Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Slouching towards bethlehem ISBN: 0008284644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008284640 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Joan Didion`s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.
Автор: Towada Shin Название: Naruto: Sasuke`s Story: Sunrise ISBN: 1421591294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421591292 Издательство: Viz Media Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Sasuke, ally and friend to Naruto and brother to Itachi, hits the road to find the root of the evil Itachi faced in this sequel to Itachi`s story.
Автор: Didion Joan Название: Slouching Towards Bethlehem ISBN: 0374531382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374531386 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem "remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America-- particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. Joan Didion is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry," and "The Year of Magical Thinking." She lives in New York City. Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays--keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district--all reflect how and why things were then, and are now, falling apart in America: "the center cannot hold," as Yeats had warned. An incisive look at contemporary life, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is still admired as a stylistic masterpiece. "Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever," as Joyce Carol Oates noted. "She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control." "A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."--Anne Tyler "In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country."--Dan Wakefield, " The New York Times Book Review" "The story between the lines of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is surely not so much 'California' as it is Joan Didion's] ability to make us share her passionate sense of it."--Alfred Kazin "A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."--Anne Tyler
Contents: I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" "John Wayne: A Love Song" "Where the Kissing Never Stops" "Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)" "7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38" "California Dreaming" "Marrying Absurd" "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" II. PERSONALS "On Keeping a Notebook" "On Self-Respect" "I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind" "On Morality" "On Going Home" III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND "Notes from a Native Daughter" "Letter from Paradise, 21 19' N., 157 52' W" "Rock of Ages" "The Seacoast of Despair" "Guaymas, Sonora" "Los Angeles Notebook" "Goodbye to All That"
Автор: Ginsberg, Allen Название: Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber ISBN: 0241337623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241337622 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2640.00 T Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве. Описание: `Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber.` One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry - all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.
Автор: Rannells Andrew Название: Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood ISBN: 0525574867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525574866 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York CityWith a new afterword - "Candid, funny, crisp . . . honest and tender about lessons of the heart."--Vogue When Andrew Rannells left Nebraska for New York City in 1997, he, like many young hopefuls, saw the city as a chance to break free. To start over. To transform the fiercely ambitious but sexually confused teenager he saw in the mirror into the Broadway leading man of his dreams. In Too Much Is Not Enough, Rannells takes us on the journey of a twentysomething hungry to experience everything New York has to offer: new friends, wild nights, great art, standing ovations. At the heart of his hunger lies a powerful drive to reconcile the boy he was when he left Omaha with the man he desperately wants to be. As Rannells fumbles his way towards the Great White Way, he also shares the drama of failed auditions and behind-the-curtain romances, the heartbreak of losing his father at the height of his struggle, and the exhilaration of making his Broadway debut in Hairspray at the age of twenty-six. Along the way, he learns that you never really leave your past--or your family--behind; that the most painful, and perversely motivating, jobs are the ones you almost get; and that sometimes the most memorable nights with friends are marked not by the trendy club you danced at but by the recap over diner food afterward. Honest and hilarious, Too Much Is Not Enough is an unforgettable look at love, loss, and the powerful forces that determine who we become.
Автор: A. C. Grayling Название: Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West ISBN: 1472532147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472532145 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 16990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - and a struggle - that continues to this day as those in power use the threat of terrorism in the 21st century to roll-back the liberties that so many have fought and died to win for us. Including an appendix of landmark documents, including the British and American Bills of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author reflecting on developments since the book's original publication.
Автор: Bukowski, Charles Название: Slouching Toward Nirvana ISBN: 0060577045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060577049 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 11830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The third of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America’s most imitated and influential poet.
Автор: Frame,Janet Название: Towards another summer ISBN: 1844085090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844085095 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is a novel of exile and return, which Janet Frame felt too autobiographical to be published in her lifetime. It is an exquisite work shot through with tenderness and Frame`s characteristic self-deprecating humour.
Автор: Thomas P Rausch, Rausch Thomas P. Название: Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination ISBN: 0814657354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814657355 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "If Christian hope is reduced to the salvation of the soul in a heaven beyond death," wrote Jurgen Moltmann, "it loses its power to renew life and change the world, and its flame is quenched." Thomas Rausch, SJ, agrees, arguing that too often the hoped-for eschaton has been replaced by an almost exclusive emphasis on the "four last things"-death and judgment, heaven and hell. But eschatology cannot be reduced to the individual salvation.
In his new book, Rausch explores eschatology's intersections with Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and, perhaps most intriguingly, liturgy. With the early Christians, he sees God's future as a radically social reality, already present initially in Christian worship, especially in the celebration of the Eucharist. This fresh and insightful work of theology engages voices both ancient and contemporary.
Автор: Lieven, Dominic Название: Towards the Flame ISBN: 0141399740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141399744 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 12620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin.
After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology, Jacob Taubes spent the early years of his career as a fellow and then professor at various American institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia. During his American years, he also gathered together a number of prominent thinkers at his weekly seminars on Jewish intellectual history. In the mid-60s, Taubes joined the faculty of the Free University in West Berlin, initially as the city's first Jewish Studies professor of the postwar period. But his work and interest expanded beyond the boundaries of the field of Jewish Studies to broader philosophical questions, particularly in the philosophy of religion. A charismatic speaker and a great polemicist, Taubes had a phenomenal ability to create interdisciplinary conversations in the humanities, engaging scholars from philosophy, literature, theology, and intellectual history. The essays presented here represent the fruit of conversations, conferences, and workshops that he organized over the course of his career.
