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Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
Автор: Jack Beatty Жанр: Экономика Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-02-19
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»Age of Betrayal» is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations”. A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.
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Vintage Amis
Автор: Martin Amis Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092006-05-16
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Equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography, Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. «Vintage Amis» displays this versatility in an excerpt from the author’s award-winning memoir, «Experience»; the “Horrorday” chapter from «London Fields»; a vignette from his novel «Money»; the stories “State of England”, “Insight at Flam Lake” and “Coincidence of the Arts”; and the essays “Visiting Mrs. Nabokov”, “Phantom of the Opera”. Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story “Porno’s Last Summer”.
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The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
Автор: Louis Uchitelle Жанр: Карьера Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way. In «The Disposable American», award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and their devastating psychological impact on individuals at all income levels. Through portraits of both executives and workers at companies such as Stanley Works, United Airlines, and Citigroup, Uchitelle shows how layoffs are in fact counterproductive, rarely promoting efficiency or profitability in the long term. Recognizing that a global competitive economy makes tightening necessary, Uchitelle offers specific recommendations for government policies that would encourage companies to avoid layoffs and help create jobs, benefiting workers, corporations, and the nation as a whole.
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Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
Автор: Simon Sebag Montefiore Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-05-12
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As a young guardsman, Grigory Potemkin caught the eye of Catherine the Great with a theatrical act of gallantry during the coup that placed her on the throne. Over the next thirty years he would become her lover, co-ruler, and husband in a secret marriage that left room for both to satisfy their sexual appetites. Potemkin proved to be one of the most brilliant statesmen of the eighteenth century, helping Catherine expand the Russian empire and deftly manipulating allies and adversaries from Constantinople to London. This acclaimed biography vividly re-creates Potemkin’s outsized character and accomplishments and restores him to his rightful place as a colossus of the eighteenth century. It chronicles the tempestuous relationship between Potemkin and Catherine, a remarkable love affair between two strong personalities that helped shape the course of history. As he brings these characters to life, Montefiore also tells the story of the creation of the Russian empire. This is biography as it is meant to be: both intimate and panoramic, and bursting with life.
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The No: 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency received two Booker Judges’ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.
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Preacher 2: Until the End of the World
Автор: Garth Ennis Жанр: Комиксы, манга (издания для взрослых) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 264 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092001-03-19
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In this continuing saga of the bizarre life of a faithless Texas preacher, Jesse Custer heads to the south to confront the extremely dysfunctional family that abused him as a child and planted the original seeds of his disillusionment with the world. Now merged with a half angelic, half demonic being, the former preacher looks to exact revenge against those who simultaneously raised and destroyed him. Then after exorcising his personal demons, Jesse, his girlfriend Tulip, and their friend Cassidy, the Irish vampire, head west to a party of Babylonian proportions.
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1
Автор: Alan Moore Жанр: Комиксы, манга (издания для взрослых) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quartermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, form a remarkable legion of intellectual aptitude and physical prowess. Presented in this trade paperback is the League's first adventure together, from their initial recruitment to their heroic victory. Also included in this volume is the illustrator's masterful sketchbook, which gives unique behind-the-scenes insight to the artistic process.
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White Walls: Collected Stories
Автор: Tatyana Tolstaya Жанр: Советская литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20082009-07-11
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Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair—established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia’s finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O’Brien has called Tolstaya “an enchantress.” Anita Desai has spoken of her work’s “richness and ardent life”. Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. «White Walls» is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstaya’s short fiction to be published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two previous collections, «On the Golden Porch» and «Sleepwalker in a Fog», along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound imagination and unapologetic sympathy.
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Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Автор: Philippe-Paul de Segur Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20112014-08-27
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In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia. Meeting only sporadic opposition and defeating it easily along the way, the huge army moved forward, advancing ineluctably on Moscow through the long hot days of summer. On September 14, Napoleon entered the Russian capital, fully anticipating the Czar’s surrender. Instead he encountered an eerily deserted city—and silence. The French army sacked the city, and by October, with Moscow in ruins and his supply lines overextended, and with the Russian winter upon him, Napoleon had no choice but to turn back. One of the greatest military debacles of all time had only just begun. In this famous memoir, Philippe-Paul de Ségur, a young aide-de-camp to Napoleon, tells the story of the unfolding disaster with the keen eye of a crack reporter and an astute grasp of human character. His book, a fundamental inspiration for Tolstoy’s «War and Peace», is a masterpiece of military history that teaches an all-too-timely lesson about imperial hubris and its risks.
