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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
Автор: Bertrand M. Patenaude Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was that rare combination of the man of ideas and the man of action. His role in history — his epic rise and fall, his fiery persona, his violent end in Mexico in August 1940 — holds a fascination that transcends the history of the Russian Revolution. Based on extensive firsthand research, this groundbreaking biography examines Trotsky's remarkable life from the perspective of his last exile in Mexico. Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky's final years in Mexico with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik leader, outcast from Stalin's USSR, and ultimately heretic of the Kremlin, targeted for assassination by its secret police. He vividly recounts the contentious Dewey Commission hearings and the passionate debates among liberals and Communists in the United States and Europe over the Moscow Trials and the charges made against Trotsky. Drawing on Trotsky's private correspondence and diaries, as well as the testimonies of his American bodyguards and secretaries, Patenaude sheds new light on Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera; his affair with Rivera's wife, Frida Kahlo; and his torment as his family and comrades became victims of the Great Terror. Patenaude also turns to KGB files to document Stalin's efforts to eliminate the man he considered his nemesis — including a failed commando raid on Trotsky's home three months before his death. Gripping and tragic, «Trotsky» brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history's most captivating and important figures.
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The World in a Phrase
Автор: James Geary Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 229 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20092008-02-09
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For lovers of words and seekers of wisdom, a lively history of aphorisms — the shortest and oldest written art form — and the intriguing people who have penned them, from the Buddha to Emily Dickinson. Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, «The World in a Phrase» tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of its greatest practitioners: Americans like Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker; great French aphorists like Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and Chamfort; philosophers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein; as well as prophets and sages like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Jesus. Though it's an ancient art form, the aphorism is as spritely and as apposite as ever. Challenging and subversive, aphorisms deliver the short, sharp shocks of old forgotten truths. They are literature's hand luggage: they're light and compact, you can take them anywhere, and they contain everything you need to get through a rough day at the office or a dark night of the soul. But more than just a literary history, «The World in a Phrase» is a personal memoir of how aphorisms changed Geary's life — and how, if not for an aphorism by W.H. Auden, he might never have met his wife. In our modern age of drive-through culture, pre-digested soundbites, and manufactured sentiment, «The World in a Phrase» explores how aphorisms still retain the power to instigate and inspire, enlighten and enrage, entertain and edify.
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The Kitchen Planner: Hundreds of Great Ideas for Your New Kitchen
Автор: Suzanne Ardley Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092002-09-30
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»The Kitchen Planner» takes the confusion out of kitchen redesign and puts the fun back in. Filled with advice and suggestions for everything from the quick touch-up to a complete makeover, this innovative guide covers it all. The uniquely designed section of tri-split pages allows for effortless mixing and matching of wall colors, cabinetry, and floors. The reusable stickers and layout grid make it simple to experiment with a variety of floor plans. And the informational charts written specifically for singles, couples, families, and people with special needs can help anyone design the perfect kitchen for their particular lifestyle. Packed with color photographs, resourceful text, and countless expert suggestions, «The Kitchen Planner» is a practical, convenient, and necessary tool for any kitchen remodeling project.
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Legendary Motorcycles
Автор: Luigi Corbetta Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 300 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20132011-06-25
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Stunning airbrushed portraits (up to 20 x 12 inches) of some of the world's most famous or beautiful motorcycles from the all-American Harley Davidson Twin 1000 of 1913 to the very Italian Aprilia RSV4 of 2009 illustrate this visual history of the motorcycle, scooter, and moped. Here too are factory photos, diagrams, and archival images like Marlon Brando leaning on his Triumph in The Wild Ones and Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson riding the star-spangled chopper in Easy Rider.
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Santa's Reindeer
Автор: Rod Green Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092009-10-13
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Have you ever heard a reindeer's sleigh bells in the sky on Christmas Eve? Have you ever heard a reindeer's hoofbeat on the roof of your house? Or listened to the clatter of antlers outside in the darkness? Of course you haven't Santa's reindeer are so skillful that they can fly in and out of your neighborhood without anyone hearing a thing. But how do they learn to fly in the first place? What are the reindeer really like? What do the reindeer do for the rest of the year when they're not flying Santa around the world? Find out all about how Santa and his Sleigh Master train the Sleigh Team at the North Pole. Discover just what reindeer games the team likes to play and what they love to eat. Learn everything you ever wanted to know in this beautifully illustrated look at the North Pole's most magical inhabitants. Then watch out on Christmas Eve. Once you know all about Santa's reindeer, you just might be able to spot them stopping somewhere near your house
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The Amazing Lift-The-Flap ABC
Автор: Colin Hawkins Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20112009-06-05
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A phenomenally phonetic ABC book, packed with more than enough jokes to keep children amused and plenty of extra words on each page to expand their vocabulary. A flap for each letter reveals surprises and even more words, and cheerful illustrations and bright colors add to learning fun. Colin Hawkins won a scholarship to art school at the age of thirteen. Jacqui Hawkins went to college in London, where she studied graphic design. They are married with two children and now live in Ireland. Their first book, Witches, was published in 1981; since then, they have together produced over one hundred titles.
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Art Nouveau Designers at the Paris Salons: 1895-1914
Автор: Alastair Duncan Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2002 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092003-12-20
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The catalogues of the Paris Salons at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development, the five previous volumes covering Jewellery, Furniture, Ceramics and Glass, and Objets d'Art. The fabric designers of the Art Nouveau style who exhibited at the Paris Salons produced a remarkable oeuvre in printed and woven fabric, silk, lace, embroidery and tapestry. Bookbinding was, and still is, a well-established French tradition, and bibliophiles commissioned unique bindings from artist-designers who, at the same time, were also creating and exhibiting non-bound leather goods — handbags, blotters, upholstery. This volume is probably the most important in the series. Because of wear and tear, practically none of the approximate 1,200 textile and leatherware pieces illustrated have survived outside museum collections or appeared at auction, unlike the items covered by the earlier volumes.
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Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions
Автор: Barry Edelstein Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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Barry Edelstein gathers together the timeless Shakespearean wit and wisdom that's right for the big moments in life-and some of the not-so-big moments as well — and presents it in accessible and entertaining terms. Selections are grouped by occasion and presented with lively and succinct background material. For public speakers or letter writers hoping to enhance their remarks with some choice Shakespearean gem, «Shakespeare for All Occasions» provides nuts and bolts tips on pronunciation, delivery, and emphasis, and offers suggestions and examples that illustrate ways in which musings from the Bard can be woven into a simple and elegant speech, missive, or meditation. This 'how-to' material makes «Shakespeare for All Occasions» stand out from the small number of other Shakespeare quotation books on the market. Those titles list selected lines of Shakespeare and stop there. Only this one offers the reader the practical tools necessary to use the quotes it suggests.
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The Bloody Triangle: The Defeat of Soviet Armor in the Ukraine, June 1941
Автор: Victor Kamenir Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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The Battle of Brody ranks as one of the key tank battles in World War II, yet is woefully unknown. For the first time, there is a detailed, well-researched history of this key tank battle around Kiev and the Dnieper River. The fiercest battle of Operation Barbarossa — including a four-day battle between the 1st Panzer Army, and the Soviet Mechanized Corps — this included 3,000 armored vehicles in both armies, plus air support from the Luftwaffe.For a week, the two sides fought each other continuously: the Soviets with tenacity, determination, and courage, the Germans with regimented disciple and tactics that proved superior. Full battle plans are given, along with forces strengths and biographies of key commanders, so the reader can follow combat history, and the author examines the decisive German victory, yet shows how these few days proved invaluable to the Soviet Union, when the Whermacht attack stalled at the gates of Moscow in the dead of winter, foreshadowing the end for the Germans. Showing this battle from both sides, this is a book bound to appeal to any tank enthusiast and military historian.
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Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life
Автор: Edna O'Brien Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce Edna O Brien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four on the publication of Childe Harold. With her prismatic eye and novelistic style, O Brien eerily captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait of Byron that explodes the Romantic myth. From his escapades with John Edleston, the fourteen-year-old Cambridge choir boy, to those with a galaxy of women that included his half-sister, his wife of one year, and the Italian countess who forsook her satyr-like husband for the peer of England and its greatest poet, Byron scandalized the world and inspires Byronmania to this day. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O Brien, is the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal.
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Cars
Автор: Robert Crowther Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 12 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20112012-09-17
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Crazy about cars? Get in gear — and get ready for action — as Robert Crowther's info-packed, interactive pop-up book showcases some very cool wheels. Hop in and take a drive in the smartest, fastest automobiles — from the earliest carriages to the cars of tomorrow. With the pull of a tab or the lift of a flap, fans can ride in the first automobile, find out how engines work, see their car slide off the production line, and plenty more. And the grand finale? Feel the thrill of the racetrack by taking pole position with stock car and Formula 1 stars!
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The Chemistry of Death
Автор: Simon Beckett Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 313 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20092009-02-26
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Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body. In one horrifying instant, the quiet summer countryside that had been David' s refuge has turned malevolent — and suddenly there is no place to hide. The village of Manham is tight-knit, far from the beaten path. As a newcomer, Dr. Hunter is immediately a suspect. Once an expert in analyzing human remains, he reluctantly joins the police investigation — and when another woman disappears, it soon becomes personal. Because this time she is someone David knows, someone who has managed to penetrate the icy barrier around his heart. With a killer' s bizarre and twisted methods screaming out to him, with a brooding countryside beset with suspicion, David can feel the darkness gathering around him. For as the clock ticks down on a young woman' s life, David must follow a macabre trail of clues — all the way to its final, horrifying conclusion.
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Don Daily's Classic Children's Storybook Collection
Автор: Don Daily Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092011-08-31
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Now, his greatest hits are available at a value price in this special storybook collection. From the beloved animal characters such as Brer Rabbit, Mr. Toad and the Tortoise and the Hare, to courageous children like Mowgli and Hansel and Gretel, this compilation has something for everyone. The added bonus of ten stunning, never-before-published Mother Goose illustrations makes this special treasury of well-known classics a volume to be cherished.
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Conrad's Fate
Автор: Diana Wynne Jones Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092008-02-23
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A splendid, new, magical adventure from Diana Wynne Jones, set in the worlds of Chrestomanci! Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances — well, to be brutally honest, he is DOOMED. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Stallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate so badly. He has to put an end to them, or he wont last the year. But can any plan really be that simple and straightforward? Of course it can't! And things start to go very strangely for Conrad from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher! This is trademark DWJ — packed with laugh-aloud humour, insane logic, spot-on observations, organised chaos, and all wrapped up in a rattling good adventure which oozes magic from every seam. Literally.
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Cranford: and Other Stories
Автор: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112010-02-24
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»Cranford» is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation. Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of Cranford's inhabitants in this witty and poignant classic which deserves to be read and re-read.
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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Автор: Piers Brendon Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 786 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20102012-03-22
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A magisterial work of narrative history, hailed in Britain as the best one-volume account of the British Empire and an outstanding book (The Times Literary Supplement), After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen — ranging from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt — seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth. Yet it was also a fundamentally weak empire, as Piers Brendon shows in this vivid and sweeping chronicle. Run from a tiny island base, the British Empire operated on a shoestring with the help of local elites. It enshrined a belief in freedom that would fatally undermine its authority. Spread too thin, and facing wars, economic crises, and domestic discord, the empire would vanish almost as quickly as it appeared. Within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, sometimes amid bloodshed. This rapid demise left unfinished business in Rhodesia, the Falklands, and Hong Kong. It left an array of dependencies and a ghost of an empire overshadowed by a rising America. Above all, it left a contested legacy: at best, a sporting spirit, a legal code, and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. Brendon tells this story with brio and brilliance; covering a vast canvas, he fills it with vivid firsthand accounts of life in the colonies and intimate portraits of the sometimes eccentric British officials who administered them. It is all here — from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments. Panoramicin scope and riveting in detail, this is narrative history at its finest.
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Flanimals: Pop-up
Автор: Ricky Gervais Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 14 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20112011-10-20
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The world of Flanimals, madcap creation of comedian and actor Ricky Gervais, is perfectly realized in this lavish pop-up book. From Flanimal evolution and behaviour to Flanimals of the air and of the deep, all aspects of Flanimal life are open to exploration through huge pop-ups and intricate flaps. Perfect for all ages, «Flanimals Pop-Up» is the ideal introduction to the Flanimal kingdom and the perfect gift for Flanimal lovers everywhere.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
Автор: Gerald Martin Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 642 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20112011-07-11
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The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature — the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. While telling the story of the young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in Garcia Marquez's life between celebrity and the quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love. He explores the contrast in the writer's homeland, Colombia, between the exuberance of his Caribbean background and the authoritarianism of highland Bogota; and his turning away from the magical realism of One Hundred Years of Solitude toward the greater simplicity that would mark his work beginning with Love in the Time of Cholera. Over the course of fifteen years, Gerald Martin interviewed not only Gabo himself, but also more than 300 others: including Fidel Castro, Spain's former prime minister Felipe Gonzalez, and several former presidents of Colombia; Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, among other writers; Garcia Marquez's family, his literary agent, translators, and his closest friends as well as his consistent detractors. The result is a revelation of a life as gripping as any of the writer's journalism and as enthralling as any of his fiction.
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Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and About Maxim Gorky
Автор: Maxim Gorky Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of a kind unmatched by that of any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century. Prodigiously gifted and prolific, riddled with contradictions, praised increasingly for political rather than literary reasons, he left a vast body of writing that contains acknowledged masterpieces alongside many currently neglected works that still await impartial assessment.Taken together, the pieces in this book (many of them based on fuller texts than those of previously published translations) present a surprising and unfamiliar Gorky: a figure who, once the cliches are stripped away from him, becomes ever more fascinating and enigmatic as man, as writer, and as historical figure. Among the volume's selections are portraits of Gorky by four particularly astute observers: poet Vladislav Khodasevich, critics Boris Eikhenbaum and Georgy Adamovich, and novelist Evgeny Zamiatin.Fanger's generous annotations and brilliant introduction will make this book indispensable to every reader with an interest in Tolstoy, Gorky, modern Russian literature and politics, or the art of the memoir.
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and The Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetry and magic and will be enjoyed by children of every age. This is a perfect collection for children young and old, introduced by Markus Zusak, bestselling author of «The Book Thief».
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