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A brilliant overview of that most vital, most underrated and most elusive of human activities, sleep.Using the approach and skills he deployed to such successful effect on the relationship between mind and body in the prize-winning ‘The Sickening Mind’, likeable British popular science author Paul Martin here tackles the science of that most mysterious, elusive and alluring of human activities, sleeping, and draws on both cutting-edge neuroscience and classic literature to do so.We spend one...
| Автор | Paul Martin |
A moving account of the death of Brian Aldiss’ wife Margaret.Margaret Aldiss, Brian’s wife of thirty years, passed away quickly after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Based on journals they both kept, When the Feast is Finished is a moving account of those last months of Margaret’s life.Alongside Margaret’s bravely honest journal entries, Aldiss draws a heartbreaking portrait of the sustaining force of love in the face of a devastating illness.As husband and wife describe those last few...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
Writer, soldier, bookseller, father: Brian Aldiss has earned many titles in his life. In the Twinkling of an Eye is a candid, vivid and charming look at the stories behind this distinctive writer of fiction.His life as a struggling novelist is unflinchingly laid bare. There are recollections of the beauty and freedoms of Sumatra, the camaraderie of the army and the sobriety of post-war England, bookselling in Oxford, marital breakdown and financial impoverishment. With insight and honesty,...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
This edition does not include illustrations.From the author of ‘Britons’, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh – an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas.This is a book about a world in a life. An individual lost to history, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-85) travelled farther, and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe, than the vast majority of men....
| Автор | Linda Colley |
'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biography ranges across the whole of Adorno's life and career, from his childhood and student years to his years in emigration...
| Автор | Rodney Livingstone |
Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences – there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and protestantism, the religious origins of the Western world, the force of charisma in religion as well as in politics, the all-embracing process of rationalization and the bureaucratic price of progress, the role of legitimacy and of violence as...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child.‘Bertie, May and Mrs Fish’ is Xandra Bingley’s account of her childhood on a Cotswold farm, set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath. Bingley’s mother is left to farm the land, isolated in the landscape, whilst her husband is away at war. With its eccentric cast of characters, this book captures both the essence of a country childhood and the...
| Автор | Xandra Bingley |
‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before...
| Автор | Christina Thompson |
From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politicsWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.From the rise of the internet to her own appearance on an early reality TV...
| Автор | Jia Tolentino |
A Ballymaloe-trained chef, songwriter and musical right-hand-man to the legends of Irish song takes us back stage and into the kitchens of a bohemian, international and surprisingly foodie group of Irish household names, including members of the Dubliners, Sharon Shannon, Stockton’s Wing, The Fureys and De Dannan.Story-led and full of anecdotes, Mike Hanrahan tells the tales behind the music of the 1970s and 80s in Ireland and cooks up the favourite dishes of its most-loved singers.From memories...
| Автор | Mike Hanrahan |
A new biography of Pliny the YoungerAD 79. Above the Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius is spewing thick ash into the sky. The inhabitants of nearby villages stand in their doorways, eyes cast on the unknown. Pliny the Elder, a historian, admiral of the fleet, and author of an extraordinary encyclopaedia of Natural History, dares to draw closer to the phenomenon. He perishes beneath the volcano. His seventeen-year-old nephew, Pliny the Younger, survives.The elder Pliny left behind an enormous...
| Автор | Daisy Dunn |
This ebook is about the influence of the Western Culture on an Egyptian writer. I was very interested in politics and news. And the result was that I felt that all the western peoples hate us. Although generalization is a very common mistake, I was the victim of this mistake: I listened to the news and I generalized my feelings: all the western peoples hate us and want to destroy our countries. Since 2003, I began using the Internet. I dealt with many western persons. And gradually my feelings...
| Автор | El-Manzalawy Wael |
Il suo motto personale: “Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..… E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro”. L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico...
