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Clandestino

Clandestino - $375

16 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A definitive biography of Manu Chao, the Che Guevara of world music. A decade ago, Manu Chao’s band, Mano Negra, toured Columbia by train, negotiating with government troops and rebels – an episode described at the time as ‘less like a rock’n’roll tour – more like Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow’. That’s Manu in a nutshell. He does everything differently. He is a multi-million selling artist who prefers sleeping on friends’ floors to five-star hotels, an anti-globalisation activist who hangs out […]

Categories: Biografía, Música, Revolución • Tags: 2013, Art, Artists, Biografía, Biography, Latin America, Mano Negra, Manu Chao, Música, music, Revolución, Revolution, Rock, Serpen's Tail

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A Voice Through A Cloud

A Voice Through A Cloud – $345

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A Voice through a Cloud is English novelist Denton Welch’s moving account of his recovery from a bicycling accident that left him partially paralyzed at the age of 20. Espouser of picnics and bicycle rides, cataloger of exquisite textures, pitiless surgeon of affect and mores, and also a pretty good painter, Denton Welch has drawn fans as far removed from his world of English pastoralism as William Burroughs and Richard Hell. Characterized by Welch’s mercilessly acute powers of observation, A […]

Categories: Biografía, Memorias, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2004, accidente, Bicycle, Bio, Biografía, Biography, Burroughs, Denton Welch, Exact change, memoir, Memorias

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She Left Me the Gun- My Mother's Life Before Me

She Left Me the Gun - $395

7 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

“Quite simply an extraordinary book… it’s basically the perfect memoir: a riveting, authentic tale elegantly told.” –Sunday Telegraph (UK) A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She Left Me the Gun is a tale of true transformation: the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed simply to vanish, and of a daughter who transcends her mother’s fears and reclaims an abandoned past. “One day I will tell you the story of my life,” […]

Categories: Biografía, Crimen, Memorias • Tags: 2013, Bio, Biography, crime, Emma Brockes, Faber & Faber, forensic, memoir, penguin, South Africa, true crime

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David Lynch Swerves- Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire - $995

12 April, 2013 by rgonzalezr

  Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch “swerved” in a new direction, one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch scholar Martha Nochimson engaged Lynch in a long conversation of unprecedented openness, during which he shared his vision of the physical world as an uncertain place that masks important universal realities. He described how he derives this vision from the Holy […]

Categories: Cine, Entrevistas • Tags: 2013, Art, Biography, Cinema, Criticism, David Linch, Directors, Film, Lost Highway, Movies, swerve, University of Texas Press

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Light and Shade- Conversations with Jimmy Page

Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page - $245

20 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory portrait of the legendary guitarist ever published. More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin continues to be celebrated for its artistic achievements, broad musical influence, and commercial success. The band’s notorious exploits have been chronicled in bestselling books; yet none of the individual members of the band has penned a memoir […]

Categories: Biografía, Música • Tags: 2012, Art, Biografía, Biography, conversations, Crown, Guitar, Jimmy Page, led zeppelin, Música, music, Rock

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Unknown Pleasures- Inside Joy Division

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division – $375

24 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

  In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer Ian Curtis—who took his own life just before the band’s first U.S. Tour—Unknown Pleasures tells Joy Division’s story from the unique perspective of one of the three […]

Categories: Biografía, Música • Tags: 2013, Biography, Ian Curtis, It books, Joy Division, Peter Hook, Punk, Rock

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La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams - $235

20 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The beguiling, never-before-translated dream diary of Georges Perec.In La Boutique Obscure Perec once again revolutionized literary form, creating the world’s first “nocturnal autobiography.” From 1968 until 1972—the period when he wrote his most well-known works—the beloved French stylist recorded his dreams. But as you might expect, his approach was far from orthodox. Avoiding the hazy psychoanalysis of most dream journals, he challenged himself to translate his visions and subconscious churnings directly into prose. In laying down the nonsensical leaps of the imagination, […]

Categories: Biografía, Cartas, Diarios • Tags: 2013, Biography, Diarios, Diary, dreams, French, Journals, letters, Melville, Perec, Subconscious, Surreal

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Brain-on-Fire

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness – $295

13 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all—showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: a healthy, ambitious college grad a few months into her […]

Categories: Biografía, Medicina, Memorias, Salud • Tags: 2012, Biography, brain, Cahalan, disease, Free Press, Health, madness, Medical, Medicine, Memorias, pathology

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The Art of Betrayal- The Secret History of MI6- Life and Death in the British Secret Service

The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service – $450

29 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

  From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is often more remarkable than fiction. MI6 has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of Ian Fleming and John le Carré. […]

Categories: Historia, Memorias • Tags: 20th century, Biography, British, corera, Espionage, Europe, Intelligence, Memoirs, MI6, spy, true accounts, World

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Ruth Benedict: Beyond Relativity, Beyond Pattern – $595

10 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

  Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons and collaborated with the equally renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, a student of hers with whom she was for a time romantically involved. When Benedict died suddenly at the age of sixty-one, she was popularly known for two best-selling works: Patterns of Culture, which became an exemplary model of the integration of societies, and The Chrysanthemum and the […]

Categories: Antropología, Biografía • Tags: 2005, Anthropology, Biography, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Social sciences, University of Nebraska Press

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The John Lennon Letters

The John Lennon Letters – $465

8 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

  A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of “Help!”, “Come Together”, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “Imagine”, and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers […]

Categories: Biografía, Cartas • Tags: 2012, Beatles, Biography, Correspondence, John Lennon, letters, Little Brown

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wheretheheartbeats

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists – $495

7 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

  A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of […]

Categories: Biografía, Budismo • Tags: Biography, Buddhism, John Cage, music, penguin, zen

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Art and Madness- A Memoir of Lust Without Reason

Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason – $285

19 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

  Coming of age on Park Avenue in the 1950s, Anne Roiphe had an adolescence entrenched in privilege, petticoats, and social rules. Young women at the time were expected to give up personal freedom for devotion to home and children. Instead, Roiphe chose Beckett, Proust, Sartre, and Mann as her heroes, and became one of the girls draped across the sofa at parties with George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and William Styron, sometimes with her young child in tow. For a […]

Categories: Biografía, Memorias • Tags: 2012, Anchor, Art and madness, Biography, memoir, NY, Rophie

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I Will Not Leave You Comfortless- A Memoir

I Will Not Leave You Comfortless: A Memoir – $250

15 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

  Spanning one year of the author’s life, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless is the intimate memoir of a young boy coming to consciousness in small-town Missouri. 1984 is the year that greets ten-year-old Jeremy with first loves, first losses, and a break from the innocence of boyhood that will never be fully repaired. For Jeremy, the seeming security of family is at once and forever shaken by the life-altering events of that pivotal year. Through tenderhearted, steadfast prose — redolent […]

Categories: Biografía, Memorias • Tags: 2012, Biography, coming of age, Jeremy Jackson, midwest, Milkweed, Missouri, Novel

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Jay Z- The King of America

Jay Z: The King of America – $475

1 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

  Author Mark Beaumont met and interviewed Jay Z in 2009 and many quotes from that interview feature in this biography. Also included are interviews with Kanye West, Chris Martin, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, Damon Dash, Dr Dre, Rick Rubin and many others. This fascinating book details his early life, his father abandoning him, his accidental shooting of his brother and his delving into cocaine dealing. The book then moves on to the launch of his Roc-A-Fella record label and […]

Categories: Biografía, Entrevistas, Hip-Hop, Música • Tags: 2012, Biography, Hip-Hop, Jay-Z, Mark Beaumont, music, Omnibus Press, rap

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