Instrumental

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632866986
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Book Synopsis Instrumental by : James Rhodes

Download or read book Instrumental written by James Rhodes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intense, eloquent, and appropriately furious memoir with the transporting beauty of classical music . . . The cumulative effect of the literary concert [Rhodes] gives in these pages is transcendence, both for him and for the reader." --Los Angeles Review of Books “A mesmeric combination of vivid, keen, obsessive precision and raw, urgent energy.” --Zoe Williams, The Guardian James Rhodes's passion for music has been his lifeline--the thread that has held through a life encompassing abuse and turmoil. But whether listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatized teenager or discovering a Bach adagio while in a hospital ward, he survived his demons by encounters with musical miracles. These--along with a chance encounter with a stranger--inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. Instrumental is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken, and surprisingly funny--shot through with a mordant wit, even in its darkest moments. A feature film adaptation of Rhodes's incredible story is now in development from Monumental Pictures and BBC Films, following a competitive bidding war involving major U.S. and U.K. companies. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.

ELADATL

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Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872868257
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis ELADATL by : Sesshu Foster

Download or read book ELADATL written by Sesshu Foster and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes. "Foster and Romo's 'real fake dream' of the future-past history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is a superb and loving phantasmagoria that gobbles up real histories for breakfast and spits out the seeds."—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles—some as large as one thousand feet long—was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL tells the story of this little-known period of American air travel in a series of overlapping narratives told by key figures, accompanied by a number of historic photographs and recently discovered artifacts, with appendices provided to fill in the missing links. The story of the rise and fall of this ill-fated airship movement investigates its long-buried history, replete with heroes, villains, and moments of astonishing derring-do and terrifying disaster. Written and presented as an “actual history of a fictional company,” this surrealist, experimental novel is a tour de force of politicized fantastic fiction, a work of hybrid art-making distilled into a truly original literary form. Developed over a ten-year period of collaborations, community interventions, and staged performances, ELADATL is a furiously hilarious send-up of academic histories, mainstream narratives, and any traditional notions of the time-space continuum. "Poet Foster (Atomik Aztex) and artist Romo deliver a maddeningly accomplished inquiry into the secret history of East Los Angeles. . . . This is as much fun to read as it must have been to make."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "One of the wildest, most creative and deeply-cutting novels I’ve read in years, a genuine piece of newness in both content and form. To wade through this surreal narrative archeology is to experience, in the finest sense, literature as fever dream."—Omar El Akkad, author of American War: A Novel "Visionary, hilarious, anarchic, this assemblage of breakneck dialog, blisteringly brilliant film criticism, bureaucratic documents, revolutionary chatter, mass transit, and fake dreams of the secret police, is the counterfactual novel to beat all counterfactual novels."—Mark Doten, author of Trump Sky Alpha "Hilarious and prophetic and profound, truer than truth, and realer than all realities currently available for purchase, ELADATL is strong medicine against the erasures of history, a mega-vitamin for struggles yet to come. This book combats despair."—Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time

Fireflies 7

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ISBN 13 : 9783981918663
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Fireflies 7 written by Fireflies and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Basquiat-isms

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192839
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Basquiat-isms by : Jean-Michel Basquiat

Download or read book Basquiat-isms written by Jean-Michel Basquiat and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection of essential quotations from this godfather of urban culture. In these brief, compelling, and memorable selections, taken from his interviews as well as his visual and written works, Basquiat writes and speaks about culture, his artistic persona, the art world, artistic influence, race, urban life, and many other subjects. Concise, direct, forceful, poetic, and enigmatic, Basquiat’s words, like his art, continue to resonate. Select quotations from the book: "I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them." "I think there are a lot of people that are neglected in art, I don’t know if it’s because of who made the paintings or what, but, um . . . black people are never really portrayed realistically or I mean not even portrayed in modern art." "Since I was 17, I thought I might be a star." "The more I paint the more I like everything." "I think I make art for myself, but ultimately I think I make it for the world."

La memoria de los libros

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis La memoria de los libros by : María Luisa López-Vidriero

Download or read book La memoria de los libros written by María Luisa López-Vidriero and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La memoria de los libros recoge en dos tomos un centenar de estudios sobre la historia del escrito y de la lectura en Europa y América, con un amplio arco cronológico y temático. El tomo I se adentra en materias tales como la codicología; la cultura del manuscrito; el libro y la escritura en la Edad Media y el Renacimiento; incunabulística; tipobibliografía; imprenta; bibliografía material e histórica; las librerías particulares; y el control y censura del libro. El tomo II se ocupa de la lectura; del espacio del libro: las bibliotecas y los depósitos; de la catalogación, difusión y nuevas tecnologías; de la ilustración del libro; de los fondos y bibliotecas históricas; de la librería; de la historia de la edición; y de la edición digital. El libro se entiende así en tanto que fuerza motor de la historia cultural, sin fragmentación entre lo manuscrito y lo impreso, entre la era impresa y la era digital.

Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3

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Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568584461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3 by : Eduardo Galeano

Download or read book Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3 written by Eduardo Galeano and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbulent century: from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA “neutralizations” in the forests of Latin America. Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, Century of the Wind is a sweeping interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined.

Adiós Muchachos

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Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822350873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Adiós Muchachos written by Sergio Ramírez and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

Art Of Memory

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136353615
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Art Of Memory written by F A Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This title is the third volume in the ten-volume set titled the Selected Works of Frances Yates. Greyscale illustrations and figures are included throughout - alongside the related descriptive work where applicable. The art in this volume seeks to memorise through a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on memory. It has usually been classed as 'mnemotechnics', which appears an unimportant branch of human activity. However, the author discusses in this title that the manipulation of images in memory must always, to some extent, involve the psyche.

