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Size Zero: My Life as a Disappearing Model
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A memoir of a brief career as a top model - and the brutally honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a fascinating, closed industry. Scouted in the street when she is 17, Victoire Dauxerre’s story started like a teenager’s dream: within months she was on the catwalks of New York’s major fashion shows, and part of the most select circle of in-demand supermodels in the world. But when fashion executives and photographers began to pressure her about her weight, forcing her to become ever thinner, Victoire’s fantasy came at a cost. Food was now her enemy, and soon, living on only three apples a day and Diet Coke galore, Victoire became anorexic. An unflinching, painful expose of the uglier face of fashion, her testimony is a shocking example of how our culture’s mechanisms of anorexia and bulimia can push a young woman to the point of suicide. It is the story of a survivor whose fight against poisonous illness and body image shows us how to take courage and embrace life. Written with Valérie Péronnet.
Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible (Text o
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by religious groups that was bedevilling most European countries. He would hold his God-appointed position and unify his kingdom. Out of these circumstances, and involving the very people who were engaged in the bitterest controversies, a book of extraordinary grace and lasting literary appeal was created: the King James Bible. 47 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London translated the Bible, drawing from many previous versions, and created what many believe to be the greatest prose work ever written in English – the product of a culture in a peculiarly conflicted era. This was the England of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and Bacon; but also of extremist Puritans, the Gunpowder plot, the Plague, of slum dwellings and crushing religious confines. Quite how this astonishing translation emerges is the central question of this book. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, and the foundations of the English-speaking world. It was a generous and deliberate decision to make the Bible available to the common man: not an immediate commercial success, but which later became a bestseller, and has remained one ever since. Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the early years of the first Stewart ruler, and the scholars who laboured for seven years to create the world's greatest book; immersing us in a world of ingratiating bishops, a fascinating monarch and London at a time unlike any other.
Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy
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Captain of Celtic and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury, tumultuous football success at club level, and of the remarkable events that led him to turn his back on his country. The first Northern Irish Roman Catholic to play for Celtic and to be chosen to captain his country, Lennon was sensationally forced to quit the captaincy even before he took the field following death threats by Loyalist paramilitaries. In Northern Ireland, the words ‘Neil Lennon RIP’ were painted on a wall near his family home, while in Scotland, he has been the target of vicious verbal and physical assault by fans of Old Firm rivals Rangers – including being mugged on the street and hung in effigy. Now he will give his side of these stories, revealing in full the terrible consequences of the religious hatred that has tainted his career. Lennon will write of his Leicester years under Martin O’Neill, and how the Midlands club defied bigger rivals by maintaining their Premiership League status and winning two League Cups. He will also tell the inside story of Celtic under O’Neill; how his ?5 million transfer to Parkhead nearly didn’t happen; his wrongful arrest on a club night out; lifting the domestic treble in a glorious first season with Celtic, and the continued revival of the club to the point where they reached the UEFA Cup Final (narrowly losing out to a Jose Mourinho-inspired Porto); and his relationship with current boss Gordon Strachan and the team’s successful season in 2005/06. As he approaches the twilight of his playing career, Lennon has decided the time is right to reveal all about his life on the field – including his horrific spinal injury and his less than happy apprenticeships at Motherwell and Manchester City – as well as his hitherto closely guarded private life, including his battle with depression. It’s a book that will shock football to its core.
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters
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Where does Homer come from And why does Homer matter His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant In this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why these great ancient poems still have so much to say about what it is to be human, to love, lose, grow old and die. ‘The Mighty Dead’ is a journey of history and discovery, sewn together by the oldest stories we have – the Iliad and the Odyssey, which emerged from a time before the Greeks became Greek. As nomadic tribes of the northern steppe, they clashed with the sophisticated cities of the eastern Mediterranean. These poems tell us how we became who we are. We witness a disputatious dinner in 19th-century Paris and Keats finding in Chapman’s Homer the inspiration to travel in the ‘realms of gold’. We go to Bosnia in the 1930s, with the god of Homer studies Milman Parry where oral poetry still thrived; to Spain to visit the possible site of Hades; to Troy, Ukraine, Syria and the islands of the Mediterranean; and to that most ancient of modern experiences, the open sea, in calm and storm. Reflecting on fathers and sons, men and women, on the necessity for love and the violence of warriors, on peace and war, youth and old-age, Homer is the deep voice of Europe, as dark as Mavrodaphne and as glowingly alive as anything that has ever been.
