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Автор: Nicola Barker

'There was a rat in the bath', Gene explains. 'It's a long story, but basically I fished it out and was carrying around by the tail, not quite sure how to dispose of it, when I managed to barge in on this woman having a genital tattoo'.2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods' reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist yet. Storm-clouds of a different kind are gathering above the bar of Luton's less than exclusive Thistle Hotel. Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a man who's had cancer seven times, a woman priest with an unruly fringe, the troubled family of a notorious local fascist, an interfering barmaid with three E's at A-level but a PhD in bullshit, and a free-thinking Muslim sex therapist and his considerably more pious wife. But at the heart of every intrigue and the bottom of every mystery is the repugnantly charismatic figure of Stuart Ransom – a golfer in free-fall.Nicola Barker's THE YIPS is at once a historical novel of the pre-Twitter moment, the filthiest state-of-the-nation novel since Martin Amis' MONEY and the most flamboyant piece of comic fiction ever to be set in Luton.

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Автор: Евгений Додолев

Многие ли знают, что ведущим «Взгляда» был (в одном из выпусков) легендарный КВН-человек Александр Масляков? Что с подачи Ивана Демидова в нашем языке появилось слово «ток-шоу» вместо «толк-шоу»? Книга основана на воспоминаниях Евгения Додолева о создании и крушении самого рейтингового проекта отечественного телевидения – передачи «Взгляд». Двадцать лет спустя после закрытия Кремлем этой программы автор встречался с тем, кто стоял у истоков «Взгляда». Автор – самый скандальный журналист эпохи перестройки, имевший прямое отношение к «Взгляду».

Серия: Кремлевский диггер

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Автор: Douglas James

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Автор: Томас де Квинси

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Автор: Группа авторов

Примечание: Теоретико-практическое руководство по хирургии, с включением венерических и глазных болезней. Полный вариант заголовка: «Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie, mit Einschluss der syphilitischen und Augenkrankheiten in alphabetischer Ordnung. Bd. 3 : Von Bi bis Car / unter Mitwirkung eines Vereins von Aerzten hrsg. von Joh. Nep. Rust».

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Автор: Bruce Robinson

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA book like no other – the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history’s most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I.For over a hundred years, ‘the mystery of Jack the Ripper’ has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England.But what if there was never really any ‘mystery’ at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice?In THEY ALL LOVE JACK, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history’s most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites and institutionalised corruption.Polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson’s inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, THEY ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts – the so-called ‘Ripperologists’ – to make clear, at last, who really did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.

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Автор: Anna Kharzeeva

Автор книги решила проверить, насколько актуальны рецепты из Книги о вкусной и здоровой пище. Для этого она приготовила больше 100 блюд из книги и попросила свою бабушку поделиться воспоминаниями о советском времени. Итогом стала книга, в которой записана устная история одной семьи через призму старых рецептов.

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Автор: Cal Flyn

Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but played a dark role in Australia's bloody history.In 1837 Angus McMillan left the Scottish Highlands for the other side of the world. Cutting paths through the Australian frontier, he became a feted pioneer, to be forever mythologised in status and landmarks. He was also Cal Flyn’s great-great-great-uncle. Inspired by his fame, Flyn followed in his footsteps to Australia, where she would face horrifying family secrets.Blending memoir, history and travel,Thicker Than Water’ evokes the startlingly beautiful wilderness of the Highlands, the desolate bush of Victoria and the reverberations on one from the other. A tale of blood and bloodlines, it is a powerful, personal journey into dark family history, grief and guilt.

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Автор: Michael Gelb

Ebook edition, including a new introduction by the author, of this inspiring guide to developing your full potential. A perfect buy for the business market as well as those wishing to explore their power of their brain, this book shows you how to imitate Leonardo Da Vinci’s thought processes and so enhance your aptitude in every area of your life.Learn how to fulfill your true potential by developing the thought processes used by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci. Simply by imitating his insatiable quest for information and experience, we can all enhance our own aptitude in all facets of our lives.Michael Gelb discusses the seven fundamental elements of Da Vinci’s thought process and offers practical ways to incorporate them into our own lives. The techniques outlined in the book help readers to develop the same traits of whole-brain thinking, creative problem solving and continuous learning, all of which are vital in today’s world.Numerous exercises, anecdotes and illustrations help readers to master these techniques and create a personal and professional renaissance of their very own.

