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El trabajo de Theaster Gates en las áreas de práctica social, actuación interdisciplinaria, investigación de archivos y creación de objetos multifacéticos lo han convertido en uno de los artistas más convincentes del siglo XXI.Acompañando una importante retrospectiva el New Museum, Nueva York, que se inaugurará en noviembre de 2022, este libro cubre la gama completa de las actividades artísticas de Gates durante los últimos veinte años, capturando su concepción expansiva del arte como escultor social, organizador e improvisador y conservacionista.
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Desde finales de la década de 1990, Sarah Sze ha desarrollado un lenguaje visual característico que desafía la naturaleza estática del arte con un cuerpo de trabajo dinámico que abarca escultura, pintura, dibujo, grabado, video e instalación. En los últimos años, Sze ha vuelto a la pintura, medio en el que se formó por primera vez. Con constelaciones de elementos pintados y en collage, sus amplios paisajes abstractos exploran un mundo visual en constante evolución, degradación y generación de nuevas formas de ver. Sus pinturas son muy solicitadas y se encuentran en las colecciones permanentes de importantes instituciones y museos de todo el mundo. El libro incluye dos ensayos de Mark Godfrey y Tina Pang que exploran las influencias de Sze y su proceso de trabajo, además de una entrevista entre la artista y Madeleine Grynsztejn, que amplía los fundamentos teóricos de su práctica pictórica. Con cada copia numerada y firmada a mano por la artista, este volumen de lujo exquisitamente ilustrado, empaquetado en un estuche envuelto en tela, fue creado en estrecha colaboración con Sze y es la primera monografía dedicada a su práctica pictórica.tta Tharpe, y Neil Young. Una delicia tanto para los entusiastas del diseño como para los aficionados a la música, el último libro de Guilfoyle traza el desarrollo de este pilar de la música popular y los carismáticos artistas que han utilizado la guitarra para transformar nuestras vidas.
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The definitive book on Lebanese home cooking, featuring 500 authentic and delicious easy-to-make recipes.On the shores of the eastern Mediterranean and a gateway to the Middle East, Lebanon has long been regarded as having one of the most refined cuisines in the region, blending textures, and ingredients from a myriad of sources.This definitive guide by James Beard award-winning author Salma Hage, brings together hundreds of diverse dishes, from light, tempting mezzes and salads, to hearty main courses, grilled meats, sumptuous sweets, and refreshing drinks.Recipes range from the familiar to fresh discoveries, and from meat, fish, and poultry dishes to a wealth of vegetable-based, dairy-free, and gluten-free options.
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En anglès.Com podem viatjar de la ciutat al camp en una tarda, sense agafar cap vehicle? Com podem endevinar què s’amaga entre les branques d’un bosc espès? Com podem trobar i perdre i tornar a trobar un gat sense moure’ns de lloc? De la mà de l’artista Antoni Tàpies farem un recorregut per algunes de les seves obres, ensopegarem amb un poeta que fa jocs de mans, i coneixerem una àvia i una néta que busquen un gat. Si no el perdem de vista destaparem els secrets amagats en les obres de Tàpies. I és que en l’art hi ha molta màgia per descobrir!Conté fotografies d’obres d’Antoni Tàpies, i retrats de l’artista a càrrec de Leopoldo Pomés, Hans Namuth i Francesc Català-Roca. Inclou la fitxa tècnica de les obres i un breu text explicatiu de cada una.
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A finales de la década de 1980, más de 30 de los artistas más aclamados de la época, incluidos Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dalí y Keith Haring, diseñaron atracciones de feria únicas y en pleno funcionamiento específicamente para el parque original, incluidos juegos mecánicos, esculturas interactivas, juegos, actuaciones y música. La contribución de cada artista está documentada en fotografías que muestran al artista trabajando, con detalles de las obras de arte y mostrando el arte en el contexto de la exposición. Al dar acceso a obras de arte raras que no se han visto ampliamente en 35 años, este libro se publica por primera vez en inglés con un prefacio actualizado.latos regionales, que incluyen curry de coco fragante, laksas sabrosos, sotos fortificantes y postres tradicionales. Las 150 recetas accesibles se han adaptado para cocineros caseros, con ingredientes fáciles de obtener y métodos de cocción sencillos. Con una introducción a la cultura culinaria de Indonesia, impresionantes imágenes de recetas y cultura local, e historias personales que revelan la rica historia y la inspiración detrás de cada receta, este es el compañero perfecto para la cocina indonesia.
