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This delightful book combines 25 stories about dogs with 16 playful drawings by famous Canadian writer, artist, and animal lover Emily Carr. She tells of her joys and tribulations raising Old English sheepdogs, from her decision to start a kennel to the sad day when she had to close it. With each story Carr brings the affectionate and loyal nature of her canine companions to life, making this book an ideal choice for any dog lover, child, or adult....
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Paul Tournier, médico de renombre mundial, psiquiatra, teólogo moderno, autor respetado, profeta contemporáneo.
Esta colección de breves escritos conmemorativos nos ofrece una oportunidad única para conocer mejor al hombre a través de los ojos de sus colegas y amigos
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If you desire to wake up each day with positivity, this is the ideal guide for you to rise and thrive from a simple and successful morning routine!
Rise & Thrive is an ethos to live by - an ideology constructed by motivating quotes to prepare you for when you arise so you can set your mind on the right path for the day and enable your decision-making to influence your life with meaningfulness and ambition.
To manifest a positive mindset and behaviour,...
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Where independent film becomes commercially viable. This behind the scenes log is packed with loads of tips, stories and advice for any budding filmmaker out there who has ever wanted to pick up a camera and shoot their own movie. Nathan Hill shares with us his personal director's diary, written and recorded during the pre-production and production phase of his newest feature film, "Revenge of the Gweilo". A rare and honest look at the filmmaking...
66) Art By Two
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From the beginning, my mother, Peregrine fed my imagination and senses in every possible way with fairy tales, art, beautiful food, music, opera, poetry and trips into nature, the seaside and the mountains. We lived a nomadic life moving from apartments in New York City to shared houses on Fire Island. By the time I could walk, I had the incredible freedom to explore up and down the beach on my own. My mother's artwork was a steady constant and for...
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Book Preview: #1 I was born in the winter of 1898 in Belfast, the son of a solicitor and a clergyman's daughter. My parents had only two children, and I was the younger by about three years. Two very different strains had gone to my making.
#2 I had two other blessings when I was growing up. One was my nurse, Lizzie Endicott, who was kind, cheerful, and sensible. I was also born with...
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In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston-a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture-shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy. In addition to first-hand biographical accounts of his grandfather Solomon Guggenheim (the museum's founder),...
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The Imagineers, those men and women who helped Walt Disney bring his creations to life, have achieved legendary status among theme park enthusiasts. IT'S KIND OF A CUTE STORY is the life story of one of the most beloved Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Covering his long and varied career, including designing some of Disney's most famous attractions and working directly with Walt himself, Rolly's stories weave into a lighthearted yet riveting narrative of...
70) 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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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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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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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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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...
76) 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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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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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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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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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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