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Daedalus Books
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Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112012-03-18
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Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously.Here, collected for the first time in one volume as Nabokov always wished, are many of his English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals, as well as three never-before-published poems written in English by Nabokov himself. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation. With an introduction by Brian Boyd, author of the prize-winning biography of Nabokov, «Verses and Versions» is a momentous and authoritative contribution to Nabokov's published works.
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Who Lives Here?
Автор: Maggie Silver Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20122010-06-05
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Perfect for the youngest naturalist, Who Lives Here? is an engaging visual journey to the habitats of a variety of creatures. I'm very tiny and I have a long beak, just right for drinking the nectar from flowers. What am I? Inviting riddles introduce facts about each creature and invite children to guess which animal the clue is for. Lift-the-flaps reveal the answers. Includes a glossary with more information in the back of the book.
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Who's at Home?
Автор: Maggie Silver Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20122010-06-05
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We are not birds but we can fly. We like to sleep beneath a leaf high in the trees. What are we? Engaging riddles introduce key facts about each animal with more information in a glossary in the back. The perfect book for the inquisitive young naturalist! A member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and an illustrator for the London Zoo, Maggie Silver has illustrated several books for children, including Nature Hide & Seek: Woods & Forests. She lives in England.
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America: A View From Above
Автор: Peter Skinner Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 239 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20122011-06-18
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Aerial photographer Jim Wark distills America in images of Hawaii's volcanoes and the small towns of New England, portraits of major cities and the Grand Canyon, and photos of the agricultural heartland that take on abstract patterns of irrigation circles and contour plowing. A former navy aviator and air show pilot, Wark views the airplane, camera, and photographer working as a single unit to capture images that are not simply documentary but beautiful in their own right. This book is one in a series of panoramic albums — with single-and double-page images up to 30 inches across — that capture the character of a country in unique aerial photographs views of cities and towns, familiar landmarks, and features of the landscape and coastline.
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The Green Mile
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 435 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102010-12-20
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The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain Penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent — whichever he is — Coffey has strange powers that may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him. One of Stephen King's most popular novels, this was the basis for the 1999 film starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan.
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The Children of Hurin
Автор: J.R.R.Tolkien Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 313 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20102008-12-26
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There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterward, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book I have endeavored to construct, after long study of themanuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.
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Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Автор: Richard Schickel Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092006-05-28
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This book reprints a four-hour conversation between Mr. Schickel and Mr. Allen and includes a long essay of introduction by Mr. Schickel, which places Woody Allen's entire career in critical perspective, as well as a complete filmography. Readers will find Mr. Allen's reflections on his major preoccupations — the battle of the sexes; the conflict between reality and fantasy in his major films; mortality, religion, and the role that chance plays in the unfolding of our lives. The book also offers insights into Mr. Allen's working methods as a writer and the growth of his skills as a director.
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The White Tiger
Автор: Aravind Adiga Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-09-27
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Balram Halwai is the White Tiger — the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India — by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking — from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator — amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
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Tom Sawyer Detective
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092009-08-31
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Twain's two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited for a high-spirited and engaging tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond heists, mistaken identity and murder, involving the two boys in a bigger adventure than even they had in mind. Huck's typical bemused and timid observation provides a poignant contrast to Tom's frenetic ingenuity, as the mystery begins tortuously to unravel, and it is in these two wryly affectionate portrayals that Twain breathes life and warmth into his charming and unjustly neglected story.
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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
Автор: Mark Abley Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 262 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122010-05-18
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An exhilarating exploration of how the world's languages are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other — from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back in time. As much a travel book as a tour of words at play, The Prodigal Tongue goes beyond grammar and vocabulary to discover how language is irrevocably changing the people of the world in far-reaching ways.On his travels, Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers, and Web-savvy teens. He talks to a married couple who corresponded passionately online before they met in meatspace. And he listens to teenagers, puzzling out the words they coin in chat rooms and virtual worlds. Everywhere he goes, he asks what the future is likely to hold for the ways we communicate. Abley balances a traditional concern for honesty and accuracy in language with a less traditional delight in the sheer creative energy of new words and expressions. Provocative, perceptive, and often hilarious, this is a book for everyone who cherishes the words we use.
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Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life
Автор: Fernando Morais Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 457 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20102012-04-17
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Morais pens this comprehensive biography of one of the world's most popular and widely-read novelists Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.
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The Monster in the Box
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 287 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20122013-04-22
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From Ruth Rendell, reigning queen of crime fiction? (Time Out), the 22nd installment in the acclaimed Inspector Wexford series.
