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Nativity Poems
Автор: Joseph Brodsky Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092007-08-21
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In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.
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On Grief and Reason: Essays
Автор: Joseph Brodsky Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 504 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092005-04-17
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oseph Brodsky was a great contrarian and believed, against the received wisdom of our day, that good writing could survive translation. He was right, I think, though you had to wonder when you saw how badly his own work fared in English. But then perhaps the Russians hadn't expelled a great poet so much as exposed us to one of their virulent personality cults. Yet Brodsky's essays are interesting. Composed in a rather heroically determined English, clumsily phrased and idiomatically challenged, they are still inventive and alive. There are suggestive analyses of favorite poems by Hardy, Rilke, and Frost in this book, and a moving meditation on the figure of Marcus Aurelius. Though too often Brodsky goes on at self-indulgent length, he usually recaptures our attention with a characteristic aside: «The fact that we are livingdoes not mean we are not sick».
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The Pale Horse
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-04-22
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Was it really the Thomasina Tuckerton — dropout heiress turned bohemian beat girl — seen in a cafe brawl with another woman? Her obituary confirms it. Thomasina's unfortunate demise would have passed unnoticed if it hadn't been for the priest who suffered a fatal blow at the hand of a stranger only days later. What's the connection? A list of names hidden in father Gorman's shoes — among them, Miss Tuckerton's. It leads to a former country inn, now a house called, The Pale Horse, and a sinister pattern woven by three unusual ladies — a psychic, a medium, and a witch — each with a secret of her own.
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Parker Pyne Investigates
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-04-22
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The personal ad posed a simple question: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne. The answer is a resounding no for a jealous wife who suspects her husband of infidelity...for a lonely widow driven to assume a new identity...for a distraught mother whose son has been kidnapped...and for the finance of a strangely reclusive bride-to-be. But what sort of detective would solicit in the personals? The sort who has a knack for investigating affairs of the heart. For therein lie the darkest motives for murder. And they are proving most lucrative for the hopelessly romantic — a highly suspicious — inspector Parker Pyne.
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Power of the Sword
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 880 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20122009-10-27
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Sasha Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Sasha’s brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter — of lions, and of men. As the two boys became men, they took on the extraordinary powers of each parent: Sasha, a man in tune with his continent and its people; Manfred who, like his father, was willing to shape his world with a gun. So when the winds of World War II reached Africa, each brother chose a side… Now, the future of a young nation is being forged amidst a clash of civilizations, ideals, and blood feuds. And as Sasha and Manfred rise to power, a land of beauty and suffering will be remade — for better or for worse — in an image of their own
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The Prestige (movie Tie in)
Автор: Christopher Priest Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20082009-09-22
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This volume examines the integration of economics and moral philosophy, arguing that valuation and analysis in health economics and health programs should be based on recent innovative research.
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The Real Thing: A Play
Автор: Tom Stoppard Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 88 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20112012-03-29
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The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing? In The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illuminate the nature — and the mystery of love, creating a multi-toned play that challenges the mind while searching out the innermost secrets of the heart.
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The Road to Dune
Автор: Frank Herbert Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20102007-06-15
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Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings. Now The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. In this fascinating volume, the world's millions of Dune fans can read — at long last — the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes some of the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr., along with other correspondence during Herbert's years-long struggle to get his innovative work published, and the article «They Stopped the Moving Sands», Herbert's original inspiration for Dune. The Road to Dune also features newly discovered papers and manuscripts of Frank Herbert, and Spice Planet, an original novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert. The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf.
