биографии и мемуары (страница 349)

Автор: Группа авторов

Полный вариант заголовка: «Les vies des SS. Peres des deserts, et des Saintes solitaires d'Orient et d'Occident : Tome 1 : avec des figures qui representent l'austerite de leur vie, et leurs principales occupations».

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Les vies des SS. Peres des deserts d'Оccident : Tome 3 : avec des figures qui representent l'austerite de leur vie, & leurs principales occupations».

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Les ?crits r?unis dans cet ouvrage visent ? scruter l’œuvre de Jean Copans dans une histoire du temps pr?sent (sans pr?sentisme aucun), ? comprendre ce qu’il nous dit de l’anthropologie du contemporain, de l’actualit? d’une science de l’Homme. Auteur, engag? dans la vie de multiples institutions, p?dagogue reconnu, collaborateur, lecteur et contributeur dans la vie des revues (L’Homme, Cahiers d'?tudes africaines ; Politique africaine, Current Anthropology), chercheur fran?ais pr?sent sur les lignes de fronts du dialogue avec l’anthropologie nord-am?ricaine, la contribution scientifique de Jean Copans, ?l?ve de Georges Balandier et disciple intellectuel de Paul Mercier, est remarquable aussi bien par son implication dans la recherche en train de se faire que par ses lectures et par ses commentaires qui en font ? la fois un chroniqueur, un observateur et un analyste du temps pr?sent. Alors que l’anthropologie du contemporain est toujours en qu?te d’un ?pist?me, l’œuvre de Jean Copans ouvre parfaitement une voie originale et durable, pour comprendre le sens du contemporain en anthropologie.


Les contributeurs au volume, auteurs internationalement reconnus, Maurice Aymard, Momar-Coumba Diop, David B. Coplan, G?rald Gaillard, Ingolf Diener, Laurence Espinosa, Frederick Cooper, Paul Diedhiou, Gaye Daff?, Nicolas Monteillet, Cheikh Anta Babou, Pascal Depoorter, Patrice Yengo, Julien Bondaz, Laurence Boutinot, Christophe Baticle, Jean-Bernard Ou?draogo, Beno?t Hazard, Abel Kouvouama et Pierre Bouvier proviennent de disciplines vari?es, de diff?rentes g?n?rations de chercheurs et d’horizons g?ographiques multiples. Au fil des pages se d?voile l’?tendue des travaux de Jean Copans, depuis ses premi?res recherches sur les nationalismes et la « mouridologie », en passant par la classe ouvri?re en Afrique (noire), ses engagements sur les s?cheresses de 1973, jusqu’? ses r?flexions sur la sociologie politique et sur les intellectuels en Afrique. Sans c?der au tropisme de l’inventaire, l’ouvrage reprend les observations de ce chroniqueur avis? et analyste pertinent des tumultes du temps pr?sent pour comprendre ses prises de position, parfois h?t?rodoxes, dans l’exercice d’une anthropologie attentive aux tensions entre l’unit? th?orique de la discipline, l’?clatement des objets, des terrains, et de ses d?finitions.

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Автор: Petrina Banfield

Letters from Alice can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 of 3.It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered Charlotte and her newborn baby safe. But when a threatening note appeared, she realised that Charlotte may need more protection than she first thought. But from who?Based on extensive research into the archive material held at the London Metropolitan Archives, and enriched with lively social history and excerpts from newspaper articles, LETTERS FROM ALICE is a gripping and deeply moving tale, which brings the colourful world of 1920s London to life. Full of grit, mystery and hope, it will have readers enthralled from the very first page.

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Автор: Petrina Banfield

Letters from Alice can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered Charlotte and her newborn baby safe. But when a threatening note appeared, she realised that Charlotte may need more protection than she first thought. But from who?Based on extensive research into the archive material held at the London Metropolitan Archives, and enriched with lively social history and excerpts from newspaper articles, LETTERS FROM ALICE is a gripping and deeply moving tale, which brings the colourful world of 1920s London to life. Full of grit, mystery and hope, it will have readers enthralled from the very first page.

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Автор: Елена Рерих

A Facsimile Edition Reprint of the Original Book Published in the United States of America by Agni Yoga Society in 1967.

