AN AUTHENTIC GLIMPSE OF A NORTH KOREA WE’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, BY A PRIZE-WINNING FILMMAKER

Anna Broinowski is the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea’s propaganda machine, its film industry. Aim High in Creation! is her funny, surreal, insightful account of her twenty-one-day apprenticeship there. At the same time it is a fresh-eyed look, beyond stereotypes, at life in that most secretive of societies.

When Anna learned that fracking had invaded downtown Sydney and a coal seam gas well was planned for Sydney Park, she had a brilliant idea: she would seek guidance for a kryptonite-powerful anti-fracking movie from the world’s greatest propaganda factory, apart from Hollywood. After two years of trying, she was allowed to make her case in Pyongyang and was granted full permission to film. She worked closely with the leading lights of North Korean cinema, even playing an American in a military thriller. “Filmmakers are family,” Kim Jong-il’s favorite director told her, and a love of nature and humanity unites peoples. Interviewing loyalists and defectors alike, Anna explored the society she encountered. She offers vivid, sometimes hilarious descriptions of bizarre disconnects and warm friendships in a world without advertisements or commercial culture. Her book, like the prize-winning documentary that resulted from her visit, is a thoughtful plea for better understanding.

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Инсайдерское откровение о том, как один человек построил мировую корпорацию, способную противостоять таким гигантам как Walmart и Amazon.Всего за десять лет Джек Ма, бывший преподаватель английского, основал и построил Alibaba Group, в которую сегодня входят: Alibaba.com, Alibaba Pictures, AliExpress.com, Taobao.com, Tmall.com, Alipay и другие.Джек Ма – Рокфеллер XXI века, акции Alibaba в 2014 году побили рекорды, достигнув 25 млрд долларов.Перед вами история компании и самого Джека, иконы частного предпринимательства и привратника миллионов потребителей от китайского Ханчжоу до тверского Торжка.

Эта книга о четырех смелых женщинах, навсегда изменивших Кремниевую долину.

Кремниевая долина, пропитанная духом золотой лихорадки, всегда была территорией мужчин: Стива Джобса и Марка Цукерберга, Уильяма Хьюлетта и Илона Маска. Однако четыре смелые женщины — Мэри Джейн Ханна, Соня Хоэль, Магдалена Йесил и Терезия Гув — решили изменить баланс сил. Позже они стали известны как alpha girls («альфа-девушки»).

Автор этой книги — Джулиан Гатри убеждена, что «сегодня alpha girls есть везде, и их истории должны быть рассказаны». Альфа-девушек объединяет не только вклад в зарождение великих компаний, но и страстное желание изменить мир, взрывные амбиции и упорство в достижении цели.

Если вы делаете невозможное каждый день, то можете смело причислять себя к клану альфа-девушек.

Review“Eloquent… An aggressively written account of frontline combat, with plenty of action.”KIRKUS REVIEWS“Reads like a first-person thriller narrated by a sniper. The bare-bones facts are stunning. …A first-rate military memoir.”BOOKLIST“American Sniper is the inside story of what it’s like to be in war. A brave warrior and patriot, Chris Kyle writes frankly about the missions, personal challenges, and hard choices that are part of daily life of an elite SEAL Sniper. It’s a classic!”RICHARD MARCINKO (USN, Ret.), First Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six and #1 bestselling author of Rogue Warrior“In the community of elite warriors, one man has risen above our ranks and distinguished himself as unique. Chris Kyle is that man. A master sniper, Chris has done and seen things that will be talked about for generations to come.”MARCUS LUTTRELL, former USN SEAL, recipient of the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism under fire, #1 bestselling author of Lone Survivor“The raw and unforgettable narrative of the making of our country’s record-holding sniper, Chris Kyle’s memoir is a powerful book, both in terms of combat action and human drama. Chief Kyle is a true American warrior down to the bone, the Carlos Hathcock of a new generation.”CHARLES W. SASSER, Green Beret (US Army Ret.) and author of One Shot, One Kill

