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Sportin' Life - John W. Bubbles, An American Classic

by Brian Harker

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 Sportin' Life tells for the first time the full, dramatic story of one of America's great song-and-dance men. A groundbreaking tap dancer who provided inspiration to the likes of Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and the Nicholas Brothers, John W. Bubbles is the epitome of "a highly influential but mostly forgotten" figure.
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Straighten Up And Fly Right - The Life And Music Of Nat King Cole

by Will Friedwald

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star.
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Straighten Up And Fly Right - The Life And Music Of Nat King Cole

by Will Friedwald

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star.
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Music By Max Steiner - The Epic Life Of Hollywood''S Most Influential Composer

by Steven C. Smith

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in his iconic work for such classics as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Searchers, Now, Voyager, the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and over 200 other titles. And Steiner''s private life was a drama all its own. Born into a legendary Austrian theatrical dynasty, he became one of Hollywood''s top-paid composers. But he was also constantly in debt--the inevitable result of gambling, financial mismanagement, four marriages, and the actions of his emotionally troubled son. Throughout his chaotic life, Steiner was buoyed by an innate optimism, a quick wit, and an instinctive gift for melody, all of which would come to the fore as he met and worked with luminaries like Richard Strauss, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, the Warner Bros., David O. Selznick, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, and Frank Capra. In Music by Max Steiner, the first full biography of Steiner, author Steven C. Smith interweaves the dramatic incidents of Steiner''s personal life with an accessible exploration of his composing methods and experiences, bringing to life the previously untold story of a musical pioneer and master dramatist who helped create a vital new art with some of the greatest film scores in cinema history.
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Music By Max Steiner - The Epic Life Of Hollywood''S Most Influential Composer

by Steven C. Smith

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in his iconic work for such classics as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Searchers, Now, Voyager, the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and over 200 other titles. And Steiner''s private life was a drama all its own. Born into a legendary Austrian theatrical dynasty, he became one of Hollywood''s top-paid composers. But he was also constantly in debt--the inevitable result of gambling, financial mismanagement, four marriages, and the actions of his emotionally troubled son. Throughout his chaotic life, Steiner was buoyed by an innate optimism, a quick wit, and an instinctive gift for melody, all of which would come to the fore as he met and worked with luminaries like Richard Strauss, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, the Warner Bros., David O. Selznick, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, and Frank Capra. In Music by Max Steiner, the first full biography of Steiner, author Steven C. Smith interweaves the dramatic incidents of Steiner''s personal life with an accessible exploration of his composing methods and experiences, bringing to life the previously untold story of a musical pioneer and master dramatist who helped create a vital new art with some of the greatest film scores in cinema history.
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Generous Vision - The Creative Life Of Elaine De Kooning

by Cathy Curtis

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Cathy Curtis's comprehensive biography provides a much-needed summation of the extraordinary achievements of Elaine de Kooning. Based on painstaking research and hundreds of interviews, A Generous Vision fills a significant void in biographies of American women artists of the twentieth century, bringing to life a leading figure who held her own in a contentious male arena and lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms.
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Generous Vision - The Creative Life Of Elaine De Kooning

by Cathy Curtis

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Cathy Curtis's comprehensive biography provides a much-needed summation of the extraordinary achievements of Elaine de Kooning. Based on painstaking research and hundreds of interviews, A Generous Vision fills a significant void in biographies of American women artists of the twentieth century, bringing to life a leading figure who held her own in a contentious male arena and lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms.
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Wendy Carlos - A Biography

by Amanda Sewell

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on published and unpublished interviews with Wendy Carlos and with other people in her life and career, this full biography tells the story of Carlos' life from her childhood in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to her present life in New York and the secrecy that has surrounded it.
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Wendy Carlos - A Biography

by Amanda Sewell

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on published and unpublished interviews with Wendy Carlos and with other people in her life and career, this full biography tells the story of Carlos' life from her childhood in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to her present life in New York and the secrecy that has surrounded it.
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Cary Grant, The Making Of A Hollywood Legend

by Mark Glancy

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend provides a definitive account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.
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Cary Grant, The Making Of A Hollywood Legend

by Mark (Reader In Film History, Reader In Film History, Queen Mary University) Glancy

