American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why. Joseph P. McDonald

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation’s largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge—launched in 1994—alongside other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless.

the PROSE Awards.  Winner, Education Practice

The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools. Christopher A. Lubienski and Sarah Theule Lubienski

Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones

the PROSE Awards.  Winner, Education Theory

How Should We Live? A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality. John Kekes

Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones

the PROSE Awards. Honorable Mention, Philosophy

В стране чудес Алисы: из истории создания

В этом году исполнилось 150 лет с первой публикации «Алисы в Стране чудес». С тех пор кто только не иллюстрировал знаменитую сказку! В книге студии «4+4» собрано более 400 иллюстраций, созданных 43 художниками из разных стран, с 1860-х по 2000-е годы: здесь и Сальвадор Дали, и Мервин Пик, Артур Рэкхем, Геннадий Калиновский, Юлия Гукова и многие другие. Иллюстрации сопровождает (в данном случае никак не наоборот) классический перевод Нины Демуровой, который тут явно играет вспомогательную роль, почему и помещен на левую страницу книжного разворота, как бы для того, чтобы только напомнить рассматривающему картинки читателю тот фрагмент текста, иллюстрации к которому (и комментарии к ним) занимают на развороте большую часть площади.

The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History. Edited by Alice Crawford

From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. Generously illustrated, The Meaning of the Library examines this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors—including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust—present a cultural history of the library.

Whether relishing an account of the Alexandrian Library or a look at the stylish railway libraries of nineteenth-century England, readers will find a sparkling survey of the library through time. Here, too, are the imagined libraries of fiction, poetry, and film, from Scheherazade’s stories to The Name of the Rose and beyond.

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas. Michael Schrage

What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending “innovation vacations” and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator’s Hypothesis addresses the innovation priorities of companies that live in the real world of limits. Michael Schrage advocates a cultural and strategic shift: small teams, collaboratively—and competitively—crafting business experiments that make top management sit up and take notice. He introduces the 5x5 framework: giving diverse teams of five people up to five days to come up with portfolios of five business experiments costing no more than $5,000 each and taking no longer than five weeks to run. Successful 5x5s, Schrage shows, make people more effective innovators, and more effective innovators mean more effective innovations.

Про это. Факсимильное издание. Статьи. Комментарии. В.Маяковский, илл. А.Родченко

Поэма Про это писалась в экстремальных условиях разлада Маяковского с возлюбленной, героиней поэмы: по взаимной договоренности с Лилей Брик они не виделись ровно два месяца. В это время Маяковский работал по 16–20 часов в сутки и сделал столько, сколько, по его собственному признанию, «никогда не делал за полгода».

В 1925 году на Международной выставке в Париже Родченко показал иллюстрации к поэме, за что получил серебряную медаль в номинации «Искусство книги». Настоящее издание впервые воспроизводит факсимильное издание поэмы и включает в себя фотомонтажи в цвете.

The University of Chicago. A History. John W. Boyer

With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College since 1992, presents a deeply researched and comprehensive history of the university. Boyer has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. The result is a fascinating narrative of a legendary academic community, one that brings to light the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the conditions that have enabled the university to survive and sustain itself through decades of change.

The Secret Lives of Teachers. Anonymous

Welcome to “East Hudson,” an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have little in common with most other teachers in America, but as this veteran educator—writing anonymously—shows in this refreshingly honest account, all teachers are bound by a common thread. Stripped of most economic obstacles and freed up by anonymity, he is able to tell a deeper story about the universal conditions, anxieties, foibles, generosities, hopes, and complaints that comprise every teacher’s life. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always recognizable to anyone who has ever walked into a classroom, closed the door, and started their day.

Improbable Libraries. Alex Johnson

Public libraries are a cornerstone of modern civilization, yet like the books in them, libraries face an uncertain future in an increasingly digital world. Undaunted, librarians around the globe are thinking up astonishing ways of reaching those in reading need, whether by bike in Chicago, boat in Laos, or donkey in Colombia. Improbable Libraries showcases a wide range of unforgettable, never-before-seen images and interviews with librarians who are overcoming geographic, economic, and political difficulties to bring the written word to an eager audience. Alex Johnson charts the changing face of library architecture, as temporary pop-ups rub shoulders with monumental brick-and-mortar structures, and many libraries expand their mission to function as true community centers.