Kick
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The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. When Kathleen Kennedy sailed to England after her father had been appointed Ambassador to Great Britain in 1938, her wit, aloofness and sexual charisma at once became the source of endless fascination for the British public. ‘Kick’ became the star of the family and the press loved her, London magazine Queen headlining her as ‘America’s Most Important Debutante’. Her meeting at a summer garden party with a shy, tall, handsome man called ‘Billy’ who it transpired was the heir to the Duke of Devonshire and Chatsworth, the most eligible bachelor in England, became first an intrigue and soon a scandal for the Kennedys. She was Catholic and he an Anglican. But Kick had fallen in love with Billy, and with England. In 1944, they were married. In September Billy was killed in combat with the British Army. Widowed as Lady Hartington, Kathleen Kennedy remained in England after the loss of her husband until her own tragic death. In ‘Kick’, Paul Byrne tells the story of a woman who was more than simply the second sister of Jack, Bobby and Ted: a feisty and unique product of two countries, she was the force of personality the Kennedys rarely mentioned, a life long hidden from the legendary family history.
Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters
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Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of ‘Rebecca’, ‘Jamaica Inn’ and ‘My Cousin Rachel’, and short stories, ‘Don’t Look Now’ and the terrifying ‘The Birds’ among many. Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired, three of them classic Hitchcock chillers. But it was her sisters, writer Angela and artist Jeanne,who found the courage to defy the conventions that hampered Daphne’s emotional life. In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic and powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden world of the three sisters – Piffy, Bird & Bing, as they were known to each other – full of social non-conformity, love, rivalry and compulsive make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel.
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
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Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne’s landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this paperback of the landmark biography, bestselling biographer Paula Byrne uses objects that conjure up a key moment in Austen’s life and work – a silhouette, a vellum notebook, a topaz cross, a writing box, a royalty cheque, a bathing machine, and many more – to unlock the biography of this most beloved author. The woman who emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern than the conventional picture of ‘dear aunt Jane’ allows. Byrne’s lively book explores the many forces that shaped Austen’s life, her long struggle to become a published author, and brings Miss Austen dazzlingly into the twenty-first century.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
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This edition does not include illustrations. From the author of ‘Britons’, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh – an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas. This is a book about a world in a life. An individual lost to history, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-85) travelled farther, and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe, than the vast majority of men. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, she was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive overland explorations in eastern and southern India, journeying in each case in close companionship with an unmarried man. She spent time in some of the world's biggest ports and naval bases, Portsmouth, Menorca, Gibraltar, London, Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta and the Cape. She was damaged by the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War; and linked through her own migrations with voyages of circumnavigation, and as victim and owner, she was involved in three different systems of slavery. But hers is a broadly revealing, not simply an exceptional, life. Marsh's links to the Royal Navy, the East India Company, empire and international trade made these experiences possible. To this extent, her career illumines shifting patterns of British and Western power and overseas aggression. The swift onset of globalization occurring in her lifetime also ensured that her progress, relationships and beliefs were repeatedly shaped and deflected by people and events beyond Europe. While imperial players like Edmund Burke and Eyre Coote form a part of her story, so do African slave sailors, skilled Indian weavers and astronomers, ubiquitous Sephardi Jewish traders, and the great Moroccan Sultan, Sidi Muhammad, who schemed to entrap her. Many modern biographies remain constrained by a national framework, while global histories are generally impersonal. By contrast, in this dazzling and original book, Linda Colley moves repeatedly and questioningly between vast geo-political transformations and the intricate detail of individual lives. This is a global biography for our globalizing times.
Dieta de 17 zile. Rezultate rapide cu un plan medical special conceput
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Poemele lui Marius Aldea sunt inteligent-fanteziste i dau o senzaie de prospeime, dei refolosete, frecvent, i mijloace de seducie inventate de Nichita Stnescu, Emil Brumaru, Mircea Dinescu. Marius Aldea are o plcere de a scrie care face ca tot ce mprumut s devin al lui.“ – Alex tefnescu Marius tefan Aldea face parte din plutonul tinerilor poei crora li se flfie de generaia imediat anterioar, ns nu li se deloc de generaiile vechi. Vd i prevd o promoie de poei lucizi i cultivai printre care compozitorul Simfoniei frnei va strluci. Pentru c are umor, deci i permite s fie cinic, i pentru c izbutete nite metafore trsnite, dar fluente, nu rscutate. Apoi ochiul su este flmnd i precis, nu hoinrete pe firmament pn se ntoarce cu albul n sus. Viteza, claritatea i subtilitatea artei lui monteaz un spectacol inteligent – un deliciu pentru durii ca el, care, de fapt, ascund un suflet sensibil n spatele rictusului sceptic. Un romantic de factur excelent este Marius, adic dintre aceia cu witz, care muc tot, iar apoi se muc pe ei nii. Irezistibil poezia asta ca un roman scris la col de strad de un designer care tie exact ce vrea de la manechinele lui.“ – Felix Nicolau Marius tefan Aldea are atta energie poetic, nct exist riscul s supratensioneze Sistemul Naional de Distribuie a Literaturii. Dar cum SNDL nu exist dect n imaginaia noastr, nu v rmne, dragi cititori, dect s v conectai singuri la aceast surs de energie. E simplu: deschidei cartea lui Marius i citii puin. Dac nu suntei purttori de mnui izolante i cizme de cauciuc, ar trebui ca n secunda a doua s fii scuturai zdravn, iar minile s vi se ncleteze pe carte. E doar unul dintre efectele pe care l are poezia bun asupra omului.“ – Robert erban
Supravie?uitorii. Cartea a IV-a - Un drum primejdios
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Cartea reprezint? o minimonografie spectaculoas? despre proza, publicistica ?i poezia unuia dintre cei mai mari poe?i interbelici, Tudor Arghezi. M.V. Buciu are un instrumentar critic adus la zi, ca ?i bibliografia de altfel, aten?ia exegetului fiind focalizat? asupra operei acestui mare scriitor, contestat vehement ?n perioada post-decembrist?. ?n esen??, monografia lui M.V. Buciu, constituie o temeinic? tentativ? de rea?ezare a lui Tudor Arghezi ?n actualitatea literar?, readuc?nd ?n discu?ie, dar nu mai pu?in ?n actualitate, complexitatea personalit??ii argheziene, un urma? al poetului na?ional, Mihai Eminescu.