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Автор: Elizabeth Warren

‘Nevertheless, she persisted’ has become a rallying cry for millions of those fed up with phony promises and governments that no longer serve their people. In this inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller and inspiring book, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren argues for a fair future for ordinary working people. Join the fight!In this passionate book, one of America’s leading progressive voices empowers those who wish for a fairer society. This Fight Is Our Fight lays out the many wrongs Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren seeks to right and builds on her meme, ‘Nevertheless, she persisted’, which spread across the world as a rallying cry for the millions who wish to fight back.From Roosevelt’s New Deal through to President Trump’s phoney promises, this is a sharp critique of how big corporations and financial institutions overpowered the interests of poor, lower-income and middle-class people.Writing in her trademark candid, high-spirited voice, Warren delivers a rousing call to action, outlining how government can better serve the people who now face an uncertain future. A must read for those who want a more inclusive society.

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Автор: Би Уилсон

‘This book can’t give you a six-pack in seven days or the skin of a supermodel. But I can promise that if you make even a few of these adjustments, your eating life will alter for the better in ways that you can sustain.’This Is Not A Diet Book is a collection of calm, practical tips and ideas on healthier, happier eating from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson.From unsweetening your palate to rethinking the lunchtime sandwich, This Is Not A Diet Book gathers together some of the wisest, most constructive advice for feeding you and your family.

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Автор: (Lemon5ky) Дубровин Дмитрий

Уже ставший легендарным первый выпуск официального комикса про героев популярного ютуб-шоу This Is Хорошо – Стаса Давывдова, Сержа и Виталия! Вас ждут эпичные аварии со взрывами (а как же без них), техногенные катастрофы со взрывами (взрывов много не бывает), умилительные зверушки, очень много Латвии и, конечно же, море шуток, мемов и бесполезных суперспособностей

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Автор: Richard Holmes

Across three centuries, and much of Europe – “Holmes writes beautifully… A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ The OldieIn this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes confesses to a lifetime’s obsession with his Romantic subjects. This pursuit has taken him across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers.Central to this quest is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and others almost lost: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Sta?l, Mary Wollstonecraft and Z?lide. He investigates the myths that have overshadowed the lives of some favourite Romantics: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence, the opium-soaked genius Coleridge, and the mad-visionary bard William Blake.The diversity of Holmes’s material is testimony to his empathy, erudition and enquiring spirit; and at times his mischievous streak. This Long Pursuit contains Richard Holmes’s most personal and seductive writing yet.

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Автор: Louise Hare

THIS LOVELY CITY has been included in the biggest 2020 round-ups:One of OBSERVER’S 10 best debut novelists of 2020 WOMAN & HOME Best of 2020 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Best of 2020 EVENING STANDARD Best books of 2020 MAIL ON SUNDAY 2020 HighlightsI Best of 2020**********************************************‘Full of life and love… it made my heart soar, and should be on every Londoner’s shelf’ Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars‘I loved, loved, loved it, and desperately wanted things to work out for Lawrie and Evie’ Cathy Rentzenbrink, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love‘This atmospheric novel is a triumphant debut’ Woman & Home‘Expect to be obsessed . . . [a book] you need to know about’Good Housekeeping‘A tale to wring the heart and make the blood boil, swirling with post-war gloom, illuminated by the shining lights of Lawrie and Evie’Saga******The drinks are flowing. The music is playing. But the party can’t last.With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Fresh off the Empire Windrush, he’s taken a tiny room in south London lodgings, and has fallen in love with the girl next door.Touring Soho’s music halls by night, pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home – and it’s alive with possibility. Until, one morning, he makes a terrible discovery.As the local community rallies, fingers of blame are pointed at those who had recently been welcomed with open arms. And, before long, the newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy which threatens to tear the city apart.Atmospheric, poignant and compelling, Louise Hare’s debut shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects. But, also, that there is always hope.