The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China. Kelly Sims Gallagher

The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging technologies. Experts point to problems including intellectual property concerns, trade barriers, and developing countries’ limited access to technology and funding. In this book, Kelly Gallagher uses analysis and case studies from China’s solar photovoltaic, gas turbine, advanced battery, and coal gasification industries to examine both barriers and incentives in clean energy technology transfer.

Jerusalem

Benedict Cumberbatch (Narrator) (Actor), Daniel Ferguson (Director)

Filmed for the first time in 3D for IMAX® and giant screen theaters, JERUSALEM is an awe-inspiring and intimate portrait (The Washington Post) of one of the world s most beloved cities. Discover why this tiny piece of land is sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims through the experiences of three young Jerusalemite women as they celebrate the city s vibrant holiday traditions. Join world-renowned archaeologist, Dr. Jodi Magness, as she explores underground tunnels and ancient ruins to solve some of the city s greatest mysteries. Find out why, after thousands of years, Jerusalem and the Holy Land continue to stir the imagination of billions of people. Unprecedented access to the city s holiest sites, as well as rare and breathtaking aerial footage combine to make JERUSALEM a mesmerizing vision (The Boston Globe).

Twin Sisters

The award-winning documentary tells the story of two babies found in a cardboard box in a China and adopted to different corners of the world. One to a village in Norway, surrounded by high mountains and deep fjords. The other to a big city in the US. The adoptive parents had no idea that there was a twin sister. Their sisterhood was meant to be kept a secret. However, destiny had other plans...

Göteborg Film Festival  Audience Award

BBC Four With Betjeman

Victorian Architects and Architecture
In the 1850s, English architects tried to find a style that would go with steam, glass and cast iron; they chose Gothic. This four part series looks at the men associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival and some of their famous constructions; including the House of Parliament, the Natural History Museum, the Albert Memorial, Westminster Abbey and a number of country houses

John Betjeman Passion For Churches
A wry but affectionate scrutiny to the churches, clergy and parishioners of Norfolk. Betjeman opens our eyes to the often overlooked details in some of our most familiar traditions; from the quirks of great architecture to the allure of bell-ringing and jumble sales. Includes footage from some of Britain and Betjeman's most interesting churches and his journey to modern day Jerusalem where he attends Christmas services at the Monastery of St George

Thank God It's Sunday
Sir John Betjeman narrates two classic films from the BBC archive: Thank God It's Sunday [1972] and  Summoned By Bells [1976]. Betjeman visits some of the places that played an important part in his early life; including schools, Cornwall holiday haunts and Oxford College.

BBC Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure

Joanna Lumley embarks on the world's greatest train journey for this new three-part documentary series. Travelling from East to West, she departs from Hong Kong across 5,777 miles of both Asia and Europe, through seven time zones, taking in an immense panorama of vistas and cultures, people and places, before her final arrival in Moscow

ZHOU, Long / CHEN, Yi: Symphony, "Humen 1839", ZHOU, Long: The Rhyme of Taigu / The Enlightened

New Zealand Symphony, Darrell Ang

Widely regarded as one of China’s leading composers, Pulitzer Prize-winning Zhou Long writes music which is consistently compelling. The Rhyme of Taigu revives the spirit of Chinese court music from the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), drawing on traditional percussion instru­ments. Symphony ‘Humen 1839’, co-composed with Chen Yi, vividly commemorates the public burning of over 1000 tonnes of opium, an event that was to lead to the First Opium War between Great Britain and China.

Grammy Nominee

Shostakovich - Under Stalin's Shadow

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
    
'Nelsons’s masterful grasp of the architecture of the work (particularly the epic 20-minute first movement, which al­most feels like a symphony in its own right here), the slow-burn climaxes and the searing brass-playing all make their mark, but there’s something quite special going on here which transcends the technical side of things.'

Grammy Nominee
Presto Discs of the Year

JS Bach: Violin Concertos. Alina Ibragimova (violin). Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Alina Ibragimova recently transfixed Proms audiences with her live solo Bach performances. Back in the studio she has teamed up with the expert Arcangelo to record five Bach Violin Concertos, two undisputed masterpieces and three probable reconstructions: all to be treasured.

