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For decades, Grace Coddington’s personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue magazine. Then came The September Issue, the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude and an unerring visual instinct. Overnight, the...

The art of presenting needs a serious shake-up. Presenters are constantly on the lookout for fresh ideas to get their messages across but mistakenly believe PowerPoint is the right medium to do so. This often results in uninspiring presentations consisting of countless lackluster slides that their audiences are forced to sit through - sometimes at the expense of their own sanity. In How to Make Your Point Without PowerPoint, renowned public speaker and Speakers Hall of Fame inductee Douglas Kruger aims to end the tedium of the PowerPoint medium.

The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterised account yet of the chaos, scandal and destruction of Trump's first term, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists. Drawing on nearly three years of reporting, hundreds of hours of interviews and more than two...

The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII’s European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White...

Bloomsbury presents Terrestrial, written by Cristina Rivera Garza, read by Victoria Villareal. FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LILIANA'S INVINCIBLE SUMMER AND DEATH TAKES ME We come from far away and, all of a sudden, we no longer know where we are going. In Terrestrial, we follow...

A profound exploration of the art and magic of writing by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende. In this deeply personal and insightful book, Isabel Allende delves into her creative process, reflecting on nearly half a century of writing that has captivated millions of readers...

Do futebol brasileiro, o mundo sempre espera o melhor. Nossas seleções devem reunir o melhor do melhor. E o que dizer, então, das melhores seleções brasileiras? Aquelas cuja escalação os boleiros sabem de cor. As seleções que faziam...

A internet é um poço sem fundo de informação. É preciso atenção para encontrar algo de bom. Em ZEN SOCIALISMO (Os melhores post do blog Socialista Morena), de Cynara Menezes, reúne o que de melhor esta jornalista que prega a necessidade de...

Atacante bom é aquele que faz gol. Goleiro bom é aquele que evita gol. E técnico bom, quem é? O grande estrategista, que domina as teorias? O paizão, que trata os jogadores como crianças crescidas e carentes, necessitadas de compreensão e apoio? O...

As glórias do futebol não são feitas apenas por aqueles que fazem ou participam de gols. às vezes o herói é justamente quem evita o momento mais esperado de uma partida: o goleiro. Sujeito estranho. Nem existia antes de 1871, quando foi definido que um...

Como os políticos conquistam o território brasileiro? O jornalista Alceu Luís Castilho passou três anos pesquisando quase 13 mil declarações de bens de políticos eleitos entregues ao Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). O resultado é um...

Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times).When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations...

The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby—"The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't." Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading...

In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. Inspiration for the HBO Max streaming documentary...

From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South...

Whether or not one has lived an exceptional or dramatic life, we inherently understand that writing memoir—whether it’s a book, blog, or just a letter to a child—is the single greatest portal to self-examination. Stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind “writer’s...

In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer...

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. In the internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.

It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.

В основе любой увлекательной истории — будь то сказка, миф, сюжет для романа или киносценарий — лежит путешествие героя: внутреннее или внешнее. Эта идея стала путеводной звездой для Кристофера Воглера, когда, работая в сценарном отделе диснеевской студии, он проверял на практике действенность мифологических схем, описанных в знаменитом труде Кэмпбелла «Тысячеликий герой».