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Robert Ludlum's The Moscow Vector
Автор: Robert Ludlum Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20102007-06-15
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At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government’s refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life. At the same time, a series of government officials around the world are coming down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100% fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the increasing militarism from the new Russian government, headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all…
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Robert Ludlum's the Cassandra Compact
Автор: Robert Ludlum Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092004-10-23
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For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world's greatest storyteller. «What they're going to do, I never would have believed it. It's insanity»! They were the final words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia's security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins' bullets. In possession of Danko's classified papers, Covert-One operative Jon Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell have unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy that threatens to unleash a plague of immeasurable proportions. A Serb terrorist has been dispatched from Russia to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: deliver it to an unknown American government agent — a shadowy figure whose own motives for acquiring the bioweapon are made all the more unfathomable when both men are found murdered, and the strain is stolen. Now Smith and Russell must track it down, find the madman who possesses it, and stop him before he holds a defenseless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.
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The Santaroga Barrier
Автор: Frank Herbert Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092004-05-26
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Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something different about Santaroga. Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger. Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks... Or maybe there was something extraordinary at work in Santaroga. Something far more disturbing than anyone could imagine.
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Santa, Baby
Автор: Jennifer Crusie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092007-12-10
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In the story written by Jennifer Crusie, mayhem ensues under the mistletoe as a determined shopper grabs the very last hot toy action figure off the shelf, only to find herself plunged into the middle of a real-life spy game — in the arms of a sexy secret agent...In the story by Lori Foster, two dedicated co-workers with a lot of secrets (and fantasies!) between them must plan a Christmas party side by side — and discover a love worth celebrating — in this steamy office romance. In the story by Carly Phillips, a «mistletoe moment» begins when a no-nonsense lawyer intent on seducing her boss meets his twin instead — after giving him a scintillating kiss that leaves him begging for more...
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Scorsese on Scorsese
Автор: Ian Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092007-04-19
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Martin Scorsese's challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema.Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas — these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that he has made his own, one of a savage beauty of great intensity and truth. The interviews which make up this book chart the journey that Scorsese has taken across the years in search of new subjects to engage and absorb him, and in the process reveal a man who, like Michael Powell and Francios Truffaut, has an unbridled passion for film — a passion which is evident in every frame of his work.
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The Seagull
Автор: Anton Chekhov Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092004-09-22
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The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it is the novelist Trigorin who will one day write the story of the seagull so casually killed; but it is Nina, the seagull herself, whose life to come will rewrite the story. This new translation of The Seagull — made by Tom Stoppard for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic in 1997 — was produced by The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City in 2001. The volume also contains an Introduction by Stoppard that indicates some of the problems translators have faced since the first English language Seagull in 1909.
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Set in Darkness
Автор: Ian Rankin Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092002-12-23
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On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself off a bridge — leaving behind a suitcase full of cash — and an up-and-coming politician is found murdered. The links between the three deaths lead Rebus to a confrontation with one of Edinburgh's most notorious criminals, a man he thought he'd put in jail for life. Someone's going to make a lot of money out of Scotland's independence — and, as Rebus knows all too well, where there's big money at stake, darkness gathers.
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The Seven Dials Mystery
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092003-05-22
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Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. They'll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys. their isolated estate, and invite only «bright young things». But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and a sleeping guest has ended in accidental death — and cause for alarm. For the guests may not be all that they appear. And as whispers of a strange club called Seven Dials echo through the halls of Chimneys, all hands will be pointing to murder...
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Seven Up
Автор: Janet Evanovich Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092006-03-16
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New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch, an old man who can still slip out of sight. When a corpse is found in Eddie's garden and two of her friends vanish, Stephanie finds herself making a devil's bargain with her mentor, the Ranger, who'll give her all the help she needs — if she gives him everything he wants.
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Shadows Linger: A Novel of the Black Company
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1990 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20091993-02-24
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Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries-dead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mute girl they rescued and sheltered is truly the White Rose reborn. Now there may be a path to the light, even for such as they. If they can survive it.
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Shout at the Devil
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092008-05-16
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Wilbur Smith’s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization’s war...
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The Silence of the Lambs
Автор: Thomas Harris Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1991 Страниц: 394 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20091993-07-24
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Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent... A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind — in the deadly search for a serial killer...
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