The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler wrote sixty-two stories, each овхух exactly 240 words in length, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed The characters are both real and imagined Medusa (beheaded by Perseus, 2000 BC), Anne Boleyn (beheaded at the behest of Henry VIII, 1536), a chicken (beheaded for Sunday dinner, Alabama, 1958), and the author (decapitated, on the job, 2008) Told with the intensity of a poet and the wit of a great storyteller, these final thoughts illuminate and crystallize more about the characters' own lives and the worlds they inhabit than many writers manage to convey in full-length biographies or novels The stories, which have appeared in literary magazines across the country, are a delightful and intriguing creative feat from one of today's most inventive writers.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 264 стр ISBN 0811856143.

Meet Ree Dolly -- not since Mattie Ross stormed her way through Arkansas in True Grit has a young girl so fiercely defended her loved ones Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended family On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who takes care of her two younger brothers as well as her mother, learns that овхуш her father has skipped bail If he fails to appear for his upcoming court date on charges of cooking crystal meth, his family will lose their house, the only security they have Winter's Bone is the story of Ree's quest to bring her father back, alive or dead Her goal had been to leave her messy world behind and join the army, where "everybody had to help keep things clean " But her father's disappearance forces her to first take on the outlaw world of the Dolly family Ree's plan is elemental and direct: find her father, teach her little brothers how to fend for themselves, and escape a downward spiral of misery Asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake, but Ree perseveres Her courage and purity of spirit make her a truly compelling figure She learns that what she had long considered to be the burdens imposed on her by her family are, in fact, the responsibilities that give meaning and direction to her life Her story is made palpable by Woodrell, who is "that infrequent thing, a born writer" (Philadelphia Inquirer).  2006 г Твердый переплет, 208 стр ISBN 031605755X.

Lewis's most popular series reveals the closed world of an Amish community Now in a special 3-in-1 value edition In The Shunning, Katie Lapp stumbles upon a satin infant gown in the dusty leather trunk of her parents' attic and determines to discover the story behind it Why would her mother, a Plain woman who embraces the ways of the Old Order, hide such овхуь a beautiful worldly gown? In The Confession, Katie is now torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal known as shunning, and she sets out on a journey of discovery In The Reckoning, Katie--now known as Katherine--is living the "fancy" life she always dreamed of Yet she still grieves the loss of her Amish family and longs for the peace that reigned in her mother's heart.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 704 стр ISBN 0764203037.

Bestselling author E Lynn Harris is back with another sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today’s toughest and most timely issues Chauncey Greer is the owner of Cute Boy Card Company, a thriving company in Atlanta As a teenager, he was a member of a popular boy band, but left in disgrace when word got out that he and овхфп his bandmate D were more than good friends Chauncey is a free spirit, on the brink of forty with a body admired by both men and women Not into being categorized, Chauncey’s been known to hook up with men and women, but now in the age of the “down low,” he’s found that women ask too many questions, so he’s just focusing on the fellas After one too many bad dates, Chauncey finds himself in church, where the minister’s message inspires him to follow his dream of a singing career once again Although he’s lost touch with D, as he starts writing songs his thoughts inevitably turn to his former lover Chauncey’s powerful performance at the church earns him a standing ovation and an invitation to participate in an upcoming revival But Chauncey soon discovers that an ambitious fundamentalist preacher plans to use the revival to speak out against gays and gay marriage Feeling angry and betrayed, Chauncey and other gay members of the church decide to take a stand against the church’s homophobia by staging a “Day of Absence” when all of the gay members and their friends and family stay home Everything is going as planned until D appears on the scene and Chauncey has to confront his past and make some hard decisions about his future I Say A Little Prayer is filled with the delicious plot twists, humor, compassion, and up-to-the-minute controversy fans expect from their beloved “E Lynn ” Harris has returned with another gem of a novel that will rocket to the top of bestseller lists nationwide.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 320 стр ISBN 0385512724.

Переводчик: Иван Ющенко Вопрос несложен, как и большинство глубоких вопросов Находясь в сравнительно равных условиях, кто победит в схватке - Медведь или Акула? Лас-Вегас откололся овхфт от США, в мире не осталось фолк-певцов и гордиевых узлов, зато самое популярное развлечение - прогнозы погоды и регулярные схватки между самыми свирепыми виртуальными хищниками современности Мир разделился на медверженцев и акулельщиков Телевизионное общество развлекается до смерти Автор Крис Бакелдер Chris Bachelder.  Серия: Парад уродов.

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally , овххз Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything—from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do A Oh, and she can’t stand the way her neck looks A But her dermatologist tells her there’s no quick fix for that Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent A She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years (“I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at”) and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton—from a distance, of course A But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 160 стр ISBN 0307264556.