Presto Discs of the year
BBC Music Magazine Disc of the month

Filament. Eighth Blackbird. Bryce Dessner (guitar), Nico Muhly (organ)

Celebrated new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird, whose last three albums garnered Grammy awards, continues to soar with 'Filament', a sizzling selection of four-world premiere recordings, plus a concert performance of Philip Glass’s influential Two Pages. The title 'Filament' symbolizes the strong ties of friendship and shared music­al interests con-necting the composers and per­formers on the album. The Chicago-based “super-musi­cians” (Los Angeles Times) are “a polished, personable, routinely dazzling sextet” (New York Times). In recent con­cert seasons, eighth blackbird has performed at Carne­gie Hall (Zankel and Stern Halls), London’s Barbican Centre and Washington DC’s Library of Congress and Kennedy Center.

Век амбиций. Богатство, истина и вера в новом Китае. Эван Ознос

Книга, в 2015 году вошедшая в шорт-лист Пулитцеровской премии, показывает жизнь Китая на протяжении восьми лет, с 2006-го по 2013-й, глазами пекинского корреспондента The New Yorker. В лучших традициях журнала происходящее очень часто приобретает форму анекдота — книга и начинается с того, как население целой деревни коллективно заболело полицейским сериалом "Хантер". Но Ознос использует эту сцену не как метафору сплоченности китайского общества, напротив, он пытается показать зарождение индивидуальности. У него безликая масса, которую мы воображаем, услышав слово "Китай", распадается на миллион интересностей и отдельностей. Можно считать такой взгляд несовершенством оптики, будто бы Ознос совсем не способен увидеть картину целиком. Все исторические события распадаются у него на истории-анекдоты, у каждой истории есть главный герой. Но оптика у него как раз самая человеческая, ведь и мы смотрим так же, да Ознос и не специалист по Китаю и, судя по всему, не очень его понимает. Именно поэтому вот эта тысяча живых лиц на страницах "Века амбиций" куда интереснее попытки примерить на китайскую цивилизацию американские представления о правах и свободах.

Не ради прибыли. Зачем демократии нужны гуманитарные науки. Марта Нуссбаум

В этой небольшой и яркой книге выдающийся философ Марта Нуссбаум обосновывает важность гуманитарных наук и искусств для всех уровней образования и развенчивает представление о том, что образование, прежде всего, являет собой инструмент экономического роста. М.Нуссбаум утверждает, что экономический рост не всегда ведет к улучшению качества жизни, а пренебрежение искусством и гуманитарными науками неизбежно снижает качество жизни граждан и ставит под угрозу процветание демократических государств. Книга содержит "призыв к действию", план, который предполагает, что модель образования, подтачивающего устои демократии, будет заменена моделью, способствующей ее развитию.

One of The Age's (Brenda Walker) Best Books of the Year, Martha C. Nussbaum, Recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception. George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller

"[Akerlof and Shiller] want to go far beyond behavioral economics, at least in its current form. They offer a much more general, and quite damning, account of why free markets and competition cause serious problems. . . . They are intellectual renegades. . . . Akerlof and Shiller make a convincing argument that phishing occurs because of the operation of the invisible hand, not in spite of it. . . . [This] extraordinary book tells us something true, and profoundly important, about the operation of the invisible hand."-- New York Review of Books

"No question, Phishing for Phools is a radical book. It may also be a radically important one."--Fortune

George A. Akerlof, Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015

Москва - Стамбул. История отношений в архивных документах. XV век - начало XVIII века

Географическое соседство Турции и России, насчитывающее несколько столетий, способствовало установлению отношений и сотрудничества между двумя странами в политической, экономической, культурной, социальной и гуманитарной сферах. Все указанные аспекты придали российско-турецким отношениям глубину и разнообразие, которых удаётся достигнуть лишь немногим другим странам.Несомненно «главными свидетелями» этих интенсивных исторических отношений, развивающихся по сей день, являются архивы двух стран. Эти архивы хранят в себе исторические сведения, которые при изучении подчас ошемляют, иногда сложны для понимания, а порой служат для нас уроком. Как бы то ни было эти архивы составляют общее наследие Турции и России, раскрывающее глубину наших отношений.

Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry. Paul Goldberger

From Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture in his innovative use of materials, design, and form, and who is among the very few architects in history to be both respected by critics as a creative, cutting-edge force and embraced by the general public as a popular figure.

“Goldberger’s big, colorful biography is a tale of moxie and success in the New World . . . an encounter with an architect who is ambitious, cocky and clever—and [a guide who] will present him with a wry and trenchant perspective . . . An informative, startling journey into the inner sanctums of modern architecture’s power structure.”— The New York Times

Гомбрих, или Наука и иллюзия. Очерки текстуальной прагматики. Степан Ванеян

Книга представляет собой собрание эссе на тему насущных проблем истории искусства как практики возобновления смысла применительно к визуальной реальности прошлого. Ориентиром в этом начинании служит предельно монументальная фигура Эрнста Гомбриха — историка, но прежде всего теоретика истории искусства, достигшего в своей научной дискурсивности уровня подлинного творчества и обнажившего перформативные корни научного знания как такового.

Степан Ванеян. Доктор искусствоведения, доцент кафедры всеобщей истории искусства Исторического факультета МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова, профессор и заведующий кафедрой теории и истории христианского искусства факультета церковных художеств Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета, профессор и заведующий кафедрой истории и истории искусства Общецерковной аспирантуры имени равноапостольных Кирилла и Мефодия Московской Патриархии Русской Православной Церкви.

Вся кремлевская рать: Краткая история современной России. Михаил Зыгарь

Эта книга рассказывает об истории России на всем протяжении правления Владимира Путина, с 2000 по 2015 год. В основу книги легли документы, открытые источники и десятки уникальных личных интервью, которые автор взял у действующих лиц из ближайшего окружения Владимира Путина. Собранные воедино, факты, события, интриги и мнения героев составляют полную картину жизни Кремля, из которой впервые становится понятна логика метаморфозы Владимира Путина: как и почему из либерального прозападного президента начала 2000-х он превратился в авторитарного правителя и одного из самых ярых противников Запада.

Михаил Зыгарь  — главный редактор единственного в России независимого телеканала «Дождь». В 2014 году был награжден международной премией International Press Freedom Award, которую присуждает Комитет по защите журналистов. Десять лет работал военным корреспондентом газеты «Коммерсантъ».

Копии за секунды. Дэвид Оуэн

Журналист Дэвид Оуэн рассказывает историю изобретения, без которого немыслима жизнь современного офиса — копировального аппарата. Уникальный случай: он был создан усилиями практически одного человека. Поразительное упорство изобретателя Честера Карлсона принесло ему славу второго Гутенберга и избавило тысячи людей на планете от изнурительного переписывания документов. Автор прослеживает путь Честера от первого ксерографического аппарата, изготовленного в 1938 году, до создания гигантской корпорации Xerox, чье название стало синонимом высочайшего качества и скорости копирования. Это захватывающее повествование о борьбе за реализацию грандиозного открытия, которое журнал Fortune позднее назвал «самым успешным товаром, который когда-либо продавался в Америке».

Мечта о «Тройке». Василий Мартов, Дмитрий Лисицын

Легендарная компания «Тройка Диалог» известна даже людям, далеким от финансовых тем. Эта компания участвовала в самых первых размещениях акций (на миллиардные суммы!) на едва зарождавшемся российском финансовом рынке и фактически определяла его развитие.
Такой небывалый успех был обусловлен не только статусом первопроходца, но и тем, что управленческая модель компании изначально подразумевала партнерство, командную работу и умение находить компромисс.

Искусство чтения. Как понимать книги. Томас Фостер

Очень часто читатели художественных произведений не видят больше того, что лежит на поверхности. А ведь самое главное — это символы, которые остаются неуловимыми и могут передать всю глубину художественного текста.

В этом практичном и забавном путеводителе по литературе Томас Фостер показывает, как можно легко и приятно обнаружить скрытые автором истины и открыть для себя новый мир, где дорога может означать поиск чего-либо, а дождь — это не просто дождь, а символ очищения.

