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Cover of Gabriela, la poeta viajera
by Alejandra Toro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 13, 2015

Lucila era una niña distinta a todas las demás. Leía mucho y le gustaba escribir. Trabajó como maestra de escuela, escribió ensayos y poemas bajo el seudónimo de Gabriela Mistral. Viajó por el mundo y años después recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura. ★ Mención Especial Categoría Juveniles,...
Cover of Orientando, diario di viaggio un po' psicotico e un po' paranormale
by Manuela Camporaso
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 6, 2014

"Orientando, diario di viaggio un po' psicotico e un po' paranormale di una turista in piena crisi d'identità" é il primo libro di Manuela Camporaso. Il testo riporta, con concetti semplici, a tratti comici, la prima parte di un viaggio in solitaria, del tutto improvvisato, in territorio...
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Morgoth Uncursed

The Morgoth Chronicles

by Christian Krumm
Language: German
Release Date: May 4, 2015

‘Morgoth Uncursed” ist die von der Band erzählte und von Christian Krumm niedergeschriebene faszinierende Biographie der größten deutschen Death Metal Band. Neben vielen Anekdoten aus ihrem Privat- und Bandleben ist dieses Buch mit unzähligen Privatfotos und unveröffentlichten Material ausgestattet....
Cover of Eric Clapton Raw: Legendary Guitarist and Singer
by Cindy Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013

Quiet and polite, he was characterized as an above-average student with an aptitude for art. However, from his earliest years in school, he recognized something was not fairly right when he wrote his name as "Eric Clapton" and his moms and dads' names as "Mr. and Mrs. Clapp". At...
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Gustav Klimt

Die Biografie

by Mona Horncastle, Alfred Weidinger
Language: German
Release Date: January 12, 2018

Gustav Klimt ist der unangefochtene Star unter den Künstlern des Wiener Fin-de-Siècle und einer der "teuersten" Maler der Welt. Er hat nicht nur zahlreiche Ikonen geschaffen, er hat sich auch konsequent für die Freiheit der Kunst eingesetzt. Wie Klimts Persönlichkeit, so wird auch seine...
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Bordeaux

Bordeaux à travers les yeux de l'un des plus grands romanciers français

by Stendhal
Language: French
Release Date: January 31, 2018

Stendhal nous invite à visiter Bordeaux en sa compagnie. Cette étude de mœurs, texte mal connu de Stendhal, est ancrée dans une ville qui séduit le voyageur par son histoire et par la présence tutélaire de ses grands anciens, au premier rang desquels figure Montesquieu. Elle se double...
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Roman meines Lebens

Ein Europäer vom Bosporus

by Zülfü Livaneli
Language: German
Release Date: June 27, 2011

Schon die Kindheit von Zülfü Livaneli ist geprägt von den Spannungen der türkischen Gesellschaft. Sie ziehen sich als Leitmotiv durch sein gesamtes Leben und Schaffen. Die glücklichen beruflichen Anfangsjahre als Verleger in Ankara finden mit dem Militärputsch 1971 ein jähes Ende. Er wird verhaftet...
Cover of Joseph Vernet
by Henri Delaborde
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2017

« ... Joseph Vernet, né en 1714, n’aurait trouvé à Paris d’autres leçons que celles des continuateurs dégénérés de Watteau : il fut donc bien inspiré en se gardant d’y venir et en demeurant jusqu’à l’âge de la virilité à Avignon, sa ville natale. Peut-être cette inspiration...
Cover of Glenn Miller
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018

From the Author of the internationally bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Mysterious World, They Laughed at Galileo & many more... At the end of the 1930s, just as the Second World War was breaking out in Europe, Glen Miller’s band introduced...
Cover of La Sculpture florentine avant Michel-Ange
by Henri Delaborde
Language: French
Release Date: February 28, 2018

« Il y a peu d’années encore, l’histoire de la sculpture en Italie à partir du moyen âge se résumait, pour la plupart d’entre nous, dans les souvenirs de la vie d’un homme et dans les quinze ou vingt chefs-d’œuvre que cette vie nous a légués. Le grand nom de Michel-Ange nous apparaissait...
Cover of The Nude Wife Posing Scandal of Westport, Connecticut Artist Everett Shinn
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

Everett Shinn was a member of the Ashcan Art School and the Westport, Connecticut art colony. Most often his artistic themes dealt with the theater in New York, London and Paris. In 1928 his painting, "The Sexless Nude", was one of many works by various artists featured at an exhibit given by the...
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Jan van Eyck

Un primitivo flamenco al servicio del detalle

by 50Minutos.es
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017

Jan van Eyck, figura emblemática de la pintura flamenca del siglo XV, coloca al hombre en el centro de sus obras y deja paso al realismo, abandonando las formas rígidas y solemnes de la Edad Media. Aprovechando la prosperidad que vive Flandes, crea obras que dejan una profunda huella en el mundo artístico,...
Cover of Воспоминания
by Константин Коровин
Language: Russian
Release Date: October 10, 2017

В книге впервые с большой полнотой представлено литературное наследие выдающегося русского художника Константина Алексеевича Коровина (1861–1939). Его воспоминания о...
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In Search of Greatness

Reflections of Yousuf Karsh

by Yousef Karsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962

In this book Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of our time, writes about his own life and work. It is the story of an Armenian immigrant boy who rose to be the world's finest portrait photographer, whose pictures, reproduced in...
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