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This publication presents 100 utter masterpieces chosen from the extensive and invaluable holdings of the Spanish Royal Collections-which conserve more than 165,000 pieces. They are outstanding representatives of all the artistic disciplines that enrich the Crown's treasury: illuminated books of hours, small devotional paintings, delicate pieces of goldwork and large tapestries, mediaeval textiles, sculptures, weapons and armour, furniture, carriages, frescoes, spectacular fountains, celebrated paintings by Bosch, Titian, Velázquez, Caravaggio, Goya and, in short, grandiose works which combine all the arts, like the Throne Room of the Royal Palace of Madrid. With more than 100 full-page photographs and close-ups, each work is introduced by the conservators of the Royal Collections, which makes a publication, the first to accompany the opening of the Gallery of the Royal Collections, in which readers can become immersed, awestruck, in the great treasures harboured by Spanish Patrimonio Nacional (national heritage institution).
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Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world’s most intriguing destinations.When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called “among the largest and most beautiful in the world,” and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape.
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434 pages of essays from all over the world about how anarchist punk has influenced and inspired resistance in many varied struggles. Punk and anarchism have been intertwined since punk first blasted into the public consciousness some 45 years ago, and, while the relationship is complicated (and not ubiquitous), anarchism has been identified as punk’s ‘primary political companion’ but, close investigation of the connections between anarchism and punk has been scant – it’s either taken-for-granted, lurks in the background of other topics of analysis, or is ignored completely. We’re going to change that, with the publication of four books about various aspects of the punk/anarchism relationship, this is the first!
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Este catálogo de exposición reúne obras de tres artistas románticos: los noruegos Peder Balke (1804-1887) y Lars Hertervig (1830-1902) y el español Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817-1870), ofreciendo un paralelo entre sus respectivos paisajes para mostrar cómo plasmaron sus visiones interiores de la naturaleza a través de técnicas experimentales que, en cierta medida, anticiparon la manera suelta del Impresionismo y otros movimientos de la pintura moderna.
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Visit the world’s most comprehensive and compelling museum in a single book – the ultimate gallery in your own home.Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this classic format of Phaidon’s bestselling The Art Museum offers the ultimate museum experience without the boundaries of space and time. The rooms and galleries that live within this volume display more than 1,600 artworks, expertly selected from the original collection, including paintings, sculpture, textiles, photographs, installations, performances, videos, prints, ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork, and jewelwork.The artworks included were carefully selected by a team of 28 curators, critics, art historians and artists who contributed their expertise to create this revolutionary 'virtual' museum. These experts came from such institutions as: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The British Museum, London, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, the University of California, Berkley, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.Works originate from the Palaeolithic era to the present and come from all around the globe and include both iconic and lesser-known pieces. This extraordinary book takes the reader on a tour around the world and through the ages, presenting the finest examples of human creativity within its covers – a dream museum without the boundaries of walls.
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) disfrutó de gran fama en sus dos visitas a los Estados Unidos, cuando los museos norteamericanos compitieron por hacerse con sus exposiciones monográficas en 1909 y 1911, y la adquisición de sus obras era motivo de orgullo para las colecciones públicas y privadas. Este volumen estudia el entramado de relaciones personales que sustentaron aquella fascinación colectiva por Sorolla, el artista español más admirado fuera de España a comienzos del siglo XX. Varios tipos de personajes participaron esta exitosa historia: sus primeros clientes en aquel país, que presentaron sus compras en público para dar a conocer a Sorolla entre sus compatriotas, los directores de los recién creados museos de Saint Louis, Buffalo y Chicago, que organizaron las exposiciones multitudinarias y los actos sociales relacionados con la estancia del pintor en estas ciudades, grandes coleccionistas y mecenas como Archer M. Huntington –quien no sólo acogió la legendaria exposición neoyorquina en la Hispanic Society, sino que asumió la mayor parte de los gastos de su gira triunfal americana– y Thomas Fortune Ryan, otro entusiasta del maestro español, del que llegó a poseer al menos 29 cuadros. Sorolla tuvo relación profesional y amistad con varios pintores norteamericanos: John Singer Sargent, su mentor en Londres, William Merritt Chase, con quien trató como colega, los principiantes Cadwallader L. Washburn y a William E.B. Starkweather, alumnos en su estudio madrileño y luego agentes de su viaje transatlántico, Louis Comfort Tiffany, que posó para él cuando en la cima de su brillante carrera como diseñador, sin olvidar a Raimundo de Madrazo, que había precedido a Sorolla como retratista de la alta sociedad americana de finales del siglo XIX. Este conjunto de figuras permite explicar buena parte de los encargos que Sorolla atendió en varias ciudades de los Estados Unidos, así como la venta de la inmensa mayoría de obras que llevó consigo desde España. De su circulación posterior y de los cambios en la estima por Sorolla durante más de un siglo da cuenta –como colofón a este volumen– un estudio retrospectivo de la fortuna de Sorolla en el mercado del arte, que al fin y al cabo es el termómetro de su éxito internacional.
