en-US Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:18:21 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 15059497 Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach’s intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations from her friends of having deserted Europe and the antifascist cause for Tehran, Schwarzenbach recorded a great deal about daily life in Persia, and, most personally, her ill-fated love affair with Jalé, the daughter of the Turkish ambassador. Chronologically preceding Schwarzenbach’s exquisite travelogue All the Roads Are Open, an account of her automobile journey from Geneva to Afghanistan in 1939, Death in Persia is the enthralling diary of an astute observer standing at the crossroads of major events in history and a gorgeous new addition to Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s growing English-language oeuvre.]]> 117 Annemarie Schwarzenbach 0857420895 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.75 1995
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]]> 124995111 Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Japan he makes a journey of rediscovery to find the wonders that still remain.

Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, Hidden Japan records Kerr's travels to various remote and lesser-known places where pockets of traditional culture can still be found. Some are faraway—like Aogashima Island, 200 miles south of Tokyo—while others are easy to reach, such as Mii-dera temple just east of Kyoto. The ten engaging essays in this book describe surprising remnants of Japan's fragile physical and cultural environment, including:

�� Avant-garde Butoh dancing in the remote village of Tashiro in Akita Prefecture
�� How shochu liquor is distilled from tropical ferns on the Pacific island of Aogashima
�� An austere but delicious kaiseki meal in rural Tottori Prefecture composed of local herbs and meats
�� Anecdotes relating to Kerr's childhood growing up in Japan and his passion for restoring old houses
�� The damage caused by governmental infrastructure and reforestation policies, as well as by tourism
�� Plus many other topics!

Kerr's sharp eye for detail and exquisite descriptions of Japanese, arts, architecture and foods will inspire readers who already appreciate his unique look at the "reality" of Japan beyond the romance. His personal involvement and obvious love for his subjects encourage us all to think more carefully about our own traditions and environment, and to challenge ourselves to search for better solutions to preserve what is of value all around us.]]> 259 Alex Kerr 1462924182 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.82
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]]> 6135458 Так называемые Кандзявые эссе - первая из серии книг, запланированных к выходу под общим названием "Японский для души". Серия ставит своей задачей обеспечить любому желающему эффективное "вхождение" в японский язык, сняв страх русскоговорящего европейца перед японскими и китайскими иероглифами, погрузить его в мир иероглифической образности, создать вокруг изучающего японский язык среду, благодаря которой понимание, запоминание и усвоение иероглифов станет если не простым, то крайне увлекательным делом. Книга постоянно обращается к личному опыту читателя, истории и культуре Японии и Китая, поэзии, пословицам и прочим явлениям и фактам, на фоне которых раскрывается таинственный и захватывающий мир японской письменности.

Книга предназначена для всех, кто хочет найти естественный, безболезненный и, что самое главное, свой путь в постижении японского языка.
От OZON.ru
2-е издание, дополненное и исправленное.]]> 528 Александр Вурдов Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.40 2006
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]]> 93803
In Dogs and Demons , Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. He is the first to give a full report on the nation's endangered environment -- its seashores lined with concrete, its roads leading to nowhere in the mountains -- as well as its "monument frenzy," the destruction of old cities such as Kyoto and construction of drab new ones, and the attendant collapse of its tourist industry. Kerr writes with humor and passion, for "passion," he says, "is part of the story. Millions of Japanese feel as heartbroken at what is going on as I do. My Japanese friends tell me, 'Please write this -- for us.'"]]> 320 Alex Kerr 0809039435 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.76 2001
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]]> 175626 167 Matsuo Bashō 0140441859 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.14 1694
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]]> 59825447 144 Полина Барскова Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.73
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]]> 53282886
Если вы хотите, чтобы ваше путешествие по книжному миру стало настоящим приключением, �� не забудьте взять с собой «Таинственную карту»: в ней хватает и увлекательных маршрутов, и кладов с литературными сокровищами.]]> 512 Галина Юзефович 517121901X Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.03
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]]> 29362760 360 David Hockney 1419722751 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.36 2016
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]]> 448774 258 Dore Ashton 0520081064 Ksenia 0 4.13 1973
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]]> 35427341 From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a sweeping new novel that explores richly complex relationships between fathers and sons as it spans seven transformative decades in England, from the 1940s through the present

