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Автор: Douglas Century

This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world’s most-wanted drug-lord.Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo Escobar. But for every one of these criminals, there’s a Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett or Slipper of the Yard. For Joaqu?n Archivaldo Guzm?n-Loera a.k.a. ‘El Chapo’ – the 21st century’s most notorious criminal – that man is D.E.A. Special Agent Andrew Hogan.This is the incredible story of Hogan’s seven-year-long chase to capture El Chapo, a multibillionaire drug-lord and escape-artist posing as a Mexican Robin Hood, who in reality was a brutal sociopath responsible for the murders of thousands. His greedy campaign to take over his rivals’ territories resulted in an unprecedented war with a body count of over 100,000.We follow Hogan on his quest to achieve the seemingly impossible: to cross the border into Mexico and arrest El Chapo, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a billionaire and Public Enemy No. 1, who had been evading capture for more than a decade and had earned a reputation for being utterly untouchable.This intimate thriller tells how Hogan single-mindedly and methodically climbed the ladder within the hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel – the world’s wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking organization – by creating one of the most sophisticated undercover operations in the history of the D.E.A. From infiltrating Chapo’s inner circle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of Mexican Marines, Hogan left no stone unturned in his hunt for the world’s most powerful drug kingpin.

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Автор: James Hirsch S

Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed, and the persistence of an unlikely supporter finally saw him free.This is the story of a raging bull who learned to accommodate that rage. The Hurricane is an authentic C20th hero, every inch a fighter.Rubin Carter was a boxer on the threshold of the Middleweight Championship, with all the celebrity and wealth that would have conferred, when he was picked off the streets of Paterson, New Jersey by the police and accused of first degree murder in a bar room shooting. It was 1966, when America was gripped by racial rioting and burgeoning Black Power movements. Rubin faced an all-white jury. He was convicted. Liberal America adopted the campaign to release him in the 1970s – Candice Bergen, Mohammad Ali and Bob Dylan all protested for his release – but he remained in jail until 1985. Then, one man doggedly self-educated in the law finally achieved what years of high-profile lobbying had not: he freed Rubin Carter and righted one of the most significant cases of American injustice this century. Hurricane is a biography of modern America’s great flaw: race relations. It is the story of a troublesome but gifted man, a paratrooper, a boxer, from the poorer side of the tracks, who was crudely and cruelly convicted of a crime he did not commit. Failed by the justice process, Rubin Carter proved himself a fighter all over again outside of the boxing ring, and a genuine hero in the process.

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Автор: Dietrich Loeff

Der Autor, Dr. med. Dietrich Loeff, geboren 1937, studierte in den 50er Jahren Medizin an der Himboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, war anschlie?end als Arzt im mecklenburgischen Demmin und dann viele Jahre in Cottbus t?tig. Sein Fachgebiet als Hygienearzt lie? ihn mit unterschiedlichsten Lebensbereichen in Ber?hrung kommen, sodass er auf den folgenden Seiten sein vielseitiges und interessantes Res?mee ?ber die durchlebte Zeit in zwei Gesellschaften, zun?chst in der DDR und schlie?lich in der BRD, festgehalten hat. Er geh?rt zu jener Generation, die den unsch?tzbaren Vorzug hat, beides erlebt und erfahren zu haben, Zeitzeugen eben, deren pers?nliche Erinnerungen schwerer wiegen ala zusammengeklebte, graue Akten, die bestenfalls den Erfindungsreichtum interessierter Bearbeiter dokumentieren.

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Автор: Анастасия Чекмарева

Это первая книга в России, которая повествует о человеке, прошедшем полное физическое и ментальное восстановление после ограничительных расстройств пищевого поведения (ОРПП) с помощью протокола HDRM, который не предполагает рамок в еде и обращений к диетологам.Через автобиографию девушки можно проследить, как невидимое расстройство разрушает человека, какие голоса в голове при этом он слышит и как выходит из этого опасного состояния.

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What is “I AM MBARE”?
I AM MBARE is a Non-Governmental Organisation which was formed in 2015 by young people from the community of Mbare in order to initiate a positive face of the community. Our vision: Turn Mbare into a healthy and vibrant place to live, where the rights and well-being of each member of the community are respected.

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Автор: Katy Brand

’Massively enjoyable’ Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand’s life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities.It explores the legacy of the film, from pushing women’s stories to the forefront of commercial cinema, to its ‘Gold Standard’ depiction of abortion according to leading pro-choice campaigners, and its fresh and powerful take on the classic ‘coming of age’ story told from a na?ve but idealistic 17-year-old girl’s point of view.Part memoir based on a personal obsession, part homage to a monster hit and a work of genius, Katy will explore her own memories and experiences, and talk to other fans of the film, to examine its legacy as a piece of filmmaking with a social agenda that many miss on first viewing. One of the most celebrated and viewed films ever made is about to have the time of its life.

