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David Byrne

    14 de mayo de 1952

    David Byrne es un artista cuya influencia se extiende más allá de la música, reconocido como cofundador de Talking Heads. Su producción artística abarca las artes visuales y obras publicadas, reflejando sus diversos intereses creativos. Byrne explora variadas formas de expresión, superando constantemente los límites de su práctica artística. Su obra ofrece una perspectiva única del mundo a través de lentes poco convencionales.

    The Future Dictionary of America
    How Music Works
    Strange Ritual
    Textploitation
    The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods
    The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados
    • American Utopia

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman--an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all. Don't miss the Spike Lee film of the Broadway hit American Utopia--on HBO. A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is soon to be a documentary from Spike Lee. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which she created for the Broadway show's curtain, is composed of small moments, expressions, gestures, and interactions that together offer a portrait of daily life and coexistence. With their creative talents combined, American Utopia is a salvo for kindness and a call for jubilation, a reminder to sing, dance, and waste not a moment. Beautifully designed and edited by Alex Kalman, American Utopia is a balm for the soul from two of the world's most extraordinary artists.

      American Utopia2020
      3,5
    • Textploitation

      Mining texts for all they are worth. Book with photocopiable and online activities

      • 144 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      Textploitation is divided up into four different text types (articles, stories, conversations, tiny texts) and each section has a lesson from elementary to advanced. Each lesson focuses not just on one grammar point or piece of vocabulary but also looks at developing skills and training learners to be more autonomous. This is achieved through guided discovery and awareness raising activities, using the texts as a source. Each lesson comes with a teaching tip and practical procedures designed to support teachers as they teach. Textploitation is divided up into four different text types (articles, stories, conversations, tiny texts) and each section has a lesson from elementary to advanced. Each lesson focuses not just on one grammar point or piece of vocabulary but also looks at developing skills and training learners to be more autonomous. This is achieved through guided discovery and awareness raising activities, using the texts as a source. Each lesson comes with a teaching tip and practical procedures designed to support teachers as they teach

      Textploitation2020
      3,0
    • How Music Works

      • 376 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      This is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.

      How Music Works2012
      4,0
    • The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods

      • 560 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      Case-based methods have a long history in the social sciences. They are extensively used and raise many practical and theoretical questions. This book provides a comprehensive, critical examination of case-oriented research. It offers concrete proposals about the best research methods and provides an unparalleled guide to the emergence and complexity of the field.

      The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods2009
      4,0
    • Bicycle Diaries

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Where is the only tube station where a crown prince has died? Where is the oak tree where Good Queen Bess took her rest? Which Queen befriended the Elephant Man - and played a part in the development of the modern Olympic Games? Where are the favourite shopping haunts of today's young royals? From Westminster to Greenwich, Kensington to the Tower ......

      Bicycle Diaries2009
      3,5
    • The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados

      • 192 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      David Byrne has written a book that updates and alters the Bible's cardinal sins for a more contemporary audience. Byrne wanted the book to be the size and shape of a portable Bible, and thus The New Sins resembles the sort of book a strange person in a robe would try to give you in an airport. Bizarre and profound, the book includes 80 color photographs taken by the author.

      The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados2006
      3,7
    • The Future Dictionary of America

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

      The Future Dictionary of America2004
      3,5
    • Interpreting Quantitative Data

      • 196 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do's' and `don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the use of official statistics; use social surveys; understand probability and quantitative reasoning; interpret measurements; apply linear modelling; understand simulation and neural nets; and integrate quantitative and qualitative modelling in the research process. Jargon-free and written with the needs of students in mind, the book will be required reading for students interested in using quantitative research methods.

      Interpreting Quantitative Data2002
    • Strange Ritual

      • 192 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      A collection of photographs by writer and composer David Byrne of Talking Heads rock band, designed to appeal to photographers and rock fans alike. The collection appeared at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival. It is accompanied by Byrne's account of his selection of the images and what they mean to him.

      Strange Ritual1995
      3,7
    • What the Songs Look Like

      Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads' Songs

      • 125 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      Blending musical influences from blues, country, reggae and classical music with their own original style, Talking Heads are "the thinking man's rock band" whose last four albums have each sold over one million copies. 60 four-color plates.

      What the Songs Look Like1987