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In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination. Dostoevsky is seen obsessively following his stepson's ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim and whether he loved or despised his stepfather

"Весенние потоки" с подзаголовком "Романтический роман в честь ухода великой расы" - второе опубликованное произведение Хемингуэя - чудесно пародирует темы и стили "великой расы" писателей его поколения • В маленькие городки Мичигана приходит весна, но землю все еще покрывает снег, когда Скриппс О`Нил отправляется в Чикаго, решает ненадолго остановиться в Петоски и встречается с Йоги Джонсоном. Их причудливые истории - блестящая сатира на обычную художественную литературу. Персонажи, с которыми они встречаются, абсурдны и в то же время странно знакомы. Короткая, динамичная, забавная "Весенние потоки" проливает свет на более поздние работы Хемингуэя - и читать ее одно удовольствие. Здесь мы можем наблюдать развивающийся талант одного из величайших романистов двадцатого века

На сегодняшней мировой арене одна правительница стоит особняком. Королева Елизавета II повидала мир и людей больше, чем любой другой глава государства, и общалась с ними так, как ни один другой монарх в истории Великобритании. С момента своей коронации она посетила более 130 стран по всему постоянно меняющемуся земному шару, выступая в качестве дипломата, государственного деятеля, первопроходца и миротворца • Она превратила старую империю своего отца в Содружество, свою "семью наций", и узнала ее лидеров лучше, чем кто-либо другой. В 2018 году все они соберутся в ее собственном доме, чтобы одобрить ее старшего сына, принца Уэльского, в качестве ее преемника • Имея широкий доступ к семье и персоналу королевы, в книге "Королева мира" Роберт Хардман рассказывает правдивую историю, полную драмы, интриг, экзотических и даже опасных ситуаций, героев, пышности и гламура - и в центре всего этого женщина, которая по-настоящему завоевала сердца всего мира

Тэсс - невинная юная девушка. По крайней мере, она была невинной, пока не навестила своих богатых родственников из рода Д`Эрбервиллей. Знакомство с манипулятором Алеком, её кузеном, толкает бедняжку на путь, на котором её ждут страдания и предательство. Отношения с другим мужчиной по имени Энджел Клэр - её шанс оставить прошлое позади. Но сначала ей придётся раскрыть перед любимым свою постыдную тайну • "Тэсс из рода Д`Эрбервиллей" - один из самых известных романов Томаса Гарди • Книга на английском языке • Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich "relatives", the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret

Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century —and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian of his times, as well as a brilliant novelist, and in Memoirs of a Revolutionary he devotes all his passion and genius to describing this extraordinary—and exemplary—career. Serge tells of his upbringing among exiles and conspirators, of his involvement with the notorious Bonnot Gang and his years in prison, of his role in the Russian Revolution, and of the Revolution’s collapse into despotism and terror. Expelled from the Soviet Union, Serge went to Paris, where he evaded the KGB and the Nazis before fleeing to Mexico. Memoirs of a Revolutionary recounts a thrilling life on the front lines of history and includes vivid portraits not only of Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin but of countless other figures who struggled to remake the world

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others • George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep - who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority, is one of the most famous warnings ever written • Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot due to its daringly open criticism of Stalin, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point

The cofounder of LinkedIn offers a revolutionary new blueprint for thriving in today's fractured world of work • From the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn and author Ben Casnocha comes a revolutionary new book on how to apply the strategies of successful entrepreneurship to your career: in other words, how to run the 'start-up of you' • In a world where wages are virtually stagnant, creative disruption is rocking every industry, global competition for jobs is fierce, and job security is a thing of the past, we're all on our own when it comes to our careers. In the face of such uncertainty, the key to success is to think and act like an entrepreneur: to be nimble and self-reliant, to be innovative, and to know how to network and stand out from the crowd

From the creator of hit podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat comes a revolutionary re-envisioning of how to enjoy your job • Do you want to get more done, feel less stressed and love your job again? • Sometimes having a job can feel like hard work. But between Monk Mode mornings, silent meetings and crisp Thursdays, the solutions are at your fingertips • Bruce Daisley knows a thing or two about the workplace. In the course of a career that has taken him from some of the world's biggest media companies to Twitter, via Google and YouTube, he has become a leading expert on how we work now. And in his hugely popular podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has explored ways to fix it. Now he shares 30 brilliant - and refreshingly simple - tips on how to make your job more productive, more rewarding - and much, much more enjoyable

Scrum - это революционный подход к управлению проектами и формированию команды, который помог преобразовать все - от компаний-разработчиков программного обеспечения до вооруженных сил США и здравоохранения в крупных американских больницах. В новой крупной книге "Схватка. Революционный подход к формированию команд, соблюдению сроков и повышению производительности" ее автор Джефф Сазерленд подробно и шаг за шагом объясняет, как она работает - и как ее можно заставить работать для кого угодно и где угодно • Книга на английском языке • Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to healthcare in major American hospitals. In this major new book its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere

There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight

Readers worldwide know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time • In this collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific- he is revealed variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and - as always - the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Whether remembering his first experience of nursery school; puncturing the arrogance of those who think science can best be understood only by other scientists and should be left to them; exploring the origins and the future of the universe; or reflecting on the phenomenon of A Brief History of Time, Stephen's wit, directness of style and absence of pomp are vital characteristics at all times

"The Last Watch" is the stunning sequel to the Night Watch trilogy, following the fortunes of the Others. Indistinguishable from normal people but possessed of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark, or to the Light...While on holiday in Scotland, visiting 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapple with the fact that the cause of the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton - the hero of the Night Watch trilogy - is detailed to this seemingly mundane investigation, but begins to realise that there is much more to the story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder, and discovers that a team of unlicensed Others are hunting for a fabled magical treasure, hidden in the sixth level of the Twilight by Merlin himself