130,90 zł

Luther's Chess Reformation by Thomas Luther (miękka okładka)

Szachy > Postęp szachowy

Wydanie w miękkiej okładce, wersja językowa - angielska Becoming a Grandmaster is the dream of every young chess talent. Thomas Luther achieved this goal despite the added challenge of being born with a disability. Luther#8217;s Chess Reformation  provides a wealth of practical tips and suggestions for chess players of all levels. Using the experiences and insights gained from his remarkable career, Luther offers an insider#8217;s view into the world of grandmaster chess. Readers will enjoy his chatty style, while also benefiting from invaluable advice about what it takes to achieve one#8217;s chess goals.Grandmaster  Thomas Luther  is a three-time German Champion who reached the Top 100 in the world. Luther is a highly successful coach and one of only a handful of people to be awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.ISBN 978-1-78483-017-5 - 232 pages - Published 21 December 2016Reviews"It is a chess book that many can learn from, both about chess technically and in terms of knowledge of the world of chess grandmasters. And incidentally, we learn a few things about life in the former East Germany, where of course it was not all doom and gloom. There is much about the life of top chess players and any youthful talent planning to become professional should read this." Bab Wilders , Nederlands Dagblad

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157,40 zł

The Market Is Always Right McGraw-Hill

Literatura anglojęzyczna

Podana cena książki jest orientacyjna, zależy od kilku czynników. Po zakupie obsługa sklepu skontaktuje się, jeśli konieczna będzie dopłata. Book Description Rules for successful trading, direct from the traders who practice them every day Even with today's high-speed computers, online accounts, and information access, traders still live or die based on their abilities to control fear, greed, and emotion. The Market Is Always Right gives traders battle-proven advice for avoiding common trading setbacks by understanding human natureboth their own and others'and directing it toward profitable outcomes. Distilling the wisdom of hundreds of traders, this proactive book starts with 10 overriding rulesfor example, "Evaluate your performance"and then lists the subrules within each, such as "Qualify and quantify your trading pattern." Other examples include: Never chase trades Watch the opendon't trade it When in doubt, get out Download Description Even with today's high-speed computers, online accounts, and information access, traders still live or die based on their abilities to control fear, greed, and emotion. The Market Is Always Right gives traders battle-proven advice for avoiding common trading setbacks by understanding human natureboth their own and others'and directing it toward profitable outcomes. Book Info Provides rules for successful trading, direct from the traders who practice them every day. Gives traders battle-proven advice for avoiding common trading setbacks by understanding human nature, both their own and others' and directing it toward profitable outcomes. From the Back Cover Market-Proven Tactics for Fighting the Trader's Toughest Enemy--His Own Volatile Emotions Few professions are as stress-filled as trading. In the time it takes to refill your coffee, you can lose tens of thousands of dollars. Then you must determine in a split second whether to cut your losses and sell, average down and buy more, or sit tight and hope the market turns back in your favor... Without any guarantees. The Market Is Always Right answers the question, "How do experienced traders control their emotions in the heat of the trading battle?" Whether you are trading stocks, options, or futures, this straight-talking book shows you how to maintain a strong and steady course by detailing: - Ways to spot--and overcome--the seven deadly sins of trading - Two key questions traders should ask themselves before each market open - Trading events that scream "SELL!" no matter what Long-time traders know: Whether markets are plummeting, skyrocketing, or simply holding steady, emotion is a trader's worst enemy. Whether you are a new trader looking to reach the next level of market mastery or an experienced trader seeking to pick up a new trick or two, The Market Is Always Right will show you how to maintain control in every market--by keeping your cool while all about you are losing theirs. "Traders must deal with human nature as they trade, both their own and their counterparts', as they collectively react to the markets they trade. The purpose of this book is to give you an insight into what hundreds of other traders have found that works when it comes to harnessing and directing human nature most productively..."--from the Introduction The world of trading is undergoing an unprecedented metamorphosis. Powerful personal computers, direct access to live trading markets, unlimited access to information, and more have placed individual traders on the same playing field as the pros. Yet one essential aspect of trading--the trader's basic human nature--remains unchanged and can wreak more havoc than all other trading perils combined. The Market Is Always Right takes you beyond the techniques of trading to explore your mind, day in and day out the most important and difficult-to-control market tool. Showing you how to recognize and overcome fear, greed, envy, and other deeplyengrained emotions that consistently work against your trading success, this insightful and market-proven guidebook covers: - Ways to develop--and stick to--a personalized trading plan - Strategies for knowing when to pull the trigger and avoid "paralysis by analysis" - Nine personality types, with the common trading faults of each - How to know when--and when not--to hold a position overnight - Valuable appendices listing Level 2 market makers, trading terms, resources for further information, and more "If you attempt to fight or to impose your will on the market, you court disaster."--from Chapter 1 While you can't control the global economy, the markets, or even the actions and reactions of other traders, you can control your own stress levels--and even learn to use them to your advantage! Let The Market Is Always Right show you how to go beyond mechanical trading principles to develop the successful trader's most essential and difficult-to-acquire tool--self-knowledge--and thereby replace costly self-doubt and worry with the confidence you need to remain focused on the business at hand and make sound decisions every second of the trading day. About the Autor Thomas McCafferty is COO of Market Wise Securities and has been involved in the securities industry for nearly three decades. A registered stockbroker and options principal, McCafferty has written a number of books on trading, including All About Commodities.

