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Why Bowie Matters
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter.
When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the whole world was united in mourning. His greatest hits were sung tearfully in pubs up and down Britain, garlands of flowers were left at the Aladdin Sane mural in his old stomping ground of Brixton and tributes poured in from a galaxy of stars. To many of us, Bowie was so much more than a pop idol. But why?
In Why Bowie Matters, Professor Will Brooker answers that question persuasively, as both a fan and an academic. A Bowie obsessive since childhood, he hit the headlines over the course of a year-long immersive research project that took him from London to Berlin and New York, following in Bowie's footsteps, only listening to music and reading books he loved, and even at times adopting his fashion. In this original and illuminating book, Professor Brooker approaches Bowie from various angles, re-tracing his childhood on the streets of Bromley, taking us through his record collection and bookshelves, and deciphering the symbols and codes of his final work, Blackstar to piece together how an ordinary suburban teenager turned himself into a legend, and how perhaps we too could be a little more Bowie. He shows us that while David Robert Jones died on that terrible day in January, David Bowie will live on forever.
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The Trials of Life
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.
‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based.
This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and competes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet.
In Life on Earth, Sir David showed how each group of animals evolved. In Living Planet he looked at the way they have adapted to the whole range of habitats in which they live. Now, in Trials of Life, he completes the story by revealing how animals behave – and why.
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Kapcsolatok könyve
Mindig a másik a tükör. Nincs önmagában, azaz egyedül senki és semmi. A szeretet türelem és kíváncsiság, megengedi két embernek, hogy áthidalják a köztük lévő szakadékot, a kimondhatatlan és leírhatatlan másságot. Mindegyikünknek vannak privát élményeink, amiket képviselnünk kell, nekem a saját élményeimet, neked a tiéidet. A szeretet tehát munka, aktivitás, cselekvés: teremtünk egy világot magunknak, ahol együtt lehetünk anélkül, hogy neked el kellene árulnod a te élményeidet, és nekem az enyéimet. Tágasnak kell lennie a mi közös világunknak, és a szeretet megadja azt a tágasságot, amiben nincs benne az a dominancia, hogy az én élményeimet éljük, és te csendben (vagy hangosan) gyűlölsz engem a szeretet álarca mögött.
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Warning
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
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Zséda 2012
"Mindig veled
Vannak Nők, igen, szigorúan nagy N-nel Nők, akik, ha belépnek a szobába, megáll körülöttük a levegő. Mindegy, mit viselnek, mindegy, hogy azt hol vásárolták, egy egyszerű sál is királynői palásttá változik rajtuk. Titkuk van, olyan belső ragyogásuk, kisugárzásuk, ami különlegessé, ellenállhatatlanná teszi őket. Ilyen Nő volt Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe és Audrey Hepburn. Ilyen Nő az én anyukám is, aki nem lett világsztár, de akin még a saját maga által készített ruhák is olyan megkérdőjelezhetetlenül tökéletesen állnak, ahogyan az a Nagykönyvben meg van írva.
De milyen Nagykönyvben is? Hol van, melyik boltban kapható az a könyv, amelyben le vannak írva ezek a titkok, amelyet élete során minden nő keres?
Bár ezt a Nagykönyvet még én sem találtam meg, ebben a kiadványban szeretném átadni Nektek mindazt, amit a nagyvilágból, saját környezetemből és anyukámtól lestem el és tanultam meg. Mindazt, amit én gondolok erről a titokról.
Az Elivel való találkozás mérföldkő volt az életemben. Ő mutatta meg, hogy hogyan is kell az öltözködést profi szinten művelni és kezelni, tőle rengeteget tanultam.
Fittyet hányni az aktuális trendekre, a divatra lehet, de kizárólag biztos és szilárd alapokon álló ízléssel, valamint stílusérzékkel.
Nem csupán, sőt, főként nem divatról fogtok olvasni ebben a kalendáriumban. Ennél sokkal többet szeretnék megosztani Veletek: megmutatom kedvenc helyeimet, végigviszlek Benneteket az én városomon, Budapesten, és vidéken is, ahol a turnébusz megáll... Remélem, ti is találtok majd benne olyan részeket, amelyben felismeritek annak a bizonyos Nagykönyvnek egy-egy bekezdését, az örök stílus apró titkait.
