Derrière l’interprète de Je t’aime… Moi non plus, qui fit scandale et conquit la planète en 1969, se cache un Gainsbourg plus secret. C’est l’homme intime que révèle Franck Maubert, son histoire et ses goûts. Si, pour Serge Gainsbourg, il y avait les arts majeurs et les arts mineurs, il ne s’est illustré, à son grand regret, que dans la chanson. Il s’ouvrait peu sur son destin de peintre contrarié, qui a persévéré dans cette voie jusqu’en 1957, année où Boris Vian lance sa carrière.Son admiration pour les chefs-d’œuvre des maîtres suscite l’intérêt d’un jeune critique d’art, Franck Maubert. Leur rencontre les lie en 1985. Gainsbourg a trouvé à qui parler peinture, dandysme, esthétique. Ensemble ils passeront des journées chez lui, rue de Verneuil, visiteront le Louvre, feront la tournée des grands ducs… Ce livre retrace le parcours d’un artiste hors norme, qui a traversé non seulement la chanson, mais aussi l’écriture, la photographie, le cinéma. Il montre la force d’un créateur et d’un poète qui a marqué son époque et influence encore, loin des clichés, la musique d’aujourd’hui.Franck Maubert (prix Renaudot essai 2012 pour Le Dernier modèle, Mille et une nuits) est écrivain, auteur de romans (dernièrement, Ville close, Écriture, 2013) et de nombreux livres d’art (dont Maeght, une aventure de l’art vivant, avec Y. et I. Maeght, La Martinière, 2006).

Екатерина Гамова – одна из величайших волейболисток в истории. В команду мастеров она попала в возрасте всего 14 лет, а вскоре уже дебютировала в сборной России. В активе Гамовой – победы на чемпионатах мира и Европы, а также две серебряные медали Олимпийских игр. Простое перечисление всех ее командных и индивидуальных достижений заняло бы площадь, существенно превышающую размер данной аннотации. В течение года после окончания карьеры волейболистка Екатерина Гамова успела побывать и телекомментатором, и тренером, и волейбольным чиновником. А еще – написала книгу. Причем книга эта – не только о спорте.

Она повествует о богатстве и бедности. О любви и предательстве. О мгновениях счастья и муках разочарований.

И это очень искренний рассказ.

Gay Propaganda brings together original stories, interviews and testimonials to capture the lives and loves of LGBT Russians living both in Russia and in exile today. It is an intentionally provocative riposte to Russia’s recently passed and ill-defined ban on “homosexual propaganda.”As part of a strategy to consolidate political control in Russia following massive pro-democracy protests that shook the government, President Vladimir Putin decided it needed an enemy to unite the country. The Kremlin opted to demonize gays and lesbians. In June 2013 Putin signed a bill banning the “propaganda” of so-called non-traditional relationships. Predictably, in the months that followed, anti-gay attacks spread across Russia.The stories gathered in Gay Propaganda offer a timely and intimate window into the hardships faced by Russians on the receiving end of state-sanctioned homophobia, as well as the the humor, passion, and resilience people show in the face of adversity. Here are stories of men and women in long-term committed relationships as well as those still looking for love; of those raising kids or negotiating difficult family dynamics; of those facing the challenges of continuing to live in Russia or joining a rapidly growing exodus.

Элтон Джон и Фредди Меркьюри, Джордж Майкл и Джанни Версаче, Кристиан Диор и Ив Сен-Лоран, Доменико Дольче и Стефано Габбана, Оскар Уайлд и Стивен Фрай, Петр Чайковский и Сергей Дягилев… Без этих имен невозможно представить современное искусство – музыку, моду, литературу, кинематограф. Без этих талантов наш мир был бы совсем другим. Они родились, чтобы сделать его ярче, красочнее, богаче, свободнее. Они изменили его навсегда.

