Títulos em Artes e Entretenimento

The first in-depth cultural history of one of the most famous American contemporary musicals featuring archival research and first-hand accounts from its creators and collaborators.

Designed for visitors wishing to explore the archaeological landscape, this user-friendly guide sets out a plan of 20 Roman towns – explaining how visitors can find the site and what they may expect to see. Where appropriate, this book explores how the town developed from an Iron Age settlement or where it began life as a military fortress or fort.

The Biennale Book: Ten Foundations of Contemporary Art explores ten of the world’s most influential biennales, revealing how these exhibitions became the places where art, politics, and society meet. From Venice’s historic pavilions to Berlin’s radical experiments, from Gwangju’s democratic spirit to Sharjah’s postcolonial conversations, each chapter uncovers the stories, tensions, and breakthroughs that reshaped how we see art today. A global tour through Venice, São Paulo, Berlin, Havana, Istanbul, Sharjah, Sydney, Gwangju, Liverpool, and New York.

Por nuestro solar han pasado todos los pueblos que han sido algo en la historia del Mediterráneo. De todos ellos quedan huellas que ni los siglos ni la mano del hombre han podido borrar.

Woody Allen que durante las seis décadas que lleva haciendo cine ha escrito y dirigido cincuenta películas, nos relata sus primeros matrimonios: el más precoz con una novia de su adolescencia y luego con la maravillosamente divertida Louise Lasser, a quien es evidente que todavía adora. También escribe sobre su romance con Diane Keaton, con quien mantiene una prolongada amistad.

Un homenaje al cine español a través de una quincena de películas que el autor considera emblemáticas desde un punto de vista histórico.

Todo aquello que cabe atribuir al genio español y que ha tenido una proyección internacional, desde la presencia en América y su legado hasta el ejemplo de la Transición.

‘This is the truth as we know it. I have read so much about what people think they know about Michael, but this is about what really happened.’ Jermaine Jackson You Are Not Alone is an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the private man like never before. It is an...

On February 12, 1994, just as the Winter Olympics opened in Lillehammer, Norway’s most famous artwork—Edvard Munch’s The Scream—was stolen in under 60 seconds from the National Gallery in Oslo. The culprits? A group of masked men with alleged ties to a modern-day Templar revivalist movement, combining ideology, symbolism, and street-level criminal precision.

A call to action for the scholarly community - introducing the merger of podcasting and peer review to encourage academics to think about the medium as an alternative outlet for research output.

Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media corporations. Legacy radio and new media platform giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are also making big (and expensive) moves in the medium by acquiring content producers and hosting platforms. This book focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization.

Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful Let’s Dance, it was here Bowie sought to bury the ghosts of his past and the golden decade of the 1970s to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans. Featuring fresh insights and exclusive interviews with close collaborators, Adam Steiner’s Silhouettes and Shadows uncovers the studio stories, meanings behind, and secret history of Scary Monsters...

In 1973, Frances Vieta, an Italian American journalist living in Rome, is incensed to learn that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has purchased a priceless Greek vase, the Euphronios Krater, for $1 million. Ms. Vieta suspects the antiquity was illegally looted from Italy and smuggled out of the country. She sets out to investigate the acquisition, teaming up with Rodolfo Siviero, an Italian minister and art recovery expert, and the Carabinieri Art Squad, a special unit of the Italian army dedicated to protecting cultural heritage.

On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families due to strikes on Louisiana sugar cane plantations. A future member of the U.S. House of Representatives was among the leaders of a mob that routed black men from houses and forced them to a stretch of railroad track, ordering them to run for their lives before gunning them down. Author and award-winning reporter John DeSantis uses correspondence, interviews and federal records to detail this harrowing true story.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring, this special audiobook edition features a new epilogue by the author, reflecting on how The Lord of the Rings franchise has continued to expand across films, games, merchandise, and fan culture since the book’s original publication.

Young, broke, in college. What’s a girl to do? Dive into this deliciously absurd and darkly humorous peek inside the world's oldest profession. Told through a series of encounters with real clients, this unhinged nonfiction recounts the misadventures of a socially awkward college student as she fumbles her way through the salacious world of escorting. While recalling unforgettable stories, Silversmith shares her unique insight into the business practices of call girl agencies and the everyday lives of American sex workers.

It’s 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence of external adversaries, the American public is on the precipice of war with itself. The religious right, newly ascendant and emboldened, is determined to seize control of America’s future. And the first battles will be fought over, of all things, contemporary art.

Confessions of a Rock n Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading up to John Lennon’s Last Interview is Laurie Kaye's fascinating and well reviewed memoir—the story of her rock radio related life and career wrapped around December 8th, 1980, which was John Lennon’s last day on earth and thanks to RKO Radio that's when she conducted at the Dakota what tragically turned out to be his final interview, which ended mere hours before he was shot and killed!

In the heart of a dystopian London, where the air crackles with tension and the streets echo with uncertainty, a reluctant hero emerges. Meet Dom, a laid-back everyman with a penchant for sarcasm and a feline companion named Mango. When catastrophic events plunge the city into darkness, he finds himself on an unexpected journey for survival. As the fabric of society unravels, join Dom on a side-splitting adventure through a city overrun by authoritarianism and existential crises, where unexpected allies and bizarre encounters await around every corner.

In an age dominated by spectacle, speed, and disposable design, Architecture Without a Scar offers a profound and timely reflection on what it means to build with conscience. Leaford Leven Blevins, Jr.—architect, memoirist, and cultural steward—invites listeners into a world where architecture is not merely functional or fashionable, but sacred. Drawing from decades of professional experience and the ancestral wisdom of the Yowani Choctaws and Wind Clan, Blevins challenges the modern impulse toward excess, erasure, and aesthetic violence.