Vintage books Brave New World. A Graphic Novel Хаксли Олдос, Fordham Fred

Добро пожаловать в Нью-Лондон. Здесь все счастливы. Наше совершенное общество достигло мира и стабильности благодаря запрету моногамии, неприкосновенности частной жизни, денег, семьи и самой истории. Теперь все принадлежат друг другу • Вы можете быть счастливы сделать это. Все, что вам нужно сделать, это принять свои таблетки сомы • Откройте для себя дивный новый мир классического романа Олдоса Хаксли, написанного в 1932 году, в котором предсказано общество, ожидающее максимального удовольствия и принимающее тотальную слежку - чего бы это ни стоило • Книга на английском языке • Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself

The end of the world • Or the beginning… • On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island • The Nightingale sunk, their silver gone, captured, weak and afraid, the pair steal a treasure they should have left well alone • The adventure of the New World lies in wait…

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle. He escapes to Florence in order to learn about life. His education there, thanks to the contradictory influences of his scurrilous Uncle Eustace and a saintly bookseller, is both sacred and profane. A haunting novel from one of the twentieth century's most powerful commentators

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to question everything he once revered

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it • Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help • History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches • It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room • Then there's Charlotte, a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl, and Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa and finally young Gillian, who share an unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting • Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife

In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-nine years after the end of WWII • 1944: Lubang Island, the Philippines. With Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer: Hold the island until the Imperial army's return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs • So began Onoda's long campaign. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades - until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making

"Новый Макиавелли" - захватывающий рассказ о жизни внутри "бункера" под номером 10. В своей переработке влиятельного шедевра Никколо Макиавелли "Принц", посвященной двадцать первому веку, Джонатан Пауэлл - глава администрации Тони Блэра с 1994 по 2007 год - рассказывает внутреннюю историю того периода, опираясь на свои собственные неопубликованные дневники • Используя уроки Макиавелли, извлеченные из его опыта работы чиновником во Флоренции XV века, Пауэлл показывает, как эти уроки все еще могут быть применимы сегодня. Иллюстрируя каждое из изречений Макиавелли описанием событий, произошедших во времена Тони Блэра на посту премьер-министра, новый Макиавелли призван стать принцем современности • Книга на английском языке • The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit. Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War • Diaries, letters and memories, testaments from ordinary people whose lives were transformed, are set alongside extracts from names that have become synonymous with the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and T.E. Lawrence. A Broken World is an original collection of personal and defining moments that offer an unprecedented insight into the Great War as it was experienced and as it was remembered

Did you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums? • That chickens are capable of complex communication? • That sheep know their own names? • That cows grieve when their calves are taken away from them? • Jeffrey Masson delves deep into the mysterious world of farm animals and reveals just how sophisticated these creatures truly are - capable of joy, sadness, love and friendship - just like us

Взгляните на мир по-новому - глазами животных. Таким вы его точно никогда не видели • Земля наполнена видами и текстурами, звуками и вибрациями, запахами и вкусами, электрическими и магнитными полями. Но каждое животное заключено в свой уникальный сенсорный пузырь, воспринимающий лишь крошечную часть этого мира • В «Огромном мире» Эд Йонг уговаривает нас выйти за пределы наших собственных чувств, приглашая нас в ранее непостижимые измерения – мир, каким он действительно воспринимается другими животными. Показывая нам, что для того, чтобы понять наш мир, нам не нужно путешествовать в другие места; нам нужно смотреть другими глазами • язык издания: Английский • Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals • The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields

‘Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society’ Wall Street Journal • John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among O’Hara’s finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker