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В 2010 году в Лондоне в закрытой сумке было найдено тело Гарета Уильямса – сотрудника британской разведки. Полиция назвала его смерть самоубийством. Общественность и факты говорят об абсурдности такой версии.Выяснилось, что погибший стоял у истоков создания глобальных шпионских технологий и предотвращал отмывание российских денег в Европе. В 2018 году его гибель включили в список 14-ти подозрительных смертей на британской земле, куда входят также Березовский, Литвиненко и Перепеличный.
Что еще добавить? События. Люди. Книги
В сборнике статей В. Пимонова, члена Русского ПЕН-центра, читатель в полной мере ощутит журналистское неравнодушие и особое внимание автора к деталям.В первой части читатель познакомится с откликами на факты культурной жизни Москвы и Подмосковья. Посещая художественные выставки, творческие вечера, концерты, автор тонко показывает значимость описываемых фигур в сфере искусства. Вторая часть – интервью с деятелями культуры. Часть третья – подборка рецензий за нулевые-десятые годы. Книга содержит нецензурную брань.
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Ковыряясь в мертвой лягушке: инсайды от топовых комедийных авторов
«Юмор можно препарировать, как лягушку, но она умирает в процессе… В юморе не получится долго ковыряться. Он с легкостью ускользает от вас». Элвин Брукс Уайт Автор этой книги Майк Сакс не пытается «разделать» комедию «до смерти», словно несчастную лягушку. Нет, он лишь осторожно проходится по всем ее составляющим, уважая это хрупкое искусство. Здесь вы найдете 15 эксклюзивных интервью с лучшими представителями индустрии. Свои истории и секреты раскрывают создатели проектов «Офис», «Парки и зоны отдыха», «Монти Пайтон», «Субботним вечером в прямом эфире», «Новенькая», «Нью-Йоркер» и т. д. Вы узнаете не только, как им удается смешить совершенно незнакомых людей, но и главное, зачем они это делают. Эти люди столько раз ломали каноны юмора, не соответствуя ничьим ожиданиям и правилам, что в итоге сами стали образцами для подражания. Непосредственные советы, которые могут пригодится комедийному писателю, для удобства вынесены в книге в отдельные разделы. Они написаны лаконично, понятно, без воды и помогут не только новичкам, но и тем, кто хочет улучшить свои навыки. В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.
Cultural Economics
The cultural industries and their products and services make a significant contribution to the global economy and are seen as strategic sectors for sustainable economic growth. However, industries such as art, design, film, music, performing arts, publishing, television and radio, present particular challenges for economic analysis. They can be goods or services that are both public and private, protected by copyright and freely available, consumed and created, as well as susceptible to fashion and technological development. In this fascinating introduction to the cultural economy, Christiane Hellmanzik examines the market for creative work and reveals the economic relationships between human creativity, intellectual property and technology. Through the careful use of case studies, the book explores the core economic considerations such as supply and demand, competition and pricing, alongside macro trends such as globalization, digitalization and the internet, which are changing the industry’s business models.
Coming Home to Story
Stories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply. Master storyteller Geoff Mead brings the reader inside the experience of telling and listening to a story. He shows how stories and storytelling engage our imaginations, strengthen communities and bring adventure and joy into our lives. The narrative is interspersed with consummate retellings of traditional tales from all over the world.
At the Blue Monkey
Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One —life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted, At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex-doctor and renounced Dadaist as a literary “Maupaussant of crime” and offers in this first English translation 33 stories of criminals, con artists and prostitutes engaged in varieties of financial insolvency, embezzlement, sexual hijinks, long and short cons, and dalliances with venereal diseases and drugs.Told in a baroque, sometimes baffling poetry of underworld slang in an urban world of bars and rent-a-rooms, these short tales are presented to the reader like so many three-card Montes in which readers come to realize too late that they may well themselves be the literary mark.Walter Serner (1889–1942) helped found the Dada movement and embodied its most cynical and anarchic aspects. After breaking with the movement, he began publishing crime stories and the 1925 novel The Tigress . Moving constantly across Europe, he eventually disappeared and was rumored to have vanished into the criminal milieu he wrote about; in fact he had returned to Czechoslovakia, married and become a schoolteacher. In 1942, he and his wife presumably died after being moved from a concentration camp, his books banned and burned by the Nazis.
An Honest Thief and Other Stories
After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, «Poor Folk,» in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Early participation in a literary/political group landed the writer in exile in Siberia for nearly a decade, an experience which had a profound influence on Dostoyevsky's understanding of fate, the suffering of human beings, and resulted in a powerful religious conversion experience. Dostoyevsky's works are marked by his penetrating exploration of psychology and morality, which are today cited as highly 'existentialist.' An Honest Thief illustrates some of the author's most common themes: compassion, integrity and the power of the human spirit. This volume also includes: Uncle's Dream, A Novel in Nine Letters, An Unpleasant Predicament, Another Man's Wife, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, The Peasant Marey, The Crocodile, Bobok, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.
The Witch and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty nature and humanity. This edition contains many stories, including «Peasant Wives,» «The Post,» «Dreams,» «Agafya,» «Gusev,» «In the Ravine,» «The Huntsman,» and «Happiness.»
The Complete Christmas Books and Stories of Charles Dickens
This edition brings together the complete Christmas books and short stories of Charles Dickens. While readers will be most familiar with «The Christmas Carol» in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include «The Chimes», the story of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness; «The Cricket on the Hearth», the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth; «The Battle of Life» a charmingly uplifting and romantic Christmas story; and «The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain», which is the story of Redlaw, a chemistry teacher constantly brooding over the grief caused by wrongs done to him in the past. Along with these novels is included a complete collection of Dickens' Christmas short stories which include the following: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, Nobody's Story, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Holly-Tree, The Wreck of the Golden Mary, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, Going into Society, The Haunted House, A Message from the Sea, Tom Tiddler's Ground, Somebody's Luggage, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Doctor Marigold, The Trial for Murder, The Signal-Man, Mugby Junction, and No Thoroughfare.