Книги жанра Daedalus Books
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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This title is written by the author of The Submariner's War: The Indian Ocean 1939-45. As the guns fell silent on the Western front on 11 November 1918, civil war still continued in Russia. The White Russian army, in support of the Tsar, was still fighting the Bolsheviks, especially in the north of Russia. The Royal Navy sent a squadron of ships in support of the White Russians and British troops fought against the Bolsheviks on land. Murmansk and Archangel became British enclaves as our soldiers and sailors fought a valiant but doomed war against the Bolsheviks. Michael Wilson tells the story of the Navy's part in this little known war.
Название: Hopes and Prospects
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assault on Gaza and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward — in the so-called democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements which suggest 'real progress towards freedom and justice'.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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From military sportswriter to roving correspondent for the National Observer, from quasi Hell's Angel to counterculture author and gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson led a life of legend. Hunter S. Thompson: The Glory Years tells the remarkable insider's story. Jay Cowan, who was caretaker on Thompson's ranch and a trusted friend, paints a sensitive portrait of a man who redefined participatory journalism, who captured the decadence and depravity of an era, and generally consumed more drugs and alcohol than any other living creature on the planet. A self-professed lazy hillbilly, Hunter Thompson would immerse himself researching a story, then write it all in a multi-day frenzy of drugs and sleeplessness. In his role as America's rock star author, he was invited to the White House (where he claimed to have snorted coke with presidential aides) and rubbed elbows with the marquee celebrities of his time. Featuring previously unpublished color photos, this book provides the most compelling and readable portrait to date of one of America's most extraordinary personalities.
Название: Jumpy Jack and Googily
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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Meet Jumpy Jack, a very nervous snail who's afraid of monsters, and Googily, who is a — well, who is a very good friend, indeed. Wherever they go, Googily kindly checks high and low just to make sure there are no scary monsters about. But as every child knows, monsters come in many shapes and sizes. Some are even blue with hairy eyebrows and pointy teeth. Here is a universal story of friendship and fear of the unknown told with wit and charm by the fantastic team who created the irresistible Meet Wild Boars,
Название: The Lexicon
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1995
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This boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author's most erudite, outre, and interesting words — from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic — complete with definitions, examples, and usage notes. Introduction by Jesse Sheidlower; illustrations by Arnold Roth.
Название: The Maltese Falcon
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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The Maltese Falcon set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
Название: The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton's all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using rarely-seen and recently discovered sources, such as Carroll's accounts ledger and unpublished correspondence with the real Alice's family, Woolf sets Lewis Carroll firmly in the context of the English Victorian age and answers many intriguing questions about the man who wrote the Alice books, such as: — Was it Alice or her older sister that caused him to break with the Liddell family? — How true is the gossip about pedophilia and certain adult women that followed him? — How true is the romantic secret which many think ruined Carroll's personal life? — Who caused Carroll major financial trouble and why did Carroll successfully conceal that person's identity and actions? Woolf answers these and other questions to bring readers yet another look at one of the most elusive English writers the world has known.
Название: Peter Pan
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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More than the memorable adventures of a young boy, an elfin fairy, and a swarthy pirate who gives new meaning to the phrase right hook, Peter Pan is an enduring tale that speaks of magic and innocence, fair play and personal virtue. The timeless artwork of such masters as F. D. Bedford (the original illustrator), Flora White, Alice Woodward, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Arthur Rackham, and Gwynedd Hudson captures the classic story's dreaminess as it follows the adventures of the boy who wouldn't grow up. From the immortal Wendy and Tinker Bell to Captain Hook and the lost boys, make Neverland foreverland with this beautifully illustrated book that reminds the child in all of us how good it feels to fly.
Название: Shakespeare's England
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2003
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A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. Shakespeare's England brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include: William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritan view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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In this new history of England, Tom Beaumont James uses archaeology to present a fresh view of the events that have shaped the country. Both accessible and comprehensive, The Story of England guides us from prehistory to Cool Britannia, through invasions, wars, disease and empire-building, peopled by monarchs, rebels, politicians, and others who have left an indelible mark on England's development.
Название: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume that truly captures the style of A. A. Milne-a worthy sequel to The House at Pooh Corner and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Название: Absurdistan Passport Journal
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2011
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Take a round-the-world trip and bring back a timeless souvenir. Our Passport Journals will allow you to revisit your memories and fulfill that wanderlust long after your travels have been completed. The pocket-sized hardcover books contain designed pages which re-create the international feel of an actual passport.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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Illustrated with large floral watercolors by Melissa Sweet — embellished with tiny fairies between the leaves and petals — this box set presents 26 alphabetical flowers on 8 x 10-inch cards. Use them as flash cards for beginning readers or apprentice gardeners, or put them up as cozy country decorations.
Название: Fancy Alphabets
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2003
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Ornamental type is one of the core tools at graphic designers' disposal: being practical and decorative at the same time, it is the essential resource for enhancing text. Apart from being pleasing to the eye, decorated type can focus attention where needed, making text more easy to read.
Название: Inkdeath
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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»Go back and rid the world of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you understand, Bluejay»? «Why two»? asked Mo hoarsely. «How can you ask for two lives in return for one»? Under the rule of the evil Adderhead, the Inkworld is in chaos, its characters far beyond the control of their author, Fenoglio. The fire-eater Dustfinger is dead, and Meggie fears losing her mother once more. Facing the threat of eternal winter, Mo inks a dangerous deal with Death itself. A faint hope remains of changing the cursed story...
Название: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2011
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What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between 'naive' poets — who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously — and 'sentimental' poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the beloved novels of his youth and ranging through the work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between the naive and the reflective, and the search for an equilibrium, that lie at the center of the novelist's craft. He ponders the novel's visual and sensual power — its ability to conjure landscapes so vivid they can make the here-and-now fade away. In the course of this exploration, he considers the elements of character, plot, time, and setting that compose the 'sweet illusion' of the fictional world. Anyone who has known the pleasure of becoming immersed in a novel will enjoy, and learn from, this perceptive book by one of the modern masters of the art.
Название: Bitter with Baggage
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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Work out with Sloane Tanen's embittered chenille chicks on the cover of this lined journal, as little Maude attempts to take an overcrowded yoga class without losing her inner tranquility. This attractive full-sized journal (6 3/4 x 9 inches closed) features ruled white pages with extra space at the top and bottom, in a laminated cover with a magnetic flap closure, pocket, and ribbon marker.
Название: Bunny Suicides: Composition Journal
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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Don't you dare laugh. Andy Riley's hilariously morbid cartoons of cute little rabbits creatively offing themselves decorate the yellow coves of this standard-sized, wide-ruled composition notebook.
Название: Battle Royal: Composition Books
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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Our Composition Books are a modern statement on a writing tradition. Its durable construction and lined pages are great for academic assignments, notes or daily journal entries. Conversion tables and other helpful information can be found on the inside covers. It also features a removable no-residue label that let's you decide whether or not to keep the classic-look.
Название: Flaming Tiger: Composition Books
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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Our Composition Books are a modern statement on a writing tradition. Its durable construction and lined pages are great for academic assignments, notes or daily journal entries. Conversion tables and other helpful information can be found on the inside covers. It also features a removable no-residue label that let's you decide whether or not to keep the classic-look.
