Paolo Paolo: 1830 books

In continuità con i seminari organizzati sui docenti che hanno dato prestigio alla Prima Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano (oggi Facoltà di Architettura e Società) nella seconda metà del '900 - Franca Helg (2006),Marco Zanuso (2007), Vittoriano Viganò (2008) - il volume ha come...

Quante volte ci siamo innervositi per un modulo difficile da compilare, un applicativo con un manuale lungo e indecifrabile, o con la difficoltà di reperire online informazioni per noi vitali? Quante code per ritirare il referto di un esame o per pagare una multa? Viviamo in un mondo frenetico, perennemente...

Description London, 1988, and the winds of change are blowing through the city, kicking up a storm. A gal pregnant and a DJ running for cover. The birth of the e generation and a race riot erupting. The Sheriff is trying to talk to Prince and Sammy the Foot is dancing up a treat. Everything was Tuesday...

The Soul Stylists is about six decades of Modernism and a highly influential world of clothes and music, but one deliberately hidden away for years from the mainstream media. This book explores the enduring relationship that exists between American black music and British working-class style, tracing...

'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...' John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. From session musician to band member of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie...

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and  catalogue of Bartók’s compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information has been proliferating in the field of Bartók research. The third edition of this research guide provides...

Ronald Frederick “Ronnie” Lane was an English musician, songwriter, and producer who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and roll bands: the Small Faces where he was nicknamed “Plonk” and after losing the band’s frontman, the Faces, who dubbed...

Steve Marriott was one of the music world's most extraordinary individuals, A supremely gifted songwriter, singer and … schemer. A vocalist from the same mould as Rod Stewart, Eric Burdon and Steve Winwood … but arguably the greatest white soul singer of them all. Marriott never held back from...

Questo libro non intende "battezzare" il cantautore genovese, ma semplicemente far emergere le risonanze/dissonanze evangeliche sparse nella sua opera.Esplorare – attraverso i testi delle canzoni e le parole delle sue interviste – quelle terre di confine dove Fabrizio De André, "evangelista"...

Questo libro presenta un ritratto cronologico di Claudio Baglioni dalla prima canzone scritta nel 1967 alla sua designazione come direttore artistico e presentatore del Festival di Sanremo 2018. Non è però un ritratto biografico, ma un'analisi puntuale dei suoi dischi (tutti) e delle sue canzoni...

On August 21st 2015 at 10.30 pm in an Archway hospital, my son Rafi Supino Arif came into my life. It was of course a momentous occasion, filled with all kinds of emotions. But as he started to grow, one thought kept repeating itself in my mind. Would I write about him or the experience of raising...

Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany's World War II commanders. He got his first taste of combat in World War I, where his daring command earned him the Blue Max, Germany's highest decoration for...

The Second Battle of El Alamein was one of the most decisive Allied victories of the Second World War. The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. El Alamein saw two of the greatest generals of the war pitted against...

ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. On 22 June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and her Panzer divisions were to play a major role in this titanic struggle. Although overwhelmed by Soviet numbers, the superior skill and capability of the German Panzer divisions meant that in three months the Germans...