The House of Drogo Montagu is the family name of the Dukes and Earls of Manchester. In 1926, the eldest son of the 9th Duke married a young Australian woman, Nell Stead, later dubbed the dissolute duchess for habits like eating stark naked at dinner parties. Subsequent generations of the family have included the dubious duke and the dodgy duke, so named for behaviour including swindling and fraud. This compulsive account of excess and eccentricity shows how young men, born into a life of privilege, were left with fortunes whittled away by bad luck, war and indulgence and left without life skills. This is how one house crumbled through four generations.

Fondly remembered as Spike Dixon in Hi-De-Hi, Jeffrey Holland is one of our best-loved situation comedy actors. An invaluable member of the repertory company of writer and director David Croft, his many other television credits include Are You Being Served?, Dads Army, It Aint Half Hot Mum, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, and You Rang, MLord?Written in collaboration with Britains foremost comedy historian, Robert Ross, producer and presenter of the hugely successful touring show Jeffrey Holland: Comedy Friends and Heroes, this unique memoir reveals the hilarious tales from Hollands long and illustrious career, through the comedy greats that have inspired him, to the comedy colleagues with whom he has worked.There will be heart-warming stories from his twenty-year association with Paul Shane and Su Pollard: BBCs comedy A Team of sitcom. There will be poignant and deep reflection on his all-time favourite comedian, Stan Laurel, and revealing stories of working with the great and good of variety theatre from understudying Frankie Howerd in pantomime, to unforgettable encounters with Ben Warriss, the no-nonsense straight man of Jewel and Warriss fame, via many happy years as part of Russ Abbots Madhouse.Not to mention blissful thoughts on the joy of The Goon Show, and the thrill of stepping into the huge shoes of Peter Sellers, when the crazy characters were resurrected for Goon Again!Filled with the enthusiasm and affection, The First Rule of Comedy..! is a life told through the eyes of one of the true greats of the genre.

Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. Inside, a lost world, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies. 7406 Franklin Avenue, where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock n rollers and drugs. Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring. It was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (and many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitzs brilliance of observation, Babitzs incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitzs diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you dont read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.

UN TESTIMONIO INSPIRACIONAL DE JUAN JOSÉ BALLESTA, EL BOLA.«Cuando veo que estoy muy arriba, que me va a entrar el vértigo, que se me queda la cabeza como sin sangre y empiezo a temblar, me bajo. Est

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge__________Mind-expanding... Elegantly written... explores nothing less than "the ultimate nature of reality"... This is a book about the tiniest of things - the position of an electron, an instant of change. It is also about the biggest of things - the cosmos, infinity, the possibility of free willNew York TimesA remarkable synthesis of the thoughts, ideas, and discoveries of three of the greatest minds that our species has produced. The richness of the book cannot be fully acknowledged in the space of a review. Mr. Egginton advances a great many knotty arguments and propositions, but he is never less than exciting, provocative, and illuminating. John Banville, Wall Street JournalIn this sprightly intellectual history, Egginton explores the lives of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, the writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the physicist Werner Heisenberg in order to plumb some of the most profound questions of physics and philosophy: the limits of knowledge, the structure of space and time, free willNew Yorker__________Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth-that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesnt exist without the other.German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realms absurdity when he had his own epiphany-that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality.Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant pushed the assumptions of human reason as far as they could go, concluding that the human mind has fundamental limits, and those limits undergird both our greatest achievements as well as our missteps.Through fiction, science, and philosophy, the work of these three thinkers coalesced around the powerful, haunting fact that there is an irreconcilable difference between reality "out there" and reality as we experience it. In this soaring, lucid reflection on the lives of Borges, Heisenberg and Kant, William Egginton profoundly demonstrates the enduring mystery of the world, and our place within it.

For blockbuster photographer Keith Hamshere it was the humble ukulele, given to him for his ninth birthday, that piqued his interest in the entertainment industry, leading to a long and impressive career in front of and behind the camera.Starting out in the late 1950s as a child actor, Keith decided to add another string to his bow, developing his interest in photography and becoming a society photographer at the heart of Swinging London.Keiths big break came in the mid 1960s, when unit photographer Johnny Jay began working on a new film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Recalling Keiths fascination with photography and his growing popularity, Johnny asked him if he would be interested in helping out on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Keith did not need to think twice about his answer.Following on from his stellar work on 2001, Keith went on to become an established stills photographer and amassed an impressive filmography, working on films such as Battle of Britain and Superman II before embarking on the first of eight James Bond assignments: The Spy Who Loved Me. Along with his Bond films, Keith also worked on other legendary franchises, including Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the three Star Wars prequels, among many others.For more than five decades, Keith played a key role in creating some of the most iconic images from some of the biggest movies ever made. In Life Through an Aperture, he shares his fascinating tales of rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in Hollywood, alongside his incredible images.

