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One of the finest screen and television character actors of his generation, Patrick Kilpatrick has played against a broad spectrum of superstars including Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Pam Grier, and Naomi Watts, to name a few. With an entertainment career spanning more than 170 credits as lead actor, producer, screenwriter, director, and global entertainment teacher, Kilpatrick is now sharing his life in his much-anticipated two-volume memoir.

Ein kurzer, aber prägnanter amüsanter Essay über Michelangelo und zwei ganz kurze über Giotto und Cimabue. Die Liebe zum Ausdruck des Schrecklichen hat laut Stendhal in Michelangelo seine Vollendung gefunden, da das Teuflische und Böse innerhalb (natürlich nicht nur) der christlichen Religion fester Bestandteil ist und er gezwungen war innerhalb dieser Schwarz-Weiß-Systematik seine dankbaren Motive auszuwählen. Michelangelo wurde am 6. März 1475 in Caprese, Toskana geboren und verstarb am 18. Februar 1564 in Rom. Er war ein italienischer Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister.

This autobiographical novel follows the career of a civil engineering apprentice, from childhood to middle age. Along the way, we get to see the inner workings of the profession, from the nuts and bolts of civil engineering and surveying, their technological transformation, to the death of the apprenticeship system. It's a mysterious world that few laymen know. And yet we are all surrounded by their work everywhere, every day.

Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers.

Hope Through Cancer is a unique book about a cancer survivor's journey with hope. Faith, my wife, has ovarian cancer. She can close her eyes and see a mental image of a path, calm waters, shade, light, and hope. We turned this into an official painting about her journey that she mentally envisioned and was created by me. The painting is an artist's perception of a survivor's journey with hope in the light of Psalm 23. She has found the 23rd psalm to be in harmony with each aspect of her journey finding a new life, having settled fear about death.

I perioder mellem 2013 og 2017 led forfatteren af svær depression og var tvangsindlagt på en psykiatrisk afdeling, hvor hun gennemgik en række elektrochokbehandlinger. Undervejs i forløbet kæmpede hun med angsten for at miste sin hukommelse og adgangen til sine minder. "Oktoberbarn" er et fortvivlet opgør med det psykiatriske behandlingssystem og på samme tid en krystalklar skildring af afgørende vendepunkter og begivenheder i forfatterens eget liv - barndom, ungdom, ægteskab, forældreskab og skilsmisse.

Fra il 24 e il marzo 1925, momento della sua morte, Steiner scrisse una serie di lettere pubblicate settimanalmente nel notiziario della Società Antroposofica Universale. Nelle lettere viene in particolare trattato il ruolo dell'Arcangelo Michele in questo periodo dell'evoluzione.

Michael Katakis' Traveller is a collection of "travel letters and journals" from his amazing journeys around the globe. You will find his writing personal, like a series of letters from a friend. And along the way, you will meet many different characters, from places as diverse as Fez, Crete, and Gallipoli.

Entre mitad de los años 70 y el decenio siguiente emergió en tierras andaluzas una hornada de bandas que fusionaban notas extraídas del flamenco tradicional con el más vanguardista rock del momento. A los puristas del cante jondo ese experimento les pareció algo atrevido y demasiado "rompedor", pero a los jóvenes seguidores del rock aquella mezcolanza les supuso toda una revelación.

The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. Debate continues even today as to which one of them really was responsible.

Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and singer, Belle Rosette. But she turned her back on the bright lights to return to Trinidad. There she continued the work she had begun before World War II, researching and performing the dances of the Caribbean. This book portrays the woman, explores the influences that shaped McBurnie and those whom she influenced in turn, and tells of her struggle to realize a vision she nurtured for decades.

Salvador Dalì, Spanish painter and surrealist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Un viaggio appassionato e travolgente nella vita di ventuno personaggi straordinari, uomini e donne fuori dal comune per talento, fragilità, spregiudicatezza. Storie intense e incandescenti, raccontate con la maestria di chi sa andare oltre la superficie: storie che, se non facessero capo a eventi storici ben delineati, farebbero pensare al dominio del romanzo e della finzione, più che alla realtà. La tragica poesia di Marina Cvetaeva, la vita tormentata di Edgar Allan Poe, l'arte dirompente e oscura di Picasso, vampiro di anime.

Biographical profile of Walter Elias Disney, the man who built an empire on the back of a mouse. Imbued with an iron-like drive to succeed, Disney pushed, prodded, and pressed those around him, as he did himself, to succeed. He was always on the edge of vision and technology. An unmitigated risk taker, Disney constantly flirted with financial ruin, seemingly bent on a mission to remain in debt while his brother Roy's ambition was to harness Walt's financial excesses.

Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker.

L`autore dei bestseller Steve Jobs, Einstein e Benjamin Franklin ritorna con un`accattivante biografia di Leonardo da Vinci, considerato uno degli individui di talento più diversificato che abbia mai vissuto. Come descrive Walter Isaacson, il genio di Leonardo era del tipo che possiamo capire e prendere lezioni da.

В книгу включены важнейшие сочинения Василия Кандинского: его первое теоретическое обоснование абстракционизма и эстетический манифест художника "О духовном в искусстве", автобиографические записки "Ступени", в которых художник рассказывает, почему он посвятил свою жизнь искусству, и фундаментальное исследование основ художественного языка "Точка и линия на плоскости". Также в издание вошли статьи по педагогике искусства.

Имя прекрасной актрисы театра и кино Ольги Александровны Аросевой известно без преувеличения всем. Но, знаете ли вы, что Ольга Александровна вполне могла бы быть Варварой Александровной, ведь именно так ее назвал и записал отец. А с Днем рождения любимую актрису мы бы поздравляли не 21 декабря, а 22 декабря?

More than 30 years ago, David Loftus' cherished identical twin, John, passed away. Ever since, a day hasn’t passed without David feeling the loss. Over the past year, David has spent an hour every day remembering John and recording his story by hand. Diary of a Lone Twin is the product of that daily ritual - a powerful and deeply personal account that covers everything from enchanting and charmingly evoked childhood vignettes to the acute loneliness and raw pain that followed John’s death.

In Look Again, Bailey describes growing up in working-class East London, where his dyslexia led to him being written off as stupid at school but his drive and ambition led to his meteoric rise as a photographer. He writes about life in '60s London and New York, his friendship with photographers Donovan and Duffy and annoying his rival Lord Snowdon. His love-life was always headline-worthy. He propelled his girlfriend, model Jean Shrimpton, to stardom - and was threatened with a shotgun by her father. When he married Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger was his best man.