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Virtually unparalleled in scope and spanning more than five decades, the photography of visionary Helmut Newton (1920–2004) reached millions through publication in magazines like Vogue and Elle. His oeuvre transcended genres, bringing elegance, style, and voyeurism to fashion, portrait, and glamour photography through a body of work that remains as inimitable as it is unrivaled. Having mastered the art of fashion photography early in his career, Newton’s shoots invariably went beyond standard practice, blurring the lines between reality and illusion. Newton’s clear aesthetic pervades all areas of his work, particularly fashion, portraiture, and nude photography. Women take center stage – with subjects such as Catherine Deneuve, Liz Taylor, and Charlotte Rampling. Moving beyond traditional narrative approaches, Newton’s fashion photography is imbued not only with luxurious elegance and subtle seduction, but also cultural references and a surprising sense of humor.
During the 1990s, Newton shot for the German, American, Italian, French, and Russian editions of Vogue, primarily in and around Monte Carlo where he was living from 1981 onwards. Transforming locations like his own garage into starkly contrasting or particularly minimalist theatrical stages, Newton would often portray the eccentric lives of the beautiful and rich, full of eroticism and elegance, in unconventional scenarios. He made use of and simultaneously questioned visual clichés, at times tinged with self-irony or mockery, but always full of empathy.
Twenty-five years after her tragic death, James Patterson tells the heartbreaking true story of Princess Diana's life as a mother and a global icon.
At the age of thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer.
At twenty, Princess of Wales.
At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother.
As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family - Diana most of all.
With one son destined to be King and one needing to find his own way, she taught them lessons about royal tradition and also real life. 'William and Harry will be properly prepared,' Diana once promised. 'I am making sure of this.'
Even after her tragic death, the strength of her love for her sons remains an enduring inspiration, not only for the two princes, but for the entire world.
Rooted charts a quiet revolution taking place in our fields, barns and hedgerows, led by a new generation of farmers on a path of powerful change.
Sarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and work in the city as a barrister. But when she found herself back in the countryside, gravitating towards an agricultural life she never thought would be hers, she saw her fellow farmers dealing with very different problems to those who had come before. A hostile press and public, together with Brexit, climate change and environmental pressures had combined to create a burden that many farmers felt had become impossible to bear.
Having found herself unexpectedly in charge of a Suffolk farm, Sarah tells the story of the people she met who taught her what it means to be a farmer. An authentic, beautifully written portrait of twenty-first century farming life, her book puts a powerful case: that the task of restoring our earth and ensuring a sustainable future lies in the hands of those who live closest to the land.
Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whole, free and at peace', and then faltered.
Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs.
Drawing on half a century of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whole, free and at peace'. And then faltered.
Humane, expert and deeply felt, Homelands is full of encounters, conversations and anecdote. It is also highly personal: Timothy Garton Ash has spent a lifetime studying and thinking about Europe and this book is full of life itself, from his father's experience on D-Day, to his teenage French exchange, to interviewing Polish dockers, Albanian guerillas and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents in the UK, Europe, and the US.
Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.
After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes, Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists - most of whom knew little about finance - to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed, but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world, their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today.
As Renaissance became a major player in the financial world, its executives began exerting influence on other areas. Simons became a major force in scientific research, education and Democratic politics, funding Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign. While senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency - he placed Steve Bannon in the campaign, funded Trump's victorious 2016 effort and backed alt-right publication Breitbart. Mercer also impacted the success of the Brexit campaign as he made significant investments in Cambridge Anatlytica. For all his prescience, Simons failed to anticipate how Mercer's activity would impact his firm and the world.
In this fast-paced narrative, Zuckerman examines how Simons launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street, and reveals the impact that Simons, the quiet billionaire king of the quants, has had on worlds well beyond finance.
The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of bestsellers THE BIG SHORT and THE PREMONITION.
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The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis’s pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-80s when they were probably the world’s most powerful and profitable merchant bank.
Funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, Liar’s Poker is the original story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever.
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‘If you thought Gordon Gekko of the Wall Street movie was an implausibly corrupt piece of fiction, see how you like the real thing. This rip-the-lid-off account of the bond-dealing brouhaha is the work of a real-life bond salesman.’ The Sunday Times
‘So memorable and alive . . . one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era.’ Fortune
‘The funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read.’ Tom Wolfe
‘Wickedly funny’ Daily Express
‘Hilarious’ New York Times
Najnowsza książka autora bestsellerów Steve Jobs i Innowatorzy – pobudzający wyobraźnię literacki portret Leonarda da Vinci. Odwołując się do liczących tysiące stron notatników geniusza, a także do najnowszych odkryć związanych z jego życiem i dorobkiem, Walter Isaacson snuje porywającą opowieść i po mistrzowsku splata wątki twórczości artystycznej Leonarda z jego dokonaniami naukowymi.
Spod pędzla Leonarda wyszły dwa najsłynniejsze obrazy w historii malarstwa: Ostatnia Wieczerza i Mona Lisa. On sam uważał się jednak nie tylko za malarza, ale też za naukowca i inżyniera. Z pasją graniczącą niekiedy z obsesją prowadził nowatorskie badania nad anatomią człowieka, skamieniałościami, ptakami, maszynami latającymi, botaniką, geologią i sztuką projektowania broni. Niezwykła umiejętność łączenia nauk humanistycznych i przyrodniczych – której symbolem stał się Człowiek witruwiański – uczyniła Leonarda jednym z najbardziej kreatywnych geniuszy w dziejach ludzkości.
