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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu—on a five-star scale. John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this...
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"Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.” On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune. Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the...
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Thames & Hudson
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2013.
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English
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Highlights key moments from seventy-two movies during more than a century of film history; with 250 illustrations, including scenes from "Citizen Kane," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Red Shoes," "The Piano Teacher," and "Burn After Reading".
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Plaza Janes, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
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2021.
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"El Antropoceno es la era geologica actual, una epoca caracterizada por el profundo impacto que el ser humano esta teniendo sobre el planeta. Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extrano, lo importante y lo sorprendente, John Green reune en esta extraordinaria coleccion de textos distintas facetas de nuestro presente y las puntua en una particular escala del uno al cinco. Deteniendo su mirada en temas tan variados como el teclado QWERTY, internet,...
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