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I want to introduce you to my third book of photographs, Farewell to Valparaiso, that describes my feelings at the time to say good-bye to a loved city where I lived in my adolescence and young adult life. This book is intended to reach an audience of people interested in knowing the suffering of those that were forced to leave their roots behind and not knowing if they will ever come back to them.
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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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Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of...
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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...
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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 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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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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Olga Andreyev Carlisle has never lived in Russia, and yet throughout her life Russia has never been far. Far From Russia captures the enduring grip of Russia, and how the idea of that homeland shaped her world. We see her first as an aspiring painter in post-World War II Paris, savoring her independent life. There she falls in love with an American G.I., Henry Carlisle. With Henry, she comes to the United States, to Nantucket, where she is introduced...
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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...
11) 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...
12) 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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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 My granddaddy, who was a moonshiner in Georgia, was the only black man I've ever met who was never broke a day in his life. He stored his jugs of corn liquor in the living room in a beat-up old refrigerator.
#2 I grew up in a bootleg house with my nine siblings, and I hated it. I would go to sleep hoping that I would wake up and find myself magically living in a clean...
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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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The true story of a heart that has been shattered, and stained. The author Wendy Sims talks about her story of surviving abuse. The actions lead her to be tortured and traumatized throughout her life. The realization of the world she lived in growing up. in the 1970s. The woman she has become today in the realization that she never let what happened to her affect the life she has worked hard to gain and live. Becoming the Champion she was meant to...
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Evelina's drawings and paintings are said to be intriguing and different.
People who see them cannot understand how she creates all that out of the blue. Although creativity exists in everybody, there are still people who usually claim they cannot draw a line to do any drawing. But this book shows us the journey towards that and how hard it is to bring out images we have in our unconscious mind, projecting them into works of art, plus the efforts...
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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 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)....
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J'ose me mettre à nu pour vous raconter mon expérience de vie personnelle. A travers tous les coups durs que j'ai reçus, c'est grâce à ma résilience et ma ténacité que j'ai pu me rendre o j'en suis aujourd'hui. Je souhaite procurer aux lecteurs l'espoir de traverser leurs moments difficiles car comme l'a si bien dit Mère Teresa, la vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter.
Dans ma jeunesse, j'ai vécu l'enfer...
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