39,19€ + 10% CARD

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 The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend provides a definitive account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.
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Straighten Up And Fly Right - The Life And Music Of Nat King Cole

by Will (Producer And Writer, Producer And Writer) Friedwald

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 In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star.
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Tax, Inequality, And Human Rights

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 This book examines why taxation is central to the enjoyment or suppression of human rights in an age of rising nationalism, authoritarianism, and disillusionment with the traditional role of the state. Taxation and human rights are at the heart of debates about the appropriate balance in society between the public and private sectors, and ultimately the content of a new social contract.
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American While Black - African Americans, Immigration, And The Limits Of Citizenship

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Sportin' Life - John W. Bubbles, An American Classic

by Brian (Professor Of Music, Professor Of Music, Brigham Young University) Harker

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 Sportin' Life tells for the first time the full, dramatic story of one of America's great song-and-dance men. A groundbreaking tap dancer who provided inspiration to the likes of Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and the Nicholas Brothers, John W. Bubbles is the epitome of "a highly influential but mostly forgotten" figure.
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The Adaptable Mind - What Neuroplasticity And Neural Reuse Tell Us About Language And Cognition

by John (Dr, Dr, Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre For The Future Of Intelligence) Zerilli

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 Advances in neuroscience have forced us to rethink some our assumptions about the structure of the mind, and take stock of the true extent to which our cognitive faculties are "made", not "born". This book describes how our discovery of the brain's power to adapt to its environment ("neuroplasticity") has changed the way we think about the structure of the mind.
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Punching The Clock - Adapting To The New Future Of Work

by Joe (Principal, Principal, Ernst & Young Llp) Ungemah

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 Although the nature of work might have changed, the drives and needs of workers have not. Punching the Clock explores how well workers are likely to both navigate and adapt to the new Future of Work, using the best of psychological science as a guide.
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Moral Acrobatics - How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity By Thinking In Black And White

by Philippe (Professor Of Psychology, Professor Of Psychology, Emory University) Rochat

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The Art Of Cinematic Storytelling - A Visual Guide To Planning Shots, Cuts, And Transitions

by Kelly Gordon (Freelance Storyboard Artist, Freelance Storyboard Artist) Brine

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 The Art of Cinematic Storytelling is a practical and accessible introduction to effective design of shots, cuts, and transitions in filmmaking. The author, an experienced storyboard artist who worked on hundreds of television and film projects, invites readers to learn how to tell a story and create emotions through moving images.
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Choreographing In Color - Filipinos, Hip-Hop, And The Cultural Politics Of Euphemism

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 In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo draws on nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement to ask: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street dance and Hip-Hop?
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Communication In Palliative Nursing - The Comfort Model

by Elaine (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, California State University) Wittenberg, Joy V. (Professor, Professor, University Of Memphis) Goldsmith, Sandra L. (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University Of Oklahoma) Ragan e Terri Ann (Principal And Founder, Principal And Founder, Health Literacy Partners, Llc) Parnell

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Music By Max Steiner - The Epic Life Of Hollywood'S Most Influential Composer

by Steven C. Smith

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Wendy Carlos - A Biography

by Amanda (Instructor, Instructor, Interlochen Center For The Arts College Of Creative Arts) Sewell e Anna Sewell

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 Drawing on published and unpublished interviews with Wendy Carlos and with other people in her life and career, this full biography tells the story of Carlos' life from her childhood in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to her present life in New York and the secrecy that has surrounded it.
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On Ne Nait Pas Femme: On Le Devient - The Life Of A Sentence

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 This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne naÃ®t pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint of feminist thinking. Two controversies emerge from this sentence which the volume addresses from multiple scholarly perspectives: one over the practice of translation and one over the nature and status of sexual difference.
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