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Bill Wonder the tyrannical billionaire fashion tycoon is found splattered on the pavement outside his fashion school in the West End of London.
Was he pushed from the balcony, did he jump, or it could have happened because of his high heel shoes?
The mystery of his death is stitched together by Sadie Silver, a hapless fashion history teacher, who needs to understand the incident to uncover her family's sartorial secrets.
But wait, could she have...
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Der Philosoph und Literaturkritiker Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) war ein Kosmopolit und zugleich mit Leib und Seele Berliner. Sein Blick auf Berlin ist der des Flaneurs: Unerkannt in der Masse geht er durch die Straßen und nimmt das Wesen der Stadt in sich auf – beobachtend, durchdringend und mitunter bewundernd. Benjamins Texte entwerfen ein faszinierendes Panorama Berlins um 1900. Mit zahlreichen zeitgenössischen Abbildungen.
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317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own lifea journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London, including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight,...
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