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"A ... window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field: paid parental leave, affordable childcare, and broad support for gender equality as a core value. Reid takes us on an exploration not only around this fascinating island, but also through the triumphs and stumbles of a country as it journeys towards gender equality"--
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The novel is alive and well, thank you very much
For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to Read a Novelist, which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them...
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For anyone who's ever had the desire to look at the world through the eyes of our indigenous ancestors, here is a unique opportunity. Traveling between the Worlds is a treasure trove of insight and exploration into the ancient spiritual wisdom of such diverse cultures as Ireland, Africa, and the Americas. The keeper of this wisdom is the shaman--a man or woman who can, at will, enter into altered states of consciousness in order to acquire extrasensory...
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In this thought-provoking book, which is based on the NPR series, 80 essayists use the three little title words as a jumping-off point to a discussion of their deepest personal beliefs. The list of contributors includes Colin Powell, Isabel Allende, Bill Gates, John Updike, William F. Buckley Jr., Gloria Steinem, and Penn Jillette; but it also includes relatively unknown people with everyday jobs.
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More than thirty 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 nor cooperated to any degree with the press or a biographer. In Light and Shade, Jimmy Page, the band's most reticent and inscrutable member,...
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Tom Petty was one of the greatest songwriters in rock n roll history, as well as a standard bearer for integrity in the music business. This expanded edition of the first authorized book on Tom Petty, and the only one in his own words, includes additional interviews, articles and reviews.
Trusted to conduct a series of in-depth interviews with a special focus on songwriting, Paul Zollo met with Tom for more than a year of Saturdays to compile this...
31) Bone handbook
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Graphix
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2010
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Introduces the Bone series by explaining the characters and mythology of Bone, conversations with Jeff Smith and Steve Hamaker about the making of Bone, explaining how Bone is colored, a cover gallery and more.
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Believing that every great song has a fascinating backstory, Myers brings to life five decades of music through oral histories of forty-five transformative songs woven from interviews with the artists who created them.From "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price to "Losing my religion" by R.E.M., leading artists reveal the emotions, inspirations, and techniques behind their influential works. The result is a love letter to the songs that have defined generations....
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2009
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"Nine Lives" explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, and the rich and colorful lives that played themselves out within its borders.
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2005
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Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the techniques of mass murder, to the politics and gossip mill that...
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La poesía no es personal, esta construido sobre el montaje de intervenciones o entrevistas que Millán concediera desde 1984 hasta su muerte, funciona como una guía para aproximarse a su trabajo y también como un autorretrato. Los temas a los que alude Millán son muy diversos. Sus inicios en la escritura. Su generación. La dictadura y el exilio. La poesía como construcción. La poesía no es personal está hecha para tener valor de uso. Invita...
38) Chanchullos
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Estos Chanchullos de Nicanor Parra son un collage de fragmentos de múltiples entrevistas que el poeta ha concedido a los largo de los años. En ellos, Parra se muestra renuente a la confesión biográfica y sentimental, aunque logra un despliegue móvil y brillante de temas, intensidades y contradicciones. Estas páginas juntan sus declaraciones literarias, comentarios culturales y políticos y muestran una vitalidad dispersa en torno a la poesía,...
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What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking?
All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write.
Indeed, for both writers and readers, geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings, consciously or subconsciously, to create their imaginative worlds, just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring...
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Retorno a la aldea reúne fragmentos de entrevistas realizadas a Jorge Teillier, que construyen y a la vez descortezan un bosque de palabras. Es una invitación al merodeo y a la cimarra, a escapar de los lugares comunes en torno a lo larico, pues en estos pasajes Teillier reflexiona críticamente sobre la identidad cultural de la poesía y el trasfondo político del progreso y las posturas ecologistas de moda. Los fragmentos componen el retrato de...
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