I Die, but the Memory Lives on
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Mankell Henning (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
A non fiction bookA powerful, moving and tragic account of the families shattered and children orphaned as a result of the spread of HIV and, through the Memory Books project, a hope for the future.Henning Mankell is best known for his highly successful crime novels, but few people are aware of his work with Aids charities in Africa and how he actively promotes and encourages the writing of memory books throughout the country. Memory Books is a project through which the HIV-infected parents of today are encouraged to write portraits of their lives and testaments of their love for their orphans of tomorrow. Through a combination of words and drawings they can leave a legacy, a hope that future generations may not suffer the same heartbreaking fate.In I Die, but the Memory Lives on, this master storyteller has written a fable to illustrate the importance of books as a means of education, of preserving memories and of sharing life. In a very personal account he tells of his own fears and anxieties for the sufferers of HIV and Aids and, drawing on his experiences in many parts of Africa, proposes a way to help. This fable, The Mango Plant, comprises most of the book and is followed by factual afterwords from Dr Rachel Baggaley (Head of the Christian Aid HIV Unit) and Anders Wijkman (Member of the European Parliament, formerly Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and board member of Plan Sweden), and ends with a template for a memory book as an appendix.The problem of Aids has been kept largely under control in Europe and is not therefore an issue at the forefront of our minds, but in the Third World it is a very different story. Lack of education about the disease and lack of money to buy life-prolonging drugs for existing sufferers have turned the problem into a plague of biblical proportions. 30 million people are HIV positive in Africa, almost 39 percent of the adult population in countries such as Botswana. In Zimbabwe life expectancy has now sunk to below 40 years of age, by 2010 it is predicted to fall to 30 years. As thousands die in their prime, there begins a shortage of teachers, labourers, and essential personnel that enable a country to run efficiently, not to mention the 14 million children that have been orphaned by HIV/Aids since the 1980s. These children are taken out of school in order to care for the sick and elderly. A lack of education and continued poverty perpetuates the problem.Because levels of literacy are so low, the memory books also contain photographs (Mankell campaigns for cheap disposable cameras) and anything else that will evoke a memory, whether it be a drawing, a crushed flower or a lock of hair, anything that the orphan will relate to and inspire them to try the best they can to create a future.Henning Mankell was first introduced to the Memory Book Project by Plan, a child-focused international development organisation, who had established the scheme in Uganda. UNAIDS estimate 1 million people in Uganda are infected with the disease and 200,000 have died from Aids-related illnesses. Since the outbreak in 1978, it is estimated 1.2 million children have been orphaned in Uganda alone. Plan Uganda encourages parents with the disease to create a memory book about their family history, matters of death, separation and sexuality for the child or children they will leave behind.There are numerous worldwide charities and organisations working to fight the spread of HIV/Aids – further information and contact details can be found at the end of I Die, but the Memory Lives on.Henning Mankell has kindly agreed to donate the royalties from I Die, but the Memory Lives on to an Aids charity of his choice.The publication of I Die, but the Memory Lives on will raise awareness of this international problem, which, though it may not always be on the front pages of our newspapers, must always be on our minds until something has truly changed for the better.
Medium Raw
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Bourdain Anthony (EN)
Страниц: 66
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434363
Язык книги: Английский
The long-awaited follow-up to the megabestseller Kitchen ConfidentialIn the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business—and for Anthony Bourdain.Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs that he compares to a mafia summit, Bourdain pulls back the curtain—but never pulls his punches—on the modern gastronomical revolution, as only he can. Cutting right to the bone, Bourdain sets his sights on some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, the young superstar chef who has radicalized the fine-dining landscape; the revered Alice Waters, whom he treats with unapologetic frankness; the Top Chef winners and losers; and many more.And always he returns to the question "Why cook?" Or the more difficult "Why cook well?" Medium Raw is the deliciously funny and shockingly delectable journey to those answers, sure to delight philistines and gourmands alike.
Have a Little Faith: A True Story
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Albom Mitch (EN)
Страниц: 35
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Язык книги: Английский
"Have a Little Faith is an absolute wonder-tender, transporting, and deeply moving, a profound meditation on kindling the light that struggles in billions of hearts. It is the answer to anyone who believed they'd never again read a book with the soul and grace of Tuesdays with Morrie." – Scott Turow
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What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds-two men, two faiths, two communities-that will inspire readers everywhere.
Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.
Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor-a reformed drug dealer and convict-who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.
Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds-and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.
In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.
Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.
Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.
Стрітеннє: Книжка гуцульських звічаїв і вірувань
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Влад Марія Миколаївна (UK)
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Язык книги: Украинский
Хто такий гуцул? Це гонорова й волелюбна людина, яка може багато чого вибачити, але тільки не приниження власної гідності. Ключиком до розуміння духовного світу гуцулів слугує їх оригінальне глибокохристиянська міфологія А Стрітеннє — одно з найулюбленіших свят на Гуцульщині. Відома українська поетеса у першій своїй прозовій книжці вкладає у це слово набагато глибший зміст. Це своєрідна данина рідному краєві, що зумів зберегти свою праісторію спервовіку. Це книжка гуцульських звичаїв і вірувань, давніх легенд, казок, переказів, колядок, ворожінь тощо. Письменниця переконує читача в тому, що врешті-решт холод сучасних негараздів буде подолано всеперемагаючим теплом українського Відродження.
Дорога, ведущая к храму, обстреливается ежедневно
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Бройдо Анна Ильинична
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Книга о грузино-абхазской войне лауреат премии Союза журналистов Абхазии «За мужество и профессионализм» Бройдо А. И.
«Любопытно, как события на театре военных действий влияют на лексикон Шеварднадзе: только абхазы нажимают, в его патетических заявлениях вместо „Великой Сакартвело“ начинает фигурировать „маленькая Грузия“» — Анна Бройдо.
Dark Mysteries of the Vatican
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Jeffers H. Paul (EN)
Страниц: 46
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301518
Язык книги: Английский
A non fiction bookWhat The Vatican Doesn't Want You To Know:The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth.Deep behind the walls of the world's holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican 's vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy.It's all here:The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God's Banker"Real-life exorcism-and shocking rumors of SatanismThe Vatican's startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesiesThe Vatican's hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the MafiaThe bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus DeiThe Vatican's ruthless 500-year war with the FreemasonsPope Pius XII's anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews and the HolocaustAnd much more!This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposé ever written about the most secretive institution in the world.H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World's Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.
Устав Всесоюзной коммунистической партии (большевиков) (1926)
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Sleepers
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Carcaterra Lorenzo (EN)
Страниц: 67
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410782
Язык книги: Английский
A book with a punch equal to its publicity hype! Journalist Carcaterra tells with gripping force of his days growing up in the tough New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s (the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty). He and his three closest buddies engaged in petty crime until the day their tricks got out of hand and escalated into a major offense, for which they were sent to a juvenile home in upstate New York. They were tormented during their months there, not by other young inmates but by their adult guards, who brutalized them relentlessly in a program of horror and torture that included rape. Once out, once grown up, one of the boys became a lawyer, and through a bizarre twist of events worthy of being turned into a movie (in fact, the movie rights have been sold, with Barry Levinson lined up as director), he, Carcaterra, and the other two friends expose the horrible wrongs they suffered in that detention home. Both difficult to read and difficult to put down, this book will garner lots of attention, and as a result, readership demand will be high.
Jack Taylor
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Bruen Ken (EN)
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17741
Язык книги: Английский
“Jack Taylor,” copyright © 2007, 2009 by Ken Bruen. Originally published by The Mysterious Bookshop.
Lucky
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Sebold Alice (EN)
Страниц: 60
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379852
Язык книги: Английский
A non fiction bookEnormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go.Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she describes what she was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed but did not sink the woman she later became.It is Alice's indomitable spirit that we come to know in these pages. The same young woman who sets her sights on becoming an Ethel Merman-style diva one day (despite her braces, bad complexion, and extra weight) encounters what is still thought of today as the crime from which no woman can ever really recover. In an account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see Alice's spirit prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience in the aftermath of this harrowing, life-changing event.No less gripping is the almost unbelievable role that coincidence plays in the unfolding of Sebold's narrative. Her case, placed in the inactive file, is miraculously opened again six months later when she sees her rapist on the street. This begins the long road to what dominates these pages: the struggle for triumph and understanding – in the courtroom and outside in the world.Lucky is, quite simply, a real-life thriller. In its literary style and narrative tension we never lose sight of why this life story is worth reading. At the end we are left standing in the wake of devastating violence, and, like the writer, we have come to know what it means to survive.
