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There's a riot going on

There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ’60s – $235

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul music fueled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti, were being dragged into the fray. From Mick Jagger’s legendary […]

Categories: Cultura • Tags: 60's, cannongate, Dylan, Fela Kuti, Hippies, Revolution, Rock

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Knut Asdam: The Long Gaze, the Short Gaze – $595

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In a companion book to the challenging exhibition at Bergen Kunsthalle, viewers experience the latest work of Norwegian artist Knut Asdam, one of Europe’s central contemporary practitioners of film, video art and installation. This publication brings together a collection of new commissioned texts on the projects in the exhibition: Asdam’s new films, Abyss and Tripoli (both 2010), and a new installation work based on the artist’s own archive of found photo material. Exploring once again themes of transformation and relocation, […]

Categories: Arte • Tags: Arte, Bergen Kunsthall, Film Art, Installation, Knut Asdam, Noruega, Noruego, Sternberg Press, Video Art

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Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century – $525

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information— a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, “originality” begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people’s words—framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of “unoriginal” […]

Categories: Ensayo, Poesía • Tags: Brazilian concrete Poetry, Chicago University Press, citing, copying, lenguaje, literatura, Poesía, stealing, Unoriginal Genius, Walter Benjamin, written word

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The essential Jung

The essential Jung – $295

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

This volume presents the essentials of Jung’s thought in his own words. To familiarize readers with the ideas for which Jung is best known, the British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung’s writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Dr. Storr has prefaced each extract with explanatory notes. These notes link the extracts, and with Dr. Storr’s introduction, they show the progress and coherence of Jung’s […]

Categories: Antología, Psicología • Tags: Anthony Storr, Jung, Princeton University Press, Psicología Analítica, Selected Writings

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Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings – $285

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A biography of the influential jazz pianist, Bill Evans. Peter Pettinger, himself a concert pianist, describes Evans’s life, his personal tragedies and commercial successes, his music making, his technique and compositional methods, his approach to ensemble playing, and his legacy. The volume also includes a full discography and dozens of photographs.

Categories: Biografía, Música • Tags: Bill Evans, Biography, Jazz, piano, Yale University Press

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Green gone wrong

Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution – $295

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted “green” products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for “clean” ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may […]

Categories: Actualidad, Ecología, environment, Nature • Tags: Ambientalismo, cambio climático, Climate Change, Eco, Ecología, energías renovables, Green, Naturaleza, Sustentabilidad, Verso

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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans

Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans – $185

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned, impoverished child, he grew up under low expectations, Jim Crow legislation, and vigilante terrorism. Yet he also grew up at the center of African American vernacular traditions from the Deep South, learning the ecstatic music of the Sanctified Church, blues played by street musicians, and the plantation tradition of ragging a tune. […]

Categories: Biografía, Ciudades, Música • Tags: Biography, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, new Orleans

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The bitter half

The bitter half – $235

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Bitter Half opens in 1935 in Pearce, Arizona, where Chris Pollard, a famed if eccentric authority on jail breaks, has been called in to investigate the case of The Kid, an inmate who has broken out of every prison in which he has been held. The Kid appears and disappears, eluding his pursuers, while at Pollard’s Wisconsin estate a rag-tag group of travelers and refugees come together, including a black family from Florida, a female candy store owner known as […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Americana, FC2, Fiction, Literature, Novela, Toby Olson, Univerity of Alabama Press

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Messi- The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend

Messi: The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend – $275

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Lionel Messi, widely regarded as the greatest soccer player in the world. Sports journalist and best-selling author Luca Caioli draws on the exceptional testimonies of Messi’s parents, his coaches from his boyhood and during his time as an international star in Argentina, leading figures from Barcelona . . . and Leo Messi himself.

Categories: Biografía, Deportes, Soccer • Tags: Argentina, Barcelona, Futbol, Messi, Soccer

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Among the Thugs – $225

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England’s soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination […]

Categories: Deportes • Tags: Futbol, Hooligans, Manchester united, Soccer

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Daring To Be Bad- Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975

Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 – $245

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The women’s liberation movement that began in 1967 is an absorbing study in political struggle. Radical women rejecting male dominance also rejected conventional political and organizational techniques. Their consciousness raised, they scrutinized each step, each meeting, each action, seeking theory and political practice untainted by patriarchal or hierarchical elements. Echols traces the volatile history of this movement, explaining clearly the positions of the various groups, the reasons for splintering and division, the controversies. She shows how ideas emerged that have […]

Categories: Historia • Tags: 60's, cuestiones de género, feminismo, Historia, Minnesota University Press

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The Typewriter Is Holy- The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation

The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation – $295

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country’s leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of these writers as primarily a social group of friends, tracing their origins together during the World War II […]

Categories: Cultura, Historia • Tags: 60's, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Beats, Bill Morgan, contracultura, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs

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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life- The History of the Disc Jockey

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey – $245

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

From the first time a record was played over the airwaves in 1906, to a modern club economy that totals $3 billion annually in New York City alone, the DJ has been at the center of popular music. Starting as little more than a talking jukebox, the DJ is now a premier entertainer, producer, businessman, and musician in his own right. Superstar DJs, from Junior Vasquez to Sasha and Digweed, command worship and adoration from millions, flying around the globe […]

Categories: Actualidad, Música, Periodismo • Tags: Dj, Dj history, electronic music, grove press, music, pop culture

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Listen to This

Listen to This – $295

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross […]

Categories: Cultura, Ensayo, Música, Periodismo • Tags: Alex Ross, Best music books 2011, Listen to this, Música, music

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The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould

The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould – $295

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Gould’s science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Gould’s worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science. They demonstrate how the Gouldian perspective sheds light […]

Categories: Ciencia, Filosofía, Historia, Nature • Tags: ciencia, ciencias naturales, ciencias sociales, Evolución, Naturaleza, Stephen Jay Gould

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