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Автор: Елена Рерих

A Facsimile Edition Reprint of the Original Book Published in the United States of America by Agni Yoga Society in 1954

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Автор: Dale Shaw

A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history.Many books have collated the exceptional letters and personal writing of the famous, offering a fascinating insight into well-known figures’ personal lives and hidden desires. But what of the undistinguished epistles of the renowned? Can their less auspicious musings divulge clues to their hopes and ambitions? Probably not. But they can be quite funny.‘Letters of Not’ assembles the fictional jotted dross that was never before considered worthy of collection. The Post-it notes, the shopping lists, the failed limericks and the birthday card sentiments of history’s most celebrated sons and daughters.Inside you will find:Werner Herzog’s impassioned note to his cleaning ladyPatti Smith’s gym applicationCaptain Scott’s other last letter to his wifeSalvador Dali’s to do listMark E. Smith’s audio tour of Ripon CathedralHarold Pinter greetings cardsPope Benedict’s handover notesJames Joyce’s out of officeDr Heimlich’s other manoeuvreA letter from the table next to the Algonquin Round TableTweets from the 1966 Newport Folk FestivalInstructions on what to do when you meet Van MorrisonAnd many more, beautifully rendered in their original, blatantly falsified glory and hilariously transcribed for your pleasure.

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Автор: Марсель Пруст

102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris’s eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs.Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a Paris building, as seen through Proust’s eyes. You’ll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls.

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Автор: Wollstonecraft Mary

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Автор: Caraccioll

Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres d'un anglois : sur la vie de Clement 14 / par M. Caraccioll».

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Автор: Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr?billon

Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres de la marquise de M*** au comte de R*** / par M. de Crebillon, Fils».

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres. Tome 2 / de M-mes de Villars, de Coulanges, et de la Fayette; de Ninon de l'Enclos, et de Mademoiselle Aisse ; accompagnees de notices biographiques, de notes explicatives, et de la Coquette Vengee, par Ninon de l'Enclos».

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Автор: Juliette Catesby

Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby, a Milady Henriette Campley, son amie Juliette Catesby».

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Автор: John Hobhouse

Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres ecrites de Paris, pendant le dernier regne de l'empereur Napoleon : Tome 1 : adressees principalement a l'honorable Lord Byron : suivies d'un appendix contenant des documens officiels / traduites de l'anglais de J. Hobhouse».

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Автор: Abraham van Hoey

Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres et ne'gotiations de Monsieur Van Hoey, Ambassadeur a la Cour de France : Pour servir a l'histoire de la vie du Cardinal de Fleury / Van Hoey».

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Автор: Группа авторов

Полный вариант заголовка: «Lettres inedites ou correspondance de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse, avec Monsieur et Madame de Camas : pour servir de suite a ses oeuvres».

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Автор: Ashley Davies

Are you sick and tired of clean eating? Do you miss the days when exercise was less mindful and more fun? And do you agree we could all do with a little more Lycra in our lives?The antidote to the modern malaise of serious health and fitness is a return to simpler times. In the 1980s, getting fit meant getting dressed to the nines in sparkling, skin-tight workout wear, teasing your hair or combing your moustache to its full glory, and shaking what your mama gave you to the top tunes of the day. It was fabulous, and it was fun.This hilarious, pocket-sized book offers an earnestly 80s introduction to getting fit and fabulous. From diet and exercise trends and top fashion tips, to the places to be and things to be seen doing to flaunt what you’ve got, this collection of vintage photos and caustic captions will help you to become your most excellent self, 80s style.

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Автор: Levi Roots

TV chef, dragon slayer and bestselling author Levi Roots brings carnival to the kitchen with his hot'n'spicy Caribbean cookbook.After winning over the business minds of The Dragon's Den with little more than a song and a smile, entrepreneur Levi Roots has since sold more than one million bottles of his delicious Reggae Reggae Sauce and now he has his very own cookbook!Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Cookbook brings the excitement and vitality of Caribbean flavours to your own cooking. An eclectic and colourful range of recipes from simple dishes for students to fantastic feasts for friends are all accompanied by heart-warming anecdotes in Levi's incomparable tell-it-like-it-is style. This bright and colourful book brings together influences as diverse as Jamaican folk tales, Notting Hill Carnival and the music of Bob Marley to create family-friendly food with that famous jerk kick. Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Cookbook will surely add a funky beat to what you eat!Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Cookbook features more than 80 simple and exciting recipes such as Mash-Up Eggs, Salmon St Jago de la Vega , Guinness Punch, Rum Cake and Sweet Potato Pudding. Levi also offers a diverse range of vegetarian dishes and puts a Caribbean twist on classic European favourites such as pizza and pasta.