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The Magic Babushka
Автор: Phyllis Limbacher Tildes Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112011-10-13
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Nadia dreams of creating colorfully patterned eggs, called pysanky, for Easter, but her eyes are too weak to see such detail. When she rescues a magical old woman, she is rewarded with a handkerchief that makes her imagined designs real. Now Nadia can create pysanky, but how can she prove to an angry tsarina that the designs are her own?
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Little Mook: And Longnose the Dwarf
Автор: Wilhelm Hauff Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 124 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20082006-05-15
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WILHELM HAUFF was a story-teller in the great European mythic tradition. His short stories, peopled with a vivid assortment of dwarves, evil witches, enchanted swans, and devious princes, owe a clear debt to the Brothers Grimm. But rather than rehashing old tales, Hauff created a realm far more exotic than the Grimm's Black Forest, a place where the morals are less than clear-cut and where characters must rely on wits as much as magic spells to solve their predicaments. One collection (probably his best known volume), Little Mook, provides the two tales for our new Pocket Paragon: «The History of Little Mook» and «Longnose the Dwarf.» «Little Mook» features a gnomish, innocent orphan whose parents never thought he would amount to much and refused him even the most basic education. Friendless and alone, the naive Little Mook is stripped of his inheritance, cast out into a hostile world. Blessed with an enterprising nature and outfitted with a pair of magic slippers, he still manages to outwit a cabal of treacherous courtiers and make his fortune. «Longnose the Dwarf» stars a clever little boy enslaved by a cruel witch's curse. Freed from servitude but transformed into a hideous dwarf with a huge proboscis, he returns to parents who no longer recognize him. Luckily his culinary skills put him in good standing with the local Duke, and his good nature and generous heart restore him (with a little help from some magic herbs and an enchanted goose) to his family. Both stories are decorated with the glowing, gemlike tempera paintings of Boris Pak, a Russian artist whose ornate, whimsical style perfectly captures the romance and humor of these two extraordinary fables. His paintings, smuggledout of Communist Russia, are the first of his works to be published in the U.S. and they're reproduced here in glorious color.
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Heartstone
Автор: C. J. Sansom Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 450 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20122013-04-29
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It was summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettipace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen's family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour.
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Emotional Awareness: Psychological Balance and Compassion
Автор: Dalai Lama Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 261 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092010-10-17
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Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment. At their first meeting, a remarkable bond was sparked between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one of the world's most revered spiritual leaders, and the psychologist Paul Ekman, whose groundbreaking work helped to define the science of emotions. Now these two luminaries share their thinking about science and spirituality, the bonds between East and West, and the nature and quality of our emotional lives. In this unparalleled series of conversations, the Dalai Lama and Ekman prod and push toward answers to the central questions of emotional experience. What are the sources of hate and compassion? Should a person extend her compassion to a torturer — and would that even be biologically possible? What does science reveal about the benefits of Buddhist meditation, and can Buddhism improve through engagement with the scientific method? As they come to grips with these issues, they invite us to join them in an unfiltered view of two great traditions and two great minds. Accompanied by commentaries on the findings of emotion research and the teachings of Buddhism, their interplay — amusing, challenging, eye-opening, and moving — guides us on a transformative journey in the understanding of emotions.
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The Dog Who Came in from the Cold
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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Following on from the huge success of the «44 Scotland Street» series, Alexander McCall Smith has 'moved house' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico — Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first every nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office).
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Diary of a Baby Wombat
Автор: Jackie French Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122012-10-13
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The inimitable wombat who shared her adventures (eating, scratching, digging, sleeping) in the wildly successful Diary of a Wombat is back-with a baby! This time, it's the baby who tells the story. And a perfect wombat story it is, featuring eating, scratching, digging, sleeping, and playing, as well as the important task of finding a new underground home big enough for baby and Mum. Wry, understated humor and gorgeous, funny illustrations make this new picture book a brilliant next chapter in the wombat saga.
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Death in the Afternoon
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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In «Death in the Afternoon», Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.
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Careless in Red
Автор: Elizabeth A. George Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 626 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092011-09-20
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In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no matter how exhausting his days, the painful memories of Helen's death do not diminish. On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect. The head of the vastly understaffed local police department needs Lynley's help, though, especially when it comes to the mysterious, secretive woman whose cottage lies not far from where the body was discovered. But can Lynley let go of the past long enough to solve a most devious and carefully planned crime?
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