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Tõlkinud Virgo Siil Toimetanud Karolin Kaivoja jaehind 17,90 Kujundanud Villu Koskaru 608 lk 6 NBA meistritiitlit 6 korda NBA finaalmängude kõige väärtuslikum mängija 5 korda NBA hooaja kõige väärtuslikum mängija 2 olümpiakulda Korduvalt valitud aasta ning kogu oma põlvkonna parimaks sportlaseks erinevate väljaannete poolt Michael Jordan (snd 1963) on spordilegend, kes 1990ndatel aastatel oli korvpalli tuntuim nägu üle maailma ning paljudele on siiani jäänud ületamatuks...
| Автор | Roland Lazenby |
Prawdziwa historia seryjnego zabójcy i nekrofila. Edmund Kolanowski, poznański nekrofil, działał w latach 80. XX wieku. Śledztwo z wnikliwością i skrupulatnością rekonstruują w porażającym reportażu Michał Larek i Waldemar Ciszak, ukazując mroczną umysłowość sprawcy oraz zaangażowanie osób i instytucji, które zajmowały się jego sprawą. To lektura dla osób o mocnych nerwach. „Przerażająca książka, która na długo zapada w pamięci. Sprawdźcie sami, gorąco polecam!” (Marcin Myszka, Niediegetyczne,...
| Автор | Michał Larek |
En un siglo dominado por gobernantes absolutistas y aristócratas prepotentes, la familia Mozart viaja por toda Europa en busca de consagración artística y empleo prestigioso. ¿Será suficiente la ambición de su padre Leopold y el genio de su hijo Wolfgang para lograr su objetivo? La historia de su vida, para conocerlos y comprenderlos, siguiéndolos paso a paso a través de las etapas de sus viajes de aventura. La vida y las peripecias de la familia Mozart en la Europa del siglo XVII: más allá del...
| Автор | Diego Minoia |
The first biographical study of Nano Nagle, the foundress of he Presentation order of nuns, that positions her within Irish social history, and assesses her vast international legacy. Nano Nagle: The Life and the Education Legacy draws on archival materials from three continents, providing a compelling account of how one woman's extraordinary life challenged social constraints and championed social justice and equality. Leading education historian, Deirdre Raftery, has produced not only a...
| Автор | Deirdre Raftery |
“I Travel the Open Road” contains a fantastic collection of classic travel writings by a variety of notable authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, and others. With pieces covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia, and the Americas, this collection offers the reader an insight not only into many different countries around the world, but also into history and the people and places of times past. Highly recommended for lovers of travel writing and discerning collectors of classic...
| Автор | Various |
A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story—Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington’s Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun...
| Автор | Edward Achorn |
Three Brothers is Yan’s first work of nonfiction to appear in English. It will offer new territory for his American readers, who will begin to understand the real-life man behind his acclaimed novels. There has been a huge surge of interest in Yan Lianke’s writing after Jiayang Fan’s profile appeared in the New Yorker in October 2018. His dissenting voice is all the more important as Xi Jinping’s regime becomes ever more restrictive. Yan Lianke figures each year as a favored candidate for the...
| Автор | Yan Lianke |
Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly —an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books —specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to...
| Автор | Kathryn Bond Stockton |
Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly —an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books —specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites...
| Автор | Eric Thurm |
"Writing from the barren confines of his death row cell, Mumia Abu-Jamal provides a remarkable testament about the Black Panther Party. . . .an amazing book that illuminates the truth of what his membership in the Party was about, and reveals the extreme price extracted from him for having learned, and for now telling the truth."— Kathleen Cleaver , from the Introduction Mumia Abu Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner, is internationally known for his radio...
| Автор | Mumia Abu-Jamal |
Wilhelm Stekel was a pioneering psychoanalyst whose prodigious intuition and medical skill, permitted him to compile, study, and interpret the case histories of thousands of patients. He was in a hurry: Cataclysmic World War II events were besetting him, and a grave illness he well understood was hewing at his gaunt, proud figure. Calmly, but with intense speed, he prepared his record, the culmination of which can be seen within this text. Diligently organised and reproduced by Emil A. Gutheil,...