The human journey is an emotional quest to find truth and meaning. Countless books have presented this story through the eyes of people who concluded their search with devotion to God, salvation by Jesus, or commitment to religion. But a growing number are choosing a different path, finding truth and meaning from the opposite perspective. Generation Atheist tells their stories.The people in this book come from different religious upbringings, races, sexual orientations, and genders. Many have gone through very emotional journeys in coming to a sustained, open atheistic worldview. Most were quite religious at one point in their lives. Through the internet, humanity is engaged in a global conversation unlike any before in history — about who we are, why we are here, and how we should live — and these individuals have an important perspective to share.

«Genius loci» (Гений местности) – повесть-эссе, первая публикация отдельной книгой.Анатолий Королев – прозаик, драматург, эссеист. Автор романов «Голова Гоголя», «Эрон», «Человек-язык», «Змея в зеркале», «Быть Босхом», «Stop, коса!». Лауреат международной литературной русско-итальянской премии «Москва-Пенне» за роман «Голова Гоголя» (2000).Повесть-эссе «Genius loci» (Гений местности) рассказывает историю одного русского пейзажного парка. Повествование о фатальных годах и роковых героях ведет нас через полосы трех минувших столетий и, наконец, «швартуется» к ХХI веку…Чтение повести вполне сравнимо с прогулкой по аллеям огромного парка после летней грозы, когда каждая страница, как вдох свежего воздуха, полна озоном…«Гений местности» переведен на многие языки, публиковался в журналах и сборниках, но отдельной книгой выпускается впервые.Вы держите подлинный шедевр современной русской литературы… Не выпускайте его из рук…

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the “Long Telegram” and the “X Article,” which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan’s long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today’s most important Cold War scholars.Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan’s death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep.We see Kennan’s insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.

What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl who just lies there sobbing, looking up at them… as they come to me one by one.This is the shocking true story of how a young girl from Rochdale came to be Girl A – the key witness in the trial of Britain’s most notorious child sex ring.Girl A was just fourteen when she was groomed by a group of Asian men. After being lured into their circle with gifts, she was piled with alcohol and systematically abused. She was just one of up to fifty girls to be ‘passed around’ by the gang. The girls were all under sixteen and forced to have sex with as many as twenty men in one night.When details emerged a nation was outraged and asked how these sickening events came to pass. And now the girl at the very centre of the storm reveals the heartbreaking truth.

Lions Feihtvangers Goija jeb Atziņas ērkšķainais ceļš. Vācu rakstnieka Liona Feihlvangera (1881—1958) vēsturiskais romāns «Goija» veltīts ģeniālā spāņu māksliniekā Fransisko Goijas (1746—1828) dzīvei un daiļradei. Savdabīgo un pretrunīgo mākslinieku — asa prāta un spēcīgu kaislibu cilvēku Feibtvangers tēlo attīstībā, paradīdams, kā politisko notikumu ietekmē mainās Goijas uzskati par mākslas nozīmi un uzdevumiem.Sērija Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīvehttps://disk.yandex.ru/i/7CpL3dziRsKmwANo vācu vai. tulk. un pēcv. sarakst. D. Kalniņa. — R.: Zvaigzne, 1980. — 566 lpp.; 24 lapas il.Lion Feucbtwanger GOYA oderDer arge Weg der Erkenntnis RomanGreifenverlag 211 Rudolstadt 1951No vācu valodas tulkojusi Dzidra Kalniņa Māra Ozoliņa mākslinieciskais noformējums© Izdevniecība «Zvaigzne», 1980, pēcvārds

Грейс Коддингтон называют самым влиятельным в мире фэшн-редактором и абсолютно лучшим стилистом. «Без нее Vogue не был бы библией индустрии моды и стиля», – считает журнал Time. «Грейс – гениальна. Никто не чувствует направление развития моды лучше нее… Я была на седьмом небе, когда она присоединилась к нашей команде», – это слова Анны Винтур, главного редактора Vogue, самой влиятельной фигуры сегодняшнего мира моды.В автобиографии Грейс откровенно и остроумно рассказывает о своей жизни, более полувека неразрывно связанной с модой. Она знакомит читателя с всемирно известными дизайнерами, фотографами, стилистами и моделями, звездами музыки и кино, делает его свидетелем уникальных событий, которыми так богата ее яркая карьера.С подкупающей искренностью Грейс пишет о глубоко личном – автомобильной аварии, поставившей крест на ее модельной карьере, о двух замужествах, смерти сестры Розмари, дружбе с главным редактором Harper’s Bazaar Лиз Тилберис, романе длиной в тридцать лет с Дидье Малижем… И, конечно же, о непростых, но творчески плодотворных отношениях с Анной Винтур, которые и после двадцати лет их совместной работы продолжают интриговать мир глянца.

His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway’s well-known interest in - and fascination with - big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Yet Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of ma

In 1988 Iraq was the region’s dominant military power and ambitious to become leader of the Arab world. Saddam Hussein’s war-experienced army were known to have used biological and chemical weapons in the past, and when 260,000 troops and 2,000 tanks crossed into Kuwait they met with little resistance. Yet Iraq’s defeat at the hands of the coalition forces was the most devastatingly efficient in military history.It was the first war fought over a resource: oil. The UK committed 43,000 troops to this new ‘high tech’ war, and initially expected high casualties. Yet on the Iraqi side, uncounted thousands of soldiers were killed, many poorly trained conscripts. Returning coalition soldiers have since found themselves dogged by health problems, likely caused by the new technologies that proved so effective in battle. Iraqi power was diminished, but Saddam Hussein was allowed to remain in power, laying the scene for the protracted suffering of the Iraq invasion over a decade later.Hugh McManners’ original interviews for Gulf War One provide a compelling picture and explode many myths of how this war was carried out, and why. From military planners and politicians to ordinary soldiers and Gulf War Syndrome sufferers, both those serving and those caught up in the war tell its history in their own words.

Growing up in suburban Pretoria, Steve Joubert dreamed of a career as a pilot. After undergoing SAAF pilot training, a freak injury put an end to his hopes of flying fighter jets. Instead he learned to fly the versatile Alouette helicopter.

He had barely qualified as a chopper pilot when he was sent to the Border, where he flew missions over Namibia and southern Angola to supply air cover to troops on the ground. As a gunship pilot, Steve saw some of the worst scenes of war, often arriving first on the scene after a contact or landmine attack.

He also recalls the lighter moments of military life, as well as the thrill of flying. A born maverick, his lack of respect for authority often got him into trouble with his superiors.

His experiences affected him deeply, and led him eventually to question his role in the war effort. As the Border War escalated, his disillusionment grew. This gripping memoir is a powerful plea for healing and understanding.

Growing up in suburban Pretoria, Steve Joubert dreamed of a career as a pilot. After undergoing SAAF pilot training, a freak injury put an end to his hopes of flying fighter jets. Instead he learned to fly the versatile Alouette helicopter.

He had barely qualified as a chopper pilot when he was sent to the Border, where he flew missions over Namibia and southern Angola to supply air cover to troops on the ground. As a gunship pilot, Steve saw some of the worst scenes of war, often arriving first on the scene after a contact or landmine attack.

He also recalls the lighter moments of military life, as well as the thrill of flying. A born maverick, his lack of respect for authority often got him into trouble with his superiors.

His experiences affected him deeply, and led him eventually to question his role in the war effort. As the Border War escalated, his disillusionment grew. This gripping memoir is a powerful plea for healing and understanding.

“Half my life ago, I killed a girl.”So begins Darin Strauss’ Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past — collision, funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case — and what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

