Hating Empire Properly. The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism. Sunil M. Agnani

In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contempor­ary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is re­vealed to be a largely unacknowledged part of the matrix of Enlightenment thought in which eighteenth-century European and American self-conceptions evolved. By focusing on colonial spaces of the Enlightenment, especially India and Haiti, he demonstrates how Burke's fearful view of the French Re­volution—the defining event of modernity— as shaped by prior reflection on these other domains. Exploring with sympathy the angry outbursts against injustice in the writings of Diderot, he nonetheless challenges re­cent understandings of him as a univocal critic of empire by showing the persistence of a fantasy of consensual colonialism in his thought. By looking at the impasses and limits in the thought of both radical and con­servative writers, Agnani asks what it means to critique empire “properly.” Drawing his method from Theodor Adorno’s quip that “one must have tradition in oneself, in order to hate it properly,” he proposes a critical inhabiting of dominant forms of reason as a way forward for the critique of both empire and Enlightenment.
 
Harry Levin Prize

Щегол. Донна Тартт

Роман, который лауреат Пулитцеровской премии Донна Тартт писала более 10 лет, — огромное эпическое полотно о силе искусства и о том, как оно — подчас совсем не так, как нам того хочется — способно перевернуть всю нашу жизнь. 13-летний Тео Декер чудом остался жив после взрыва, в котором погибла его мать. Брошенный отцом, без единой родной души на всем свете, он скитается по приемным домам и чужим семьям — от Нью-Йорка до Лас-Вегаса, — и его единственным утешением, которое, впрочем, чуть не приводит к его гибели, становится украденный им из музея шедевр голландского старого мастера.

Amazon selected The Goldfinch as the 2013 Best Book of the Year. The novel was shortlisted for 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014. It was also awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Ex­cellence in Fiction for 2014.

Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing. Arthur M. Melzer

Philosophical esotericism—the practice of communicating one’s un­orthodox thoughts “between the lines”—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopédie of Di­derot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty dif­ferent articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the use of esoteric writing in their own work or others’. Despite this long and well-documented history, however, esotericism is often dismissed today as a rare occurrence. But by ignoring esoteri­cism, we risk cutting ourselves off from a full understanding of West­ern philosophical thought.

Arthur M. Melzer serves as our deeply knowledgeable guide in this ca­pacious and engaging history of philosophical esotericism. Walking readers through both an ancient (Plato) and a modern (Machiavelli) esoteric work, he explains what esotericism is—and is not. It relies not on secret codes, but simply on a more intensive use of familiar rhetor­ical techniques like metaphor, irony, and insinuation. Melzer explores the various motives that led thinkers in different times and places to engage in this strange practice, while also exploring the motives that lead more recent thinkers not only to dislike and avoid this practice but to deny its very existence. In the book’s final section, “A Beginner’s Guide to Esoteric Reading,” Melzer turns to how we might once again cultivate the long-forgotten art of reading esoteric works

Philosophy Between the Lines is the first comprehensive, book-length study of the history and theoretical basis of philosophical esotericism, and it provides a crucial guide to how many major writings—philo­sophical, but also theological, political, and literary—were composed prior to the nineteenth century.

Рауль Валленберг. Исчезнувший герой Второй мировой. Бенгт Янгфельдт

"Иногда слово "герой" является наиболее адекватным описанием честного и смелого человека. Рауль Валленберг – как раз такой че­ловек."

Лауреат премий Августа Стриндберга и Лэнгманского фонда культуры, знаток литературы и истории, профессор кафедры сла­вистики Стокгольмского университета, автор книг о Владимире Мая­ковском и Иосифе Бродском, Бенгт Янгфельдт – едва ли не са­мый известный шведский славист. Его книга "Рауль Валленберг. Исчезнувший герой Второй мировой" – это на сегодняшний день самое подробное исследование жизни и гибели шведского бизне­смена, во время Второй мировой войны в оккупированной Венгрии спасшего от смерти много тысяч евреев. Многие факты биографии Валленберга до недавних пор были засекречены. Янгфельдту уда­лось получить доступ к ранее недоступным шведским архивам и восстановить в подробностях хронологию последних дней Валлен­берга в Будапеште и его пребывания в советских застенках. Книга "Рауль Валленберг. Исчезнувший герой Второй мировой" стала бестселлером во многих странах, а теперь наконец выходит на рус­ском языке.

