalling and troubling. The void that exists, as a result, of it remains unfilled. The Marks of Great Leaders wishes to address key components that are relevant to leadership sustainability.
1. The first aspect of leadership is to follow the leader that's leading...
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In 1975, Doha was a frontier town as ex-pats flooded in to Qatar to help build a new country. Richard Newman, an Architect was one of them as he upended himself and his family into a Gulf Air Tristar and flew out to the unknown, slightly alien sounding country hanging on the side of Saudi Arabia. Registering as an alcoholic, dealing with baksheesh, discussing a new building with The Ruler saying '...taller Mr. Richard, taller...' were daily events.
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Rolling Stone magazine recognized Love's third album, "Forever Changes," as number 40 in their Special Collector's Issue and hard cover edition, entitled, "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time." I was profiled in Bob Cianci's Hal Leonard Publication, "Great Rock Drummers of The Sixties. Our album, "Forever Changes" was inducted into The Grammy Hall of Fame. "Forever Changes" was added into the National Archives, Library of Congress' National Recording...
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En la ciudad dormida' es un libro de viajes en el que hay más libro que viajes. En él se visitan los cementerios de París en busca de las sepulturas de algunos escritores, en cuya vida se ha querido ver la memoria de la Europa moderna. De Villiers de L'Isle Adam a Cioran, de Gautier, a Baudelaire, y tantos otros. Una memoria que, tras los atentados de 2016, propiciaba que pendiesen sobre la ciudad varios interrogantes. "Y tal vez siguiendo el rastro...
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J'ose me mettre à nu pour vous raconter mon expérience de vie personnelle. A travers tous les coups durs que j'ai reçus, c'est grâce à ma résilience et ma ténacité que j'ai pu me rendre o j'en suis aujourd'hui. Je souhaite procurer aux lecteurs l'espoir de traverser leurs moments difficiles car comme l'a si bien dit Mère Teresa, la vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter.
Dans ma jeunesse, j'ai vécu l'enfer...
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Calvé, avant d'être chansonnier, poète ou musicien, est assurément un des grands humanistes de la chanson québécoise et pourtant universelle, puisque sa chanson est de toutes latitudes et de tous horizons. Elle se cherche autant qu'elle nous trouve, toujours en douceur comme pour ne pas déranger, s'insinuant au cœur des sentiments pour prendre son sel et saumurer l'éternité du rêve.
D'aussi loin qu'il m'en souvienne, les chansons de Calvé...
90) Junín 1960
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Una memoria desde la infancia sobre la vida colectiva en un espacio y época especiales de la ciudad: la carrera Junín en los sesenta.
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One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi reveals his opinions on collecting, artists, dealers, advertising and investing in art with unflinching honesty. Famously reclusive, he has answered questions asked to him by journalists, critics and the general public about the art world and his personal life.
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An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a "true science." Although only sixteen of Piero's works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the Renaissance. A 1992 conference of international experts meeting at the National Gallery of Art deemed Piero "one of the most highly...
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Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career.
Molly Peacock looks at the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter, who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and landscapes. Born in the U.S. in 1854, trained by libertine Thomas Eakins, Mary trailblazed in a life, where...
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Un episodio poco conocido en la trayectoria artística y vital de la pintora mexicana
El 10 de marzo de 1939 se inauguró en París la exposición Mexique. La obra de Frida Kahlo protagonizó la muestra al ser promovida por André Breton, que la describió como "un listón alrededor de una bomba".
Para entonces Frida llevaba casi dos meses en la capital francesa, el tiempo suficiente para conocer de primera mano los círculos intelectuales de la...
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The first critical biography of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures.
Stephen Spender was a minor poet, but a major cultural influence during much of the century. Literary critic, journalist, art critic, social commentator, and friend, end of the best-known cultural figures of the modernist and postmodernist periods (Yeats, Woolf, Sartre, Auden, Eliot, Isherwood, Hughes, Brodsky, Ginsberg-a "who's who" of contemporary literature)....
97) My Father My Faith: A Daughter's Inspiring True Story of Medical Advocacy and Love's Ability to Heal
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Alexander Toth was an American cartoonist, born June 25, 1928 in New York, New York. He was known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera, as well as a long list of work for DC Comics, Dell Comics, Golden Key Comics, Marvel Comics, Standard Comics and Warren Publishing. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990.
He passed away May 27, 2006 in Burbank, California at his drawing table. He was survived by his...
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Olga Andreyev Carlisle has never lived in Russia, and yet throughout her life Russia has never been far. Far From Russia captures the enduring grip of Russia, and how the idea of that homeland shaped her world. We see her first as an aspiring painter in post-World War II Paris, savoring her independent life. There she falls in love with an American G.I., Henry Carlisle. With Henry, she comes to the United States, to Nantucket, where she is introduced...
99) Arena y viento
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Recién cumplidos los trece años, en plenos años 50, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se fue a vivir con sus tíos a Cabo Juby, cerca de la frontera con el Sáhara Occidental en Marruecos. Al principio, un Alberto adolescente pensó que no podría soportar la soledad de aquel remoto e inhóspito lugar que parecía maldito. Pero el tiempo le haría cambiar de opinión; la escuela del desierto le transformaría para siempre y cuando años más tarde tuvo...
100) Chance of a Lifetime
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Evelina's drawings and paintings are said to be intriguing and different.
People who see them cannot understand how she creates all that out of the blue. Although creativity exists in everybody, there are still people who usually claim they cannot draw a line to do any drawing. But this book shows us the journey towards that and how hard it is to bring out images we have in our unconscious mind, projecting them into works of art, plus the efforts...
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