Ha-Joon Chang is a heterodox economist and institutional economist specializing in development economics. Currently a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, Chang is the author of several widely-discussed policy books, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective Chang was ranked by Prospect Magazine as one of the top 20 World Thinkers in 2013.

The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan.23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: "There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market," "The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has") to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn't, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.

Praise for 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism:

"A lively, accessible and provocative book."-Sunday Times (UK )

"Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. 'The "truths" peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,' he charges."-Time

In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and main character, Alex. Writing in a foreign language, Burgess makes the reader feel like an outsider. As the novel begins, the reader has no emotional connection to Alex. This non-emotional state comes to a sudden halt when Alex and his droogs begin a series of merciless acts of violence. The reader rapidly begins to form what seems to be an irreversible hatred toward the books narrator. However, as time progresses, Burgess cleverly changes the tone of his novel. Once wishing only the harshest punishments be bestowed upon him, it is these same punishments that begin to change how the reader feels. In fact, by the end of the book, one almost begins to have pity for Alex. The same character that was once hated soon emerges as one of many victims taken throughout the course of the book. Throughout Alex’s narration, Burgess manages to change the readers’ allegiance toward a once seemingly evil character.

Alex is the type of character one loves to hate; he makes it all too easy to dislike him. He is a brutal, violent, teenage criminal with no place in society. His one and only role is to create chaos, which he does too well. Alex’s violent nature is first witnessed during the first chapter, and is soon seen again when Alex and his gang chose to brutally beat an innocent drunkard. This beating off the homeless man serves no purpose other then to amuse Alex’s gang. The acts committed were not performed for revenge, the one reason given was that Alex did not enjoy seeing a homeless drunk, “I could never stand to see a moodge all filthy and rolling and burping and drunk, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real starry like this one was”. Alex continues to explain his reason for dislike, “his platties were a disgrace, all creased and untidy and covered in cal”, from this explanation one realizes his reasons for nearly killing a man are simply based on pleasure, desire, and a dislike toward the untidy. By the end of the second chapter Burgess’s inventive usage of a different language to keep the reader alienated from forming opinions about Alex ceases to work. At this point in time Alex’s true nature is revealed, and not even his unfamiliar Nadsat language can save him from being strongly disliked by the reader.

The more the reader learns of Alex, the more and more he is disliked; Alex’s relationship with his parents only builds on ones already negative opinions toward Alex. Coming from a normal family and a sturdy household free of domestic violence, there is no excuse for Alex’s violent nature. In fact, Alex’s loving parents are just as baffled by his immoral personality as the reader, although because of their naivete, they know much less of what he does. This leaves the reader uninformed and wondering: why is Alex the way he is? Fortunately, just as one begins to question Alex’s motives, Alex gives an answer, “badness is of the self, the one…is not our modern history, my brothers the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do”. He could not have explained it more clearly. While from one point of view Alex visions himself as a revolutionary, even simpler then that, he is basically admitting he commits violent acts because he enjoys doing so. Later in the book Alex offers another solution for his violent nature, “Being young is like being one of these malenky machines…and so it would itty on to like the end of the world”. These malenky machines he is referring to are very similar to the clockwork orange Burgess talks to in his introduction. Whatever reasons he gives, none of them are valid enough to prevent the reader from hating Alex.

In spite of all the hatred aimed toward Alex at this point, seemingly it is not enough to prevent the pity one begins to feel when Alex is abandoned by his “droogs”. Knowing he is the leader of his group, Alex constantly gives orders to his gang. Unfortunately it is due to his tendency to need leadership that a quarrel begins with his gang. After settling the original dispute that arises, Alex and his “droogs” are not so successful at ending their second squabble. Framed by his friends, Alex is arrested while they run away. Furthermore, he is beaten by the police, and sentenced to fourteen years of jail. It only takes two of them for the reader to realize the difficulties that Alex is living through. Throughout the first part of the book, there is in fact only one sign that Alex is not utterly evil, that being his music. Along with his abandonment from friends, it is the music that Burgess uses to help change the readers opinion, and eventually to have pity toward his young antagonist.

As the reader continues to pry deeper into Alex’s life it is shocking to learn of the music he listens to, it is because of this music and the actions taken against him that one truly begins to feel sorry for Burgess’s little Alex. The music that Alex chooses to listen is very ironic. While it causes him to do evil things, the fact remains that he listens to normal music, one of the first things he is not disliked for, “lying there on my bed with glazzies tight shut and rookers behind my gulliver, I broke and spattered and cried aaaaaaah with the bliss of it". His particular interest in Ludwig Van arises during one of his sessions while undergoing Ludivico’s Technique. Upon hearing what he perceives to be heavenly music Alex cry’s out about the injustice in the procedure, “I don’t mind about the ultra-violence and all that cal. I can put up with that. But it’s not fair on the music”. It is during this same treatment that the reader really begins to feel sympathy toward him. Striped of his ability to choose right from wrong, and now the same clockwork orange that F. Alexander earlier told him about, Alex becomes one of the governments’ machines. Forced to do exactly what they want him to, become their “true Christian”, Alex poses the question to his doctors, “How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog…am I to be just like a clockwork orange?” Alex is all alone in the world, no longer capable of performing cruel deeds, he is denied by all whom he once knew. The same character one used to wish the harshest punishment upon received it, and when he got it, it becomes strikingly evident that it was much more then even the worst person would ever deserve.

Burgess does a magical job at making the reader quickly forget the horrible deeds Alex once committed. Instead by making powerful moral statements, Burgess goes so far that the reader not only turns the other cheek toward Alex’s crimes, but also feels genuinely sorry for him. Alex may not be completely cured, but that is not the issue at hand. Through means of pity and by playing with the readers’ emotions throughout the book, during A Clockwork Orange, Burgess is constantly playing with the reader’s allegiances.

In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself.

A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen's novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary lives, ignited something in Deresiewicz. He began viewing the world through Austen's eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Along the way, Deresiewicz was amazed to discover that the people in his life developed the depth and richness of literary characters-that his own life had suddenly acquired all the fascination of a novel. His real education had finally begun.

Weaving his own story-and Austen's-around the ones her novels tell, Deresiewicz shows how her books are both about education and themselves an education. Her heroines learn about friendship and feeling, staying young and being good, and, of course, love. As they grow up, they learn lessons that are imparted to Austen's reader, who learns and grows by their sides.

A Jane Austen Education is a testament to the transformative power of literature, a celebration of Austen's mastery, and a joy to read. Whether for a newcomer to Austen or a lifelong devotee, Deresiewicz brings fresh insights to the novelist and her beloved works. Ultimately, Austen's world becomes indelibly entwined with our own, showing the relevance of her message and the triumph of her vision.

Прошли времена, когда люди играли ради развлечения. А теперь – привет, будущее. Виртуальный мир Адам Онлайн – это место, где человечество живёт. Бывший чемпион возвращается в игру, чтобы найти Менторов – системы искусственного разума, которые дадут людям цифровое бессмертие. Но действительно ли они заботятся о благе людей? Чтобы узнать правду и добраться до Менторов, которые находятся в неизведанных локациях, герою предстоит начать прохождение с нулевого уровня.