Half-Life – культовая игра, известная миллионам игроков. Она совершила настоящую революцию и навсегда перевернула жанр шутеров от первого лица. Действие в ней полностью происходит внутри игрового пространства без использования кат-сцен, персонажа нельзя увидеть со стороны, поэтому игровой процесс и сюжет образуют единое целое.Эта книга расскажет о том, как создавались игры серии Half-Life, какие новаторские методы они принесли в индустрию и с какими трудностями во время разработки столкнулась компания Valve. И, конечно, автор не обойдет вниманием другое детище Valve – онлайн-платформу Steam.Погрузитесь в историю Half-Life и Valve, и вы узнаете:[ul]Какими произведениями вдохновлялись создатели Half-Life?Почему главный герой Гордон Фримен не произносит ни слова?Что помогло студии Valve отыскать свой уникальный стиль?Как онлайн-платформа Steam навсегда изменила рынок видеоигр? [/ul]«В чем феномен Half-Life? Чем она так покорила фанатов, жаждущих продолжения по сей день? В поисках ответов автор изучает разработку и наследие серии, ее повествование и геймплей, источники вдохновения и внутреннюю философию. Это книга для тех, кто не застал эпоху Гордона Фримена, – и для тех, кто хочет очутиться в ней вновь. Ведь разве есть что-то более вечное, чем монтировка в руках героя?» – Антон Берсенёв, переводчик Half-Life: Alyx и других проектов ValveВ формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of “the banality of evil” which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt’s thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics, about totalitarianism and history, and her own experiences as an émigré.

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations is an extraordinary portrait of one of the twentieth century’s boldest and most original thinkers. As well as Arendt’s last interview with French journalist Roger Errera, the volume features an important interview from the early 60s with German journalist Gunter Gaus, in which the two discuss Arendt’s childhood and her escape from Europe, and a conversation with acclaimed historian of the Nazi period, Joachim Fest, as well as other exchanges.

These interviews show Arendt in vigorous intellectual form, taking up the issues of her day with energy and wit. She offers comments on the nature of American politics, on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, on Israel; remembers her youth and her early experience of anti-Semitism, and then the swift rise of the Hitler; debates questions of state power and discusses her own processes of thinking and writing. Hers is an intelligence that never rests, that demands always of her interlocutors, and her readers, that they think critically. As she puts it in her last interview, just six months before her death at the age of 69, “there are no dangerous thoughts, for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.”Review

“We are still living in Hannah Arendt’s world… It is hard to name a thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first.”—Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker

“The combination of tremendous intellectual power with great common sense makes Miss Arendt’s insight into history and politics seem both amazing and obvious.”—Mary McCarthy

“[Arendt] took responsibility for observing the inhuman uses of power and for summoning her generation to judgment and action.”—Samantha Power, The New York Review of BooksAbout the Author

HANNAH ARENDT (1906–1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century. She fled Europe for the United States in 1941 and spent her career as a professor at a number of American universities, including the New School for Social Research and University of Chicago. She is best known for her books The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem.

A fascinating look at the life of the author who created such modern classics as Carrie, IT, and The Shining.One of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. But who is the man behind those tales of horror, grief, and the supernatural? Where do these ideas come from? And what drives him to keep writing at a breakneck pace after a thirty year career? In this unauthorized biography, Lisa Rogak reveals the troubled background and lifelong fears that inspire one of the twentieth century’s most influential authors.King’s origins were inauspicious at best. His impoverished childhood in rural Maine and early marriage hardly spelled out the likelihood of a blossoming literary career. But his unflagging work ethic and a ceaseless flow of ideas put him on the path to success. It came in a flash, and the side effects of sudden stardom and seemingly unlimited wealth soon threatened to destroy his work and, worse, his life. But he survived and has since continued to write at a level of originality few authors could ever hope to match.Despite his dark and disturbing work, Stephen King has become revered by critics and his countless fans as an all-American voice more akin to Mark Twain than H. P. Lovecraft. Haunted Heart chronicles his story, revealing the character of a man who has created some of the most memorable—and frightening—stories found in literature today.Stephen King on Stephen King:“I’m afraid of everything.”“As a kid, I worried about my sanity a lot.”“I am always interested in this idea that a lot of fiction writers write for their fathers because their fathers are gone.”“Writing is an addiction for me.”“I married her for her body, though she said I married her for her typewriter.”“When you get into this business, they don’t tell you you’ll get cat bones in the mail.”“You have to be a little nuts to be a writer.”“There’s always the urge to see somebody dead that isn’t you.”