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Auteur Cynthia Mc Leod verbindt al decennia de geschiedenis van Nederland en Suriname. Hiermee treedt zij in het voetspoor van haar vader Johan Ferrier, die de geschiedenis in ging als de laatste gouverneur en eerste president van Suriname. Sinds de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw wordt haar naam...

The story follows a young man named Dayne mirroring author's own life experiences in bohemian art scene of emerging Parisian impressionism. These true confessions are often described as the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition. It...

As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1951) remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium. Starting in 1966 at the age of fourteen, Shooter, as the young protégé of verbally abusive DC editor Mort Weisinger, helped introduce themes and...

Este livro é a biografia do mestre dos aprentadores de TV do Brasil. Em suas seis décadas de carreira, Blota Jr. apresentou mais de 180 programas. Dirigiu emissoras de rádio e foi sócio de um canal de TV. Foi deputado federal, deputado estadual e secretário de Estado. Ao lado de sua esposa, Sonia...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Nel febbraio del 2005, a Bakersfield, in California, più di diecimila persone assistettero al battesimo e alla conversione in Cristo di Brian “Head” Welch, chitarrista del controverso gruppo rock dei Korn e padre devastato da una pesantissima dipendenza dalla metamfetamina. Una ritrovata fede...

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) "Ma mère adorait voyager. Elle allait d’Espagne en Angleterre ; de Londres à Paris ; de Paris à Berlin. De là, à Christiania ; puis revenait m’embrasser et repartait pour la Hollande, son pays natal. Elle envoyait à ma nourrice : des vêtements...

From Mumbai to Dubai to Bollywood to Hollywood is a factual description of the author’s growing-up years in Mumbai, his working life in Dubai, getting conned by people he trusted in Mumbai, which led to his financial ruin that necessitated his return to Mumbai. He became a background crowd model...

Acclaimed photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is widely known for his photographs of hard scrabble Yankees in mid-century Maine. No one was more acutely aware than Ruohomaa that his work was capturing a way of life that was rapidly fading. Before his work in Maine, however, Ruohomaa started out with Disney,...

Jer Johns had just spent the last year-and-a-half traveling around the country. He had stayed in over 70 different homes in over 50 cites with hundreds of strangers that would become friends. After arriving in San Francisco in March of 2015, He decided that it was time for a new experience. He challenged...

Юбилею перестройки в СССР посвящается.   I-book версия  мультимедийного фотоиздания «Хулиганы-80», состоящего из более чем 2000 фотографий и двух сотен медиафайлов. Данная...

The Art of the Woman explores the life of German-born Elisabet Ney, a flamboyant sculptor who transfixed the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and left the court of the half-mad Ludwig of Bavaria to put down new roots in Texas. Born in 1833, Ney gained notoriety in Europe by sculpting the busts of such...

К 1914 году шумные баталии, ознаменовавшие появление на свет мятежной группы художников-импрессионистов, давно стали историей, а молодые бунтари их спровоцировавшие...

Porté par sa très haute tessiture et sa grande étendue vocale, il connait le succès en 1978 et 1979 avec son titre Le Chanteur et son rôle de Johnny Rockfort dans l'opéra-rock Starmania de Michel Berger et Luc Plamondon. Issu de divers groupes de rock progressif, Daniel Balavoine s'inscrit dès...