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20,32 zł

Empire Of The Undead (w) - Gamma Ray (Płyta CD)

Książki & Multimedia > Muzyka

Opis - Najnowsza płyta z 2014 roku zespołu muzycznego z Niemiec grającego power metal, założona przez byłego gitarzystę i wokalistę Helloween, Kaia Hansena. Zespół zdobył dużą popularność w Niemczech, Japonii oraz niemałą w Polsce. Nazwa - Empire Of The Undead (w) Autor - Gamma Ray Wydawca - Ear Music Kod EAN - 4029759093695 Rok wydania - 2014 Nośnik - Płyta CD Podatek VAT - 23%

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133,25 zł

The Wright Brothers Simon & Schuster

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.§§On December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why? David McCullough tells the extraordinary and truly American story of the two brothers who changed the world.§§Sons of an itinerant preacher and a mother who died young, Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in a small side street in Dayton, Ohio, in a house that lacked indoor plumbing and electricity but was filled with books and a love of learning. The brothers ran a bicycle shop that allowed them to earn enough money to pursue their mission in life: flight. In the 1890s flying was beginning to advance beyond the glider stage, but there were major technical challenges that the Wrights were determined to solve. They traveled to North Carolina's remote Outer Banks to test their plane because there they found three indispensable conditions: constant winds, soft surfaces for landings, and privacy.§§Flying was exceedingly dangerous; the Wrights risked their lives every time they flew in the years that followed. Orville nearly died in a crash in 1908, before he was nursed back to health by his sister, Katharine, an unsung and important part of the brothers' success and of McCullough's book. Despite their achievement, the Wrights could not convince the US government to take an interest in their plane until after they demonstrated its success in France, where the government instantly understood the importance of their achievement. Now, in this revelatory book, master historian David McCullough draws on nearly 1,000 letters of family correspondence - plus diaries, notebooks, and family scrapbooks in the Library of Congress - to tell the full story of the Wright brothers and their heroic achievement.

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46,92 zł

Ashley Audrain - Push Penguin Books

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

PRE-ORDER THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - THE MOST BREATHTAKING DEBUT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD AND OBSESSION YOU'VE EVER READ'Utterly addictive' PAULA HAWKINS'Compulsive' VOGUE'Gripping' GUARDIAN'Inventive' SUNDAY TIMES'Suspenseful' HEAT'Not to be missed' LISA JEWELL________Blythe and Violet. Mother and daughter.It's a bond like no other.But what if your little angel is a monster?And what if no one sees it but you?________AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 2**Nominated for two Goodreads Choice Awards**A Book to Watch in 2021! As selected by:Grazia, Vogue, Red, Stylist, Marie Claire, Sunday Mirror, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, The Sun, Hello!, Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Porter'Like The Girl on the Train - but better!' DAILY MAIL'A blockbusting debut about the dark side of motherhood. Gripping, clever, vividly realised . . . the ending left me flabbergasted' GUARDIAN'I read it in one sitting. Not to be missed' LISA JEWELL'An inventive twist on the psychological thriller formula. Audrain sustains the suspense expertly' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't stop thinking and talking about it . . . it has absolutely blown me away' CANDICE BRATHWAITE'I was gripped from the first word to the last. I've been wanting a book to take me back to how I felt when I first read We Need to Talk About Kevin. That full body experience of reading, when you close the book but can't function until you know how it ends . . . I really recommend this one' DAWN O'PORTER'Powerful and immersive' EMMA STONEX, author of The Lamplighters'Taut, chilling, executed with gripping precision. Audrain nimbly stokes the mystery' New York Times'A suspenseful thriller. Will have you in its grips from the very first page - and stay with you long after you've put it down. Do not miss' Heat'Suspenseful, dark and intriguing . . . essential for book groups' Stylist'Unsettling, visceral, provocative, compulsive' Sarah Vaughan'The most thought-provoking exploration of motherhood since We Need to Talk About Kevin' Clare Pooley, bestselling author of The Authenticity Project'Fans of 'mum noir' are in for a treat' Daily Mail'Audrain sustains the suspense expertly through assured handling of her unravelling protagonist's voice' Sunday Times**Soon to be adapted for the screen by the producer of Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood, Marriage Story and Gravity**

