The Code for Love and Heartbreak, Cantor Jillian

Автор: Cantor Norman F.
Название: In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
ISBN: 1476797749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476797748
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 13790.00 T
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Описание: A "New York Times" bestseller, "In the Wake of the Plague "is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though rigorously scientific in his approach, Norman F. Cantor has produced an unforgettable narrative that in many ways employs the novelist s skill for storytelling.
The Black Death was the fourteenth century s equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe s population, and irrevocably changed the lives of those who survived. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in a haze of myths.
Here, Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative. By focusing on twenty pivotal figures from the time, Cantor shows the lasting influence the Plague has had on history, culture, and religion.
Professor Cantor s style is easy no jargon. He is far beyond just knowing his period; he understands it and so he can explain, without oversimplifying, the variety and complexity of this great section of the West s past ("The New Yorker")."

Автор: Cantor George
Название: Bad Guys in American History
ISBN: 1493050222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493050222
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Цена: 21110.00 T
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Описание: Complete with photographs of the outlaws and their haunts, this book investigates some of American history`s most infamous acts and informs readers where they happened and how to visit those sites today.

Автор: Cantor Jay
Название: Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka
ISBN: 0385350341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385350341
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15290.00 T
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Описание: From one of our most thought-provoking and admired writers, a brilliant, beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking group of stories based on a circle of real people who are held together by love of their friend Franz Kafka.
The sequence opens with Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, telling us about Kafka and Dora Diamant, their love growing stronger even as Kafka is dying of tuberculosis. Kafka talks with Brod about forgiving the Angel of Death, but Brod wonders if Franz is really talking about Brod's forgiving Kafka for the predicament he's put him in, having instructed Max to prove his love for Franz by burning the work Brod most admires: Franz's unpublished stories.
Next there is a brief interlude--perhaps a lost Kafka story, or is it a story about a lost Kafka story which is perhaps itself masquerading as one of the things that in anger Brod neither burned nor published?
The story that follows tells of Dora's marriage to the militant German Communist Lusk Lask and his attempt to break the hold of the angelic Kafka on his wife's imagination by giving her a daughter. We watch this family in its move to the Soviet Union to escape Hitler, and as Dora and her daughter flee the Soviet Union to escape Stalin, leaving Lusk behind in the Gulag. Later, when Lusk tries to connect with his daughter again, the Angel Kafka seems once again to stand in his way, a force in his daughter's life that seemingly destroys as it sustains.
In the last story we meet Milena Jasenska, another of Kafka's lovers, and Eva, the woman who, after surviving Stalin's camps, meets Milena in a Nazi concentration camp and is reborn in this hell through her love for her, though perhaps trapped there in memory because of that love as well.
By the end, these moving love stories with Kafka as their presiding ghost have told the calamitous story of Europe in the Century of the Camps. Imbued with a gravitas and dark irony that recall Kafka's own work, these stories nonetheless also bear the singular imaginary stamp and the keen psychological and emotional insight that have marked all of Jay Cantor's fiction.

Автор: Ghayour Farhad, Cantor Diego
Название: Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2
ISBN: 1788629698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788629690
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 60070.00 T
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Описание: This book is a complete course on computer graphics covering topics such as rendering, 3D math, lighting, cameras, and much more. It will be your trust-worthy companion in developing immersive experiences with WebGL, a hardware-accelerated technology in the browser without installing additional software.

Автор: Cantor Rachel
Название: Highly Unlikely Scenario
ISBN: 1612192645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612192642
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: "Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound."
--Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It's a boring job, but he likes it--there's a set answer for every scenario, and he never has to leave the house. Except then he starts getting calls from Marco, who claims to be a thirteenth-century explorer just returned from Cathay. And what do you say to a caller like that? Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesn't like it when you go off script.
Meanwhile, Leonard's sister keeps disappearing on secret missions with her "book club," leaving him to take care of his nephew, which means Leonard has to go outside. And outside is where the trouble starts.
A dazzling debut novel wherein medieval Kabbalists, rare book librarians, and Latter-Day Baconians skirmish for control over secret mystical knowledge, and one Neetsa Pizza employee discovers that you can't save the world with pizza coupons.

Автор: Cantor, Jillian
Название: Lost Letter, The Mr-Exp
ISBN: 0735219397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780735219397
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 11030.00 T
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Автор: Cantor Jillian
Название: In Another Time
ISBN: 0062863320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062863324
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11830.00 T
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"Jillian Cantor's In Another Time is a love song to the most powerful of all human emotions: hope. It is the story of Max and Hanna, two star-crossed lovers fighting to stay together during an impossible moment in history. It is gripping, mysterious, romantic, and altogether unique. I was enchanted by this beautiful, heartbreaking novel." -- Ariel Lawhon, author of I Was Anastasia

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II--and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.

1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isn't long before they fall in love and begin making plans for the future. As their love affair unfolds over the next five years, the climate drastically changes in Germany as Hitler comes to power. Their love is tested with the new landscape and the realities of war, not the least of which is that Hanna is Jewish and Max is not. But unbeknownst to Hanna is the fact that Max has a secret, which causes him to leave for months at a time--a secret that Max is convinced will help him save Hanna if Germany becomes too dangerous for her because of her religion.

In 1946, Hanna Ginsberg awakens in a field outside of Berlin. Disoriented and afraid, she has no memory of the past ten years and no idea what has happened to Max. With no information as to Max's whereabouts--or if he is even still alive--she decides to move to London to live with her sister while she gets her bearings. Even without an orchestra to play in, she throws herself completely into her music to keep alive her lifelong dream of becoming a concert violinist. But the music also serves as a balm to heal her deeply wounded heart and she eventually gets the opening she long hoped for. Even so, as the days, months, and years pass, taking her from London to Paris to Vienna to America, she continues to be haunted by her forgotten past, and the fate of the only man she has ever loved and cannot forget.

Told in alternating viewpoints--Max in the years leading up to WWII, and Hanna in the ten years after--In Another Time is a beautiful novel about love and survival, passion and music, across time and continents.

Автор: Cantor Jillian
Название: In Another Time
ISBN: 1432864963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432864965
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 40220.00 T
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Автор: Cantor, Chris
Название: Fisher of souls
ISBN: 191356729X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913567293
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: A historical novel set both in the 14th century and the 20th century

Автор: Cantor, Ellen Gangitano, Lia Hellberg, Fatima Stevens, Jamie
Название: History of the world as it has become known to me
ISBN: 3956793234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783956793233
Издательство: MIT Press
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Цена: 38370.00 T
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