In the fall of 1940, with the world at war, a young man arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are already set on joining the Royal Air Force as a pilot. Handsome, charismatic, a powerful athlete and oarsman, David Sparsholt seems at first unaware of the effect he has on others--especially on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist, himself also destined to become a writer. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove from the action: a place of transience and uncertainty, the fears and rigors of the blackout both encouraging and concealing unexpected liaisons. Between these two young men of very different backgrounds an unusual friendship develops, one whose consequences will unfold over the many years that follow.

Alan Hollinghurst's masterly new novel evokes the intimate lives of three generations of Sparsholts in a sequence of vividly rendered episodes: a childhood holiday in Cornwall; eccentric social gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's son Johnny, in pursuit of love and a career as a painter in 1970s London. Changes in taste, morality, and private life are explored in a group portrait of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. Champions of the Modern live to see modernity itself becoming history, while more personal, life-changing crises and scandals--including that which gives this novel its title--recede into the past, leaving their ambiguous traces. And as gay men and women live in increasing freedom and openness, and the gay scene evolves into new forms and possibilities, The Sparsholt Affair becomes a meditation on human transience, even as it expresses the countervailing longing for permanence and continuity.

Witty, tender, epic in scope yet rich in observation, The Sparsholt Affair is a dazzling new work of fiction by a writer justly hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best novelists at work today."]]> 454 Alan Hollinghurst 1447208218 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.50 2017
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]]> 12158480 Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

   - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?
   - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
   - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.]]> 529 Daron Acemoğlu 0307719219 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.06 2012
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]]> 42598355 Шестидневные погребальные мероприятия для мажорных реквиемов, кляксы Шуберта, комический распорядок дня Эрика Сати, переписка Брамса с «лучшей из женщин», 16 томов литературы Вагнера и оторопь Восьмой симфонии Брукнера, когда музыканты хмелеют от утомления и перевозбуждения, �� по сути, перед нами тональная аналогия эмоциональной жизни человечества.

Максим Семеляк
главный редактор Men’s Health Russia]]> 438 Ляля Кандаурова 5961471446 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.77
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]]> 61663 384 Carl Sagan 0345376595 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.33 1994
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]]> 35503516 Анализируя самые разные направления и движения в искусстве и обществе - от классической музыки до художественного авангарда 1920-х, от модерна до поп-арта, от феминизма до религиозного фундаментализма, Хобсбаум точно определяет поворотные моменты эпох и устанавливает их взаимосвязь.
Сочетание левых убеждений и глубинной связи с культурой до- и межвоенной Центральной Европы во многом объясняются биографией Хобсбаума: ровесник революции 1917 года, он вырос в еврейской семье в Берлине и Вене, с приходом нацистов эмигрировал в Великобританию, где окончил Кембридж и вступил в Компартию.
Его резкие высказывания нередко вызывали споры и негодование. Однако многочисленные исторические труды Хобсбаума, в первую очередь трилогия по истории "длинного девятнадцатого века" ("Век революции", "Век капитала" и "Век империи") и "Эпоха крайностей" о "коротком двадцатом", стали общепризнанными вершинами мировой историографии. Глубоко зная прошлое, он сумел разглядеть и предсказать многие заблуждения современного общества так проницательно, как мало кому удалось.]]> 384 Eric J. Hobsbawm 5170865643 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.73 2012
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Содержание
Флорентийский дневник
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 7-120
Дальние виды
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 121-124
Interieurs
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 125-136
О мелодии вещей
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 137-149
Об искусстве
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 150-158
Заметка об искусстве
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 159-159
Маргиналии к Ницше
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 160-173
Об одиноких
(переводчик: В. Бакусев) c. 174-180
Примечания Комментарии c. 181-195
Песнь одиночеству Послесловие c. 196-221]]> 224 Rainer Maria Rilke Ksenia 0 currently-reading 3.50 1942
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]]> 34296796 848 Борис Мессерер 5171003246 Ksenia 0 currently-reading 4.60 2016
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