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Magyarország kormányzása 1978-2012
"A kormányzás a legkisebb rossz okozásának művészete."
Sárközy Tamás legújabb könyve nem egyszerűen tudományos monográfia, sokkal inkább "kormányzati személyes történet". Úgy tárgyalja tizenegy magyar kormány munkáját, hogy megosztja olvasóival számos élményét és magánvéleményét is azokról a "szereplőkről", akikkel megismerkedett, kívülálló szakértőként együtt dolgozott.
Miközben arra keresi a választ, hogy mi a kormányzás lényege, hogy mennyiben változtak az állam funkciói és a kormányzás feladatai a globalizáció és az információs társadalom kialakulása következtében, vagy hogy mennyiben lehet egy kormányzás populista, és milyen hibalehetőségek vannak a kormányzásban, "személyes arcképcsarnokában" portrét fest az elmúlt több mint harminc év legmeghatározóbb politikusairól Kádár Jánostól Grósz Károlyon és Horn Gyulán át Gyurcsány Ferencig és Orbán Viktorig. Teszi mindezt a tőle megszokott és már-már elvárt cinikus-sztoikus hozzáállással, fekete humorral, mely számára az "önvédelem, az optimista fennmaradás eszköze".
"...ezt a könyvet a pártonkívüliség és a pártsemlegesség jegyében, "középről" szerettem volna megírni. Nekem szinte "tök mindegy", hogy balközépről vagy jobbközépről kormányoznak, csak a kormányzás legyen szakszerű és kulturált. Kicsit szaktudomány, kicsit jelentörténelem, kicsit visszaemlékezés ez a munka." (a Szerző)
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Art Book About Portraits
With the rise of the 'selfie' and social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook, modern-day portraits have become incredibly popular and this book is a brilliant guide to their origin. Learn how Shah Jahan, an Indian artist, used real gold in his portrait to convey the importance of his subject, and how Frida Kahlo experimented with distorting mirrors to show her face in a different way, while painting a self portrait. What is a portrait? What forms do portraits come in? Why are portraits so popular? Find out the answers to these intriguing questions in this detailed information book with breath-taking oil paintings, photographs and illustrations. Published in association with the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Musee Picasso Paris
This comprehensive tome covers all aspects of Picasso's artistic career, from self- portraits to sculpture to photography, and features an extensive chronology.
The Musée Picasso Paris houses the most impressive collection of Picasso's works ever assembled. Structured chronologically, this compendious volume spans the artist's career, tracing the evolution of his art through ten phases, from the Blue Period (1901-04) to the portrait of The Young Painter (1972), which he finished in his penultimate year. Primarily devoted to Picasso's paintings, the book also explores his work in sculpture, ceramic, photography, drawing, and etching.
Featuring 360 specially commissioned photographs of Picasso's greatest works, the history of the 4,500-room museum, critical analysis by the museum's experts, an extensive biography of Picasso's life, and photographs of the artist, this compact edition, previously published as Picasso's Masterpieces, is an essential resource. This chunky paperback edition is beautifully produced and features a debossed reproduction of Picasso's Bull's Head, a vertical band, and a tuxedo-strip detail along the page trim. Covers in three color variations--turquoise, red, or yellow--are shipped at random.
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SAS - The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail.
The SAS began as a lie, a story of a British parachute unit in the North African desert, to convince the Axis they were under imminent threat. The lie was so effective that soon a small band of men were brought together to make it real. These recruits were the toughest and brightest of their cohort, the most resilient, most dynamic and most self-sufficient. Their first commanders, David Stirling and Paddy Mayne, would go down in history as unorthodox visionaries. Yet this book tells much more than the usual origin story of the unit and seeks out less well-known leaders like Bill Fraser, who was essential in helping the SAS achieve fame for their devastating raids. By looking beyond the myth, this book brings back to life a group of men who showed immense bravery and endured unimaginable risks behind enemy lines.
Written with the full cooperation of the SAS and with exclusive access to SAS archives, Levine draws on individual stories and personal testimony, including interviews with veterans and family members. On every page, the book gives a visceral sense of what it was like to fight and train in the SAS in both North Africa and Europe during the Second World War, focusing on their failures as well as their successes.
This book is vivid with the characters of the men, their eclectic personalities, their strengths, weaknesses and many disagreements. Levine has uncovered a remarkable portrait of this enigmatic unit with photographs and stories long thought lost to history.
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Napóleon
Vajon lehet-e még újat mondani Napóleonról, akiről eddig állítólag több mint ötvenezer munka jelent meg, akiről írt Balzac, Stendhal, Tolsztoj és Shaw?
Igen, lehet. Ezt bizonyítja André Castelot élvezetes monográfiája. A kiváló francia történésznek sikerült új elemekkel és új vonásokkal gazdagítania a számtalanszor megrajzolt portrét. Hiszen maga Napóleon mondta egyszer magáról: "Kész regény az életem!" És Castelot éppen ezt a regényességet aknázza ki: nem annyira történelmi körképet ad, mint inkább pályaképet. És nem széles ecsetvonásokkal fest, hanem a mozaiktechnikát választja. Temérdek jellemző esetet, apró anekdotákat mesél el, kortársakat idéz, "élőképeket" iktat be, az olvasóval összekacsintva jóízűen, élvezettel pletykál. Ezért olyan eleven, mozgalmas, érdekfeszítő a könyve. Mindent látunk és hallunk. Úgy érezzük, ott vagyunk a Tuilériákban és a Notre-Dame-ban, halljuk a wagrami ágyúk bömbölését, bőrünkön érezzük az orosz tél hidegét és Szent Ilona szigetének nyirkosságát.
Castelot fordulatos, szellemes könyve mesterien ötvözi a tudományos és szépírói erényeket, és hű tükröt állít a kornak és legkiemelkedőbb személyiségének. Nemcsak a történelmi személyiséget ismerjük meg belőle, hanem az embert, az élő, érző és néha esendő embert is.
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Ősi birodalmak
A régmúlt nagy civilizációi mindmáig lenyűgöznek bennünket látványos teljesítményeikkel. Eszméik, mítoszaik, műtárgyaik, építészetük és irodalmuk az évezredek távolából is elképesztő frissességgel és aktualitással szólnak hozzánk. E könyv történelmi összefüggésekkel a háttérben mozgalmas és átfogó portrét fest ezekről az eredményekről, miközben megismerhetjük az ősi Mezopotámia, Egyiptom, Görögország, Róma, India, Kína és a Kolumbusz előtti Amerika magával ragadó történetét.
Az "Ősi birodalmak" sokrétűen mutatja be e magasan fejlett és lenyűgöző társadalmak szellemi, kulturális, technológiai és művészi újításait. A tematikusan szerkesztett szöveg felhasználja az ősi világról a legújabb kutatások fényében szerzett ismereteket és bizonyítékokat. Részletesen olvashatunk az ősi kultúrák szimbólumairól, szent szövegeiről vallási szertartásairól, isteneiről és istennőiről, a kozmoszról formált képükről és szent helyeikről - a dicsőséges piramisoktól és a Parthenontól kezdve a fenségesen tornyosuló Machu Picchuig; Róma alapításáról a mai Kína alapjaiig vagy a civilizált élet i. e. 350 táján Sumerban kezdődő ébredezésétől az inkák és az aztékok 16-17. századi véres kimúlásáig.
A könyv tíz fejezetében a világtörténelem legjelentősebb és legnagyobb hatású birodalmainak bemutatását térképek, időrendek, dinasztiák és érdekességek, többek közt a sírrablókról vagy a hieroglifákról szóló leírások teszik teljessé.
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England Football: The Biography
Award-winning writer Paul Hayward delivers a compelling and unmissable account of the story of the England men's football team, published as they prepare for the World Cup in Qatar.
On 30 November 1872, England took on Scotland at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow, a match that is regarded as the first international fixture. More than 5,000 fans watched the two sides play out a 0-0 draw. It was the first of more than a thousand games played by the side, and the beginning of a national love affair that unites the country in a way that few other events can match.
In Hayward's brilliant new biography of the team, based on interviews with dozens of past and present players and coaches, including Viv Anderson, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and current coach Gareth Southgate, we get a vivid portrait of all aspects of the team's story, reliving highlights such as the World Cup victory in 1966 and the time when football came home in Euro 96, as well as the low points when the players were obliged to give the Nazi salute in 1938 and the era when England's hooligan fans brought shame on the nation. From Stanley Matthews and Bobby Moore through to more modern heroes such as Paul Gascoigne, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane, Hayward brings a large cast of characters to life.
For anyone who wants to understand England football, and why it means so much to so many, England Football: The Biography is an essential and vital read.
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Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 6: Booze, Broads, & Bullets (fourth Edition)
Stories of those lost in the gritty and crime-laden asphalt jungle are together in this collection from the acclaimed noir, presented at original size with new wrap-around cover art by Frank Miller.
There are all kinds of dark business you might encounter on a cold night in Basin City, and the tales here paint a gloriously dirty portrait. Marv, the hulking ex-con with a condition, has to jog his memory about a certain Saturday night, and then on another evening, he's after something but he keeps his quest is quiet--sometimes there's no need for words. Visiting Old Town, where all your dreams could come true, Gail and Miho demonstrate what happens when you don't play by their rules. Then, hired-hand Blue Eyes makes an important kill--a few, actually. A woman on the run finds a way out . . . A sucker with good intentions gets duped . . . Fat Man and Little Boy are seen on a couple of jobs, and being low-rent hit-men, you can guess what that means. And the dark deeds and dealings stay dark in a few more stories also included in this anthology.
The fourth editions of Frank Miller's hit graphic novel series continue with Volume 6 Booze, Broads, & Bullets. This edition includes a fourteen-page expanded cover and art gallery featuring pieces from previous editions. As an anthology of short tales, it's a great jumping on point for new readers wondering what Sin City is all about--or longtime readers who can't get enough!
FOR MATURE READERS
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Eye to I - Self Portraits from 1900 to Today
This richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallery's chief curator and nearly 150 insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museum's collection. Eye to I provides readers with an overview of self-portraiture while revealing the intersections that exist between art, life, and self-representation.
Drawing primarily from the museum's collection, Eye to I explores how American artists have portrayed themselves over the past two centuries. The book shows that while each individual approaches self-portraiture under unique circumstances, all of their representations raise important questions about self-perception and self-reflection. Sometimes artists choose to reveal intimate details of their inner lives. Other times they use the genre to obfuscate their true selves or invent alter egos. Today, with the proliferation of selfies and the contemporary focus on identity, it is time to reassess the significance of the self-portrait.
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are clandestinely enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, parting company with the demons of his tragic, violent past.
But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems.
Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it-and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world-Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known.
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Riverman
Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank towns.
On his forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to spend the next twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the other. 'I can, and I will!' he said. And then, in 2014, he disappeared.
Not long before Conant's upturned canoe was found in a brackish North Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant by chance as he paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath set out to find the people whose lives, like his own, had been touched by their encounter with the great river wanderer. Along the way he meets eccentrics and ne'er-do-wells drawn straight from the pages of Mark Twain, a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting.
Riverman is the story of a restless soul who was as troubled as he was charismatic, a contemporary folk hero who slips the moorings of ordinary civilised life to tap into what Thoreau called 'a yearning toward all wildness.' It is also a riveting portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long forgotten waterways.
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Ordinary Notes
A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York Magazine, Kirkus, the New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, and Barnes and Noble.
Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman).
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past?public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal?with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages?sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature?always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.
At the heart of Ordinary Notes is the indelible presence of the author's mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. "I learned to see in my mother's house," writes Sharpe. "I learned how not to see in my mother's house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words." Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of "beauty as a method," collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a "Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness," and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces.
4-color art throughout
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A Bedtime Full of Stories
Look forward to bedtime with this richly illustrated treasury of 50 bedtime stories from around the world, each the perfect length to read aloud.
There's always time for a bedtime story, so snuggle up and get ready to drift off to the land of nod with this collection of magical tales that includes both well-known classics and lesser-known treasures from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America, the Middle East and Latin America.
These folktales and legends, accompanied by enchanting and dream-like illustrations, are each the perfect length for a bedtime story, and will transport children around the world as well as into fantasy lands.
The Emperor's New Clothes - Denmark
The Bag of Winds - Greece
How Cheetah Got His Speed - South Africa
The Moon Maiden - Japan
The Star Hunt - New Zealand
The Crow and the Daylight - North America
Aladdin - Syria
The Three Dreams - Guatemala
Collected and retold by award-winning author Angela McAllister and beautifully illustrated by Anna Shepeta, this anthology will be treasured by story lovers both young and old.
The World Full of... series is a collection of beautiful hardback story treasuries. Discover folktales from all around the world or be introduced to some of the world's best-loved writers with these stunning gift books, the perfection addition to any child's library.
Also available from the series: A Year Full of Stories, A World Full of Animal Stories, A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories, A World Full of Dickens Stories, A World Full of Spooky Stories, A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals, A World Full of Journeys and A World Full of Nature Stories.
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue.
An intensely beautiful, profound, and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work that charts his family, friends, influences, milieu, and, most of all, his music, the book reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become. A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark rivers and ghost gums of country-town Australia to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet, and manic energy of the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.
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Another Planet - A Teenager in Suburbia
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express
'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter
Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
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Murder: The Biography
Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder.
The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There's Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases. And Archibald Kinloch, the deranged Scottish aristocrat whose fratricidal frenzy paved the way for the defence of diminished responsibility. These, and many more, are the people - victims, killers, lawyers and judges, who unwittingly shaped the history of that most grisly and storied of laws.
Join lawyer and writer Kate Morgan on a dark and macabre journey as she explores the strange stories and mysterious cases that have contributed to UK murder law. The big corporate killers; the vengeful spouses; the sloppy doctors; the abused partners; the shoddy employers; each story a crime and each crime a precedent that has contributed to the law's dark, murky and, at times, shocking standing.
August Sander masterpieces
This book presents selected master portraits from August Sander's epochal People of the 20th Century project to create a typological portrait of German society in the 1910s and 20s.
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Growing Up
Was the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.
No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom, their hopes and dreams of a different, perhaps better, world. For others, the decade marked the advent of the permissive society, with its undermining of authority, family values and common decency. At the heart of this continuing controversy is sex.
For this wide-ranging and eye-opening survey of the sexual landscape of the 1960s Peter Doggett has assembled a dozen little-known stories that reveal how the sexual revolution transformed people's lives. Growing Up provides an honest, often disturbing portrait of a constant battle between two forces: the urge to free the body from guilt and restraint; and the desire to control, cannibalise and exploit that liberation for profit or pleasure. It is a battle that divides opinion to this day.
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Shocking: The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli
Published to accompany the major exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, this book is destined to become a must-have work of reference for all fashion lovers. The couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was a key figure in Paris fashion between the two World Wars. Following in the footsteps of her mentor Paul Poiret, she designed her first knitwear collection in January 1927. Decorated with trompe-l'oeil motifs in black and white, her sweaters were an immediate success in both France and the USA. In 1935, the Maison Schiaparelli opened in the Place Vendome in Paris, selling collections designed for sports, city, and evening wear. Like her arch-rival Gabrielle Chanel, Schiaparelli also worked closely with artists, including Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali, with whom she created a lobster dress. Taking a cue from Surrealism, her creations were hugely imaginative and made use of innovative new materials.
The 'Schiap' style continued to develop through the 1930s. Her most famous collections had themes including the circus (summer 1938) and astrology (winter 1938-39).In 1937, Schiaparelli launched the fragrance Shocking, named after shocking pink, which had become her signature colour. Alongside vintage photographs, sketches and contemporary features from Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, this volume presents specially photographed masterpieces from the collection of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. All 120 garments and accessories from the Schiaparelli archive are illustrated, along with a selection of her drawings dating from 1933 to 1953.
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