| Автор | Wilhelm Stekel |
As the novel opens, aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleads with the High Court of Naples to be beheaded instead of hanged like a criminal. One of the leading revolutionaries of her time, Eleonora contributed to the establishment of the Neapolitan Republic, based on the ideals of the French Revolution. Imprisoned in 1799 after the return of the Bourbon Monarchy, and while waiting to be sentenced, she writes a memoir. Here, she discusses not only her revolutionary enthusiasm, but also the...
| Автор | Julieta Almeida Rodrigues |
Release date is timed to coincide with Wimbledon 2020 (the tennis championship will run from June 29-July 12, 2020)–over 400,000 attended Wimbledon in 2018, and tens of millions watch on TV throughout the world.Abramsky is a journalist who has published with Hachette, Random House, etc. His 2014 Hachette release, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives, has Book-scanned over 8 thousand copies (hardcover & paperback combined).Abramsky has numerous media connections due to...
| Автор | Sasha Abramsky |
A Fortune Magazine “Most Anticipated Books of 2020” SelectionA Goodreads Featured Release for February 2020Oxygen’s List of “Best True Crime Books of 2020” Selection “The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles is a palpable presence in Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious death of Elisa Lam by Jake Anderson… While allowing for other possible interpretations (and minimizing the daunting logistics), Anderson...
| Автор | Jake Anderson |
In 1993, twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women’s rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa’s most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy’s parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black...
| Автор | Steven D. Gish |
Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twin son and daughter to move to Stehekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned for the quiet and respite of this community of eighty-five residents accessible only by boat, float plane, or hiking. Stehekin means "the way through," and Hiking Naked chronicles...
| Автор | Iris Graville |
Tebogo Thekisho, better known as ProVerb, first caught South Africa’s attention in 2005 with the release of his now classic debut hip-hop album, The Book of ProVerb. As a teenager he sought music wherever he could find it, and recorded his first demo at age 15, using his mom’s hi-fi. From there, he hustled his way into a multifaceted, award-winning media career in music, radio and TV, crafting a reputation on platforms such as Channel O, Jam Alley and YFM. For over a decade he has been a regular...
| Автор | Tebogo Thekisho |
Born in 1887, George Leonard Noake joined the nautical training establishment, HMS Conway, in 1903. He then served an apprenticeship at sea until 1908 when his detailed memoirs commence, sailing as a second officer in the European/West African trade. After going ashore to work on a farm between 1913 and 1915, he returned to the mercantile marine in 1915 during the First World War to sail in a number of ships carrying horses, grain and coal. He survived not only being torpedoed in the English...
| Автор | Dave Creamer |
Hard Down! Hard Down! describes the eventful life of a Shetland man in pursuit of his ambitions – to reach the top in his profession, to find a wife, to cherish a family, to do his job well and to be respected by his peers. The account is enlivened by extracts from numerous well-chosen family letters, diaries and postcards revealing the minutiae of shipboard and family life 120 years ago. These include a bachelor night out in ’Frisco, buying slippers in Dantzig and a captain who changed his...
| Автор | Captain Jack Isbester |
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting – a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings – the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author's new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces. Like any good drama, there are the...
| Автор | Winton Porter |
A memoir of one of America’s first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans. “Being in displeasure of my friends, and desirous to see other countries, after three months sail we come with prosperouswinds in sight of Virginia.” So begins the fascinating tale of Henry Spelman, a 14 year-old boy sent to Virginia in 1609. One of Jamestown’s early arrivals, Spelman soon became an integral player, and sometimes a pawn, in the power...
| Автор | Henry Spelman |
Rabbi Jacob Agus' (1911-1986) intellectual production spanned nearly a half century and covered an enormous historical and conceptual range, from the biblical to the modern era. Best known as an important Jewish scholar, he also held important rabbinic, teaching, and public positions. Although born and raised within an orthodox setting, Agus was strongly influenced by American liberalism and his work displayed modernizing sympathies, reservations about nationalism–including some forms of...
| Автор | Steven T. Katz |
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the emancipation of both blacks and women in Civil War America. Despite the discrimination she suffered as both a black and a woman, Truth significantly shaped both...
| Автор | Carleton Mabee |
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period – thoughts, poems, dreams, reflections, and diary notes that intimately illuminate Ginsberg's actual travels and his mental journeys. They reveal a remarkable and fascinating life: conversations with William Carlos...
| Автор | Allen Ginsberg |