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Автор: Walker, Wallace G. Schattschneider, Doris
Название: M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles (Va)
ISBN: 3836583690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836583695
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: Intricate patterns and mind-boggling graphics are trademarks of the fascinating creations of M.C. Escher. This set puts his magical visual world right at your fingertips with 17 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures, transforming his repeating patterns into three-dimensional polyhedra, while the book reviews the geometric principles and artistic...

Автор: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Название: Team of Rivals
ISBN: 0141043725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141043722
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Offers a study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history. This title offers Barack Obama the model for his presidency, showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest rival to key cabinet positions.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Making of the Representative for Planet 8, The
ISBN: 0006547184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547181
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle `Canopus in Argos: Archives`.

Автор: Mellins Thomas, Albrecht Donald
Название: Doris Duke`s Shangri-La: A House in Paradise: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art
ISBN: 0847838951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847838950
Издательство: Rizzoli
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Описание: This inspiring book accompanies the first traveling exhibition about Doris Duke's estate Shangri La and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu's Diamond Head, Shangri La was the idyllic paradise of philanthropist Doris Duke, reflecting her personal passion for the art, architecture, and design of the Islamic world. The estate incorporates unique architectural features, such as carved marble doorways, jalis, and floral ceramic tiles, and the decor includes artifacts, such as silk textiles, jewel-toned chandeliers, and gilt and coffered ceilings, many collected during her travels. This volume presents an exclusive tour of Shangri La's breathtaking interiors and landscape, including the splendid furnishings and art. Archival photographs of Duke and friends as well as correspondence and drawings provide a view into a lifestyle defined by the highest sense of aesthetics. Doris Duke's Shangri La is sure to inspire both art and design lovers.

Автор: Goodwin Doris Kearns
Название: Leadership: In Turbulent Times
ISBN: 1476795932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476795935
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 14550.00 T
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Описание: The New York Times bestselling book about the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin "should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country, and ourselves" (The Washington Post).

"After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians" (USA TODAY). In her "inspiring" (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely--Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)--to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope.

Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

"If ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is now" (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. "Goodwin's volume deserves much praise--it is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just in time" (The Boston Globe).

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Temptation of Jack Orkney, The
ISBN: 0006548075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006548072
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The grande dame of English literature -- one of her finest short story collections, beautifully repackaged Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and 'rather literary', share a shocking flaw, a secret 'cancer'. A young, beautiful woman from a working class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her happily married lover is unobtainable. A dedicated, lifelong rationalist is tempted, after the death of his father, by the comforts of religious belief. In this magnificent collection of stories, which spans four decades, Doris Lessing's unique gift for observation, her wit, her compassion and remarble ability to illuminate the complexities of human life are all remarkably displayed.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Doris lessing stories
ISBN: 1841593168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841593166
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14070.00 T
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Описание: Rich and various in mood and background - the settings range across England and France - these stories powerfully convey the uncompromising insight, intelligence and vision of one of the most ardently admired writers of our time.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: African Stories
ISBN: 1476767157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476767154
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 15330.00 T
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Описание: Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, "African Stories"--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life.
This is Doris Lessing's Africa--where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.
First published in 1965, and out of print since the 1990s, this collection contains much of Ms. Lessing's most extraordinary work. It is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of us--perceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land.
"African Stories" includes every story Doris Lessing has written about Africa: all of her first collection, "This Was the Old Chief's Country"; the four tales about Africa from "Five"; the African stories from "The Habit of Loving" and "A Man and Two Women;" and four stories featured only in this edition.
"African Stories" represents some of Doris Lessing's best work--and is an essential book by one of the twentieth century's most important authors.

Автор: Goodwin Doris Kearns
Название: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 1451688091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451688092
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 16090.00 T
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Описание: Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet.

He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Proper Marriage
ISBN: 0060976632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060976637
Издательство: Daedalus
Цена: 3670.00 T
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Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Summer Before the Dark, The
ISBN: 0586088997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586088999
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The story of a middle-aged woman`s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Sirian Experiments, The
ISBN: 0006547214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547211
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The third in Doris Lessing`s visionary novel cycle "Canopus in Argos: Archives". It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.