Historia y biografías
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39
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Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally (...)
The Book of Lieder
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This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition thus allowing the reader to engage in (...)
33 Revolutions Per Minute
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Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents to capture the colour and variety of this shape-shifting genre. This is not a list book, rather (...)
Retromania
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We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a (...)
The Children of Lovers
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'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' ProverbBestselling novelist, author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter?In this frank and engaging family memoir, Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, (...)
Pilgrimage
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In a fascinating work of history, Jonathan Sumption brings alive the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the fifteenth century. Vividly describing such major destinations as Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela and Canterbury, he (...)
Hundred Years War Vol 3
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Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to (...)
Alan Clarke
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An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the public, even though some of his most incendiary productions - Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain - attracted (...)
Imagining Reality
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This is a celebration of the art of the documentary from its origins to the present day. With the critical and box-office success in the nineties of Microcosmos, When We Were Kings, Hoop Dreams and Hearts of Darkness, documentary films are now attracting more popular interest than at almost any (...)
Letters of Ted Hughes
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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as excellent training for conversation with the world , and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely (...)
Hundred Years War Vol 1
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This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the (...)
Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley's own life was as dramatic as her fiction. Even had she not (at the age of 19) authored Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror fables in literature, she would be crucial to the study of Romanticism, as the daughter of two of the great radical thinkers of the day, William Godwin and (...)
Hallelujah Junction
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John Adams is one of the most admired and performed living composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music. Hallelujah Junction isn t so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the (...)
Diana Cooper
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Lady Diana Cooper was in her prime widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in England and the idol of her generation. She was witty, outrageous, generous and loyal. Famous as a member of the aristocratic and intellectual group 'The Cotorie', she later edited the magazine Femina before starting (...)
Dragons & Butterflies
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The Hidden Thread
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Historia de los cuerpos especiales de estadística de la administración general del estado
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Fernando Celestino Rey, Ingeniero Industrial y funcionario del Cuerpo Superior de Estadísticos del Estado, es autor de numerosas obras de investigación sobre la Historia de la Estadística en España tales como, Simbología de los profesionales de la Estadística, El profesor Olegario Fernández Baños (...)
Mujeres, mitos y diosas
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Un recorrido por la historia, la literatura y la mitología, que forma un inventario de mujeres célebres, reales o imaginarias, que nos hablan de la perenne condición femenina. Aquí aparecen los arquetipos femeninos que han marcado una forma de ser y estar en el mundo.
Max Weber y la guerra académica de los cien años
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La investigación de Gil Villegas cubre año por año la larga y prolífica polémica en torno a la tesis de Max Weber sobre La ética protestante y el espíritu del capitalismo. Este trabajo se apoya en las cuatro respuestas de Weber a sus primeros críticos, pero muestra también la vigencia de los (...)
Litoral. Nº 247
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Fundada en 1926 por Emilio Prados y Manuel Altolaguirre fue uno de los principales exponentes del quehacer vanguardista de aquellos años y en sus suplementos publicaron sus primeros libros Aleixandre, Cernuda, Alberti... y colaboraron artistas de la categoría de Picasso, Juan Gris o Salvador Dalí. (...)