Łączenie różnorodnych pasji, tak jak z upodobaniem robił to Leonardo, wciąż pozostaje najlepszym sposobem na rozbudzenie w sobie twórczej inwencji. Życiorys Leonarda – nieślubnego dziecka, homoseksualisty, mańkuta i wegetarianina, mającego problemy z koncentracją i ocierającego się czasem o herezję – to także najlepszy dowód na to, że outsider nie musi stać na straconej pozycji. Jego historia uświadamia nam, jak ważne jest, by nieustannie podsycać głód wiedzy, być gotowym do podawania jej w wątpliwość i mieć odwagę myśleć inaczej.
Za tak ludzki portret geniusza Isaacson zasługuje na wyrazy najwyższego uznania.
„The Times“
Wiecznie głodny wiedzy, łatwo się rozpraszający, próżny, a przy tym wegetarianin. W znakomitej biografii Isaacsona Leonardo jest człowiekiem z krwi i kości.
„The Sunday Times“
Niezwykle pouczający przewodnik po twórczym dorobku jednego z największych umysłów minionego tysiąclecia.
„The Observer“
Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters. Sections include extracts from her work on fascism, Marxism, and totalitarianism; her treatment of work and labour; her writings on politics and ethics; and a section on truth and the role of the intellectual.
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
The Extraordinary Life of Steve Jobs, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.
Steve Jobs was a brilliant inventor and businessman. His computers, tablets and iPods have changed our lives and work. Steve was sometimes very difficult to work with, but he was also special. He thought about the world in a different way, and he had many brilliant ideas.
In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.
When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you not only try to help them get better but you also labour under the general belief that you can help them get better. That’s not always the case though. Sometimes the nurses and the doctors can’t fix what’s wrong. Sometimes children die.
Rob Delaney’s beautiful, bright, gloriously alive son Henry died. He was one when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. An experience beyond comprehension, but an experience Rob must share. Why does he feel compelled to talk about it, to write about it, to make people feel something like what he feels when he knows it will hurt them? Because, despite Henry’s death, Rob still loves people. For that reason, he wants them to understand.
A Heart That Works is an intimate, unflinching and fiercely funny exploration of loss – from the harrowing illness to the vivid, bodily impact of grief and the blind, furious rage that follows, through to the forceful, unstoppable love that remains.
This is the story of what happens when you lose a child, and everything you discover about life in the process.
Nic tu nie jest prawdą i wszystko tu jest prawdą. – Jim Carrey
Poznajcie Jima Carreya. Jasne, jest odnoszącym niesamowite sukcesy i uwielbianym gwiazdorem kina opływającym w dostatki i zaszczyty – ale jest też samotny. Może jego najlepszy czas już minął. Może nawet… Jim się roztył? Próbuje różnych diet, słucha rozmaitych guru i bawi się ze swoimi wojskowymi psami obronnymi wyszkolonymi zgodnie ze standardami Mosadu, ale wygląda na to, że nic nie jest w stanie rozwiać nudy i poczucia pustki. Nawet mądre rady jego najlepszego przyjaciela, aktora i kolekcjonera czaszek dinozaurów, Nicolasa Cage’a nie wystarczają, by wyciągnąć Carreya z dołka.
Ale potem Jim poznaje bezwzględną i pomysłową Georgie, miłość życia. I dzięki scenarzyście Charliemu Kaufmanowi dostaje rolę w przełomowym filmie, który może mu pomóc odkryć zupełnie nowe możliwości – to coś, co wreszcie da mu Oscara! Wszystko zaczyna się układać!
Ale wszechświat ma inne plany.
„Wspomnienia i dezinformacja“ to stworzona przez Jima Carreya i Danę Vachona niesamowita opowieść o aktorstwie, Hollywood, agentach, celebrytach, zaszczytach, przyjaźni, romansach, uzależnieniu od własnego znaczenia, lęku przed byciem zapomnianym, o wielkości naszej duszy, Kanadzie i katastroficznym końcu świata – jednym słowem o wewnętrznych i zewnętrznych apokalipsach. To odważna, na wpół autobiograficzna powieść z bezpardonową dekonstrukcją występujących w niej słynnych postaci i hollywoodzka parodia – tak śmieszna, że aż parzy.
Zaskakująca i zarazem fascynująca analiza psyche Jima Carreya. Zupełnie nowe podejście do tradycyjnych hollywoodzkich biografii. – Thomas Floyd, „Washington Post“
SABINA BŁAWACKA - urodziła się 28.10.1983 roku w Krakowie.Należy do Krakowskiego Klubu Fotograficznego, ma certyfikat coacha ICI, uczestniczyła w kursie na asystenta zdrowienia, udziela korepetycji dzieciom i młodzieży z jęz. francuskiego.Ta książka to jej debiut.
"Paryska antologia Jeżewskiego jest pierwszą opublikowaną po wojnie na Zachodzie i ze wszystkich dotychczas na pewno najbogatszą i najaktualniejszą. To pierwszorzędna pozycja biograficzna i oryginalny dokument historyczny, którego ominąć nie można i o którym milczeć nie wypada"
Bruno Koper "Życie Literackie", Kraków, nr 7 z 19 lutego 1989
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