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The #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) - now in paperback. How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty? Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you. Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, Peterson offers twelve...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2019 |
George R. R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2019 |
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote...
| Автор | Achebe C |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2018 |
MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES FEB 2018 This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author. Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars...
| Автор | Morgan R |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
This publication gathers the interior photographs of Amy Simon (born 1957). Like the apartment depicted in these images, the places where Simon works hold special significance for her, attuned as she is to the mood and suggestiveness of interiors. Further exploring Simon's engagement with issues of domesticity, the book features a series of new drawings and wallpaper designs recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
| Год | 2010 |
Some animals need to live in big groups, although others barely interact with the rest of the herd. Do you want to know why? This book is full of colourful illustrations answering the questions of how, why and when animals decide to live in groups or alone. This useful and entertaining resource helps you discover fun facts about Flamingos, Polar Bears, Zebras, Emperor penguins and many more!
| Год | 2022 |
Anna Karenina ist neben Effi Briest und Madame Bovary die wohl beruhmteste Ehebrecherin der Weltliteratur. Glucklos mit einem hohen Beamten verheiratet, verfallt die bezaubernde, kluge und sanftmutige Anna dem jungen Offizier Graf Wronski in unwiderstehlicher Liebe. Eine leidenschaftliche Affare, die sie weder vor ihrem Mann noch vor der Gesellschaft verheimlicht, nimmt ihren Lauf. Anna Karenina ist bereit, dieser Liebe alles zu opfern ...
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| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2010 |
Joy and Stan Delaney have four grown-up children, a successful family business and their golden years ahead of them. Then Joy vanishes. Questions are asked. The police get involved. Scratch the surface and this seemingly happy family has much to hide . . .
| Автор | L. Moriarty |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
In 75 eye-popping pairings of designer pieces and the artworks that inspired them, this stylish book reveals the art behind coveted fashion designs. Long before “collabs” became a buzzword, artists influenced every aspect of the fashion world. This approachable collection compares fashion and art side-by-side to highlight a variety of relationships: inspiration, collaboration, and artists working to create their own fashion or fashion photography. Art X Fashion introduces readers to...
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| Год | 2022 |
Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . . When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her funeral, they receive an unexpected inheritance. First, a traditional Caribbean black cake, to remind them of their roots. Second, the story of a decades-old murder that shatters everything they thought they knew about their mother. But as Benny and Byron unravel their family's troubled past, will the truth push them further apart? Or will it reunite them...
| Автор | Charmaine Wilkerson |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2023 |
"Bug" Montage: honest mechanic, loving family man. He's no longer the criminal he was - the sharpest wheelman east of the Mississippi. But when his respectable life crumbles, a shady associate comes calling with a one-time job promising a huge payout. Inexorably drawn to the driver's seat - and haunted by the ghost of his outlaw father - Bug is yanked back into a savage world of bullets and betrayal. Like Breaking Bad in a high-speed collision with Drive, this dazzling novel holds up a...
| Автор | S.A. Cosby |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2021 |
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK 'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the Month In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability - moves to a remote cabin outside Baltimore with his wife, who bears him ten children. Of the six who survive...
| Автор | K.J. Fowler |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2023 |
Third wave coffee shops dominate the mainstream, as the fourth wave, heavily reliant on e-commerce, is still being defined. The reason that physical stores do not become retail dйjа vu is attributed largely to consumers' notion that coffee shops are not only a place to savour a hot beverage, but a space to socialise and bond. Cafe Plus is a chic book-of-the-moment that collects coffee shop interiors by excellent designers from around the world. The projects featured in this book serve more...
| Жанр | Дизайн |
| Год | 2018 |
Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us...
| Автор | C. Lispector |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2018 |
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge....
| Автор | Highsmith Patricia |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2015 |
A beautiful and illuminating guide to the use and cultural history of edible flowers, featuring gorgeous original photography, simple recipes and preparation methods, and thoughtful essays on eating flowers by leading voices. This stunning guide to edible flowers - conceived by Monica Nelson, the founding creative and photo director of the influential journal Wilder Quarterly, and Adrianna Glaviano, a noted food and lifestyle photographer - is packed with information and features lush original...
| Жанр | Кулинарные книги на иностранных языках |
| Год | 2021 |
Barcelona, 1968. Rufo Batalla recibe su primer encargo como plumilla en un periodico: cubrir la boda de un principe en el exilio con una bella senorita de la alta sociedad. Coincidencias y malentendidos le llevan a trabar amistad con el principe, que le encomienda, entre otras cosas, escribir la cronica de su peculiar historia. El opresivo ambiente de la gris Espana franquista pronto se quedara pequeno para Rufo, que viajara a Nueva York con poco dinero, grandes esperanzas y el difuso objetivo...
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| Жанр | Испанский язык |
| Год | 2020 |
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane 'Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs' Joyce's final work, Finnegan's Wake is his masterpiece of the night as...
| Автор | James Joyce |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2000 |