Cele cinci trepte ale s?n?t??ii
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Poeziile lui Giorgio Baffo (1694-1768), mentor al lui Casanova, sunt de o sinceritate dezarmant?. Un limbaj poetic picant, cu un efect direct asupra cititorului. Erotismul abund? ?n rostogoliri de imagini fierbin?i, iar sonetele autorului italian par o petrecere ?n rime, care iau peste picior bunele moravuri ale epocii.?F?r? Baffo, n?am avea idee de decaden?a voluptuoas? a Serenissimei Republici. Prin el, cunoa?tem via?a sexual? a Vene?iei, cu serb?ri, cu osterii, cu cazinouri, cu jocuri de noroc, cu dansatoare ?i cu c?lug?ri?e liber?tine“ – Guillaume Apollinaire
Puterea chakrelor. Deblocheaz?-?i cei ?apte centri energetici ai vindec?rii
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Volumul lui Cornel Mihai Ungureanu cuprinde interesante interviuri cu mari personalit??i ale culturii rom?ne?ti, din sfere multiple. Printre al?ii, Ana Blandiana, Gabriel Andreescu, Liviu Antonesei, Gellu Dorian, Bogdan Suceav?, Lucian Dan Teodorovici sau Daniel Cristea?Enache. Cititorul va g?si ?n paginile c?r?ii comentarii provocatoare privind operele ?i biografiile intervieva?ilor, precum ?i pagini din istoria tulbure din perioada comunist? ?i din cea contemporan?.
Cryptocurrency Investment 2018: How To Invest In Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin A
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Cryptocurrency Investment 2018: How To Invest In Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin And Ethereum
How To Mine Bitcoin:: Learn How To Mine Cryptocurrency
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How To Mine Bitcoin:: Learn How To Mine Cryptocurrency
Pisicile r?zboinice. Cartea a V-a - O cale primejdioas?
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Selecia prozatorilor din comunism se cere ceva mai struitor argumentat dect cea a prozatorilor interbelici (termen uzual, dar neacoperitor, pentru c includem n aceast perioad i vremurile de rzboi). Exemplaritatea, aici, e motivat de valoarea, originalitatea, insolitul, atipicitatea (stranietatea, cu termenul lui Harold Bloom) epicii. Urmresc – o spun riscnd simplificarea – fondul autohton i forma universal. Dau prioritate experimentului, dac nnoirea este substanial, se integreaz n – i face sau ncearc diferena de – epica occidental. Fac o concesie cu M. Preda, prozatorul emblematic al unei epoci istorice ntunecate (cu toate nuanele de ntuneric i rarele ei strfulgerri de lumin). Previn uor reproul de a ocoli n selecie prozatori care abia dac debutau sau publicau primele cri pn n 1989.“ – Marian Victor Buciu
A gyermekek keresztes háborúja
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A gyermekek keresztes háborúja
American Justice
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American Justice
O carte pe s?pt?m?n?
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Volumul trateaz? tema exilului ?n literaturile europene (cu predilec?ie cea rom?na, francez?, german? ?i rus?), constituind un manual indirect de literatur? axat, ?n special, pe tema exilului artistic. Scriitori ca, de pild?, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina ?vetaieva, Nichita St?nescu, Nicolae Breban, Gabriela Melinescu s.a. fac parte – ?n percep?ia autoarei – din confreria ale?ilor meni?i s? reprezinte ?ara tinere?ii lor departe de grani?ele acesteia. Cartea se adreseaz? elevilor, studen?ilor, precum ?i publicului larg de cititori.
