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Wreck This Journal: To Create Is to Destroy
Автор: Smith Keri Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20172013-12-30
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The special limited edition paper bag cover of the international bestseller... For anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake and mess-making abilities and to fill the pages of the book (or destroy them). Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, acclaimed artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive acts — poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and more — in order to experience the true creative process. With Smith's unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art and journal making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Автор: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20152016-05-22
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On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love.
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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present
Автор: Simms Brendan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20192016-05-28
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This is Brendan Simms' formidable, game-changing history of Europe. In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, but also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from 'semi-detached' elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and (just as centrally to Simms's argument) the United States.
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23 Great Stories
Автор: Leavitt David Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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«The Fall of the House of Usher» by Edgar Allan Poe «To Build a Fire» by Jack London «The Necklace» by Guy de Maupassant «The Man Who Would Be King» by Rudyard Kipling «The Gift of the Magi» by O. Henry «The South» by Jorge Luis Borges «Good Country People» by Flannery O'Connor «The Blind Dog» by R. K. Narayan and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller's art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and vision — and each is uniquely memorable.»
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Автор: Edwin A. Abbott Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20162017-03-26
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«With wry humor and penetrating satire, «Flatland» takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions — irrevocably flat — and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, or even a fourth, dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in1884, «Flatland» is as prophetic a science fiction classic as the works of H. G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories. And it does so with wonderful, enduring enchantment.»
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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Автор: Alan S. Blinder Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 504 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-02-29
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«Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by Michiko Kakutani and the «New York Times Book Review» «Blinder is a master storyteller... one of the best books yet about the financial crisis.» «The Wall Street Journal» Alan S. Blinder — esteemed Princeton professor, «Wall Street Journal» columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan — is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In «After the Music Stopped», he delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it. With bracing clarity, Blinder chronicles the perfect storm of events beginning in 2007, from the bursting of the housing bubble to the implosion of the bond bubble, and how events in the U.S. spread throughout the interconnected global economy. Truly comprehensive and eminently readable, «After the Music Stopped» is the essential book about the financial crisis.»
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The Pioneers
Автор: James Fenimore Cooper Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092010-04-17
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MEET NATTY BUMPPO The first volume in the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, the quintessential American hunter and frontiersman who struggles to defend his cherished freedom.
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Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
Автор: Merridale Catherine Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20172017-04-12
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This is the extraordinary story of the Kremlin — from prize-winning author and historian Catherine Merridale. Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries. Behind its great red walls and towers many of the most startling events in Russia's history have been acted out. It is both a real place and an imaginative idea; a shorthand for a certain kind of secretive power, but also the heart of a specific Russian authenticity. Catherine Merridale's exceptional book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and its sheer unexpectedness: an impregnable fortress which has repeatedly been devastated, a symbol of all that is Russian substantially created by Italians. The many inhabitants of the Kremlin have continually reshaped it to accord with shifting ideological needs, with buildings conjured up or demolished to conform with the current ruler's social, spiritual, military or regal priorities. In the process, all have claimed to be the heirs of Russia's great historic destiny.
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Don Quixote
Автор: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20162016-04-25
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Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed, Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives, followed by his potbellied squire Sancho Panza. With these words, Walter Starkie launches the introduction to his highly esteemed translation and abridgment of Cervantes's great classic — a book that has enchanted generations of readers throughout the world. Brimming with humor, rich in idealism and earthy common sense, vivid in its characterizations of men and women from every walk of life — nobles, priests, impassioned damsels, simple country girls, rogues, and romantics — Don Quixote, in this zestful translation, will win many new friends.
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The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20152017-04-07
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Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on — in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.
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The Edge of Nowhere
Автор: George Elizabeth Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20162019-08-17
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The first young adult book by a #1 New York Times bestselling author! Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it's a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn't suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear whispers — the thoughts of others — Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she has discovered. Stranded and alone, Becca is soon befriended by Derric, a Ugandon orphan adopted by a local family; Seth, a kindhearted musician and high school dropout; Debbie, a recovering alcoholic who takes her in; and Diana, with whom Becca shares a mysterious psychic connection. This compelling coming-of-age story, the first of an ongoing sequence of books set on Whidbey Island, has elements of mystery, the paranormal, and romance. Elizabeth George, bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley crime novels, brings her elegant style, intricate plotting, incisive characterization, and top-notch storytelling to her first book for teens.