Design for the Changing Educational Landscape: Space, Place and the Future of Learning. Andrew Harrison, Les Hutton

The whole landscape of space use is undergoing a radical transformation. In the workplace a period of unprecedented change has created a mix of responses with one overriding outcome observable worldwide: the rise of distributed space. In the learning environment the social, political, economic and technological changes responsible for this shift have been further compounded by constantly developing theories of learning and teaching, and a wide acceptance of the importance of learning as the core of the community, resulting in the blending of all aspects of learning into one seamless experience. This book attempts to look at all the forces driving the provision and pedagogic performance of the many spaces, real and virtual, that now accommodate the experience of learning and provide pointers towards the creation and design of learning-centred communities.

The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright. Neil Levine

This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century.

Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright’s larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career.

Бэзил Хоу. Гилберт Честертон

Впервые в русском переводе два романа: обнаруженный после столетнего забвения юношеский роман Честертона "Бэзил Хоу" - о юморе на небесах, о дружбе на земле, о вечной вере в свои убеждения, а не в себя, о неуклюжей невинности, которая не дрогнет перед "зверской серьезностью". И роман-буриме, недописанный членами "Клуба начинающих спорщиков", основателем которого в школьные свои годы стал Честертон. Роман о будущем, в котором уже взрослые "спорщики" носятся по всем континентам, то и дело встречая и спасая друг друга. И этот плод дружеских трудов - узнаваемо Честертоновский роман-возвращение.

Seymour: An Introduction. Ethan Hawke

Meet Seymour Bernstein: a virtuoso pianist, veteran New Yorker, and true original who gave up a successful concert career to teach music. In this wonderfully warm, witty, and intimate tribute from his friend, Ethan Hawke, Seymour shares unforgettable stories from his remarkable life and eye-opening words of wisdom, as well as insightful reflections on art, creativity, and the search for fulfillment. Both a "poignant guide to life" (Indiewire) and an engaging exploration on the dedication, perseverance, and fortitude essential to creating both art and a rewarding life, SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION will leave you uplifted and inspired.

Heartland Film 2015  Truly Moving Picture Award
Toronto International Film Festival 3d Place

Best of Enemies. Morgan Neville

In the summer of 1968 television news changed forever. Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America. Like rounds in a heavyweight battle, they pummeled out policy and personal insult - their explosive exchanges devolving into vitriolic name-calling. Live and unscripted, they kept viewers riveted. Ratings for ABC News skyrocketed, and a new era in public discourse was born.

Camden International Film Festival Audience Award

Gringo Trails. Pegi Vail

Gringo Trails raises urgent questions about one of the most powerful global industries of our time: tourism. With stunning footage from Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan, the film follows the well-worn 'gringo trail' travel route in Latin America and beyond, revealing a complex web of relationships between cultures that collide yet need one another: host countries looking for financial security and the tourists who provide it in their quest for authentic experiences. Travelers, transformed by new landscapes and beliefs, also have unforeseeable--sometimes catastrophic effects on the places they visit. Through the life-changing stories of travelers and locals, Gringo Trails explores the dramatic impact of tourism around the world over the past three decades and gives examples of sustainable alternatives.

A film more than a decade in the making by American anthropologist Pegi Vail, looks at the effect of the unplanned or mismanaged growth of the tourism industry in developing countries. --CNN Travel

The Brain. With Dr. David Eagleman

The series, hosted by Dr. David Eagleman, neuroscientist, New York Times best-selling author and a Guggenheim Fellow, reveals the human story by blending scientific truth with innovative visual effects and compelling personal stories.

With barely a brain scanner or a white coat in sight, The Brain focuses on understanding the fundamental truths of what it means to be human now and in the coming centuries, while communicating these elegant and simple ideas as they apply to us and our experiences.

The Immortalists. David Alvarado

The Immortalists is the story of two eccentric scientists struggling to discover medical breakthroughs to create eternal youth. And yet they fight to gain support for their cause in our world, which they call a world blind to the tragedy of old age. Bill Andrews is a lab biologist and famed long-distance runner racing against the ultimate clock. Aubrey de Grey is a genius theoretical biologist who conducts his research with a beer in hand. They differ in style and substance, but are united in their common crusade: to cure aging or die trying. They publicly brawl with the old guard of biology who argue that curing aging is neither possible nor desirable. As Andrews and de Grey battle their own aging and suffer the loss of loved ones, their journeys toward life without end ultimately become personal.

London Film Festival Nominated
SXSW Film Festival Nominated
Tacoma Film Festival Best Documentary Feature

Mozart: The Weber Sisters

Sabine Devieilhe, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion
  
The Weber Sisters is rooted in Mozart’s life story and includes music inspired by Aloysia, Konstanze and Josepha Weber, three soprano sisters whom Mozart first met in the German city of Mannheim in 1777, when he was 21. Though he initially fell in love with Aloysia, who went on to become a celebrated diva, it was Konstanze who became his wife; she outlived him by nearly 50 years and did much to sustain and build his reputation after his death. The programme comprises songs, operatic and concert arias and orchestral numbers, and Sabine Devieilhe’s interpretations are typified by beauty of tone, a penetrating sense of drama and a scrupulous respect for the score and the text. Three of the highlights are: the concert aria ‘Popoli di Tessaglia’ – written for Aloysia – which rises to spectacular heights (specifically, the G two-and-a-half octaves above middle C); the sublime ‘Et incarnatus est’ from the C minor Mass – premiered in Salzburg by Konstanze, and ‘Der Hölle Rache’, written for Josepha as the second fireworks-filled aria of the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, a role that has brought triumphs for Sabine Devieilhe at the opera houses of Lyon and Paris. Her colleagues on this album are the Ensemble Pygmalion, the keyboard player Arnaud de Pasquale and the conductor Raphaël Pichon.

Grands Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros

Over the sea. Edith Canat de Chizy

Edith Canat de Chizy was born in 1950. She studied archaeology and philosophy at the Sorbonne University and music at the Paris Conservatoire. Her compositions have received numerous prizes and accolades and she is the first female composer to be a member of the Institute de France. Her favourite and most successful compositions are those using string instruments and choir. All of her works have an engaging contemporary sound and explore the relationship between the past and the present. She is heavily influenced by the music of Purcell and Britten

Grands Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros le Prix du Président de la République

Gounod: La Colombe

Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
Erin Morley (Sylvie), Javier Camarena (Horace), Michèle Losier (Mazet), Laurent Naouri (Maître Jean)

Following his award-winning recording of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs, Sir Mark Elder’s second Opera Rara release of 2015 features an rare recording Gounod’s delightful opera La Colombe ("The Dove”). Sir Mark and the Halle Orchestra are joined by a wonderful cast, led by two of the most acclaimed young singers in the world today.

Since graduating from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2010, Erin Morley has risen to become one of today’s most most sought after coloratura sopranos. Alongside Erin is Mexican tenor Javier Camerena, one of only three singers in 70-years to sing an encore at the Metropolitan Opera during two consecutive performances of Rossini’s “la Cenerentola” (those two other encore singers were Juan Diego Florez and Luciano Pavarotti).

Presto Discs of the year finalist

This Is From Here. Harrison Kennedy

Blues Music Award nominee Harrison Kennedy was once best known as a founding member of Holland Dozier Holland's 70's Soul Super Group 'The Chairmen of the Board' but he's now equally well known as one of the 21st century's most original Blues artists. On his new Electro-Fi release 'This Is From here' he takes a giant step forward, superbly supported by Guitar ace Colin Linden (Bob Dylan band), John Dymond (K. D. Lang) and Gary Craig (Bruce Cockburn). The 11 original tracks and a dynamic Ray Charles cover showcase Harrison's unforgetable deep blues and soul vocal stylings. 'Ingenious, Original Blues of Charm and Individuality'

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Qur­an. Carla Power

The eye-opening story of how American Carla Powers and her long­time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Carla Power writes for TIME and was a foreign correspondent for Newsweek. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, The New York Times Magazine, and Foreign Policy.

“Their yearlong debates on issues ranging from the veiling of women to calls for fatwas challenged their own understandings of religion, culture, politics, and friendship and offer powerful new insights into Is­lam.” ― Booklist

2015 National Book Award Finalist

Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces. Davina Cooper

Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. In­stead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, of how we live together and are governed. Weaving conceptual theorizing together with social analys­is, Davina Cooper examines utopian projects as seemingly diverse as a feminist bathhouse, state equality initiatives, community trading net­works, and a democratic school where students and staff collaborate in governing. She draws from firsthand observations and interviews with participants to argue that utopian projects have the potential to revitalize progressive politics through the ways their innovative prac­tices incite us to rethink mainstream concepts including property, mar­kets, care, touch, and equality.