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This pocket book starts with the essay “A great thinker or a man of action - how did Bakunin shape anarchism in the 19th century?” by Vyvian Raoul and is followed by Bakunin’s best known work the unfinished God and the State.One of us is soon to tell in all its details the story of the life of Michael Bakunin, but its general features are already sufficiently familiar. Friends and enemies know that this man was great in thought, will, persistent energy they know also with what lofty contempt he looked down upon wealth, rank, glory, all the wretched ambitions which most human beings are base enough to entertain. A Russian gentleman related by marriage to the highest nobility of the empire, he was one of the first to enter that intrepid society of rebels who were able to release themselves from traditions, prejudices, race and class interests, and set their own comfort at naught. With them he fought the stern battle of life, aggravated by imprisonment, exile, all the dangers and all the sorrows that men of self-sacrifice have to undergo during their tormented existence.A simple stone and a name mark the spot in the cemetery of Berne where was laid the body of Bakunin. Even that is perhaps too much to honor the memory of a worker who held vanities of too much to honor the memory of a worker who held vanities of that sort in such slight esteem. His friends surely will raise to him no ostentatious tombstone or statue. They know with what a huge laugh he would have received them, had they spoken to him of a commemorative structure erected to his glory they knew, too, that the true way to honor their dead is to continue their work — with the same ardor and perseverance that they themselves brought to it. In this case, indeed, a difficult task demanding all our efforts, for among the revolutionists of the present generation not one has labored more fervently in the common cause of the Revolution.
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First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses.Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage - they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today's world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.
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Durante los últimos cuarenta años, el arquitecto y coleccionista Peter Marino ha adquirido una notable colección de piezas del ceramista francés Ernest Chaplet.Esta colección es un precioso testimonio de una producción excepcional: una nueva línea de cerámica creada por Chaplet en 1883 para la fábrica Haviland & Co de Limoges.Ernest Chaplet arroja una merecida luz sobre este gran artista, cuya carrera ejemplifica la evolución de la cerámica artística en principios del siglo XX, y cuya obra entró en las colecciones de muchos museos durante su vida.
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The gardens of the Alhambra Hill, is intended to be a publication that reflects the historical and aesthetic importance of the gardens of this unique monument of humanity. Since the time it was built, from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, the gardens have been an inseparable part of it. The authors of the text are two professors from the University of Granada, experts of the monument and its surroundings. They will lead us through a promenade of flowers, plants, trees and gardens with an informative text. Spectacular photographs made by Fernando Manso, a well known Spanish photographer, will take us to this paradise, full of senses, history and beauty that was and still is the Alhambra.
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''No hay nada comparable a los Alpes'', escribió el gran historiador francés Jules Michelet en 1868. En el corazón de Europa, la gigantesca cordillera alpina incluye algunos de los parajes naturales más grandiosos del mundo, como el Mont Blanc, el Jungfrau, el Cervino y sus glaciares. El turismo comenzó a finales del siglo XIX y creció enormemente en los siglos siguientes, especialmente con el auge de los deportes de invierno. Este libro ofrece un encantador recorrido por una época pretérita, cuando los primeros trenes de montaña y los ferrocarriles cremallera llevaban a hombres con pantalones de cuero y mujeres con vestidos largos hasta el pie del glaciar. Cuando los guías locales acompañaban a los turistas montados en mulas, una época en la que los primeros alpinistas eran considerados locos, y los esquiadores eran una curiosidad.A través de fotocromos, fotografías y postales en color de los siglos XIX y XX, de carteles de viajes y folletos turísticos, cruzamos puertos como Mont-Cenis, Simplon, Brenner y Gotthard. Escalamos el Mont Blanc, el Eiger, el Wetterhorn y las Dolomitas, nos maravillamos con los lagos de aguas cristalinas de Suiza, Italia, Baviera y Eslovenia, exploramos el Tirol, la Vía Mala y la Engadina, y pasamos la temporada de invierno en los grandes hoteles de Gstaad, Grindelwald, Davos, St. Moritz y Cortina. Un viaje, completado con numerosas citas de escritores de viajes, que evoca aquellos días felices de nieve prístina y pistas vírgenes.
