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De todas las estrellas que aparecieron después de muchas décadas, Michael Jackson era la más fascinante, esa que nos lleva casi que a hacerle un análisis inmediato.
Con un increible talento, capaz de poner en escena espectáculos de una extraña naturaleza, de componer éxitos memorables, de transformar su cuerpo de una manera horrorosa, Michael Jackson ha cautivado el público por sus cualidades artísticas.
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This delightful book combines 25 stories about dogs with 16 playful drawings by famous Canadian writer, artist, and animal lover Emily Carr. She tells of her joys and tribulations raising Old English sheepdogs, from her decision to start a kennel to the sad day when she had to close it. With each story Carr brings the affectionate and loyal nature of her canine companions to life, making this book an ideal choice for any dog lover, child, or adult....
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If you desire to wake up each day with positivity, this is the ideal guide for you to rise and thrive from a simple and successful morning routine!
Rise & Thrive is an ethos to live by - an ideology constructed by motivating quotes to prepare you for when you arise so you can set your mind on the right path for the day and enable your decision-making to influence your life with meaningfulness and ambition.
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#1 The first time you find a woman's vibrator is never forgotten. I learned this lesson when I was thirteen and rummaging around my friend Danny's tree house-like cottage with my brother Chad. We found a white, missile-shaped device that began to buzz and vibrate. We knew nothing about it, but we knew we didn't want to investigate any further.
#2 I was a misfit teen...
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Book Preview: #1 I was born on a Monday in Chicago during the Great Blizzard of 1946. My mother took in ironing while I waited on the stoop of our rooming house for the iceman to give me slivers of ice wrapped in brown paper. I would slip one in my pocket for my baby sister.
#2 I was completely smitten by the book. I loved to read, and the things I read of produced new yearnings....
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Paul Tournier, médico de renombre mundial, psiquiatra, teólogo moderno, autor respetado, profeta contemporáneo.
Esta colección de breves escritos conmemorativos nos ofrece una oportunidad única para conocer mejor al hombre a través de los ojos de sus colegas y amigos
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En La historia del pianista de la mano izquierda, Manuel López nos ofrece una obra que combina amor por la música, superación personal y reflexiones profundas. Con Beethoven como guía, el autor nos muestra cómo la música puede ser un refugio y una fuente de esperanza. Una sinfonía literaria que te cautivará desde la primera nota.
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The Marks of Great Leaders was born out of the undisputed, undeniable, shortage of leadership: in the homes, the church, and in the wider society. The constant falling away of leaders is appalling and troubling. The void that exists, as a result, of it remains unfilled. The Marks of Great Leaders wishes to address key components that are relevant to leadership sustainability.
1. The first aspect of leadership is to follow the leader that's leading...
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Aislarse por completo o celebrar fiestas multitudinarias, recurrir a los estupefacientes o a la vida saludable, renunciar a los hijos o dejar que pululen por el studio. Los modos de enfrentarse a la creación son innumerables, como refleja el irónico y sagaz testimonio de las protagonistas de este libro.
Pintoras, compositoras, escultoras, científicas, cineastas e intérpretes revelan las pequeñas y grandes decisiones que tuvieron que tomar en...
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The filming of the first horror films coincides with the creation of the actual cinema. Various actors, having experienced stage debut, will then be offered roles of iconic characters from Gothic fantasy literature. This was the case of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, known worldwide for their interpretations of the monster “Frankenstein” and “Count Dracula”.
Therefore, two superstars in both senses of the term, who knew to impose, at the...
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Book Preview: #1 The basketball was a Keaton prop for years to come. In 1899, the family's first paid engagement as a trio at the Wonderland Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Buster got laughs by bouncing the ball off his father's head.
#2 Buster's life as a performer and creator was extremely successful for the first three decades of the new century, catapulting his family from the...
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As children, our passions came easy. We would doodle for hours and hours and we didn't know what the word 'editing' meant. As we got older, our passions were pushed aside for the busyness of life, for the fear of failure, for poor excuses. Unfinished, is a book for hopeful creative's to reclaim their passions; to Dream, Complete and Repeat Their Life's Work even when life gets busy and the excuses to NOT complete projects are endless.
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Caroline Walker (b. 1982, Dunfermline) has established herself as one of the UK's most exciting figurative painters of her generation working internationally today.
By means of an elegant and seductive yet forthright use of paint, Walker makes paintings that explore ideas of gender in relation to architecture. With a particular interest in femininity, she addresses people's physical, psychological, emotional, and social relationships with the buildings...
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Storey's Oil and Marble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Oil and Marble" by Stephanie Storey is a historical drama set in Renaissance Florence, where Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti engage in a fierce rivalry. Leonardo, observing the decay of his "The Last Supper," is forced to flee Milan due to political threats, leaving behind unfinished works. In Rome, Michelangelo...
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Press Eject and Give Me the Tape: Dialogues, Interviews, and Exchanges 2001-2020 is a collection of two decades of interviews, as well as a collaboration between the painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein and over 35 contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers, and performance and video artists. It is as important for current discussions on contemporary culture, theory, media, and politics as it is for discussion of contemporary art. The book features...
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In celebration of his extraordinary life, photographer Gary Italiaander, who was a personal friend, has written this amazing book that includes previously unseen portraits as well as memories by his colleagues, family and friends. Larry Adler, world famous mouth organist, raised the harmonica to an orchestral instrument. His extensive repertoire of classical and popular music included his own compositions and those written for him by Ralph Vaughan...
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The War of 1870 between France and Germany has been over for a year.
In the turmoil of a defeated France, rebuilding with an uncertain form of government, still occupied by the armies of the newly formed German Empire, a young artist emerges.
Recovering from wounds, finding allies in all classes, developing self-understanding and building alliances inside the Academic art world, presents a series of obstacles to the young man's progress.
The greatest...
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Rolling Stone magazine recognized Love's third album, "Forever Changes," as number 40 in their Special Collector's Issue and hard cover edition, entitled, "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time." I was profiled in Bob Cianci's Hal Leonard Publication, "Great Rock Drummers of The Sixties. Our album, "Forever Changes" was inducted into The Grammy Hall of Fame. "Forever Changes" was added into the National Archives, Library of Congress' National Recording...
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An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a "true science." Although only sixteen of Piero's works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the Renaissance. A 1992 conference of international experts meeting at the National Gallery of Art deemed Piero "one of the most highly...
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