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Автор: Sarah Wilson

Исполнители: Sarah Wilson

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Автор: John Rogers

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches.When John Rogers packed away his rucksack to start a family in London he didn’t stop travelling. But instead of canoeing up the Rejang River to find retired headhunters in Sarawak, he caught the ferry to Woolwich in search of the edge of the city at Crayford Marshes.This Other London recounts that journey and many others – all on foot and epic in their own cartilage-crunching way. Clutching a samosa and a handful of out-of-date A-Zs, he heads out into the wilderness of isolated luxury apartment blocks in Brentford, the ruins of Lesnes Abbey near Thamesmead, and the ancient Lammas Lands in Leyton.Denounced by his young sons as a ‘hippy wizard’, Rogers delves into some of the overlooked stories rumbling beneath the tarmac of the city suburbs. Holy wells in Lewisham; wassailing in Clapton; a heretical fresco in West Ham. He encounters the Highwaymen of Hounslow Heath, Viet Cong vets still fighting Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket in Beckton, Dutch sailors marooned at Erith pier; and cyclists – without Bradley Wiggins’ sideburns – at Herne Hill Velodrome. He heads out to Uxendon Hill to witness the end of the world, Horsenden Hill to learn its legend, and Tulse Hill to the observatory of the Victorian Brian Cox.This Other London will take you into the hinterland of the city. The London that is lived in; the London where workaday dormitory suburbs sit atop a rich history that could rival Westminster and Tower Bridge. In an age when no corner of the globe has been left untrampled-upon by hordes of tourists, it is time to discover the wonders on our doorstep.This Other London is your gateway through the underexplored nooks of London. As Pathfinder wrote in 1911, ‘Adventure begins at home’.

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Автор: Eleonore Stump

Исполнители: Eleonore Stump

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Автор: Robert Alexander McDonald

Исполнители: Robert Alexander McDonald

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Автор: Michael W. Higgins

Исполнители: Michael W. Higgins

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Автор: Martin Arnold

Thor ist der beliebteste und, zusammen mit Odin, der bekannteste der nordischen G?tter. Als Held sch?tzt er Asgard und Midgard vor Chaos und Zerst?rung durch die Riesen, sein Hammer Mj?llnir ist damals wie heute das Symbol f?r den alten Glauben.Als Volksgott wurde Thor schon immer verehrt, doch den H?hepunkt seiner Beliebtheit erreichte er in der sp?ten Wikingerzeit, als man ihn zum Schutzgott gegen den von S?den her eindringenden christlichen Gott auserkor. Trotz der Missionierung der germanischen St?mme starb der Glaube an Thor niemals aus. Martin Arnold, Professor der Skandinavischen Literatur, folgt in diesem anregenden Buch die Spuren des nordischen Gottes: von den ?ltesten isl?ndischen ?berlieferungen in den Eddas ?ber die Romantik und der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bis hin zu den Marvel Comics von heute.

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Автор: Vadim Garbuzov

Vadim Garbuzov is a Canadian and Austrian ballroom dancer, showman and choreographer of Ukrainian descent. He was the World Youth Championship finalist in 2005, the winner of the Austrian TV program Dancing Stars in 2012, 2014 and 2020, and the professional world champion in Latin and Standard show dance 2015-2017. Currently, he is a Pro on the German TV Show Let’s Dance.Besides, Vadim is writing poetry, essays and other genres. This is the full collection of his writing works as of the end of 2023.

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Автор: Theresa Rebeck

A stunning novel about celebrity and the price of fame from a Pulitzer-shortlisted playwright and the creator of hit series SMASH.It was the photograph in the New Yorker which started it all. They were three young, beautiful, red-haired girls, there granddaughters of a literary lion. They were News. But it was the row over the youngest's reaction to the attentions from one of Hollywood's biggest stars that made them Celebrities.The family – the three sisters, their brother, their mother, their normally absent father – are sucked into a whirlwind of agents, producers, managers, photo shoots, paparazzi, journalists, stylists, parties, shows, a maelstrom they have no idea how to control.The three girls – and their brother, an uneasy observer – experiment with life and change, and learn to survive, each of them differently. Each of them pays a different price in their relationship with each other, with their parents and in their beliefs in themselves and the civilisation around them.Three Girls and their Brother is a novel to devour. The story is compelling, sometimes cutting, sometimes touching. The characters leap widely off the page. The setting and portrait of the celebrity scene is completely convincing, busy and yet intimate. Theresa Rebeck's first novel is a triumph.

