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It is late March 1868. In Munich, composer Richard Wagner is completing his new opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg. It has been a difficult few years for him, and much depends upon the success of this new work. Following the tense auditions, an anonymous note warns Wagner that the premiere will be the date of his ruination.

"Cuando le pedí al Rebe que me contara su vida, no me respondió pero se puso a llorar. Ni mi abuelo ni mi padre habían pensado en preguntarle cómo había sido su existencia antes de que los osos le devoraran el cuerpo. Yo fui el primero en interesarme en ese pasado. Comprendo la actitud de mis antecesores.

Descubra el primer gran estilo artístico europeo, desde los ostrogodos y Carlomagno hasta su propagación por Europa a través del Camino de Santiago. Adéntrese en el recóndito mundo del arco de medio punto.... Conozca el arte románico, el primer estilo artístico preeminentemente cristiano en el que se agruparon el arte romano, germánico, bizantino, visigodo, y mozárabe. Con Breve historia del Románico el oyente conocerá el desarrollo de la sociedad, el arte y la cultura a lo largo de la Alta Edad Media.

In Reshaping Art, T. M. Krishna examines what art is and how we can harness its power to make ourselves and our communities open and sensitive. Well known for his attempts to break Karnatik music out of its high-caste confines, the author takes us through a journey of understanding what art means to different groups of people and the ways in which we all create and enjoy it.

Rula Lenska's is an extraordinary life. Born in Britain to Polish aristocrats, refugees from the Nazis and then the Soviets, Rula found fame in the 1970s as Q in the TV series Rock Follies. Shortly afterwards she accidentally conquered America with the infamous VO5 hair advert, prompting Johnny Carson to ask, 'Who the hell is Rula Lenska?'

Per la prima volta un'analisi a tutto tondo dell'universo di Star Wars, tra rigorosa riflessione sulla scrittura cinematografica e affascinante viaggio nel profondo del nostro inconscio. Federico Greco coniuga storie e suggestioni, genesi e influenze del più formidabile prodotto audiovisivo (e non solo) di tutti i tempi: la saga di Guerre stellari, dalla prima, mitica, trilogia, fino alle uscite più recenti. Dall'antropologia alla storia, dalla psicanalisi alla filosofia, le vicende e le storie che hanno portato alla creazione di una grande mitologia contemporanea.

No hi ha una sola Roma; n'hi ha tantes com mirades hi reposen, tantes com passejades o cafès. Roma és un pòsit d'hores viscudes, d'esglésies on tornes a entrar, de columnes i negronis, de l'art que fascina i els ocres que t'atrapen. Aquesta és una Roma íntima, feta de records personals, de viatges i anècdotes, de les veus d'uns altres i de la pròpia veu que mira de copsar-la a través dels detalls. Un poble que és capital sentimental. No és una guia turística ni una enciclopèdia històrica, sinó un retrat de la ciutat i, alhora, un autoretrat de qui la mira i la viu.

Warning: This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, and Chernobyl. When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a "fake artist", creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would save his life.

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.

Since its final episode aired, the acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled, from the failures of the drug war and criminal justice system to systemic bias in law enforcement and other social institutions, have become more urgent and central to the national conversation. The show's actors, such as Idris Elba and Dominic West, have gone on to become major stars. Its creators and writers, including David Simon and Richard Price, have developed dedicated cult followings of their own.

Simbolo della memoria privata, testimone e interprete di eventi, forma d'arte, presupposto del cinema e del video, la fotografia è protagonista della nostra quotidianità e di una civiltà sempre più visiva. Nel volume si descrive l'evoluzione dell'immagine artificiale, delle sue pratiche e dei suoi prodotti, non tralasciando i rapporti con il giornalismo, la pubblicità e la moda.