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Автор: John Higgs

The brilliant first biography of the man President Nixon called 'the most dangerous man in America'.Timothy Leary was one of the most controversial and divisive figures of the twentieth century. President Nixon called him 'the most dangerous man in America.' Hunter S. Thompson said that he was 'not just wrong, but a treacherous creep and a horrible goddamn person.' Yet the writer Terence McKenna claims that he 'probably made more people happy than anyone else in history.’A brilliant Harvard psychologist, Leary was sacked because of his research into LSD and other psychedelic drugs. He went on to become the global figurehead of the 1960s drug culture, coin the phrase ‘tune in, turn on and drop out’, and persuade millions of people to take drugs and explore alternativelifestyles yet the tremendous impact of his 'scandalous' research has been so controversial that it has completely overshadowed the man himself and the details of his life. Few people realise that Timothy Leary's life is one of the greatest untold adventure stories of the twentieth century.Timothy Leary led a life of unflagging optimism and reckless devotion to freedom. It was, in the words of his goddaughter Winona Ryder, ‘not just epic grandeur but flat-out epic grandeur.' Leary's life is undoubtedly one of the greatest untold adventure stories of the twentieth century and this book presents it for the first time in all its uncensored glory.

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Автор: Adele Parks

‘Packed with secrets, scandal and suspense, this is Adele Parks at her absolute best.’ Heat‘Wow! What a read. Intense, clever and masterful.’ Lisa JewellA gripping story of friendship and betrayal from international best-selling author Adele Parks‘I invited her in… and she took everything.’ When Mel hears from a long-lost friend in need of help, she doesn’t hesitate to invite her to stay. Mel and Abi were best friends back in the day, sharing the highs and lows of student life, until Mel’s unplanned pregnancy made her drop out of her studies.Now, seventeen years later, Mel and Abi’s lives couldn’t be more different. Mel is happily married, having raised her son on her own before meeting her husband, Ben. Now they share gorgeous girls and have a chaotic but happy family home, with three children.Abi, meanwhile, followed her lover to LA for a glamorous life of parties, celebrity and indulgence. Everything was perfect, until she discovered her partner had been cheating on her. Seventeen years wasted, and nothing to show for it. So what Abi needs now is a true friend to lean on, to share her grief over a glass of wine, and to have some time to heal. And what better place than Mel’s house, with her lovely kids, and supportive husband…This dark, unsettling tale of the reunion of long-lost friends is thoroughly gripping exploration of wanting what you can’t have, jealousy and revenge from Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks.

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Автор: Gary Kemp

I Know This Much – by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet's prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.Gary's story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bathrooms and chickens in the yard. After a couple of failed attempts to kill his brother Martin, his parents gave him a guitar for Christmas.From schoolyard battles between the Bowie Boys and the Prog Rockers to Mrs Kemp's firm insistence on net curtains, from acting for the Children's Film Foundation to manning a fruit and veg stall on Saturdays, Gary brilliantly evokes an upbringing full of love, creativity and optimism.As the Thatcher years begin, Gary's account of the outrageous London club scene centred around the Blitz and Billy's is just sizzling. Out of this glamorous mayhem of kilt-wearing mascara'd peacocks would emerge Spandau Ballet – the band that would define the era, and hold high the victorious standard of the New Romantics.Gary's thrilling journey with Spandau Ballet would see them record worldwide hits such as True, Gold and Through the Barricades, play the biggest stadiums in the world, and take to the stage in togas when their luggage gets lost in flight. Stallions, supermodels and dwarves would be hired for video shoots, and through it all, Gary records the wonderful friendships, and the slowly-building tensions that would eventually see five old friends facing each other in court.I Know This Much tells the story of Spandau Ballet, but it's far more than a book about being in a band. Whether it's meeting Ronnie Kray before filming The Krays, sketching out the fashions and subcultures of the day, or hanging out with Princess Diana, this book offers a story on every page. And all the more so because it's all written – brilliantly – by Gary himself.

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Автор: Jane Smith

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he moved away a few months later she was easy prey to the gang of drug dealers and petty criminals who groomed and abused her, using her as a form of currency to appease their debtors and amuse their friends.Increasingly isolated and desperate, it began to look as though the pattern of Taylor's life had been set – until she started to fight back, determined to build a safe future for herself, however long it took.

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Автор: Jane Smith

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he moved away a few months later she was easy prey to the gang of drug dealers and petty criminals who groomed and abused her, using her as a form of currency to appease their debtors and amuse their friends.Increasingly isolated and desperate, it began to look as though the pattern of Taylor's life had been set – until she started to fight back, determined to build a safe future for herself, however long it took.

