Nerdy, addictive, and gloriously cinematic this is the ultimate bucket list for movie lovers who take their fandom global. A wildly fun, chronological journey through the real-life locations behind cinemas most iconic moments, this book blends juicy behind-the-scenes stories with breathtaking photography. Its movie history you can actually step into. Start at the Lumiere Brothers La Ciotat Station (yes, you can film your own arriving train), slip through Kyotos Rashomon gates, Jackie Chans legendary Hong Kong stunt spots, soar over Jurassic Parks Hawaiian cliffs, wander Hobbitons storybook hills, bask on Bonds sunlit Jamaican shores, and descend into the unforgettable tunnel of Parasites Seoul. Each entry reveals why the film mattered, how it shaped moviemaking, and exactly where to go to stand where the magic happened.

A story-driven meditation on one of the oldest art forms and what it reveals about memory, creativity, and being humanWhy have we always made sculpture? What draws us to carve, cast, and mold forms from the materials around us? What do these objects say about the artists who create them and the societies they belong to?In Totem, art historian and curator Jo Baring uncovers the untold story of sculpture, not through a traditional survey but by tracing how it has shaped and been shaped by human experience across cultures and millennia. From prehistoric artifacts like the Lion-man figure found in a German cave to to an ancient Mayan pyramid that conjures a serpent made of shadows, to the icons of the Italian Renaissance and the radical innovations of the twentieth century, Baring reveals how sculpture expresses power, loss, identity, and the need to make meaning through form. Along the way, she introduces us to the artists who have expanded sculptures possibilitiesincluding Barbara Hepworth, Constantin Brancui, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, and Antony Gormleyand revisits familiar works with fresh eyes.Featuring original illustrations by Julia Asheline drawings that work in concert with Barings lithe, intimate storytelling to bring us closer to this thoughtfully curated selection of sculpturesTotem is a powerful reflection on our need to make, to remember, and to understand ourselves through the things we shape.

George Harrisons own intimate, beautiful collection of more than two hundred never-before-collected photos of the Beatles at work and at play the vast majority published for the first time.From 1963 to 1969, George Harrison travelled the world with his bandmates, Pentax in hand, chronicling their impossible path from Liverpool to Ed Sullivan, Adelaide to Rishikesh, the Eiffel Tower to the beaches of Tahiti and beyond.In this extraordinary collection of Georges personal photos and 8mm film stills curated by Olivia Harrison, Georges widow are singular images of Paul, John, Ringo, and George and the bands friends and entourage as they rocketed to stardom and fostered the joyful madness that came to be known as Beatlemania. This revelatory, beautifully designed book takes the reader along on their first plane ride to the US, motorcades through the Australian outback, shopping trips in Paris, and more.The candid, unguarded photos, brimming with a Harrisons wit, intelligence and penchant for experimentation (he was enamoured of selfies, long before the iPhone), and snapped in those rare moments out of the spotlight offer a remarkable, inside look at the human beings behind the Beatles, trying to hold onto themselves and enjoy themselves while standing at the centre of the storm.The Third Eye opens a window into the world of the Beatles and the transformative cultural moment that they sparked through the singular artistic vision of George Harrison.

What would the world be if women were in charge? In a revolutionary collection of art, poetry, and prose, eighty-eight artists envision an alternative present and future shaped by feminist leadership, curated by entrepreneur, CEO, and author Christina Hawatmeh.If Women Ruled the World blends intersectional voices and subverts expectations, with each entry answering this searing question with a visual art work and accompanying story: If women ruled the world, would there be equity? Would there be peace, and could we experience true freedom from oppression? What is possible in a world evolved beyond gender-based discrimination and domination? Organized around chapter themes like health, ethics, technology, politics, and identity, every story in the beautifully designed paperback book celebrates the freedom of the human imagination and the power of artistic expression. The collection includes works by rising and renowned artists alike, including Christine Sun Kim, Sonya Clark, Sliman Mansour, and Rania Matar. Intentionally designed with more than eighty full-color artworks, this collection of global perspectives brilliantly highlights the struggles and triumphs of generations of women who dare to ask, "What if?"

You can literally create a whole song in your bedroom, and it can affect millions of people.Dive headfirst into the world of ultimate pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo in a vibrant celebration of the drivers license icons most incredible moments to date. From her early beginnings as a Disney Channel superstar to her global tours, youll learn all there is to know about the vampire singers journey to stratospheric fame and global popularity, including her sold-out stadium shows, festival performances and internet-breaking fashion moments.Packed with 50 gorgeous images accompanied by insights into her life, join the good 4 u megastar on a visual journey of her life so far. With silky vocals and rock n roll grit, theres no doubt this deja vu performer is an unstoppable force in the music industry, making waves with her emotive lyrics, on-point style and indisputable guts. ICONIC: Olivia proves her status as one of the most exciting new artists of her generation.

