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Curated and edited by the artist Ina Otzko, 100 Norwegian Photographers is a magnificent volume of photos from today’s Norwegian photography scene. Otzko gives one hundred contemporary photographers from her country the space to show their best images, including renowned figures such as Dag Alveng, Jonas Bendiksen, Knut Bry, Morten Krogvold, Annemor Larsen, Crispin Gurholt and Mikkel McAlinden. With several double pages for each photographer, the book is a vivid archive of Norwegian photography,...
| Год | 2019 |
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland...
| Автор | S. Heaney |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
Книга Сергея Костромина “A Land With No Name” появилась не как результат отдельного проекта о путешествии или каком-то жизненном событии. Это книга о внутренней географии, об уникальном ландшафте, формируемом внутри каждого человека. В течении жизни он неизбежно трансформируется и смещается относительно мировых координат. В книге собраны фотографии прошедших 8 лет наблюдения за окружающим миром и пространством, фиксирующие случайные моменты, давно потерянные в памяти. Используя отстранение,...
| Автор | C. Костромин |
| Год | 2021 |
In the 19th century, numerous photographers chose the same motifs as Impressionist painters: the forest of Fontainebleau, the cliffs of Etretat or the modern metropolis of Paris. They, too, studied the changing light, seasons and weather conditions. From its inception, photographers pursued artistic ambitions, as evidenced by their experimentation with composition and perspective, by means of various technical procedures. Until the First World War, the relationship between photography and...
| Год | 2022 |
HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series. ‘When times are tough there is no better distraction than these magical tales’ Guardian ‘There are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces . . . Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think...
| Автор | George R.R. |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2014 |
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
| Автор | Hosseini Kh |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2018 |
When Charlotte Horton and her family of British bohemians discovered an abandoned Tuscan castle, little did they know that they would transform it into a vibrant, modern locale. Nestled in the rugged terrain of Mount Amiata, Castello di Potentino was a dilapidated mess: roofs had collapsed and there was no plumbing or electricity. Following the arduous process of purchasing it from 22 different owners, they set to work renovating the eleventh-century structure. In this enthralling account of...
| Автор | C Horton, M. Woolley |
| Год | 2021 |
"Everything is art. Everything is politics," says internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei. His statement informs this comprehensive book that features sculptural installations, photographs, and videos from every aspect of the artist's forty- year career and touches on many contemporary social issues. The works featured in the book include Straight, Ai's gigantic installation made from 150 tons of rebar salvaged from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which comments on governmental corruption and...
| Автор | S. Gaensheimer |
| Год | 2019 |
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic – from the author of ‘Wonder Boys’. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2001 |
A physician, professor of neurology and author, Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) has been described by the New York Times as 'a kind of poet laureate of contemporary medicine'. His books are made up of case histories of his patients, and explore both their neurological disorders and the strategies they adopted to cope with them. The seven cases in this volume include a colour-blind painter, prodigious feats of calculation and draughtsmanship by savants, and an autistic professor of animal science....
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2012 |
Among the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina details the passionate love triangle between Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky. The triangle is broken when Anna decides to leave her family to follow Vronsky to Italy, a decision that will lead to an ill-fated end for her and misery for those around her. The novel doesn’t merely focus on the romantic dramas of its main characters, however; it examines the lives of other characters that serve as a counterpoint to the main...
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| Жанр | Испанский язык |
| Год | 2014 |
A generation of girls grew up with Valerie Phillips's work pinned on their bedroom walls. The self- confessed Peter Pan is famous for capturing the essence of female youth-girls who boldly unravel their individual quirks before the camera, with loads of spark and beautifully unpredictable things going on in their heads. In this personally curated volume, Phillips has selected her best work from her limited-edition, self-published books, as well as images from editorials, advertising, and music...
| Автор | Phillips Valerie |
| Год | 2016 |
Leben und Tod is the latest collaboration between these two seminal photographers and is the culmination of their joint exhibition at artspace AM, Tokyo, in 2019. This intensely personal project concentrates on Teller’s series “Leben und Tod” (Life and Death), which reflects upon the death of his uncle and step-father Artur, juxtaposing photographs of his mother and homeland in Bubenreuth, Bavaria, with symbolic images of fertility and life on holiday in Bhutan with his partner Dovile Drizyte. ...
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| Год | 2020 |
Friedrich Nietzsche hielt die ›Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch‹ fur einen Geniestreich der Psychologie. Und in der Tat: Dostojewskijs brillante Erzahlung zeigt, dass Literatur nicht immer aufwendige Reisen durch die Welt unternehmen muss. Da die wahren Abenteuer ohnehin im Kopf stattfinden, erzahlen poetische Reisen durch die Labyrinthe der menschlichen Seele oftmals die viel spannenderen Geschichten. Spannender jedenfalls als die Aufzeichnungen des Kellerlochbewohners, der sich voller Ekel...
| Автор | F. Dostojewski, Fedor Dostoievski |
| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2022 |
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2012 |
Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published! Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture. Banned Books explores why some of the world's most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read - whether for...
| Автор | T. Harris, Elizabeth Blakemore, Aparna Dharwadker |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
This collection of ‘dharma talks’ from one of the great Buddhist teachers of the 20th-century is a fun, accessible crash course in Theravadan teachings on meditation, mindfulness, and more Ajahn Chah influenced a generation of Western teachers: Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Joseph Goldstein, and many other Western Buddhist teachers were at one time his students. Anyone who has attended a retreat led by one of these teachers, or read one of their books, will be familiar...
| Автор | A. Chah |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing...
| Автор | Diane Setterfield |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2014 |