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32,40 zł

Attitude and language Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM

Wydawnictwa naukowe i popularno-naukoweJęzykoznawstwo

This book explores how language and attitude conspire to communicate attitudinal meaning (e.g. criticism, praise). It takes an experimental pragmatics perspective and assumes an exploratory approach, drawing insights from interdisciplinary research, to explain how linguistic means and attitude cues bind to communicate attitudinal stance (approval, disapproval). The explorations are settled at three distinct levels: (i) behavioral, concerned with verbal and nonverbal means of manifesting attitude; (ii) mental, dedicated to the inferential heuristics involved in attitude comprehension; and (iii) neuro-physiological, exploring the brain mechanics underpinning attitude processing. The book offers state of the art theoretical, and empirical evidence on the language/attitude interface, and presents novel, experimental findings, demonstrating that message-level attitude processing is co-govemed by affect specific and language specific mechanisms. The underlying idea of the book is that speakers guide (explicitly, or implicitly) their interlocutors to grasp the emotional significance of the communicated message, by marking the linguistic contents with attitude cues. To express their attitudes,people rely on two complementary systems of communicating significance: linguistic means - to say what they mean, and attitudinal means - to express how they feel. In verbal interactions, people constantly make inferences not only about what others mean by what they say, but also about their attitudes. Therefore, attitude is not an auxiliary piece of information, an add-on to the linguistic contents of a message, but it is an essential part of it. Language and attitude are examined in this book as two mutually complementary, non-redundant systems of imparting attitudinal meaning.

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51,75 zł

Talking As Fast As I Can Little, Brown Book Group

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: with a new bonus chapterIn this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.In Talking As Fast As I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, "Did you, um, make it?" She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood ("Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!"), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge onProject Runway ("It's like I had a fashion-induced blackout").In "What It Was Like, Part One," Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay "What It Was Like, Part Two" reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she's aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls ("If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high"), and she's a card-carrying REI shopper ("My bungee cords now earn points!").Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and-of course-talking as fast as you can.

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38,36 zł

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

Książki & Multimedia > Książki

Opis - This book is inspired by the Big History theory (to learn about one thing, you have to learn about everything). In THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR, to understand the characters and their love story, listeners must know about everything around them and everything that came before them, to know how it has affected who they are and what they experience. Two teens"Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica"cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives. Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family?s deportation to. Nazwa - The Sun is Also a Star Autor - Nicola Yoon Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Corgi Books Kod ISBN - 9780552574242 Kod EAN - 9780552574242 Rok wydania - 2016 Język - angielski Format - 13.0x20.0cm Ilość stron - 376 Podatek VAT - 5%

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146,11 zł

Art of Andy Goldsworthy Crescent Moon Publishing

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

THE ART OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY This is the most comprehensive and detailed study of British artist Andy Goldsworthy, and is the only full-length exploration of Goldsworthy and his art available anywhere. The book has been completely rewritten and brought up to date for this new edition. Andy Goldsworthy makes land or earth art out of, among other materials, stacks of rocks, or stalks tied together, or mud thrown into rivers or poppy petals wrapped around boulders. His art is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth. Fully illustrated, with a revised text. Bibliography and notes. 348pp. ISBN 9781861714398. www.crmoon.com EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON GOLDSWORTHY'S LEAFWORKS It is the leafworks that are the most colourful of Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures. What the leaf sculptures show is how beautiful the colours of nature are: Goldsworthy shows the viewer these subtle colours by contrasting one leaf with another. Maple patch grouped the red/ orange/ yellow of Japanese maple leaves together; Poppy leaves contrasted the red poppy leaves against the mid-green of an elderberry bush; a Stone Wood sculpture of 1992 consisted of poppy leaves wrapped around a hazel branch, the red constrasting vividly with the wet green leaves; Dock Leaves interwove red leaves in green grass stalks. Two sycamore leafworks of 1980 and 1981 are very simple: a leaf black from cow shit is placed against pale Autumn leaves; another leaf, bleached white, is set down on a bed of dark leaves. He pins together two colours of sycamore leaves (sycamore is a favourite Goldsworthy medium) in Sycamore leaf sections (1988), and hangs the line of leaves from a tree. Shot with the sun behind them, the photograph of the leaves shows them glowing green and gold, the two classic colours of poetry and alchemy. REVIEW ON AMAZON A happily received gift. It's worth the price for one who wants a scholarly while earthy (sorry, couldn't help it) approach to the work. There's a quirkiness about the writing style that is engaging and honest. I'm glad I have the book and will reread it as I purchase other books on Goldsworthy where the work is shown via great photography. REVIEW ON AMAZON This is a chatty informational book. It has stories of many artists that have been associated with Andy Goldsworthy in his long career as a contemporary nature sculptor. If you are looking for a personal history this is a book for you. REVIEW ON AMAZON I'm no expert on visual art, nor would I claim to be, but I found this to be a useful book, and the only one I've been able to find about the work of Andy Goldsworthy. The author has taken the time to round up a large amount of varied source material which makes this book well worth seeking out.

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82,20 zł

Beer School John Wiley & Sons Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

What do you get when you cross a journalist and a banker? A brewery, of course. "A great city should have great beer. New York finally has, thanks to Brooklyn. Steve Hindy and Tom Potter provided it. Beer School explains how they did it: their mistakes as well as their triumphs. Steve writes with a journalist's skepticism-as though he has forgotten that he is reporting on himself. Tom is even less forgiving-he's a banker, after all. The inside story reads at times like a cautionary tale, but it is an account of a great and welcome achievement." -Michael Jackson, The Beer Hunter(r) "An accessible and insightful case study with terrific insight for aspiring entrepreneurs. And if that's not enough, it is all about beer!" -Professor Murray Low, Executive Director, Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia Business School "Great lessons on what every first-time entrepreneur will experience. Being down the block from the Brooklyn Brewery, I had firsthand witness to their positive impact on our community. I give Steve and Tom's book an A++!" -Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor, Inc. magazine "Beer School is a useful and entertaining book.In essence, this is the story of starting a beer business from scratch in New York City. The product is one readers can relate to, and the market is as tough as they get. What a fun challenge! The book can help not only those entrepreneurs who are starting a business but also those trying to grow one once it is established. Steve and Tom write with enthusiasm and insight about building their business. It is clear that they learned a lot along the way. Readers can learn from these lessons too." -Michael Preston, Adjunct Professor, Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia Business School, and coauthor, The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth "Although we (thankfully!) never had to deal with the Mob, being held up at gunpoint, or having our beer and equipment ripped off, we definitely identified with the challenges faced in those early days of cobbling a brewery together. The revealing story Steve and Tom tell about two partners entering a business out of passion, in an industry they knew little about, being seriously undercapitalized, with an overly naive business plan, and their ultimate success, is an inspiring tale." -Ken Grossman, founder, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