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Автор: Алина Петровна Стефанская

Автор книги Алина Стефанская искренне верит в то, что в каждом человеке скрыт огромный потенциал, который легко можно раскрыть, пересмотрев отношение к себе и миру. Она лично прошла все этапы к осознанию и теперь делится с вами своим опытом. В этой книге описаны конкретные шаги, единожды применив которые, вы сможете стать по-настоящему счастливым человеком на всю жизнь. Книга для тех, кто находится в поиске.

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Автор: Lily Tuck

A riveting and deeply moving portrait of love and marriage.“His hand is growing cold, still she holds it.”The story unfolds over a single night, as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Too shocked yet to grieve, she recalls the defining moments of their long marriage, beginning with their first meeting in Paris. As the reader is drawn through select memories – real and imagined – of events that occurred in places as distant and disparate as France, Wisconsin, Hong Kong, Mexico, and California, Tuck reveals the intimacies, dark secrets and overwhelming joys that shaped the lives of Nina and Philip.Moving, powerful, and utterly engaging, ‘I Married You for Happiness’ is a riveting portrait of a forty-three-year-old marriage, an elegant elegy to a husband and a meditation on how chance can affect both a life and love.

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Автор: Cathy Glass

Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother.Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother snatches her from her parents' house and disappears.Cathy spends three anxious days worrying about her whereabouts before Alice is found safe, but traumatised. Alice is like a little doll, so young and vulnerable, and she immediately finds her place in the heart of Cathy's family. She talks openly about her mummy, who she dearly loves, and how happy she was living with her maternal grandparents before she was put into care. Alice has clearly been very well looked after and Cathy can't understand why she couldn't stay with her grandparents.It emerges that Alice's grandparents are considered too old (they are in their early sixties) and that the plan is that Alice will stay with Cathy for a month before moving to live with her father and his new wife. The grandparents are distraught – Alice has never known her father, and her grandparents claim he is a violent drug dealer.Desperate to help Alice find the happy home she deserves, Cathy's parenting skills are tested in many new ways. Finally questions are asked about Alice's father suitability, and his true colours begin to emerge.

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Автор: Joanna Connors

‘More chilling than a horror film and more thought-provoking than an HBO doc … I Will Find You is at once hard to read and even harder to put down’ CosmopolitanA hard-hitting memoir about a woman’s search to understand the man who raped herJoanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger.After this horrifying trauma, she became afraid of everything – flying, driving, travelling in a car while someone else drove. She had children, but hovered over them constantly, terrified about what might happen to them as well. Then, when her daughter was sixteen, Joanna began to confront the fear that had ruled her life ever since that day, and decided she needed, finally, to understand.In an act of breathtaking humanity and pioneering journalistic courage, she went in search of the story of her own rapist, determined to find out who he was, where he came from, what his life was like – and what leads a person to do something as destructive as what he did to her.The result of her investigation is I Will Find You, a shocking, moving memoir and a brave, timely consideration of poverty, race, class, education – and how life shapes who we become.

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Автор: Kelsey Miller

‘Funny, enlightening and incredibly well-researched’ Emerald StreetOver twenty years since its low-profile debut and Friends is the most streamed show on UK Netflix. But has it stood the test of time? Are some parts of it more problematic than we remember? And who was the cast’s least favourite guest star?Join Kelsey Miller as she answers all of these questions and more. And as she relives the show’s most iconic moments, examines some of its controversies, and shines a light on the many trends it inspired – from oversized coffee cups to the much-copied 90s haircut, ‘The Rachel’.Weaving incisive commentary, revelatory interviews and behind-the-scenes anecdotes involving high-profile guest stars, I’ll Be There for You is the most comprehensive take on Friends yet, and the ultimate book for fans everywhere.

Серия: HQ Non-Fiction eBook

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Автор: Kelsey Miller

‘Funny, enlightening and incredibly well-researched’ Emerald StreetOver twenty years since its low-profile debut and Friends is as enduringly popular as ever. But has it stood the test of time? Are some parts of it more problematic than we remember? And who was the cast’s least favourite guest star?Join Kelsey Miller as she answers all of these questions and more. And as she relives the show’s most iconic moments, examines some of its controversies, and shines a light on the many trends it inspired – from oversized coffee cups to the much-copied 90s haircut, ‘The Rachel’.Weaving incisive commentary, revelatory interviews and behind-the-scenes anecdotes involving high-profile guest stars, I’ll Be There for You is the most comprehensive take on Friends yet, and the ultimate book for fans everywhere.