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Book of the Year Award 2021 by SDLI Innovation Agency. Absolutely indispensable for all global leaders. Cecilia MoSze Tham, award-winning futurist ''Strategic thinking to create the future of your company.'' Paul Almeida, Georgetown University ''If disruption is of interest to you, you should read Bofarull.'' Soumitra Dutta, University of Oxford With recent developments in the technology market, it may seem like the age of the Silicon Valley moonshot is over for now. Disruption and corporate resilience have become the new normal. In this book, originally written at the beginning of the pandemic, Ivan Bofarull, Chief Innovation Officer at Esade, the global business school, had the foresight to anticipate a period of retrenchment of grand corporate moonshots. Instead, he focused his research on how to embed moonshot thinking as a mindset in each company, putting this at the core of an operating system for decision making and business transformation. After reading this book, you will be better at: Adopting an entrepreneurial mindset with moonshot thinking, a mental model that aims for 10x improvements that force you to rethink your foundations from the ground up. Becoming a disruption pro: understanding its actual meaning, which signals it emits, how to anticipate it, and how to make the most of it. Being systematic as an innovator, by designing an operating system for continuous transformation. Praise for this book... ''Moonshot Thinking provides real models to turn challenges into opportunities.'' Natalia Olson, former SME advisor to President Obama ''A new habit that you can systematically apply in your company.'' Pablo Rodriguez, Director of Google's office of the CTO ''An indispensable and inspiring synthesis.'' Xavier Marcet, Drucker Society ''Bofarull reminds us of the balance between 10x and 10% incremental improvements. An uncommon way of thinking and wisdom.'' Henry Chesbrough, UC Berkeley ''Moonshot thinking is now more important than ever, particularly considering the many systemic challenges the world is facing.'' Javier Solana, Esade, and Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, venture capitalist
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A los pinos el viento es el retrato de una de las colecciones de bonsáis más sobresalientes de Europa, la de Luis Vallejo, y un perfil del coleccionista a través de su colección. Lejos de un acercamiento desde la ciencia botánica a los ejemplares que la integran, el libro presenta los árboles desde la poética y el tiempo de su diseño y creación. Y lo hace a través de un corpus de fotografías tomado por Fernando Maquieira, al que, en el registro de la imagen, se suma el preámbulo de Carmen Ballvé, dos lenguajes para hablar de un mismo universo. Con presentación de Felipe González, los breves textos y las citas se entreveran con los árboles para incorporar la mirada de su artífice, como evocación de la experiencia o como invocación de la asociación literaria. Por otro lado, el relato de José María Parreño traza un viaje al mundo del bonsái. Por último, los cuadernos de dibujos aportan al volumen la forma de expresión más sencilla y directa del vínculo del autor con sus árboles.
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Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest artists - exclusively researched for this book.Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the ideal book for artists, collectors, and armchair enthusiasts. As painters, sculptors, photographers, and other visual artists see and experience the world through a unique lens, Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists shows that their life lessons, private revelations, and frank, often irreverent, opinions can guide us all.This unique and carefully curated book, packed with totally original research, is a go-to resource for revealing thoughts and personal advice on subjects as diverse as beauty, colour, light, sex, chance, discipline, money troubles, originality, fear of failure, danger of success, the creative process, and more – all messages transmitted from the artistic trenches.
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Across the Mediterranean, from Spain to Morocco, via Italy, Sicily, Greece and Lebanon, one delicious food influence gives way to the next. The whole region is a rich seam of deeply delicious food, and the recipes in this mouth-watering collection are gathered far and wide from anywhere the Mediterranean Sea touches the shore.
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A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.
