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| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Social Studies Fran Lebowitz, 1982 The author is by turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, and wisecracking. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: La ciudad interrumpida Julià Guillamon, 2019-05-22 Una obra precursora que mostró las primeras sombras del modelo Barcelona. Una crónica de veinticinco años de Barcelona, entre la contracultura y los Juegos Olímpicos, a partir de la arquitectura, el diseño, el periodismo, el arte, el cómic, la fotografía, el cine, las costumbres urbanas y, sobre todo, la literatura. Novelas y cuentos nos guían por la Barcelona de los años setenta, decrépita pero querida. Asistimos a su transformación en una ciudad planificada por los poderes públicos y los capitales internacionales. Con la llegada del turismo de masas, se ha convertido en una referencia en el mundo global, pero muchos habitantes le han dado la espalda. Publicado en catalán en 2001, es al mismo tiempo un testimonio personal, un libro de crítica literaria y un documento de historia de la cultura. Una obra que puso en evidencia la distancia entre la ciudad y sus creadores. Ahora incorpora un nuevo ensayo que pasa revista a los últimos quince años de ficciones urbanas. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: La ciutat interrompuda Julià Guillamon, 2019-05-22 Una crònica de vint-i-cinc anys de Barcelona, entre la contracultura i els Jocs Olímpics, a partir de l’arquitectura, el disseny, el periodisme, l’art, el còmic, la fotografia, el cinema, els costums urbans i, sobretot, la literatura. Novel·les i contes ens guien per la Barcelona dels anys setanta, decrèpita però estimada. Assistim a la seva transformació en una ciutat planificada pels poders públics i els capitals internacionals. Amb l’arribada del turismo massiu, s’ha convertit en una referència en el món global, però molts ciutadans li han girat l’esquena. Publicat originalment el 2001, La ciutat interrompuda és alhora un testimoni personal, un llibre de crítica literària i un document d’història de la cultura. Ara incorpora un nou assaig, El gran novel·loide sobre Barcelona, que passa revista als darrers quinze anys de ficcions urbanes. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Libros en venta en Hispanoamérica y España , 1993 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Fran Lebowitz Reader Fran Lebowitz, 2011-07-06 In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In elegant, finely honed prose (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Libros españoles en venta , 1996 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: LEV , 1999 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Boletín bibliográfico - Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional (Chile), 1986 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Libros españoles en venta, ISBN , 1995 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others , 2013 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Bibliographie des traités de savoir-vivre en Europe: Italie, Espagne, Portugal, Roumanie, Norvège, Pays tchèque et slovaque, Pologne , 1995 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Bibliographie des traités de savoir-vivre en Europe: Italie, Espagne, Portugal, Roumanie, Norvège, Pays tchèque et slovaque, Pologne Alain Montandon, 1995 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Fichero bibliográfico hispanoamericano , 1985 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Libros españoles , 1979 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: El país , 1985 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Index translationum Unesco, 1991 Philosophy, Religion, Social sciences, Law, Education, Economy, Exact and natural sciences, Medicine, Science and technology, Agriculture, Management, Architecture, Art, History, Sport, Biography, Literature. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Información bibliográfica , 1985-02 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Tratado de Urbanidad Luis GOMEZ PEREIRA, 1862 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Tales From A Broad Fran Lebowitz, 2011-09-01 When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone ... Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused husband, Frank. But when her life in the fast land falls apart - again - it's time for a miracle. Reeling from the worst week of her life, topped off by her most important client stabbing her in the back, Fran realises that she's almost forgotten what her family looks like. She wants out of the rat race and her hectic life as a literary agent - and time to be herself, a real wife and mother to her two small children. Good old Frank delivers what seems the answer to her prayers - to escape for three months to Singapore while he does some business. But what starts out as a little break and a very big culture shock for all concerned marks the hilarious beginning of the end of the old Fran - and a whole new life. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Face to Face Camilla McGrath, Andrea Di Robilant, Griffin Dunne, Vincent Fremont, Harrison Ford, Fran Lebowitz, Jann Wenner, 2020-10-27 A revelatory collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of celebrities and cultural icons—from Joan Didion to the Rolling Stones to Nancy Pelosi. Featuring short essays from Fran Lebowitz, Harrison Ford, and more. A treasure trove of celebrities at play in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. —PEOPLE Camilla Pecci Blunt, a nonprofessional photographer who grew up between Italy and New York, was well placed to forge the path she did. Her mother was passionate about the arts, took photographs, painted, and collected artists around her, and had galleries in Rome and New York. The more than six hundred photographs in this book from the 1950s to the early 1990s capture our cultural icons in casual, playful moments. After she married Earl McGrath in 1963, their homes--first in New York and then in Los Angeles--became gathering places for a wholly unexpected mix of people that Camilla documented in these surprising, in-the-moment photographs: Jackie Kennedy, Jerome Robbins, Sammy Davis Jr., Calvin and Kelly Klein, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Bruce Chatwin, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Jean Tinguely, Frank O'Hara, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Bryan Ferry, Bette Midler, Jerry Hall, Keith Haring, Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Brown, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, John Waters, Joan Didion, Angelia Huston, Robert Graham, David Hockney, Michael Crichton, and Barbra Streisand, among many others. Andrea di Robilant's essay, along with memories from Griffin Dunne, Vincent Fremont, Harrison Ford, Fran Lebowitz, and Jann Wenner, reveal the backstory of this irresistible look at the larger-than-life cultural figures of our time as you have never seen them. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Beatles Are Here! Penelope Rowlands, 2014-02-04 The arrival of the Beatles was one of those unforgettable cultural touchstones. Through the voices of those who witnessed it or were swept up in it indirectly, The Beatles Are Here! explores the emotional impact—some might call it hysteria—of the Fab Four’s February 1964 dramatic landing on our shores. Contributors, including Lisa See, Gay Talese, Renée Fleming, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others, describe in essays and interviews how they were inspired by the Beatles. This intimate and entertaining collection arose from writer Penelope Rowlands’s own Beatlemaniac phase: she was one of the screaming girls captured in an iconic photograph that has since been published around the world—and is displayed on the cover of this book. The stories of these girls, who found each other again almost 50 years later, are part of this volume as well. The Beatles Are Here! gets to the heart of why, half a century later, the Beatles still matter to us so deeply. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Private Correspondence Esther Tusquets, 2008 Esther Tusquets was already well known in Spain as director of the Barcelona publishing house Editorial Lumen when she stunned the reading public in the late 70s and 80s with the publication of a highly acclaimed narrative cycle whose daringly innovative content and prose style broke new ground for the Spanish novel and for women's writing. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Environment, Health, and Safety Lari A. Bishop, 1997 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth Salvador Espriu, 2012-08-28 One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title. Originally published in 1935 in the midst of great countrywide political and social upheaval, these stories are a mirror, a grotesque mirror, held up to Catalan and Spanish society. Infused with a deep sense of mythic power, blending social realism with lush modernist experiment, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a triumph of style. Perhaps best known for his poetry, Espriu's rich lyricism and highly evocative use of the Catalan language are here brought to life in the poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips's remarkable English language translation of a classic of world literature. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Printing in Spain 1501-1520 F. J. Norton, 2010-02-11 Professor Norton's concise history of all the presses known to have been working in Spain in the period 1501-1520. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting Anne Trubek, 2016-09-06 The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia. In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock’s elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication. Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg’s printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Progress Fran Lebowitz, 2022-09-06 Funny woman Lebowitz looks askance at the vanishing American ideal, and in one slim volume takes issue with the issues, derides the demise, and makes light of the heavy-handed. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Bride of the Wind Susanne Keegan, 1992 A perceptive, sweepingly dramatic biography of the astonishing woman who was wife, muse, and mistress to a generation of geniuses--composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, novelist Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka. The most balanced biography of Alma Mahler yet to have appeared.