LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael largo

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael largo

  • Genius and Heroin
    Michael Largo
    What is the price of brilliance?Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addic...
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    15,14 €

  • God’s Lunatics
    Michael Largo
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    15,13 €

  • The Portable Obituary
    Michael Largo
    No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker--though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished. From Mozart to rock and roll, which performers ended their lives on the wrong note?What famous U.S. bridge is named after an explorer who was eaten by ...
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    15,39 €

  • Final Exits
    Michael Largo
    To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under--whatever death is called, it’s going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, 'In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.' Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? It’s the enormous variety of how that enlivens final exits....
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    15,53 €