Stop creating from the perspective of what other people want you to make.Dive headfirst into the world of ultimate pop sensation and rapper Doechii, in a vibrant celebration of the Anxiety icons most incredible moments to date. From her early life growing up in Florida to her incredible sweep of awards at the VMAs, youll learn all there is to know about the NISSAN ULTIMA singers journey to stratospheric fame and global popularity, including her sold-out shows, festival performances and internet-breaking fashion moments.Packed with 50 gorgeous images accompanied by insights into her life, join the DENIAL IS A RIVER megastar on a visual journey of her life so far. With powerful vocals and slick dance moves, theres no doubt this BLOOM performer is an unstoppable force in the music industry. Making waves with her bold lyrics, 90s style and unforgettable music videos, ICONIC: Doechii proves her status as one of the most exciting new artists of her generation.

Celebrity, seductress, covert diplomat. Virginia Verasis, Contessa di Castiglione, was the original "famous for being famous" It Girl. This thrilling, transporting biography explores the countessas fascinating, provocative, and dramatic life in all its mess and glory.Virginia Verasis, Contessa di Castiglione, was eighteen years old when Victor Emmannuel II sent her to Paris to seduce Napoleon III into sympathy for the cause of Italian unification. Already renowned as a beauty in her native Italy, she made an entrance into the haut monde of Paris unlike anything anyone had ever seen. It wasnt long before the emperor was only one of her lovers, and when Italy became a kingdom with his support in 1861 it was in no small part thanks to the role she played. But it was not a role she necessarily wished to play, as Benedetta Craveri makes clear in her groundbreaking new book, drawing on previously unpublished archival material as well as the countesss own diaries to piece together the puzzle that was Virginia. She was a seductress and a covert diplomat, yes, but she was also a gifted performer without a stageperhaps the first person famous for being famousimmortalized in photographs that she herself staged, and which both defined the era and presaged all the poses of the selfie.A legend in her time, Virginia wanted to be free at all costs, as free as a cat, and resented the weaponization of her beauty. The Contessa reveals a woman with many facets and at least as many contradictions, vain and visionary, charming and monstrous, impossible to know and impossible to ignore.

The ideal night sky gift for all amateur and experienced astronomers. This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price. Astronomy Now A handy and straightforward guide. British Astronomical Associations JournalAn ideal Christmas stocking-filler. The Observatory Magazine The UKs Number One Astronomy publisher presents the bestselling handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. With 6 pages for each month covering JanuaryDecember 2027. Designed for Britain and Ireland but usable anywhere in the world between 40N and 60N, covering most of Europe, southern Canada and the northern United States. This practical guide is your easy introduction to exploring the skies and a useful reference for seasoned stargazers. Easy-to-use star charts for each month with descriptions of objects and events to look out for in 2027. 16 additional pages of useful content. Charts for the circumpolar and seasonal constellations. Positions of the moon, visible planets, lunar and solar eclipses. Includes a section on comets and a detailed map of the moon. Advice on where to start looking and a map of dark sky sites to avoid light pollution. Now in three editions: Britain and Ireland; North America; Southern Hemisphere. Written and illustrated by astronomical experts and approved by the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hours and DayGo ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see whats on the other side.At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware. . . . Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable, kicking off a lifelong love affair with languageone that would, eventually, maybe inevitably, lead him to become a writer.In Unsayable, Cunninghams memories spill forth, and with them reflections on the craft of writing. He is fifteen, in a swimming pool at night, gazing at the first boy he ever fell in love with, who is lost in contemplative silence. He is a new college graduate, setting off for nowhere in a Dodge Dart, hoping to pull meaning (and a novel) from the expanse of America. He is on Cape Cod, regaling an elderly couple with invented tales of sexual escapades. He is in an art gallery, unwittingly having the first in a lifetime of conversations with the man he would marry. A thread ties each beautifully wrought moment to the next: what is unspoken, what wont yield to language, what is embellished beyond recognition, what is still left to say.Luminous, perceptive, and powerful, Unsayable is an ode to literature, a meditation on craft, and an intimate account of a life spent trying to put into words that which resists depiction. This, it turns out, is the lifeblood of the fiction writer: the impossibility of capturing the human experience, and the relentless desire to try.