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Автор: Kitty Baxter

Исполнители: Siobhan Dowd

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Автор: Alan Partridge

Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder: Alan Partridge. Star of action blockbuster Alpha Papa; a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future.I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan is the memoir of Alan Partridge, the nation’s favourite broadcaster. It is a work of heart-breaking majesty.Genuinely one of the best books of the last fifteen to twenty years, I, Partridge charts the highs, lows and middle bits in the life of one of Europe’s most revered inquisitors.

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Автор: LEE IACOCCA

Исполнители: Dominic Kolb

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Автор: Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson ist genialer Musiker, der uns unz?hlige Welthits wie «Surfin USA» oder «Good Vibrations» und das Jahrhundertalbum «Pet Sounds» geschenkt hat. Der amerikanische Rolling Stone hat ihn unter die 20 wichtigsten K?nstler aller Zeiten gew?hlt. Brian Wilson ist auch ein labiler Mensch, der sich mit Tabletten, Drogen und Alkohol immer wieder in Zonen bewegt hat, aus der man ohne fremde Hilfe nicht heil herauskommt. Viele Jahre verschwand Brian Wilson entm?ndigt in Kliniken, bis seine zweite Frau ihn sprichw?rtlich rettete: F?r die B?hne, f?r neue Musik, f?r das Verm?chtnis des einzigen ?berlebenden der Beach Boys. In diesem Buch erz?hlt er von seinen dunkelsten Stunden, vom Gl?ck einer gro?en Liebe und warum er noch lange nicht genug hat.

Исполнители: Dirk von Lowtzow

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Автор: Надия Мурад

Von der IS-Sklavin zur Tr?gerin des Friedensnobelpreises 2018: Das bewegende Schicksal der Jesidin Nadia Murad und ihr Kampf um Gerechtigkeit. Am 3. August 2014 endet das Leben, wie Nadia Murad es kannte. Truppen des IS ?berfallen ihr jesidisches Dorf Kocho im Norden Iraks. Sie t?ten die ?lteren und verschleppen die J?ngeren. Kleine Jungen sollen als Soldaten ausgebildet werden. Die M?dchen werden verschleppt und als Sklavinnen verkauft. An diesem Tag verliert Nadia Murad 44 Angeh?rige. F?r sie beginnt ein beispielloses Martyrium: Drei Monate ist sie in der Gewalt des IS, wird Opfer von Dem?tigung, Folter, Vergewaltigung. Nur mit Gl?ck und unvorstellbarem Mut gelingt ihr die Flucht vor ihren Peinigern. Sie schafft es in ein Fl?chtlingslager und kommt von dort aus nach Deutschland. Tausende andere junge Frauen befinden sich bis heute in der Gewalt des IS. Deren Stimme zu sein und sie zu befreien hat Nadia Murad sich zur Aufgabe gemacht. Heute k?mpft sie daf?r, dass das Verbrechen des IS als V?lkermord anerkannt wird und die Verantwortlichen vor den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof gestellt werden. Die Vereinten Nationen ernannten Nadia Murad zur Sonderbotschafterin, dar?ber hinaus wurde sie mit dem Vaclav-Havel-Preises f?r Menschenrechte ausgezeichnet. 2018 wurde sie mit dem Friedensnobelpreis geehrt. Hier erz?hlt sie ihre bewegende Geschichte.

Исполнители: Julia Preu?

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Автор: Gernot Beger

Im beschaulichen Roxel, einem l?ndlichen Stadtteil von M?nster, ist die Welt nicht mehr in Ordnung. Ein international operierendes Netzwerk vermittelt illegale Hundewelpen an gutgl?ubige Abnehmer und an den ?rtlichen Schulen werden Drogen verkauft. Schl?sselfiguren sind Mirko und Sascha, die mit ihrem Kastenwagen regelm??ig zwischen Rum?nien und Deutschland pendeln und Station an der Autobahnrastst?tte M?nster-Roxel machen. Dort werden Hunde und Drogen an den Mittelsmann Boris ?bergeben. Im Gegenzug wird die zuvor erfolgte Warenlieferung bezahlt. Ein solches Treffen platzt, da Boris das Rauschgift gestohlen wurde. Er kann weder die gelieferten Waren bezahlen, noch die Drogen zur?ckgeben. Boris fl?chtet daher zu seiner ehemaligen Freundin Luna und geht davon aus, dass die gewaltt?tigen Hunde- und Drogendealer alsbald unverrichteter Dinge wieder abfahren. Aber da irrt sich Boris gewaltig. Mirko und Sascha haben n?mlich einen angenehmen Grund gefunden, ihren Aufenthalt in M?nster-Roxel zu verl?ngern. Die vierj?hrige Ridgeback-H?ndin Chaka ist ?berzeugt, dass die Aufkl?rung dieser Verbrechen nur durch intelligente Artgenossen m?glich ist. Durch ihre eigene Schn?ffelkompetenz, die intuitiven F?higkeiten ihres vierbeinigen Freundes Einstein vereint mit der Tatkraft ihres jugendlichen Verehrers Jumper, einem zweij?hrigen Dalmatiner, werden die T?ter auch ?berf?hrt. Aber zuvor ist das Leben ihrer Freunde in Gefahr. Letztlich ist es, wie so oft im Hundeleben: Die Zweibeiner erhalten die Anerkennung und die Vierbeiner gehen leer aus. Chakas Kommentar hierzu: Wir sind ja nur der Hund.