| Автор | Loretta Candelaresi |
Porywająca historia ogromnego oszustwa, opowieść o ambicji i nieposkromionej pysze. Założycielka i prezeska Theranosa Elizabeth Holmes była powszechnie uważana za Steve’a Jobsa w spódnicy. Rzuciła studia, a jej firma miała w 2014 roku zrewolucjonizować przemysł medyczny dzięki maszynie, która znacznie usprawniłaby badanie krwi. Inwestorzy oszaleli: podczas kampanii finansowania wyceniono Theranosa na kwotę 9 miliardów dolarów, a wartość udziałów samej Holmes wynosiła 4,7 miliarda. Był tylko...
| Автор | Maria Jaszczurowska |
Zinedine Zidane on üks meie aja andekaimatest ja kuulsaimatest jalgpalluritest, kelle imelist karjääri ilmestab hulk otsustavaid mänge ja väravaid ning kes „käsitseb palli nagu Stradivariust“. Tema siirdumine Torino Juventusest Madridi Reali aastal 2001 oli jalgpalliajaloo kõige kallim üleminek. Kuid Zidane’i ikoonilisus jätkab kasvu ka pärast skandaalset lahkumist palliplatsilt: temast on saanud Madridi Reali võidukas, juba legendaarne peatreener. Tohutust ja mitmekülgsest edust hoolimata on...
| Автор | Jean Philippe, Patrick Fort |
La cantante folk e attivista sociale argentina, Mercedes Sosa, era un' artista di livello mondiale, la cui influenza andava ben oltre i confini della musica. Nella lista nera come una delle persone più pericolose per il regime in Argentina negli anni '70, diventò il punto di riferimento sotterraneo per i poveri e gli oppressi e un'icona della democrazia che combatté i dittatori del Sud America con la sua voce. Soprannominata ”La Voce dei Senza Voce”, Sosa emerse come leggenda e madre molto amata...
| Автор | Anette Christensen |
Minu üllitis pole kirjutatud päris tavaliste kaanonite järgi. Need on mälestustekillud, lükitud ajateljele, nagu mu elu on kulgenud, üritamata anda mastaapsemat sündmuste raamistikku. Esitan asju nii, nagu mina neid nägin ja näen. Lisatud omi mõtteid maailma asjade kohta. Kohati antud ka taustainfot, sest noorem põlvkond ei orienteeru ülearu hästi nõukogude elu ja olu eripäras. Päevikut ei ole ma kunagi pidanud. Selle kirjutise jaoks ei istunud ma raamatukogus ega uurinud algallikaid...
| Автор | Toomas Leito |
Pariis, 1919: Coco Chanelil on edukalt loonud oma moefirma ja teel tuntuse poole Euroopa kõrgseltskonnas. Kuid kui tema väljavalitu Boy Capel autoõnnetuses surma saab, kaotab naine otsekui põhjuse elada. Ootamatu kohtumine Vene Balleti impressaarioga, tsarinna taskurätt ja selle müstiline aroom annab aga Coco elule uue eesmärgi – ta tahab taasluua selle vaimustava lõhna, tõelise armastuse parfüümi. Oma otsingutel kohtub ta karismaatilise Dimitri Romanovi, geniaalse helilooja Igor Stravinski,...
| Автор | Michelle Marly |
Shulem Deen dorastał w latach osiemdziesiątych w Nowym Jorku, jednak zamiast matematyki czy angielskiego uczył się praw obowiązujących w starożytnej Jerozolimie (wiedział na przykład, co zrobić, gdy byk zrani krowę, która wpadła do dołu w czasie modlitwy). Kiedy miał osiemnaście lat, ożenił się z dziewczyną, z którą przed ślubem rozmawiał zaledwie przez siedem minut. W wieku dwudziestu kilku lat był ojcem pięciorga dzieci. Dni spędzał na studiowaniu Talmudu i modlitwie. Nie oglądał telewizji,...
| Автор | Shulem Deen |
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain’s most remarkable 20th century figures.Airey Neave was one of the most extraordinary figures of his generation. Taken prisoner during WW2, he was the first British officer to escape from Colditz and using the code name ‘Saturday’ became a key figure...
| Автор | Patrick Bishop |
“You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre.”One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his...
| Автор | Эндрю Ллойд Уэббер |
A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please Don’t Take My Baby, coming out on April 25th.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was forgotten.The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers...
| Автор | Richard Gallear |