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Cuando Rita Levi-Montalcini trato de conciliar dos aspiraciones inconciliables –segun el gran poeta Yeats–: perfeccion en la vida o perfeccion en el trabajo, se decanto por la imperfeccion en la vida y en el trabajo. Y al descubrir el placer que le procuraban vivir y trabajar, descubrio que eso, la imperfeccion, era lo que mas se avenia a la naturaleza humana. Su vida –mujer, y cientifica, y de origen judio– es una odisea que recorre el siglo xx y parte del xxi. Elogio de la imperfeccion es su autobiografia, un balance de la trayectoria profesional y vital –de mas de cien anos– de ...

More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to inspire and mystify rock fans around the world. Pink Floyd FAQ, by pop culture author Stuart Shea, lays out the band's strange, winding history through a new series of prisms. What were the band's most memorable gigs? What are their greatest moments on record, as a group and individually? What contemporary records influenced them, and which performers follow in their wake? What was it like to be at a Pink Floyd show in 1967, in 1973, in 1980? Pink Floyd...

Un hombre violento y agresivo, con um corazón frío y una mente criminal... una estadística más. Él no era apenas um traficante de drogas, él era el que se quedaba en la esquina dirigiendo todo. Trabajaba en las calles, vendiendo crack a quien quisiese comprar. Él tenía que luchar sus propias batallas para mantenerse vivo.

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...