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Автор: Curva Ediciones Creativas

Исполнители: Staff Audiolibros Colecci?n

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Автор: Osvaldo Delgado

Leyendo a Freud desde un div?n lacaniano, es el t?tulo que precipita como consecuencia de la posici?n de su autor, de su posici?n ?tica. No hay otra forma posible para ?l. aA partir de este t?tulo, los textos que integran este libro se nos presentan, advertir?n queridos lectores, como piezas sueltas que engarzan finalmente en un conjunto epist?mico y pol?tico por el cual nosvamos deslizando hasta quedar un poco aguijoneados, conmovidos, por la profundidad, valent?a y agudeza de su pluma. Una experiencia de lectura que nos lleva por distintas zonas, donde cada una abre nuevas ventanas del hermoso edificio psicoanal?tico que Osvaldo construy?. Este es un libro para un lector deseante, para escribir en sus m?rgenes, para construirlo junto con su autor. Quienes lo lean se encontrar?n con reflexiones, elucidaciones te?ricas, trazos cl?nicos, y con las preguntas de alguien que ha dedicado su vida al psicoan?lisis y a su transmisi?n. Del Pr?logo de MARIANA G?MEZ .

Исполнители: Евгений Лебедев

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Автор: Pablo Fuente Viadas

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Автор: Varios

Исполнители: Егор Жирнов

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Автор: Nien Cheng

A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. When she was released from prison she was told that her daughter had committed suicide. In fact Meiping had been beaten to death by Maoist revolutionaries.

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Автор: James Smith

More than half a century has passed since the mysterious death of the famous actress, inimitable blonde, a living embodiment of the «American Dream» – Marilyn Monroe. But interest to her personality, biography and the circumstances of death does not cease today. Initially imitating the luxurious Jean Harlow Marilyn subsequently became the object of worship from the Hollywood movie actress.

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Автор: Роберт Кочарян

The book by the former president of Armenia and the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Robert Kocharyan, sheds light on one of the most complex and controversial pages in the history of the Armenian people. As an organizer and participant of key events in Armenia and Karabakh, Kocharyan presents his account of this period. The book contains previously unpublished information and once-classified documents, along with historical photos from his personal archives. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh became one of the first precursors of the USSR’s demise. The weakening central power was evidently unable to cope with the economic challenges, while «perestroika» and «glasnost» were swiftly and dramatically undermining the nation’s system of governance. The authorities proved ineffective in proposing anything innovative, appealing, and capable of mobilizing society. The country, anchored in absolute centralization and held together by a uniform ideology, was rapidly losing its bearings. But despite all of this, the threat to the Soviet Union’s integrity became real and even inevitable only when cracks appeared along its most vulnerable fault line – the ethnic divide. This book is about • the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath for the former national republics • the most important matters in the newest history of Nagorno-Karabach and Armenia • how small unrecognized country won the outnumbered opponent • many attempts to solve the Karabach conflict • how the personality of a leader influences the politics of the country • how the years, spent at the top of the powers, reflect in the soul of a human. During these turbulent times, I found myself at the epicenter of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, emerging as one of the key figures. Whenever protest rallies, strikes, states of emergency, martial law, armed militias, ethnic clashes, confrontations with the military, or war took place in the Soviet Union, they first happened in or around Karabakh.

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Автор: Amrou Al-Kadhi

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself‘It should be read far and wide’ Ian McKellenAmrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight.Amrou’s parents weren’t so happy…From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.Life as a Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a queer drag queen, strutting the stage in seven-inch heels and saying the things nobody else dares to …

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Автор: Гадель Загрутдинов

Увлекательная и познавательная книга, которая отправляет читателей в путешествие в мир программирования. Эта книга, рассказанная опытным программистом из первых рук, предлагает уникальный взгляд на проблемы, награды и внутреннюю работу профессии программиста. Благодаря примерам из реальной жизни читатели получат более глубокое представление о страсти, творчестве и навыках решения проблем, необходимых для достижения успеха в качестве программиста. Являетесь ли вы новичком или опытным программистом, эта книга обязательна к прочтению всем, кто интересуется технологиями и людьми, стоящими за ними. На обложке изображен автор книги.

