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El capital en la era del antropoceno / Capital in the Anthropocene (9788466671668)

Una llamada a liberar la imaginación para cambiar el sistema y frenar el cambio climático. El impactante libro que desafía el capitalismo para construir una sociedad más justa y terminar con la emergencia climática, a través del pensamiento ecológico de Karl Marx. Más de 450.000 lectores en Japón. Premio Asian Book Award 2021 al mejor libro del año. La civilización se enfrenta a una grave crisis existencial en la era del Antropoceno, en la que la actividad económica destruye con saña la Tierra y condena a la humanidad a la catástrofe medioambiental. Si no se toman medidas contra el cambio climático, el mundo volverá a un estado de barbarie. No existe un plan B para el planeta Tierra. Para evitar la debacle, es necesario acabar con la obsesión capitalista por la búsqueda ilimitada de beneficios. Pero ¿puede la civilización prosperar renunciando al capitalismo? Por supuesto. Existen soluciones para sortear la crisis, y las pistas para alcanzarlas llevan ciento cincuenta años esperando en...

Mr. B : The Music And Life Of Billy Eckstine (9781458419804)



(Book). In 1950, Billy Eckstine was the most popular singer in America. Movie-star handsome with an elegant pencil-thin mustache and a wide vibrato, Eckstine possessed one of the most magnificent voices in popular music history. Born in Pittsburgh, Eckstine won a talent contest by imitating Cab Calloway and started leading jazz orchestras under the name Baron Billy. In 1939, he joined Earl Hines' orchestra, composing and performing the hits "Jelly, Jelly" and "Stormy Monday Blues." In 1944, he formed what is now considered the first bebop orchestra that included, during its brief three-year run, legendary figures such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Sarah Vaughan. Signing with MGM, he rose to superstar status, sold millions of records, marketed his own line of "Mr. B." shirt collars, and inspired an army of female admirers, known as "Billy-soxers." Eckstine fought all his life for recognition and respect in his quest to become America's first black romantic singing idol, but he faced hardships in the segregated music world of the '40s and '50s. Despite this, he went on to influence many singers who followed, including Arthur Prysock, Johnny Hartman, Johnny Mathis, Kevin Mahogany, Barry White, and even Elvis Presley. In this book, Cary Ginell traces, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most amazing success stories, the man known simply as "Mr. B."


Product details

  • Paperback | 208 pages
  • 152.4 x 226.06 x 17.78mm | 430.91g
  • Milwaukee, United States
  • English
  • 1458419800
  • 9781458419804
  • 2,061,706


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