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В 1982 году, продав свой джаз-бар, чтобы посвятить себя писательству, Мураками начал бегать, чтобы поддерживать себя в форме. Год спустя он прошел одиночный курс от Афин до Марафона, и теперь, после десятков таких забегов, он размышляет о том влиянии, которое спорт оказал на его жизнь и на его творчество • Эти откровенные мемуары, в равной степени состоящие из рассказа о путешествиях, журнала тренировок и воспоминаний, рассказывают о его четырехмесячной подготовке к Нью-Йоркскому марафону 2005 года и о местах, начиная от токийских садов Дзингу Гайен, где он однажды разделял дистанцию с олимпийцем, и заканчивая Чарльз-Ривер в Бостоне • Смешная и отрезвляющая, игривая и философская, она обязательна к прочтению поклонникам этого мастерского, но в то же время закрытого писателя, а также растущему числу спортсменов, которые находят такое же удовлетворение в беге на длинные дистанции

"О чем я говорю, когда говорю о беге" - книга самого знаменитого мастера современной японской литературы, собрание, по его словам, "зарисовок о беге, но никак не секретов здорового образа жизни". С той же фирменной легкостью и недосказанностью, виртуозно балансируя на грани бытового очерка и аллегории, Харуки Мураками фиксирует свои размышления о беге, приобретающем в силу ежедневного повторения "некую медитативную сущность". "Искренне писать о беге, - говорит он, означает искренне писать о самом себе" • Книга на английском языке • In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing

An extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money, We Need To Talk About Money is a vital exploration of stories and issues that will be familiar to most. This is a book about toxic workplaces and misogynist men, about getting payrises and getting evicted. About class and privilege and racism and beauty. About shame and pride, compulsion and fear • In unpicking the shroud of secrecy surrounding money – who has it, how they got it, and how it shapes our lives – this boldly honest account of one woman’s journey upturns countless social conventions, and uncovers some startling truths about our complex relationships with money in the process

The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of suffering and so many other truths in as lyric a fashion as When Memory Dies • Through the viewpoints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from 1920 through the 1980s), Sivanandan explores a culture destroyed first by colonization, then through the ethnic divisions that are released when the country achieves independence • The family, which lives at a level of poverty that makes survival a constant struggle, must also balance love for one another with a deep love of their homeland. Without bending to romanticism or proselytization, the author evokes a compelling and very human story of a lost country

An Artist’s Insights on Art Appreciation • Written by a practicing artist, this book decodes and maps the basic elements of visual art, leading the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation. Not an art history lesson per se, this illustrated guide is rather a tool kit to make the study of art and a visit to the museum truly rewarding. An entertaining and informative read, The Joy of Art offers the reader • A working art vocabulary to help you identify and explain what you’re looking at • Answers to many of the questions you may have about visual art in general • A summary of the basic criteria to consider when looking at art • Highlights of the primary art genres and an introduction to the artists who pursued them • Many visual examples of aesthetic considerations and practices • Interesting facts about your favorite artists and clues to why they made the choices they did • A few games to test your new skills • The Joy of Art contains 150 color photographs and many interesting insights from an artist-author who takes readers behind the curtain and into the studio to uncover what actually goes into making a work of art

The International Bestseller • 'With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to "bad people." In doing so, she moves our national discussions forward. This is a necessary book for all people invested in societal change' Claudia Rankine • Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction • Robin DiAngelo coined the term 'White Fragility' in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy

Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose

"Моя кожа, твоя кожа. Давайте поговорим о расе, расизме и расширении прав и возможностей" - это мощная книга, которая поможет детям и взрослым вести содержательные дискуссии о расе и борьбе с расизмом. Самое главное, книга дает детям возможность быть лучшими версиями самих себя; обладать любовью к себе, самоуважением и самоценностью, независимо от цвета их кожи • Эта книга была специально написана экспертом по раннему развитию и создателем детских МЕДИА Лаурой Генри-Аллейн MBE, чтобы помочь родителям, учителям и опекунам объяснить, что такое расизм, почему это неправильно и что могут сделать дети, если они это увидят или испытают на себе. В нем также исследуется, насколько важно для детей отмечать свои достижения и величие • Книга на английском языке

The comic autobiography of 2014 • A comedian's autobiography? • I wonder if he's ever used humour to deflect from his insecurities? • To avoid being bullied? • Is there heartache behind the humour? • I wonder if he's a manic-depressive? • Tears of a clown? • Yes, all of that • Discover the hilarious life-story of one of Britain's best-loved comedians in Kevin Bridges' brilliant memoir • 'First of all, I have never written a book before, you probably haven't either, so there we have it; a connection is established between reader and writer . . .' • Aged just 17, Kevin Bridges walked on stage for the first time in a Glasgow comedy club and brought the house down. He only had a five-minute set but in that short time he discovered that he really could earn a living from making people laugh