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by Juan José Sebreli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Una visión negativa del deporte más popular de la Argentina. El fútbol
visto críticamente por un agudo observador de la realidad argentina y
mundial.
Juan José Sebreli tiene una visión negativa del deporte más popular en
la Argentina. Por eso, con implacable determinación, no contempla...
by Thierry GRILLET
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2017
300 chefs-d'œuvre à découvrir, aimer et faire aimer !
Amoureux d'art et de culture et désireux de transmettre sa passion pour les œuvres qui le font vibrer, Thierry Grillet vous propose de découvrir ou de redécouvrir 100 films, 100 musiques et 100 livres appartenant à des époques et...
by Thierry GRILLET
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2018
100 livres à découvrir, aimer et faire aimer !
Amoureux d'art et de culture et désireux de transmettre sa passion pour les œuvres qui le font vibrer, Thierry Grillet vous propose de découvrir ou de redécouvrir 100 livres appartenant à des époques et des genres divers, mais qui tous fondent...
by Thierry GRILLET
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2018
100 films à découvrir, aimer et faire aimer !
Amoureux d'art et de culture et désireux de transmettre sa passion pour les œuvres qui le font vibrer, Thierry Grillet vous propose de découvrir ou de redécouvrir 100 films appartenant à des époques et des genres divers, mais qui tous fondent...
by Thierry GRILLET
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2018
100 musiques à découvrir, aimer et faire aimer !
Amoureux d'art et de culture et désireux de transmettre sa passion pour les œuvres qui le font vibrer, Thierry Grillet vous propose de découvrir ou de redécouvrir 100 musiques appartenant à des époques et des genres divers, mais qui tous...
by Sostene Massimo Zangari, Cinzia Scarpino, Mario Maffi Cinzia Schiavini
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Ci sono motel, grattacieli, diner, drive-in, fast food, ponti, parchi, battelli a vapore. Ci sono metropoli, ghetti, piccole città e città fantasma. Ci sono treni, taxi gialli e aquile solitarie. Ci sono orsi, orsetti, trote e alligatori. Ci sono toffolette, apple pie, hamburger e hot dog, ziti...
La magie du livre
Pourquoi fabriquons-nous des livres ?
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Pourquoi fabriquons-nous encore des livres ? Pour répondre à cette question très contemporaine, puisque le livre numérique ne cesse de prendre de la place, Jean-Christophe Bailly fait une déclaration d'amour aux livres. Il leur reconnaît cette capacité formidable pour des objets relativement...
Destruction Was My Beatrice
Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man...
Ice Cream Man
25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ice Cream Man: 25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Gus Rancatore and Helen Epstein (10,200 words)
A highly entertaining, idiosyncratic mini-memoir, with recipes, about 25 years of running a gourmet ice cream shop down the street from Harvard and MIT. Gus Rancatore shares...
Beat Punks
New York’s Underground Culture from the Beat Generation to the Punk Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The “poet laureate of the New York underground scene” chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression
Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and ’80s, New York City’s creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era...
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture. His...
Mo' Meta Blues
The World According to Questlove
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of...
Tango
Una pasión ilustrada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El tango se desplegó en el centro de una sociedad específica compuesta por una masa de inmigrantes que se aglomeraba en los conventillos porteños. Fue tomando diferentes medios de expresión: la música, la canción y la danza, sin letras en sus comienzos, pero enunciando un importante número...
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music-...