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For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world' s top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America. In this curse-word-free edition of Can' t Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.
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A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung work of keeping a home and raising a family.As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen. There are also six sheepdogs, two ponies, 20 chickens, 50 cattle and 500 sheep to care for. Helen is a farmer's wife.Hers is a story that is rarely told, despite being one we think we know. Weaving past and present, Helen shares the days that have shaped her. This is the truth of those from steering the family through the Beast from the East and the local authority planning committee, to finding the quiet strength to keep going, when supper is yet to be started, another delivery man has assumed he needs to speak to the 'man of the house', and she would rather punch a cushion than plump it.This beautifully-illustrated memoir, which takes place across one day at the farm, offers a chance to think about where our food comes from and who puts it on the table. Helen's recipes, lists and gentle wisdom helps us to get through our days, whatever they throw at us.
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'A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' RORY STEWART'Eye-popping, mind-blowing, ground-breaking' LUCY WORSLEYThe West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? What if the story is very different? In this bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn reveals a new one that traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart. She makes the case that it is contact and connections, rather than distinct and isolated civilisations, that drive historical change. It is not peoples that make history – people do.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.Travelling to the world’s earliest known human settlements, analysing the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and tracing cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, she overturns simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy is and how far it goes back really depends on where you are.Despite the push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in failure and backlash. Saini ends by asking what part we all play – women included – in keeping patriarchal structures alive, and why we need to look beyond the old narratives to understand why it persists in the present.
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The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions. Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by soldiers intent on seizing the key to power in Florence - Catherine herself, a girl barely 11 years old. It ends with her as the controversial queen mother of France, a woman both revered and reviled. Mary, Queen of Scots' story begins in Scotland and ends in England. A queen turned traitor, from the confines of her English prison she longs for the idyll of her childhood in France. Elisabeth de Valois' story begins in France, where she is born the beloved daughter of a king. It ends tragically in Spain as a cherished queen consort and mother - one who must make the ultimate sacrifice for her kingdom. Catherine, Mary and Elisabeth lived at the French court together for many years before scattering to different kingdoms. These years bound them to one another through blood and marriage, alliance and friendship, love and filial piety, bonds that were tested when the women were forced to part and take on new roles. To rule, they would learn, was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. A crown could exalt a young woman. Equally, it could destroy her. Drawing on new archival research, Young Queens masterfully weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one, revealing their hopes, dreams, desires and regrets in a time when even the most powerful women lived at the mercy of the state.
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O Benfica completa, a 28 de fevereiro de 2024,120 anos de história. Uma história riquíssima, marcada pela conquista de 38 campeonatos nacionais e dois títulos europeus, entre dezenas de troféus importantes no futebol sénior, que fez do clube encarnado o maior e mais popular de Portugal e um dos mais carismáticos do Mundo. É essa história que, através de 120 momentos, profusamente ilustrados, é contada neste álbum de capa dura e grandes dimensões.
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Você sente que a educação tradicional não tem nada a ver com a vida e que a escola não está preparando você para o mundo real? Se você respondeu “sim” a essas perguntas, então este livro foi feito para você!Quando criança, Robert Kiyosaki não foi um dos melhores alunos. Apesar de inteligente, ele aprendia de forma diferente daquela esperada pelos professores. Então, Robert encontrou um mentor que lhe ensinou muitas lições sobre dinheiro e investimentos ? e teve tanto êxito que pôde se aposentar antes de chegar aos cinquenta anos.Pai Rico, Pai Pobre para Jovens, mais um sucesso da série de best-sellers sobre dinheiro e investimentos, não se limita a contar a impressionante história de vida do autor, ele mostra como tomar decisões hoje - e começar a pensar como os ricos. Escrito em linguagem leve e direta, este livro potencializará seu sucesso pessoal, mostrando:• Como falar a língua do dinheiro.• Os caminhos para o sucesso ? incluindo “trabalhe para aprender, não para ganhar dinheiro”.• Jogos que ajudam a entender as ferramentas que mantêm o dinheiro circulando e se multiplicando.
