Arts & Entertainment

Un recorrido irreverente y documentado por las historias más sorprendentes, polémicas y humanas del arte universal. Detrás de cada cuadro icónico y cada escultura inmortal hay una historia que rara vez aparece en los manuales: duelos a espada, fraudes millonarios, robos, censuras, obsesiones...

Una obra estimulante, inspirada en el arte de la magia, para afinar la mirada, cultivar la atención plena y redescubrir el asombro en la era de la distracción. ¿Y si el problema no fuera la falta de tiempo sino la forma de mirar? Todos nacemos con sentido del asombro, pero la rutina y la...

From the writer of the critically acclaimed Grumpy Old Men: The Musical comes Grumpy Old Dan, a collection of hilariously sharp, self-aware essays on show business, family, and the quiet absurdities of modern life. Dan Remmes is an acknowledged grump. He’s also warmhearted and keenly observant...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Shattered Faces brings to life the extraordinary, nearly forgotten story of American sculptress Anna Coleman Ladd, whose courage and compassion transformed the lives of soldiers disfigured in the Great War. In 1917, as the world reels from unprecedented...

This Piano By Ear box contains over fifteen hours of high quality music instruction teaching a mix of Pop standards, movie and musical hits, and a Christmas medley thrown in for good measure. These solos are mostly at a late beginner to intermediate level so most adult students who have been...

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the enduring love stories that served as their heart-tugging inspiration. What makes a good love story endure? Is it the courtship? The obstacles along the way? The happy...

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval...

This program is read by Yael Rizowy with actor Nelson Franklin, who plays Robby in New Girl. "Thorough and entertaining... hilarious and touching... a must for New Girl fans." —Library Journal Go inside the writers’ room and onto the set of the honorary queen of comfort shows—with...

Composers and musicians continue to create, living through unimaginable horrors? Was it an act of defiance, a means of continuity in a world gone mad, or a desperation to survive by clinging to familiar patterns? Composing in Hell interprets biographical material, records, and observations in order to reveal motivations. For some, it was a creative endeavor, while for other composers it was an encounter with aspects of Jewish identity.

A humerous account of three men's boating holiday up the Thames that the author, Jerome K Jerome assures us is entirely factual, and definitely did happen as described. Even if the dog was somewhat more metaphorical than the other passengers. Especially George, who's realness is at least twice...

Multi award-winning TV personality Paul O’Grady stars as Lily Savage, the Scouse bombshell who catapulted him to superstardom. From her Lambeth Council flat to top billing on television and on the West End stage, the brash blonde shook the British comedy scene to its foundations throughout the 90s before eventually hanging up her heels for the very last time in 2004. This hysterical audiobook spans Lily’s career from her 1959 Miss Pears triumph to numerous shop-lifting convictions and finally her international sex-kitten status.

Aos 25 anos, Benjamin Moser se mudou para a Holanda. Um novo país, uma língua que não dominava, um cenário diferente, de luzes, sombras e canais, em cidades como Haarlem, Delft e Amsterdã. Nos intervalos de uma vida recomeçada, passou a visitar os grandes museus do país, primeiro por curiosidade — depois com devoção.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Welcome to the Happiness control Center. Its objective is to make every target feel joy. When two suspicious guests arrive in the country, intelligence suspects that they are the happiness critics. So, eager to keep the “Happiest country” title...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This book began as a simple series of questions during a long drive, deep reflections, and artistic awakenings. What unfolded was something far greater: a living conversation between a human being on the path of remembrance, and an artificial...

Flamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives, from art and entertainment to ritual and protest. The word conjures exuberance and unashamed passion; in thought, expression and dress. Yet historically the term 'flamboyant' has been reserved for the over-the-top and the outré, invoked at times as a pejorative innuendo or worse.