A trajetória meteórica da cantora que nasceu em uma pequena cidade no interior da Pensilvânia, nos Estados Unidos, e que hoje arrasta milhões de fãs aos seus shows em todo o mundo. Mas, antes de se t

Medical Art introduces the methods, principles and techniques that form the foundations for the successful medical artist. It focuses on artworks created by hand and places a strong emphasis on observational and drawing skills. As well as artistic techniques, it explains the skeletal and related structures relevant to the artist, covering many structural anatomical elements and their visual representation. It will be an invaluable handbook for anyone interested in the skills and information that underpin the astonishing images of medical art. Medical art stands at the interface between art and medicine, a vital service for healthcare professionals regardless of their medical role and fills a very important niche. A medical artist may be asked to illustrate: a surgical technique in a book on surgery, an anatomy textbook, a poster for an exhibition/conference to illustrate research results, patient information leaflets, articles for publication in a medical journal, 3D modelling of some part of the body such as hand or foot, a joint with its associated bone or an internal organ, to design a website perhaps with a video which might include 3D images. This book clearly outlines the techniques needed to become a medical artist with detailed guidelines and exercises to introduce a potential medical artist to the skills required. These include basic drawing techniques using pen and ink and a range of pencils. There are also details of how to use and mix watercolour and how to match this with skin and specimen colours. This book is essential reading for any artist who wishes to specialise in medical art. DR MICHAEL OBRIEN MD, FRCP, FRGS, Hon. FMAA, Chairman and Examiner of the MAET

No hay periodista que compita con la sagacidad ycredibilidad de Beto Tavira, donde pone el ojo pone lapalabra precisa, y no se detiene hasta encontrar a lasmejores fuentes que le permiten descubrir la verdadprofunda de los entramados politicos, amorosos, decorrupcion y pasion. Es el destripador de jugosos chismesconvertidos en grandes historias de pertinenciaperiodistica y entretenimiento inagotable.-Lydia CachoLuisMiguel es un artista internacional que posee una de las biografias mas fascinantes del mundo de la musica. Y aunque podria pensarse que todo esta dicho, hay un capitulo de su historia que ha sufrido un eclipse de Sol: su vinculo con los politicos.EnPor debajo de la mesa, el reconocido periodista Alberto Tavira explora el secretismo que Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri ha mantenido sobre su relacion con los presidentes de Mexico y sus herederos, gobernadores, secretarios de Estado y presidentes de partidos politicos. Esta investigacionperiodistica recupera los sorprendentes testimonios detestigos clave que cuentan sobre los favores que Luis Miguel ha pedido a los miembros de la cuspide politica y de que manera lo han beneficiado.

Legendary British comic actor John Inman broke down many boundaries by playing the camp Mr Humphries in the long-running sitcom Are You Being Served? The show ran for thirteen years, had a spin-off movie and attracted millions of viewers in the UK. Inmans character, whose innuendos were adored by viewers, invariably got the biggest laughs and this at a time when being gay was largely frowned upon.Away from television, he soon became one of the most in-demand pantomime actors, making a small fortune over several decades. Yet it was as Mr Humphries that he was best loved and the reason he was regarded as a national treasure.In his private life, Inman was secretive about his sexuality until he married his long-term partner Ron Lynch in a civil ceremony in London in 2005. He died two years later following a long battle with hepatitis.Featuring revealing interviews with many of Inmans surviving cast mates and colleagues, Im Free! uncovers the full story of a man who was adored by millions and who broke down barriers by simply being himself.

A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche. *Gorgeously illustrated with 70 full-colour images*Thoughtful and knowledgeable, witty and bold . . . A scintillating account of a richly complicated life. LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti. In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia. Prideaux conjures Gauguins visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artists family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.

Vivien Leigh was one of the greatest film and theatrical stars of the twentieth century. Her Oscar-winning performances in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire have cemented her status as an icon of classic Hollywood.Her meteoric rise to fame launched her into the gaze of fellow rising star Laurence Olivier. A tempestuous relationship ensued that would last for twenty years and captured the imagination of people around the world.Behind the scenes, however, Leighs personal life was marred by bipolar disorder, which remained undiagnosed until 1953. Largely misunderstood and subjected to barbaric mistreatment at the hands of her doctors, she also suffered the heartbreak of Oliviers infidelity. Contributing to her image as a tragic heroine, she died at the age of 53.Where Madness Lies begins in 1953, when Leigh suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalised. The woeful story unfolds as she tries to rebuild her life, salvage her career and save her marriage.Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, including private correspondence, bestselling author Lyndsy Spence reveals the woman behind the legendary image: a woman who remained strong in the face of adversity

