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Limonov
Автор: Carrere Emmanuel Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20192019-03-19
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Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism a charismatic party leader of a gang of political desperados.
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Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
Автор: Chomsky Noam Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20182018-02-26
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In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many. Covering subjects like Human Intelligence and the Environment, Terror, Justice and Self-Defence and The Welfare-Warfare state, this is an indispensable compilation of searing insights into the state of our modern world. Arguably the most important intellectual alive. (New York Times on Noam Chomsky). Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon... he may be the most widely read American voice on the planet today. (NYT Book Review). Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet? (New Statesman). The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism... the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. (Guardian).
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Who Governs Britain?
Автор: King Anthony Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20192019-03-19
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The British system of government has changed dramatically in recent decades, and far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows us, this shift is at the heart of Britian's political dilemma today: the quality of government and the capacity of politicians have been greatly diminished, yet our expectations have not adjusted to the new reality. But how exactly has the British government changed, and where has power shifted? In Who Governs Britain?, King offers the first general overview of the British political system in many years, a fascinating and accessible primer that will provided the much-needed context to the 2015 election.
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Автор: William S. Burroughs Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20172017-05-15
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Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original. A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire. (Newsweek). Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget. (J. G. Ballard).
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Social Class in the 21st Century
Автор: Savage Mike Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20202016-06-25
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A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's Great British Class Survey. Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. In this book, Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey report their definitive findings and propose a new way of thinking about social class in Britain today. The book presents the ideas and facts behind their new conceptualization of class: a new British class system composed of seven classes that reflect the unequal distribution of three kinds of capital: economic (inequalities in income and wealth); social (the different kinds of people we know) and cultural (the ways in which our leisure and cultural preferences are exclusive). This book looks beyond labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find themselves in the margins as well as in the centre. Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has written this book in collaboration with the team of sociology experts behind the Gret British Class Survey: Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa Mckenzie, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee and Paul Wakeling.
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Daniel Deronda
Автор: Eliot George Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 896 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20091997-12-30
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Daniel Deronda opens with one of the most memorable encounters in fiction: Gwendolen Harleth, alluring yet unsettling, is poised at the roulette-table in Leubronn, observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper classes, and now searching for his path in life. While Gwendolen becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, a series of dramatic encounters draws Deronda into ever deeper sympathy with Jewish aspirations to cultural and natural identity. Remote as Gwendolen's country-house world may seem from the world of Mirah, the lost daughter, and Mordecai, the visionary, George Eliot weaves these strands of her plot intimately together, daring the readers of Adam Bede and Middlemarch to open their eyes to areas of experience wholly new to the Victorian novel.
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Selected Poems
Автор: Browning Robert Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092005-03-16
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Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose — whether everyday or sublime — into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters, and introduced a new immediacy, colloquial energy and psychological complexity to the poetry of his day. This selection brings together verse ranging from early dramatic monologues such as the chilling My Last Duchess and the ribald Lippo Lippi, which show his gift for inhabiting the mind of another, to the popular children's poem 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' and many lesser known works. All display his innovative techniques of diction, rhythm and symbol, which transformed Victorian poetry and influenced major poets of the twentieth century such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Автор: Shakespeare William Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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Leaving behind both home and beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once there, however, he falls in love with his friend's new sweetheart and resolves to seduce her. Love-crazed and desperate, he is soon moved to commit cynical acts of betrayal. And comic scenes involving a servant and his dog enhance the play's exploration how passion can prove more powerful than even the strongest loyalty owed to a friend.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Автор: Hardy Thomas Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20152018-08-23
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swiftpassion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
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Football: Great Writing about the National Sport
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 490 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20172016-12-23
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Now in paperback, the definitive anthology about the sport that dominates our culture Since football's meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport — an All-Pro line-up that includes Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr — have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions, and the deeper humanity at the heart of the game. In this landmark collection, which the San Francisco Chronicle called the finest football volume of all time and Men's Journal the ultimate football reading list, The Library of America and editor John Schulian bring together the very best of their work: gems of deadline reportage, incisive long-form profiles of football's storied figures, and autobiographical accounts by players and others close to the game. Celebrating the sport without shying away from its sometimes devastating personal and social costs, the forty-four pieces gathered here testify to football's boundless capacity to generate outsized characters and memorable tales. For the paperback, Schulian offers a new preface assessing the state of play in the wake of the 2014 NFL scandals.