Supravietui?orii. Cartea a III-a - C?derea ?ntunericului
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n aceast carte, ncerc, de fapt, s-mi schimb instrumentele i felul de a scrie critic literar. Pentru c nsi condiia criticii literare s-a schimbat. Dintr-un gen diurn, care atingea o maxim strlucire – vezi explozia ei, din deceniile ’60 – ’80, cnd devenise genul dominant al literaturii –, critica a devenit o disciplin aproape subversiv, practicat pe ascuns (n Universitate) sau n locuri dosnice (revistele literare, care au – toate – tiraje confideniale). Critica s-a transformat, aadar, fr sa vrea, ntr-un gen nocturn, practicat de lunatici“ i accesibil numai acestora. Tinerii scriitori i refuz diagnosticul, cei mai vrstnici se supr dac nu sunt ludai peste msur, iar presa i d cu tifla, subliniind n orice mprejurare superioritatea (i avantajele) publicitii, n raport cu desueta judecat de valoare. i aceasta, deoarece acea splendid explozie a metodelor de lectur, a formelor i modalitilor critice, din deceniile anterioare, a sectuit de fapt disciplina. i a multiplicat la nesfrit posibilitile interpretrii, pn cnd nelesul textului literar a devenit cu totul obscur i, n fond, chiar facultativ. Totul este pus sub semnul ntrebrii, iar sacrosancta valoare estetic, pe care jura critica modernist, a fost de mult relegat din discursul critic. Care discurs ncepe s semene, astfel, cu o noapte adnc, n care mai plpie, ici-colo, asemenea unor stele palide, rmiele unor certitudini. (Rzvan Voncu)
Paradoxul obezit??ii. Kilogramele ?n plus. Avantaje ?i dezavantaje
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Am adunat n aceast carte momente din viaa public, ncercnd s refac, din ceea ce a selectat memoria, traseul profesional care m-a adus de la catedra de fizic la ipostaza de candidat pentru preedinie. Am inclus n ea i lucruri personale, dar nu am fcut-o neaprat pentru a rspunde curiozitii celorlali. Am recuperat acele ntmplri, ntlniri sau detalii care au spus ceva despre felul n care m-am format, despre valorile pe care le-am preuit. Identitatea mea personal a umplut, prin intermediul faptelor, dar i prin aceste principii n care am crezut, rolul de persoan public pe care l-am ocupat mai bine de paisprezece ani. Momentele n care am descoperit un adevr, intervalele n care am nvat lucruri importante, despre mine sau despre oamenii din jurul meu, i-au adus de fiecare dat ceva i profilului meu public. Tot ceea ce am dobndit i tot ceea ce am neles de-a lungul unei viei cu destul de multe mpliniri a lucrat n sprijinul profesionistului care am vrut s ajung. Viaa mea privat a fost, pentru cei mai muli, invizibil. De fapt, ca orice om, mi-am folosit n public tot ceea ce am descoperit ca fiind valoros n viaa simpl, de zi cu zi: calmul, discreia, nelegerea. Au fost bunuri preioase, pe care am vrut s le protejez ca s le pot cultiva n continuare. Nu cred c, dezvluindu-le sursa, le pun n pericol.“ Klaus Iohannis
Vindecarea oboselii. Cum s? ?nvingi epuizarea ?i s? te sim?i excelent
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Un limbaj poetic direct, cu mesaje clare, ne?nv?luite ?n v?lurile dense ale figurilor de stil. Totul ?ns? aureolat de o feminitate sensibil?.?Nicoleta Popa scrie pentru c? nu poate altfel. ?i o face ?n regimul urgen?ei, f?r? brizbrizuri, f?r? menajamente, f?r? s?-i pese prea mult de ce zic cei din jur, fiindc? are ceva de m?rturisit. E detectabil chiar un sadism al adev?rului ?n versuri, necesar asemeni oxigenului ca s? r?m?n? un om ?ntreg. ??i analizeaz? condi?ia de femeie, vitupereaz?, se t?nguie, este fireasc?, nu plictise?te. Volumul de fa?? e mai cuminte dec?t anteriorul, sulfurosul Fragmente din inima mea. S? fie o etap? intermediar?, o trecere spre un alt palier al spunerii poetice? Nu m? ?ncumet la un r?spuns. Aceast? pite?teanc? e de re?inut ?n r?ndul poetelor care conteaz? ?n literatura rom?n?.“ (Alexandru Petria)?O seduc?toare feminitate sclipe?te prin versurile din spatele acestei coperte. Nu trebuie dec?t s? deschizi oriunde ?i o s? te sim?i sigur mi?cat. Dar nu trebuie s? deschizi dac? nu te sim?i preg?tit s? te la?i ?mbog??it de efluviile sensibilit??ii… de spiritul acestei poete. Aferim.“ (Stoian G. Bogdan).
