Эта книга о самом поразительном человеке в современной истории бизнеса – Стиве Джобсе – великом предпринимателе эпохи высоких технологий, известном своим индивидуализмом, инакомыслием и бунтарским характером. Авторы подробно описали головокружительный взлет молодого человека, очень рано добившегося успеха, и последовавшее за этим стремительное падение, во время которого Стив был изгнан не только из Apple, но и из компьютерной индустрии вообще.Эта книга приобрела скандальную известность еще на этапе ее подготовки к печати. Получив экземпляр рукописи для ознакомления, компания запретила продавать во всех магазинах Apple книги издательства Wiley&Son. Такая реакция не повлияла на желание издательства опубликовать это произведение.Книга будет интересна тем, кто хочет узнать, как происходило формирование, становление и развитие современной эры цифровых технологий под влиянием самой значимой фигуры современности – человека, кардинально изменившего три отрасли – индустрию кино, музыки и компьютеров, – Стивена Джобса.

Эта книга о самом поразительном человеке в современной истории бизнеса – Стиве Джобсе – великом предпринимателе эпохи высоких технологий, известном своим индивидуализмом, инакомыслием и бунтарским характером. Авторы подробно описали головокружительный взлет молодого человека, очень рано добившегося успеха, и последовавшее за этим стремительное падение, во время которого Стив был изгнан не только из Apple, но и из компьютерной индустрии вообще.Эта книга приобрела скандальную известность еще на этапе ее подготовки к печати. Получив экземпляр рукописи для ознакомления, компания запретила продавать во всех магазинах Apple книги издательства Wiley&Son. Такая реакция не повлияла на желание издательства опубликовать это произведение.Книга будет интересна тем, кто хочет узнать, как происходило формирование, становление и развитие современной эры цифровых технологий под влиянием самой значимой фигуры современности – человека, кардинально изменившего три отрасли – индустрию кино, музыки и компьютеров, – Стивена Джобса.

Il diario di Anna Frank fu ritrovato nell'alloggio dove Il 4 agosto 1944 la polizia tedesca fece un'irruzione. Tutti i rifugiati clandestini furono arrestati e condotti in campi di concentramento tedeschi ed olandesi. Nell'alloggio segreto dove fu arrestata Anna Frank fu perquisito e saccheggiato dalla Gestapo. In un mucchio di vecchi libri, riviste e giornali rimasti per terra, Elli e Miep trovarono il diario di Anna. Il testo è originale pubblicato integralmente. Anna morì nel marzo 1945 nel campo di concentramento di Bergen Belsen, due mesi prima della liberazione dell'Olanda. Un libro davvero speciale consigliato a tutti...

Боевые будни немецких летчиков Второй Мировой войны

An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.

In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.”

Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape.

Park’s family was loving and close-knit, but life in North Korea was brutal, practically medieval. Park would regularly go without food and was made to believe that, Kim Jong Il, the country’s dictator, could read her mind. After her father was imprisoned and tortured by the regime for trading on the black-market, a risk he took in order to provide for his wife and two young daughters, Yeonmi and her family were branded as criminals and forced to the cruel margins of North Korean society. With thirteen-year-old Park suffering from a botched appendectomy and weighing a mere sixty pounds, she and her mother were smuggled across the border into China.

I wasn’t dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea. I didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All I knew was that if my family stayed behind, we would probably die—from starvation, from disease, from the inhuman conditions of a prison labor camp. The hunger had become unbearable; I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl of rice. But there was more to our journey than our own survival. My mother and I were searching for my older sister, Eunmi, who had left for China a few days earlier and had not been heard from since.

Park knew the journey would be difficult, but could not have imagined the extent of the hardship to come. Those years in China cost Park her childhood, and nearly her life. By the time she and her mother made their way to South Korea two years later, her father was dead and her sister was still missing. Before now, only her mother knew what really happened between the time they crossed the Yalu river into China and when they followed the stars through the frigid Gobi Desert to freedom. As she writes, “I convinced myself that a lot of what I had experienced never happened. I taught myself to forget the rest.”

In In Order to Live, Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom.

Still in her early twenties, Yeonmi Park has lived through experiences that few people of any age will ever know—and most people would never recover from. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience, refusing to be defeated or defined by the circumstances of her former life in North Korea and China. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country.

Park’s testimony is rare, edifying, and terribly important, and the story she tells in In Order to Live is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. Her voice is riveting and dignified. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.

In Pursuit of the English is a novelist’s account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you’ve probably never met or even read about—though they are the real English. The cast of characters—if that term can be applied to real people—includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to Lessing’s question “Don’t you ever like sex?” with “If you’re going to talk dirty, I’m not interested.”In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliant piece of cultural interpretation, an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read.From the book jacket (1960)In Pursuit of the English is the story of a part of Mrs Lessing’s life, opening with her departure from South Africa and embodying her first crucial years in England. It is an account characterized by a revealing eye and a balance of humour and humanity. Some of the English, she learned from living in a London working-class home, are lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded; in fact, quite unlike what they are supposed to be.About the AuthorDoris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time. She lives in north London.

• Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS• Vivid details on SS training and combat on the Eastern Front• Account of the little-known siege of Breslau in early 1945Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly ones that describe recruiting, training, and frontline service as completely and colorfully as In the Fire of the Eastern Front. Hendrick C. Verton volunteered for the Waffen-SS in early 1941 and fought on the Eastern Front until the end of the war as a member of the 5th SS Panzer Division and SS Regiment Besslein.

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming—yet wholly sinister—Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

Je revendique complètement ma connerie et mes dérapages. Parce qu'il y a là quelque chose de vrai. Et si on ne dérape jamais, c'est souvent qu'on est un peu con.Je ne maîtrise rien, je ne fais que suivre, et parfois supporter mon amour de la vie et des autres. Un amour qui, comme disait François Truffaut, est à la fois une joie et une souffrance.Je ne cherche pas à être un saint. Je ne suis pas contre, mais être un saint, c'est dur. La vie d'un saint est chiante. Je préfère être ce que je suis. Continuer à être ce que je suis.Un innocent.

В книге, написанной бессменным ударником «Pink Floyd» Ником Мейсоном, прослежен творческий путь великой рок-группы — от первых проб и ошибок до всемирной популярности.

В книге, написанной бессменным ударником «Pink Floyd» Ником Мейсоном, прослежен творческий путь великой рок-группы — от первых проб и ошибок до всемирной популярности.

Деми Мур всегда была в центре внимания прессы: от культовых ролей в голливудских фильмах («Привидение», «Непристойное предложение», «Стриптиз», «Ангелы Чарли-2») до громких романов и разводов с Брюсом Уиллисом и Эштоном Кутчером. Но настоящую историю актрисы, пережившую изнасилование в 15 лет, болезненные отношения с родителями и наркотическую зависимость, знали немногие. В своей автобиографии Деми Мур действительно выворачивает наизнанку душу перед читателями, не приукрашая и не скрывая не одной подробности в своей неровной судьбе.В этой книге есть и душераздирающие признания, и пикантные подробности, но главное – здесь есть неподдельная откровенность. Деми Мур безжалостно разбирает собственные ошибки, великодушно прощает их другим и от главы к главе учится принимать и любить себя.Вдохновляющая история, признанная лучшей книгой года по версии изданий The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times и The Daily Mail.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.

In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. For the first time, a US high-tech spy who worked at Pine Gap for 18 years speaks out to give an insider’s account of what happens behind those locked gates in the middle of the Australian desert.Author David Rosenberg details his career with an American intelligence agency during a tumultuous period in history that covered the terms of three American Presidents, four Australian Prime Ministers, the end of the Cold War, a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, two wars in Iraq, genocide in Rwanda, as well as the ‘War against Terror’ and the emergence of North Korea as a nuclear-armed nation. This is a fascinating glimpse inside the top-secret world of military surveillance.[This book contain a table.]

“The Mount Rushmore of Adult Entertainment has four heads: John Holmes, Marilyn Chambers, Jenna Jameson, and Seka. That’s it; there ain’t no more.”— Bill Margold, famed adult film actor, agent, producer, director, and activistSeka—The Platinum Princess, the Marilyn Monroe of Porn, the queen of XXX cinema’s Golden Age, and John Holmes’ favorite leading lady.Seka is a legendary performer in the annals of adult cinema, and many would say the greatest. Seka’s name was so big in XXX that her name above the title was not enough-her name had to be in the title!Seka’s real life story, though, is as enigmatic as her screen persona. She was never a victim-on-screen or off. This is no tale of remorse, abuse, or self-destructive behavior. Seka was post-feminist before the term was born. Inside Seka is the story of a survivor, a trailblazer, and an icon-still one of the most popular and famous porn stars ever; the last of the natural beauties.“Before the Jennas, the Bree Olsons, or the Savannas, the undisputed blonde bombshell of XXX movies was Seka, which makes her story so important in the history of adult entertainment.”— Ron Jeremy, porn legend, holder of the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Appearances in Adult Films.”“From calling the shots in a film genre in the days when it was completely controlled by men, to standing and being heard at the infamous Meese Commission, Seka shatters the myth of the poor little victim who lost her way. Don’t expect excuses and apologies. This is one blonde bombshell who lives by her own rules.”— Candida Royalle, author, entrepreneur, and erotic film pioneer“She was one of the hottest girls in the XXX business, able to seduce any man she wanted. So it should come as no surprise that her story is riveting.”— Larry Flynt, Hustler magazineKerry Zukus is the author, co-author, or ghostwriter of over 40 books, including From Harvard to Hell and Back, the upcoming Inside the Hotel Rwanda, and Book of the Month Club Feature Selection The Fourth House.

«Мне кажется, написание песен – это что-то очень интимное. Я, вероятно, работаю не так, как большинство музыкантов. Я не пишу музыку, к которой потом приходится подбирать стихи, и не пишу тексты, которые потом кладу на музыку. Я создаю и то и другое одновременно: сажусь за фортепиано или беру в руки гитару, наигрываю аккорды и напеваю слова, иногда целые предложения. И постепенно они обретают смысл».

Более 100 миллионов копий альбомов, проданных по всему миру, – захватывающая история успеха Depeche Mode во много обязана автору ее главных хитов. Enjoy the Silence, Personal Jesus и другие визитные карточки Depeche Mode были придуманы Мартином Гором.

Журналистам Деннису Плауку в сотрудничестве с Андре Боссе удалось создать захватывающую биографию одной из самых необычных личностей в истории мировой музыки, основанную на подробнейшем изучении биографии Мартина Гора и проникновенных личных интервью.

Издается при информационной поддержке официального комьюнити поклонников Depeche Mode.

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"Intel: взгляд изнутри" — увлекательная сага о компании, завоевавшей лидерство благодаря технологическим инновациям и сумевшей сохранить доминирующие позиции за счет агрессивного маркетинга, жесткой тактики в бизнесе и широкого использования судебно-правовых норм.Как рассказывает обозреватель "Financial Times" Тим Джексон, основу корпоративной культуры Intel составляют конфиденциальность и авторитарность. Компания содержит частных детективов, задача которых заключается в том, чтобы не дать ее сотрудникам сбиться с пути, а также предотвратить попытки раскрыть ревностно охраняемые секреты. Intel прибегает к практике судебного преследования в отношении как сотрудников, так и конкурентов. Эта тактика ярко проявилась во время ее семилетней юридической войны с AMD: агрессивные действия этого производителя микросхем в какой-то момент грозили привести к переделу сфер влияния во всей компьютерной индустрии. Но даже в атмосфере напряженной борьбы Intel процветает. Она все равно господствует на рынке микросхем, разрабатывая все новые поколения микропроцессоров. Ее акции — мечта банкиров с Уолл-Стрит, они приносят акционерам компании астрономические доходы. Даже обнаружение серьезного дефекта в широко разрекламированном процессе Pentium не смогло негативно повлиять на репутацию компании или ее долю на рынке.В центре этой увлекательной истории — Энди Гроув, неординарный президент и председатель совета директоров Intel. Бывший нищий эмигрант, он прислуживал в ресторане, чтобы иметь возможность учиться в колледже. Именно Гроув принимает непопулярные и противоречивые решения, благодаря которым Intel удается держаться на вершине рынка микросхем. Его труд, посвященный философии бизнеса, носит многозначительное название "Выживает только параноик".В книге на судебных записях, ранее не публиковавшихся документах и более ста интервью с важными фигурами в истории Intel, тщательно исследуются блестящие успехи, впечатляющие неудачи, потрясающие изобретения и революционные продукты этого компьютерного гиганта. В то же время это сага о сильных человеческих чувствах, которые стоят за битвами, сделавшим Intel одним из главных участников игры, где в качестве ставок используют деньги, власть, амбиции.

“The story of what Dakota did… will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremonyIn the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe out one hundred men who were pinned down and were repeatedly refused artillery support. Ordered to remain behind with the vehicles, twenty-one year-old Marine corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed orders and attacked to rescue his comrades.With a brave driver at the wheel, Meyer stood in the gun turret exposed to withering fire, rallying Afghan troops to follow. Over the course of the five hours, he charged into the valley time and again. Employing a variety of machine guns, rifles, grenade launchers, and even a rock, Meyer repeatedly repulsed enemy attackers, carried wounded Afghan soldiers to safety, and provided cover for dozens of others to escape—supreme acts of valor and determination. In the end, Meyer and four stalwart comrades—an Army captain, an Afghan sergeant major, and two Marines—cleared the battlefield and came to grips with a tragedy they knew could have been avoided. For his actions on that day, Meyer became the first living Marine in three decades to be awarded the Medal of Honor.Into the Fire tells the full story of the chaotic battle of Ganjigal for the first time, in a compelling, human way that reveals it as a microcosm of our recent wars. Meyer takes us from his upbringing on a farm in Kentucky, through his Marine and sniper training, onto the battlefield, and into the vexed aftermath of his harrowing exploits in a battle that has become the stuff of legend.Investigations ensued, even as he was pitched back into battle alongside U.S. Army soldiers who embraced him as a fellow grunt. When it was over, he returned to the States to confront living with the loss of his closest friends. This is a tale of American values and upbringing, of stunning heroism, and of adjusting to loss and to civilian life.We see it all through Meyer’s eyes, bullet by bullet, with raw honesty in telling of both the errors that resulted in tragedy and the resolve of American soldiers, U.S.Marines, and Afghan soldiers who’d been abandoned and faced certain death.Meticulously researched and thrillingly told, with nonstop pace and vivid detail, Into the Fire is the true story of a modern American hero.“Sergeant Meyer embodies all that is good about our nation’s Corps of Marines…. [His] heroic actions… will forever be etched in our Corps’ rich legacy of courage and valor.”—General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps

An unvarnished and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the Pacific Theater of World War II-whose story is featured in the upcoming HBO(r) series The PacificThis is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R. V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty, and with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a rifle as a member of a mortar squad. He saw friends die-and enemies killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of hara kiri victims, to the final howling banzai attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, Islands of the Damned brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.