En este nuevo manual, Ai Akikusa nos sumerge en las maravillas del reino animal que habita dentro o cerca del agua. Fiel a su estilo, la ilustradora japonesa nos descubre los rasgos anatómicos más caracteristicos y asombrosos de estos animales, y nos guia paso a paso para mostrarnos como los podemos representar con lapices de colores y papel.Conoceremos una variada cantidad de especies marinas como la nutria, el tiburon ballena, el oso polar, el cachalote o la beluga, y otros animales que viven en los rios, pantanos y estanques como la tortuga, el cocodrilo, el hipopotamos o el castor.Una nueva invitacion a fascinarnos con la riqueza del mundo animal y a aprender dibujar a sus protagonistas acuaticos.

"Quiero animarte a experimentar y a que no pierdas nunca la curiosidad. Pintar e ilustrar debe servir, sobre todo, para hacerte sentir bien." Con esta declaración de principios, la artista Madeleine

La biografía más completa de uno de los músicos argentinos más geniales y populares, a cargo de uno de los periodistas que mejor lo conoció y más lo estudió. Este es el libro que alimentó a todos los demas. Y al mito tambien. Desde 1993, Sergio Marchi se convirtio en la sombra de Charly Garcia y de la experiencia surgio No digas nada, una biografia "diversa, divertida y divergente", como Charly le encomendo. Fue una gran aventura donde el autor cumplio funciones inesperadas: fue confidente, plomo, baterista, brevisimo manager, psicologo amateur y enfermero. Lo vio todo. Lo vivio todo. Lo conto casi todo. El libro se actualizo en 2007, un año antes del colapso de Garcia en Mendoza y sus tremendas internaciones. Marchi fue nuevamente convocado a su entorno, al que renuncio antes de transcurrir un año. Esta reedicion llega a 2024 y el autor se aleja de Charly, lo que le permite ajustar la mira y disipar la bruma agregando nueve capitulos nuevos a los siete de la primera actualizacion, donde revela, muchas veces entrelineas, buena parte de los misterios de este periodo de la vida de Charly Garcia, genio indiscutido del rock latinoamericano.

O mais completo e impactante relato sobre uma das personalidades mais influentes do rock, Lou Reed: O Rei de Nova York entrelaça a vida pública e pessoal do ousado artista que mudou a história da música.Em Lou Reed: O Rei de Nova York, o critico de musica Will Hermes oferece ao publico uma narrativa detalhada que cobre desde os acontecimentos mais importantes ate fatos menos conhecidos da vida do artista responsavel por unir referencias do pop comercial e da musica de vanguarda europeia.Hermes explora a fundo as complexas relaçes de Reed com outras personalidades emblematicas, como David Bowie, Andy Warhol, John Cale e Laurie Anderson, alem do jeito fascinante e sem papas na lingua com que ele lidava com fs, jornalistas e frequentadores da cena underground. Passamos a conhecer melhor a sagacidade e o estilo experimental e lirico de Reed que marcou sua passagem como cantor e compositor no iconico The Velvet Underground e em outros trabalhos , bem como a ambiço artistica e a tendencia a autossabotagem que herdou de seu mentor, o poeta e escritor Delmore Schwartz.Primeiro biografo a obter acesso ao famoso acervo de Lou Reed na Biblioteca Publica de Nova York, Hermes utilizou tambem gravaçes ineditas e entrevistou contemporaneos de Reed para oferecer ao leitor uma nova face do astro desde a epoca em que morava em apartamentos sem agua quente no chuveiro no Lower East Side ate o estrelato. Conforme se aprofunda na historia de Reed, Hermes tambem proporciona ao leitor vislumbres da cidade e dos arredores de Nova York, apresentando pouco a pouco a rica historia cultural da metropole que se tornou a grande musa do poeta do rock.Sucesso de critica, Lou Reed: O Rei de Nova York e a biografia monumental de um compositor pioneiro em escrever sobre papeis de genero e identidades queer, um artista comprometido na mesma medida em captar o belo e o estranho e um homem complexado e por vezes truculento, cuja sensibilidade artistica persiste ate os dias de hoje."A unica biografia sobre Lou Reed que voce precisa ler." Washington Post"Um retrato irresistivel de uma das personalidades mais importantes do rock dos anos 1960 e 1970." Esquire"Hermes investigou a fundo o passado de Reed entrevistou familiares, amigos de infancia, colegas de faculdade e outros conhecidos , mas o real valor deste livro esta na analise critica da obra do artista e de sua influencia. Acumulando dez anos de pesquisa e ostentando uma grande variedade de fontes, este trabalho de peso representa a historia definitiva de Lou Reed." Variety"O experiente jornalista musical Will Hermes encontrou na historia de Lou Reed uma fonte de polemicas que incluem temas como genero, sexualidade e drogas. Para alem das fofocas, ele mostra como o astro foi um ponto de referencia para movimentos artisticos, alem de um pioneiro, embora pouco conhecido, icone LGBTQIAP+." Los Angeles Times

