"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***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.

"Day 167 – New Year's Day – Tuesday 1st January 2002 – 6.00 pmI miss my wife, I miss my family and I miss my friends. But the only enemy I have to contend with is boredom and it's a killer. For many prisoners, it is the time when they first experiment with drugs. To begin with, offered by the dealers for nothing, and when they want more, in exchange for a phone card and an ounce of tobacco. Finally, when they're hooked, they'll give anything for a fix – including their life."Jeffrey Archer's final volume of prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there – it also throws light on a system that is close to breaking point.Told with humour, compassion and honesty, the diary closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that should be applauded by the Establishment and prison population alike.

Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at 12.07pm on Thursday 19th July 2001. Within six hours, Prisoner FF8282, as he is now known, was on suicide watch in the medical wing of Belmarsh top security prison in south London. This, he discovered, is standard procedure for first-time offenders on their first night in jail. By 6.00am the next morning, Archer had resolved to write a daily diary of everything he experienced while incarcerated, because "I have a feeling that being allowed to write in this hellhole may turn out to be the one salvation that will keep me sane". Jeffrey Archer's diary of his first three weeks imprisonment is a raw account of life in a top-security jail in Britain. It is also an indictment of the British penal system. The tales of his fellow inmates – many of whom are in for life – are often moving stories of hopelessness. But there are those, too, who, no matter what their previous histories, attempt to live their prison lives with dignity and integrity. Returning favours, Archer comments, is far more commonplace in prison than outside. The diary should be of interest to anyone concerned with the improvement of our penal system, whether they are concerned citizens, politicians or workers in the prison service.

Подлинная история одного из самых громких судебных дел XX в. — группового убийства “Семьей" Мэнсона актрисы Шарон Тейт и ее друзей. Леденящие кровь подробности, религия и мистика, психологический портрет “калифорнийского потрошителя" и документальный отчет о судебном процессе по делу Чарли Мэнсона. Разыгравшаяся в Голливуде конца 1960-х годов трагедия, о которой идет речь в этой книге, не имеет срока давности; имена её участников всё ещё на слуху, а главные действующие лица за минувшие годы приобрели статус культовых личностей.

Книга построена на подлинных материалах по делу Чарльза Мэнсона. Пунктуация издания подчеркивает документальный характер текста.

Подлинная история одного из самых громких судебных дел XX в. — группового убийства “Семьей" Мэнсона актрисы Шарон Тейт и ее друзей. Леденящие кровь подробности, религия и мистика, психологический портрет “калифорнийского потрошителя" и документальный отчет о судебном процессе по делу Чарли Мэнсона. Разыгравшаяся в Голливуде конца 1960-х годов трагедия, о которой идет речь в этой книге, не имеет срока давности; имена её участников всё ещё на слуху, а главные действующие лица за минувшие годы приобрели статус культовых личностей.Книга построена на подлинных материалах по делу Чарльза Мэнсона. Пунктуация издания подчеркивает документальный характер текста.

До сих пор историки многого не знают о Гитлере. Каковы были мотивы его мыслей и поступков? На чем основана легенда о его громадных знаниях и сверхчеловеческих способностях влиять на людей? Автор этой книги, немецкий профессор, в результате долгих и кропотливых исследований создал психограмму человека, возглавлявшего III рейх.

Древние мыслители и современные авторы, психологи и философы, политики правых и левых взглядов сходятся в том, что человек по своей природе плох. Нам твердят, что мы, люди, эгоистичны и руководствуемся в первую очередь личными интересами.Но что, если это не так? Рутгер Брегман предлагает взглянуть на человеческую историю по-новому. Он показывает, что мы запрограммированы на доброту, ориентированы на сотрудничество и более склонны доверять окружающим, чем относиться друг к другу с подозрением. И этот инстинкт имеет прочную эволюционную основу, заложенную на ранних этапах эволюции Homo sapiens.Брегман приводит реальную историю, опровергающую идею «Повелителя мух», рассказывает о фабрикации громких психологических экспериментов, о двух братьях-близнецах, которые, несмотря на разницу во взглядах, помогли предотвратить гражданскую войну… Он утверждает, что вера в человеческую щедрость и стремление к сотрудничеству – это не оптимизм, а адекватное восприятие реальности, и доказывает это, приводя убедительные аргументы и используя свой талант рассказчика.

Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen’s The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as “The Harper’s Essay,” Franzen’s controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen’s writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father’s stuggle with Alzheimer’s disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen’s brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls “a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance — even a celebration — of being a reader and a writer.” At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.

The original how-to guide for people who want to launch and run a successful freelance translation business, fully revised and updated! With over 10,000 copies in print, How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator has become a go-to reference for beginning and experienced translators alike. The fully revised third edition includes nearly 250 pages of practical tips on writing a translation-targeted resume and cover letter, preparing a marketing plan, marketing your services to agencies and direct client, avoiding common pitfalls, and more! New in this edition: an all-new technology chapter by translation technology expert Jost Zetzsche, and more detailed information on ways to market to direct clients.

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.

Ian Hamilton’s March picks up the action immediately after Churchill’s London to Ladysmith chronicles, documenting the eponymous general’s 400-mile advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. The march saw ten major battles and numerous skirmishes, culminating in the release of prisoners from the camp where Churchill himself was held. Written mostly in the field, this book offers a vivid, personal account of the conditions under which the Boer War was fought, as well as a fascinating look at the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s preeminent leaders.