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Автор: Joanna Cannon

The Sunday Times Bestseller‘Lovely, lovely, lovely… Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe’ MARIAN KEYES‘Powerful and profound’ Guardian‘Another sure-fire hit’ Daily Mail‘Funny, melancholy, acutely observant’ Sunday Express84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew – a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they’d laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light …

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Автор: Karen Armstrong

Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training, she encountered a frightening and oppressive world, fossilized by tradition, which moulded, isolated and pushed her to the limit of what she could endure.

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Автор: David Hudson

Исполнители: David Hudson

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Автор: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"?Podr?a ser posible? ?Este viejo santo en el bosque a?n no ha o?do hablar de ?l, que Dios est? muerto!"El antiguo profeta persa Zarathustra desciende de una vida de soledad en la monta?a para anunciar al mundo que Dios ha sido suplantado por el «Superhombre», lo divino en forma humana. En una de las obras m?s radicales e influyentes de la filosof?a moderna, Friedrich Nietzsche expone los nuevos est?ndares de moralidad despu?s de la «muerte de Dios».Frecuentemente tergiversado (y secuestrado con un prop?sito peligroso por los intelectuales nazis), Spake Zarathustra es una obra de brillantez profunda y dominio po?tico que todav?a proporciona significado en el mundo complejo y cambiante de hoy.

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Автор: Loretta Candelaresi

Il suo motto personale: “Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficolt?, non cambiare n? per amici n? per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenit? e pensa Ke ogni giorno sar? meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ci? ke + ti piace!!! ..… E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro”. L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficolt?, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perch? insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore. Una storia che ci fa palpitare il cuore, che ci fa riflettere e interrogare; che ci invita ad esplorare la profondit? dell'animo e che ci meraviglia continuamente. Attraverso una serie di avvenimenti si snoda il racconto della nostra protagonista che comunque ci lascia la sua eredit? di eroina romantica. Lei inarrestabile, diretta come un gancio destro, dissacrante, vivace, vera, libera, sincera sempre e ad ogni costo, coerente, forte e dignitosa. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Автор: Mar?a Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo

Tiempo del sur (UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT, 2018) nos sumerge en la historia de una familia de Medell?n, los Restrepo Garc?a, a trav?s del mon?logo interior de cuatro de sus mujeres: Manuela, Titi, Elena y Elisa. Estas cuatro mujeres, aunque son muy distintas en edad, personalidad y experiencias, tienen en com?n el conocimiento de lo que significa, de un modo u otro, sobrellevar una existencia al margen. Elena, madre y abuela de las otras protagonistas, descubre a sus casi setenta a?os que ha llegado a la viudez sin haber podido expresar sus opiniones o deseos al haber sido silenciada durante d?cadas por el car?cter f?rreo de su marido, Ignacio. Elisa, la hija mayor de Elena, mantuvo su homosexualidad en secreto hasta que, ya en su madurez, encontr? a la mujer de su vida, Laura. Titi, la hija menor de Elena, escapando de las deudas contra?das en Colombia, ha vivido como emigrante ilegal en los Estados Unidos durante once a?os y, junto a su marido y sus hijos, al no haber conseguido el estatus de refugiados en Canad?, debe enfrentarse al regreso forzoso a Colombia. Manuela, hija de Titi, vive, al igual que sus padres, como ilegal en Estados Unidos y, m?s tarde, tras su vuelta a Colombia, se vuelve a sentir al margen en Medell?n, ciudad que la vio nacer pero con la cual no se identifica. La novela narra la lucha ?ntima y cotidiana que cada una de estas mujeres para hacerse con las riendas de su vida. Uno de los elementos que llama la atenci?n de Tiempo del sur es su minuciosa y original estructura. La narrativa est? organizada en seis tiempos diferentes («Tiempo de inicio», «El paso del tiempo», «Los buenos tiempos», «Tiempo de cambio», «Tiempo de respuestas» y «El final de un tiempo») y cada una de esas etapas est? formada por cuatro mon?logos de las protagonistas. Un total de veinticuatro piezas dise?adas con precisi?n de orfebre articulan un mosaico detallado, complejo y arm?nico de los dilemas y los afectos que vertebran la vida de las Restrepo Garc?a.

