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Daedalus Books
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The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud
Автор: Janet Schulman Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 1998 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20091999-06-05
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In the eight years since this blockbuster anthology of 44 classic picture books of the 20th century was compiled, important new picture books have been published that Janet Schulman believes are too good to miss. She has selected 15-some by brand-new voices of the 21st century, some by young authors and illustrators who were just getting started during the last decade of the past century, and a few by familiar names, such as Kevin Henkes with his 2005 Caldecott Medal Winner. This recommended list with descriptive annotations is intended to guide parents to these new books and new voices of the 21st century. Unparalleled in scope and quality and designed for reading aloud and sharing, this splendid anthology brings together some of the most memorable and beloved children's books of our time. Here are classics such as Madelin e and Curious George; contemporary bestsellers such as Guess How Much I Love You and The Stinky Cheese Man; Caldecott Medal winners such as Make Way for Ducklings and Where the Wild Things Are; and family favorites such as Goodnight Moon, The Sneetches, and Winnie-the-Pooh. The selections range from concept books and wordless books to picture books and short read-aloud stories, and represent the complete array of childhood themes and reading needs: ABCs, number and color books, stories about going to bed and going to school; tales about growing up, siblings, parents, and grandparents; animal stories, fantasies; fables; magical stories; stories about everyday life and more. Also included are an introduction, capsule biographies of the 62 writers and artists represented in the collection, color-coded running heads indicating age levels, andindexes. As a gift, a keepsake, and a companion in a child's first steps toward a lifelong love of reading, The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury belongs in every family's bookcase.
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All for Love
Автор: Laura Stoddart Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 83 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092009-05-22
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Shakespeare was blinded by love, Dorothy Parker felt the heartache of jilted lovers, Sappho saw the sensuality in love, and Byron despaired that there is little to be said about a happy marriage. From the artist whose illustrations charmed readers in The Sweet Life and Off the Beaten Path comes a delightful and amusing lover's-eye view of human behavior. Laura Stoddart has selected and elegantly illustrated this collection of brief, witty quotations from men and women who have experienced love firsthand. All for Love is a heartwarming treat for those reveling in love for the first time, contemplating marriage, celebrating an anniversary... or putting the whole business behind them.
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All Our Worldly Goods
Автор: Irene Nemirovsky Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-04-17
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In certain uncanny ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and rehearses some of the themes of her big unfinished sequence of novels. Nemirovsky must have down put her pen in 1940 and picked it straight up again to embark on Suite Francaise...This novel, though is finished, and exquisitely so — first published in France in 1947. It tells the story of two intertwined but warring French families through two world wars from 1911 to 1940, and its themes are war, love and money. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, with the bourgeoisie observed close-up, with Nemirovsky's characteristically clear-eyed compassion and sly humour. Full of moving, vivid observation of the devastating effects of the two wars on a small Normandy town and an industrial family, whose patriarch is a monstrous David Golder character (as French as they come and not in the least Jewish). The exodus and flow of refugee humanity through the town in both wars pre-figures Suite Francaise, but differently again, because this is Normandy and near the Somme, and the town itself is twice razed. Evocative and unputdownable the novel brings home with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, unbelievably. It opens in the Edwardian era (on a fashionable Normandy beach) and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky has an astonishing ability to give you the most blinkered, small-minded of characters (in this case Mme Hardelot, mother of one of the central characters) and bring tears to your eyes — when Mme H realises that her son is leaving for the front in minutes rather than days... It's a gripping story of family life and starcrossed love, of money and feuds, against the backdrop of two terrible wars.
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Barbarossa: The First Seven Days
Автор: Will Fowler Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092005-12-07
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On 22 June 1941 The Germans launched their long-expected invasion of the Soviet Union. Codenamed Operation Barbarossa, after the famous 12th century crusading emperor, what followed was perhaps the greatest clash of arms the world has ever witnessed. With the aid of specially commissioned maps, Barbarossa: The First 7 Days describes the dramatic history of the first week of the invasion of the Soviet Union. The book begins with an extensive overview of the Wehrmacht's success up until 1941, followed by chapters outlining the German High Command's plan of attack and the defensive dispositions of the Soviet forces. The author goes on to describe the opening bombardment, followed by detailed accounts of the three Army Groups' fortunes in the first week of the campaign. The book finishes with an analysis of the remainder of the campaign and the ultimate failure of the Germans to destroy the Red Army and capture Moscow. With first hand accounts from both sides, vivid photographs, detailed fact boxes, and specially commissioned maps of the German advance and the Soviet defensive actions, Barbarossa: The First 7 Days is a comprehensive examination of the first week of the four-year war on the Eastern Front.
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A Brief History of Robin Hood: The True History Behind the Legend
Автор: Nigel Cawthorne Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132011-06-23
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Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man but found its location during the reign of Richard II, the Lionheart, who was away from England fighting in the crusades. In his absence, his brother John lay waste to the country. But does this tell the full story? Was Robin a bandit prince ahead of a troop of brigands? Who was the Sherrif and was he in fact the legitimate law in the land fighting vigilantes?
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Chaplin: A Life
Автор: Stephen Weissman Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 315 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20102009-12-30
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Infamous for his politics and his scandalous sex life, Charlie Chaplin was a much more complex and contradictory character than has hitherto been known. Weissman casts a whole new light both on the screen legend and on the turbulent era through which he lived. 16-page b&w photo insert.
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Che: A Graphic Biography
Автор: Spain Rodriguez Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 106 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20102011-04-22
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Since his death in 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic — one of the most prominent countercultural art forms since the 1960s. Spain Rodriguez's powerful artwork illuminates Che's life and the experiences that shaped him, from his motorcycle journey through Latin America, his rise to prominence as a leader in Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement, his travels in Africa, his involvement in the insurgency that led to his death in Bolivia, and his extraordinary legacy.
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Christmas at the New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Автор: New Yorker Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092007-02-09
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Here are eight decades of holiday cheer — plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking — in this collection of The New Yorker's best seasonal stories, poems, commentary, and memoirs, illuminated with color reproductions of Christmas-themed covers and, of course, a healthy smattering of cartoons from all eras. Here are such classics as John Cheever's 1949 story «Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor», about an elevator operator in a Park Avenue apartment building who experiences the fickle power of charity; John Updike's «The Carol Sing», in which a group of small-town carolers remember an exceptionally enthusiastic fellow singer («How he would jubilate, how he would God-rest those merry gentlemen, how he would boom out when the male voices became King Wenceslas»); and Richard Ford's acerbic and elegiac 1998 story «Crèche», in which an unmarried Hollywood lawyer spends an unsettling holiday with her sister's estranged husband and kids. Here too are S.J. Perelman's 1936 «Waiting for Santy», a playlet in the style of a Cliff Odets labor drama (the setting: «The sweatshop of Santa Claus, North Pole»), and Vladimir Nabokov's heartbreaking 1975 story «Christmas», in which a father grieving for his lost son in a world «ghastly with sadness» sees a tiny miracle on Christmas Eve.
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Corduroy Mansions
Автор: Alexan Mccall-Smith Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith 'moved house' to London's Pimlico and into his brand new daily novel, Corduroy Mansions. The building itself — described in a guide to the architecture of the area as 'a building of no interest whatsoever' — is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block — nobody is very sure. In fact, nothing of its history is known, although it does have some nice Arts and Craft features. At the moment it is inhabited by an assortment of characters — including amongst others a literary agent, a wine merchant, one accountant, possibly the first ever nasty Liberal Democrat MP and his long-suffering PA, and a small dog in his prime. At least one character is on a voyage of self-discovery, which has taken him to Cheltenham so far. Although Corduroy Mansions is a nickname, it is now recognized by the Post Office.
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Cover Her Face
Автор: P.D James Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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St Cedd's Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son's sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, the sly single mother, Sally Jupp. On the following morning Martingale and the whole village are shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp's body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life.
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The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
Автор: Mr. Nigel West Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092002-04-29
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This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their crown jewels, as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West, called by the Sunday Times the unofficial historian of the secret services and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on the activities of all the well-known British pro-Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for the first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge ring (including details of Burgess's offer to murder his fellow conspirator Goronwy Rees). It also reveals a completely unknown Soviet network based in London and headed by a named Daily Herald journalist; describes the huge scale of Soviet penetration of the British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951; explores a previously unknown spy ring in Oxford; and tells about the key role played by Blunt in supervising post-war Soviet espionage activities in London.
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Culinaria Russia: Ukraine Georgia Armenia
Автор: Marion Trutter Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 372 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092008-12-13
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Most people have heard of blini, borscht and pirozhki (relatives of the pirogi), but what's the story behind these traditional Eastern European dishes? While vodka, caviar and Crimean sparkling wine found their way onto the shelves of Western European supermarkets a long time ago, Russian cuisine is just starting to be discovered. This new book in the popular Culinaria series presents an extraordinarily varied and fascinating multi-ethnic cuisine. This book helps you learn about the great variety of Russian appetizers, called pelmeni; how Ukrainian ravioli are made; warenyky, the Georgian national dish, or chatschapuri, the traditional Armenian festive meal; or about Azerbaijan's summer fresh vegetable dishes. In this stunningly illustrated volume, the authors present you with the entire range of cuisine enjoyed in this fascinating part of the world, enticing you to discover new culinary terrain!
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The Double-Daring Book for Girls
Автор: Andrea J. Buchanan Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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From the authors of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls, an all-new double-the-fun, double-the-adventure guidebook of stories, activities, facts, and games for daring girls everywhere.
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A Field Guide to Narnia
Автор: Colin Duriez Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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The Chronicles of Narnia are classics of children's literature — firm favourites with adults as well as children. Colin Duriez weaves together information and interpretation of Lewis's life and his writing, centring on the Chronicles of Narnia but drawing on his other fictional and non-fiction works. The world of Narnia involves a carefully created history where the old world, not dominated by machines and weapons of mass destruction, can be opened to the modern world. Colin Duriez reveals the influences which shaped Lewis's thinking, the rich web of interconnections within the Chronicles and the events in Lewis's own life which found echoes in the books (including his grandfather's hand-craved oak wardrobe). Whether this is your first visit to C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy world or you have been there many times, you'll want to bring along this handy companion to the landscape and inhabitants of Narnia, including an A to Z guide to its characters, places, objects, and events. A Field Guide to Narnia tells the reader more about the mind behind Narnia; how Narnia relates to other imaginative worlds and children's literature; the history within the stories of Narnia; and how Narnia fits into Lewis's other works.
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Foundation
Автор: Isaac Asimov Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 1995 Страниц: 234 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20091997-05-26
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This is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, a three-part masterwork that was later expanded to a seven-part series. It won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series — a special award created to recognize this central work of science fiction. The book describes a far future in which humanity numbers in the quadrillions, spread across millions of worlds, governed by the vast and presumably eternal Empire. But mathematician Hari Seldon, who has developed the study of psychohistory, or the dynamics of very large numbers of humans, has predicted the Empire's certain downfall. In order to forestall the chaos that would follow, he proposes a Foundation of all human knowledge at the edge of the galaxy.
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Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary
Автор: Michael Quinion Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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What is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and Other Language Myths, has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost, and sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative. The story of these and many other words opens a window into the lives of past speakers of the English language.
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Genius of Shakespeare
Автор: Jonathan Bate Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world's most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare's canonization and near-deification, examining not only the uniqueness of his status among English-speaking readers but also his effect on literary cultures across the globe. Ambitious, wide-ranging, and historically rich, this book shapes a provocative inquiry into the nature of genius as it ponders the legacy of a talent unequalled in English letters. A bold and meticulous work of scholarship, The Genius of Shakespeare is also lively and accessibly written and will appeal to any reader who has marveled at the Bard and the enduring power of his work. This tenth anniversary edition has a new twenty-page afterword that addresses the renewed interest in Shakespeare and recent film adaptations of his most celebrated works.
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The Golden Notebook
Автор: Doris Lessing Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20122008-12-13
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Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the mid-20th century and the central masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook is the story of Anna Wulf, a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fearing the onset of madness, she records her experiences in four colored notebooks. Bold and illuminating, fusing sex, politics, madness and motherhood, it is at once a wry and perceptive portrait of the intellectual and moral climate of the 1950s, on the brink of feminism, and a powerful account of a woman searching for her own personal and political identity.
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Hitler: A Biography
Автор: Ian Kershaw Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 1030 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112009-06-15
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This one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler distills Ian Kershaw's stunning two-volume study Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler: 1936–1945: Nemesis. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels' diaries, and illustrated with 151 photographs, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.
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Humpty Dumpty
Автор: Stephen Holmes Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 16 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20142011-12-23
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Designed for young children aged 2-5, these handy little floor puzzle packs contain a 16-page board book and a giant jigsaw puzzle perfect for little hands. Children will love singing the nursery rhyme or listening to reading the story, and they'll have loads of fun doing the extra-large jigsaw. The text promotes literacy and the puzzle helps with the development of color-matching and coordination skills.
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