ALL BAD THINGS

Luke Samson survived the apocalypse, but when he found faith things really went to Hell.

“Join or die.” That was Samson’s sermon and he delivered salvation from the business end of a sledgehammer. His army of God-fearing maniacs marches toward Los Angeles and a war that will bring the heathens to their knees.

But every war has a secret, and when the truth behind this crusade gets out, Samson will wish he’d never been saved at all.

The Fisher family of Alluvia, New York, is coming undone. Evelyn spends her days tending to her husband, Henry — an acclaimed and reclusive novelist slowly losing his battle with Alzheimer’s. Their son, Benji, onetime star of an ’80s sitcom called Prodigy, sinks deeper into drunken obscurity, railing against the bit roles he’s forced to take in uncelebrated regional theater. His sister, Claudia, tries her best to shore up her family even as she deals with the consequences of a remarkable, decades-old secret that’s come to light. When the Fishers mistake one of Benji’s drug-induced accidents for a suicidal cry for help, Benji commits to playing a role he hopes will reverse his fortune and stall his family’s decline. Into this mix comes Max Davis, a twentysomething cello virtuoso and real-life prodigy, whose appearance spurs the entire family to examine whether the secrets they thought were holding them all together may actually be what’s tearing them apart.

David Hopson’s All the Lasting Things is a beautiful, moving family portrait that explores the legacy we all stand to leave — in our lives, in our work — and asks what those legacies mean in a world where all the lasting things do not last.

Hannah is stunned when a stranger stops her on the street to deliver a message from her long-dead mother. Susan Parker, Hannah learns, is a popular television medium whose accurate predictions leave fans and critics alike puzzled and intrigued. In spite of her scepticism, Hannah schedules a private reading. But on the morning they are to meet, Susan is struck by a hit-and-run driver. An accident? Hannah doesn't think so – especially when she discovers that more than one person had good reason to want Susan dead…

For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost.

Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn’t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack’s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her children’s.

With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can’t possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life — their brittleness, and their resilience.

Mack Stone can't believe he's just walked in on Kindra in Flagrante computer delicto. When they're mistakenly signed up for sensual couples counselling, co-workers Jared and Candy are shocked.

When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress.

Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers’ protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, and what does it have to do with his murder? Acting on the fragile lead, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to uncover the man’s identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse on the mainland, where they discover the origin of the crime, and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it.

Both a gripping case and a harrowing exploration of the dark side of Italy’s meat industry, Donna Leon’s latest novel is a compelling addition to the Brunetti series.

Growth has an inescapable corollary…

I, Adam Carolla, being of beaten-down mind, declare this to be my Last Will and Testament. I revoke all wills and addendums previously made by me. (You guys never did listen, anyway.)

Article I

I appoint the rest of the world’s unappreciated dads as Personal Representatives to administer this Will. I bequeath to them the right to crack a couple cold ones in the garage after working their asses off all week and ask that they be permitted to watch all the porn they like and not have to change diapers and get dragged to every preschool “graduation” and PTA meeting.

Article II

To my wife, I leave a safe-deposit box, the sole content of which is a note reading “Get a job. I’m dead,” and my best wishes on trying to keep up with the unending demands of our houses, cars, dog, and kids.

Article III

I devise, bequeath, and give my kids this book, Daddy, Stop Talking. Since you guys were the death of me, I leave you these pages of wisdom. But no cash, cars, or property. You’ve got to earn those. On that note, I further demand that the following message be placed on the marker of my grave: “You’re All on Your Own Now. Enjoy.”

Курсант престижного училища из-за трагического инцидента выпадает из элитарного клуба сверхспособных бессмертных пилотов и оказывается выброшен в унылую гражданскую жизнь. Потерявший бессмертие пилот оказывается совершенно чуждым явлением, и мир всячески отторгает его. Герой видит всё больше несоответствий в знакомой ему реальности и понимает, что привычный мир лишь игра для других существ.

Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children’s and Household Tales. Now, at a veritable fairy-tale moment — witness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this year’s two movie adaptations of “Snow White” — Philip Pullman, one of the most popular authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.

From much-loved stories like “Cinderella” and “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Rapunzel” and “Hansel and Gretel” to lesser-known treasures like “Briar-Rose,” “Thousandfurs,” and “The Girl with No Hands,” Pullman retells his fifty favorites, paying homage to the tales that inspired his unique creative vision — and that continue to cast their spell on the Western imagination.

Любому современному человеку катастрофически не хватает времени, и все жалуются на собственную неорганизованность — то забудешь о важном совещании, то опоздаешь, то вовремя не позвонишь по телефону. Из-за этого портятся отношения с коллегами и друзьями, рушатся рабочие планы, ухудшается самочувствие. Чем человек организованнее, тем ему проще управлять работой, домашними делами и жизнью в целом, тем лучше его отношения с окружающими. Организованность — это не врожденная способность, а навык, которому можно научиться. В своей книге Как разобраться с делами: искусство продуктивности без стресса Дэвид Аллен рассказывает о простых методиках, ориентированных на повышение эффективности, и о выработке правильного подхода к организации собственной жизни. Автор утверждает, что главное — умение расслабляться, от него зависит наша продуктивность. Сознание должно быть ясно, а мысли — упорядочены. Из книги вы узнаете, как отделять важные дела от второстепенных, как правильно ставить цели и определять приоритеты, как планировать, как повысить личную организованность, как экономить время. Книга рассчитана на широкую читательскую аудиторию, но в первую очередь заинтересует тех читателей, которые страдают от чрезмерных нагрузок на работе.

Любому современному человеку катастрофически не хватает времени, и все жалуются на собственную неорганизованность – то забудешь о важном совещании, то опоздаешь, то вовремя не позвонишь по телефону. Из-за этого портятся отношения с коллегами и друзьями, рушатся рабочие планы, ухудшается самочувствие. Чем человек организованнее, тем ему проще управлять работой, домашними делами и жизнью в целом, тем лучше его отношения с окружающими. Организованность – это не врожденная способность, а навык, которому можно научиться. В своей книге Как разобраться с делами: искусство продуктивности без стресса Дэвид Аллен рассказывает о простых методиках, ориентированных на повышение эффективности, и о выработке правильного подхода к организации собственной жизни. Автор утверждает, что главное – умение расслабляться, от него зависит наша продуктивность. Сознание должно быть ясно, а мысли – упорядочены. Из книги вы узнаете, как отделять важные дела от второстепенных, как правильно ставить цели и определять приоритеты, как планировать, как повысить личную организованность, как экономить время. Книга рассчитана на широкую читательскую аудиторию, но в первую очередь заинтересует тех читателей, которые страдают от чрезмерных нагрузок на работе.