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638,24 zł

Brain and Visual Perception Oxford University Press Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Scientists' understanding of two central problems in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy has been greatly influenced by the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel: What is it to see? This relates to the machinery that underlies visual perception, how do we acquire the brain's mechanisms for vision? This is the nature-nurture question as to whether the nerve connections responsible for vision are innate or whether they develop through experience in the early life of an animal or human. This is a book about the collaboration between Hubel and Wiesel, which began in 1958, lasted until about 1982, and led to a Nobel Prize in 1981. It opens with short autobiographies of both men, describes the state of the field when they started, and tells about the beginnings of their collaboration. It emphasizes the importance of various mentors in their lives, especially Stephen W. Kuffler, who opened up the field by studying the cat retina in 1950, and founded the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of their work was done. The main part of the book consists of Hubel and Wiesel's most important publications.Each reprinted paper is preceded by a foreword that tells how they went about the research, what the difficulties and the pleasures were, and whether they felt a paper was important and why. Each is also followed by an afterword describing how the paper was received and what developments have occurred since its publication. The reader learns things that are often absent from typical scientific publications, including whether the work was difficult, fun, personally rewarding, exhilarating, or just plain tedious. The book ends with a summing-up of the authors' view of the present state of the field. This is much more than a collection of reprinted papers. Above all, it tells the story of an unusual scientific collaboration that was hugely enjoyable and served to transform an entire branch of neurobiology. It will appeal to neuroscientists, vision scientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, historians of science, and to their students and trainees, at all levels from high school on, as well as anyone else who is interested in the scientific process.

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234,45 zł

Learning Brain - Lessons for Education John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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In this groundbreaking book, two leading authorities in the field review what we really know about how and when the brain learns, and consider the implications of this knowledge for educational policy and practice. This is a pioneering book in emerging field from two leading authorities. It presents reviews in an accessible style what we know about how and when the brain learns. It draws out the implications of this knowledge for educational policy and practice. It covers studies on learning during the whole of development, including adulthood. It looks at what we can learn from brain research about children with learning difficulties, and how this can inform remedial education.

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118,68 zł

Rumsfeld's Rules Harper Collins Publishers

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For half a century, Donald Rumsfeld has been at the center of our country's history. As a Naval aviator, US Congressman, a top aide to four American presidents, an ambassador, and the only twice-serving Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld knows government from the inside out-how it works, how it doesn't and what it tells us about our country. Less well-known than his career in public service is Mr. Rumsfeld's two decades at the top of American business, as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies. With Rumsfeld's Rules, the man once named one of America's ten toughest CEOs by Fortune magazine offers current and future leaders practical advice on how to make their companies and employees more effective. Over his career as one of the nation's most recognized-and controversial-executives, Don Rumsfeld collected hundreds of pithy, compelling, and often-humorous observations about life and leadership. When President Gerald Ford ordered the list of management aphorisms distributed to his staff, the collection became known as Rumsfeld's Rules.In the decades since, these bi-partisan Rules have amused and enlightened presidents, foreign officials, diplomats, members of Congress, and business leaders. NPR has called them a Washington survival guide. Now, in the blunt and witty style that made his Pentagon press conferences must see TV during the George W. Bush administration, Rumsfeld selects some of his most important Rules and discusses them with fresh insights and anecdotes, in the context of having lived through 80 years of our nation's history. A book for aspiring politicos and industrialists, college graduates, teachers, and business leaders, Rumsfeld's Rules will provide new insight into how Rumsfeld thinks about leadership, management, and strategy, and show how that thinking helped him turn around ailing companies and lead the Pentagon in wartime. Rumsfeld provides tools to help hone readers' strategic thinking and rules to help them become better employees and leaders. Some examples include: On serving the boss: learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.On government, a lesson from Tony Blair: you begin when you're least capable and most popular, and you end when you're least popular and most capable. and, On serving the president: most advisors can tell a President how to improve what's been proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what is missing.

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52,25 zł

Lea Ypi - Free Penguin Books

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEARCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime. One of the nonfiction titles of the year' Luke Harding, Observer'Astonishing and deeply resonant . . . Ypi weaves magic in this book: I was entranced from beginning to end' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times'I never asked myself about the meaning of freedom until the day I hugged Stalin. From close up, he was much taller than I expected.'Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope.Then, in December 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant.Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

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69,33 zł

Memes in Digital Culture MIT Press Ltd

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian Style," and many others. "Gangnam Style" (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most famous examples of an Internet meme: a piece of digital content that spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes a shared cultural experience. In this book, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes -- including "Leave Britney Alone," the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's "We Are the 99 Percent." She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users.She differentiates memes from virals; analyzes what makes memes and virals successful; describes popular meme genres; discusses memes as new modes of political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes; and examines memes as agents of globalization. Memes, Shifman argues, encapsulate some of the most fundamental aspects of the Internet in general and of the participatory Web 2.0 culture in particular. Internet memes may be entertaining, but in this book Limor Shifman makes a compelling argument for taking them seriously.

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