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1) Elon Musk
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From the author of Steve Jobs and other best-selling biographies comes an intimate story of a controversial businessman who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence.
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Desde los mares de China hasta las costas de Nueva York, desde la antigua Grecia hasta el siglo XX, todas estas mujeres pirata inspiraron a Daniela: Artemisia de Halicarnaso, Teuta de Iliria, Awilda, Jeanne de Belleville, Grace O Malley, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Ching Shih, Sadie Farrell y Lai Choi San. ¡Descubre junto a Daniela a las mujeres pirata más intrépidas de la hisotira!
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Trope Industries LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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112 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Iconic Composers highlights the origin and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted composers throughout history. Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with concise, engaging bios by Nicholas Csicsko and Emi Ferguson celebrate a diverse group of composers from the past 1000 years. Iconic Composers features historical giants of music like Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven alongside 20th-century...
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B
Pub. Date
2023.
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436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Messianic analyzes the reasons that make Messi a great player, but also the disputes between his agents and his family; the myths that have become part of his official story; the role of his wife, Antonela; the controversial handling of his image and fortune; and the latest glorious phase in his career following his big win with Argentina’s national team"--
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Scribner
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2023.
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xxii, 487 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions....
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
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August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre. Two of the plays became successful films, Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Fences and The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Fences won the Tony Award for...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
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vii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport–and a society–increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics.
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YosemiteMusic
Pub. Date
2023.
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280 pages
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One glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reveals a family's epic journey from the Antebellum South, through the California Gold Rush and on to Yosemite, ending in Southern California at the dawn of the automobile era. The story follows Monroe's rise to the top of his profession, his mother's heroic fight for her family, his father's role in civil...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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x, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixer and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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xviii, 298 pages : illustrations (black and white). ; 24 cm
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Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His individuality can be captured by focusing on the range of locales...
11) Huaco retrato
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Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
octubre de 2021.
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170 pages ; 23 cm
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Un huaco es una pieza de cerámica prehispánica que buscaba representar los rostros indígenas con la mayor precisión posible. Se dice que capturaba el alma de las personas, un registro que ha sobrevivido oculto en el espejo roto de los siglos. Estamos en 1878, y el explorador judío-austriaco Charles Wiener se prepara para ser reconocido por la comunidad académica en la Exposición Universal de París, una gran feria de "progresos tecnológicos"...
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[2023]
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Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the significance of the news in the lives of ordinary people, and his reputation for always showing up for others. In this heartfelt family story, Tom shows the values and lessons he absorbed from his ancestors, parents, and others who settled in South Dakota and worked hard to...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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x, 374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel"--
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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First he was known as Tommy, then Woodrow, and eventually, Mr. President. Born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was a born leader. He was the president of Princeton University, served as governor of New Jersey after that, and was then elected president of the United States. But not everything was so easy for Wilson. He was ahead of his time in wanting a League of Nations after World War I to help prevent another war...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xx, 248 pages : illustrations (black and white), music ; 24 cm
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An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
"In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative...
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Merry Dissonance Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers forced twenty-one year-old Icek "Joe" Rubinsztejn onto a crowded, open-air truck. The next day, several around him were dead. From there, things got worse for young Joe-much worse. Joe arrived at Auschwitz on April 30, 1942. Now, in his nineties, Joe reveals how he survived several of the most notorious concentration camps when so many others perished. His is a remarkable narrative-a...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
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194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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"En una amena conversacion informal junto a su amigo Leonardo Garcia Tsao, critico de cine con una larga trayectoria, Guillermo del Toro recorre en estas paginas sus tempranas influencias, sus inquetudes infantiles y sus primeras aventuras creativas en Guadalajara; una historia de pasion juvenil que da paso a una de las carrreras cinematograficas mas celebradas de nuestro tiempo. Desde la odisea que significo la filmacion del cortometraje Dona Lupe,...
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William Collins
Pub. Date
2022.
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686 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and whywas the life of this English writer - one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart - so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love?
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