The Book of Emma Reyes

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101992093
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Emma Reyes written by Emma Reyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York Times A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed writer Daniel Alarcón, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogotá with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a Catholic convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, sewed garments and decorative cloths for the nuns—and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually establishing a career as an artist and befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals. The portrait of her childhood that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Recollections of Things to Come

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789017
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Recollections of Things to Come by : Elena Garro

Download or read book Recollections of Things to Come written by Elena Garro and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has written that it "is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature."

Memoria

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Memoria by : Argentina. Ministerio de Justicia e Instrucción Pública

Download or read book Memoria written by Argentina. Ministerio de Justicia e Instrucción Pública and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Century of the Wind

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393318074
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Century of the Wind by : Eduardo Galeano

Download or read book Century of the Wind written by Eduardo Galeano and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1998 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of a three-part study of Latin American history, focusing on events and people of the twentieth century.

Aurora Bertrana

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663066
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis Aurora Bertrana by : Silvia Roig

Download or read book Aurora Bertrana written by Silvia Roig and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silvia Roig explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th century. Aurora Bertrana's works are almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Her rich, intellectual work has not received the attention it deserves, relegated almost to absolute oblivion. The author reviews and studies twenty-four of Bertrana's novels written in Catalan andSpanish, including: Ariatea (1960), El pomell de les violes (MS), L'inefable Philip (MS), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecita de los cerdos (MS), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d'argila (1959), Fracàs (1966) and La ciutat dels joves: reportatge fantasia (1971). She studies her work, published and unpublished, from a feminist approach, taking into account the intellectual history of Spain and Catalonia. Bertana's strong commitment to social issues reveals her association with the Modernist and Noucentists trends of her time. Bertrana's novels reveal a unique interest in non-Western cultures and lifestyles and her work undertakes controversial topics and socio-cultural issues, while she observes and draws special attention to the situation of women in different circumstances and cultural geographies. This book is therefore anchored on interpretive and theoretical parameters that intersect with consideration of gender, such as travel-and-gender and war-and-gender. Roig uses the work of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Jelke Boesten, Margaret and Patrice Higonnet, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Julia Kristeva to help assess Bertrana's engagement with gender and socio-political issues. This approach is particularly well suited for a writer like Bertrana, a Catalan and Republican intellectual woman forced into self-exile during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Silvia Roig is a Faculty Member, BMCC Department of Modern Languages, The City University of New York.

Mirrors and Echoes

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520934105
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Mirrors and Echoes by : Emilie L. Bergmann

Download or read book Mirrors and Echoes written by Emilie L. Bergmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women’s gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon. This multilingual collection of essays by both scholars and creative artists explores the diversity of Spanish women's writing, both celebrated and forgotten. Contributors: Nicole Altamirano, Marta E. Altisent, Emilie L. Bergmann, Alda Blanco, Sara Brenneis, Kathleen M. Glenn, P. Louise Johnson, Jo Labanyi, Geraldine Cleary Nichols, Pilar Nieva de la Paz, Soledad Puértolas, Clara Sánchez

MEMORIAS PERIODÍSTICAS 1980-2002

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312193271
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book MEMORIAS PERIODÍSTICAS 1980-2002 written by LUIS ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro, Luis Antonio Rodríguez Vázquez, narra sus anécdotas y experiencias en el periodismo durante los años de 1980 al 2002. El autor colaboró con diez periódicos de Puerto Rico locales y nacionales publicando un total de 542 artículos. Fue columnista numismático en el periódico El Mundo por siete años publicándose sus columnas semanalmente. Durante su experiencia periodística, el autor conoció personalidades de Puerto Rico y del exterior.En las actividades a las cuales asistió acostumbraba tomarse fotos con las personalidades que conoció formando un histórico album. Varias de las fotos se reproducen a todo color en este libro. Luis Antonio ha publicado catorce libros con Lulu Pres, Inc., dos personalmente más 22 folletos sobre diversos temas. Aunque mayormente escribe sobre numismática, también ha publicado libros y artículos sobre historia, sexualidad, cultura, arqueología, literatura y otros temas.

Tear This Heart Out

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Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613656320
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)

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Book Synopsis Tear This Heart Out by : Angeles Mastretta

Download or read book Tear This Heart Out written by Angeles Mastretta and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love story set in the years after the Mexican revolution.

The Librarian's Atlas

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226833178
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis The Librarian's Atlas by : Seth Kimmel

Download or read book The Librarian's Atlas written by Seth Kimmel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Librarian's Atlas, Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries to challenge debates about the practice and politics of information management in early modern Europe. Ancient bibliographers and medieval scholastics, Kimmel reminds us, imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but for early modern scholars, the world was likewise a projection of the library. This notion, at first glance, may seem counterintuitive, especially as reports from late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers in the New World slowly refined-but also destabilized-the Old World's cosmographic and historical consensus. Yet the mapping and ethnographic projects commissioned by early modern rulers, like Spain's Charles V and Philip I, anxious to comprehend and inventory their far-flung territorial possessions in the Americas, nevertheless relied heavily on methods of information management honed in the library. Kimmel focuses on the period that marked the birth of both print and transatlantic exploration. Through close readings of a wide array of materials-library catalogues, marginal glosses, book indexes, biblical commentaries, dictionaries and thesauruses, natural histories, and maps-Kimmel shows how the book-lover's dream of total knowledge in an era of "too much information" helped to shape the early modern period's expanded sense of the world itself. The book should find its audience among scholars of early modern European history, specialists in the early modern cultures of the Mediterranean and Iberia, and a range of students interested in the history of the book and of maps"--