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Red Carpet: 21 Years of Fame and Fashion, Updated Edition
Автор: Frank Trapper Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 532 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092011-04-15
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Relive 21 years of red carpet glamour in this new, updated edition of «Red Carpet» — an unprecedented collection of photographs by veteran celebrity photographer Frank Trapper. Trapper has had a front row seat to nearly every major star-studded Hollywood event for more than two decades. He shares this very exclusive point of view in «Red Carpet», an unending runway show of images that capture high fashion, fabulous footwear, glitzy gowns, immaculate grooming, and style dos and don'ts. Trapper's extensive collection is organized chronologically, and covers every type of red carpet event for the past 21 years, from the high-profile Academy Awards to the dressed-down movie premieres that capture celebrities as you've never seen them before. Even includes up-to-the-minute photos from the 2008 Academy Awards!
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McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers
Автор: Misha Glenny Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 426 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-26
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In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime.
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Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed
Автор: Robert Sellers Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. It’s a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.
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The Knife That Killed Me
Автор: Anthony McGowan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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Paul Varderman could be at any normal school — bullies, girls and annoying teachers are just a part of life. Unfortunately 'normal' doesn't apply when it comes to the school's most evil bully, Roth, a twisted and threatening thug with an agenda quite unlike anyone else. When Paul ends up delivering a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a nearby school, it fuels a rivalry with immediate consequences. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud, but when Roth hands him a knife it both empowers him and scares him at the same time... This thought-provoking and original novel highlights the terrible consequences of peer pressure and violence, and casts a spotlight on the worrying rise in knife crime among teenagers.
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Pocket Gardens: Contemporary Japanese Miniature Designs
Автор: Michael Freeman Жанр: Rizzoli (RCS MediaGroup) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Called tsubo-niwa after a unit of measurement that is two person-sized tatami mats placed side by side, the pocket garden has been a part of the Japanese architectural canon for thousands of years. Undergoing a modernization in the last few decades in which a new generation of architects began experimenting with the concept in imaginative ways, the contemporary garden follows a distinct yet global aesthetic, whether as an urban solution to importing nature, as an individual theme set within a larger garden space, or as a buffer between property lines of a house or apartment. Beautifully illustrated and designed with a reflective, contemplative aesthetic, the book offers a broad array of miniature garden designs, including Keno Kuma’s explorations of materials as diverse as andesite and plastic, Takeshi Nagasaki’s art installation gardens with stepping stones of cast glass and bronze, and Yasuhiro Harada’s mobile cube gardens—plantings in stainless-steel trays on wheels that can be stacked and rearranged at will.
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Yes Man Film Tie-in
Автор: Danny Wallace Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear I will live my life taking every available chance. I will say Yes to every favour, request, suggestion and invitation. I WILL SWEAR TO SAY YES WHERE ONCE I WOULD SAY NO'. Danny Wallace had been staying in. Far too much. Having been dumped by his girlfriend, he really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead he was avoiding people. Texting them instead of calling them. Calling them instead of meeting them. That is until one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'say yes more'. These three simple words changed Danny's life forever. Yes Man is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say YES to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. And boy, did it get more interesting. This is the tie-in book that goes with the 2008 film of the Danny Wallace book — «Yes Man» — starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel, which is being released by Warner Bros in December 2008.
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True at First Light
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092002-05-06
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The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on the hunters, forcing Hemingway not only to take on his new role of leader but, equally important, to assist his wife Mary in pursuing the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. Passionately detailing the African landscape, the excitement of the chase, and the heartfelt relationships with his African neighbours, Hemingway, a master of dramatic fiction, weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and insight.
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Theatre
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092002-06-25
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Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.
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The Dying Animal
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092007-06-25
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David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an 'emancipated manhood', beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years, he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and licence into an orderly way of life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of Eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic purists. But the youth and beauty of Consuela undo him completely. His worldliness, his confidence, his reason desert him, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy.
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Wilt
Автор: Tom Sharpe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20092006-03-26
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Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm — for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete. After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping? Wilt's problem — although he's on the other side of the fence — is the same as Inspector Flint's: where is Eva Wilt? But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.
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Is it Christmas?
Автор: John Prater Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092005-12-13
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Every morning Baby Bear asks, 'Is it Christmas?'And Grandbear replies, 'Just a few more sleeps and it will be.'But there's lots to be done, from tidying the house to digging up the tree and decorating. Each page is filled with the wonderment and anticipation of Christmas, and at the end there's a special surprise — the whole family have come to share Baby Bear's Christmas! Prater's wonderfully atmospheric pre-school Christmas story is filled with all the anticipation of getting ready for the big day.
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