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Автор: Achim Reichel

Исполнители: Achim Reichel

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Автор: Harry Gatterer

Jeder kreiert seine eigene Zukunft – wie eine Malerin eine wei?e Leinwand vor sich hat oder ein Regisseur einen Film inszeniert. Wir k?nnen unser Leben frei gestalten, auch wenn wir uns manchmal von den Umst?nden getrieben f?hlen und das unm?glich scheint. Gatterer ?bersetzt selbst schwierige Emotionen wie Angst oder Zweifel in einen neuen M?glichkeitsraum. Und das hat nichts mit Motivationstricks oder Selbstdisziplin zu tun. Der bekannte Trendforscher Harry Gatterer sagt: „Die Zukunft selbst ist zwar eine glatte Konstruktion, trotzdem steckt sie voller M?glichkeiten.“ Er n?hert sich dem komplexen Thema auf ?berraschende Weise und pr?sentiert Werkzeuge, die ein neues Verst?ndnis f?r die Zusammenh?nge der Welt liefern und uns helfen, zu einer guten Beziehung zu uns selbst zu finden: Das Geheimnis einer gegl?ckten Zukunft liegt in uns selbst.

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Автор: Leoluca Orlando

Исполнители: Moritz Bleibtreu

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Автор: Bradley Wiggins

With a foreword by Eddy MerckxThe world of professional cycling is fraught with fierce competition, fervent dedication and unerring ambition, and only a handful of competitors reach iconic status. Among them is Sir Bradley Wiggins – a man uniquely placed to reflect on the history of this remarkable sport and its unforgettable titans.In Icons, Wiggins takes the reader on an extraordinarily intimate journey through the sport, presenting key pieces from his never-before-seen collection of memorabilia. Over the course of his illustrious career, he amassed hundreds of items – often gifts from its greatest and most controversial figures. Each reflects an icon, a race or a moment that fundamentally influenced Wiggins on both a personal and professional level.By exploring the lives and achievements of 21 of the sport’s key figures – among them Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Miguel Indur?in and Tom Simpson – Wiggins sheds new light on what professional cycling demands of its best competitors. Icons lauds their triumphs, elucidates their demons and sheds light on the philosophy and psychology that comprise the unique mindset of a cycling champion.

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Автор: Eric Sykes

The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio and television comedy – ‘Educating Archie’, ‘Sykes And A …’, ‘Curry and Chips’, ‘The Plank’ – to his present day ventures into film and theatre, starring in ‘The Others’ with Nicole Kidman and appearing in Peter Hall's recent production of ‘As You Like It’, Eric Sykes has carved himself an enduring place as one of Britain's greatest writers and performers.In his much anticipated autobiography, Sykes reveals his extraordinary life working alongside a generation of legendary comedians and entertainers, despite being dogged by deafness and eventually virtual blindness. His hearing problems began in the early days of his career in the 1950s, around the time he wrote, directed and performed in the spoof pantomime ‘Pantomania’ for the BBC. Undeterred however, Sykes learned to lip-read, going on to write and appear in a number of BBC productions including ‘Opening Night’ and Val Parnell's ‘Saturday Spectacular’, the first of two shows he made with Peter Sellers, a great life-long friend. From 1959 until her death in 1980, Syke's starred with Hattie Jacques in one of Britain's best loved sitcoms ‘Sykes and A …’ Throughout the two decade run of this show he continued to work alongside a host of stars including Charlie Drake, Tommy Cooper, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Johnny Speight, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.Eric Sykes’s comedy has always sported an essential core of warm humanity and this, along with his genuine creative genius, continues to prove an unforgettably winning combination.

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Автор: Mia Marconi

The third in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi.Brody had been on the at-risk register since birth but was only removed from his alcoholic parents when he reached the age of six. Foster carer Mia Marconi was thrilled when he first arrived – a boy the same age as her son.It can be so bewildering for foster children when they arrive. The older ones are usually withdrawn and sullen. The younger ones will be screaming, spitting at you, making themselves sick and throwing themselves on the floor.For Mia, it’s normally her boisterous, happy children who provide the comfort at the beginning, because why should they trust another adult. Children always feel safe and secure when there are other children about. Mia believes it’s through making relationships with other children that they begin to trust adults again. But little did she know that six-year-old Brody was actually taking his anger and frustration out on her son. She quickly begins to realise the heavy price her family has had to pay.

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Автор: Selim Ozdogan

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Автор: Кристина Леонова

E storia vera della una ragazza russa. ? una storia affascinante di lotta, disperazione, fede e di nuovo la lotta contro una malattia di cui non ci piace parlare. Quante volte viviamo la nostra vita senza sentirci felici, senza avere tempo per niente, correndo da qualche parte, senza sapere di cosa si tratta. La causa di molti dei nostri problemi siamo noi stessi. Grazie all'autore di questo libro, imparerai ad amare la vita, ad apprezzare te stesso e ad essere orgoglioso di te stesso, potrai restituire pace e felicit? alla tua anima. Questo libro ? utile in tutti i campi della vita, vi aiuter? a realizzare il vostro potenziale nascosto e a rendere la vostra vita gioiosa e prospera.

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Автор: Алексей Капанадзе

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Автор: Petra E. J?rns

Nach jahrhundertelangem Krieg zwischen der Erde und ihren Kolonien ist endlich ein Waffenstillstand in Sicht. Als es auf dem kolonialen Kriegsschiff CFF Nyx zu einem Anschlag auf den Botschafter der Erde kommt, f?llt der Verdacht schnell auf den Piloten Lt. Jameson McAllister. Der hochbegabte Mutant wird verd?chtigt, mit der Untergrundbewegung der Mutanten zu sympathisieren. Diese will das Waffenstillstandsabkommen verhindern, da es die Auslieferung der Mutanten an die Erde verlangt, wo sie einst als Supersoldaten gez?chtet wurden. Einzig die Chefingenieurin Lt. Cdr. Deirdre MacNiall glaubt nicht an McAllisters Schuld. Doch umso intensiver sie sich bem?ht, McAllisters Unschuld zu beweisen, umso klarer wird ihr, dass es M?chte an Bord der Nyx gibt, die dies verhindern wollen.

Серия: Im Licht der Horen

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Автор: J?rgen Petry

Die erz?hlte Geschichte st?tzt sich auf wahre Begebenheiten. Der Ingenieur Heinz Paschke arbeitet als Abteilungsleiter in einem gro?en Kombinat der DDR. Er sieht die Schw?chen des Systems, h?lt sie aber f?r reformierbar. 1989-90 glaubt er dazu die Chance zu erkennen. Er beteiligt sich aktiv an den Demonstrationen um den Leipziger Ring, an Versammlungen und aufgeregten Debatten in seinem Kombinat. Nach dem Sieg der »Friedlichen Revolution« wird sein Kombinat abgewickelt. Er geh?rt zu den ersten, die von der neuen Gesch?ftsf?hrung entlassen werden. Eine Arbeit zu finden gelingt ihm in Sachsen nicht. Er gleitet ab, seine Ehe ist gef?hrdet. Schlie?lich geht er in den Westen und st??t hier auf f?r ihn neue Verhaltensnormen. Paschke beginnt einen langen Kampf um seine Identit?t, seine W?rde und seine Familie. Die eigentlich tragische Geschichte wird nicht nur bitter, sondern auch mit viel Humor erz?hlt.

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Автор: Thomas Christen

… und dann gibt es die, die suchen und verloren gehen. »… f?r immer?«, fragte er. »Ein mutiger Entschluss. Und ich will Ihnen auch sagen, warum ich das glaube. Ich glaube, dass man sich ?ndern muss, wenn man – so wie Sie – endg?ltig von hier nach dort geht. Hier will man nicht bleiben. Das Dort kennt man nicht. Ja, ich glaube, man muss sich ?ndern. Sonst ist das Dort ?ber kurz oder lang wie das Hier. Jetzt h?tte ich erwartet, dass Sie lachen! Das Leben ist wie ein fl?chtiger Blick aus dem Seitenfenster eines fahrenden Autos. Alles zieht rasend schnell vorbei. Nichts, das man festhalten kann. Lichter, Schatten, graue und bunte Streifen. Reflexe. Nur im R?ckspiegel erkennt man einen kleinen, klaren Ausschnitt …« Sechzehn Geschichten ?ber das Verlorengehen. ?ber die Dunkelheit, der man zu entrinnen versucht. ?ber Lichter in der Ferne und die Schatten des Alltags. ?ber den Verlust der Worte und die Suche nach einem Sinn. ?ber Eitelkeit, Wahn und Selbstt?uschung.

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Автор: Nicole B?hm

Исполнители: Jan Langer

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Автор: E. D. Morin

Исполнители: Tara Yelle

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Автор: Brian Thompson

A true story of empire set in the Crimea, Sudan, Ceylon and Egypt – beautifully written and shot through with real psychological and historical insight.'Victorian Britain, that seemingly most conformist of ages, was in fact teeming with eccentrics. The fabulous Baker Brothers were eccentric in a conformist way for the time: Sir Samuel searched for the source of the Nile; Baker Pasha became leader of the Ottoman army. But it was that epitome of empire, and epitome of the Christian English gentleman, who was the most peculiar of them all: 'Chinese' Gordon is finally depicted as the anarchist he really was as he marched to his death against the Mahdi. It is Thompson's triumph that he gives these characters, straitjacketed first by their time, and then by history, the freedom to dance across the page once more.' JUDITH FLANDERSImperial Vanities is an adventure story in the high tradition, ranging from the Upper Nile, to Ceylon, Egypt and the slave markets of the Balkans. Livingstone, Speke and Burton also make an appearance, with the shadowy and elusive Laurence Oliphant spying from the sidelines. Written with Thompson's masterly touch, this is history at its best.'A tale of Empire at its most eccentric. Part biography, part history, part adventure yarn, Imperial Vanities is an ingeniously enjoyable read.' Fergus Fleming

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Автор: Джордж Элиот

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Автор: Joseph Luzzi

A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in Dante’s opening of The Divine Comedy: ‘In the middle of our life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood.’One cold November morning, Luzzi, a professor and Dante scholar, was told his pregnant wife Katherine had been in a car accident. She did not survive, but their daughter Isabel did, delivered by emergency Caesarean a mere forty-five minutes before her mother died. In one terrible instant, Luzzi found himself both a widower and a father.In the aftermath of an unthinkable tragedy, Luzzi turned to the support of his Italian immigrant family but it wasn’t until he turned to Dante’s epic poem – a poem he had devoted his life to studying and teaching – that he found a way to resurrect his life. Following the same structure as Dante’s epic poem, Luzzi is shepherded out of his own ‘dark wood,’ passing through the grief-stricken Inferno, the Purgatory of healing and learning to be a father to Isabel, and ultimately stepping into the Paradise of rediscovered love.A meditation on the influence of great art and power to give us strength in our darkest moments, ‘In a Dark Wood’ opens the door into the mysteries of Dante’s enduring classic. Beautifully written, poignant and unflinchingly honest, Luzzi’s book is a hybrid of heartrending memoir and meaningful insight into one of the greatest pieces of literature in all history. Drawing us into man’s descent into hell and back, it is Dante’s journey, Luzzi’s and our very own.

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Автор: Jurgen Kehrer

Серия: Wilsberg

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Автор: Julie Shaw

Previously published as Our Vinnie.The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the ’70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it.The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, In Cold Blood accounts the dramatic true story of a brother’s determination to avenge his younger sister’s rape. Josie was just 11 when her Vinnie, then 14, was taken away to a detention centre. Distraught by his absence and left alone with indifferent parents, when she escapes from one of their rows she naively enters the house of a neighbour, Melvin, who – horrifically – leads her upstairs and overpowers her.Convinced by her friend Carol, Josie tells her sister Lyndsey about the rape but, with Vinnie out of the picture, Lyndsey uses the information for her own ends. When Vinnie returns, hardened by years inside the system, his outrage on discovering the truth is severe. And with new abuses continually coming to light, a cataclysmic series of violent events begins to spiral out of control…Dramatic and shocking, In Cold Blood is an unbelievable page-turner, documenting a community forsaken by society, and one brother’s unrelenting determination to take justice into his own hands.

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Автор: Литагент HarperCollins USD

The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time.Ten years after his death, the popularity and devotion towards John Paul II, the pope who helped bring down communism in his native Poland, the great statesman, and the most-travelledpope in history, remains as strong as ever.Since his early years as a priest in the 1960s, up until 2003, two years before his death, the pope kept a spiritual diary, recording his reflections on God, life, spirituality, theproblems facing the church – and his own struggles.Never intended for publication, these diaries were entrusted before his death to his personal secretary, who saw fit to have them published as they represent an unprecedented and important testament to the spirituality of this Christian leader, adored to this day by Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

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Автор: Ursula Wei?ig

Ursula Wei?ig wurde 1945 in Leipzig-St?tteritz geboren. Nach dem Abitur folgte eine Ausbildung zur Kinderkrankenschwester. Sie ist verheiratet, Mutter von zwei Kindern. In diesem Buch berichtet sie ?ber ihre Kindheit, die vom Verlust eines Bruders im Kriegsjahr 1943 gepr?gt war.