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Автор: Jacqueline Thie?en

Die Kirchenmaus packt aus! 2013 war Jacqueline Thie?en Kandidatin bei „Germany’s Next Topmodel“. In der Staffel „Life Edition“ schaffte sie es unter die Top 10 – und war hei? umstritten. Denn die bekennende Christin unterschied sich allzu deutlich von ihren Mitstreiterinnen: Statt zu zicken suchte sie Vers?hnung. Statt zu jammern suchte sie pragmatische L?sungen. Und statt mit ihren 17 Jahren die jugendliche Verf?hrerin zu geben, punktete sie mit m?dchenhaftem Charme. Gespickt mit Tagebuchausz?gen, Fotos, Motivationsspr?chen, Refl exionsfragen, Gedichten und immer mit dem Blick auf Gott erz?hlt sie, was sie hinter den Kulissen von GNMT erlebt hat. Ihre Botschaft an alle jungen Leserinnen: „Du bist sch?n, so wie du bist! Gott hat dich wunderbar gemacht.“

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Автор: Terry Murphy Weible

‘Time equals progression. Progression equals death.’This is a thought that consumes Ed Zine, a handsome, athletic, twenty-four year old.The victim of a debilitating form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Ed's illogical mind tells him that if going forward in time moves him closer to death, reversing an action will carry him away from it.The youngest of four children, Ed Zine's life was thrown into turmoil when his mother, the centre of his universe, died from ovarian cancer when he was just eleven years old. Not warned by his family that his mother was sick, and beaten and screamed at by his father on the night of his mother's death for leaving the lid off a jam jar, Ed was shell-shocked when his mother died and, for years, kept quiet about the fact that he witnessed his mother's last breath and never truly grieved her death.Ed's trauma over the loss of his mother manifested itself in bizarre physical affectations and as he became less able to articulate his sorrow and his pain he became more and more isolated from other humans.Thirteen years on, Ed Zine lived alone in a basement, meticulously counting and rewinding any action he made in an obsessive and illogical attempt to prevent his loved ones from moving towards death.All efforts to help him, from members of his family, and numerous medical professionals, had been in vain, until Dr Michael Jenike, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and one of the world's leading experts in research and treatment of OCD made the long drive to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was just the beginning of the extensive and difficult journey the two were to endure together…

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Автор: Stuart Barker

A searching and at times harrowing re-appraisal of the life of Evel Knievel, the seventies American icon and the greatest daredevil motorcyclist that ever lived. The story of the last few years of his life and his death in 2007.Stuart Barker's definitive biography captures the super-star status that Knievel held and also examines the marketing phenomenon of a man who once boasted he ‘made $60 million and blew $63 million’.Born in the town of Butte, Montana in 1938, Robert Craig Knievel was an outstanding athlete, ski jumper and ice hockey player at school. His early jobs included working in the copper mines and driving a bus as well as a stint in the US Army, but he always subsidised his income through crime ('I could crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back quicker than you could eat a hamburger with two.')He used bikes to escape from the police and eventually hit upon the idea of jumping them after seeing a stunt driver jump cars at a state fair. His first jump took place over two mountain lions and a box of rattlesnakes, and he soon developed his act into the 'Evel Knievel Motorcycle Daredevils' before embarking on a solo career.Knievel suffered 37 breaks and fractures during his daredevil career. In 1967 he spent 29 days in a coma after an attempt to jump over the fountains outside Caesar's Palace casino in Las Vegas. While recovering, he decided to make his goal to jump the Grand Canyon, an attempt he was forced to abort by the US Government; and later was paid $1 million for jumping over 13 double-decker buses at Wembley Stadium.Now, a quarter of a century after he last stepped off a motorcycle, he has been reborn as the originator of Xtreme sports. This, alongside his love of gambling, women and drinking, ensure his legend will live forever. Life of Evel is the story of a truly extreme personality.

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Автор: Томас Карлейль

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The antology is written for the members of the International Congress of Submarine Veterans. His authors are professional submarine officers. The antology contains stories, recollections, lyric on life and the military service of the Soviet submarine navy. Это альманах написан для участников Международного Конгресса ветеранов-подводников. Его авторы профессиональные военные офицеры-подводники. В альманахе рассказы, воспоминания, стихи о жизни, боевой службе моряков подводного флота СССР.

Серия: Serving Russia!