Структура реальности. Наука о параллельных вселенных. Дэвид Дойч

Самая интересная научпоп-книга ярмарки. Non/fiction Но не со­всем научпоп. Это книга, написанная в жанре, будто бы из совре­менности исчезнувшим: объяснение всего. Британский фи­зик-теоретик Дэвид Дойч сталкивает квантовую физику, эпистемоло­гию Поппера, теорию эволюции в варианте Докинза и еще пару научных течений и пытается доказать существование параллель­ных вселенных. Почти как в комиксах, только всерьез.

Великие улицы. Аллан Б. Джекобс

«Великие улицы» — уникальное по своему охвату исследование. На примере Рамблы в Барселоне, Строгет в Копенгагене, Пятой авеню в Нью-Йорке, бульвара Сан-Мишель в Париже и многих других «канонических» артерий наиболее посещаемых городов мира автор убедительно доказывает, что в структуре любого мегаполиса именно улицы играют ключевую роль, формируя его узнаваемое «лицо» и определяя уровень доступности и комфортности его среды. Однако по-настоящему востребованными горожанами улицы становятся лишь в том случае, когда служат не только для перемещения людей и товаров с одного места на другое, но способны стать пространством универсальной коммуникации.

Переведена на русский язык по заказу Правительства Москвы, Москомархитектуры и при поддержке Департамента СМИ и рекламы города Москвы.

Experimental music: Cage and Beyond. Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that de­veloped alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary at­titudes that were developed toward concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass. This second edition contains a new Foreword, an updated discography, and a historical overview by the author.

Проблемы итальянского Возрождения. Эудженио Гарэн

Бурное развитие итальянских городов-государств привело в XV – XVI вв. к появлению ряда концепций радикального преобразования городского пространства: видный итальянский историк культуры Эудженио Гарэн (1909-2008) исследует этот сюжет на примере на­бросков Леонардо да Винчи и трудов крупнейших представителей философии итальянского гуманизма. Став точкой слияния новых тенденций изобразительного искусства (внимание к человеку и его физической красоте трансформировалось в разговор об идеальном теле города) и философско-политической мысли (совершенство планиметрии подчеркивало безупречность государственного строя, его соответствие законам человеческой — гуманистической — при­роды), архитектура Возрождения занялась строительством цивили­зации нового типа. Главная практическая задача заключалась в этой связи не столько в поиске художественных решений, сколько в объектном воплощении идеи социальной сегрегации: как «по спра­ведливости» и без ущерба для городской экономики отделить аре­ал обитания простого люда — носителя средневековой ментальности — от полиса «достойных граждан»? Несмотря на универсалистские амбиции, архитекторы Возрождения строили все же не «град небесный», а «град земной» — и потому поиск решения этой проблемы, так и не найденного в пространстве реального города, перевел дискуссию в плоскость чистой философии, став одной из причин появления утопий — идеальных городов и стран, смодели­рованных на страницах литературных произведений.

Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech. Gary P. Pisano

Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expecta­tions despite all its promise? In Science Business, Professor Gary Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not only reveals the underlying causes of biotech's problems; he offers the most sophisticated analysis yet on how the in­dustry works. And he provides clear prescriptions for companies, in­vestors, and policymakers seeking ways to improve the industry's per­formance. The payoff? Valuable improvements in health care and a shinier future for human well-being. Named Best Biotech Book in 2007 by strategy+business.

Однажды в лесу (Il etait une foret)

Фильм приглашает Вас отправиться в путешествие по местам, ошеломительным по своей красоте, которые вы никогда не видели раньше. Опираясь на последние научные исследования авторам фильма удалось запечатлеть всю прелесть тропического леса, растущего прямо на глазах у зрителей. Фильм представляет собой полное погружение в мир первозданной природы, позволяющий зрителям открывать самые сокровенные тайны живой природы. Добро пожаловать в самое сердце жизни на Земле!

Cesar Nomination

Keep on Keepin' On. Alan Hicks

KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a debilitating case of stage fright, is invited to com­pete in a prestigious competition, while Clark’s health takes a serious turn. The two face the toughest challenges of their lives. The result is an intimate portrait of two remarkable men–a student striving against all odds and a teacher who continues to inspire through the power of music.