David Allen has been called one of the world's most influential thinkers on productivity and has been a keynote speaker and facilitator for such organizations as New York Life, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, L.L. Bean, and the U.S. Navy, and he conducts workshops for individuals and organizations across the country. He is the president of The David Allen Company and has more than twenty years experience as a management consultant and executive coach. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Getting Things Done has been published in twelve foreign countries. David Allen lives in Ojai, California.

Amazon.co.uk Review

In this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X--who is himself now a dangerously mature 36--boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very Couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "Karen and I deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon--lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski wax, and Karen's strawberry shampoo." Are we in for an archetypal '80s romance, played out against a pop-cultural backdrop? Nope. Only hours after losing her virginity, Karen loses consciousness as well--for almost two decades. The narrator and his circle soldier on, making the slow progression from debauched Vancouver youths to semi-responsible adults. Several end up working on a television series that bears a suspicious resemblance to The X-Files (surely a self-referential wink on the author's part). And then ... Karen wakes up. Her astonishment-- which suggests a 20th-century, substance-abusing Rip Van Winkle--dominates the second half of the novel, and gives Coupland free reign to muse about time, identity, and the meaning (if any) of the impending millennium. Alas, he also slaps a concluding apocalypse onto the novel. As sleeping sickness overwhelms the populace, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a universal yawn--which doesn't, fortunately, outweigh the sweetness, oddity, and ironic smarts of everything that has preceded it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis

Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear -- all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all gone through all the normal marital, social and political traumas and back again...This tragicomedy shows Coupland in his most mature form yet, writing with all his customary powers of acute observation, but turning his attention away from the surface of modern life to the dynamics of modern relationships, but doing so with all the sly wit and weird accuracy we expect of the soothsaying author of Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Life After God, Microserfs and Polaroids from the Dead.

Magic and mayhem. Vampires and gods. Cops and werewolves. The binding thread of mysticism in the modern world and acts of kindness, small and large, random and focused. Join these ten authors as we travel through their worlds.

Dagger Awards (nominee)

Loners Jean, Micheal and Steph are drawn together to Walden Manor by a mixture of deceit, good luck and misfortune. There, they shape new lives, full of hope and happiness. When their idyll is threatened they discover their new lives are worth preserving. But at what cost?

The KJV is one oldest English translations of the Bible and continues to be the favorite of many. It is known as the Authorized Version of 1611 because King James I approved the project to create an authoritative English Bible. Although it contains many obsolete words (some of which have changed in meaning), many people appreciate its dignity and majesty. The NKJV is a similar translation, taken from the same group of ancient manuscripts, with updates the archaic language of the KJV.

 Commissioned in 1975 by Thomas Nelson Publishers, 130 respected Bible scholars, church leaders, and lay Christians worked for 7 years to create a completely new, modern translation of Scripture, yet one that would retain the purity and stylistic beauty of the original King James Version. With unyielding faithfulness to the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts, the translators applied the most recent research in archaeology, linguistics, and textual studies.

On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence. A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening.

You will be scared. But you won’t know why…

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”

And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.

In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. What follows is a twisted unraveling that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.

In this smart, suspenseful, and intense literary thriller, debut novelist Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, this novel pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.

Peter Hobson è un esperto in ingegneria biomedica, quarantenne, affascinato dai problemi della vita dopo la morte e dalle possibilità di sopravvivenza che la tecnologia offre alla personalità umana. E infatti tutto comincia quando Hobson realizza un coraggioso esperimento per verificare le sue teorie sull’immortalità, creando tre simulazioni elettroniche di se stesso. Al primo alter ego di Hobson è stata cancellata la memoria della sua esistenza fisica: è una simulazione dell’anima. Al secondo è stata tolta la consapevolezza di invecchiare e di morire: è una simulazione dell’immortalità. Il terzo invece è un alter ego normale, non modificato. Ma i tre simulacri di Hobson non si accontentano di vivere nei ristretti confini della memoria di un computer e sono già fuggiti nell’universo sconfinato delle reti informatiche globali. Ma anche un’esistenza virtuale può non bastare, se la prospettiva è quella di interagire con il mondo vero e proprio… Anzi, uno di loro ha già scoperto la propria vocazione: diventare un killer.

This story is entirely fictitious, and any resemblance to real cultures or events is purely…

The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot's heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams. Concerns fall from him leaving only ironic tolerance. His son Charles takes up his father's burdens and like his father, he is involved in the struggles of class and wealth, but he challenges the Establishment, risking his future in political activities.

The man who gave it all away

At age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market. In its early years, Neteller had been a cowboy operation, narrowly averting disaster in creative ways. Co-founder Lefebvre, a gregarious hippie lawyer from Calgary, Alberta, had toked his way through his practice for decades, aspiring all the while to be a professional musician. With the profit from Neteller and his stock holdings, he became a multi-millionaire. He started buying Malibu beach houses, limited edition cars, complete wardrobes, and a jet to fly to rock shows with pals. When that got boring he shipped his fine suits to charity, donned his beloved t-shirt and jeans, and started giving away millions to the Dalai Lama, David Suzuki and other eco-conscious people, as well as anyone else who might…

On appelle Nouveau Testament ou Nouvelle Alliance l’ensemble des écrits relatifs à la vie de Jésus et aux premières années du christianisme qui sont considérés comme authentiques par les Églises chrétiennes. Le mot «testament» vient du mot grec διαθήκη (diathḗkē, «testament, contrat, convention») traduit en latin par testamentum (testament, témoignage). Le mot grec a un sens plus large (celui de contrat) que celui du mot latin aussi certains préfèrent le traduire par Alliance.Les chrétiens considèrent que la Bible se compose dès lors de l’Ancien Testament (écrits antérieurs à Jésus) et du Nouveau Testament.Le Nouveau Testament comprend, selon le canon occidental:- les quatre évangiles,- les Actes des Apôtres,- 14 épîtres, dont la plupart attribuées à Paul de Tarse,- d'autres épîtres, dites catholiques attribuées à d'autres disciples,- l’Apocalypse selon Jean de Patmos.Le classement des livres du Nouveau Testament n'est pas chronologique selon leur date d'écriture – qui n'est d'ailleurs pas connue avec précision (Voir problème synoptique) – mais répond à une progression logique:- la vie de Jésus, racontée sous l'invocation de quatre disciples;- l'histoire des débuts de l'Église primitive;- les épîtres de Paul aux premières communautés chrétiennes, dont une partie est pseudépigraphique: il y prodigue enseignement, conseils et éclaircissements sur la nouvelle religion;- d'autres épîtres attribuées aux premiers disciples mais qui pourraient dater du IIe siècle dans leur majorité,- l'apocalypse, qui signifie 'révélation', et que beaucoup considèrent comme une prophétie sur la fin des temps.

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter-a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation. The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished author.

"What a find!" – Jayne Ann Krentz

She explained THE TROUBLE WITH VALENTINE'S DAY (as if you didn't know!) Now Rachel Gibson tells all about…

SEX…

What is it about men anyway? Bad cars, bad jobs, even bad teeth – nothing convinces them that they can't snare a Size Two Babe with a D-cup chest. And after way too many internet dates with men named "luvstick" and "bigdaddy182," Lucy Rothschild should know.

LIES…

But sitting across from her now is "hardluvnman," and he seems different – sensitive, honest, and hot! He says he's a plumber, while Lucy claims she's a nurse! She's really a mystery writer, dating online while researching her next book. Hey, everyone lies a little, don't they?

AND ONLINE DATING…

But Quinn's really an undercover cop hunting down a serial killer, and he sees Lucy as his top suspect. And while he could really go for this smart, sexy woman with the killer bod – if that's the only thing "killer" about her – he knows he needs to wine and dine her and discover the truth. Hey, he realizes the dating scene can be deadly – but this is ridiculous!

Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank's in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he'll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucatán to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption - and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.

"Six Bad Things rocks and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cols, slit-eyed mother of a book."

Peter Straub

2005

ЛитРПГ.Skidbladnir Online - игра где у каждого есть шанс стать тем кто он хочет. Изменить себя и реализовать свои мечты. Посмотрим достойны ли вы Башни Богов.

With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult.

"[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book." – Booklist (starred review)

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?

Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy's counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family – especially her teenage son – as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other's trust, and come to see that what they've been taught their whole lives about others – and themselves – might be wrong.

With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion – and doesn't offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game.

Praise for Small Great Things

"Small Great Things is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written… It will challenge her readers… [and] expand our cultural conversation about race and prejudice." – The Washington Post

"A novel that puts its finger on the very pulse of the nation that we live in today… a fantastic read from beginning to end, as can always be expected from Picoult, this novel maintains a steady, page-turning pace that makes it hard for readers to put down." – San Francisco Book Review

"A gripping courtroom drama… Given the current political climate it is quite prescient and worthwhile… This is a writer who understands her characters inside and out." – Roxane Gay, The New York Times Book Review

"I couldn't put it down. Her best yet!" – New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman

"A compelling, can't-put-it-down drama with a trademark [Jodi] Picoult twist." – Good Housekeeping

"It's Jodi Picoult, the prime provider of literary soul food. This riveting drama is sure to be supremely satisfying and a bravely thought-provoking tale on the dangers of prejudice." – Redbook

"Jodi Picoult is never afraid to take on hot topics, and in Small Great Things, she tackles race and discrimination in a way that will grab hold of you and refuse to let you go… This page-turner is perfect for book clubs." – Popsugar

From the Hardcover edition.

“A startling debut. Joshua Mohr takes us to a different city, but a city we know, populated by the dark side of ourselves.”—Stephen Elliott

Enter Damascus, the womb-like bar in San Francisco’s Mission District, and you’ll find Rhonda, a thirty-year-old man suffering from depersonalization — a disorder allowing him to reconfigure his reality to tolerate trauma. When Rhonda was young he imagined the rooms of his house drifting apart like separating continents as he raced to avoid his mother’s abusive boyfriend while trying to make sense of her extended disappearances.

The next stool over is Vern, a diaper-clad Vet nursing warm beers, who wishes for nothing more than the opportunity to re-break Rhonda’s arm.

Beside Vern, Old Lady Rhonda, a neglected housewife who excels at Wheel of Fortune.

Some Things That Meant the World to Me is the gritty tale of a band of outcasts struggling to make sense of their broken pasts in this subtly affecting, achingly poignant, and mature debut novel.

I’d like to brag about the night I saved a hooker’s life. Like to tell you how quiet everything else in the world was while I helped her. This was in San Francisco. Late 2007. I’d been drinking in Damascus, my favorite dive bar, which was painted entirely black — floor, walls, and ceiling. Being surrounded by all that darkness had this slowing effect on time, like a shunned astronaut meandering in space.

Joshua Mohr has been published in Other Voices, The Cimarron Review, Pleiades, and Gulf Coast, among others.

SPACE STAR ONLINE новая космическая игра на стадии бета-теста, где Павлу с ником Хан, предстоит пройти нелегкий путь медика и генного инженера путешествуя по красочным планетам и планетам на которых почти нет жизни, познать все тяготы полевого медика и раскрыть тайны жизни, путем генных опытов, но есть те, кто играет совсем не по правилам. И это ему придется испытать на собственной шкуре…

The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement. In "Water Off a Black Dog's Back," a na‹ve young man who has never known personal loss finds that the only way he can curry favor with his lover's physically afflicted family is to suffer a bizarre amputation. The protagonist in "Travels with the Snow Queen" reconsiders her fairy-tale romance when she deconstructs the clich‚s of traditional fairy tales and realizes that their heroines inevitably sacrifice and suffer much more than their heroes do. Link favors impersonal and potentially off-putting postmodern narrative approaches, but draws readers to the emotional core of her stories through vulnerable but brave characters who cope gamely with all the strangeness the world can throw their way. In the book's most effective tale, "Vanishing Act," a young girl's efforts to magically reunite herself with her distant family by withdrawing from the world around her poignantly calls attention to the spiritual vacancies and absence of affection in the family she stays with. "The Specialist's Hat" features twin sisters whose morbid obsessions seems due as much to their father's parental neglect as their mother's death. Although a few of the selections seem little more than awkward freshman exercises in the absurd, the best shed a warm, weird light on their worlds, illuminating fresh perspectives and fantastic possibilities.

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Приключения Кирито и Асуны в летающем замке Айнкрад продолжаются. Впереди очередной этаж, на котором  их ждут старые друзья и новые враги. Это первая книга из двухтомника о шестом этаже.

Первый том Sword Art Online: Progressive, выпущенный 10 октября 2012 года, охватывает приключения Кирито на первом и втором этажах Айнкрада, и включает в себя две переписанные побочные истории: «Ария в беззвёздной ночи» и «Рондо переходного меча».

Босс второго уровня Айнкрада был уничтожен проходчиками.

После победы мечник "Битер" Кирито и его партнер, рапиристка Асуна, отбились от основной группы и поднялись по лестнице на следующий этаж. На третий этаж.

Там, в густом, разросшемся на весь уровень, лесу, Кирито и Асуна начали большой сюжетный квест. В лесу сражались лесной и тёмный эльфы. В период бета-теста эта битва между двумя NPC закончилась вничью, но Кирито помог спастись тёмной эльфийке Кизмир. Он был обескуражен разницей по сравнению с бета-тестом, но после долгого разговора с Кизмир он понял, что она NPC. В это время другие игроки начали "Гильдийский квест", и первая гильдия Айнкрада была создана.

Через некоторое время было созвано стратегическое собрание третьего этажа. На этом Кирито и Асуна столкнулись с серьезным решением ятаганщика Линда, лидера Альянса Драконьих Рыцарей...

К сожалению Аннотация отсутствует.