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Assassin's Creed: Underworld
Автор: Bowden Oliver Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 439 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20172017-07-14
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Assassin's Creed: Underworld is the eighth gripping novel from Oliver Bowden set in the immersive world of Assassin's Creed. A disgraced Assassin. A deep-cover agent. A quest for redemption. 1862, and with London in the grip of the Industrial Revolution, the world's first underground railway is under construction. When a body is discovered at the dig, it sparks the beginning of the latest deadly chapter in the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars. Deep undercover is an Assassin with dark secrets and a mission to defeat the Templar stranglehold on the nation's capital. Soon the Brotherhood will know him as Henry Green, mentor to Jacob and Evie Frye. For now, he is simply The Ghost.
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Northern Spain 2015
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20192017-07-04
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The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world, often described as Green Spain. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from Spain's most dramatic coastline to lush forests, deep-green valleys and soaring high mountain scenery, as well as exquisite beaches facing the Atlantic surf. Detailed listings will guide you to the best restaurants for the superb food that northern Spain has to offer, as well as details of hotels, bars and shops for all budgets, ourdetailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of northern Spain effortlessly. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain — showing you what others only tell you.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Автор: Wilde Oscar Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...' This selection includes three of Wilde's brilliant short stories, all reflecting his inimitable wit and sparkling style. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Wilde's works available in Penguin Classics are De Profundis and Other Prison Writings, The Complete Short Fiction, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Автор: Vasari Giorgio Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human. Often called the first art historian, Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). Vasari's works available in Penguin Classics are Lives of the Artists Volume I and Volume II.
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The Man in the High Castle
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20172019-08-11
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What if the Allies had lost the Second World War...? The Nazis have taken over New York — the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone existing between the two states an underground author offers his own vision of reality, an alternative world that offers hope to the disenchanted... Hugo Award winner Philip K Dick is one of the most original contributors to American sci-fi, and his books were the basis for the critically acclaimed films Blade Runner and Total Recall.
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Silver Shadows
Автор: Mead Richelle Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20172015-12-23
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In the aftermath of an event that ripped their world apart, Sydney and Adrian now struggle to pick up the pieces and find their way back to each other. But first, they have to survive. For Sydney, trapped and surrounded by adversaries, life becomes a daily struggle to hold on to her identity and the memories of those she loves. Meanwhile, Adrian clings to hope in the face of those who tell him Sydney is a lost cause, but the battle proves daunting as old demons and new temptations begin to seize hold of him...
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Do Not Open: This Box: Keri Smith Deluxe Boxed Set
Автор: Smith Жанр: Penguin Group Страниц: 680 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092002-12-30
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This brand new, deluxe box set contains one copy each of Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book, Mess, and now The Pocket Scavenger. It has been specially designed by Keri herself. Smith invites you to reimagine what a book can be (a secret message, a recording device, an instrument). Poke holes in the pages. Paint them with coffee. Bring the book in the shower. Let loose and make a mess. Bestselling author Keri Smith is a freelance illustrator by trade, and has illustrated for the Washington Post, The New York Times, Ford Motor Company, People, The Body Shop and Hallmark. She is the author of Wreck This Journal, How To Be An Explorer of the World and Mess. She lives in Canada.
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Girl Online: On Tour 2
Автор: Sugg Z. Жанр: Penguin Group Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092005-03-16
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Noah, on his European music tour. Penny's bags are packed. When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can't wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah's jam-packed schedule, less-than-welcoming bandmates and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she's really cut out for life on tour. She can't help but miss her family, her best friend Elliot . . . and her blog, Girl Online. Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer?
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Crimen y castigo
Автор: Dostoievski F. Жанр: Penguin Group Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092004-04-07
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Crimen y Castigo fue publicada por Fiódor Dostoyevski en 1866 a través del diario El mensajero ruso, en doce partes que luego conformarían la novela, universalmente reconocida como una de las más influyentes de la literatura rusa. La novela tiene un corte sicológico que llevá al lector a explorar de forma constante los pensamientos del protagonista, el estudiante Raskolnikov, quién a través de sus diálogos con los demás personajes, analiza cada uno de los actos que lo llevarán luego a cumplir una condena en Siberia; crímenes que no son buenos ni malos hasta que se los mira desde la óptica de la sociedad y de los diferentes individuos involucrados. Motivado por el deseo de hacer el bien a su hermana Dunia sus acciones terminan siendo, sin embargo, sangrientas, y solo una muchacha humilde que se convierte en su confidente podrá comprender del todo sus razones.
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Dick and Jane Alphabet Book Bag, Board book
Жанр: Penguin Group Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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26 mini books featuring classic images from Dick & Jane books — one book for each letter of the alphabet — in clear poly bag.
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