Pore over the letters of Eve Babitzqueen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive.Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Anne Rice, Steve Martin, and many others appear in this first-of-its-kind collection.Letter-writing was the kind of writing Babitz did best. Her missivesfresh and frank, dashing and drollare irresistible, as highly spirited as they are acutely perceptive. Take, for example, this letter to a friend in 1979:I wrote this letter to Leo Lerman, that editor at Vogue who took me out to lunch at the Algonquin when I was in NY.... So I told him how Id moved to Santa Monica, and what it was like, and the skating and the Rodeo Drive-type stores. And he published the thing as is, or was (it was slightly edited). Now its appearing on every newsstand. And since its the kind of writing I do bestletterspeople are dropping dead all over the place over how wonderful I am.People will drop dead all over the place when they get a load of this collection featuring letters to or from some of Babitz most famous friends, lovers, artistic idols and rivals, like Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Anne Rice, and Steve Martin.

Uma análise original e sensível da indumentária afro-brasileira ao longo dos anos.Em seu primeiro livro, a pesquisadora de moda Hanayrá Negreiros constrói um mapa afetivo das formas negras de vestir, lembrar, imaginar e existir. Vinda de uma familia atravessada ha geraçes pela costura e pela moda, a autora parte das fotografias de seus proprios antepassados para reconstruir historias, identidades e pertencimentos que o racismo tentou apagar.Durante a pandemia de covid-19, ao organizar a arvore genealogica da familia, Hanayra percebeu que as fotos que possuia guardavam muito mais do que lembranças: eram fragmentos de narrativas afrodiasporicas que precisavam ser revisitadas, celebradas e reinventadas. Assim nasceu este livro ao mesmo tempo ensaio, pesquisa e album de familias negras brasileiras.Ao revisitar imagens do passado e do presente, a autora transforma roupas em documentos vivos e a moda em ferramenta de combate ao apagamento sistemico. Negras maneiras de vestir e resultado de historias costuradas fio a fio em um tear de memorias afro-atlanticas. Um convite para transpor silencios, celebrar heranças e reconhecer, nas imagens e nas roupas, historias que carregam ancestralidade.

The award-winning images that move our world. The World Press Photo Yearbook 2026 is the essential reference work for everyone interested in photojournalism, documentary photography, and contemporary history. For more than 70 years, the independent non-profit organization World Press Photo in Amsterdam has honored the most prestigious achievements in international press photography. The award-winning images collected in this yearbook document the events, emotions, and challenges of our time with an intensity that words alone cannot convey. Highlights: The best press photos of the year honored with the World Press Photo Award International top-class photography across all categories: single images, stories, and long-term projects A powerful time capsule of our global present Companion volume to the renowned World Press Photo traveling exhibition Whether for journalists, students, photography enthusiasts, or anyone seeking to better understand our world, this yearbook brings together the most striking visual testimonies of our time.

The award-winning images that move our world. The World Press Photo Yearbook 2026 is the essential reference work for everyone interested in photojournalism, documentary photography, and contemporary history. For more than 70 years, the independent non-profit organization World Press Photo in Amsterdam has honored the most prestigious achievements in international press photography. The award-winning images collected in this yearbook document the events, emotions, and challenges of our time with an intensity that words alone cannot convey. Highlights: The best press photos of the year honored with the World Press Photo Award International top-class photography across all categories: single images, stories, and long-term projects A powerful time capsule of our global present Companion volume to the renowned World Press Photo traveling exhibition Whether for journalists, students, photography enthusiasts, or anyone seeking to better understand our world, this yearbook brings together the most striking visual testimonies of our time.

How Italy Feels: Through the Lens, Region by Region is a stunning, photo-forward guide that aims to break through the homogenisation of the countrys narrative to harness the true experience of Italy, created by globally renowned editorial platform Italy Segreta. Each chapter is dedicated to one of Italys 20 regions, shot by one photographer who is based in that respective region, with additional secret gem travel information from the Italy Segreta team. Moving the spotlight from the over-circulated images of places like Amalfi and Cinque Terre, readers will be introduced to lesser-known but equally beautiful regions like Marche and Molise through the intimate lens and recommendations of those who know it best.This book captures not only the beauty of the Italian peninsula, but the way everyone whether locals or visitors experience the countrys marvelously complex regions. How Italy Feels offers an escape into the light, sounds, smells and feelings of Italy straight from your coffee table.

