The first book to focus on the relationship between Man Ray and Lee Miller, a volatile love affair that helped shape the course of modern art. Presents rarely seen work by these two major Surrealists, as well as that of other renowned artists in their circle, such as Picasso, Roland Penrose, Dora Maar, and Alexander Calder.
ISBN: 978-1-85894-557-6
Издательство:
Merrell Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"This may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." Los Angeles Times "Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut`s] crankiness is good-humored and [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend." The New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7736-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father`s suspicious death. Kurt doesn`t want to know. But then his friend is found shot dead. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954635-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature`s most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew Lycett, author of the critically acclaimed biography Dylan Thomas, offers the first definitive biography of the baffling Conan Doyle, finally making sense of a long-standing mystery: how the scientifically minded creator of the world`s most rational detective himself succumbed to an avid belief in spiritualism, including communication with the dead. Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Always romantic, energetic, idealistic and upstanding,...
A group of anarchists are under surveillance by Scotland Yard in Chesterton`s hugely popular metaphysical thriller. The Supreme Anarchists Council is dedicated to overthrowing the world order. To keep their identities a secret, each of them has been named a day of the week. Gabriel Syme, an eccentric poet, is recruited by Scotland Yard to infiltrate the group. He tracks down the six men and manages to win a place on the council. But in a bizarre and surreal twist of events, Syme realises that five of the six members are not at all what they
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3886-3
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: май 2012
A brainwashed James Bond has tried - and failed - to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit men in the world: Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his license to kill, 007 is no assassin, and on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides to infiltrate the killer’s criminal cooperative - and realizes that he will have to take him out as swiftly as possible. Otherwise 007 might just be the next on a long list of British Secret Service numbers retired by the Man with the Golden
ISBN: 978-0-14-118873-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of Space for All Mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the
The Man Who Sold the World is a critical study of David Bowie`s most inventive and influential decade, from his first hit, Space Oddity, in 1969, to the release of the LP Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) in 1980. Viewing the artist through the lens of his music and his many guises, the acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett offers a detailed analysis - musical, lyrical, conceptual, social - of every song Bowie wrote and recorded during that period, as well as a brilliant exploration of the development of a performer who profoundly affected popular music and the idea of stardom itself. Dissecting close to 250 songs, Doggett traces the major themes that inspired and shaped Bowie`s career, from his flirtations with fascist imagery and...
From Eric Segal comes an unforgettable story of love....the drama of a father and the son he never knew... And a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all. Man, Woman And Child. Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage... almost perfect. for what Sheila didn`t know was that Bob has once been unfaithful-only once, ten years ago during a business trip to France. What Bob didn`t know was that his brief affair produced a son. Now a tragic accident-and one fateful phone call-will change Bob and Sheila`s life forever...
ISBN: 978-0-553-56235-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2011
Titles in Barrons "Easy Way" series are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide range of subjects and skills. Among them are several language-learning books for beginners. This second edition of "Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way" comes with an audio compact disc that supplements the book, providing pronunciation help and listening comprehension material in the form of spoken dialogues. This book-and-CD combination introduces basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary by dramatizing many true-to-life and often humorous conversational situations in Mandarin Chinese. An introduction to Chinese written characters is presented in the books final chapter.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-9369-9
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
ISBN: 071482755X
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2000
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of `The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay` and `The Yiddish Policemen`s Union`, offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: `Manhood for Amateurs` is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-715041-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
