His exceptional good looks made him a matinee idol, and Franco Corelli - the Prince of Tenors - was dubbed "Mr. Soldout" for 20 consecutive years. In 1958, just seven years after beginning his career, he was already the highest-paid tenor in Italy. Following his Met debut in 1961, he was celebrated [...]
"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." "Rosario Tijeras" is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary, [...]
En Medellin, Colombia, in the 1980s, Rosario Tijeras, who was hit by a bullet just as she got her first kiss, follows her brother into the violent world of the drug gangs.[...]
We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. Attention is under siege everywhere. Not silence but uninterrupted noise, not the red desert, but a cognitive space overcharged with nervous incent[...]
The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco "Bifo" Berardi argues that the notion of economic r[...]
In Angel's final television season, his world ended...but his story didn't. Picking up where "Season Five" of the fan-favorite TV show left off, this first collection looks at who lived after that climactic battle, who died, and what happened to all of Los Angeles in its wake.[...]
Here is the most up-to-date and comprehensive work on meningiomas available ¿ there is no other book on the topic currently on the market! Completely revised and expanded, this new edition features key sections on molecular biology, pathology, imaging, s[...]
With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the "archistars." He argues that architecture has lost its wa[...]
In his follow-up to the critically acclaimed "A California Childhood," James Franco presents a compelling portrait of the life of a young actor coming into his own in Hollywood. Told in an absorbing array of literary styles and art forms--from short stories and poems to personal snapshots, paintings[...]
An actor treads the line between reality and fiction every time he plays a part, and for James Franco, that exploration isn't limited to the screen--he's also a visual artist with several exhibitions under his belt as well as the author of the widely praised story collection "Palo Alto." In "A Calif[...]
The last IDW Spike stories come to a shattering conclusion as Spike faces a crazed killer, the full power of Wolfram & Hart, and the consequences of having a soul and a demonic ex. But it's the appearance of Willow that really shakes things up, not to mention a spaceship and some unexpected old 'fri[...]
The Outside World takes place in Medell n. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presen[...]
No one should leave home without this book! It is packed with recipes that are cheap, good for you and very easy to cook with limited equipment. Here you will find everything you need to know about buying and storing food, which equipment is really necessary, what to eat to keep you healthy, and use[...]
How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory[...]
"The bourgeois ...Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, [...]
"The bourgeois ...Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, [...]
Viswanathan Anand is undoubtedly one of the World's greatest ever chess players. He first shot to fame in his youth, when he enthralled the chess public with his results and his amazing speed of play. He became India's first ever grandmaster, at the age of eighteen. He has won five World Championshi[...]