Blackjackal is a new three card game that takes quick analytic thinking from blackjack, table aggression and blluffing from hold 'em poker and transports the player to the hot savanna of a new and fierce gambling experience.
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, superb (The Atlantic), and entirely fresh (Rolling Stone) journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivalsfrom John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove.
Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them.
Rewiring Narratives - New Media Art from the Arab WorldRewiring Narratives is the first comprehensive book on New Media Art from the Arab world, offering a groundbreaking perspective on contemporary art, digital art, media culture, and technological innovation across the Middle East and North Africa.
As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades.
Estéticas del malestar explora las potencias críticas del arte contemporáneo en un presente atravesado por crisis sociales, políticas, ecológicas y afectivas.
Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth.
"En este libro se aborda la relación entre el enorme, extraordinario y a veces desconcertante corpus de Goya y las cuestiones interconectadas de la Modernidad, la Ilustración y la crítica.
This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci.
After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music.
This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians.
An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning.
This is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip.
In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality.
Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general.
Este libro es un manual practico para emprendedores de la industria creativa que venden servicios profesionales como freelance (diseno grafico, diseno web, ilustracion, modelado 3D, maquetacion.
Este libro traza las continuidades y discontinuidades filmicas subterraneas del legado del surrealismo y del compromiso politico dentro del estado espanol desde los anos treinta hasta la actualidad, desde la obra pionera de Carlos Velo, Jose Val del Omar, Luis Bunuel y Salvador Dali, hasta el cine militante actual forjado en la estela del 15-M.
Este libro ofrece un recorrido por la filmografía de Nolan hasta sus últimas superproducciones en Hollywood ("Interstellar", "Tenet", "Oppenheimer"), sin olvidar hitos fundamentales como la "Trilogía del Caballero Oscuro", que renovó desde sus cimientos el género de superhéroes.
Paolo Sorrentino (1970) es autor de una de las obras mas interesantes del panorama cinematografico contemporaneo, repleta de imagenes y secuencias de extraordinaria potencia estetica que no se quedan en la mera belleza, sino que dialogan con otras manifestaciones artisticas y campos del saber, estableciendo, al mismo tiempo, una continua reflexion sobre los temas de actualidad, sin dejar de repensar el pasado y como este afecta al devenir de sus personajes.
Juan Pablo Ordúñez, más conocido como El Pirata, trata de poner sobre la mesa a través de estas páginas historias, leyendas, informes reales, testimonios directos y también misterios sin resolver.
Basilio Martín Patino (Lumbrales, Salamanca, 29 de octubre de 1930-Madrid, 13 de agosto de 2017) estudió Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Salamanca, donde fundó el Cine Club Universitario.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
"e;Script Analysis"e; explores the core components of cinematic storytelling, offering readers a framework to dissect and appreciate the underlying structure of films and television.
In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture-particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science.
UNA HISTORIA RECIENTE DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA Y A LA VEZ UN MANUAL PRÁCTICO REPLETO DE INNUMERABLES ANÉCDOTAS Y BASADO EN LAS LECCIONES DE LOS GRANDES MAESTROS.
Esta obra es una invitacion a explorar las posibilidades de una nueva era en la gestion de los recursos humanos, donde la rentabilidad y la humanidad se fusionan en una simbiosis unica.
Art and the Influence of Revolution explores the extraordinary cultural flourishing of 1925, a year that remains a high-water mark for international literature and cinema.
Rewiring Narratives - New Media Art from the Arab WorldRewiring Narratives is the first comprehensive book on New Media Art from the Arab world, offering a groundbreaking perspective on contemporary art, digital art, media culture, and technological innovation across the Middle East and North Africa.
The Courage To Love: From Abuse to Happiness, a Healing Memoir From a childhood marked by abuse and silence, Guy Giard's extraordinary journey spans four continents in search of healing, joy, and true purpose.