Автобиографический психологический роман «Атог» написан Анастасией Цветаевой (1894-1993), признанным мастером мемуарного жанра. Издание расширено по авторизованной машинописи и представляет собой текст в том виде, который сама автор хотела видеть в печати. Книга дополнена разделом «Из тетради Ники»: это стихи, написанные специально для романа, в несокращённом виде они публикуются впервые.Героиня романа Ника, от лица которой ведётся повествование, пишет свою жизнь для главного героя, Морица, чтобы быть понятой им. Она говорит ему о пережитом, о высоте своих чувств и преодолений и зовёт его к этой высоте. Одновременно он рассказывает ей о своих увлечениях, о своей жизни. Постепенно Ника понимает, что описать трудный, трагический период своего жизненного пути ей нужно скорее для самопонимания, для самой себя.Роман «Атог» дополняет знаменитые двухтомные «Воспоминания» Анастасии Цветаевой.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. ‘Can’t fail to move’ The Sunday TimesALL AUTHOR PROCEEDS DONATED TO THE AMY WINEHOUSE FOUNDATION.Genius, inspiration, icon; there are many ways to describe Amy Winehouse, but it was her wit, charm and lust for life that immortalised her in the hearts of her fans. On the 23rd of July 2011, Amy’s family, friends and fans around the world mourned the tragic news that this remarkable, talented and extraordinarily generous woman was now gone. A legion of dedicated fans had lost their idol; a devastated family had lost their Amy.As an artist she had few peers. Amy’s lyrical prowess and hypnotic vocals made her an instant revelation when her debut album Frank was released in 2003, and as her star continued to rise it became evident that this normal girl from north London was more than just a precocious talent.Now for the first time Amy’s father and confidant Mitch shares his Amy: the daughter he cherished from birth, the superstar artist, the struggling woman. With personal stories and intimate memories he paints a portrait of Amy, a loving girl with a truly magical voice. From her mischievous early years to her musical influences and dreams of success, and her incredible rise to stardom to the darkest days of her battles to cope with her addictions. Bringing together the personal, the private and the public, this is an honest and intensely moving insight into the life of the most talented recording artist of her generation; a unique memoir from the man who knew Amy best.

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child.This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't-but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on.

For former hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, words are the most powerful weapon in the human arsenal. For good and for evil, as was the case in the spring of 1994 in Rwanda. Over 100 days, some 800,000 people were slaughtered, most hacked to death by machete. Rusesabagina—inspiration for the movie Hotel Rwanda—used his facility with words and persuasion to save 1,268 of his fellow countrymen, turning the Belgian luxury hotel under his charge into a sanctuary from madness. Through negotiation, favor, flattery and deception, Rusesabagina managed to keep his "guests" alive another day despite the homicidal gangs just beyond the fence and the world's failure to act. Narrator Hoffman delivers those words in a stirring audio performance. With a crisp African accent, Hoffman renders each sentence with heartfelt conviction and flat-out becomes Rusesabagina. The humble hotel manager not only illuminates the machinery behind the genocide but delves into Rwanda 's complex and colorful cultural history as well as his own childhood, the son of a Hutu father and Tutsi mother. Hoffman successfully draws out the understated elegance of Rusesabagina's simple and straightforward prose, lending the story added vividness. This tale of good, evil and moral responsibility winds down with Rusesabagina visiting a church outside Kigali where thousands were massacred and where a multilingual sign-cloth now pledges, "Never Again." He once more stops to consider words, the ones he worries lack true conviction—like those at the church—as well as the ones with the power to heal. For the listener, the words of Paul Rusesabagina won't soon be forgotten.

Jānis KalniņšAndrejs PumpursBiogrāfisks romāns II izdevumsIzdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1972https://disk.yandex.ru/i/X1WJKhzU_Rm3UQSērija «Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve» iznāk šādi darbiM. JANOVSKA. PastērsL. INFELDS. Dievu mīlulisM. JANOVSKA. Kārlis LībknehtsN. ČUKOVSKIS. BeringsA. LANO. Labdien Zolā kungsA. STEKLIJS. Tomass MincersV. BARANČENKO. Juris GavēnisA. MORUA. Prometejs jeb balzaka dzīveS. LEMEŠEVS. Mākslinieka ceļšA. LEVANDOVSKIS. Žanna DArkaJ. NIEDRE. Saliņa bangojošā okeānāS. ZARNICKIS, A. SERGEJEVS. ČičerinsS. MOROZOVS. ProkofjevsA. ALDANS-SEMJONOVS. Semjonovs-TjanšanskisA. MORUA. Žorža SandaA. DžiVELEGOVS. Leonardo da VinčiT. RUFO. Manas dzīves parabolaA. GOLEMBA. GramsiP. ASTAšENKOV5. KurčatovsA. 5TEKLijS. Kampanella1.2Ри-ПбККалныиыи Яи Янович АНДРЕИ ПУМПУР

Andris GrūtupsIzgriezumi no presesGrūtupa telefona sarunas tika noklausītas, viņa birojs tika spridzināts. Baumoja, ka viņam uzlikts trīskāršs lāsts, acīmredzot sakarā ar viņa nostāju dažā politiski sensiblā lietā, tāpēc mūža gals būšot šausmīgs. Droši vien patiesība ir vienkāršāka un meklējama liktenīgos gē­nos. Katrā ziņā ari Grūtupa vecākā māsa Gita Kataja bija mirusi no onkoloģiskas kaites.

This handy series from Headway offers brief yet lucid introductions to the world's cultural icons. Each book examines the life, the work, and the legends surrounding its subject, and key terms and concepts are highlighted and clearly explained. Additionally, each chapter ends with a review section for easy reference and to help consolidate the reader's understanding of the text.