В книге собраны очерки жизни и деяний создателей Туркестанского края К П фон Кауфмана, М Д Скобелева и М Г Черняева Их стараниями территория России за 20 лет увеличилась более чем овххн на 5 тыс кв км; появилась возможность снабжать российскую промышленность ценнейшим сырьем, в том числе собственным хлопком; были открыты новые рынки сбыта отечественной продукции; наконец, возник глубочайший тыл, который сделал Россию непобедимой в случае иноземного нашествия, что показала Вторая мировая война Содержание Туркестанский "ярым-падшо" c 3-203 Белый всадник на белом коне c 204-343 Ермак нового времени c 344-461 Автор Евгений Глущенко.  Авторский сборник Издательства: Согласие, XXI век, 2004 г Твердый переплет, 464 стр ISBN 5-293-00038-1 Тираж: 3000 экз Формат: 84x108/32 (~130х205 мм).

In 1986 Kids Can Press published an edition of Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee" illustrated by painter Ted Harrison, who used his signature broad brushstrokes and unconventional choice of colour to bring this gritty narrative poem to life Evoking both the spare beauty and the mournful solitude of the Yukon landscape, Harrison's овххп paintings proved the perfect match for Service's masterpiece about a doomed prospector adrift in a harsh land Harrison's Illustrator's Notes on each page enhanced both poem and illustrations by adding valuable historical background Upon its original publication, many recognized the book as an innovative approach to illustrating poetry for children For twenty years The Cremation of Sam McGee has stood out as a publishing landmark, losing none of its appeal both as a read-aloud and as a work of art Kids Can Press proudly publishes this deluxe hardcover twentieth anniversary edition -complete with a spot-varnished cover, new cover art and heavy coated stock - of a book that remains as entrancing as a night sky alive with the vibrant glow of the Northern Lights.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 32 стр ISBN 155453092X.

Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of Cidy Sherman or the brushstrokes of Robert Motherwell The Dog of the Marriage, Hempel's fourth овххш collection, is about sexual obsession, relationships gone awry, and the unsatisfied longings of everyday life In "Offertory," a modern-day Scheherazadeentertains and manipulates her lover with stories of her sexual encounters with a married couple as a very young woman In "Reference # 388475848-5," a letter contesting a parking ticket becomes a beautiful and unnerving statement of faith In "Jesus Is Witing," a woman driving to New York sends a series of cryptically honest postcards to an old lover And the title story is a heartbreaking tale about the objects and animals and unmired desires that are left behind after death or divorce These nine stoies teem with wisdom, emotion, and surprising wit Hempel explores the intricate psychology of people falling in and out of love, trying to locate something or someone elusive or lost Her sentences are as lean, original, and startling as any in contemporry fiction.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 160 стр ISBN 0743264517.

In this witty, accessible book, Terry Eagleton argues that the art of reading poetry is as much in danger of becoming extinct as thatching or clog dancing On the whole, students today are not taught how to be sensitive to language - how to read a poem with due attention to its tone, mood, pitch, pace, rhythm and texture, rather than just to 'what it says' овххы To demonstrate how this works in practice, the author takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating close analysis As one of the world's leading literary theorists, Eagleton also summons the aid of such pioneering critics as the Russian Formalists to raise some provocative general questions: bull; bull;What is poetry, and how does it differ from prose? bull;Is there a language peculiar to poetry? bull;What exactly do we mean by imagery? Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 192 стр ISBN 1405151412.

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work The volume овхуч includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer and, finally, lingering in happiness Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to marvel On the eve of the publication of her third volume of poems, Twelve Moons, Archibald MacLeish wrote to Mary Oliver: "You have indeed entered the kingdom You have done something better than create your own world: you have discovered the world we all live in and do not see and cannot feel ".  2004 г Твердый переплет, 80 стр ISBN 0807068764.

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent In the collection’s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns In “Haunting Olivia,” two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead овхущ sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab In “Z Z ’s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers,” a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists ) And “Ava Wrestles the Alligator” introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty—Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava—proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island’s #1 Gator Theme Park and CafA© Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim “Feed the gators, don’t talk to strangers ” Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you’re a kid it’s often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them Russell’s stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life—in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal—Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 256 стр ISBN 0307263983.

Переводчики: Нора Галь Раиса Облонская Харпер Ли родилась 28 апреля 1926 года в маленьком провинциальном городке Монровилль, на юго-западе штата Алабама, в семье адвоката В 1945 овхую году, после окончания колледжа, она поступила на юридический факультет Алабамского университета, но за полгода до получения диплома бросила учебу и решила посвятить себя литературной деятельности Ее роман "Убить пересмешника ", впервые опубликованный в 1960 году, имел оглушительный успех В первый же год было продано более двух с половиной миллионов экземпляров Это и неудивительно: Харпер Ли, усвоив уроки Марка Твена, нашла свой собственный стиль повествования, который позволил ей показать мир взрослых глазами ребенка, не упрощая и не обедняя его Роман был удостоен одной из самых престижных премий США по литературе - Пулитцеровской, печатался многомиллионными тиражами Его перевели на десятки языков мира и продолжают переиздавать по сей день По роману был снят одноименный фильм Знаменитый актер Грегори Пек за роль Аттикуса получил премию "Оскар" и среди множества своих звездных ролей считал эту роль лучшей Автор Харпер Ли Harper Lee Харпер Ли родилась 28 апреля 1926 года в Монровиле (штат Алабама, США) Она была младшей из четырех детей в семье адвоката В 1944-45 годах она училась в Хантингдонском колледже в Монтгомери, изучала юриспруденцию в университете Алабамы в 1945-1949.  Серия: Азбука-классика (pocket-book).

