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Автор: Van Allsburg Chris
Название: The Wreck of the Zephyr 30th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 0544050053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544050051
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Цена: 18380.00 T
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In 1983, beloved Caldecott-winning illustrator, Chris Van Allsburg, first invited readers to peer over the edge of a cliff to consider the wreck of a small sailboat. Had a churning sea carried the Zephyr up in a storm? Could waves ever have been so impossibly high? And what of the boy who had believed--dared to chase the wind--no matter where it lead?

The winds have shifted once again and you're invited back to the wreck of the Zephyr, to hear the story of the boy and his obsession to become the world's greatest sailor, and a storm that carried them to a place where boats sail on the wind, instead of on the water.

Told in spare text and haunting, full-color pastels, Chris Van Allsburg's spectral sailboats once again take impossbile flight. In illustrations so vivid one can feel the whisper of wind and hear the flutter of canvas, depart this world for another to entertain the marvelous possibility of dreams.

This 30th anniversary gift edition includes a bonus digital audio file to download, read by Chris Van Allsburg, and a stunning new jacket

Автор: Frank Zephyr, Zephyr Frank
Название: Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 0804757445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804757447
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand literature. By focusing on the theme of social integration through the novels of Jos? de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Aluisio Azevedo, the author draws the reader's attention to the way characters are caught between conflicting moral imperatives as they encounter the newly mobile, capitalist, urban society, so different from the slave-based plantations of the past. Some characters grow and triumph in this setting; others are defeated by it. Though literature infuses this social history of 19th-century Rio, it is replete with maps, graphs, non-fiction sources, and statistical data and analysis that are the historian's stock-in-trade. By connecting a literary understanding of the social problems with the quantitative data traditional historical methods provide, Frank creates a richer and deeper understanding of society in 19th-century Rio.

Автор: Joseph Colwell
Название: Zephyr of Time: Meditations on Time and Nature
ISBN: 0996222219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996222211
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Цена: 13750.00 T
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Автор: Lieber D.
Название: Conjuring Zephyr
ISBN: 1732832358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732832350
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Цена: 14960.00 T
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Centuries after a ragtag group of scientists and their believers took refuge unground, humans have far surpassed their hopes of mere survival. Terrenus is now a prosperous civilization, where manners, polite society, and well-ordered magic reign.

Kai Stephenson has always been dangerously curious, and it has always landed her in trouble. Stifled by the expectations of what is good and proper for a young lady, she has never outgrown her unruly, bold ideas.

Determined to prove her magical theory, she enrolls in the most prestigious magic university in Terrenus, rather than the finishing school her parents think they are sending her to.

The fact that she must masquerade as a man to attend the all-men's college seems only a minor inconvenience, at first. But in a society with strict rules on how the sexes interact, Kai's inexperience leaves her entirely unprepared.

Автор: Terry Teachout
Название: Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
ISBN: 1592407498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781592407491
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 18390.00 T
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Описание: A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century--and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world's most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style. He wrote some fifteen hundred compositions, many of which, like "Mood Indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady," remain beloved standards, and he sought inspiration in an endless string of transient lovers, concealing his inner self behind a smiling mask of flowery language and ironic charm.

As the biographer of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the public and private lives of Duke Ellington. Duke peels away countless layers of Ellington's evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, "All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke."

Автор: Tolson R. J.
Название: Zephyr the West Wind Illustration Book: The Art of the Chaos Chronicles, Volume 1
ISBN: 0990329933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990329930
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Цена: 16090.00 T
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Описание: See the world and characters of Zephyr The West Wind in a blast of color This art book contains vibrant illustrations of events and characters from award-winning author R.J. Tolson's first book in the Chaos Chronicles fantasy series, Zephyr the West Wind. Interpreted by Universal Kingdom Print artists, the book features art from events throughout the entire book, as well as an annotated illustration guide and a sneak preview of Tolson's upcoming manga spin-off adaptation, "True Life, Legends of Tye".