Žmonės visur giriasi savo ankstyvosios vaikystės bėdomis arba verkšlena dėl jų, bet niekas negali prilygti airiškai versijai: skurdas, tingus ir plepus alkoholikas tėvas, dievobaiminga mušama motina, aimanuojanti prie židinio, pasipūtę kunigai, baimę varantys mokytojai, anglai ir jų baisus elgesys su mumis ilgus aštuonis šimtus metų. Frankas McCourtas gimė 1930 metais Niujorke, Amerikos airių šeimoje. Būdamas ketverių, su tėvais grįžo į Airiją, kur augo skurde iki devyniolikos metų, tuomet vėl išvyko į JAV. Ten baigė Niujorko universitetą ir ilgus metus dėstė literatūrą mokyklose. Parašė tris atsiminimų knygas – „Andželos pelenai“ (Angela‘s Ashes, 1996), ̉Tis (1999) ir Teacher Man (2005). „Andželos pelenai“ – pirmoji ir garsiausia McCourto knyga, apdovanota prestižiškiausiomis Pulitzerio premija ir National Book Award. 1999 metais pagal ją pastatytas filmas. Knygoje pasakojama apie McCourto vaikystės ir paauglystė metus, iš pradžių Niujorke, paskui Limerike. Alkoholiko tėvo ir užguitos motinos šeimoje auga septyni vaikai, trys iš jų miršta visai mažiukai. Likusiems nuolat gresia badas, ligos, pažeminimas ir diskriminacija. Tai graudi istorija, bet McCourtas ją pasakoja su tokia meile ir humoru, kad juoktis ir verkti skaitant tenka beveik po lygiai.

A New York Times BestsellerSince his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. In Angry Optimist, biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows him from his early days growing up in New Jersey, through his years as a struggling stand-up comic in New York, and on to the short-lived but acclaimed The Jon Stewart Show. And she charts his humbling string of near-misses—passed over as a replacement for shows hosted by Conan O’Brien, Tom Snyder, and even the fictional Larry Sanders—before landing on a half-hour comedy show that at the time was still finding its footing amidst roiling internal drama.Once there, Stewart transformed The Daily Show into one of the most influential news programs on television today. Drawing on interviews with current and former colleagues, Rogak reveals how things work—and sometimes don’t work—behind the scenes at The Daily Show, led by Jon Stewart, a comedian who has come to wield incredible power in American politics.

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda — once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro — and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers — from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal — fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.

Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world’s deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of the Paras, Ed Macy refused to go down quietly. He bent every rule to sign up for the Army’s gruelling Apache helicopter programme and was one of the handful to pass the nightmare selection process. Dispatched to Afghanistan’s notorious Helmand Province in 2006, his squadron were on hand when a marine went MIA behind enemy lines – and they knew they were his only hope. From the cockpit of the mighty Apache helicopter comes this incredible true story of a rescue mission so dangerous they said it couldn’t be done, and of the man who dared to disagree.http://www.harperplus.com/apache

In May 2011 after a Mediterranean exercise to prove the Apache’s ability to work ship-borne, HMS Ocean and her embarked Apache attack helicopters from 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps were about to head home. But the civil war in Libya and the NATO air campaign intervened. A few days later the Author and his fellow Apache pilots and crewmen were in action at night over hostile territory. In range to Gaddafi’s capable air and land forces once in sight of the coast, they had to fight their way into Libya, complete their mission, evading lethal ground fire, before the hazardous return to Ocean. Flying well within the reach of Libya’s state-of-the-art ground to air weapons, the Apaches made nightly raids at ultra low-level behind enemy lines.Apache over Libya describes the experiences of eight Army and two Royal Navy pilots who played a significant role in the NATO led campaign. Despite fighting the best armed enemy British aircrew have faced in generations, they defied the odds and survived.Vividly conveying the thrill and fear of flying the Apache in combat at sea and over enemy-held terrain, this is an unforgettable and unique first-hand account.

The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time.In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure.This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation – forty-six of which were at Auschwitz.

In five years the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz had been the engine of the holocaust, facilitating the murder and incineration of more than one million people, most of them Jews.

Yet such a spectacularly evil feat of engineering was designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable firm of German engineers: the owners and engineers of J. A. Topf and Sons. These were not Nazi sadists, but men who were playboys and the sons of train drivers. They were driven not by ideology, but by love affairs, personal ambition and bitter personal rivalries to create the ultimate human killing and disposal machines – even at the same time as their company sheltered Nazi enemies from the death camps.

The intense conflagration of their very ordinary motives created work that surpassed in its inhumanity even the demands of the SS. In order to fulfil their own ‘dreams’ they created the ultimate human nightmare.About the Author

KAREN BARTLETT is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written extensively for the Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, and WIRED from Africa, India, and the US, and has presented and produced for BBC Radio. Most recently, she worked with Eva Schloss, writing her Sunday Times bestselling autobiography After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank.