The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Over the next 10 years she had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. She traveled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons, Ray Davies, and Frank Zappa. As a member of the GTO's, a girl group masterminded by Frank Zappa, she was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tell–all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's most thrilling eras.

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В книгу вошел самый значительный роман Трумена Капоте "Хладнокровное убийство", основанный на истории реального преступления, совершенного в 1959 г. в Канзасе, и раскрывающий природу насилия как сложного социального и психологического феномена. Книга Капоте, мгновенно ставшая бестселлером, породила особый жанр "романа-репортажа". Взвешенность и непредубежденность авторской позиции, блестящая выверенность стиля, полифоничность изображения сделали роман Капоте образцом документально-художественной литературы.

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В книгу вошел самый значительный роман Трумена Капоте "Хладнокровное убийство", основанный на истории реального преступления, совершенного в 1959 г. в Канзасе, и раскрывающий… Развернуть 

Questi "Classici italiani per stranieri" presentano testi originali - alcuni con una parafrasi a fronte in italiano moderno e semplice - e spunti critici, note che guidano I'analisi testuale, essenziali informazioni sull'autore, la sua vita, le sue opere.
Non si tratta di testi critici, ma di volumi di lavoro, veri e propri strumenti agili a disposizione dell'insegnante di letteratura italiana e dell'appassionato della nostra cultura.
La "Commedia" di Dante ha avuto molti commenti, chiose, edizioni critiche in questi secoli. Lo scopo di questa edizione (che presenta in tre volumi i brani piu significativi delle tre Cantiche) non e quello di proporre un ulteriore commento, ma di aiutare il lettore straniero ad avvicinarsi all'originale dantesco. Per questo motivo si e predisposta una parafrasi in italiano odierno e un apparato di note che spiegano i riferimenti, le allegorie, il lessico piu complesso. Questo volume presenta "l'Inferno", la Cantica piu ricca di emozioni, di personaggi splendidi, di drammi, che spesso con pochi versi Dante ha saputo rendere universali ed immortali.

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Inherit the Wind is a burr account of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, which resulted in John T. Scopes's conviction for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution. The fictional characters Matthew Harrison Brady, Henry Drummond, Bertram Cates and E. K. Hornbeck correspond to the historical figures of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Scopes, and H. L. Mencken, respectively. However, the playwrights state in a note at the opening of the play that it is not meant to be an historical account.[2] Their intent was to criticize the then current state of McCarthyism or anti-Communist investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The authors used the historical Scopes trial as the background for a drama that comments on and explores the threats to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria. In 1996 Lawrence commented in an interview that, "we used the teaching of evolution as a parable, a metaphor for any kind of mind control [...] It's not about science versus religion. It's about the right to think."

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Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.

Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.

"A powerfully affecting work, abounding in humor and heartbreak." (Chicago Tribune Bookworld)

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Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike.… Развернуть 

For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her experience with children has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed is inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child.
This book chronicles her quest-both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public-to discover how we can make our society into the kind of village that enable children to grow into able, caring, resilient adults. It is time, Mrs. Clinton believes, to acknowledge that we have to make some changes for children's sake. Advances in technology and the global economy along with other developments in society have brought us much good, but they have also stressed the fabric of family life, leaving us and our children poorer in many ways - physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually.
She doesn't believe that we should, or can, turn back the clock. False nostalgia for "family values" is no solution. Nor is it useful to make an all-purpose bogeyman or savior of "government." But by looking honestly at the condition of our children, be sifting the past for clues to the structure that once bound us together, by identifying places where our "village" is flourishing, and, most important, be listening to the children themselves, we can begin to create for our children the better tomorrow they deserve.

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Появление скромной, милой гувернантки в мрачном замке Рочестера словно несет с собой свет, согревает души его обитателей. Зловещие тайны рассеиваются, страхи отступают перед этой хрупкой на вид, но такой сильной духом девушкой. И когда она начинает борьбу за свою любовь, никакие силы не могут остановить ее.

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Появление скромной, милой гувернантки в мрачном замке Рочестера словно несет с собой свет, согревает души его обитателей. Зловещие тайны рассеиваются, страхи отступают перед этой… Развернуть 

"Клуб радости и удачи" - первый роман американской писательницы Эми Тан, родившейся в семье эмигрантов из Китая. Эта удивительная мистерия в стиле "дочки-матери" из шестнадцати новелл, вложенных в уста четырех матерей-китаянок и их четырех дочерей, которые родились и выросли в Америке.

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"Клуб радости и удачи" - первый роман американской писательницы Эми Тан, родившейся в семье эмигрантов из Китая. Эта удивительная мистерия в стиле "дочки-матери" из шестнадцати… Развернуть