English garden cities, Miller, Mervyn

Автор: Peake Mervyn
Название: The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
ISBN: 1590207173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590207178
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Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels--Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone-- Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder.

Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake's dazzling drawings.

Автор: Mervyn King
Название: The End of Alchemy
ISBN: 0349140677 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349140674
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The former Governor of the Bank of England argues for fundamental changes to the financial system in order to reduce the risk of a new crisis.

Автор: Peake Mervyn
Название: Titus Groan
ISBN: 0749394927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749394929
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library.

Автор: Peake Mervyn
Название: Letters from a Lost Uncle
ISBN: 0413777138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780413777133
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: Full colour, re-originated edition of a forgotten classic by the author of "Gormenghast". "I am now many miles further to the North-East and am writing from a cave in a gaunt hillside. When Jackson and I sat down to rest we could see our footprints stretching back to the edge of the world..."

Автор: Peake, Mervyn
Название: The Gormenghast Novels
ISBN: 0879516283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780879516284
Издательство: Abrams
Цена: 29430.00 T
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Описание: The trilogy of novels - Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone - comprising Peake's classic fantasy and basis of a major PBS miniseries. A doomed lord, a scheming underling, an ancient royal family plagued by madness and intrigue - these are the denizens of ancient, sprawling, tumbledown Gormenghast Castle. Within its vast halls and serpentine corridors, the members of the Groan dynasty and their master Lord Sepulchrave grow increasingly out of touch with a changing world as they pass their days in unending devotion to meaningless rituals and arcane traditions. Meanwhile, an ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike rises by devious means to the post of Master of the Ritual while he maneuvers to bring down the Groans. Breathtaking in its power and drenched in dark atmosphere, humor and intrigue, The Gormenghast Novels is a classic, one of the great works of 20th century British literature.

Автор: Peake Mervyn
Название: Titus Groan
ISBN: 1585679070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781585679072
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual whose origins are lost in history and the castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern English fiction.

Автор: Taylor, Mervyn
Название: Waving gallery
ISBN: 184861330X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848613300
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Описание: "In The Waving Gallery, Mervyn Taylor continues his poetic journey through the paces of the human predicament. The poems explore the painful and foolish initiations that stumble into an uncharted future where living life becomes a lesson learned early or late, but hopefully on time. Taylor has our undivided attention each time he jumpstarts the characters in his 'waving gallery', from Trinidad to Brooklyn. And they oblige with limbo-bended knees and seasoned back talk. It is Mervyn Taylor's pitch perfect language that makes these poems a welcome that never says goodbye." -Wesley Brown

Автор: Peake, Mervyn
Название: Mr Pye
ISBN: 0099283263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099283263
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island of Sark, his mission to convert the islanders into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. The extraordinary inhabitants of the island range from the formidable Miss George in her purple busby to the wanton, raven-haired Tintagieu, `five foot three inches of sex`.

Автор: Kay John, King Mervyn
Название: Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers
ISBN: 1324004770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324004776
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 24280.00 T
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Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for which historical data provide no useful guidance to future outcomes. Radical uncertainty concerns events whose determinants are insufficiently understood for probabilities to be known or forecasting possible. Before President Barack Obama made the fateful decision to send in the Navy Seals, his advisers offered him wildly divergent estimates of the odds that Osama bin Laden would be in the Abbottabad compound. In 2000, no-one--not least Steve Jobs--knew what a smartphone was; how could anyone have predicted how many would be sold in 2020? And financial advisers who confidently provide the information required in the standard retirement planning package--what will interest rates, the cost of living, and your state of health be in 2050?--demonstrate only that their advice is worthless.

The limits of certainty demonstrate the power of human judgment over artificial intelligence. In most critical decisions there can be no forecasts or probability distributions on which we might sensibly rely. Instead of inventing numbers to fill the gaps in our knowledge, we should adopt business, political, and personal strategies that will be robust to alternative futures and resilient to unpredictable events. Within the security of such a robust and resilient reference narrative, uncertainty can be embraced, because it is the source of creativity, excitement, and profit.

Автор: Peake Mervyn
Название: Book of Nonsense
ISBN: 0720613612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780720613612
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Цена: 10550.00 T
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Описание: Showcasing another quirky side of the author best known for his monumental fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, this collection contains pieces recently discovered by the Peake family From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, Mervyn Peake's nonsense verse can, like marzipan, be enjoyed by young and old alike. This collection of writings and drawings has been selected by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, and it introduces a bewitching gallery of characters and creatures rivalling the best of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear--creatures such as the Dwarf of Battersea and Footfruit. Also included are never-before-seen illustrations to the poems not in previous editions. This treasure trove will delight new and old fans alike with its deceptively goofy, actually quite complex verse--it's quirky and comical, occasionally alarming, but always magical.