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Автор: Adriana Sabato

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Автор: Gill Alderman

In this sequel to The Memory Palace, fantasy crosses over to the real world as the Malthassan Archmage Koschei Corbillion becomes Guy Parados, his creator.When the magician Koschei escaped through the mind of his creator Guy Parados into the world where he is fiction, he became Guy Parados. And Parados became the Red Horse in the land of Malthassa… his own invention, he believed. But Malthassa has deeper roots, as deep as hell, and it is there the Red Horse must go.Gry’s father passed along the road to the Palace of Shadows where Asmodeus rules, King of the Lightless Garden. Pursued by the shaman Aza and riding the Red Horse, Gry must follow the same road, though it is the road to hell.From hell all other places are accessible: this is a reason to go there, the only one not steeped in madness. But it is not Gry’s reason. Gry is only running from home, riding the Red Horse which was once her father’s horse – not a woman’s. And surely she is mad, for the Red Horse talks to her…At the Fortress of Lilith the two worlds will meet, and between the two walk the Gypsies.

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Автор: Vivien Brown

What sort of mother would leave her all alone… a gripping and heart-wrenching domestic drama that won’t let you go.Lily, who is almost three years old, wakes up alone at home with only her cuddly toy for company. She is afraid of the dark, can’t use the phone, and has been told never to open the door to strangers.But why is Lily alone and why isn’t there anyone who can help her? What about the lonely old woman in the flat below who wonders at the cries from the floor above? Or the grandmother who no longer sees Lily since her parents split up?All the while a young woman lies in a coma in hospital – no one knows her name or who she is, but in her silent dreams, a little girl is crying for her mummy… and for Lily, time is running out.

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Автор: Джефф Блу

Драматическая история сотрудничества легендарной группы и менеджера звукозаписывающей компании, в итоге выпустивших один из самых продаваемых дебютных альбомов в новом тысячелетии, Hybrid Theory. «На шаг ближе» предлагает по-новому – из кресла продюсера – взглянуть на знакомые события, которые привели Linkin Park к успеху: вы узнаете, как стажировка Брэда Делсона в колледже стала катализатором для группы молодых музыкантов-новаторов, ставших из аутсайдеров голосом поколения. Эта книга расскажет о первых днях Linkin Park: о демозаписях и выступлении Xero (так изначально называлась группа Майка Шиноды и Брэда Делсона) в легендарном клубе Whisky a Go Go, о мучительных поисках своего уникального звучания и открытии Честера Беннингтона. Все это время Джефф Блу был рядом со своими подопечными – сначала как издатель, а позже и как A&R-менеджер группы. «На шаг ближе» – его воспоминания об этом невероятном путешествии, притча о торжестве упорства и тяжелом пути к своей мечте. В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.

Серия: Music Legends & Idols

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Автор: Карл Август Сэндберг

Amerikalı şair, yazı?ı və tarix?i Karl Sendberqin bir-birindən maraqlı faktlarla zəngin olan bu kitabı Avraam Linkoln haqqında ən yaxşı bioqrafik əsər sayılır.

Серия: Tarixi yaradanlar

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Автор: Alex Ross

In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music.From his own first encounter with classical music to vibrant sketches of Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; from in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Bj?rk and Radiohead to the lives of a high school’s music students, Ross shows how music can express the full complexity of human experience. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of wider contemporary culture.Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.

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Автор: Otegha Uwagba

The essential career handbook for creative working women.Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women is the modern career guide every creative woman needs, whether you’re just starting out or already have years of experience. Packed with fresh ideas and no-nonsense practical advice, this travel-sized career handbook is guaranteed to become your go-to resource when it comes to building the career you want.Writer Otegha Uwagba takes you through everything you need to build a successful self-made career: from how to negotiate a payrise to building a killer personal brand, via a crash course in networking like a pro, and tips for overcoming creative block. Plus Little Black Book is full of indispensable advice on how to thrive as a freelancer, and an entire chapter dedicated to helping you master the tricky art of public speaking.With contributions from trailblazing creative women including acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Refinery29 co-founder Piera Gelardi, The Gentlewoman's Editor in Chief Penny Martin, and many more, Little Black Book is a curation of essential wisdom and hard-won career insights. Whether you’re a thinker, a maker, an artist or an entrepreneur, you’ll find plenty of inspiration for your working life here.

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Автор: Kathleen O’Shea

The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in this terrible place. For all those I consider my brothers and sisters; the ones who died, the ones who lost their minds, the ones who drown their memories everyday in a bottle of whisky, I tell this for you.Because in the end we are all brothers and sisters – and if we don’t feel that bond of love between each other, just as human beings, then we are nothing. We are no better than the monsters that ran the convents.”Based in Ireland in the 1960s and 70s, Kathleen’s story is a story of extreme hardship, suffering and abuse. It is the story of 11 siblings, abandoned by their mother and torn from their father, incarcerated in convents and then driven apart in the cruellest ways imaginable; it is the story of their ruined childhoods and their fight for recompense. But more than that, it is a story of courage, survival and the incredible strength of sibling bonds against overwhelming adversities.Out of terrible darkness comes a remarkable story. In the tradition of Irish storytelling, Kathleen offers a mesmerising account of her family’s experience.

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Автор: Kathleen O’Shea

Little Drifters can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 4 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 4 of 4 (Chapters 19-24 of 24).The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in this terrible place. For all those I consider my brothers and sisters; the ones who died, the ones who lost their minds, the ones who drown their memories everyday in a bottle of whisky, I tell this for you.Because in the end we are all brothers and sisters – and if we don’t feel that bond of love between each other, just as human beings, then we are nothing. We are no better than the monsters that ran the convents.”Based in Ireland in the 1960s and 70s, Kathleen’s story is a story of extreme hardship, suffering and abuse. It is the story of 11 siblings, abandoned by their mother and torn from their father, incarcerated in convents and then driven apart in the cruellest ways imaginable; it is the story of their ruined childhoods and their fight for recompense. But more than that, it is a story of courage, survival and the incredible strength of sibling bonds against overwhelming adversities.Out of terrible darkness comes a remarkable story. In the tradition of Irish storytelling, Kathleen offers a mesmerising account of her family’s experience.

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Автор: Kathleen O’Shea

Little Drifters can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 4 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 4 (Chapters 7-10 of 24).The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in this terrible place. For all those I consider my brothers and sisters; the ones who died, the ones who lost their minds, the ones who drown their memories everyday in a bottle of whisky, I tell this for you.Because in the end we are all brothers and sisters – and if we don’t feel that bond of love between each other, just as human beings, then we are nothing. We are no better than the monsters that ran the convents.”Based in Ireland in the 1960s and 70s, Kathleen’s story is a story of extreme hardship, suffering and abuse. It is the story of 11 siblings, abandoned by their mother and torn from their father, incarcerated in convents and then driven apart in the cruellest ways imaginable; it is the story of their ruined childhoods and their fight for recompense. But more than that, it is a story of courage, survival and the incredible strength of sibling bonds against overwhelming adversities.Out of terrible darkness comes a remarkable story. In the tradition of Irish storytelling, Kathleen offers a mesmerising account of her family’s experience.

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Автор: Alexandra Burt

**Read the must-have Sunday Times bestseller today. GONE GIRL meets THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN in this stunning, unsettling psychological thriller.**A baby goes missing. But does her mother want her back?When Estelle’s baby daughter is taken from her cot, she doesn’t report her missing. Days later, Estelle is found in a wrecked car, with a wound to her head and no memory.Estelle knows she holds the key to what happened that night – but what she doesn’t know is whether she was responsible…

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Автор: J. Farjeon Jefferson

Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific.Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific.Tired of being homeless and down on his luck, the incorrigible Ben has taken a job as a stoker on a cruise ship. But his luck doesn’t last long when they are all shipwrecked in the Pacific. Seen through Ben’s eyes, the uncharted island is a hive of cannibals, mumbo-jumbo, and gals who are more nearly naked than any he has ever seen. And every time he tries to bluff his way out of a situation, he just bluffs himself further in, somehow convincing the natives that he has God-like powers . . .Brought back by popular demand after a gap of three years, Ben the tramp’s reappearance in Little God Ben transported his humour, charm and rare philosophy to a startlingly new setting in this quintessentially 1930s comedy thriller.

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Автор: Ривка Голчен

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston GlobeOne August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning.But Galchen didn’t want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learning something about babies, or about being near babies.The result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.

