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"Howard Hughes chronicles the life and legacies of one of the most intriguing and accomplished Americans of the twentieth century. Hughes made big-budget movies, built the world's fastest and largest airplanes, and helped transform and grow Las Vegas. He was a respected trailblazer and firebrand, but behind the facade his physical and mental health declined to the point of incapacitation. This book takes you behind the curtain to understand what really...
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"On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair...
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"Now, perhaps, only those enmeshed in 19th-century American history know his name; but when John Hay died in 1905, he was one of the most famous men in the world. And one of the most highly regarded. Abraham Lincoln's private secretary during the Civil War, thereafter as a popular poet, novelist, newspaper editor, highly esteemed historian and biographer, diplomat, businessman, and secretary of state until his death, Hay enjoyed remarkable success...
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Cuenta Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza que, a veces, su amigo Gabriel García Márquez, el novelista idolatrado por millones de lectores en todo el mundo, se libera del pero de su propio mito y vuelve a ser, simplemente, Gabo. Este libro nos habla de esos momentos. Del Gabo auténtico, conocido solo por su círculo más íntimo. Es un retrato emocionante y a ratos sorprendente del escritor colombiano, desde sus comienzos como aspirante a periodista hasta su...
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"Abner Mikva was an Illinois lawmaker, US judge, and mentor to both Barack Obama and Elena Kagan. He is fondly remembered in Chicago politics for being told, after saying that nobody sent him, "We don't want nobody nobody sent." One of the country's leading liberal politicians for decades, Mikva served in all three branches of the federal government: nine years in the US House of Representatives (following ten years in the Illinois House), fifteen...
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"An Orange County housewife tells the story of her four-year investigation to solve the case of her mother's violent death in Mexico that law enforcement officials declared unsolvable. Her discovery of the truth, with the help of a famous female FBI profiler, forces her to redefine her relationship with her mother and her own sense of self"--
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"Publication accompanies the opening of the exhibition on the art of the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, in February 2015. It is a ground-breaking examination of the art and decoration of Sta. Maria del Fiore in Florence, better known to international visitors as the Duomo, much of which has not been seen in the USA before. With four essays by leading scholars plus a catalogue of 23...
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"Gdy świat się rozpadał, one żyły w luksusie, wśród zrabowanych dzieł sztuki, niewolniczej służby, jedząc warzywa i owoce z ogrodów uprawianych przy obozach koncentracyjnych. Tkwiły jednak w nieudanych małżeństwach, znosząc oszustwa i zdrady, samobójstwa, zabójstwa, odrzucenie, a w końcu ubóstwo i uwięzienie. Ich życie było całkowicie podporządkowane sprawom hitlerowskiego państwa, a nieostrożne zachowanie mogło zniszczyć...
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