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A NEW EDITION OF MICHAEL VLISMAS' EYE-OPENING BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK, NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL COVERING THE LATEST IN MUSK'S FAMILY AND BUSINESS LIFE. In 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his controversial tweets. Who is this boundary-pushing billionaire with grand plans of inhabiting Mars, and what lies at the heart of his vision? Why is he so utterly unafraid of risk? As an awkward Pretoria schoolboy who loved comics and science fiction, Musk's early years and singular family background were crucial in forming his stellar ambitions. Journalist and author Michael Vlismas, who attended the same high school as Musk, knows well the environment that shaped him and offers new insights into Musk's development, including his troubled relationship with his father. Tracing his remarkable life, from his South African childhood to his move to Canada at 17 and then to the US - where Musk made millions out of PayPal and built Tesla and SpaceX into two of the world's most famous companies - this is the revealing new story of a man driven to preserve the optimism he sees in humanity and find a future for humans 'out there among the stars'.
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Presented in July 2022. Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help.This call would mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out over the next ten years and would involve a cast of characters straight out of fiction. From rock icons and film stars, art dealers and art forgers, to a murdered Russian oligarch and a lawyer for the mob, from courtrooms to auction houses: all took part in a bitter struggle to prove the authenticity of a series of paintings by the most famous American artist of the 20th century. Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power and art.
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Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Ancient Rome began as a village of humble dwellings on the Palatine and grew to be one of the mightiest and most successful empires of human history, before collapsing in the West under invasions of barbarian nations attracted by Rome's wealth and land, over a thousand years later. The legacy of Rome continues in the languages of modern Europe, in the calendar and the alphabet we use, and in the religion called Christianity which remains the dominant faith throughout the Western world.
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Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.
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Stanford lecturer and host of the #1 business podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams, reveals the secrets to finding the right words when it counts. Communication is crucial to success in life and business. However, it is not just big speeches that matter: it is also those critical, spur-of-the-moment situations for which we cannot prepare. A prospective client asking unexpected questions during a sales pitch, a teacher singling you out for an answer during a class, a high-pressure meeting with senior executives at work, or even a heartwarming toast to deliver on the spot. All are fraught scenarios that might cause you to freeze up. The pandemic has only boosted this fear, by stripping the spontaneity from communication during lockdown, and then changing the communication landscape.
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The renowned social scientist, professor, and bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delivers his most urgent and compelling book—an eye-opening exploration of the human side of the misinformation crisis—examining what drives otherwise rational people to adopt deeply irrational beliefs. Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis—from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets, to even our closest relationships. While we recognize the dangers that misinformation poses, the problem is complex—far beyond what policing social media alone can achieve—and too often our limited solutions are shaped by partisan politics and individual interpretations of truth. In Misbelief, preeminent social scientist Dan Ariely argues that to understand the irrational appeal of misinformation, we must first understand the behavior of “misbelief”—the psychological and social journey that leads people to mistrust accepted truths, entertain alternative facts, and even embrace full-blown conspiracy theories. Misinformation, it turns out, appeals to something innate in all of us—on the right and the left—and it is only by understanding this psychology that we can blunt its effects. Grounded in years of study as well as Ariely’s own experience as a target of disinformation, Misbelief is an eye-opening and comprehensive analysis of the psychological drivers that cause otherwise rational people to adopt deeply irrational beliefs. Utilizing the latest research, Ariely reveals the key elements—emotional, cognitive, personality, and social—that drive people down the funnel of false information and mistrust, showing how under the right circumstances, anyone can become a misbeliever. Yet Ariely also offers hope. Even as advanced artificial intelligence has become capable of generating convincing fake news stories at an unprecedented scale, he shows that awareness of these forces fueling misbelief make us, as individuals and as a society, more resilient to its allure. Combating misbelief requires a strategy rooted not in conflict, but in empathy. The sooner we recognize that misbelief is above all else a human problem, the sooner we can become the solution ourselves.
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From the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, renowned communications coach Carmine Gallo reveals the leadership secrets of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - and gives you the tools to master them yourself. Jeff Bezos built Amazon. A dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world's most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch and present. He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world's largest employers. In The Bezos Blueprint, Carmine Gallo reveals the communication strategies that Jeff Bezos pioneered to fuel Amazon's astonishing growth. As one of the most innovative and visionary entrepreneurs of our time, Bezos reimagined the way leaders write, speak and motivate teams and customers. The communication tools Bezos created are so effective that former Amazonians who worked directly with Bezos adopted them as blueprints to start their own companies. Now, these tools are available to you.
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Presented in June 2023 folder. Arendt's seminal essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics.
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