Darkness at Noon, Koestler Arthur

Автор: Koestler, Arthur
Название: Darkness at noon
ISBN: 0099424916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099424918
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason. His reflections on his previous life and his experiences in prison form the heart of this moving and though-provoking masterpiece.

Автор: Koestler Arthur
Название: The Act of Creation
ISBN: 1939438985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939438980
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Цена: 42850.00 T
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Описание: Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help hospitals and health systems achieve increased productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. This revised second edition not only supports current financial and workforce trends in healthcare services, but also introduces new measurement methods.

Автор: Koestler, Arthur
Название: Invisible writing
ISBN: 0099490684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099490685
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Описание: The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler`s volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life.

Автор: Otterman Bernard
Название: Self-Deliverance: The Death and Life of Arthur Koestler
ISBN: 0990674711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990674719
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Цена: 16030.00 T
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Описание: "An earnest...debut novel of ideas. This historical why-dunit...carries some real emotional weight."
- Kirkus Reviews

"Self-Deliverance is a novel that touches upon the historical and fictional/imaginative lives of its fascinating characters. Otterman writes with authority and elegance and this book has it all-desire, love, illness, intrigue, loss. Yet nothing here is gratuitous. The prose is descriptive and lovingly wrought."
- Martha Rhodes, Founding Editor and Director of Four Way Books

Arthur Koestler slouched in his living room armchair, dead with a whiskey glass in his hand. His wife Cynthia was found lying lifeless on the sofa, facing him. Two empty wine glasses, a jar of honey, and an empty bottle of Tuinal-a powerful sedative-stood between them on the coffee table. Double-suicide was suspected, but Westminster Court Coroner Jack Candrel was troubled. Why did Cynthia, twenty-five years younger than Arthur and in good health, kill herself?

A bold work of historical fiction, Self-Deliverance: The Death and Life of Arthur Koestler, explores the circumstances and unexpected consequences of the real-life Koestler suicides. At the heart of the book is a love story, not just of Arthur and his much-younger wife, but of the lead investigator Jack, who's in a long and increasingly loveless marriage, and Kristie, a world-class ballerina and estranged daughter of Arthur Koestler. Rita, the assisting investigator, and Frankel, a journalist looking into the double-suicide, also develop a passionate, yet combustible, affair.

Otterman's work taps into the heart of loneliness, isolation, and the pitfalls of marriage. His book is not so much one of romance, but of the mind games that unfold for the participants. Sex, love, and intimacy take on new meanings as the Koestler investigation deepens-and the role love plays in death and life is unearthed.

Автор: Koestler Arthur
Название: The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage
ISBN: 1939438187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939438188
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Цена: 34320.00 T
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All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire. At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr. Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces detailed research to support a theory which could make the term 'anti-Semitism' become void of meaning.

Автор: Koestler Arthur
Название: Dialogue with Death
ISBN: 1164488775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781164488774
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Автор: Koestler Arthur
Название: Dialogue with Death
ISBN: 1163147303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781163147306
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Цена: 34270.00 T
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Автор: Koestler Arthur
Название: The Case of the Midwife Toad
ISBN: 1939438454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939438454
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Цена: 20830.00 T
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Автор: Koestler Arthur
Название: Darkness at Noon
ISBN: 1982123737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982123734
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Цена: 25750.00 T
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Автор: Koestler, Arthur
Название: Arrival And Departure
ISBN: 0099515415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099515418
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler`s trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psychology.