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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
Автор: Bartlett Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20152015-05-06
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In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a privileged aristocratic family, he seemed set to join the ranks of degenerate Russian noblemen, but fighting in the Crimean war alongside rank and file soldiers opened his eyes to Russia's social problems and he threw himself into teaching the peasantry to read and write. After his marriage he wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, both regarded as two of the greatest novels in world literature.Rosamund Bartlett's exceptional biography of this brilliant, maddening and contrary man draws on key Russian sources, including the many fascinating new materials which have been published about Tolstoy and his legacy since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Getting the Job You Want
Автор: Taylor D. Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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Introducing Getting the Job You Want supports you through all the stages of finding your perfect job — from organisation and preparation to the different ways to implement a job search campaign. In a challenging job market you need to create a resume that will sell you, and to be well prepared for interview. Both new graduates and those returning to the job search will learn simple yet effective techniques from award-winning career psychologist, Denise Taylor.
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Rodinsky's Room
Автор: Lichtenstein Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 362 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-07
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Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the thirties. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky — which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London — with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past, and on the Whitechapel he has reinvented.
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The Complete Earth: A Satellite Portrait of Our Planet
Автор: Palmer Douglas Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082009-04-29
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Combining the data from 18 of the most advanced Earth satellites ever built, NASA has constructed the most detailed global portrait of our planet ever created. The Complete Earth reproduces this photomap in its entirety and at full-resolution, living up to its title by revealing the whole planet, cloud-free, at a resolution of 500m to every pixel, or 90 miles to every inch. At this scale we can trace the Amazon from Andean headwaters to Atlantic mouth, or explore the trackless sand seas of the Sahara, or follow the corrugated ridges of hills and mountains that mark the front line of India's tectonic assault on Eurasia as if we were in low-Earth orbit. These images are supplemented by a wealth of even higher resolution satellite imagery that zooms in on noteworthy features — from volcanoes to cities, river deltas to glaciers. In addition, 12 double-page-spreads chart one year in the life of our planet as they follow the ebb and flow of the seasons across the globe: we watch snow fall in the North as it melts in the South, and desert lands bloom and fade as the rains come and go. Accompanying the images, a brief but informative text explores the history of each landscape, explaining the how and when of its mountain ranges, deserts and plains.
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A Man Without Breath
Автор: Kerr Philip Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20182017-03-24
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It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have been circulating of a mass grave hidden in a wood near Smolensk. The grave's whereabouts are uncertain until, deep in the Katyn Forest, a wolf digs up some human remains. Rumour has it that the grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians — a war crime that is perfect propaganda for Germany. But it needs a detective of subtle skill to investigate this horrific discovery. Cue Bernie Gunther...
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Russian Stories
Автор: Seres Francesc Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2005 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092008-04-29
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Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine has cut out; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; experience that sinking feeling common to all who visit Voromir, where graviatonal forces are 30 per cent higher than in the rest of the world; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square? The ridiculous is rendered sublime in Francesc Seres' collection of twenty-one impish and outrageous stories by five imaginary Russian writers. Each story mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and as a whole they sketch a historical arc that begins in the nineteenth century and ends in the age of budget airlines. Russian Stories is a virtuoso collection by a master of the genre, offering the reader a winning combination of daring, wit, dash and charm.
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Brief Loves That Live Forever
Автор: Makine Andrei Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him — a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give to his lover. As the dreary Brezhnev era gives way to Perestroika and the fall of Communism, the orphan uncovers the truth behind the life of Dmitri Ress, whose tragic fate embodies the unbreakable bond between love and freedom.
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The Digital Filmmaking Handbook
Автор: Brindle Mark Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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Whether you are already a seasoned director or simply a film fan, this comprehensive guide features everything you need to know to make a digital film: from the basics of capturing footage and planning a shoot, to the more advanced aspects of editing and post-production. Clear, step-by-step instruction on the technical aspects of filming with HD and DSLR cameras — including the latest advice on equipment, accessories, and software — are set alongside tips on the creative aspects — such as effects, making a storyboard and creating and lighting a set. Packed with tips and tricks to develop both your artistic flair and your technical know-how, The Digital Filmmaking Handbook is the ultimate resource for all your filmmaking needs.
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The Cosmic Gallery: The Most Beautiful Images of the Universe
Автор: Sparrow Giles Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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The heavens are alive with breathtaking beauty: from the incandescent surface of the Sun to the shimmering tail of a comet; the birth of planets to the death of stars; the dancing shadows of Jupiter's moons to the silhouettes of eclipses. The Cosmic Gallery contemplates the entire cosmos as a grand celestial art exhibit. In six thematically organized chapters, Giles Sparrow presents an array of stunning images, ranging from easily seen phenomena to the most distant and intricate galaxies, providing the reader with an exciting and beautiful new perspective on the cosmos.
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Every Seventh Wave
Автор: Glattauer Daniel Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-24
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'How will this go on, Leo? The same as before? But where will it go? Nowhere, just on. You live your life, I live mine. And the rest we'll live together.' Love Virtually ends as Leo leaves Germany for America. He and Emmi have still not met, but the intensity of their correspondence has been threatening Emmi's marriage. But shouldn't these unconventional lovers be given another chance? When Leo returns from Boston and gradually resumes his e-mail contact with Emmi. But he has plans to settle down with Pamela, the woman he met in America. Emmi and Leo meet at last in person, in an attempt to draw a line under their relationship, but they cannot stop writing to each other. When Pamela learns of Leo's secret and unusual liaison, she returns to the USA, and Emmi's marriage to Bernhard is tested to its limits... Readers of Love Virtually begged to know more: could Emmi and Leo ever get together? Once again Daniel Glattauer takes us up and down through stormy waters, and delivers a thrilling sequel.
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The Human Brain
Автор: Costandi Moheb Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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Neuroscience is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of scientific research, with new advances being made every day. In 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, Mo Costandi condenses all we know about the brain and how it works into series of introductions to the most important concepts. Outlining both long-standing theories — such as the function of neurons and synaptic transmission — and cutting-edge ideas — including neuroethics and brain-computer interfacing — with straightforward narrative and clear two-colour illustrations, this book is a perfect beginner's guide to the most powerful and mysterious organ in the body. The ideas explored include: The nervous impulse; Differences between the male and female brain; The root of addiction; Neurobiological basis for personality; The relationship between sleep and memory.
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Animals: A Visual Guide to the Animal Kingdom
Автор: Laidler Dr.Keith Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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Embark on an incredible journey through the dizzying diversity, complexity and majesty of the Animal Kingdom. Discover how primitive slime fungi cells coalesce and function for a time as a single animal, or witness the millions of Monarch butterflies that aggregate on trees in Mexico. Meet the Coelacanth fish thought to be extinct for millions of years, or Microcebus — the newly discovered mouse lemur and the world's smallest primate. From sponges to spiny ant eaters, brine shrimps to bonobos, Animalia allows you to witness some of the most astonishing wonders of the natural world in spectacular detail. Organised according to the scientific classification of animals (orders, families, genus, species), each chapter focuses on a different family of animals, starting with an introductory essay on the evolution, diversity, behaviour, habitats, conservation, etc. Subsequent pages showcase a broad selection of the most interesting, exotic, unusual, endangered, beautiful, specific animals within that group. Animalia combines over 350 amazing giant-sized images taken by the world's best wildlife photographers with the latest scientific and zoological research on the natural history and conservation status of hundreds of animals. From nature lovers to conservationists, wildlife watchers to budding zoologists, Animalia is the ideal reference that will entertain, inform and enthrall readers of all ages.
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Dead Men and Broken Hearts
Автор: Russell Craig Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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Investigator Lennox just can't stay out of trouble. Lennox is looking for legitimate cases — anything's better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow's underworld. So when a woman comes into his office and hires him to follow her husband, it seems the perfect case. And, unusually for Lennox, it's legal. But this isn't a simple case of marital infidelity. When the people he's following start to track him, once more Lennox must draw on the violent, war-damaged part of his personality as he follows this trail of dead men and broken hearts.
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The Night is for Hunting
Автор: Marsden John Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-24
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A year of war. A year of terror. And a year of loss. Twelve months have passed since the invasion. Ellie has lost friends, she has taken many lives and she is still as disgusted by violence as she is determined to stand up to the invaders. Now the friends find themselves back in their sanctuary of Hell, caring for a band of feral children whose lives have been destroyed by the war. Meanwhile, the conflict intensifies and the enemy draws closer...
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Tangled Lives
Автор: Boyd Hilary Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20162016-04-19
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Annie Delancey is happily married with three grown children. But she guards a secret. Aged eighteen she had a baby boy, and gave him up for adoption. Out of the blue, she receives an official-looking letter from Social Services. Her son wants to make contact. As the son she has never known comes back into her life, his presence begins to expose the cracks in the family that Annie now has to try, desperately, to hold together.
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An Armenian Sketchbook
Автор: Grossman Vasily Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for the benign humility that is always to be found in his writing. After the 'arrest' — as Grossman always put it — of Life and Fate, Grossman took on the task of editing a literal Russian translation of a lengthy Armenian novel. The novel was of little interest to him, but he was glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia. This is his account of the two months he spent there. It is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossman's works, with an air of absolute spontaneity, as though Grossman is simply chatting to the reader about his impressions of Armenia — its mountains, its ancient churches and its people.
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The Chessmen
Автор: May Peter Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill — a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. THE FINAL CHAPTER. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.
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Let the Old Dreams Die
Автор: Lindqvist John Ajvide Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist's rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.
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A Man Without Breath
Автор: Kerr Philip Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have been circulating of a mass grave hidden in a wood near Smolensk. The grave's whereabouts are uncertain until, deep in the Katyn Forest, a wolf digs up some human remains. Rumour has it that the grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians — a war crime that is perfect propaganda for Germany. But it needs a detective of subtle skill to investigate this horrific discovery. Cue Bernie Gunther...
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The Marseille Caper
Автор: Mayle Peter Жанр: Quercus/MacLehose Press Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur and expert on cultivated crime, is back in Marseille, for both work and pleasure — the lure of excitement and the pleasures of the region proving too tempting to resist. But surrounded by gangsters and cut-throat developers, Sam finds himself far closer to danger than he had planned...
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