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The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Автор: Irwin Neil Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20162019-08-27
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«The inside story of the world's most powerful central bankers — and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen. Suddenly, without warning, in August 2007, three men who had never been elected to public office found themselves the most powerful people in the world. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. In «The Alchemists», «Washington» «Post» reporter Neil Irwin presents the truly global story of the central bankers' role in the world economy that we have been missing. Definitive, revelatory, and riveting, it shows us where money comes from — and where it may well be going.»
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The Other Typist
Автор: Rindell Suzanne Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20162018-03-28
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A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s... From the first page was absorbed... Suzanne Rindell's story of a 1920s police stenographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with a glamorous new typist reminds me at points of Notes on a Scandal and Patricia Highsmith, but has creepy charms all its own. Confessions are Rose Baker's job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes of the keys before her, she seals their fate. But while she may hear about shootings, knifings, and crimes of passion, as soon as she leaves the room, she reverts to a dignified and proper lady. Until Odalie joins the typing pool. As Rose quickly falls under the stylish, coquettish Odalie's spell, she is lured into a sparkling underworld of speakeasies and jazz. And what starts as simple fascination turns into an obsession from which she may never recover.
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Mary Coin
Автор: Silver Marisa Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20162017-04-29
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Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women — one famous and one forgotten — and their remarkable chance encounter. In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of the road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting migrant laborers in search of work. Few personal details are exchanged and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced one of the most iconic images of the Great Depression. In present day, Walker Dodge, a professor of cultural history, stumbles upon a family secret embedded in the now-famous picture. In luminous prose, Silver creates an extraordinary tale from a brief event in history and its repercussions throughout the decades that follow — a reminder that a great photograph captures the essence of a moment yet only scratches the surface of a life.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Автор: James Fenimore Cooper Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20162019-08-17
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The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world's great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the French war over American territory, the frontier scout Hawkeye — Natty Bumppo — risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Huron country. Hawkeye enlists the aid of his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas, and together they battle deception, brutality, and death in a thrilling story of loyalty, moral courage, and love.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Автор: Carroll Lewis Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20162018-03-08
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When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she finds herself in an enchanted world, filled with creatures like the Mad Hatter, the disappearing Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Alice quickly finds out that nothing is as it seems in the wild world of Wonderland...
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Less Than One: Selected Essays
Автор: Brodsky Joseph Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. These are contrasted with his reflections on larger themes of tyranny and evil, and subtle evocations of his childhood in Leningrad. Brodsky's insightful appreciation of the intricacies of language, culture and identity connect these works, revealing his remarkable gifts as a prose writer.
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David and Goliath: Art of Battling Giants (A)
Автор: Gladwell Malcolm Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 305 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20172015-12-16
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«A Scheherazade for our time». (Daily Telegraph). What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage? This thought sets Malcolm Gladwell on an extraordinary journey that takes him from art to basketball, the brain to revolutions, along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits, outsiders, tricksters and underdogs who have faced outsized challenges and won. With his trademark warmth, humour and gift for showing us the world through new eyes, Gladwell lets us see why the powerful aren't always what we think they are — and that some of us have more strength and purpose than we could ever imagine.»
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One Step too far
Автор: Seskis Tina Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20162015-12-07
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Tina Seskis's stunning debut novel, One Step Too Far, is a gripping and haunting psychological thriller. An apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. So what makes Emily Coleman get up one morning and walk right out of her life? How will she survive? And what is the date that looms, threatening to force her to confront her past? No-one has ever guessed her secret. Will you?
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Автор: Pollan Michael Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20172016-07-24
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Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking — from writer and cooking star Michael Pollan. Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth. Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives. Filled with fascinating facts and curious, mouthwatering tales from cast of eccentrics, Cooked explores the deepest mysteries of how and why we cook.
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