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¿Cuántas veces has dicho «esto da para una serie»? ¿Y si la mejor serie fuera la vida misma? ¡Ahora tienes el libro que lo demuestra! Más de 900 títulos, cientos de emociones compartidas y una certeza: esto da para una serie. Desde aventuras adolescentes sobre bicis llenas de barro hasta culebrones sentimentales dignos de telenovela, pasando por momentos laborales tan surrealistas como los de The Office o reuniones de vecinos más tensas que un capítulo de Aquí no hay quien viva. La vida —la tuya y la de todos— está hecha de escenas que parecen sacadas de una ficción. Porque a veces lo cotidiano se convierte en comedia, en drama, en thriller o en romance... y todo cabe en el mismo capítulo.

¿Cómo se prende la mecha de una polémica en Hollywood? ¿Cómo es sentarse frente a una estrella mundial y estrecharle la mano antes de empezar a ametrallarle con preguntas? ¿Qué es lo más raro que puede pasar cuando entrevistas a Tom Cruise? ¿Cómo fue el verano de Brangelina versus Bennifer desde el mismo centro del huracán? ¿Sabías que Spielberg no se pierde un solo capítulo de las Kardashian? Adéntrate en el universo más exclusivo del mundo del espectáculo. Con un estilo directo y sin filtros, María Estévez nos desvela lo que no se ve en la alfombra roja: egos, excesos, rivalidades… pero también momentos únicos, cercanía inesperada y la verdadera esencia de quienes mueven los hilos del entretenimiento global. Todo lo que siempre has querido saber sobre el lugar donde los sueños se hacen realidad, sin filtros.

A flâneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called “documents” of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage.

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The serenity of nature and the graceful beauty of flowers are traditional themes in classical Japanese art that are embraced and appreciated worldwide. Here, they are presented in a carefully curated collection of stunning full-color reproductions of classic works by Japanese artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro. Meticulously executed in great and realistic detail and awash in rich and subtle color, this one-of-a-kind art book—featuring an ever-scrolling concertina format—showcases the perennial appeal of Japanese woodblock prints celebrating the ephemeral bounty of flowers in all stages of bloom. Beautiful and elegant, this specially chosen collection features the classic flowers that symbolize the progression of the seasons in Japanese culture—cherry and plum blossoms, camellias, peonies, iris, lilies, roses, wisteria, hibiscus, water lilies, chrysanthemums. It is sure to delight gardeners, floral artists, designers, art lovers, as well as fans of Japanese culture.

The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as “the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.” This book introduces the rich body of Kahlo’s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.