Пятьдесят два дня прошло с тех пор, как десять тысяч игроков были пойманы в смертельную ловушку игры «Sword Art Online», где смерть виртуального персонажа приводит к реальной смерти. Единственный способ пройти эту игру – победить босса на верхнем, сотом этаже гигантского замка «Айнкрад».

Текущая дата: 28 декабря 2022. Прошло чуть больше двух месяцев, и Кирито и Асуна достигли пятого этажа. В отличие от четвёртого этажа, который сильно изменился по сравнению с бета-тестом и превратился в водную область, пятый этаж, представший перед героями, был знаком Кирито и представлял собой разрушенную площадь.

В этой области, похожей на лабиринт с почти полностью отсутствующими природными объектами, такими, как леса и реки Кирито и Асуна приступили к лучшей «охоте за реликвиями» в игре и продолжили собирать предметы и коллы. Временно вернувшись на четвертый этаж и получив награду от владыки замка тёмных эльфов Йофилис, Кирито предложил выполнить задание по расчистке мобов в подземном кладбище под городом. Асуна согласилась, но тогда-то у неё и начались неприятности. Ведь в квесте её ждали монстры, против которых рапира не годится. Итак... Сможет ли Асуна побороть свой страх и пройти пятый этаж?..

Бегство невозможно, пока игра не будет пройдена полностью; геймовер означает реальную смерть...

Не зная всей правды о таинственной многопользовательской игре нового поколения "Sword Art Online", десять тысяч игроков залогинились одновременно и тем самым положили начало смертельной битве.

Идя по SAO, главный герой Кирито принял правила игры. В этом игровом мире, в гигантской парящей крепости под названием "Айнкрад", он стал игроком-одиночкой.

Однако, не в силах противостоять настойчивости воительницы и мастера рапиры Асуны, он начал работать с ней в паре.

Эта встреча и предопределила судьбу Кирито...

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Бегство невозможно, пока игра не будет пройдена полностью; геймовер означает реальную смерть…

Не зная всей правды о таинственной многопользовательской игре нового поколения «Sword Art Online», десять тысяч игроков залогинились одновременно и тем самым положили начало смертельной битве.

Идя по SAO, главный герой Кирито принял правила игры. В этом игровом мире, в гигантской парящей крепости под названием «Айнкрад», он стал игроком-одиночкой.

Однако, не в силах противостоять настойчивости воительницы и мастера рапиры Асуны, он начал работать с ней в паре.

Эта встреча и предопределила судьбу Кирито…

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Ten Things You Should Know About This Book

1. Sebastian Grey is a devilishly handsome rogue with a secret.

2. Annabel Winslow's family voted her The Winslow Most Likely to Speak Her Mind and The Winslow Most Likely to Fall Asleep in Church.

3. Sebastian's uncle is the Earl of Newbury, and if he dies without siring an heir, Sebastian inherits everything.

4. Lord Newbury detests Sebastian and will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening.

5. Lord Newbury has decided that Annabel is the answer to all of his problems.

6. Annabel does not want to marry Lord Newbury, especially when she finds out he once romanced her grandmother.

7 is shocking, 8 is delicious, and 9 is downright wicked, all of which lead the way to

10. Happily. Ever. After.

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly’s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories.

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book . . . The Book of Lost Things.

An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly’s latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.

It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings — his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter.

Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us.

Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.

Fashion-crazy Sicilee is a poster child for over-consumption. Her archrival, Maya, wears arty vintage clothes but hasn't a clue what's in the food she eats. So when drop-dead gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot sets out to spread his eco-ways--and spur the Environmental Club toward an all-out Earth Day bash--Sicilee and Maya have their work cut out to attract his attention. What if Sicilee trades her fur boots for walking shoes (even if she can't find the school when she's not inside a car)? What if Maya dresses in plastic bottles and bags to preach in front of the supermarket (until security is called)? Or could it be that Cody isn't all he' s cracked up to be, and that saving the planet really is more important than impressing a boy? With her trademark quick-fire wit, Dyan Sheldon shows just what girls will do for love--and what earth-changing realizations they might have along the way.

From Booker-shortlisted Irish author, two families living the dream in small town America are forced to confront their guilty secrets in the aftermath of a shocking death.

This is just after the financial crash — people are beginning to discover the depth of the mess and all of a sudden the American dream is beginning to look tawdry. Michael Collins’s bravura novel begins with a spectacular death on a highway as a woman choses to drive off a bridge into a lake rather than face the reality of a recent cancer diagnosis.

It soon emerges that the cancer diagnosis is not the only secret the woman has been hiding. When her husband dies soon after, the real nature of an apparently happy marriage is inexorably exposed, adultery, lies, corruption, the list goes on, and the couple’s son Norman has to somehow make sense of it all.

Norman finds the life he has carefully constructed for himself decompose, and in the process mirrors the need for realignment that the greater world also has to face. He makes the unexpected discovery of the real treasures of life; in Norman’s case, love, and a brother he never imagined existed.

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, the incomparable Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who we are and what we are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite our errors and depredations.

Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her novels, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, and in her new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern predicament and the mysteries of faith. These seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life. Whether she is investigating how the work of the great thinkers of the past, Calvin, Locke, Bonhoeffer-and Shakespeare-can infuse our lives, or calling attention to the rise of the self-declared elite in American religious and political life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on display. Exquisite and bold, The Givenness of Things is a necessary call for us to find wisdom and guidance in our cultural heritage, and to offer grace to one another.

This highly stylized novel tells the story of one very fractured family from the southernmost tip of India. Here is an unhappy family unhappy in its own way, and through flashbacks and flashforwards The God of Small Things unfolds the secrets of these characters' unhappiness. First-time novelist Arundhati Roy twists and reshapes language to create an arresting, startling sort of precision. The average reader of mainstream fiction may have a tough time working through Roy's prose, but those with a more literary bent to their usual fiction inclinations should find the initial struggle through the dense prose a worthy price for this lushly tragic tale.

Rahel and Estha are fraternal twins whose emotional connection to one another is stronger than that of most siblings:

Esthappen and Rahel thought of themselves together as Me, and separately, individually as We or Us. As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities.

Now, these years later, Rahel has a memory of waking up one night giggling at Estha's funny dream.

She has other memories too that she has no right to have.

Their childhood household hums with hidden antagonisms and pains that only family members can give one another.

Blind Mammachi, the twins' grandmother and founder of Paradise Pickles & Preserves, is a violin-playing widow who suffered years of abuse at the hands of her highly respected husband, and who has a fierce one-sided Oedipal connection with her son, Chacko. Baby Kochamma, Rahel and Estha's grandaunt, nurses deep-seated bitterness for a lifetime of unrequited love, a bitterness that plays out slyly against everyone in the family; in her youth she fell in love with an Irish Roman-Catholic priest and converted to his faith to win him, while he eventually converted to Hinduism. Chacko, divorced from his English wife and separated from his daughter since her infancy, runs the pickle factory with a capitalist's hand, self-deluding himself all the while that he is a Communist at heart even as he flirts with and beds his female employees. Ammu, the twins' mother, is a divorcee who fled her husband's alcoholism and impossible demands, a woman with a streak of wildness that the children sense and dread and that will be her and her family's undoing.