La periodista Virginia Mejía narra la historia secreta de la mítica modelo y actriz argentina Chunchuna Villafañe. A través de una serie de entrevistas, fotos de avisos publicitarios e imágenes privadas, la autora compone un retrato intimo, sin filtros ni photoshop, de una musa de smokey eye que marco toda una epoca. El libro incluye, ademas, un codigo QR para acce der a su ultima pelicula, un corto jamas proyectado. La adore, la adore, desde el primer dia que la vi. Cuando empece ella era ya una estrella, la numero uno. Una mujer divina, amorosa, simpatica, la mas linda y para nada engreida. La primera vez que desfile me agarro panico escenico. Pero me dijo "vas a salir", y "pum", me empujo y me anime. Despues compartimos muchos desfiles. Chunchuna me dio suerte en mi carrera (Susana Gimenez, conductora de television y actriz).Es la modelo del momento mas glamoroso de la publicidad argentina. Es unica: linda, inteligente, culta y una mujer muy natural. ¿Que mas se puede pedir? Jamas especulo con su belleza. Apenas nos conocimos nos hicimos amigas, fundamos la Asociacion Modelos Argentinos, defendiendo nuestros derechos con desinteres total, sin ningun celo, todo lo contrario. ¡Nunca nos la creimos! (Claudia Sanchez, modelo y publicista).Es una de las pocas del mundo del espectaculo que tan solo diciendo su nombre, sin apellido, sabemos quien es. Porque no hay otra. Ame trabajar con ella porque es volatil y luminosa, porque es sabia y canchera y, por sobre todas las cosas, es buena gente. En Shangay, la obra que hicimos, brillaba gracias a su desparpajo, por ser ludica y certera. Amo a Chunchuna (Jose Maria Muscari, director y dramaturgo).

"La que me ha pedido aparecer en estas páginas es sobre todo la mujer incierta, una que sigue existiendo dentro de mí, debajo de todas mis capas. Pero hay otras, algunas de las cuales no aparecen aqui o no apareceran jamas".¿Como contar la historia de uno mismo? Y, en ese ejercicio, ¿hasta que punto se construye o se reconstruye la identidad? En este libro autobiografico, Piedad Bonnett parte de sus vivencias para reflexionar sobre los factores que definen nuestra cotidianidad. Nos habla, con sensibilidad y lucidez, de aquello que determina la experiencia de las mujeres -la educacion, el matrimonio, la maternidad, los tabues asociados al cuerpo y la violencia de genero- y tambien de la ansiedad, el miedo, la rebeldia, las ansias de libertad y las obsesiones que impulsan el proceso de la escritura.Con una prosa poetica y contundente, atravesada por humor e ironia, la autora aborda las diferentes epocas que ha presenciado, en las que podemos vislumbrar las muchas mujeres que ha sido. Su camino de reconocimiento esta siempre inconcluso, pues, al igual que ella, todos "somos inaprehensibles. Somos rectificables, como cuando queremos que la palabra de cuenta de nosotros. No hay relato que diga quienes somos".

Recife, Colégio Americano Batista, 1957. A cena abre estas memórias de Aguinaldo Silva: é a eleição da Rainha da Primavera, quando os alunos votam a mais bela estudante. Esse ano, porém, a galhofa re

¿Te parece que los lápices de colores dan poco juego? ¿Que es difícil obtener buenos resultados con ellos? Pues este libro quiere demostrar que no es así. Los lápices de colores son una técnica al alcance de todo el mundo con la que se pueden hacer ilustraciones complejas y preciosas. Y si no lo crees, echale un vistazo al interior.A lo largo de estas paginas Amanda te acompañara para que aprendas a usarlos con sus explicaciones y trucos. Para que te hagas a la idea, algunos de los apartados del libro son:- Como planear una ilustracion- Hacer degradados- Elegir una paleta cromatica- Como afecta la luz blanca o de color a un objetoAqui encontraras todo lo que necesitas para dominar los lapices de colores. Bueno, todo lo que necesitas no, las ganas de experimentar y pintar las tienes que poner tu. ¿A que esperas? ¡A pintar!