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Автор: Barbara Hartlage-Laufenberg

Mit dieser ersten Biografie ?ber Muschelkalk, die auch bislang unbekannte Briefe aus der Zeit nach Ringelnatz und einige unver?ffentlichte Fotos pr?sentiert, gibt es endlich eine ausgeglichenere Darstellung der »Arbeitsgemeinschaft« Ringelnatz/Muschelkalk. Zudem wird damit erstmals auch die Bedeutung der in der Literaturszene t?tigen Leonharda Gescher deutlich. Ringelnatz ist oft wochenlang unterwegs auf den Kabarettb?hnen der damaligen Zeit. Zun?chst in M?nchen, dann in Berlin ist Muschelkalk stets seine engste Mitarbeiterin, schon beim Entstehen seiner Dichtungen, dann k?mmert sie sich um seine Manuskripte, organisiert seine Auftritte und erledigt die Korrespondenz. Immer ist das Geld knapp.Ringelnatz und Muschelkalk f?hren ein offenes Haus und verkehren in den angesagten Bars und Kneipen. Zu ihrem Freundeskreis geh?ren Roda Roda, Asta Nielsen und Ren?e Sintenis. 1934, als Ringelnatz nach einem mehrmonatigen Aufenthalt in einer Tuberkulose-Heilst?tte stirbt, hat Muschelkalk, gerade erst 36 Jahre alt, noch ?ber 40 Jahre ihres Lebens vor sich, eines sehr aktiven Lebens.

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Автор: Лев Мочалов

Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга составлена из текстов, возникших «по ходу жизни». Здесь – фиксация каких-то историй, воспоминаний, фрагменты дневникового типа, заметки из блокнотов и записных книжек. Эти материалы относятся к периоду с конца 1960-х и по 1990-е годы, с последующими коррективами и добавлениями. Точные даты даются в случаях необходимости, подсказываемой соображениями содержательного порядка, – когда они что-то проясняют или документируют. Автор

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Автор: Коллектив авторов

Это книга воспоминаний об Анне Валентиновне Уваровой, тележурналисте и преподавателе, создателе первой в России потоковой службы телевизионного новостного вещания. В коротких текстах, написанных друзьями и коллегами по телеканалам REN-TV, РБК, ОТР и НИУ «Высшая школа экономики», отражаются грани личности Анны Уваровой и черты времени, в котором она жила.

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Автор: Сергей Лебедев

Настоящий сборник in memoriam посвящен памяти двух выдающихся деятелей российской юридической науки – профессоров кафедры международного частного и гражданского права МГИМО Виталия Алексеевича Кабатова, заслуженного деятеля науки РСФСР, и Сергея Николаевича Лебедева, заслуженного юриста РФ. По отдельности, совместно, а также в составе коллектива кафедры они внесли великий вклад в развитие соответственно российского гражданского права, международного частного права и международного коммерческого арбитража. В сборник входят воспоминания и научные статьи, а также интервью, уникальные документы и фотографии (в том числе ранее не публиковавшиеся). Впервые публикуется библиография трудов В. А. Кабатова, а также приводится уточненная библиография трудов С. Н. Лебедева. Ряд статей и материалов – на английском языке. Сборник подготовлен по инициативе коллектива кафедры международного частного и гражданского права МГИМО при участии аспирантов кафедры, а также коллег и друзей (в том числе иностранных), бывших аспирантов и студентов В. А. Кабатова и С. Н. Лебедева. Это второе, дополненное издание сборника. Первое вышло в июне 2017 г., но по досадной случайности в него не вошли три статьи коллег В. А. Кабатова и С. Н. Лебедева. Сейчас данный недостаток исправлен. В настоящем издании также устранены некоторые мелкие недочеты, присутствовавшие в первом. Сборник предназначен для юристов, занимающихся вопросами международного коммерческого арбитража, международного частного права, римского права, гражданского права и сравнительного правоведения; для арбитров и государственных судей, ученых, преподавателей, аспирантов и студентов юридических вузов и факультетов; для историков и социологов права, особенно в его транснациональном измерении.

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Автор: Anne Wafula-Strike

They said it couldn't be done. But Anne Wafula achieved many remarkable things in her life. This is her incredible story.Struck down with polio at the age of two and a half, Anne overcame the prejudice rife in her native village in Kenya, where neighbours believed she was cursed and called her a snake because of her disability, which left her paralysed below the waist.Losing her mother at a tender age, and sent to a school far away from home, she achieved fantastic academic results, amidst the challenges of a military coup. She went to university and qualified as a teacher, and fell in love with a British man who truly valued her defiant spirit.She moved from a world with no running water to make a life for herself in modern Britain. Where, against all odds, she bore a child, and went on to be the first East African to compete in her sport internationally. Anne is currently in further training, and will be representing Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympics, where she has been tipped as one of our top hundred hopefuls.Meet Anne Wafula, a woman whose determination knows no bounds.

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