Charles Taylor Book Award

The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy. Nicolas Tackett

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the “great clans” that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematic­ally exploits the thousands of funerary biographies excavated in re­cent decades—most of them never before examined by scholars—while taking full advantage of the explanatory power of Geographic In­formation System (GIS) and social network analysis. Tackett supple­ments these analyses with an extensive use of anecdotes culled from epitaphs, prose literature, and poetry, bringing to life the women and men of a millennium ago.

The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy demonstrates that the great Tang aristocratic families were far more successful than previously believed in adapting to the social, economic, and institu­tional transformations of the seventh and eighth centuries. Their polit­ical influence collapsed only after a large proportion of them were physically eliminated during the three decades of extreme violence that followed Huang Chao’s sack of the capital cities in 880 CE.

James Breasted Prize

Весь мир - школа. Преобразованное образование. Хан С.

Бесплатное образование мирового уровня для всех и каждого - та­кова цель Салмана Хана и его Академии, выросшей из самодея­тельных авторских интернет-уроков и достигшей всемирного при­знания. Как все первопроходцы, Хан переосмысливает традиции и дает волю воображению, чтобы представить обучение, свободное от предрассудков прошлого. Краеугольный камень его проекта и страсть всей его жизни -освободить преподавателя от чтения лек­ций и строгого следования учебным планам, навязанным чиновни­ками, и увеличить время для человеческого общения и взаимодей­ствия.

Я наткнулся на Хана и его Академию, как и многие другие, пользу­ясь его сногсшибательными программами вместе с детьми. Виде­ние и энергия этого человека, его вера в способность технологии изменить образование заразительны. Он настоящий первопроходец в том, что касается слияния технологий и образования. Я очень рад, что благодаря этой книге больше людей сможет познакомить­ся с этим неукротимым новатором. Билл Гейтс, сооснователь, председатель совета директоров Microsoft

The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World. Howard Gardner

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Profess­ors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the draw­backs of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage su­perficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination.

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized our thinking.In his groundbreak­ing 1983 book Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner first introduced the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that intelligence is more than a single property of the human mind.

Философские основания экологического образования в эпоху нанотехнологий. Марфенин Н.Н.

Современный комплекс наук о жизни ставит в своем развитии перед философским знанием целый ряд новых вопросов и проблем, возникающих в связи с открытиями и наработками в сфере биологического познания, с новыми возможностями био­логических экспериментов и конструктивных практик преобразо­вания мира живого. Это проблемы генной и клеточной инжене­рии, инженерии биогеоценозов, проблемы био- и экоэтики и мно­гие другие. В этой связи остро актуализируется возможность фи­лософского знания ответить на эти вновь возникающие пробле­мы и вызовы, идущие из сферы исследования и преобразования живого.

Этот сборник - третий из серии «Науки о жизни и современная философия», издаваемой Центром био- и экофилософии Инсти­тута философии РАН. В серии вышли также: “Сетевые структуры в биологической и социальной системах”, “Эколо­гия и этика”.

Многоликая софистика: нелегитимная аргументация в интеллектуальной культу­ре Европы Средних веков и раннего Нового времени. Отв. ред. П.В. Соколов

Монография объединяет исследования, целью которых является анализ нелегитимной аргументации в различных областях интел­лектуальной культуры Запада Средневековья и раннего Нового времени: логике, юриспруденции, библейской герменевтике, нау­ках о природе. В монографии реализован синтез двух основных подходов к исследованию аргумента-тивного устройства доно­вовременного научного текста: аналитического (рациональная реконструкция) и исторического.

Армянские храмы мира

Эта книга - дань памяти великому народу Армении и его традициям. Альбом издан по благословлению патриаршего экзарха в России архиепископа Езраса и приурочен к 100-летней годовщине Геноцида армян.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

The New York Times bestseller.
 
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

"These lessons are worth repeating, and if more companies feel em­boldened to follow Mr. Pink's advice, then so much the better." -Wall Street Journal
"Pink is rapidly acquiring international guru status... He is an engaging writer, who challenges and provokes." -Financial Times

TED-Ed Innovative Educators choice: «the books that changed lives»