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Opening Interior Design Master Class is like sitting down to the best dinner party you ve ever attended. A classic in the making, the book features one hundred essays by America s top designers from established design legends to members of the new guard that explore in detail the process of designing a home, from the fundamentals to the finishing touches. Grouped by theme, the subjects range from practical considerations (Bunny Williams on Comfort, Etienne Coffinier and Ed Ku on Floor Plans) and details (Victoria Hagan on Light, Rose Tarlow on Books) to inspiration (Jeffrey Bilhuber on America and Char- lotte Moss on Couture) and style (Kelly Wearstler on Glamour, Thomas O Brien on Vintage Modern). Each piece is paired with images of the designer s work to illustrate the principles being discussed, annotated with informative captions. Unique in the quality of its contributors, this is a book that readers will refer to again and again for advice and inspiration, an invaluable resource for practical tips and thought-provoking design.

This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotations and references from relevant books, movies, shows, and songs. The city’s fluctuating fortunes are all represented, from the wild nights of the Jazz Age and the hedonistic disco era, to the grim days of the Depression and the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath, as its brokenhearted but unbowed citizens picked up the pieces. New York’s remarkable rise, reinvention, and growth are not just the tale of a city, but the story of a nation, From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island; from the slums of the Lower East Side to the magnificent art deco skyscrapers. The urban beach of Coney Island and the sleaze of Times Square; the vistas of Central Park and the crowds on Fifth Avenue. The streets, the sidewalks, the chaos, the energy, the ethnic diversity, the culture, the fashion, the architecture, the anger, and the complexity of the city are all laid out in this beautiful book. This is the greatest city in the world after all and great are its extremes, contradictions, and attitude.

Fundador en 1897 del Teatro del Arte de Moscú, la figura de Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1937) ocupa un puesto destacado en la reformulación de la labor interpretativa planteada a principios del siglo XX a causa de su empeño en desarrollar una concepción teatral basada en la adecuada ambientación de cada obra y en la preparación psicotécnica del actor. La construcción del personaje, su último libro, fue publicado postumamente, y el tratamiento de los temas que en él se abordan -la caracterización física de los autores, el vestuario, la expresión corporal, la plasticidad del movimiento, la contención y el control, la dicción y el canto, la acentuación y la expresividad, el ritmo en el movimiento y el lenguaje, la ética teatral, etc.- da fe de la riqueza de experiencias, el talento didáctico y el sentido dramático del gran actor y director de escena.

Esta novela reconstruye acuciosamente la intensa vida de una mujer extraordinaria: Lucha Reyes, la cantante que transformó la música popular mexicana, brindándole el particular sello que ha conquistado distintas generaciones y le ha dado la vuel­ta al mundo. Con una gran documentación, datos y testimonios, Alma Ve­lasco no sólo traza el retrato de la artista que inventó el género del mariachi tal y como lo conocemos en la actualidad, sino re­crea a un personaje de carne y hueso; su infancia en la pobreza y en la orfandad, su debut en el fascinante mundo de las carpas, sus encuentros y desencuentros amorosos, sus triunfos y fraca­sos, en suma, una vida llena de claroscuros. Me llaman la Tequilera es una ágil y amena crónica de toda una época en México: el final de la revolución, las noticias que sacudieron al mundo, las turbulencias políticas, el inicio de la radio, el cine y las canciones, la moda, los inventos que trans­formaron la vida de la gente y todo el trasfondo de circunstan­cias que rodearon a una de las protagonistas más emblemáticas de la cultura mexicana.

Ocean Soul is a love story. It is a story of discovery. It is a story of hope. The story begins when a boy who loves the sea attends an event with underwater photographers and has an epiphany: "I had always wanted to explore the oceans, but I now understood how I would do this. I would do it with a camera." With sheer deter­mination, hard work, and a little bit of luck the boy, named Brian Skerry, realized his dream with more than 20 awe-inspiring articles for National Geographic magazine. Now, with Ocean Soul, he showcases his stunning photography and describes his adventurous life in a gripping portrait of the ocean as a place of beauty and mystery, a place in trouble, and ultimately, a place of hope that will rebound with the proper attention and care.

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called “only an eye, but my God what an eye!” who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 19th century, the work Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. The high point of his explorations was the late series of water lilies, painted in his own garden at Giverny, which, in their approach toward almost total formlessness, are really the origin of abstract art. This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential artist, and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary.