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Daedalus Books
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Homage to Catalonia/Down and Out in Paris and London
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 441 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20142014-03-16
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Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.
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How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
Автор: William J. Mann Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112010-12-30
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In the 60s, Elizabeth Taylor's affair with the married Richard Burton knocked John Glenn's orbit of the moon off front pages nationwide. Yet, despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. William Mann, praised by Gore Vidal, Patricia Bosworth, and Gerald Clarke for Kate, uses untapped sources and conversations to show how she ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. With unputdownable storytelling he tells the full truth without losing Taylor's magic, daring, or wit. Readers will feel they are sitting next to Taylor as she rises at MGM, survives a marriage engineered for publicity, feuds with Hedda Hopper and Mr. Mayer, wins Oscars, endures tragedy, juggles Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton and her country's conservative values. But it is the private Elizabeth that will surprise — a woman of heart and loyalty, who defends underdogs, a savvy professional whose anger at the studio's treatment of her led to a lifelong battle against that very system. All the Elizabeth's are here, finally reconciled and seen against the exciting years of her greatest spirit, beauty, and influence. Swathed in mink, staring us down with her lavender eyes, disposing of husbands but keeping the diamonds, here is Elizabeth Taylor as she was meant to be, leading her epic life on her own terms, playing the game of supreme stardom at which she remains, to this day, unmatched.
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Автор: Nicholson Baker Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092009-12-30
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Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in the US today, has created a compelling work of non-fiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II. Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources — including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries — the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance towards overt global war and Holocaust. Praised by critics and readers alike for his exquisitely observant eye and deft, inimitable prose, Baker has assembled a narrative within Human Smoke that unfolds gracefully, tragically, and persuasively.
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Hunting Eichmann
Автор: Neal Bascomb Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 390 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20122012-09-22
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The first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of Adolf Eichmann, based on groundbreaking new information and interviews and featuring rare, neverpublished Mossad surveillance photographs When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, the operational manager of the mass murder of Europe's Jews shed his SS uniform and vanished. Bringing Adolf Eichmann to justice would require a harrowing fifteen-year chase stretching from war-ravaged Europe to the shores of Argentina. Alternating from a criminal on the run to his pursuers closing in on his trail, Hunting Eichmann follows the Nazi as he escapes two American POWcamps, hides in the mountains, slips out of Europe on the ratlines, and builds an anonymous life in Buenos Aires.Meanwhile, a persistent search for Eichmann gradually evolves into an international manhunt that includes a bulldogWest German prosecutor, a blind Argentinean Jew and his beautiful daughter, and a budding, ragtag spy agency called the Mossad, whose operatives have their own scores to settle. Presented in a pulse-pounding, hour-by-hour account, the capture of Eichmann and the efforts by Israeli agents to secret him out of Argentina and fly him to Israel to stand trial bring the narrative to a stunning conclusion. Hunting Eichmann is a fully documented, finely nuanced history that offers the intrigue of a detective story and the thrill of great spy fiction.
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The Last American Man
Автор: Elizabeth Gilbert Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed he built, grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed and skinned before using their sinew as sewing thread. But he didn't stop there. In the years that followed, he stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges. He travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers; he scaled cliffs in New Zealand. One Christmas, he finished dinner with his family and promptly upped and left — to ride his horse across America. From South Carolina to the Pacific, with his little brother in tow, they dodged cars on the highways, ate road kill and slept on the hard ground. Now, more than twenty years on, Eustace is still in the mountains, residing in a thousand-acre forest where he teaches survival skills and attempts to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature. But over time he has had to reconcile his ambitious dreams with the sobering realities of modernity. Told with Elizabeth Gilbert's trademark wit and spirit, this is a fascinating, intimate portrait of an endlessly complicated man: a visionary, a narcissist, a brilliant but flawed modern hero. The Last American Man is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. The Last American Man is a New York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
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Let's Explore a Castle
Автор: Nicholas Harris Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 36 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20122013-02-19
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Youngsters can discover the inner-workings of a castle in this fun novelty book. Readers are encouraged to peek behind doors, windows and walls, and open foldouts of four detailed scenes that reveal castle life. Illustrations.
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Let's Explore a Pirate Ship
Автор: Nicholas Harris Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 36 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20122013-02-19
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Let's Explore a Pirate Ship! Come discover the complex inner-workings of a pirate ship from the roaring raids on a Spanish galleon to the salvage mission of a sunken vessel. From the outer decks to the crew's quarters this book reveals every part of pirate life. Beautiful and intricate illustrations show the smallest details and will even cause some laughs as you notice funny scenes hidden inside the ship. Featuring naval battle scenes, a sunken ship panorama, and even funny scenes like pirates dropping cannon balls. Peek behind decks, windows and hulls to unfold panoramic foldouts of four unbelievably detailed scenes. Then, on the next page you'll find a breakdown of each scene, with clear explanations, interesting facts and even more illustrations so learning is easy and fun.
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Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments
Автор: Ivan Turgenev Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 309 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092005-03-19
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Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for.
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Little Red Car Has an Accident
Автор: Mathew Price Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20122011-07-14
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Simple language, bold illustrations with sturdy pull-tabs and pop-ups in the whimsical tradition of Disney's 'Cars', encourage car-loving toddlers to read. As Little Red Car reaches the crossroads, the old willow tree comes crashing down on him! It's off to the garage for repairs. When he's all fixed there is still something that doesn't feel quite right. A gentle surprise awaits Little Red Car!
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Little Red Car in the Snow
Автор: Mathew Price Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20122011-07-14
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Simple language, bold illustrations with sturdy pull-tabs and pop-ups in the whimsical tradition of Disney's 'Cars', encourage car-loving toddlers to read. A heavy snowfall causes problems for Little Red Car, but snow can be fun when your friends come to help!
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Little Red Car Plays Taxi
Автор: Mathew Price Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20122011-07-14
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Simple language, bold illustrations with sturdy pull-tabs and pop-ups in the whimsical tradition of Disney's 'Cars', encourage car-loving toddlers to read. When Alfred the old taxi is out for repairs, Little Red Car is eager to take his place. He finds that being a taxi is very hard work!
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The Little Stranger
Автор: Sarah Waters Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Watersas trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of todayas most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, The Night Watch, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and intricate novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved so far. With The Little Stranger, Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940saand gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Watersas work. The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in declineaits masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his. Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Watersas most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
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Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
Автор: Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 251 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20122013-03-08
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Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post — World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned murder counselor concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing-and provide insight into the development of his early style-collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It's impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut. Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut's characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever-and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.
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The Master of Ballantrae
Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20092005-07-04
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The Master of Ballantrae features some of Robert Louis Stevenson's best writing. The tale opens in the old Scottish castle of Durrisdeer, the ancestral home of the Durrie clan, and then moves to India, France, and the American Adirondacks. The Master of Ballantrae draws readers into a fast-paced adventure that encompasses sea voyages and encounters with pirates. Unabridged republication of a standard edition.
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More about Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood
Автор: Roald Dahl Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 223 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20132011-07-28
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More About Boy is the story of Roald Dahlas very own boyhood, as told in Boy, featuring never-before-seen material from behind the scenes, and some of the secrets he left out. Enjoy tales of sweet shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plotathe inspiration for some of his most marvelous stories in the years to come. This stunning new edition includes some wonderful and strange things that have NEVER been seen before! Some funny, some frighteningaall true.
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The Private Diary of Mr: Darcy
Автор: Maya Slater Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 316 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20112010-06-23
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Literature's most famous romantic hero opens his diary: it's intimate, dramatic, deeply passionate, and sometimes downright shocking. Have you ever wondered what Mr. Darcy was really thinking? Find out his secrets in this captivating novel of love, pride, passion, and, of course, prejudice. Mr. Darcy's intimate diary reveals his entanglements with women, his dangerous friendship with Lord Byron, his daily life in Georgian London, his mercurial mood swings calmed only by fisticuffs at Jackson's-and, most importantly, his vain struggle to conquer his longing for Elizabeth Bennet.
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Return to Cranford: And Other Stories
Автор: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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Treasured household names, including Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie, brought Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford to life in one of the best-loved classic dramas of all time. This celebratory omnibus edition includes the classic novel of the same name, a comic portrait of the lives of Cranford's genteel female inhabitants, as well as a novella and a short story. Both of these, The Moorland Cottage and The Cage at Cranford, feature in the Cranford two-part Special due to be screened on BBC television over Christmas 2009. These poignant portraits of early Victorian country village life deserve to be read and re-read.
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The Secret History of the English Language
Автор: M. J. Harper Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 199 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20102012-03-26
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In a hugely enjoyable read with gloriously corrosive prose, MJ Harper slashes and burns through the whole of accepted academic thought about the history of the English Language. According to Harper: 1. English does not derive from Anglo-Saxon. 2. French, Italian, and Spanish did not descend from Latin. 3. Middle English is a wholly imaginary language created by well-meaning by deluded academics. And that's just the beginning! Part revisionist history, part treatise on the real origins of English, and part impassioned argument against staid academe, The Secret History of the English Language is essential reading for language lovers, history buffs, Anglophiles, and anyone who has ever thought twice about what they've learned in school.
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Shades of Grey
Автор: Jasper Fforde Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 390 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20122012-09-22
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From the bestselling author of Thursday Nextaa brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own colorabut no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means. Eddieas world wasnat always like this. Thereas evidence of a never-discussed disaster and now, many years later, technology is poor, news sporadic, the notion of change abhorrent, and nighttime is terrifying: no one can see in the dark. Everyone abides by a bizarre regime of rules and regulations, a system of merits and demerits, where punishment can result in permanent expulsion. Eddie, who works for the Color Control Agency, might well have lived out his rose-tinted life without a hitch. But that changes when he becomes smitten with Jane, a Grey Nightseer from the dark, unlit side of the village. She shows Eddie that all is not well with the world he thinks is just and good. Together, they engage in dangerous revolutionary talk. Stunningly imaginative, very funny, tightly plotted, and with sly satirical digs at our own society, this novel is for those who loved Thursday Next but want to be transported somewhere equally wild, only darker; a world where the black and white of moral standpoints have been reduced to shades of grey.
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Smart-Opedia
Автор: Eve Drobot Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 214 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092012-08-14
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Smart-opedia: The Amazing Book About Everything is designed to make learning an absorbing adventure that's a treat for even the most reluctant learner. Expertly organized so readers can find what they want when they want it, the book's four main sections (The World Around Us, Life, History, and Genius) are separated into nine detailed chapters (Astronomy, Planet Earth, Plants, Animals, The Human Body, History, The Arts, Science and Technology, and Today's World) that cover more than 85 entertaining and thought-provoking subjects. Each thematic section contains colorful spreads with dramatic illustrations, photographs, and maps, and the book is packed with special features, such as Food for Thought, presenting myths, legends, famous quotes, and historical perspectives. There are also mini-bios that shed light on luminaries from da Vinci to Disney, career descriptions that introduce readers to diverse occupations they may not have heard about, and much more. This fun book entertains youngsters with answers to questions they might not even have known they had, and helps them decipher the world around them, stay abreast of current events, and form opinions on important issues. Meticulously researched, it is also an excellent reference text for homework assignments and school projects.
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