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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
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Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of course, no question of mental grasp or capacity or artistic endowment. I am, so far as these are concerned, merely the man in the street, the averagely endowed and the ordinarily educated. I call myself a Puritan and a Christian. I run continually against walls of convention,...
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An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art.
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some...
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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Book Preview: #1 I was born on a Monday in Chicago during the Great Blizzard of 1946. My mother took in ironing while I waited on the stoop of our rooming house for the iceman to give me slivers of ice wrapped in brown paper. I would slip one in my pocket for my baby sister.
#2 I was completely smitten by the book. I loved to read, and the things I read of produced new yearnings....
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Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais, Ruskin's protégé, and fell passionately in love with him. In a daring act, Effie left Ruskin, had their marriage...
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This is a short classic autography from a gifted writer, the dog he had as a child; his marriage, the dogs he and his wife had together, and the sudden death of his wife; his second marriage and the long slow death of his second wife from cancer. The dogs they had together and the dogs he had as companions after the deaths of his wives, eight and one-years apart.
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Fotógrafo excelente, los retratos que hace pueden lucir en cualquier parte del mundo. Nació en Guadalajara en 1841, hijo del apreciable caballero Sr. D. Regino. Octaviano en su viaje a Europa perfeccionó sus trabajos artísticos que han sido premiados hasta en la Exposición de París, celebrada en 1878. El establecimiento del Sr. Mora es el mejor de Guadalajara, está montado con lujo, el gusto más exigente puede estar seguro de quedar complacido,...
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#1 The first time you find a woman's vibrator is never forgotten. I learned this lesson when I was thirteen and rummaging around my friend Danny's tree house-like cottage with my brother Chad. We found a white, missile-shaped device that began to buzz and vibrate. We knew nothing about it, but we knew we didn't want to investigate any further.
#2 I was a misfit teen...
12) Vejestud
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Los momentos posteriores a la meditación diaria, los ratos de esparcimiento en el hogar, las horas de espera en aeropuertos y en vuelos al trasladarme de un país a otro, son espacios para reflexionar, rememorar, evaluar, proyec- tar o pasar revista de mis actos y de mis pensamientos... Y, muy particularmente, para visualizar la vida desde la pers- pectiva cronológica en que ésta se halla: etapa a la que me ha dado por llamar vejestud, como reflejo...
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In my fourth book, In it for the Long Run, one of the most popular chapters with the readers was You can call me Al. It was all about my good friend Al Barker, the only person Ive ever met who brakes with his left foot. Wanting to capitalize on the popularity of using titles of Paul Simon songs, I reviewed his repertoire for an applicable title for this book. Since the book is about my last year on earth before turning 60 years of age, I initially...
14) Escape Artist
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William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation's largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor's edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture.
After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and...
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En esta novela gráfica, Danielle de Picciotto relata e ilustra el viaje sin retorno que inició en 2010 junto a su pareja Alexander Hacke, miembro fundador de la mítica banda post-punk Einstürzende Neubauten, en búsqueda de una ciudad que les entusiasmara tanto como ese Berlín de finales de los ochenta en el que ella co-fundó la Love Parade.
Entre diario y crónica de viaje, este libro explora el nomadismo como una opción de vida frente a la...
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The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is a national icon, yet few have heard of its sculptor, Thomas Brock. He left school at 12 to be an apprentice at the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works, then joined the London studio of John Henry Foley. He completed the figure of the Prince Consort for the Albert Memorial after Foleys death. One of the young sculptors encouraged by Sir Frederic Leighton, he became famous for his lifelike portrait...
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A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian
Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whose career spans 50 years, has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, and worked on such classics as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Complete with personal anecdotes from the...
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Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents, recognition, nor much gratitude for his work. Ed later drew sketches as an illustrator for an architectural firm in Grand Rapids, where he met a co-worker...
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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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