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"No me ha bajado la regla. Hace dos semanas salí a tomar algo, me lie con las copas y terminé escribiendo a mi ex italiano... ¿Cómo iba yo a saber que unos chupitos de Jäger me pondrían la vida patas arriba?" Así comienza la historia de Valeria. Mientras todo el mundo se volvía loco por encontrar un test covid, ella corría a la farmacia a pedir uno de embarazo. Y luego otro. Para matar el mono, pero también porque no podía creerse que fuera positivo. ¿Puede una llegar a ser buena madre cuando aún no sabe cuidar ni de sí misma?

Many recognize Stan Lee as the face of Marvel. Yet Jack Kirby is the one who did a lot of the hard work in creating such heroes as Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and Ant-Man. While Lee was the public face for what became the multimedia brand, Kirby’s legacy is relegated to the shadows. Much like Bill Finger of Batman and Gene L. Coon of Star Trek, this man doesn’t get enough credit. A man who gave everything to the comic book industry. This book hopes to shed some light on his life and career.

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz—it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down. After studying structural engineering in Africa, he worked on hospitals and theaters in London, and later headed the team that designed University of Qatar. He went on to design Embankment Place, a massive office complex built over London’s Charing Cross railway station. Turning from building to rebuilding, he explored construction opportunities for British firms during the Gulf War, in Kuwait’s still-burning oil fields.

"Atelierul lui e o lume. El nu mai trăieşte în Franţa. O lume mică şi albă în care realitatea se schimbă, trupurile groase cad şi corpurile îşi dezvăluie sufletele, esenţa. Charon e mic, cu ochi vii. Mîini puternice îi piaptănă barba desprinsă din...

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills.

Lo trágico del destino que presento aquí, es que ofrece la imagen de un sufrimiento innato, que viene de lo más hondo del ser, que lo roe sin tregua y no lo abandona sino hasta haberlo destruido. Uno de los tipos más poderosos de esta gran raza humana, que desde hace diecinueve siglos llena el Occidente con sus gritos de dolor y de fe, es el cristiano. Por eso os amo, cristianos, porque os compadezco.

Listen to true stories about this dazed and confused boy as he tries every job imaginable in a desperate attempt to take advantage of his worthless college degree, make enough money to survive, and not hate the place he’s forced to spend a majority of his life at. Will he ever succeed as an artist? Can he hack it as a contract mechanic? Why did he get fired from L.A. Fitness after one day? How bad could it be managing a group of teenagers that sell ride photos at the Mall of America?

Disney experiences enthrall millions of guests around the world. How does it all become a reality? Find out in this action-packed narrative journey! Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the...

Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Written between 2015-16, with color images of well-known old...

A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn’t seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal...

Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine...

The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé—by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898‒1967)...

Peggy Guggenheim, American collector and art icon: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

" Le 19 avril 1980, une foule immense, silencieuse, accompagne le convoi funèbre de Sartre jusqu’au cimetière du Montparnasse, à Paris. Derrière Simone de Beauvoir, en tête de cortège, plus de cin-quante mille personnes sont venues rendre un dernier hommage au penseur français le plus célèbre au monde. Comment expliquer sa notoriété, comment mesurer aujourd’hui l’impact de la pensée et de l’écriture de Sartre dans la société actuelle ?

Cecilia Toussaint le da voz a Frida Kahlo. Ocho días antes de morir, Frida Kahlo cogió sus pinceles por última vez y escribió sobre la pulpa roja de la sandía: «Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954». Pocos meses antes, le habían amputado la...

Ci fu una pittrice ancor più grande della già immensa Artemisia Gentileschi. Il suo nome era Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), nata a Cremona da nobile famiglia. La sua fu una vita avventurosa, trascorsa tra botteghe di pittori, corti reali e palazzi nobiliari di mezza Europa. Un unico punto fermo: la sua passione e il suo talento straordinario per la pittura e per la ritrattistica in particolare.

Today's high-flying, high-rolling conglomarateurs and corporate raiders are a tame lot compared to their immediate predecessors. The most notorious of these is Robert Vesco, the Kingfish himself, who in 1973 fled the United States accused of looting $250 million from Investors Overseas Services. Now, in this riveting account, noted author Arthur Herzog tells the astounding story of this high school dropout from Detroit, who parlayed cunning, ambition, a brilliant mind, and above all, other people's gullibility and money into a vast financial empire.

This autobiographical novel follows the career of a civil engineering apprentice, from childhood to middle age. Along the way, we get to see the inner workings of the profession, from the nuts and bolts of civil engineering and surveying, their technological transformation, to the death of the apprenticeship system. It's a mysterious world that few laymen know. And yet we are all surrounded by their work everywhere, every day.

Cézanne, ennemi de tout compromis, entend traduire avant tout la vérité de sa perception. Ce faisant, il définit une nouvelle relation de l'artiste au monde qui l'entoure, et réinvente l'espace de la peinture. Au lendemain de sa mort, survenue en 1906, il deviendra la référence incontournable des jeunes générations.

In diesem kompakten Reiseführer durch das Leben des Leonardo da Vinci gibt Stendhal uns einen interessanten Querschnitt über dessen Jugend, Lebensstationen und Werdegang als Künstler. Berücksichtigt werden Leonardos Stilarten und interdisziplinäres Wirken, das Verhältnis zu Freunden und Auftraggebern und anhand seiner berühmtesten Kunstwerke wird seine Arbeitsmethodik analysiert. Die historischen Begebenheiten bezüglich des Abendmahls sind besonders hervorzuheben.