"Ricard's book, full of good behavior on the part of humans-and other animals-is of a piece with Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature in suggesting that we don't have to be rotten. Inspirational in all the right ways..."―Kirkus
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27 янв. 2016 г.
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World. Matthieu Ricard
In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism--genuine concern for the well-being of others--could be the saving grace of the 21st century. It is, he believes, the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long term. Ricard's message has been taken up by major economists and thinkers, including Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and George Soros.
"Ricard's book, full of good behavior on the part of humans-and other animals-is of a piece with Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature in suggesting that we don't have to be rotten. Inspirational in all the right ways..."―Kirkus
"Ricard's book, full of good behavior on the part of humans-and other animals-is of a piece with Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature in suggesting that we don't have to be rotten. Inspirational in all the right ways..."―Kirkus
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Культуры городов. Шарон Зукин
Политический социолог Шарон Зукин, начавшая, не без влияния работ Вальтера Беньямина, писать о городах, большую часть жизни провела в Нью-Йорке, и именно этот город является основным объектом ее исследований. Ее последняя книга «Голый город: смерть и жизнь аутентичных городских мест» рассказывает о проблеме джентрификации в шести нью-йоркских районах. В «Культурах городов», впервые вышедших почти 20 лет назад, Зукин выбирается за границы любимого города, и посвящает несколько глав феноменам Диснейленда и Беркширских музеев современного искусства, вопросам шоппинга и роли блошиных рынков, а также публичных пространств.
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The Teenage Brain. A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults. Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt
For many years, scientists believed that the adolescent brain was essentially an adult one. Over the last decade, however, neurology and neuroscience have revealed that the teen years encompass vitally important stages of brain development.
Interweaving clear summary and analysis of research data with anecdotes drawn from her years as a clinician, researcher, and public speaker, renowned neurologist Frances E. Jensen, MD, explores adolescent brain functioning and development in the context of learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision making.
The Teenage Brain explains how these eye-opening findings not only dispel commonly held myths about teens but also yield practical suggestions for adults and teenagers negotiating the mysterious and magical world of adolescent biology.
“It’s charming to see good science translate directly into good parenting.”—New York Times Book Review
“This well-written, accessible work...offers support and a way for parents to understand and relate to their own soon-to-be-adult offspring.”—Publishers Weekly
Interweaving clear summary and analysis of research data with anecdotes drawn from her years as a clinician, researcher, and public speaker, renowned neurologist Frances E. Jensen, MD, explores adolescent brain functioning and development in the context of learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision making.
The Teenage Brain explains how these eye-opening findings not only dispel commonly held myths about teens but also yield practical suggestions for adults and teenagers negotiating the mysterious and magical world of adolescent biology.
“It’s charming to see good science translate directly into good parenting.”—New York Times Book Review
“This well-written, accessible work...offers support and a way for parents to understand and relate to their own soon-to-be-adult offspring.”—Publishers Weekly
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Landskipping. Painters, Ploughmen and Places. Anna Pavord
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell. Sublime! Picturesque! they said, as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view.
Anna Pavord’s Landskipping (Bloomsbury), which tells the story of the emergence of landscape as an artistic, cultural and tourist phenomenon. Guardian
Anna Pavord’s Landskipping (Bloomsbury), which tells the story of the emergence of landscape as an artistic, cultural and tourist phenomenon. Guardian
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Four Horsemen
The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn't bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.
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Лукас Генюшас. Эмансипация Консонанса.
Фирма «Мелодия» представляет диск фортепианной музыки современных российских композиторов в исполнении лауреата XV Международного конкурса им. П.И. Чайковского Лукаса Генюшаса. Этот молодой пианист принадлежит к наиболее ярким музыкальным дарованиям современности. Ученик В. Горностаевой, он достойно продолжает великие традиции отечественного фортепианного исполнительства, идущие от Г. Нейгауза. В свои 25 лет он является обладателем множества престижных международных премий, в том числе серебряных медалей крупнейших фортепианных состязаний Европы – имени Ф. Шопена в Варшаве (2011) и имени П.И. Чайковского в Москве (2015). Критики отмечают зрелость и глубину искусства пианиста, убедительность его исполнительских трактовок музыки самых разных эпох – от Генделя до Хиндемита. Записи Генюшаса выходили на лейблах NIFC, Art Classic, DUX, Piano Classics; двойной диск с произведениями Шопена выпустил Институт Ф. Шопена в Польше, в 2013 г. Московской консерваторией была выпущена трансляционная запись концерта пианиста, посвященного юбилею Рахманинова. На этот раз Л. Генюшас представляет фортепианные циклы современных русских авторов – Леонида Десятникова, Валерия Арзуманова и Владимира Рябова. Исполняемые сочинения написаны во второй половине 1980-х гг. и выдержаны в эстетике «новой простоты». В то же время эта музыка по-своему отражает сложное время тотальной «переоценки ценностей», происходившей в эти годы в жизни и искусстве нашей страны.
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31 дек. 2015 г.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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).
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).
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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
Presto Discs of the year
BBC Music Magazine Disc of the month
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30 нояб. 2015 г.
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
"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
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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.
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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
“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
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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.
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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29 окт. 2015 г.
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
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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.
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.
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Yes! Julie Fuchs
Paris de la fin de la Première guerre jusqu’aux sinistres événements qui annoncent la Seconde, voilà ce qu’a choisi la soprano Julie Fuchs pour son récital d’airs d’opéra, d’opérettes et de comédies musicales françaises – ou, du moins, en français pour quelques moments de Kurt Weill et Léhar (la seule incursion de l’album dans l’avant-Première guerre). On y trouve des choses tout à fait « sérieuses », comme l’air du Feu dans L’Enfant et les sortilèges, l’air de Vilya de La Veuve joyeuse (dans la traduction française de Robert de Flers) ou quelques délicieux moments des Aventures du roi Pausole de Honegger – en compagnie de l’excellent ténor Stanislas de Barbeyrac ; mais aussi des choses provenant de répertoires plus légers, voire du music-hall avec Yes ! de Maurice Yvain ou Tea For Two. C’est que Julie Fuchs ne se limite certes pas au répertoire classique, même étendu à Weill ou Yvain, mais ose s’aventurer dans les territoires du jazz et de la comédie musicale de Broadway. Une artiste lyrique complète, en quelque sorte.
Qobuz Diapason d'or, Le Choix de France Musique, Choc de Classica (octobre 2015)
Qobuz Diapason d'or, Le Choix de France Musique, Choc de Classica (octobre 2015)
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