Исполнители: Peter Kaempfe

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Автор: Katharina Abel

Basti sucht immer noch nach einem tierischen Freund. Vielleicht w?re ein Hund das Richtige? Der Junge ist sogar bereit, die ganze Verantwortung zu ?bernehmen! Seine Eltern sind zun?chst gar nicht begeistert. Ein Hund macht viel Arbeit. Doch bald geben sie nach und kaufen einen Hund, einen kleinen ordentlichen Foxterrier namens Lucky. Nun ist Basti ?bergl?cklich mit seinem neuen Gef?hrten. Davon, dass man einen Hund auch erziehen sollte, wei? Basti allerdings nicht viel … Und eines Tages entdeckt Lucky, dass er bellen kann. Von da an gibt es kein Halten mehr! Mit der Zeit wird er zu einem echten Racker, der die ganze Blumenstadt geh?rig auf den Kopf stellt.
Mit vielen praktischen Tipps zur Tierhaltung in Kooperation mit zahlreichen namhaften Tierschutzorganisationen.
• Gute Text-Bild-Verh?ltnisse • Praktisches Format • Tierwissen mit Spa? vermittelt • Geeignet sowohl f?r M?dchen als auch f?r Jungen • Mit Humor Illustriert

Серия: Tierfreunde aus Blumenstadt

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Автор: Amelia Kinkade

Wenn Amelia Kinkade mit wilden, in Freiheit lebenden Tieren Kontakt aufnimmt, bekommt man G?nsehaut. Da bittet sie telepathisch eine Horde von Elefanten, die eigentlich die N?he von Menschen scheut, darum, zum Eingang eines Naturparks zu kommen. Die wilden Typen lassen nicht lange auf sich warten, einige betreten sogar das Geb?ude der Parkverwaltung, um Kinkade zu begr??en – w?hrend der Parkbesitzer vor Angst erstarrt… Die Begegnungen von Amelia Kinkade mit Tieren grenzen mitunter – sogar f?r Experten – an ein Wunder, die New York Times z?hlt Kinkade zur besten Tierkommunikatorin der Welt. Doch das Anliegen der Tiersch?tzerin, die von den Cherokee-Indianern abstammt, ist es nicht, mit ihren au?ergew?hnlichen F?higkeiten zu gl?nzen. Kinkades Herzensanliegen ist es, uns zu zeigen, wie intelligent und weise Tiere tats?chlich sind – und uns zu ermutigen, daf?r einzustehen, dass das Leiden, das Menschen Tieren zuf?gen, endlich ein Ende hat.

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Автор: Елена Kalistka Тяжеляк

Данная книга посвящена живой легенде испанского хард-рока, группе из Риохи – Tierra Santa. Это – не просто биография, составителем была предпринята попытка создать подробную хронологию событий и проанализировать лирику с культурологической точки зрения. Также были написаны рецензии на все диски коллектива.Елене удалось взять лично интервью у участников команды. Нужно отметить, что никогда прежде музыканты не давали интервью российским СМИ, посему уже сам этот факт делает книгу уникальной. Книга содержит нецензурную брань.

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Автор: Rem Word

History of Russia from Alexander the First to Vladimir Lenin. The history of money at the same time. See the obverse of the past embodied in the present. Some materials were presented in another author’s book – “The History of almost Everything. Practical guide of the eaters of Time”.

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Автор: Ben Elton

It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another single bullet save it?

Исполнители: Jot Davies

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Автор: Alger Horatio Jr

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Автор: Nicole Haldoupis

Исполнители: Nicole Haldoupis

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Автор: Renate Kazempour

Fips l?sst den Leser teilhaben an den Sorgen, N?ten und auch Freuden der Vierbeiner aus seiner ganz speziellen Hundesicht und hofft somit, zum besseren Verst?ndnis f?r seine Artgenossen, egal welcher Rasse, beizutragen. Gel?nge es ihm zudem die Menschen f?r Tiere und deren dringend notwendigen Schutz generell zu sensibilisieren, w?re dies eine tolle Sache.