The detached yet penetrating account of the savage and senseless murder of a family.With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.

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.

A backpacker’s charming, hilarious account of the secret world of counterculture Iran.Iran looms large in the psyche of modern America. For decades, it has been “the enemy,” its government taunting us and attacking our Western, secular lifestyle. That is largely the Iranian government, however, not the Iranian people. Here’s the proof.When Jamie Maslin decides to backpack the entire length of the Silk Road, he decides to travel first and plan later. Then, unexpectedly stranded in a country he’s only read about in newspapers, he decides to make the best of it—but wonders whether he’ll make it out alive. Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into a subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture, where he is embraced by locals who are more than happy to show him the true Iran as they see it—the one where unmarried men and women mingle in Western clothes at secret parties, where alcohol (the possession of which is punishable by hand-amputation) is readily available on the black market, where Christian churches are national heritage sites, and where he discovers the real meaning of friendship, nationality, and hospitality.This is a hilarious, charming, and astonishing account of one Westerner’s life-altering rambles across Iran that will leave you wondering what else you don’t know about Iran and its people. [24 color illustrations].

“Jack Taylor,” copyright © 2007, 2009 by Ken Bruen. Originally published by The Mysterious Bookshop.

Вы когда-нибудь задумывались, почему K-pop стал таким популярным? Как за очень короткое время сумел выйти на мировые сцены и завоевать сердца фанатов со всего земного шара? В своей книге автор, специалист по культуре Азии, объясняет этот феномен и его влияние на современную медиаиндустрию, а также живо и доступно рассказывает о самих айдолах, об их взаимодействии с фанатами, СМИ и социальными сетями. «K-POP. Живые выступления, фанаты, айдолы и мультимедиа» – настоящая находка не только для поклонников корейских исполнителей, но и для всех меломанов, интересующихся внутренней кухней музыкального мира.

Vsevolods Ovčiņņikovs Karstie pelni Slepena sacensība par kodolieroču iegūšanu. Hronika.  Grāmatā apvienojas dokumentālās hronikas un politiska detektīva žanrs. Та vēsta par dramatiskam epi/.odern ciņa par atomieroču iegūšanu. Otrā pasaules kara gados tajā piedalījās ne vien Francija. Anglija. Vācija un ASV. bet ari Japāna, un par to līdz šim bija maz zināms. Autors stingri ievēro notikumu hronoloģiju, atmasko amerikāņu «atomšantāžas politiku* un parāda, ka tā bijusi vērsta ne vien pret PSRS, bet arī pret Angliju un Franciju. Grāmatā aprakstītie fakti apliecina, ka tieši Vašingtona ir aizsākusi bruņošanos un bijusi ikkatra Jauna bruņošanās loka iniciatore.Vsevolods Ovčiņņikovs ir publicists starptautibnieks. PSRS Rakstnieku savienības biedrs. Dzimis 1926. gadā Ļeņingradā. Vairāk nekā trīsdesmit gadus strādājis laikrakstā "Pravda". Bijis laikraksta speciālkorespondents Ķīnā. Japānā un Anglijā. Par šīm valstīm Vsevolods Ovčiņņikovs uzrakstījis vairākas grāmatas literārās publicistikas žanrā. Pie mums un ārzemēs ļoti populāras ir grāmatas "Sakuras zars" un "Ozola saknes". Tās tika izdotas arī Japānā un Anglijā, tātad valstīs, kurām darbi veltīti. Par grāmatām "Ozola saknes" un "Karstie pelni" V.Ovčiņņikovam 1985. gadā piešķirta PSRS Valsts prēmija. Pašlaik V.Ovčiņņikovs ir laikraksta "Pravda" politiskais komentētājs un vada raidījumu "Starptautiskā panorāma" Centrālajā televīzijā. Avots 1987Всеволод Владимирович Овчинников ГОРЯЧИЙ ПЕПЕЛ Хроника тайной гонки за обладание атомным оружием 2-е дополненное издание Издательство Агентства печати Новости Москва 1985Mākslinieks U. SosnovskisNo krievu valodas tulkojis P. DucmanisNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvQ Издательство Агентства печати Новости, 1985 © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Avots», 1987

The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world-an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't be handled by just any military or intelligence force. The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of America's supersecret counterterrorist unit formerly known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; more popularly, the elite and mysterious unit Delta Force.The American generals were flexible. A swatch of hair, a drop of blood, or simply a severed finger wrapped in plastic would be sufficient. Delta's orders were to go into harm's way and prove to the world bin Laden had been terminated.These Delta warriors had help: a dozen of the British Queen's elite commandos, another dozen or so Army Green Berets, and six intelligence operatives from the CIA who laid the groundwork by providing cash, guns, bullets, intelligence, and interrogation skills to this clandestine military force. Together, this team waged modern siege of epic proportions against bin Laden and his seemingly impenetrable cave sanctuary burrowed deep inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range in eastern Afghanistan.Over the years, since the battle ended, scores of news stories have surfaced offering tidbits of information about what actually happened in Tora Bora. Most of it is conjecture and speculation.This is the real story of the operation, the first eyewitness account of the Battle of Tora Bora, and the first book to detail just how close Delta Force came to capturing bin Laden, how close U.S. bombers and fighter aircraft came to killing him, and exactly why he slipped through our fingers. Lastly, this is an extremely rare inside look at the shadowy world of Delta Force and a detailed account of these warriors in battle.