Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small
Enter a vanished world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren`t trusted not to steal the There`s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son`s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from college, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they`d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to
ISBN: 978-0-425-23398-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A struggling writer and a computer with a mind of its own fight for control of the writer`s story and destiny. When Frank Wormold buys a computer to help him with his writing, he gets a lot more help than he wants. The ensuing battle of wills between himself and the computer makes Frank realise what the important things in life really are.
ISBN: 0-521-65615-X
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A struggling writer and a computer with a mind of its own fight for control of the writer`s story and destiny. When Frank Wormold buys a computer to help him with his writing, he gets a lot
ISBN: 978-0-521-79491-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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...
ISBN: 5-8370-0016-X
Издательство:
Лимбус Пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2003
Dans une chambre d’hôpital, une jeune femme se réveille péniblement. Elle ne sait ni qui elle est, ni pourquoi son corps la fait autant souffrir: sa mémoire est comme effacée. À son chevet, Karter, son compagnon, effondré, lui apprend qu’on l’a agressée, puis violée. Dès sa sortie, Emma, assaillie par des flashs terrifiants, tente de reconstituer le puzzle de sa vie. Qui l’a agressée alors qu’elle attendait un enfant? Quel grand malheur a mis un terme à sa carrière? Et pourquoi le silence la sépare-t-il de son père depuis toutes ces années? Bribe par bribe, les souvenirs ressurgissent, sans apporter compréhension ni réconfort. Emma croise...
ISBN: 978-2-253-12236-4
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Raised on the blues, James Marshall Hendrix exploded onto the international stage in 1967 fronting his own Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. The world had seen nothing like him before: a wild-haired, blues-rocking, singer-songwriter whose southpaw guitar-playing talent and showmanship captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Wowing fans and critics alike, Hendrix took blues-rock to previously unheard heights creating a unique sound filled with amplified distortions, wild feedback and liquid solo riffs. His live performances became legendary, hallmarked with teeth-playing antics and guitar-burning rituals, while his personal life followed an equally fascinating and destructive path. Dead at just 27 Hendrix became the poster boy for...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1756-0
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2010
In 1955, Henri Cartier-Bresson published "The Europeans", a portrait of the continent documenting a landscape shadowed by the war. In this book, the photographer brings together images spanning the years from the late 1920`s to the early 1970`s. He has travelled across Europe, from the Scandinavian shield to the Irish bogs, in order to capture what it means to be European. Beyond nationalism and the particular characteristics of each culture and nation, he has found evidence of a greater identity, a likeness shared by the people and the landscape. His photographs seek to speak of the same daily ceremony, of the ongoing business of living for people across Europe, whether Polish priests in alb or cassock, or Abruzzi peasants shrouded in...
ISBN: 978-0-500-28122-2
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s record of his lifelong fascination with India contains the very best of his photographs of that country, images shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their empathy and ability to get to the heart of the matter. The first pictures were taken in 1947 at the time of Independence; the last when the photographer was well into his eighties. Cartier-Bresson’s talent, his famous ‘mantle of invisibility’ and his good connections with such figures as Nehru and the Mountbattens allow him to portray all the contradictions and variety of India. Much space is given to his famous reportages, such as the astonishing sequence on the death and cremation of Gandhi, and the refugee camps that formed following the...
ISBN: 978-0-500-27712-6
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Produced over six visits to India, from 1947 through the early 80s, these dramatic images are shaped by an eye and mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and graphic honesty. Cartier-Bresson`s pictures of refugee camps after the partition speak with the same passion as those of the Maharaja of Barodea`s birthday celebration. This seminal artist`s extraordinary gift of observation and his connections to the leaders of post-colonial India inform all these photographs, revealing the essence of a country that has long captured the world`s imagination. Author Biography: Born in 1908, Henri-Cartier Bresson studied painting in the late 1920s and committed himself to photography in the early 1930s. In 1947 he founded the photography agency...
ISBN: 0-8212-2735-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
This fresh edition of TASCHEN`s award-winning XXL volume explores Matisse`s gouaches decoupees, produced during the final years of his life. Discover the complete history of these bright, bold cut-outs through rare photographs by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and F. W. Murnau, as well as texts from poets like Louis Aragon, Matisse`s son-in-law Georges Duthuit, and the master himself.
ISBN: 9783836534277
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals - as only a few great artists have done consistently - the richness, the sensibilities, and the varieties of the human experience in the twentieth century. This volume of Aperture`s Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer whose pictures with the new, smaller hand-held cameras and faster films defined the idea of the decisive moment in photography. Cartier-Bresson`s imagery is intimate, but it is also utterly respectful of his subjects. In his wide travels throughout the world, he has captured universal meanings through the glimpses into the lives of individuals in scores of countries. Each photograph is in itself a masterpiece of dramatic form; taken together, Cartier-Bresson`s...
The drawings that Matisse produced in the mid-1930s were those he valued as amongst his very greatest achievements. And finely reproduced as they are here, they astonish, delight and seduce everyone who sees them by their verve, their audacity and their voluptuousness. Made in pen and ink, admitting of no correction, devoid of shading or hatching they are, as Matisse said of them, ‘the most direct expression of my emotion.’ These portraits and drawings of models reclining in and against profusely patterned textiles and ornamented backgrounds, are miracles of pure line, of fluid arabesques seemingly spontaneous and free, yet rationally controlled to embody the height of exoticism and sensuality. The naked and clothed models, mirrors,...
Focusing on one of Matisse`s greatest bodies of work and his last artistic creations, this flexi edition of essays and reproductions provides scholarship on this important period.
ISBN: 978-3-7913-3473-8
Издательство:
Prestel
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Shakespeare`s history of Henry V`s remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Ironically these qualities are brought to the fore by the realities of war. Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, Henry V told the British people that with strong leadership, they had little to fear at a time of uncertainty.
ISBN: 978-1-907360-11-4
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Henry V on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete text of the original play; A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language; A complete list of characters with descriptions; Plenty of helpful commentary.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `The better part of valour is discretion`. King Henry IV`s son, Prince Harry is quick-witted yet idle and irresponsible and lives a roguish existence keeping dubious company. However, when the kingdom is threatened, Prince Harry shows his true worth and heroism and begins a journey of transformation from layabout to noble leader.
ISBN: 978-0-00-790230-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
