‘Through our current smog of smouldering bullshit, This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary, humane and dissident light.’Nick Rankin, author of Churchill’s Wizards: the British Genius for Deception 1914-1945‘The world’s most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev.’Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the WorldWhen information is a weapon, everyone is at war.We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We’ve lost not only our sense of peace and democracy – but our sense of what those words even mean.As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, ‘behavioural change’ salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia – but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.

In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilavičiūtė travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had "shot and buried with the proper honors," the reader finds a dense, subtly interwoven structure of memory and reality, banalities and fantasy, all served up with a good dollop of absurdity and humor. We travel from the old town of Vilnius to Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood, from the seaside to a local delicatessen, all in a narrative collage as exquisitely detailed as a bouquet of flowers. As in all of her work, Radvilavičiūtė plays with the genres of fiction and nonfiction, essay and short story, in which the experiences of life "are unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake."

Congressmen are big winners in the stock market. They cultivate companies in their loyalty structure from whom they get insider information often at the committee level. There are many ways they get rich while serving constituents, especially if you know what big deal Warren Buffett will do and when. Many names are given in this book of successful inside information operators within Congress.While Throw Them All Out is our wake up call, it is also a potential training guide for future politicians. After all, Congress is unlikely to change the substance of rules that allow them to make a killing year on year. We should not aspire to do what they do. This would land the rest of us in prison and earn their contempt for us.

The collection of stories

Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at age thirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and Peace. In this selection of her best autobiographical stories, she covers a wide range of subjects, from family life to revolution and emigration, writers and writing.

Like Nabokov, Platonov, and other great Russian prose writers, Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to write with a poet's sensitivity to tone and rhythm. Like Chekhov, she fuses wit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are few human weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion and understanding.

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum and Herzog and major works by Hemingway, Woolf, Orwell, Camus and Nabokov. There are long studies of George Grosz, vignettes on Botero and Picasso, and an appreciation of Cezanne and Van Gogh, including a visit to Cezanne's homes in the South Seas. Also included are essays on political and social thinkers, from the nineteenth-century feminist, Flora Tristan, to Isaiah Berlin, and contemporary pieces on 9/11, the aftermath of the war in Iraq, and the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid. Fantastically intelligent, inspired and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection from one of the world's leading intellectuals.

This book contains a selection of the too numerous addresses which Lewis gave during the late war and the years that immediately followed it. All were composed in response to personal requests and for particular audiences, without thought of subsequent publication. As a result, in one or two places they seem to repeat, though they really anticipated, sentences which had already appeared in print. The period from which these pieces date was an exceptional one; and though Lewis do not think to have altered any belief that they embody, he could not totally recapture the tone and temper in which they were written. Nor would those who wanted to have them in a permanent form be pleased with a patchwork. It has therefore seemed better to let them go with only a few verbal corrections.

Bezczelna, wzruszająca, niezwykła - rozmowa z Manuelą Gretkowską, naszą narodową libertynką. O miłosnych komplikacjach, slow life i fast sex, duchowości, narkotykach, a przede wszystkim o współczesnej Polsce. Manifest swobody myślenia i bycia wbrew wszystkiemu: cenzurze, hejtowi, banowaniu, przemilczaniu i wycinaniu. Książka antysarmacka, raczej nie dla katolików.

Dla mnie najważniejsze jest to, by nie powtarzać cudzych myśli i dobrze napisać własne. A że komuś się nie spodoba? Jesteś panną na wydaniu i zalotnicy ci powiedzieli, że nie jesteś w ich targecie?

Manuela Gretkowska

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Following the homeless Manhattanites who, in the mid-1990s, chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city, this record tells the stories of a variety of tunnel dwellers from the perspective of an award-winning, European photojournalist who lived and worked with them for 5 months.Photographs and personal accounts detail the struggles and pleasures—including the government’s eviction of the tunnel people and Amtrak’s offering them alternative housing—of Vietnam veterans, macrobiotic hippies, crack addicts, Cuban refugees, convicted killers, computer programmers, philosophical recluses, and criminal runaways. Humorous and compassionate, it also describes what has happened to these individuals 13 years since they’ve left.

Ричард «Лорд Бритиш» Гэрриот – один из самых известных пионеров игровой индустрии. Разработанная им серия ролевых игр Ultima совершила настоящую революцию среди видеоигр и приковала к компьютерам миллионы людей. В 1983 году Гэрриот стал соучредителем компании Origin Systems Inc., которая продолжила выпускать на рынок культовые игры.Андреа Контато проследил историю легендарного разработчика от детства и юности до пика карьеры. На страницах книги он увлекательно расскажет о жизни Гэрриота, его творческом пути, его отношениях с важными для него людьми и, конечно, о том, как рождалась знаменитая серия Ultima.Вы узнаете:[ul]Как и почему Гэрриот начал программировать и создавать игры?Чем отличались друг от друга части франшизы Ultima?Как была основана компания Origin Systems Inc. и кто в ней состоял?Чем увлекался Ричард Гэрриот и как это повлияло на его игры?[/ul]Понравилась книга? Поставь бумагу на полку!Покупатели электронной книги найдут внутри скидку на бумажную версию.

Un homenaje a Roberto Bolaño

****In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of ** *Love Warrior* and *Carry On, Warrior* explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.****

" *Untamed* will liberate women --emotionally, spiritually, and physically. **It is phenomenal.** "--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of *City of Girls* and *Eat Pray Love***

*This is how you find yourself.

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There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: *Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this?* We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding...

Что ждет традиционную рекламу в 21 веке, в условиях, когда меняются и потребители (которые становятся все менее доверчивыми), и медиасредства (которые становятся все менее зависимыми от рекламных вливаний)? Переосмысливая понятие рекламы, автор книги предлагает задуматься о том, каковы ее функции в изменившихся условиях, и предлагает новую формулу эффективности: «релевантность, полезность, развлекательность».Книга будет полезна всем, кто работает в сфере маркетинга, рекламы, брендинга и PR.

In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car" — with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to Rave" — he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness.We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.

In a series of conversations with Between the Covers’s David Naimon, Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—both her process and her philosophy—with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigour we expect from one of our great American writers.When the New York Times called Ursula K. Le Guin, “America’s greatest living science fiction writer,” they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work—novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism—and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period.In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.

“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism—highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.