The family's tragedy revolves around the visit of Chacko's ex-wife, widowed by her second husband, and his daughter, Sophie Mol. It is within the context of their visit that Estha will experience the one horrible thing that should never happen to a child, during their visit that Ammu will come to love by night the man the children love by day, and during their visit that Sophie Mol will die. Her death, and the fate of the twins' beloved Untouchable Velutha, will forever alter the course of the lives of all the members of the family, sending them each off on spinning trajectories of regret and pain. The story reveals itself not in traditional narrative order, but in jumps through time, wending its way through Rahel's memories and attempts at understanding the hand fate dealt her family.

The God of Small Things has been favorable reviewed all over the place, generating a lot of excitement in the current literary establishment. What you think of it will depend heavily on your opinion of Roy's prose style – is it ostentatious, or is it brilliant? Whether or not you fall in love with her style, the truth of the heartbreaking story she tells and the lovable/hate-able characters who people it make this novel an experience not to be missed.

A witty and irresistible story of a mother and daughter regarding each other through the looking glass of time, grief, and forgiveness.

In two beautifully counterpoised narratives, two women — mother and daughter — try to make sense of their own lives by revisiting what they know about each other. The History of Great Things tells the entwined stories of Lois, a daughter of the Depression Midwest who came to New York to transform herself into an opera star, and her daughter, Elizabeth, an aspiring writer who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s in the forbidding shadow of her often-absent, always larger-than-life mother. In a tour de force of storytelling and human empathy, Elizabeth chronicles the events of her mother’s life, and in turn Lois recounts her daughter’s story — pulling back the curtain on lifelong secrets, challenging and interrupting each other, defending their own behavior, brandishing or swallowing their pride, and, ultimately, coming to understand each other in a way that feels both extraordinary and universal.

The History of Great Things is a novel about a mother and daughter who are intimately connected and not connected enough; it will make readers laugh and cry and wonder how we become the adults we always knew we should — even if we’re not always adults our parents understand.

Traditionally loved and accepted by all Christians, the King James Version was the first version of Scripture authorized by the Protestant church. Commissioned by England’s King James I, three panels of scholars drew upon the work of early translators and versions of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts available at that time. Purpose in translation was "to deliver God's book unto God's people in a tongue which they can understand." Timeless treasure.

In 1603 James I, already king of Scotland, ascended to the throne of England. He was presented with a petition containing grievances of the Puritan party. A conference was called at Hampton Court in 1604 to hear the complaints. At this conference Dr. John Reynolds, an Oxford scholar and Puritan leader, raised the subject of the imperfections of available Bibles. King James became interested in the idea of a new translation completed by university scholars, reviewed by bishops, and ratified by King James himself. James was displeased with the Geneva Bible, which he felt undermined the theory of divine right of kings and contained marginal notes that made it unacceptable to church leaders.

King James appointed 6 panels of translators (about 50 men) to revise and translate assigned portions of the Old Testament, Apocrypha (which was at the time included in all Bibles), and the New Testament. The completed work was reviewed by a group of 12, consisting of 2 men from each panel, after which the work was sent to bishops and leading churchmen for approval. Among the translators were some of the finest scholars of the day. The revisers/translators, while not paid for their efforts, were granted free room and board.

The Bishops’ Bible was used as the basis for this revision/translation, but it was also examined in the light of Hebrew and Greek documents, as well as compared with all other contemporary translations in various European languages. The work began in 1607, and in 1611 the new Bible was published. The Authorized Version — commonly referred to in America as the King James Version (KJV) — was dedicated to King James.

The AV was printed three times during the year of initial publication. The early editions contained a significant number of misprints and variations in wording and spelling. During the course of time the spelling in the earlier editions was modified, the chapter summaries were reduced, and the marginal references expanded. Revisions were made in 1613, 1629, and 1638, but it was the revisions made at Cambridge in 1762 and at Oxford in 1769 that modernized its spelling so that it may be read with relative ease in our day.

Trustworthy: It was developed by a committee of scholars and it represented a majority point of view. The scholars were able to build on the labors of many generations of Bible translators, and the revisers were able to draw from the recent growth in literary standards in the English language. The result was a work of excellent English prose.

But far greater than the literary significance has been the religious significance of this translation. The KJV has been the standard translation for millions for several hundred years. Despite its merits, however, the KJV would not remain unchallenged forever. Not only did the English language continue to develop, but early manuscripts of the Bible were discovered that have led to great improvement of the Biblical texts, especially in the Greek New Testament.

Claudio Fratta is a garden designer at the height of his career; a naturally solitary man, a tender, playful companion to his nephews, and a considerate colleague. But under his amiable exterior simmers a quiet rage, and a desire to punish the Mafioso who bankrupted his father and ruined his family. And when an enigmatic, alluring woman becomes entangled in Claudio's life after a near-fatal car crash, his desire for her draws him ever closer to satisfying that long-held fantasy of revenge.

Adaptability is a very useful trait—but taking it to the limit requires another as well!

The Wild Things — based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control.

Основой трехтомного собрания сочинений знаменитого аргентинского писателя Л.Х.Борхеса, классика ХХ века, послужили шесть сборников произведений мастера, часть его эссеистики, стихи из всех прижизненных сборников и микроновеллы – шедевры борхесовской прозыпоздних лет.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things Fall Apart ; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

—W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Things I Don't Want to Know is a brilliantly insightful longform essay by Deborah Levy.

'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.

'In her powerful rejoinder to Orwell, Deborah Levy responds to his proposed motives for writing — 'sheer egoism', 'aesthetic enthusiasm', 'historical impulse' and 'political purpose' — with illuminating moments of autobiography. A vivid, striking account of a writer's life, which feminises and personalises Orwell's blunt assertions' Spectator

'An up-to-date version of 'A Room of One's Own'. . I suspect it will be quoted for many years to come' Irish Examiner

'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of numerous highly praised books including The Unloved, Swallowing Geography and Beautiful Mutants, all of which are now published by Penguin. Her novel Swimming Home was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize.

From one of the finest short-story writers in Spanish, this is the first anthology of his work to appear in English. Like Anton Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield, Medardo Fraile is a chronicler of the minor tragedies and triumphs of ordinary life, and each short tale opens up an entire exquisite world.

This is an extremely funny online book, which talks about differences between a man and a woman. The author also has a paper book with the same title, but nothing in the book has ever appeared online, so they are completely different.

Things You Should Know is a collection of dazzling stories by one of the most talented and daring young American writers. Homes' distinctive narratives demonstrate how extraordinary the ordinary can be. A woman pursues an unconventional strategy for getting pregnant; a former First Lady shows despair and courage in dealing with her husband's Alzheimer's; a teacher's list of 'things you already should know but maybe are a little dumb, so you don't' becomes an obsession for someone wasn't at school the day it was given out; and adult tragedy intrudes into a childhood friendship. The stories are full of magic and strangeness and humour, but also demonstrate an uncanny emotional accuracy and compassion.

