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Como o homem de uma família judia, levada diversas vezes ao exílio, poderia construir um império no Brasil? Como um camelô venceu tantas adversidades para tornar-se um dos empresários mais ricos do país?Não à toa, esse homem desenvolveria negócios voltados às classes mais populares no Brasil...

Are you the world's biggest Ed Sheeran fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about one of the most talented singer-songwriters of a generation?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are 101 amazing facts about everything, from how Ed got started in the music industry...

Many years after Halifax, West Yorkshire, where Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in 17 February 1991, he is now a well know English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and even an actor (he made a small participations as a Lannister soldier on Game of Thrones). But is as a singer...

Tras el fenómeno Frida, la biografía del camaleón de la música, ilustrada por María Hesse. No muestro lealtad a ningún estilo. Simplemente escogeré aquel que me permita transmitir lo que quiero en ese momento. David Bowie es mucho más que un cantante que vendió ciento treinta...

It is said that Hollywood is where dreams come true. That is the case for some stars who made it big even though they came from close to nothing. In this ebook, you’ll be reading about the stories of success of Elvis Presley, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey and Walt Disney. Be inspired by their struggles, determined that they’re going to reach their goals. Start reading today.

A 2019 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST REALITY-BASED WORK A NPR BEST BOOK OF 2018 A VULTURE BEST COMIC OF 2018 A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018 WINNER OF THE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2018 GRAPHIC NOVEL CRITICS POLL In...

A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician. Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur....

Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis...

ARAB humanist is a story of an Arab woman, LouLou, who rebelled against her family while living in America. LouLou wanted to claim her own independence and womanhood but was crippled by her naivety, poverty, lack of a good social safety net, and other misfortunes. The intention of this story is not...

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel*,* comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches...

"Rigoletto", a piece famous for the aria that compared women with reeds along bright and lively rhythms, is actually the most socially critical opera among Verdi's numerous works. Verdi created a sensation by choosing the baritone humback father character as the main character. Let's learn more about the masterpiece by Verdi, "Rigoletto".

La biografía ilustrada del líder de Queen, uno de los mitos más poderosos del siglo XX, escrita e ilustrada por Alfonso Casas. ¿Quién no ha cantado a pleno pulmón «I Want To Break Free»? ¿O dramatizado con total entrega «Bohemian Rapsody»? Detrás de estas canciones, que forman...

Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because...

Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution. Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature,...