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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
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Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of course, no question of mental grasp or capacity or artistic endowment. I am, so far as these are concerned, merely the man in the street, the averagely endowed and the ordinarily educated. I call myself a Puritan and a Christian. I run continually against walls of convention,...
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An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art.
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some...
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Actrice, chanteuse, animatrice, professeur d'art dramatique et communicatrice hors pair, Ghislaine Paradis, dans cette autobiographie captivante, nous entraîne avec enthousiasme au coeur de sa vie et de sa passion d'artiste. 1ier prix de Conservatoire , elle est d'abord connue pour son rle de Nicole dans la populaire émission de télévision " Quelle Famille " à Radio-Canada. Elle sera aussi Hélène dans " À Coeur Battant " qui l'emmènera au...
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
6) Zelda
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"Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story." - New York Times
Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda's relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald-tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
Zelda Sayre's stormy life spanned from notoriety...
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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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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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In 1975, Doha was a frontier town as ex-pats flooded in to Qatar to help build a new country. Richard Newman, an Architect was one of them as he upended himself and his family into a Gulf Air Tristar and flew out to the unknown, slightly alien sounding country hanging on the side of Saudi Arabia. Registering as an alcoholic, dealing with baksheesh, discussing a new building with The Ruler saying '...taller Mr. Richard, taller...' were daily events.
As...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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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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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By day, Forrest Bess ran a one-man bait camp on the Gulf of Mexico. By night, in his two-room shack, Bess was haunted by terrible visions of ancient bulls, abstract symbols, and desolate, primeval landscapes-which he translated into one of modern art's most extraordinary bodies of painting, on canvases often smaller than a sheet of paper. Bess and his paintings were discovered in 1949 by renowned art dealer Betty Parsons, and his work would eventually...
16) Arena y viento
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Recién cumplidos los trece años, en plenos años 50, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se fue a vivir con sus tíos a Cabo Juby, cerca de la frontera con el Sáhara Occidental en Marruecos. Al principio, un Alberto adolescente pensó que no podría soportar la soledad de aquel remoto e inhóspito lugar que parecía maldito. Pero el tiempo le haría cambiar de opinión; la escuela del desierto le transformaría para siempre y cuando años más tarde tuvo...
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The first critical biography of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures.
Stephen Spender was a minor poet, but a major cultural influence during much of the century. Literary critic, journalist, art critic, social commentator, and friend, end of the best-known cultural figures of the modernist and postmodernist periods (Yeats, Woolf, Sartre, Auden, Eliot, Isherwood, Hughes, Brodsky, Ginsberg-a "who's who" of contemporary literature)....
18) My Father My Faith: A Daughter's Inspiring True Story of Medical Advocacy and Love's Ability to Heal
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Alexander Toth was an American cartoonist, born June 25, 1928 in New York, New York. He was known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera, as well as a long list of work for DC Comics, Dell Comics, Golden Key Comics, Marvel Comics, Standard Comics and Warren Publishing. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990.
He passed away May 27, 2006 in Burbank, California at his drawing table. He was survived by his...
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En la ciudad dormida' es un libro de viajes en el que hay más libro que viajes. En él se visitan los cementerios de París en busca de las sepulturas de algunos escritores, en cuya vida se ha querido ver la memoria de la Europa moderna. De Villiers de L'Isle Adam a Cioran, de Gautier, a Baudelaire, y tantos otros. Una memoria que, tras los atentados de 2016, propiciaba que pendiesen sobre la ciudad varios interrogantes. "Y tal vez siguiendo el rastro...
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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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