--The Times Literary Supplement (London). Photographs. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Victoria System Eric Reinhardt, 2013-07-04 The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's acclaimed and controversial French bestseller. LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD. NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT, THE PRIX RENAUDOT AND THE GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE David Kolski never sleeps with the same woman twice - apart from his wife. Then he meets Victoria. Head of people at a multinational company, by day she is a ruthless executive in a lightning-paced, high-pressured whirlwind of power and productivity. By night she likes good wine, luxurious hotel rooms, and abandoning herself to her sexual fantasies. David is soon addicted. Under crushing pressure at work to oversee the construction of a huge Paris tower-block in near-impossible circumstances, he takes new vigour and inspiration from his hard-headed capitalist lover. He works harder, faster and better, and then escapes to indulge in the most intense sexual passion he's ever experienced. But when Victoria offers to use her position to help him in his career, a dark shadow falls over their affair. Is she really capable of helping anyone other than herself, or is she hiding something from him? And who are the two men in the Audi he keeps seeing, always a few cars behind him? Complex, compelling and ambitiously structured, The Victoria System is a daringly sensual story of an obsession. Part erotica; part thriller; part novel of ideas, like a series of slightly angled mirrors held up to our globalised, capitalist society, the twists and turns of its narrative create a dazzling interplay of reflections and compel us to question the assumptions and forces of our modern world. 'Dark, twisted and devastating. . . A big novel of amorous adventures in the era of the blackberry. Eric Reinhardt is the new Alexandre Dumas' Nouvel Observateur 'Erotic, raw, violent and vertiginous . . . We often accuse French writers of navel-gazing and ignoring the world around them, but Eric Reinhardt is one of those who gives the lie to this cliché' Emmanuel Carrère, author of Limonov 'Part classic, part tragedy, part thriller: Eric Reinhardt merges genres and invokes elusive echoes in this highly contemporary novel of a rare depth' Libération 'The Victoria System is a fantastic and sensual modern thriller, like nothing I've ever read' Christian Louboutin 'A powerful novel about the philosophical and moral consequences of ultra-liberalism, and a subtle reflection on the urges of the powerful' Marianne Éric Reinhardt is one of the rising stars of French literature. He is the author of five novels and also a freelance publisher of art books. He lives and works in Paris. The Victoria System was first published in French in 2011 and was nominated for the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Renaudot and the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française. It is Éric Reinhardt's first novel to be translated into English. Sam Taylor is the English-language translator of HHhH, by Laurent Binet, and the author of the novels The Island at the End of the World, The Amnesiac and The Republic of Trees. He lives in France and the United States. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Edifice Complex Deyan Sudjic, 2006-11-28 A provocative look at architecture-exceptionally intelligent and original (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World) Deyan Sudjic-probably the most influential figure in architecture you've never heard of - argues that architecture, far from being auteur art, must be understood as a naked expression of power. From the grandiose projects of Stalin and Hitler to the theme park excess of today's presidential libraries, Sudjic goes behind the scenes of history's great manipulators of building propaganda-and exposes Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and other architects in a disturbing new light. This controversial book is essential reading for all those interested in the power of architecture-or the architecture of power. * A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: A Novelist's Tour of the World Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, 1926 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Against Remembrance David Rieff, 2011-04-01 In Against Remembrance, David Rieff provocatively argues that the business of remembrance, particularly of the great tragedies of the past, are policitised events of highly selective memory. Rather than ending injustices, as we expect it to, collective memory in so many cases dooms us to an endless cycle of vengeance. Humanity, he says, simply cannot cope with the true ambivalence of historical events. And if we remember only partially, how can our memories serve us, or our society, as well as we hope? |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Invisible City Emili Rosales, 2009 Emili Rosell, the young owner of one of Barcelona's top galleries, receives an old manuscript written by an Italian architect about the 'Invisible City'. The manuscript tells of a lost masterpiece by the Venetian painter Tiepolo, and the site of the Invisible City is where Emili used to play as a child. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Malevolent Muse Oliver Hilmes, 2015-05-05 Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more polarity than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964), mistress to a long succession of brilliant men and wife of three of the best known: composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel. To her admirers Alma was a self-sacrificing socialite who inspired many great artists. Her detractors found her a self-aggrandizing social climber and an alcoholic, bigoted, vengeful harlot - as one contemporary put it, a cross between a grande dame and a cesspool. So who was she really? When historian Oliver Hilmes discovered a treasure-trove of unpublished material, much of it in Alma's own words, he used it as the basis for his first biography, setting the record straight while evoking the atmosphere of intellectual life in Europe and then in migr communities on both coasts of the United States after the Nazi takeover of their home territories. First published in German in 2004, the book was hailed as a rare combination of meticulously researched scholarship and entertaining writing, making it a runaway bestseller and advancing Oliver Hilmes to his position as a household name in contemporary literature. Alma Mahler was one of the twentieth century's rare originals, worthy of her immortalization in song. Oliver Hilmes has provided us with an even-handed yet tantalizingly detailed account of her life, bringing Alma's singular story to a whole new audience. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Three Elegies for Kosovo Ismail Kadare, 2011 'Utterly captivating' New York Times 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo. In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. See also: The Palace of Dreams |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Postcards from the Grave Emir Suljagić, 2005 & Quot;In May 1992, while Serb nationalist forces 'cleansed' the towns and villages of the Drina valley in eastern Bosnia of their formerly majority Muslim population - as part of Slobodan Milosevic's criminal attempt to carve an expanded Serbia from the successor states of the former Yugoslav federation - thousands of fleeing, desperate people converged on the small town of Srebrenica in search of refuge. For many of them this would prove to be a fatal decision. Serb forces besieged the town for three years, undeterred even when it was proclaimed a 'UN Safe Area'. As more and more refugees fled to Srebrenica from the surrounding villages, conditions there became unbearable: near-starvation, daily death, degradation of civilized life. The victims themselves were caught up in the dialectic of violence. Finally, after three years of agony, and as those sent to protect them stood by, Srebrenica was destroyed. In just a few days in July 1995 Bosnian Serb forces murdered some 8,000 people. Against all odds Emir Suljagic survived, while the lives of nearly every man he had ever known - and those of many women too - were wiped out. His haunted record of those terrible times offers a fitting monument to those who died.--Jacket. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Vanishing World Leigh R. Wright, Hedda Morrison, K. F. Wong, 1971 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: The Great Fire of Rome Stephen Dando-Collins, 2010-09-07 On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For more than a week the fire spread, engulfing most of the city and nearly burning it to the ground. With its capital in ruins, Rome's powerful empire teetered on the edge of collapse as Nero struggled desperately to save his empire -- and his skin. In The Great Fire of Rome, Dando-Collins takes readers through the streets of ancient Rome, where unrest simmers, and into the imperial palace, where political intrigue seethes, relating a pot-boiler story filled with fascinating historical characters who will determine the course of an empire. It is an unforgettable human drama that brings ancient Rome and the momentous events of 64 AD scorchingly to life. |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Art Deco Prints Giuliano Ercoli, 1989 |
| breve manual de urbanidad fran lebowitz: Earthlings Richard Kalvar, 2007 Richard Kalvar, a member of the elite club of Magnum photographers, has an exceptional eye and a talent for catching moments when societal behavior becomes humorous or shifts into the absurd. His compelling duotone photographs document the human condition. Kalvar seeks to emphasize the unusual, and his penetrating lens reveals a unique brand of humanity. He explores everyday life but with an altogether fresh perspective, at times funnier or darker. This collector's monograph was produced in conjunction with the artist from photographic evidence compiled on his travels from Rome to Paris, New York to Varsovie, and San Francisco to Tokyo.This is the first monograph published on Kalvar, one of the world's most important post war photographers. |
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