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Robert Greenfield, 2006

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, «Tune in, turn on, drop out» became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism and the hedonism of an age of revolutionary change. Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America. Подробнее

Behind the Lines

Miller Russell, 2002

This is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before-directly by those who took part. Подробнее

A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation

Lukeman Noah, 2006

Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks reveal clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to write. This short, practical book shows authors the benefits that can be reaped from mastering punctuation: the art of style, sentence length, meaning, and economy of words. There are full-length chapters devoted to the period, the comma, the semicolon, the colon, quotation marks, the dash and parentheses, the paragraph and section break, and a cumulative chapter on integrating them all into «The Symphony of Punctuation.» Filled with exercises and examples from literary masters (Why did Poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway embrace the period?), A Dash of Style is interactive, highly engaging, and a necessity for creative writers as well as for anyone looking to make punctuation their friend instead of their mysterious foe. Подробнее

Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Welsh Irvine, 2006

»Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. He discovers that a television chef's book, «The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs», may hold the necessary clues. Unraveling this classified information is the key to learning the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. His ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie city of San Francisco.» «But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is Skinner's unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific, debilitating, and undiagnosable disease, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma». «The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs» is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex, and minor celebrity, and it is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry, and the need to belong in the world. Подробнее

Jupiter Myth: Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

Davis Lindsey, 2003

There's no place like home. Unfortunately Marcus Didius Falco is a thousand miles north, stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium. And just when he's about to pack up his family, assorted relatives, and friend Petronius to return to Rome, a dead body turns up, head down, in a well behind a local drinking establishment. The victim is Verovolcus, a nobleman known to Falco and, more important, a close friend of the king. Suddenly Falco has a murder case to solve before he can get out of town. Подробнее

Accusers: Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

Davis Lindsey, 2004

The fifteenth novel in the bestselling Marcus Didius Falco series is a tale of corruption, informers and the Roman courts of law. Following his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus, two lawyers at the top of their trade. For the trial of a senator they need Falco to make an affidavit confirming repayment of a loan. Having been out of the country, and starved of Forum gossip for some time, Falco has little interest in this, so he makes his deposition and then leaves. The prosecution is successful and a large financial judgment is made, but one month later the senator is dead, apparently by suicide. The heirs are now in a situation of not having to pay up. Silius Italicus decides to start a new prosecution and, with a little coercion, Falco joins the action. Blinded by the vision of rich pickings to be gained by a winning verdict, Falco temporarily forgets that, if they fail, the financial penalties leveled against the informers who brought the case are potentially enormous. Подробнее

Koba The Dread

Amis Martin, 2002

»Koba the Dread» is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'. «Koba the Dread», during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism. Подробнее

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set (количество томов: 4)

Tolkien J.R.R., 1999

A matched four-volume boxed set containing J.R.R. Tolkien's «The Hobbit» and the three volumes of «The Lord of the Rings», complete with maps and cover illustrations by Alan Lee. Подробнее

Monstrous Regiment

Pratchett Terry, 2003

War has broken out again on Terry Pratchett's Discworld and, to no one's surprise, it is started by the small, insufferably arrogant, ferociously patriotic duchy of Borogravia, which prides itself on its ability to beat up on its neighbors even for the tiniest imagined slight. But the country is rapidly running out of young men to carry on the fight, so Sergeant Jackrum is inclined not to notice when Polly Perks dons her brother's clothes, stuffs a pair of socks down her pants, and enlists in the hopes of finding her missing brother. With no training, «Oliver» Perks is sent off with a regiment that includes a vampire (off the blood), a werewolf, and an Igor — very handy for stitching legs and such back on. Подробнее

Birth of America

Polk William R., 2006

A provocative account of colonial America, exploring the key events, individuals, and themes of this pivotal period. From the fearful crossing of the stormy Atlantic to the growth of the early settlements, to the French and Indian War and the unrest of the 1760s, Polk brilliantly traces the progress of the colonies to the point where the break with England was inevitable. Подробнее

