The Memory Illusion. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory harvill

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

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Inventing the Enemy harvill

Socjologia. SpołeczeństwoHistoria literatury zagranicznejKultura. Cywilizacja. EtnografiaPublicystyka, esej zagranicznyPolityka

INVENTING THE ENEMY covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel, The Prague Cemetery - every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn't have one, must invent it; to the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels (and in the process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and medieval world); from indignant reviews of James Joyce's Ulysses by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, to an examination of St. Thomas Aquinas's notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship and violence to Wikileaks. These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsessions by one of the world's most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.

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Quicksand harvill

Pamiętniki. Wspomnienia. DziennikiHistoria literatury zagranicznejChoroby. Terapia. LekiPisarze i poeci

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met, but wish I had.I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness.This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years.It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life.And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss.

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Black Skies Harvill

Książki/Literatura piękna/Literatura obcojęzyczna

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The Crow Girl. harvill

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

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Men Without Women. harvill

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

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Quicksand. harvill

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

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Men Without Women HARVILL

Literatura obcojęzyczna

"I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden." Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

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The Crow Girl HARVILL

Literatura obcojęzyczna

It starts with just one body ' tortured, mummified and then discarded. Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted. This is the darkest, most complex case the police have ever seen. This is the world of the Crow Girl.

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The Memory Illusion HARVILL

Literatura obcojęzyczna

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. "Truly fascinating." (Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2). Have you ever forgotten the name of someone you've met dozens of times? - Or discovered that your memory of an important event was completely different from everyone else's? - Or vividly recalled being in a particular place at a particular time, only to discover later that you couldn't possibly have been? We rely on our memories every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is, they are far from being the accurate record of the past we like to think they are. In The Memory Illusion, forensic psychologist and memory expert Dr Julia Shaw draws on the latest research to show why our memories so often play tricks on us - and how, if we understand their fallibility, we can actually improve their accuracy. The result is an exploration of our minds that both fascinating and unnerving, and that will make you question how much you can ever truly know about yourself. Think you have a good memory? Think again. "A spryly paced, fun, sometimes frightening exploration of how we remember - and why everyone remembers things that never truly happened." (Pacific Standard).

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Stalin's Meteorologist HARVILL

Literatura obcojęzyczna

One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim - a celebrated meteorologist - had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners. By chance, Olivier Rolin discovered an album of the letters and beautiful drawings of the natural world which Alexey sent home to his wife, Varvara, and his four-year-old daughter, Eleonora. Intrigued by these images, Rolin became determined to uncover Alexey’s story and his eventual horrifying fate. Stalin’s Meteorologist is the fascinating and deeply moving account of an innocent man and his family caught up in the brutality of Soviet paranoia, and a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism.

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Numero Zero HARVILL

Literatura obcojęzyczna

The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Name of the Rose 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio, who is convinced that Mussolini’s corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It’s the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? He’s working on it. Colonna is sceptical. But when a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley, and the paper is shut down, even he is jolted out of his complacency. Fuelled by conspiracy theories, Mafiosi, love, corruption and murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller.

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Quicksand HARVILL

Literatura obcojęzyczna

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met, but wish I had. I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years. It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life. And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss.

Sklep: Literacka.pl

Pod gołym niebem Świat ksiĄŻki

Literatura piękna>Powieść zagraniczna

Debiut na miarę klasyków, łączący w sobie bogactwo języka Miguela Delibesa i siłę Cormaca McCarthy'ego. Powieść odniosła międzynarodowy sukces jeszcze przed publikacją w Hiszpanii.Chłopiec, który uciekł z domu, skulony w swojej kryjówce słucha nawoływań poszukujących go mężczyzn. Gdy głosy się oddalają, zostaje sam na sam z ogromną, nieurodzajną równiną, którą musi przebyć, jeśli chce ostatecznie zostawić za sobą to, co kazało mu uciec. W pewnym momencie napotka na swojej drodze starego pasterza kóz i od tej chwili wszystko zmieni się dla nich obu.Pod gołym niebem opowiada o ucieczce małego chłopca przez kraj, który pustoszą susza i przemoc. Z tego hermetycznego, pozbawionego nazw i historii świata moralność wyparowała tak samo jak woda. Chłopiec, nie całkiem jeszcze zepsuty przez otoczenie, będzie miał okazję podjąć niełatwą naukę myślenia, chyba że - przeciwnie - wybierze przemoc, którą wyssał z mlekiem matki.Jesús Carrasco tworzy opowieść surową, choć niepozbawioną głębokiego liryzmu. Pod gołym niebem to utkana z niewielu słów historia, w której bezlitosna przyroda stanowi o przebiegu zdarzeń, a ludzka godność z niezwykłą siłą wzbiera w szczelinach wyschniętej ziemi.Jesús Carrasco urodził się w Badajoz w 1972 roku. W roku 2005 przeniósł się do Sewilli, gdzie mieszka dotychczas. Od 1996 roku pracuje jako copywriter, łącząc to zajęcie z pisaniem. Pod gołym niebem okrzyknięte zostało jednym z najważniejszych ostatnio debiutów na światowej scenie literackiej. Jeszcze przed publikacją w Hiszpanii entuzjastycznie przyjęta przez najważniejszych wydawców zagranicznych ukaże się w trzynastu krajach."Piękny debiut: głęboka, subtelna, uniwersalna powieść o dorastaniu dotykająca tego, co najważniejsze, z oszczędną narracją i wyjątkowym bohaterem"Mariagrazia Mazzitelli, wydawnictwo Salani (Włochy)."Jesús Carrasco to jeden z najbardziej oryginalnych i poruszających autorów, z jakimi się w ostatnich latach zetknąłem. Książka niesamowicie mocna, naprawdę pasjonująca. Niezwykły talent pisarski" Michal Shavit, wydawnictwo Harvill Secker (Wielka Brytania)."Poruszająca książka

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Strange Library HARVILL SECKER

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy's brains. How will he escape?

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