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Un extraordinario volumen que analiza y explica todas las canciones de los Rolling Stones, una banda cuya obra ha influido en gran medida en la historia de la música. El 7 de abril de 1962, Brian Jones conoció a Mick Jagger y a Keith Richards en el londinense Ealing Club. Un año más tarde, junto a Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman y Charlie Watts, los Rolling Stones estaban listos para entrar en la leyenda musical con la grabación de su primer single. Desde «Come On» (1963) hasta «One More Shot» (2013), los Rolling Stones han producido 365 canciones, reunidas en sus míticos álbumes y singles, los cuales constituyen una obra musical de las más prolíficas e innovadoras de la historia.

Grab your passport and get ready to explore 100 cities around the world. This informative travel guide--the next in National Geographic's blockbuster 5,000 Ideas series--takes you from skyscraper-filled concrete jungles to coastal urban oases. You'll find hot tips for the best sights, bites, museums, and more for each location, as well as practical planning advice for when to go and what to expect when you arrive. And there's something in these pages for every traveler: history buff, art lover, foodie, beach bum, or anyone in between. Take a dim sum tour through San Francisco's Chinatown; hop a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto to capture two of Japan's best cities in one vacation; discover the hidden historical gems in bustling Mumbai; bathe in the sun on Sydney's beaches; temple hop your way through Bangkok and shop its floating markets; stand on the edge of the world in Ushuaia, Argentina, the world's southernmost city; take a walk through art history in Florence; or go on an urban safari in Nairobi. Filled with expert tips, bonus side trip suggestions, and tons of innovative activities, this is an inspirational and practical keepsake for any kind of globetrotter.

This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel from Ancient Egypt through to modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties. We meet Greek heroes and poor German poets and roam from cathedrals to cabaret bars, from the Garden of Eden to a Garden Bench in rural France. As we pick apart each painting and then reassemble it like a giant jigsaw puzzle, these celebrated canvases captivate not only in their sheer wealth of details but also in the witness they bear to the fashions and trends, people and politics, loves and lifestyles of their time.

Cinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed – both in how we watch movies, and in how we see ourselves. Social media and the internet have shaped a new understanding of the self and the world. As streaming services multiplied our viewing options and video games offered alluring realities of their own, the big screen faced serious competition. Even before the usual delays between theatrical release and further distribution became ever shorter, movies often found themselves downgraded to mere “content”, to be clicked at on colorful screen tiles. Are all that remain to cinema its cult of celebrity, blockbusters, and computer-animated visual effects? Quite the contrary – even a cursory glance at our anthology reveals a cinema that is surprisingly diverse, dynamic, and above all alive and kicking, resulting in a decade that was anything but boring, monotonous, and doomed to extinction. And in all honesty: Would you really be satisfied watching all the films compiled here purely via streaming? The movie theater remains a place of yearning, and our book lets you feel its powerful breath. Each of the 100 most compelling movies of the decade is discussed in detail by editor Jürgen Müller and his team of authors, and illustrated with a wealth of visual material. The volume also includes biographies of actors and directors, box-office takings, background information, and a comprehensive list of Oscar® winners from 2012 to 2021. For Jürgen Müller and Philipp Bühler in their wide-ranging introduction, Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) offers the perfect metaphor for the contradictions and ambivalences of contemporary cinema. This volume is a new milestone for all cineastes and movie lovers!

¿Cómo aprender a disfrutar de la mejor música de todos los tiempos? ¿Cómo entender su intención y su belleza, su capacidad de conmover y de comunicar? Puede decirse que toda la gran música está accesible hoy en Internet, al alcance de cualquiera y con una calidad sorprendente, pero cada una oculta una historia personal y una inspiración particularísima. El autor ofrece en este volumen una guía para aproximarse a ese inmenso universo, y lo hace mediante 100 breves comentarios, uno para cada obra seleccionada. Leer los textos, más aún mientras se escucha alguna de las numerosas interpretaciones accesibles desde cualquier dispositivo, proporcionará al lector una experiencia estética, cultural y también espiritual difícilmente repetible.

Las películas de la década de los excesos, la enormidad y la experimentación De Aliens a Amadeus, alégrese el día con una buena dosis de nostalgia con esta biblia dedicada al cine más atrevido, insólito y animado de los años ochenta. Elaborada con esmero, esta lista de las películas más influyentes de la década hará las delicias de los aficionados al cine de palomitas pero también de los cinéfilos más sesudos. Aventureros, excesivos y experimentales, estos filmes hicieron felices a los espectadores con títulos tan diversos como Blade Runner, Gandhi y Terciopelo azul (Blue Velvet). La ciencia ficción, el terror y la acción se impusieron como los géneros que iban a definir esta década. Personajes no humanos como E.T. se ganaron el corazón de medio mundo y películas como Cazafantasmas y Regreso al futuro mezclaron deliciosamente comedia y ciencia ficción. En esta enciclopedia del cine de los ochenta, cada obra maestra viene presentada con fotogramas, sinopsis, reparto, relación de los miembros del equipo de rodaje y detalles técnicos.