Newport Beach Film Festival Honors
Seattle International Film Festival Award
Tribeca Film Festival  Award

Bolshoi: Ballet Classics

В ролях: Екатерина Максимова, Владимир Васильев, Габриэла Ком­лева. Режиссер: Виктор Окунцов

• Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker / Vassiliev, Maximova, Bolshoi Ballet. 1978
• Sergei Prokofiev: Cinderella
  Режиссер: Виктор Окунцов. В ролях: Габриэла Комлева, Даукаев Ма­рат, Любовь Галинская. 1985, 79 мин.
• Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci / Atlantov, Kalinina, Morozov, Grigoriev, Bolshoi Opera. 1985, 72 мин.

ZYX music

Лермонтов

Режиссер: Альберт Гендельштейн

1943 г., 77 мин., СССР
Кинокомпания: Союздетфильм
В ролях: Алексей Консовский, Андрей Файт, Сергей Мартинсон, Лидия Сухаревская, Павел Массальский, Нина Шатерникова
Автор сценария – Константин Паустовский

Поэтическая киноверсия жизни Михаила Юрьевича от первых его дней до последнего мгновения. Страдающий, радостно-взволнованный, одухотворенный, мятежный - таким предстает перед зрителем великий русский поэт в гениальных строчках его стихов, в глубоких размышлениях, в смелых и дерзких поступках.

David Garrett: Caprice

David Garrett, Andrea Bocelli, Nicole Scherzinger

David Garrett collaborates with Andrea Bocelli and Nicole Scherzinger on new album.
The album, which beautifully showcases both David’s skills as a violinist and his deft touch as a composer of modern classical music, features collaborations with An­drea Bocelli and Nicole Scherzinger.

Bambi Prize - Seemingly without any efforts he manages to build a bridge between Mozart and Michael Jackson. The great violinist entices people to come to his sold out tour even if they might not have been interested in clas­sical music before. David Garrett breaks down all music­al barriers between different genres. By combining clas­sic, rock, pop and jazz, his music breaks all resistance in the record industry. The incredible success of his cross-over music style can be measured by all his awards. Three times he has been awarded the “Echo Klassik” and the “Echo” which honours the best pop musicians.

Le Flem: Aucassin et Nicolette

Delphine Haidan, Stanislas de Barbeyrac & Mélanie Boisvert. Soliste de Lyon & Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Nicolas Chalvin

A century ago there was one show that really pulled in the crowds, long before cinema, and that was shadow puppetry. Music accompanied the story line, and one French composer excelled in this - Paul Le Flem. Over a medieval background, Le Flem wrote a beautiful picture book to accompany Aucassin et Nicolette, with a pro­logue and three parts. This release is a true discovery and should not be missed.

Stanislas de Barbeyrac - Victoires de la musique classique Award

Timpani 1C1188

Chopin: Preludes

Award-winning pianist Ingrid Fliter performs Chopin’s Op.28, a poetic collection of great emotional power and unrivalled artistic quality which demands high virtuosity.

After the overwhelming success of her Linn debut Fliter has proven herself an outstanding Chopin interpreter; ‘Chopin: Piano Concertos’ was named ‘Disc of the Week’ by BBC Radio 3 ‘CD Review’, ‘Album of the Week’ by Classic FM, a ‘Choice’ recording by Gramophone and re­ceived many five star reviews.

“The Argentinian pianist... brings a powerful and individual voice to the Preludes. The first feature that stands out is her tone quality: forthright, with warm and singing legato. She puts an individual spin on tempos and character...” BBC Music Magazine
Gramophone Magazine Disc of the Month

Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Pet­renko

Written between the fourth and fifth symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s programmatic Manfred Symphony, in­spired by Byron’s dramatic poem of the same name, contains some of the composer’s most thrillingly orches­trated music and best tunes. For Tchaikovsky, as for Byron, Manfred represented the figure of the outsider, an outcast from society.

Petrenko’s Liverpool debut with the Phil in November 2004, and subsequent appearances in October and December 2005, created huge excitement: “…memor­able for the sheer electricity emanating from the podium. Instantly there was a sense of dialogue between con­ductor and musicians, between one orchestral family and another, between one phrase and the next, to re­lease natural-seeming eloquence from his players.” The Daily Telegraph

"[Vasily Petrenko] seems to have everything going for him: dynamism, taste, confident command and clarity of communication….What an exciting conductor he is to watch, and, even more so, to hear in action.” The Daily Telegraph

Gramophone Awards
Naxos 8570568

Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 shortlist

Roy Jenkins
by John Campbell
Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had. But though he never reached 10 Downing Street, he left a more enduring mark on British society than most of those who did. His career spans the full half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair during which he helped transform almost every area of na­tional life and politics. His biography is the story of an exceptionally well-filled and well-rounded life.