Sok szeretettel: Zséda"
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Siddharta
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film "Moonrise Kingdom" to Penguin's own bestsellers "Committed "and "Rules of Civility." With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series launches with six perennial favorites to give as elegant gifts, or to showcase on your own shelves. H is for Hesse. A young Brahmin named Siddhartha searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, Herman Hesse's strangely simple "Siddhartha "is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory the troubled twentieth century ever produced.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is over, and they must return to their normal lives.
When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - creating virtual worlds to delight, challenge and immerse, finding an intimacy in the digital realm that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars.
This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
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Lacná kniha Primer of Happiness 3. - Adults to kids, kids to the world
The third part of the Primer of happiness is not intended only for parents that are looking for a way, with what form to give their descendants the best, but also for souls that want to understand why there are fears in them, why they act the way they act, or they are not successful in something. The key to life pains is located in their childhood. In the way how we were approached, what we saw, feel, experience and absorb in ourselves from the moment of procreation until growing up.
“He who teaches, he learns. Let´s thank for children, they are not a mater of course but a gift. They came to heal us and show us where we have in ammation.“
I was tucking in the shirt of my three years old Sára Ráchel and I told her: “So your small of the back would not get cold…” She looked at me and she said:
“Daddy, I do not have small of the back there, I have wings there.”
You cannot give a child something, that is not in you. – Constant criticizing is the confession of how discontent you are with yourselves, as well as shouting is the expression of your inner pain and helplessness. – A child’s soul is like savana. One sentence is enough to set it on re. – You cannot force children to take on your values. They will take only what they will need in their life mission. – Do not do anything on child´s
behalf, that the child can do itself. You will weaken the child. – Every kid has a powerful Self and the more you will try to break it the longer the child will look for itself as an adult. – The children resonate with what is happening in parents. – Your children do not have to follow in your footsteps and how your parents will end, is their decision. You only have to try to support them.
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What is in our parents, that is who we are. If we do not clean ourselves from negative clan´s debts, our kids will take it on. Unsolved wrong programs and energy taking models of behaviour will get stuck on them. There is no kid that would not be born wise, perceptive, joyful, full of energy, intuitive, nonstop living in the present moment, unchained, happy, godly, so with the characteristics of enlightened people. But if you ask me when I met a permanently happy adult the last time, I will think for a long time… So I take the education of kids as mutual learning – to be inspired by kids to the comeback to Self, own spontaneity, heart that is the connection with Love. On the other side the education of children is for me an e ort to load kids with unconditional love and set them boundaries with respect towards them, without superior approach, so in
the adulthood they will feel and perceive the needs of others. Simply give them the best from myself.
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Fairy Tales, Grimm & Andersen
More than 200 years ago, two brothers from Kassel, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, published the first volume of their collection of German folktales. Over time the stories in their collection grew until finally they numbered 200 fairy tales and ten legends. What was initially an attempt to preserve German traditions for posterity is today the most widely read collection of stories after the Bible. From Snow White to Cinderella and Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers Grimm left behind a canon of fairy tales that have become classics of children's literature, part of the UNESCO world heritage, and an indispensable piece of our history and culture.Hans Christian Andersen's own life seemed to be out of a fairy tale-Charles Dickens was among his friends and admirers, and European princes held him in high regard. Through determination, talent, many a fortunate coincidence, and an exuberant imagination, he came out of impoverished circumstances to write himself into world literature. A fairytale kingdom without Andersen would be very impoverished itself and would have to do without characters such as the Snow Queen, the Princess and the Pea, Thumbelina or the Little Match Girl, but also many previously inanimate items which Andersen brought to life: silver shillings and darning needles, and especially his Steadfast Tin Soldier.
The Grimms' and Andersen's tales have inspired generations of artists, and each fairy tale in this volume is colorfully interpreted by a famous illustrator: legends such as Kay Nielsen (a leading exponent of the Golden Age of Illustration that ended in the 1920s), the Arts and Crafts master Walter Crane, Arthur Rackham, and the Swiss commercial artist Herbert Leupin. Alongside are silhouettes from historical publications as well as new vignettes that were made especially for this edition, which dance across the pages in an intricate shadow play. Introductory essays, on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm as reflected in art and on Andersen as the heart and soul of the modern fairy tale, complement these flights of fancy, as do the short summaries on each fairy tale and artists' biographies.This double-sided book contains the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm on one side and Hans Christian Andersen's tales on the other, each with its own cover. The following fairy tales are included:
The Brothers Grimm:The Frog Prince, The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Brave Little Tailor, Cinderella, Mother Holle, Little Red Riding Hood, The Bremen Town Musicians, The Shoemaker and the Elves, Tom Thumb's Travels, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, The Three Feathers, The Golden Goose, The Goose Girl, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Star Coins, The Hare and the Hedgehog, Puss 'n Boots
Hans Christian Andersen:The Princess and the Pea, The Nightingale, The Swineherd, The Emperor's New Clothes, Twelve by Mail Coach, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Snow Queen, Ole Shut-Eye, The Ugly Duckling, Little Ida's Flowers, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Flying Trunk, The Little Match Girl, The Tinderbox
About the series
TASCHEN turns 40 this year! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. In 2020, we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable
La Musique d´une Vie
«L'idéal du roman, c'est qu'on ne puisse rien en dire, seulement y entrer, y demeurer dans la contemplation et s'en trouver transfiguré. Ce n'est pas pour bouger l'air, se dégourdir le style que les Russes écrivent» explique André Makine dans le dernier numéro de Lire. Makine écrit donc pour dire quelque chose, il s'inscrit ainsi dans la grande lignée des auteurs russes pour lesquels littérature et philosophie se conjuguent l'unisson. Dans La musique d'une vie, il fait surgir d'une foule endormie au fond d'une gare de Sibérie, un destin. Celui d'Alexis Berg, jeune pianiste dont la vie se brise un soir de 1941. Contraint de fuir son premier concert en raison des purges staliniennes, Alexis se réfugie en Ukraine avant de prendre une fausse identité. Il deviendra plus tard chauffeur d'un haut dignitaire de l'armée, contraint de fuir son identité pour ne pas dévoiler celle qu'il s'est appropriée. Dans ce roman l'écriture lumineuse, André Makine donne chair aux oubliés de l'histoire soviétique. Ni héros de l'armée rouge, ni dissidents, ni prisonniers, simplement figures ordinaires du peuple russe. Derrire ses mots, on sent comme les sanglots ravalés de milliers d'existences détruites par le régime. Des vies dont les promesses n'ont pas été tenues, mais qui ont survécu tout : aux purges, la guerre, l'administration débilitante du régime. Un roman que Makine portait en lui depuis quinze ans, écrit dans une langue limpide mais retenue, comme pour mieux suggérer des émotions trop fortes pour tre décrites. 127 pages qui rendent justice cet «Homo sovieticus» trop longtemps noyé dans la masse informe du peuple. --Flore de Lesquen--
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The Major Works: Including Poems, Plays, and Critical Prose (Oxford World´s Classics)
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking. W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occult writings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters. This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.
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Major Works: Including Poems, Plays and Critical Prose (Oxford World´s Classics)
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, cri
tical writings, and letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking. W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuri
es, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represen
ted here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occult writings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, a
nd a selection of his letters. This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he w
rote.
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The Appeal
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough.With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice. "The Appeal" is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about the electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again. "
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The Cairo Diary
British-occupied Cairo, 1928:Several young children have disappeared and were then found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from One Thousand and One Nightsbeen brought to life? British inspector Jeremy Matheson follows the trail of the monster, which takes him into the depths of underground Cairo as well as deep into his own tortured past. Mont-Saint-Michel, 2005:Marion has taken refuge in the wind-swept and remote monastery located on a spit of land on the west coast of France. In the wake of a scandal, caused by her own revelations, that is now reverberating through the French capital, she has been spirited away from Paris and brought here by the Secret Service for her own protection. When she finds a diary dating from 1928 in the monastery library, penned by Jeremy Matheson and hidden inside the jacket of an Edgar Allen Poe book, she is inexorably pulled into the past as she is being watched, and taunting notes and riddles urge her to give back what is not hers. . . ‘One of the best contemporary thriller authors’ Le Monde.
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Country and Cozy: Countryside Homes and Rural Retreats
Turning away from traffic-choked streets and onto meandering country paths, urban residents increasingly are choosing to take up residence in greener pastures. Quiet and quaint, the countryside comes with its own pace of living - and depending on where you are, its own regional flair. Country and Cozy opens doors and pulls back the floral curtains to reveal a more characterful approach to interior design and decoration. Whether it's a converted outhouse in the south of France, a Latin American Finca, or a whimsical English cottage complete with a thatched roof, Country and Cozy showcases a series of beautiful country homes and illustrates how their inhabitants have created breathtaking living spaces that make the most of rural life.
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Complete Opos Cookbook: One-Pot Meal Plans Ready In 10 Minutes
Butter chicken in under 6 minutes!Mutton biryani in 12 minutes!Aviyal in 5 minutes!
The One Pot One Shot (OPOS) cooking technique is causing a revolution in the kitchen and has garnered a cult following of its own across the globe. OPOS simplifies cooking by deconstructing recipes, doesn't require any fancy equipment or massive prep and is both quick and healthy. Ingredients are layered in a pressure cooker, and the food cooks in its own juices at the highest possible heat in the shortest possible time.
The Complete OPOS Cookbook, by culinary pioneer and OPOS inventor B. Ramakrishnan, features entire meal plans spanning regional and international cuisines and includes his bestselling recipes along with new ones.
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Le Passe-muraille et autres nouvelles
Que va faire le modeste Dutilleul, employé modle au ministre, de sa singulire faculté de passer travers les murs? D'abord indifférent son pouvoir, le brave homme finit par en user sans ménagement. Jusqu'au jour o...
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Lacná kniha Le Passe-muraille et autres nouvelles
Que va faire le modeste Dutilleul, employé modle au ministre, de sa singulire faculté de passer travers les murs? D'abord indifférent son pouvoir, le brave homme finit par en user sans ménagement. Jusqu'au jour o...
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Finance pro nefinančníky
Cooke nezneužívá svá dlouhá léta působení jako finanční konzultant k zahlcení čtenáře složitými odbornými pojmy. V knize se čtenářům dostane nutného minima termínů, které je třeba znát při řízení firmy nebo provozování živnosti, podstatná část je však věnována vysvětlení praktického fungování obchodních mechanismů a jejich předvedení na názorných příkladech. Na stránkách knihy sledujeme humorný příběh americké podnikatelky Rosie Rouse prodávající manželské domky, jakési záložní ubytování pro manžele, kteří spolu po rodinné hádce nechtějí spát v jednom domě. Na tomto netradičním příkladu však čtenář postupně pozná všechny situace, které čekají každého, kdo vede vlastní firmu. Nákup, prodej, majetek firmy, financování, rozpočet, bilance a výsledovka… Výklad je odměřen do té míry, aby vybavil publikum praktickými informacemi a upozornil je na možné nástrahy podnikání, na druhé straně nezabředává ve spleti univerzitních termínů, které by čtenáře odradily. Každý aspekt světa obchodu a každý odborný pojem je jak znázorněn na příběhu Rosie a manželských domků, aby se neztratila pozornost publika, tak odborně definován, aby čtenář mohl s účetními a daňovými poradci hovořit jejich jazykem. Kniha řeší: Výroba a výstavba, Náklady na výrobu manželského domku, Putování jednotlivých nákladů ve výrobním procesu, Zásoby a přechod nákladů z jednoho měsíce do druhého, Kolísající jednicové náklady, Normované náklady, Různé metody účtování normovaných nákladů, Náklady ve výrobě masové a kusové, Nedokončená výroba, Výroba vázaná smlouvou, Otázky k procvičení, Případová studie
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