"Mouthwatering and accessible." Publishers Weekly"Laced with good health and rich flavors." BooklistA gorgeous celebration of modern coastal cooking for family and friends by the internationally-bestselling cookbook author.As spring turns to summer, Donna Hay delivers her most beautiful book yetjust what we want and need when planning fresh, colorful food made for sharing with family and loved ones.Bringing us into her home on the Australian coast, Donna shows us how she crafts delicious, no-fuss meals and celebrates special occasions with friends. Sunshine, Lemons, and Sea Salt has the recipes, party menus, and the cheery, inviting table presentations to make us all shine in the kitchen.With Sunshine, Lemons, and Sea Salt, readers will serve up a stunning variety of recipes for any time of day or night, including: Golden sunrise breakfasts of ricotta eggs with basil oil Beachy lunches of mint salsa verde potato and chicken salad Starlit dinners of chipotle honey salmon tacos with pickled onions Satisfying desserts of coconut and lime panna cotta This is a book to turn to on a daily basis, a perfect house gift, a celebratory birthday presentthe key ingredient for happy celebrations.

La fotografía como arte gira en torno a nuestra existencia, con sus contrastes, entre luz y sombra, blanco y negro, una danza cotidiana donde el día roza la noche y el misterio se adueña de la vida. Y la vida se refleja en los rostros que callan y en los paisajes silenciosos, en todo late una mezcla de encanto y hondura y en ese camino se abre paso la fotografia. Los instantes que reflejan estas imagenes fijan en un instante la belleza, el enigma y la verdad del ser humano y lo comunican en un destello de luz.Un escritor, ademas de arquitecto y jesuita, profesor en la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas en Madrid, llamado Bert Daelemans, acepto el desafio de enfrentarse a una gran seleccion de imagenes de los mejores profesionales de la fotografia de todos los continentes, para comentar, dar vida y compartirlas con cada lector. Bert Daelemans es un especialista en encontrar los caminos que engarzan el arte, la iconografia y la espiritualidad.En esta obra el autor lo describe desde la imagen de cualquier ser humano, en fotografias que nos atraen con el brillo de la esperanza o el gris oscuro del dolor, en instantes de la vida que nos interrogan sobre el sentido de nuestra existencia, sobre aquello que trasciende a lo cotidiano. Por esa razon el titulo: imagenes escritas con la Luz de la vida y de la esperanza; en esa intimidad que Agustin de Hipona, el obispo y santo, definio tan bien en su biografia.O en la frase que cita el autor y recuerda al Principito, para ayudarnos a ver, disfrutar y leer estas imagenes y textos escritos con la Luz del corazon, desde lo mas intimo de nuestro ser.

Immergiti nei pensieri piu intimi, nelle frustrazioni cocenti e nei trionfi artistici di uno dei piu grandi geni del Rinascimento italiano. Questa raccolta epistolare senza filtri svela luomo dietro al marmo scolpito e agli affreschi divini, lottando contro committenti esigenti e le proprie insicurezze croniche. Dalle accese dispute finanziarie alle profonde confessioni spirituali, emerge una personalita titanica, tormentata dalla sua stessa straordinaria creativita. Il linguaggio diretto e spesso sanguigno offre un accesso senza precedenti alla mente di un creatore implacabile. Un documento storico inestimabile che trasforma il mito distante in un individuo di carne, sangue e visione travolgente.

Viaje a la vibrante corte del Siglo de Oro español para descubrir el genio detrás de algunas de las pinturas más célebres de la humanidad. A través de un análisis meticuloso y apasionado, esta obra ilumina la tecnica incomparable, las influencias y la ascension meteorica del maestro sevillano que revoluciono el lienzo. Mas alla de los pigmentos y los lienzos, se revela al hombre que supo capturar la esencia misma del alma humana y la dignidad en sus retratos. Maravillese con este tributo literario que rinde homenaje a la grandeza artistica y al legado inmortal del pintor de pintores.

Love, fate, and a romance that defies all boundaries.In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare tells one of the most famous love stories ever written, where passion and tragedy are deeply intertwined.Set in the city of Verona, the play follows two young lovers from feuding families whose instant connection leads them into a secret and intense romance. As their love grows, so do the conflicts around them, pulling them into a chain of events shaped by fate, misunderstanding, and sacrifice.With poetic language and emotional depth, Shakespeare explores themes of love, conflict, destiny, and the consequences of long-standing hatred. The story captures both the beauty of young love and the sorrow of its fragile nature.A timeless masterpiece of world literature, Romeo and Juliet continues to move readers with its powerful portrayal of love and loss."A heartbreaking and unforgettable tale of love, fate, and sacrifice."Step into a world of passion, poetry, and timeless emotion.Scroll up and get your copy today to read Romeo and Juliet.