The Tall Book of Fairies Laminated with a pink cover and illustrated with authentically detailed watercolors in a timeless style, this tall, slim book retells ten classic fairy tales for all ages: «Aladdin and the Magic Lamp», «The Frog Prince», «Peter Pan», «Pinocchio», «Thumbelina» and five traditional tales are each told in a few pages, with pictures reminiscent of such treasuries from decades ago. Подробнее

Chronicles of Narnia Pop-Up

Lewis C. S., 2007

C.S. Lewis's beloved Narnia chronicles spring to life here in the dramatic pop-up tableaus of paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop-up spread, rendered in spectacular detail with special effects; in the scene for «The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe», Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmund are emerging from the wardrobe under a snowy, sparkling forest as Mr. Tumnus walks nearby. Lift the flap to see the Witch on her sleigh. Like Sabuda's other wonderful creations, this book for youngsters up to 8 is best enjoyed with an adult. Подробнее

InterWorld

Gaiman Neil, 2007

In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces — armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions. When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes the only possible choice: to join an army of his own, an army of versions of himself from different dimensions who all share his amazing power and who are all determined to fight to save the worlds. Master storyteller Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award-winning science-fiction writer Michael Reaves team up to create a dazzling tale of magic, science, honor, and the destiny of one very special boy — and all the others like him. Подробнее

Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler

Hardyment Christina, 2006

Virtually all versions of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are derived from Thomas Malory's «Morte d'Arthur», one of the most renowned works of English literature. Yet the author, a 15th-century knight, has remained an enigma, while the scant historical records imply he was a criminal, imprisoned for rape, ambush, and attacks on abbeys. Historian, writer, and broadcaster Christina Hardyment uncovers a different Malory, however, from new historical research and a critical examination of the only known manuscript of his book. In this history, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of medieval manuscripts and miniatures, she describes a soldier and a connoisseur of literature, who served under Henry V and remained loyal to the Lancasters in the War of the Roses. Imprisoned largely for his political stance, Malory wished for and wrote of a nobler time. Подробнее

Modern European History

Barber John R., 2006

Master Your Coursework with Collins College Outlines The Collins College Outline for Modern European History begins with the emergence of Modern Europe in 1450, continues through the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of European Revolution, the era of the Nation State, both World Wars, the post-World War II Superpower Spheres, and concludes with Europe's current trend toward an ultramodern existence. Подробнее

Wilt in Nowhere

Sharpe Tom, 2004

Henry Wilt is back. The hapless community college teacher is satirist Tom Sharpe's most famous character, introduced in the eponymous 1976 novel «Wilt» and the subsequent television film of the same name that starred Griff Rhys Jones. In this latest misadventure, Wilt's fifth, the expected impossible scenarios, outsized characters, knotty plot twists, and buckets of sexual innuendo abound. Подробнее

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Pears Iain, 1998

An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment — intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College. Подробнее

Turkish Gambit

Akunin Boris, 2005

In this third Erast Fandorin mystery, set in 1877, Russia is at war with the Ottoman Empire, and the brilliant detective is searching the Russian army for a Turkish spy. He is followed by a young woman with revolutionary ideals, who has disguised herself as a boy to find her fiancé at the front. Her coldness toward Fandorin, a «lackey of the throne», begins to change as she comes to respect his courage, deductive powers, and piercing gaze. The «Russian Sherlock Holmes» who starred in «The Winter Queen» and «Murder on the Leviathan» returns in this novel by Russian literary phenomenon Boris Akunin. Подробнее

Pelagia and the White Bulldog

Akunin Boris, 2006

The Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces a new, irresistible sleuth. In a remote province of late 19th-century Russia, Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt's rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family members and hangers-on as possible suspects, the bishop knows the only one who can solve the apparently clueless crime is Sister Pelagia—freckled, bespectacled, lively, curious, clumsy, and extraordinarily persistent. Подробнее

The American Country House

Aslet Clive, 2005

From the Vanderbilts' Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum-like Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a vanished world of privilege, yet more often than not reflected their builders' insecurities about how they were expected to proclaim their wealth and position. Clive Aslet, known for his acclaimed study of English country houses, here offers a heavily illustrated history of their American cousins, drawing on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the life the buildings served as well as the architectural features they boasted. Подробнее

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