Talking About Detective Fiction
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James P. D. (EN)
Страниц: 28
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192576
Язык книги: Английский
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James-one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today-gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.P. D. James examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, and bringing us into the present with such writers as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie (“arch-breaker of rules”), Josephine Tey, Dashiell Hammett, and Peter Lovesey, among many others. She traces their lives into and out of their fiction, clarifies their individual styles, and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they’ve created, from Sherlock Holmes to Sara Paretsky’s sexually liberated female investigator, V. I. Warshawski. She compares British and American Golden Age mystery writing. She discusses detective fiction as social history, the stylistic components of the genre, her own process of writing, how critics have reacted over the years, and what she sees as a renewal of detective fiction-and of the detective hero-in recent years.There is perhaps no one who could write about this enduring genre of storytelling with equal authority and flair: it is essential reading for every lover of detective fiction.
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
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Penzler Otto (EN)
Страниц: 82
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521978
Язык книги: Английский
An anthology of storiesThe most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they created their most beloved serial characters.
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
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Koontz Dean R. (EN)
Страниц: 46
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293131
Язык книги: Английский
"In each little life we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe."DEAN KOONTZ thought he had everything he needed. A successful novelist with more than twenty #1 New York Times bestsellers to his credit, Dean had forged a career out of industry and imagination. He had been married to his high school sweetheart, Gerda, since the age of twenty, and together they had made a happy life for themselves in their Southern California home. It was the picture of peace and contentment. Then along came Trixie.Dean had always wanted a dog-had even written several books in which dogs were featured. But not until Trixie was he truly open to the change that such a beautiful creature could bring about in him. Trixie had intelligence, a lack of vanity, and an uncanny knack for living in the present. And because she was joyful and direct as all dogs are, she put her heart into everything-from chasing tennis balls, to playing practical jokes, to protecting those she loved.A retired service dog with Canine Companions for Independence, Trixie became an assistance dog of another kind. She taught Dean to trust his instincts, persuaded him to cut down to a fifty-hour work week, and, perhaps most important, renewed in him a sense of wonder that will remain with him for the rest of his life. She mended him in many ways.Trixie weighed only sixty-something pounds, Dean occasionally called her Short Stuff, and she lived less than twelve years. In this big world, she was a little thing, but in all the ways that mattered, including the effect she had on those who loved her, she lived a big life.
Crime Beat: A Decade Of Covering Cops And Killers
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Connelly Michael (EN)
Страниц: 56
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353151
Язык книги: Английский
From No. 1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter-the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends-and, of course, the killers-to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.
О сатанинских корнях большевицкой символики
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Акунов Вольфганг Викторович
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Что делать? 54 технологии сопротивления власти
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Бренер Александр,
Шурц Барбара
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140942
54 технологии культурного сопротивления отношениям власти в эпоху позднего капитализма
Артек
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Степная А. Ф.
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Ответственные редакторы: зам. наркома здравоохранения С. А. КОЛЕСНИКОВ; секретарь ЦК ВЛКСМ Н. И. РОМАНОВ. Автор-составитель А. Ф. СТЕПНАЯ. Художник В. И. СМИРНОВ. В альбоме помещены статьи: народного комиссара здравоохранения Г. А. МИТЕРЕВА; секретаря ЦК ВЛКСМ Н. И. РОМАНОВА; заслуженного деятеля науки профессора Г. И. СПЕРАНСКОГО; профессора П. Г. МЕЗЕРНИЦКОГО; А. Ф. СТЕПНОЙ и др. Специальная фотосъемка по заданию НКЗ СССР и Медгиза В. А. ГОРШКОВА. Фотоматериал: БЕРЛИНА, ГРАЧЕВА. Технический редактор Я. А. ДНЕПРОВСКИЙ.
Избранные речи
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Гесс Рудольф Вальтер Рихард
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Тот, кто сегодня перечитает тексты речей Гесса, произнесённых им в 1934–1937 годах, вряд ли станет от этого национал-социалистом. Скорее, он посмеётся над наивной верой человека, занимавшего по рангу в иерархии Рейха третье место, в светлое будущее Германии, поскольку каждый знает, каким на самом деле было это будущее
Оракул: социальный институт и политтехнология
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Внутренний Предиктор СССР (ВП СССР)
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Аналитика 2009г.
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* Введение * Институт оракулов * Почему в качестве пифий использовались молодые девушки? * Метод Бронникова * Кто создавал оракулы и с какой целью? Отступление от темы: Концептуальная власть в жизни общества * Жреческая корпорация и её роль в системе общественного самоуправления * Тайный умысел египетских «жрецов» — ключ к пониманию истории и политики наших дней * Заключение