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, овхфр “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in the toaster, / and the poets are at their windows / They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth–the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, / the American poets gazing out / at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise ” Through simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn’t have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most “serious” poetry: “By now, it should go without saying / that what the oven is to the baker / and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner / so the window is to the poet ” In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing–themes familiar to Collins’s fans but made new here Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins’s poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 112 стр ISBN 037550382X.

Afrocentrism Eurocentrism Caribbean Studies British Studies To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and овхфч techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W E B Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 277 стр ISBN 0674076060.

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld That place gives its name to Louise GlA?ck’s eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time овххй opposing their reconciliation Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without plot or hope, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring presence.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 96 стр ISBN 0374107424.

A Concordance, Volume II is the definitive guide to the many worlds, argots, characters, and cross-references -- within the Dark Tower series and among the rest of King's work -- that appear in Books V through VII: Wolves of the Calla, Songof Susannah, and The Dark Tower Characters and Genealogies Magical Objects and Forces Mid-World and Our World овххо Places Portals and Magical Places Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps Timeline for the Dark Tower Series Mid-World Dialects<>Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers Political and Cultural References References to Stephen King's Own Work.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 480 стр ISBN 074325208X.

Перед вами единственная в своем роде энциклопедия, касающаяся всех аспектов сексуального воспитания и сексуальной жизни: физического и эмоционального становления ребенка, овххх пубертатного периода и взросления, контрацепции, сексуального здоровья в зрелые годы и, конечно, взаимоотношений между полами В ней вы найдете ответы на самые разнообразные вопросы, начиная от создания положительного эмоционального климата в семье, адаптации к возрастным физиологическим и психологическим изменениям, кончая развенчиванием заблуждений и мифов о сексе На всех этапах жизненного пути эта энциклопедия будет для членов вашей семьи четким критерием сексуальной культуры и верным путеводителем по самым сложным проблемам сексуальной сферы Автор Ричард Уокер Richard Walker.  Издательство: Эксмо Суперобложка, 320 стр ISBN 5-699-00344-4 Тираж: 5000 экз Формат: 84x108/16 (~205х290 мм).

Изданный автором в прошлом небольшим тиражом (5 тыс экз ) `Краткий энциклопедический словарь по социальной и юридической психологии` стал библиографической редкостью Восполняя овххщ насущную потребность в подобной книге, автор представляет читателю `Энциклопедию общей и социальной психологии` - первую отечественную энциклопедию по психологии Она содержит около двух тысяч категорий, понятий и терминов, составляющих тезаурус современной теоретической и практической психологии `Энциклопедия` составлена на основе глубокого изучения современной отечественной и зарубежной литературы и многочисленных научных исследований автора по кардинальным проблемам общей и социальной психологии Все базовые, системообразующие категории психологии освещаются в виде многостраничных статей (такие категории, как `Психика`, `Социопсихогенез`, `Психические процессы`, `Психические свойства личности`, `Психодиагностика`, `Поведение человека в условиях социального взаимодействия` и др ) Особое внимание уделяется современным трактовкам проблемных категорий (роль среды и наследственности в психическом развитии индивида, психофизиологическая проблема, генетическая обусловленность психики и др ) Материал `Энциклопедии` излагается лапидарным научным языком с тщательной дидактической проработкой и максимально доступно для широкого круга читателей Автор Марат Еникеев.  Издательство: Приор Твердый переплет, 560 стр ISBN 5-7990-0686-0 Тираж: 5000 экз Формат: 84x104/32 (~220x240 мм).

Книга о телеэкранном насилии и о том, как оно преобразует мир в начале XXI в Атака террористов на Нью-Йорк и Вашингтон 11 сентября 2001 г , военные кампании США в Афганистане и Ираке, трагедии овхци Норд-Оста и Беслана, так называемые цветные революции и некоторые другие события описаны как эфирные трансляции Анализируя материал с позиций исторической психологии, автор приходит к довольно непривычным для социальной науки и политической аналитики выводам Книга адресована как специалистам в области масс-медиа, психологии, культурологии, политологии, истории, так и широкому читателю - всем, кто совмещает интерес к экранному зрелищу со вкусом к гуманитарному теоретизированию Автор Владимир Шкуратов.  Издательство: Наррадигма, 2006 г Твердый переплет, 400 стр ISBN 5-91240-001-8 Тираж: 3000 экз Формат: 60x90/16 (~145х217 мм).