Si la música amansa las fieras, la sabihondez musical ablanda los corazones más refractarios a las delicias del amor. Ésa es la tesis de este audiolibro, una obra sin igual en la historia de la autoayuda inconfesable. Máximo Pradera, vihuelista en excedencia y seductor contumaz, nos cuenta aquí los secretos del método que tantos éxitos le ha dado en la palestra del comercio carnal. El señor Pradera es bien conocido por su ingenio, su humor incombustible y su impertinencia, virtudes justamente recompensadas con un regimiento de admiradores y una legión de enemigos acorazados...

The stylish, exuberant and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and '70s is back in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s.

The news that Cilla Black had died in August at the age of 72 triggered an outpouring of love and a wave of sadness that spread around the world. Her infectious personality and her common touch made her one of Britain's best loved entertainers. Known to one generation for a string of number-one hits like 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' and 'You're My World', and loved by another for hosting the classic ITV show Blind Date, Cilla came a long way from hanging coats in Liverpool's Cavern Club for five bob an hour.

The King and I tells the story of Harry Mount's fixation with Elvis over 35 years; how it changed from mild interest as a child, via self-mocking adolescent fandom to full-blown obsession at university, before settling into relatively sane reverence today. What happens to our teenage obsessions when we grow up? How do they help - or harm - us? In this moving, funny memoir, Harry Mount reveals how Elvis released him from the bookish shyness of his sheltered childhood, and provided a magical escape route from his conventional, cloistered public school background.

Before the heyday of the Food Network, there was Chef Tell - TV persona of Friedemann Paul Erhardt, America's first TV showman chef. Big on personality and flavor, Chef Tell was once called by Philadelphia magazine the "affably roguish Bad Boy of the Philadelphia restaurant world." Chef Tell explores how a young German American chef became America's biggest TV celebrity chef of his time. Most of Chef Tell's forty million baby boomer viewers - a number comparable to Julia Child's - never knew his fascinating, hardscrabble life story. Until now.

Tutti sappiamo - o pensiamo di sapere - che cos'è la canzone italiana. Ne parliamo con gli amici guardando Sanremo, la ascoltiamo su Spotify o su vinile, la cantiamo sotto la doccia, la amiamo, la odiamo, o tutt'e due le cose insieme. Ma che cosa rende "italiana" una canzone? "Felicità", siamo tutti d'accordo, suona come una tipica "canzone italiana", al punto che potremmo definirla "all'italiana". E allora "Via con me" di Paolo Conte, coeva eppure lontana miglia e miglia dal successo sanremese di Al Bano e Romina, non lo è?

La vie de la reine Elisabeth II et de sa famille racontée dans une série à succès de Netflix réunit des millions de fans à chaque épisode de "The Crown". Netflix a investi 140 millions d'euros pour une seule saison de "The Crown", c'est la plus chère de l'histoire devant même "Game of Thrones". Depuis le succès de la série historique Rome diffusée sur HBO, les moyens des séries ont décuplé et le public ne s'y trompe pas.

Raffaella che canta, balla e brilla. Che lotta, ride e si commuove. Raffaella che rischia, che sbaglia. Che sceglie, sempre. Ognuno ha la sua Carrà, un motivo per cui volerle bene. È l'eredità più grande di un'artista che, credendo fermamente in sé stessa, ha dato fiducia e ha liberato tutti quanti. Questo libro è un viaggio nella sua vita e nei suoi insegnamenti, affrontato anche attraverso i ricordi di chi ha lavorato con lei e le ha voluto bene. Con un ambizioso obiettivo: prendere un po' della sua indipendenza e leggerezza, e farle nostre.

"She sings jumping and dancing, her fists alternately clenching and breaking open to clap; the corners of her marvelous mouth turning down in the fierceness of joy breaking through anguish; her hair covering her eyes until swept back with a meaty hand. In great shouts that send her strings of beads flying and knot her face into grimaces, the energy explodes and explodes again, sending out waves of electrical excitement. Some say she can sing more than one note at a time; maybe, but does it matter? In her every note there are infinite meanings."