When a former sixties radical is murdered during a string of random sniper attacks, the All Souls Legal Cooperative must settle his surprisingly large estate. Then private investigator Sharon McCone comes across a new will, made just days before he died, that disinherits his two children in favor of four unknown and unconnected parties. McCone sifts through Perry Hilderly's belongings, but finds little to explain this puzzling change – until she uncovers a.357 with the serial number burned off.

As McCone tracks down the new beneficiaries she discover that the shootings aren't so random after all and that the dead man isn't the only one with a lurid past. To link the heirs to the killings, she must follow a treacherous trail of evidence that travels from the Vietnam years to the present. But along the way the elusive sniper waits in a homicidal rage and takes aim – this time at All Souls and Sharon McCone.

In the alleys of the decrepit Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, fairy prostitutes are turning up dead. The crime scenes show signs of residual magic, but the Guild, which polices the fey, has more "important" crimes to investigate and dumps the case on human law enforcement.

Boston police call in Connor Grey, a druid and former hotshot Guild investigator-whose magical abilities were crippled after a run-in with a radical environmentalist elf. As Connor battles red tape and his own shortcomings, he realizes that the murders are not random, but part of an ancient magical ritual. And if Connor can't figure out the killer's M.O., the culmination of the spell might just bring about a worldwide cataclysm.

A wild, erotic novel — a daring debut — from the much-admired, award-winning poet, author of Flying Inland, A History of Yearning, and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others. A strange, haunting novel about survival and love in all its forms; about sexual awakenings and dark secrets; about European refugee intellectuals who have fled Hitler’s armies with their dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) “can do, will do” world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its half-broken souls — and us — to another realm of the senses.

The setting: the early 1940s, New York — city of refuge, city of hope, with the specter of a red-hot Europe at war.

At the novel’s center: Anna (known as the Rat), an exotic Hungarian countess with the face of an angel, beautiful eyes, and a seraphic smile, with a passionate intelligence, an exquisite ugliness, and the power to enchant. . Her second cousin Herbert, a former minor Austrian civil servant who believes in Esperanto and the international rights of man, wheeling and dealing in New York, powerful in the social sphere yet under the thumb of his wife, Adeline. . Michael, their missing homosexual son. . Felix, a German pediatrician who dabbles in genetic engineering, practicing from his Upper East Side office with his little dachshund, Schatzie, by his side. . The Tolstoi String Quartet, four men and their instruments, who for twenty years lived as one, playing the great concert halls of Europe, escaping to New York with their money sewn into the silk linings of their instrument cases. .

And watching them all: Herbert’s eight-year-old granddaughter, Maria, who understands from the furtive fear of her mother, and the huddled penury of their lives, and the sense of being in hiding, even in New York, that life is a test of courage and silence, Maria witnessing the family’s strange comings and goings, being regaled at night, when most are asleep, with the intoxicating, thrilling stories of their secret pasts. . of lives lived in Saint Petersburg. . of husbands being sent to the front and large, dangerous debts owed to the Tsar of imperial Russia, of late-night visits by coach to the palace of the Romanovs to beg for mercy and avoid execution. . and at the heart of the stories, told through the long nights with no dawn in sight, the strange, electrifying tale of a pact made in desperation with the private adviser to the Tsar and Tsarina — the mystic faith healer Grigory Rasputin (Russian for “debauched one”), a pact of “companionship” between Anna (the Rat) and the scheming Siberian peasant — turned — holy man, called the Devil by some, the self-proclaimed “only true Christ,” meeting night after night in Rasputin’s apartments, and the spellbinding, unspeakable things done there in the name of penance and pleasure. .

Jon Michaels — a divorced, disinterested and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London — receives a sudden phone call from his brother, informing him that their estranged uncle Rey has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey Island. Recently sacked from his job, carrying a hangover from hell and craving some sort of escape, Jon reluctantly agrees to spend the week on the island to sort through his uncle’s belongings.

Haunting, modern and utterly compelling, Vulgar Things follows Jon as he unearths a disturbing family secret while losing himself in the strangely alluring landscape. Vulgar Things is a novel about love, longing and being lost. It’s about desire, the sea, big skies and nothingness. It's about money and how much we'll dirty our hands to get it. But, above all, it’s about how a chance meeting with a mysterious person can change your life forever.

Популярные отечественные авторы представляют новое направление в фантастике – альтернативная география!

Антарктида – суровый ледяной материк на самом краю света, мало интересующий мировые державы. Но если неведомый катаклизм перебросит ее в тропические широты, желающих включить новые земли в сферу своих жизненных интересов будет хоть отбавляй. Особенно если пьяные российские полярники шутки ради бросят вызов всему мировому сообществу и провозгласят независимую Антарктическую республику…

(из предисловия к первому изданию)

Мир сошел с ума?

Нет. Планета Земля сошла с ума!

Антарктида переместилась в центральную часть Тихого океана!

Ученые и политики пребывают в шоке.

Но они еще не знают, что претерпевшие озарение от смеси жары и алкоголя российские антарктологи, в содружестве с антарктологами австралийскими, намерены воспользоваться моментом, дабы обратить Антарктиду в независимое государство.

Как?

Зачем?

И — что потом?

Слушайте.

Антарктида ONLINE!

Последствия непредсказуемы!

Популярные отечественные авторы представляют новое направление в фантастике – альтернативная география!

Антарктида – суровый ледяной материк на самом краю света, мало интересующий мировые державы. Но если неведомый катаклизм перебросит ее в тропические широты, желающих включить новые земли в сферу своих жизненных интересов будет хоть отбавляй. Особенно если пьяные российские полярники шутки ради бросят вызов всему мировому сообществу и провозгласят независимую Антарктическую республику…

Внимание! Данные события разворачиваются в этот самый момент в одном из миров, который здешние аборигены называют Крайним. Поэтому, если выкладка текста вдруг неожиданно прекратится, значит автора этих строк, а по совместительству и ГГ, убил какой-нибудь некромант или злобный тёмный эльф из клана Теней. Про Изгнанников и упоминать не хочется… Очччень опасные товарищи.

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Версия с СИ от 11.03.2011

Быть дочерью богатых родителей совсем не просто, особенно если они контролируют каждый твой шаг, решают с кем тебе дружить и кого любить. Вечный контроль, упрёки и высказывания которые летят в твой адрес, заставляют тебя чувствовать одиночество. Дабы не сойти сума, ты регистрируешься на анонимном сайте знакомств, и всё меняется когда к тебе добавился загадочный "Сокол 431".

Нелюбимая жена, уже совсем взрослая дочь, более не нуждающаяся в его заботе, пустые разговоры, рутина, отчаяние… Свет начал уходить из его глаз. Но желание полюбить заново толкает его на один, казалось бы, нелепый шаг. На сайте знакомств он так и пишет – «ХОЧУ ВЛЮБИТЬСЯ», абсолютно не подозревая, сколько страданий может принести эта новая любовь.