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Автор: Группа авторов

Серия: Tirol hautnah erlebt

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Серия: Tirol hautnah erlebt

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Автор: Sheila Hale

Devoted father and loyal friend, Titian was notorious for disregarding authority and was an international celebrity by his late fifties. He was famously difficult but his stubbornness and horrendous timekeeping did nothing to deter his patrons who included the Hapsburgs, the Pope and his family and Charles V.During his career, which spanned more than seventy years, Titian painted around five or six hundred pictures of which less than half survive. His work has been studied by generations of great artists from Rubens to Manet and he is often seen as having artistically transcended his own time.Sheila Hale not only examines his life, both personal and professional, but how his art affected his contemporaries and how it influences artists today. She also examines Venice in its context of a city at the time of the Renaissance, overshadowed artistically by Rome and Florence and growing into the famous historical city it has become.This is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in the history of Western art and a vivid evocation of Venice in its ‘Golden Age’.

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Автор: Hall William Hutcheon

A master of the innuendo and the raised eyebrow, Frankie Howerd – inimitable star of the classic ‘Carry On’ films – became a cult hero.As much at home in the Oxford Union as in high-camp pantomime, he was adored by millions, old and young alike. From his first memory of falling downstairs as a toddler and landing on his head (and thus uttering the original ‘Oooo … ahhaah!’) to his countless radio, stage, TV and fillm appearances, Frankie Howerd was nevertheless a shy man, a perfectionist haunted by self-doubt and a battle with depression.Rich in anecdotes and revelations, with many of his friends contributing their own stories, Titter Ye Not! is an affectionate portrait of a comic genius whose like will never be seen again.

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Автор: Charles Spencer

In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and 10,000 taken prisoner, it seemed as if his dreams of power had been dashed. Surely it was a foregone conclusion that he would now be caught and follow his father to the block?At six foot two inches tall, the prince towered over his contemporaries and with dark skin inherited from his French-Italian mother, he stood out in a crowd. How would he fare on the run with Cromwell’s soldiers on his tail and a vast price on his head?The next six weeks would form the most memorable and dramatic of Charles’ life. Pursued relentlessly, Charles ran using disguise, deception and relying on grit, fortitude and good luck. He suffered grievously through weeks when his cause seemed hopeless. He hid in an oak tree – an event so fabled that over 400 English pubs are named Royal Oak in commemoration. Less well-known events include his witnessing a village in wild celebrations at the erroneous news of his killing; the ordeal of a medical student wrongly imprisoned because of his similarity in looks; Charles disguising himself as a servant and as one half of an eloping couple to escape capture.Charles never forgot those who helped him and, when restored to the throne as Charles II, told the tale of his adventures to Samuel Pepys who transcribed it all.In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys’ account and many others to retell this epic story. With bloodied feet and facing certain death if caught, Charles relied upon a patchwork of hiding places that had evolved to hide Catholics from lethal persecution. Now, in the 1650s, they saved the life of a king.

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Автор: Joanna Briscoe

A short story by Joanna Briscoe from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘To Hold’, a woman looks back on her life, which has been defined by three marriages.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Bront?’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

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Автор: Virginia Woolf

Исполнители: Karen Cass

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Автор: Nigel Slater

Now a critically-acclaimed play at London’s The Other Palace Theatre.‘Remarkable' Observer'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written' Daily Telegraph‘My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance across her forehead. This is not an occasional occurrence. My mother burns the toast as surely as the sun rises each morning.’Toast is Nigel Slater’s award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mother’s surprisingly good rice pudding, his father’s bold foray into spaghetti and his dreaded Boxing Day stew, or such culinary highlights as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in 1960s suburban England.Likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating backdrop to Nigel Slater’s incredibly moving and deliciously evocative portrait of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening.

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Автор: Karen Rose

Исполнители: Sabina Godec

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Автор: John Garth

A biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings.“To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.”So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the Rings as a reaction to the Second World War. Tolkien and the Great War tells for the first time the full story of how he embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were killed, Tolkien pursued the dream they had all shared by launching his epic of good and evil.John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the key to Middle-earth’s enduring power. Tolkien used his mythic imagination not to escape from reality but to reflect and transform the cataclysm of his generatuion. While his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day.This is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since 1977, meticulously researched and distilled from his personal wartime papers and a multitude of other sources.

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Автор: Jack Higgins

From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked.Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he?Maybe it would all have been easier to take if he really had been mad

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Автор: John Fisher

The first ever intimate portrait of Britain’s best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer. Fully authorised, and written by Cooper’s friend and colleague John Fisher.More than just a comedian, Tommy Cooper was a born entertainer. Working in a golden age of British comedy, Cooper stood – literally – head and shoulders above the crowd, and had a magical talent for humour that defied description.But there was a man behind the laughter that few people saw. John Fisher was Cooper's friend and colleague and witnessed first-hand the moments of self-doubt and inadequacy that contrasted with the genial exterior. Until his tragic death on live television in 1984, Tommy Cooper lived in constant fear of the day he would be found out by his audience. He could never accept the accolades that came so thick and fast from every direction, and died to the sounds of laughter that he never really believed.Supplementing his own intimate knowledge with material accessed for the first time from the archives of Cooper's agent and manager, Miff Ferrie, and with the full co-operation of the Cooper family, John Fisher's warm, honest and insightful writing skilfully brings alive the man behind the comedic mask in this definitive biography of a comedy legend.

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Автор: Richard Holmes

The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it.Of the six million men who served in the British army, nearly one million lost their lives and over two million were wounded. This is the story of these men – epitomised by the character of Sgt Tommy Atkins – and the women they left behind.Using previously unseen letters, diaries, memoirs and poetry from the years 1914-1918, Richard Holmes paints a moving picture of the generation that fought and died in the mud of Flanders. He follows men whose mental health was forever destroyed by shell shock, women who lost husbands and brothers in the same afternoon and those who wrote at lunchtime and died before tea.Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, this book tells the real story of trench warfare, the strength and fallibility of the human spirit, the individuals behind an epic event, and their legacy. It is an emotional and unforgettable masterpiece from one of our most important historians.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

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Автор: Morrissey

A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2. This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during the late 1960s and '70s.This memoir takes you on a roller-coaster journey through the glory days of pop music, when men wore sequins and pop could truly rock. Featuring behind-the-scenes stories of big names such as Bowie, Visconti's unique access to the hottest talent, both on stage and off, for over five decades is complemented by unseen photographs from his own personal archive, offering a glimpse at music history that few have witnessed so intimately.Soon after abandoning his native New York to pursue his musical career in the UK, Visconti was soon in the thick of the emerging glam rock movement, launching T.Rex to commercial success and working with the then-unknown David Bowie.Since his fateful move to the land of tea and beer drunk straight from the can, Visconti has worked with such names as T.Rex, Thin Lizzy, Wings, The Boomtown Rats, Marsha Hunt, Procol Harum, and more recently Ziggy Marley, Mercury Rev, the Manic Street Preachers and Morrissey on his acclaimed new album 'Ringleader of the Tormentors'.Even Visconti's personal life betrays an existence utterly immersed in music. Married to first to Siegrid Berman, then to Mary Hopkin and later to May Pang, he counts many of the musicians and producers he has worked with as close friends and is himself a celebrated musician.

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Автор: Brian Ford J

Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs’ lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient inventions: how dinosaurs mated, how they hunted and communicated, how they nursed their young, even how they moved. He uncovers many surprising details which challenge our most deeply-held beliefs – such as the revelation that an asteroid impact did not end the dinosaurs’ existence.Professor Ford’s illuminating examination changes everything. As he unravels the history of the world, we discover that evolution was not Charles Darwin’s idea; there were many philosophers who published the theory before him. The concept of continental drift and plate tectonics did not begin with Alfred Wegener a century ago, but dates back to learned pioneers hundreds of years before his time. Ever since scientists first began to study dinosaurs, they have travelled with each other down the wrong path, and Ford now shows how this entire branch of science has to be rewritten.A new dinosaur species is announced every ten days, and more and more information is currently being discovered about how they may have lived: locomotion, hunting, nesting behaviour, distribution, extinction. Ford brings together these amazing discoveries in this controversial new book which undoubtedly will ruffle a few feathers, or scales if you are an old-school dinosaur lover.

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