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Автор: Little Mix

A few months ago they were just four determined girls. Then there was The X Factor, the screaming fans and the record deal – life for Little Mix would never be the same again. Now join the UK’s hottest new girl group as they sing their way to superstardom.Last year, Perrie, Jesy, Jade and Leigh-Anne were four nervous X Factor hopefuls, waiting in the wings for their turn in the spotlight. Now they’re not only the best of friends, they’re the first ever group to win the show, they have a record deal, and are on the cover of every magazine – they’re the girls every girl wants to be.But it hasn’t all been sparkles and glitter. From facing rejection in the early stages of The X Factor to battling bullying and personal criticism, the girls have worked ferociously for their success. Here, in their official book, they each tell the story of their amazing journey in full, from their first auditions to living out their dreams.Stunningly-designed and packed full of unseen photos shot exclusively for the book by world-renowned celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, Little Mix: Our Story So Far provides an exclusive peek inside the world of the band as they embark on global domination.So look out world: this is just the beginning. 2012 is the year of Little Mix – and they’re fierce.

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Автор: Casey Watson

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened ‘unfosterable’ children who do not know what it means to be loved.This is the third book in the series.The shock that strikes Casey and her family when Ashton and Olivia arrive is immeasurable. Two dirty, frightened little waifs stand before them, huge eyes staring around their new surroundings. Ashton – 9, Olivia – 6, have the same urchin look; hair running wild with head lice, filthy nails and skin covered in scabs. And the smell is horrific. The eldest two children of a group of five siblings, Casey had only been told they were coming two days earlier. But it was an emergency, temporary placement, and they were only due to stay a couple of weeks…Casey is desperate to help these poor, lost children, who have been taken away from their family because they were considered at risk, but before she can even start to understand the horrific things that have happened in the past, she has to teach them the most basic of behaviours. Ashton and Olivia have no barriers and no sense of what’s right and wrong – her challenges begin with the toilet and eating habits.The weeks roll into months and the months roll on, but bit by bit the children are starting to feel like they truly belong to a family, for the first time. With this new found security and love, gradually they start to reveal what really happened to them and their siblings at home, and slowly Casey can help them start to rebuild their young lives.Includes a sample chapter of Too Hurt To Stay.

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Автор: Casey Watson

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened ‘unfosterable’ children who do not know what it means to be loved.This is the third book in the series.The shock that strikes Casey and her family when Ashton and Olivia arrive is immeasurable. Two dirty, frightened little waifs stand before them, huge eyes staring around their new surroundings. Ashton – 9, Olivia – 6, have the same urchin look; hair running wild with head lice, filthy nails and skin covered in scabs. And the smell is horrific. The eldest two children of a group of five siblings, Casey had only been told they were coming two days earlier. But it was an emergency, temporary placement, and they were only due to stay a couple of weeks…Casey is desperate to help these poor, lost children, who have been taken away from their family because they were considered at risk, but before she can even start to understand the horrific things that have happened in the past, she has to teach them the most basic of behaviours. Ashton and Olivia have no barriers and no sense of what’s right and wrong – her challenges begin with the toilet and eating habits.The weeks roll into months and the months roll on, but bit by bit the children are starting to feel like they truly belong to a family, for the first time. With this new found security and love, gradually they start to reveal what really happened to them and their siblings at home, and slowly Casey can help them start to rebuild their young lives.Includes a sample chapter of Too Hurt To Stay.

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Автор: Ian Whybrow

A new edition of the second novel about much-loved character Little Wolf, as he sets up his Adventure Academy with his cousin Yeller and little brother Smellybreff. From the author of the MEERKAT MADNESS books and HARRY AND THE BUCKETFUL OF DINOSAURS.Little Wolf inherits two things from his Uncle Bigbad – his gold and Cunning College, his school of badness. Little and his cousin Yeller decide that BADNESS is out and that ADVENTURES are in. But their first mistake is thinking that they can buy adventures. Their second mistake is to reply to Mister Marvo’s advert for Instant Adventures [Scary but Safe]. The result is they find themselves caught up in a real adventure. But Little is scared of bangs; snow gives Yeller the trembles; their new friend Stubbs, the crow, is too frit to fly and… Smellybreff gets cubnapped. Will they be able to get through Frettnin Forest and over the Grim Mountains? Will they manage to cross the Perrilus Pass into Grimshire? Can they battle across the White Wildness, the Shivering Seas and conquer Vile Island. YOU BET THEY CAN!Little Wolf’s letters about his daring deeds will delight anyone with a sense of fun, both young or old, especially those who have already enjoyed Little Wolf’s Book of Badness.

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Автор: Bolton Sarah Knowles

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