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Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the 18th century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor: the landscape tourist.

In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling musician: she has a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising and poignant insights.

Nada "se vuelve viral". Si crees que una película, canción o app popular surgió de la nada para convertirse, de boca en boca, en un éxito, te estás perdiendo la historia real. Cada éxito de taquilla tiene una historia secreta de poder, influencia, emisoras oscuras y cultos apasionados que convierten algunos productos nuevos en fenómenos culturales. Incluso las ideas más brillantes se marchitan en la oscuridad si no se conectan a la red correcta.

Back in January 1995 in Los Angeles, California, a Singaporean pornstar named Annabel Chong took cultural rebellion to an extreme, on terms that had never been negotiated before. She was filmed having sex with a long receiving line of men, servicing them 251 times over a ten-hour period to set a new world record: The World’s Biggest Gangbang.

How do perceptions of the past - not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole - shape our experience of the world? Sensing the Past tackles this question with an unlikely source of historical insight - the work of six major Hollywood stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Jodie Foster. By focusing on the career choices made by these iconic actors, Cullen uncovers a discrete set of historical narratives, revealing the surprising ways historical forces shape our understanding of the world.

Svizzera, 2010. Cornelius Gurlitt, cittadino tedesco di 79 anni, sta viaggiando su un treno diretto a Monaco quando viene fermato per un controllo di routine. Agli occhi degli agenti l'uomo non è che un innocuo vecchietto, ma un'ispezione rivela che, cuciti nel risvolto della sua giacca, ci sono ben novemila euro in contanti. Una cifra importante per un pensionato, che porta la polizia ad approfondire le indagini.

Brandjam, the follow-up to the groundbreaking best-seller Emotional Branding, presents a powerful new concept from renowned designer and business guru Mark Gobe. The Brandjam concept is about innovation, intuition, and risk. Gobe explains how design is the "instrument" companies can use for jazzing up a brand - how design puts the face on the brand and creates an irresistible message that connects buyers to the product in a visceral way.

La chanteuse et comédienne Morgan Touzé présente cinq pièces immersives 3D réalisées par son mari, le poète et pionnier du son binaural, Pascal Rueff. "Mon mari aime bien que j’incarne moi-même les personnages quand je voyage dans ses espaces-temps." dit-elle. Venez y plonger avec elle ! Ces voyages sonores, à écouter au casque, visitent vingt ans de prise de son 3D, du sud de la Crète à Tchernobyl.

La chanteuse et comédienne Morgan Touzé présente cinq pièces immersives 3D réalisées par son mari, le poète et pionnier du son binaural, Pascal Rueff. "Mon mari aime bien que j'incarne moi-même les personnages quand je voyage dans ses espaces-temps." dit-elle. Venez y plonger avec elle ! Ces voyages sonores, à écouter au casque, visitent vingt ans de prise de son 3D, du sud de la Crète à Tchernobyl.

The Language of Clothes came to be highly regarded in the literature of couture and design. Lurie has returned with The Language of Houses, a provocative and entertaining journey through the architecture of houses and buildings and the divided spaces within come to reflect the attitudes and purposes of the organizations and people who inhabit them.

In this fourth installment of The Directors, the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, eight of today's most acclaimed filmmakers reveal intimate details about their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

I due mesi che i pittori Vincent van Gogh e Paul Gauguin vissero insieme nella Casa Gialla ad Arles, dal 23 ottobre al 23 dicembre 1888, restano tra i momenti più intensi e decisivi dell'intera storia dell'arte. Intensi e talvolta anche drammatici: Vincent si taglierà un orecchio alla vigilia del Natale, Paul fuggirà a Parigi... Sessanta giorni che questo romanzo ricostruisce attingendo alle fonti, dai giornali alle lettere tra i due artisti, e restituendo con sensibilità non solo la storia ma le atmosfere, le ispirazioni, i moti dell'anima.

In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; and much more.

Salvador Dalí, Jerome Robbins, Jackie Onassis. Gregory Peck, Mick Jagger, S. J. Perelman, I. M. Pei. Philip Johnson, Josephine Baker, John Lennon: They, and so many more who made New York City the center of the universe in the 1970s, all had one thing in common besides their adopted hometown - they shopped at a legendary palace of books, music, and art: Rizzoli Books at 712 Fifth Avenue. There, Kennedys and Rockefellers mingled with tourists and "regular" customers under the watchful gaze of sophisticated employees.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Che cosa hanno in comune Galla Placidia e Adriano Olivetti? La risposta è semplice: la passione per la bellezza, intesa non come effimero piacere estetico, quanto come un desiderio di meraviglia, alimentato dalla consapevolezza che attraverso l'arte si può migliorare il mondo e lasciare un segno duraturo nella storia. Come Isabella D'Este, Federico II di Svevia, Cosimo de' Medici, Alvise Pisani, Pio IV e molti altri, hanno "combattuto" per il trionfo dell'arte, aiutato e ispirato i creatori di opere immortali e finanziato progetti grandiosi sebbene, a volte, velleitari.

From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. This delightful book sheds much light on some of Hollywood's best known and loved repertoire, explaining how the film industry made certain songs memorable, and highlighting important moments of film history along the way.

In this new and expanded edition of Nelson George's classic cultural study, contemporary Black culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sports, publishing, politics, and city life, both uptown and down. Buppies enter nearly every arena of the Black urban USA: roisterous rappers and legendary hoopsters, streetwise hustlers and influential filmmakers, unsung musicians and drug dealers at work.

Edición ampliada y revisada de la historia de la canción de Bob Dylan, elegida por la revista Rolling Stone como la canción más importante de la historia del rock. Greil Marcus ha escrito la biografía de una canción. Grabada el 16 de junio de 1965, "Like a Rolling Stone" se incorporó inmediatamente a la iconografía de su época, y con tanta fuerza que varias décadas después sigue evadiendo los zarpazos del tiempo.