Títulos em Artes e Entretenimento

In a world where housing costs continue to rise and the dream of homeownership seems increasingly out of reach, "Affordable Housing Revolution" offers a compelling solution. This book is your guide to understanding the transformative potential of tiny homes in creating sustainable, affordable living spaces for everyone. Through the lens of VegasTinyHomes.com, a leading platform in the tiny home movement, this book delves into how innovative design, eco-friendly practices, and community-focused developments are transforming the housing market.

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross by Lyudmila Boyadzhieva is an intimate portrayal of the renowned Soviet filmmaker’s life, struggles, and artistic legacy.

Weihnachten. Das Fest des Friedens und der Besinnlichkeit. Aber tut es nicht gut, den Advent und die Weihnachtszeit in Vorfreude auch als Zeit des Lachens in heitere Geschichten zu verpacken? Und sind jene Geschichten, die Heinz Marecek uns hier erzählt, oft doch so viel näher an der gefühlten Realität? Verschmitzt, mit feiner Klinge, doch wenn nötig auch wortgewaltig, zieht Heinz Marecek alle schauspielerischen Register und erzählt uns die heiteren, beißend realistischen und genial-realen, vielfältigen Geschichten rund um die Adventzeit und das Weihnachtsfest.

U.S. Federal Agents along with Mexican Federales, are pulled into a search mission for a synthetic drug created in Mexico. They discover that the cartel is actually manufacturing lethal parasites, only to get caught up in a village where every living being is affected by the drug.

Blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera’s colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future. Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera insiders—as well as...

A deeply personal memoir from founding member and primary songwriter Roland Orzabal of iconic English band Tears for Fears, known for their smash hits “Shout,” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” and “Break It Down Again.” Weaving themes of identity, love, and the complexities of fame, Welcome to Your Life explores the formative experiences and complex worldview of a creator, his creations, and his personal life.

In many ways, fashion has always been the constantly changing face of the times. However, never has it been subject to such a radical and permanent transformation as in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, a global crisis without recent precedent, didn’t just upend everyday life; it also changed how we think about, think in terms of, and think about in terms of fashion. This book explores how the pandemic has transformed the fashion industry and the wider cultural norms around clothing, style and consumption.

The Wardrobe Project is your guide to gently shifting your spending habits and finding confidence within yourself instead of searching for it on a rack. It might even tempt you to take on the no-buy challenge as you discover your inner brilliance, without the need to add to cart.

The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through history, revealing how plants have been used to make and dye our clothes. Textiles have transformed the human world–and the natural world. Now we need to re-root clothes-making in plants, rather than plastic, to find a new material future. Fashion is at a turning point–to look forward, we need to look back.

The emotional, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians. Read by the author, Andrea Swensson, with interview excerpts and music by Cornbread Harris and an afterword read by his Grammy-winning son, James "Jimmy Jam" Harris III. “I am a blessed dude,” Cornbread says, taking us along on a musical journey that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness, all to the tune of his signature blues sound.

Long before Mary Poppins danced across the rooftops and into the hearts of millions, Robert and Richard Sherman were struggling songwriters in Los Angeles, trying to find their voices—and their futures. In this vivid and deeply researched narrative, author and Disney historian Todd James Pierce traces the unlikely path that brought the Sherman brothers to Walt Disney's attention, and how their personal history, musical genius, and emotional lives shaped the film's unforgettable songs and surprising storyline.

Unlock the key to deeply authentic and emotionally charged performances with Emotional Preparation by Simon Blake. This essential guide explores the crucial components of emotion for emotional preparation, offering practical information to tap into raw, real emotions and bring acting to life with conviction. Drawing from proven acting methodologies, psychological insights, and industry expertise, Blake provides actors with step-by-step exercises to activate emotional truth on demand.

The Voices of Hockey boasts 65 NHL play-by-play broadcasters, past and present, sharing the most pinnacle moments of the league over the past 60 plus years. From the Broad Street Bullies to the Bruise Brothers; the great one to the great eight; from flying octopi, catfish, and plastic rats to National Anthem interrupting shouts, these 65 storytellers encapsulate the greatest moments the only sport deserving of the nickname the fastest game on earth has to offer.

Ideal for students of Shakespeare and Dance Studies, Choreographing Shakespeare explores how dance adaptations strive to design legible and intelligible stories, while ultimately celebrating the beauty of pure movement.

How the acting profession works and what to expect. The things you always do and the things you never do — and I mean ever.

Sein Großvater Opapa lehrt ihn, dass die Welt voller Risiken ist und sie besser unter sich bleiben sollten. Doch Tafiti kann dieser Weisheit nicht folgen und eilt zur Rettung von Pinsel, einem Pinselohrschwein. Gemeinsam brechen sie gemäß Opapas Rat in die unendliche Wüste auf, wo sie ums Überleben kämpfen und in ihrem größten Abenteuer zusammenwachsen.

For eight centuries, the Texas frontier has seen conquest, exploration, immigration, revolution, and innovation, leaving to history a cast of fascinating characters and captivating tales. Its historic period began in 1519 with Spanish exploration, but there was a prehistory long before, nearly fifteen thousand years earlier, with the arrival of people to Texas. Each story pulls a new perspective from this long history by examining nearly all angles—from archaeology to ethnography, astronomy, agriculture, and more.

For architects working on sites with fewer than 12 units, it’s all too easy to feel stuck. You juggle client pressure, planning constraints, and tight margins—while trying to decipher a habitat metric that reads like a spreadsheet from Mars. And yet, every decision—every hedge, every tree, every layout tweak—can make or break your project. This book shows you how to take back control

Just when John thinks things are finally calming down, the world never fails to throw a new twist his way. And the latest one is deadly. A distress call from Katrine has set John on a crash course with a band of vicious dimensional raiders led by a supreme mage who are already planning an invasion, while back home, the clock is ticking on the prophecy of the beast invasion that will wipe humans from the face of the world. Worse still, John’s mana is growing stronger, forcing him to choose between sealing his mana away and becoming mortal, or destroying the world by his very presence.

The stars have cursed us all. After the devastating events at Zodiac Academy, we have to deal with this hollow reality we're faced with. Lionel seeks to destroy us, the Nymphs seek to destroy the entire Fae race, and between all of it, we have to try and survive each day and prove our worth in this forsaken place. I'm afraid of everything falling apart, but it looks like it already has. Death lurks around every corner, and it wants to claim me and my sister. But together, we will overcome the darkness that seeks to defeat us.