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Cyrano De Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts: A New Version in English Verse by Brian Hooker

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:00:15 +0000

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:59:01 +0000

Samuel Johnson was a pessimist with an enormous zest for living. It has been said that no one was ever more typically English and it has also been said that he is one of the world’s greatest eccentrics. But no other single trait of his character is quite so striking as the strange combination of deeply pessimistic convictions with an enormous – almost Gargantuan – appetite for learning, for literature, for good company, and for food. The literature surrounding Samuel Johnson is enormous and there is probably no other English man of letters except Shakespeare whom so many people acknowledge as the chief interest in their lives. They not only write books and read papers, they also form clubs, give dinners, stage celebrations, and collect curios.

WINNING WITH THE DRAGON

Wed, 22 May 2024 16:33:46 +0000

The Dragon variation of the Sicilian defence is a devastating weapon in the hands of a well-prepared player. Previous books on the Dragon have emphasized the need to memorize reams of theoretical variations, but instead, in this book, the author suggests a commonsense approach which will cut out much of the need for rote learning. He pinpoints the most critical lines and shows that the Black, contrary to popular belief, actually has quite a wide choice against most systems.

Ticket to Latvia: A Journey from Berlin to the Baltic

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:46:16 +0000

Ticket to Latvia: A Journey from Berlin to the Baltic by Marcus Tanner (Author) Traveling through Eastern Europe just prior to the recent political transformation, the author conveys the character, quirks, and pleasures of the region, as well as the personalities and concerns of its people. Although books about Eastern Europe tend these days to become outdated even as they are being written, the British author’s journey, related with delightfully subtle wit, has period charm. A lone traveler making his way from the Federal Republic across the Berlin Wall to the DDR, on to Prague, Cracow, Riga, Vilnius and Leningrad, Tanner, a one-time Anglican seminarian and now a correspondent in Belgrade, seems not to have detected signs of the ferment about to erupt. He found the mainline DDR folk pronouncedly bourgeois; that the Czechs neither learn nor forget anything; that the Poles are enterprising at fleecing the Western tourist; that in Vilnius and Leningrad, even with Intourist to take over the burden of arranging his accommodations, his hotels proved to be dumps. The main interest in the book, however, is in the history Tanner relates, especially about unfamiliar Lithuania.

Siege and Storm (Shadow and Bone 2)

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:49:31 +0000

Enter the Grishaverse with book two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: Nikolai Lantsov character art and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Alina Starkov’s power has grown, but not without a price. She is the Sun Summoner – hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. But she and Mal can’t outrun their enemies for long. The Darkling is more determined than ever to claim Alina’s magic and use it to take the Ravkan throne. With nowhere else to turn, Alina enlists the help of an infamous privateer and sets out to lead the Grisha army. But as the truth of Alina’s destiny unfolds, she slips deeper into the Darkling’s deadly game of forbidden magic, and further away from her humanity. To save her country, Alina will have to choose between her power and the love she thought would always be her shelter. No victory can come without sacrifice – and only she can face the oncoming storm.

Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone 1)

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:49:28 +0000

Enter the Grishaverse with book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: A lost letter from Mal, The Tailor (a Genya story) and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold – a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed. Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country`s magical military elite – and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift. As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation. Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems.

Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone 3)

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:49:24 +0000

Enter the Grishaverse with book three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: The Demon in the Wood (a Darkling prequel story) and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. Soldier. Summoner. Saint.The nation`s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives. As her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. To win this fight, she must seize a legend`s power – but claiming the firebird may be her ruin.

The Modeling Handbook

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:50:09 +0000

The COmplete Guide to breaking into local, regional and international modeling. Manekenstvo. Third Edition.

A Way of Hope

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:39:23 +0000

The Nobel Prize-winning Polish Solidarity leader’s memoirs vividly recount harsh farm life in Eastern Poland, oppressed working conditions in the Baltic port of Gdansk, and the hard-won achievements of the Solidarity trade union movements

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:39:04 +0000

Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself – and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers; historian of the Russian intellgentisia biographer of Marx, pioneering scholar of the Romantic movement and defender of the liberal idea of freedom. His own life was caught up in the most powerful currents of the century. The son of a Riga timber merchant, he witnessed the Russian Revolution, was plunged into suburban school life and the ferment of 1930s Oxford; he became part of the British intellectual establishment During the war, he as at the heart of Anglo-American diplomacy in Washington; afterwards in Moscow he saw the grim despair of Stalinism. The book is full of memorable meetings – with Virginia Woolf and Sigmund Freud, with Churchill, with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova. Yet Ignatieff is not afraid to delve into Berlin’s conflicts: his jewish idealism, his deep aspirations. This is a work of great subtelty and penetration, exhilarating and intimate, powerful and profound.