Нелюбимая жена, уже совсем взрослая дочь, более не нуждающаяся в его заботе, пустые разговоры, рутина, отчаяние… Свет начал уходить из его глаз. Но желание полюбить заново толкает его на один, казалось бы, нелепый шаг. На сайте знакомств он так и пишет — «ХОЧУ ВЛЮБИТЬСЯ», абсолютно не подозревая, сколько страданий может принести эта новая любовь.

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Дебютный роман сенсации YouTube Зои Сагг побил все рекорды уже в первую неделю продаж. Было распродано более 78 000 экземпляров. Зои, или Zoella, – популярный блогер и влогер из Великобритании. Ее канал на YouTube насчитывает более 7 млн человек. «Девушка Online» – это анонимный блог пятнадцатилетней Пенни Портер, в котором она делится со своими подписчиками самыми сокровенными мыслями и тайнами своей жизни.  

Нынешние дни…

Привет, Пенни. Ты знала, что Уильям Шекспир – анаграмма к «В орфографии слаб[1]»?

Когда бойфренд Пенни – суперзвезда по имени Ной – приглашает ее в турне по Европе, девушка уже грезит о романтическом ужине близ Эйфелевой башни и веселых прогулках по узким улочкам Рима. Но путешествие оказывается не таким сказочным: плотное расписание Ноя и угрожающие сообщения, которые приходят от ревнивых фанаток, заставляют Пенни задуматься – получится ли у нее привыкнуть к «звездной» жизни? Она скучает по семье, другу Эллиоту и своему блогу «Девушка Online».

Сможет ли у Пенни преодолеть свои страхи и полюбить жизнь «на чемоданах»?

Начало учебного года Пенни встречает в одиночестве: ее бойфренд Ной исчез с радаров, и никто не знает, где он. Девушка решает, что занятия искусством и новые знакомства – лучшее средство, чтобы справиться с хандрой. Она с головой погружается в творчество и много времени уделяет друзьям. Поможет ли это Пенни избавиться от призрака бывшего парня и открыть новую страницу в своей жизни?

В сборник талантливого уральского журналиста и писателя Александра Шорина вошло более шести десятков рассказов, миниатюр иэссе — реалистичных и фантасмагоричных, правдивых и сказочных, лиричных и жёстких.

Разбитые на пять частей («Любовь и не-любовь», «Новые сказки о старом», «Доброе утро, страна!», «У каждого в голове свой таракан» и «Свобода выбора»), они открывают новый мир современной реалистичной прозы – загадочный и странный.

Алиса Залетаева, привыкшая к тому, что у нее всегда есть поклонник, осталась в одиночестве – Сергей Белый стал встречаться с ее подругой Дашей. Алиса поначалу очень расстраивалась и хотела вернуть Белого, а потом решила, что свет клином на нем не сошелся. Вскоре у Алисы появилось новое увлечение – on-line-игра и виртуальные друзья.

Но больше всего ей понравилось общаться с Антоном – умным, интересным собеседником. А когда они обменялись фотографиями, Алиса поняла, что хочет познакомиться с ним по-настоящему. Только вот Антон почему-то не спешит назначить ей свидание…

Тридцать дней, которые изменили жизнь двух людей, потерявших веру в отношения, в дружбу, разучившихся доверять кому-либо. В течение месяца эти двое познакомились, встретились, полюбили друг друга и решили связать навсегда свои судьбы…

В своё время Колин Криви принёс в школу колдофотоаппарат. Деннис Криви пошёл ещё дальше, и провёл в Хогвартс интернет. И тут блог Гермионы Грейнджер привлёк внимание Чёрного Принца...

Герберт Уэллс в своей знаменитой «Машине времени» переносил материальные тела, а точнее человека, из настоящего в будущее. В своем рассказе я переношу из прошлого в настоящее… только не человеческое тело, а нечто менее материальное. Напечатан в «Уральском следопыте» № 3,2007 г. и альманахе «Digital романтизм» (Львов, 2007 г., украинская версия)

Новый клиент обратился в агентство «Белый гусь» с необычной просьбой – провести расследование собственной смерти. Правда, чуть позже выяснилось, что убит все-таки не он, а его виртуальный аватар. Персонаж, которым он играет в компьютерную сетевую игру «CleanAge» погиб в сражении с боссом… и бесследно исчез с сервера. Неизвестные злоумышленники стерли Великого Темного Властелина, и теперь игрок, его хозяин и создатель, жаждет мести! Специалист по компьютерным преступлениям Вадька от задания отказываться не стал. Правда, он и представить не мог, к каким нешуточным последствиям приведет расследование чисто виртуального убийства…

Перевод на русский язык документа Proshow Producer Version 4.5 Manual, находящегося в свободном доступе.

Как только к новой компьютерной игре под названием «Найди маньяка-убийцу» был открыт доступ, в реальной жизни произошли убийства, в точности повторившие два первых сценария. Разработчик игры Грейс Макбрайд и ее друзья-интеллектуалы попали в тиски. Если сообщить полиции о связи между игрой и убийствами, это привлечет внимание к их прошлому, которое они хотели бы навсегда стереть из памяти, если не сообщить, то погибнет еще восемнадцать человек.

Я Риса Ригл — ведьма, которая служит в Дозоре и защищает мир от вторжения чудовищ. У меня проблемы с напарником, мне не везет в любви, и проблемы растут как снежный ком.

А я Никеа Лавейская — аристократка из старинного клана вампиров, вынужденная бежать из родного дома куда глаза глядят, спасаясь от ненавистного брака. И не знающая сегодня, что будет завтра.

Каждая из нас идет своей дорогой, но цепочка событий и подстерегающая опасность сведут нас вместе. И тогда…

Твой совет направит меня по пути…

Твои слова вселят в меня уверенность…

Ведь нет ничего невозможного, если есть друг!

Участники Игры среди нас! Неведомые демиурги вербуют одиноких неудачников, снабжают их внеземными гаджетами и наделяют кое-какими способностями, а затем помещают в любой российский мегаполис и… Чистильщику даётся несколько дней на миссию. Если он её выполнит, то повысит свой статус. Вот только ему будет мешать Чёрный, который может и убить. (Это не ЛитРПГ, а РеалРПГ)

Курт Страйкер — получеловек-полузверь. Он Волк, прирожденный убийца. Он одержим жаждой мести, но его используют в своих интересах. Орден Черепа — могущественный гангстерский клан, чей предводитель мечтает о господстве во всем Мегаполисе, и «Всадники апокалипсиса» — противоборствующая группировка. Два титана обречены на столкновение. Страйкеру, оказавшееся в эпицентре тайной и жестокой войны между преступными кланами, предстоит уничтожить главу «Всадников», о котором известно лишь то, что он обитает не в обычной реальности, а в киберпространстве и будто бы почти неуязвим… Почти.