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Explora la verdadera historia cultural del esoterismo y desvela el poderoso simbolismo oculto detrás de estas cartas. Ya sea que busques expandir tu mente en tu trayecto diario o necesites sumergirte en una atmósfera reflexiva antes de dormir, este relato fascinante separa los mitos...

Desvela el enigma arqueológico del antiguo Egipto explorando certezas históricas y mitos aún sin resolver. Perfecto para acompañar tus trayectos diarios o momentos de relajación, este audio inmersivo te transporta a la meseta de Guiza para experimentar la verdadera historia del coloso...

Découvrez l'enquête historique ultime sur le plus grand mystère de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : un chef-d'œuvre perdu. Parfait pour vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif vous transporte des ateliers prussiens aux fastueux palais des tsars russes. Laissez-vous captiver par l'atmosphère...

Découvrez la véritable histoire culturelle du tarot et séparez enfin les mythes ésotériques des faits historiques. Idéal pour stimuler votre esprit pendant vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif remonte aux origines italiennes du quinzième siècle. Oubliez les légendes sans fondement...

西洋文化の深層を形づくる光と影の交錯。ギリシャ神話の神々や英雄が紡ぐ起源の物語から、現代にも通じる人間の恐れと願望を紐解く知的な没入体験がここから始まります。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイ...

Explorez l'Égypte antique pour décrypter les énigmes archéologiques du plus fascinant monument de l'Ancien Empire. Entre certitudes historiques et mythes tenaces, cette immersion narrative retrace la naissance d'un colosse de pierre hybride qui défie les ravages du temps. Laissez-vous...

Diese fesselnde historische True-Crime-Reise beleuchtet den größten ungelösten Kunstraub des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln oder entspanntes Zuhören nach Feierabend, nimmt dich diese packende Erzählung mit an die prunkvollen Höfe Preußens und des russischen...

Comprenez comment un modeste portrait de la Renaissance est devenu l'icône absolue de l'histoire de l'art mondiale. Que ce soit pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien ou nourrir votre curiosité, cette enquête immersive retrace le destin inouï d'une toile fascinante. Laissez-vous transporter...

Erlebe packende Kunstgeschichte, in der ein kleines Renaissance-Porträt zum globalen Medienphänomen aufsteigt. Ob auf dem täglichen Arbeitsweg oder beim entspannten Spaziergang, diese faktenreiche Zeitreise liefert dir faszinierendes Kulturwissen ganz ohne Vorwissen. Begleite ein Meisterwerk...

In Reshaping Art, T. M. Krishna examines what art is and how we can harness its power to make ourselves and our communities open and sensitive. Well known for his attempts to break Karnatik music out of its high-caste confines, the author takes us through a journey of understanding what art means to different groups of people and the ways in which we all create and enjoy it.

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. This short "handbook", which was actually written down by one of his pupils, is a guide to daily living. It has been read by countless people over the centuries because of its sensibility and its easy application to daily living. Unlike some of his forefathers in philosophy, like Plato and Aristotle, he focuses on how to practically apply oneself on a philosophical level.

Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices of living artists' works have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists now think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Artists no longer simply make art, but package, sell, and brand it. Noah Horowitz exposes the inner workings of the contemporary art market, explaining how this unique economy came to be, how it works, and where it's headed.

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street...

'A fascinating alternative history covering 2,500 years and a geographical span from Japan to California' NEW STATESMAN 'A revelation . . . The tale of each carpet as Armstrong tells it is untidy and tragic and comical all at once' TESSA HADLEY On the saddles of warlords, draping the walls of...

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from...

Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists, The Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography and art history.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil, and co-host of the Whale Hunting podcast, comes a dazzling true story of how a lost masterpiece came home and of the remarkable, flawed man who made it happen. British art dealer Oliver Hoare had spent his life...

Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from "the need for introspection" to "the ability to discover the key problem." He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence and explores the riches of computer-created art.

O livro descreve o surgimento, nos anos 1920, do rádio de galena,no Rio de Janeiro,através do qual se projetariam duas manifestações musicais básicas da música popular: o maxixe e o choro.Sérgio se debruça sobre a influência da política republicana nas composições, sobre a...

Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate’s professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: Her husband’s company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business.