Biography & Memoirs
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788415732273
Jane Austen At Home
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. Worsley discovers a Jane Austen who fought for her ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964397
Javier Pradera or the Power of the Left
This is a biography of an intellectual, editor, and columnist, who played a relevant role in Spain during the last four decades of the twentieth century. Through numerous testimonies and documents, Jordi Gracia reconstructs the vital, intellectual, editorial and political trajectory of Javier Prader..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788415441427
John Williams. Life and Work
This book goes on a deep and analytical journey around the personal and professional career of the English composer John Williams, who is the author of famous soundtracks such as ET, Star Wars or Indiana Jones. / Este libro pretende ofrecer al lector una completa visión acerca de la figura del gran..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418578335
Juan de Mesa
With less than a decade of colossal work, Juan de Mesa (Córdoba, 1583-Seville, 1627) has gone down in history as one of the most acclaimed sculptors in works representing the passion and death of Christ. His life story is short and it is full of lacunas, this book pretends to reach through his sculp..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418346774
Julio Romero de Torres
Córdoba, land of culture and great artists, was the hand that rocked the cradle of one of the great painters in history: Julio Romero de Torres. City and painter become one through these pages, where the lesser known details of the life and work Julio Romero de Torres had is approached and resolved...
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433916297
Kubrick at Home
A call from Carlos Saura that put Stanley Kubrick in contact with Vicente Molina Foix, who, during twenty years of a relationship that only ended with the death of the director, translated into Spanish the dialogues of five of his films.
Una llamada de Carlos Saura puso en contacto con Stanley Kubri..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433979155
The Fall
The story begins with a devastating quote: «Tito has a cerebral palsy». The Fall tells the fight on the disease of his son Tito and the attempts of a father to communicate with him and to make him walk. This is an emotional literary testimony that is far away from sentimentalism and self-pity. / El..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128325
Mob Girl
Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to have what she saw as a glamorous and exciting life. After a brief..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418346552
The disappearance of Agatha Christie
In this book, readers will find the most surprising questions and answers about the biographies of some of the most prominent writers of world literature, such as Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Yukio Mishima and Arthur Conan Doyle, who fulfill the topic that reality surpasses Fiction. / ¿Imaginan a..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964564
The Recovering
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. ..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441436169
Cervantes' Youth
Most of Cervantes' biographers have tried to recount his character and his myth instead of the adventures of the man: the scarcity of documentary evidence about his life and the many references in his work seemed to indicate that this was the only way proceed. But the biography proposed by Professor..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788415732112
Miki Roqué's Light
On March 4, 2011, Miki Roque was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his pelvis. He died almost 16 months after being only 23 years old. During this delicate process, a soccer player help leading each of the decisions, leaving messages, teachings, moral values, and transmitting a higher energy. He e..
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