Empire of Necessity 
by Greg Grandin
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Span­ish slaver. He spent all day on the ship, sharing food and water, yet failed to see that the slaves, having slaughtered most of the crew, were now their own mas­ters. Later, when Delano caught on, he chased the ship down, responding with barbaric violence. Drawing on never-before-consulted records on four contin­ents, Greg Grandin follows this group of courageous slaves and their persecutor from the horrors of the Middle Passage to their explosive confrontation. Wretched Tryal is a gripping account of obsessive mania, imperial exploitation, and lost ideals, set against the epic backdrop of the Age of Revolution that was remaking the world.

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
by Caroline Moorehead
From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mountains of the southern Massif Central in France lie tiny, remote villages united by a long and particular history. During the Nazi occupation, the inhabitants of Le Cham­bon-sur-Lignon and the other villages of the Plateau Vivarais Lignon saved several thousand people from the concentration camps.

H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief dur­ing the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.

Common People 
by Alison Light
Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alis­on Light moves between the present and the past in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.  Needlemakers, sailors, servants, bricklayers - how is the historian to understand the lives of those for­bears who left few traces except the barest record: no diaries, letters, or posses­sions, and sometimes not even a grave? Or the suffering of those individuals deemed paupers, like her great-grandmother, born in the workhouse and dying in an asylum? Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work.

The Iceberg: A Memoir 
by Marion Coutts
In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tu­mour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would even­tually rob him of the ability to speak. He died early in 2011. Marion Coutts was his wife. In short bursts of beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describes the eight­een months leading up to her partner's death. This book is an account of a fam­ily unit, man, woman, young child, under assault, and how the three of them fought to keep it intact. Written with extraordinary narrative force and power, The Iceberg is almost shocking in its rawness. It charts the deterioration of Tom's speech even as it records the developing language of his child. Fury, selfish­ness, grief, indignity and impotence are all examined and brought to light. Yet out of this comes a rare story about belonging, an 'adventure of being and dying'.

Global Crisis. War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. Geoffrey Parker

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unpreceden­ted, they were agonisingly widespread.  A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distin­guished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s. Parker also deploys scientific evidence concerning climate conditions of the period, and his use of ‘natural’ as well as ‘human’ archives transforms our understanding of the World Crisis. Changes in the prevailing weather patterns during the 1640s and 1650s – longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers – disrupted growing seasons, causing dearth, malnu­trition, and disease, along with more deaths and fewer births. Some contemporaries estimated that one-third of the world died, and much of the surviving historical evidence supports their pessimism.

The British Academy Medal
Distinguished Bok Award, Society for Military History
PROSE Awards, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Heineken Prize Laureate, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region. Joe Studwell

In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called “tigers” or “mini-dragons,” and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, cultur­ally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise.

Joe Studwell has spent two decades as a reporter in the region, and The Financial Times said he “should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business.” In How Asia Works, Studwell distills his extensive re­search into the economies of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished.

“Pithy, well-written and intellectually vigorous... Studwell’s thesis is bold, his arguments persuasive, and his style pugnacious. It adds up to a highly readable and important book.”— Financial Times

“Provocative… How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book … A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.”— The Econom­ist

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best hu­man Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, soft­ware, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose dis­eases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.

In The Second Machine Age, MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full im­pact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.

Медийный город. Скотт Маккуайр

Книга Маккуайра приятно выделяется на фоне мутного потока ли­тературы по медиатеории. Автор не пытается подражать Мар­шаллу Маклюэну, не делает сенсационных заявлений, не прибе­гает к дешевым риторическим приемам. Его кумир — тонкий на­блюдатель Вальтер Беньямин, точно передавший в своих эссе дух первой половины ХХ века. Маккуайр надеется проделать то же самое с нашим временем. Но оригинальность его замысла не в этом, а в удивительном проекте — археологии городской образ­ности. Например, Маккуайр прослеживает те изменения, которые вносит изобретение фотографии в городской ландшафт: фото Парижа не просто фиксируют его «османизацию», сам барон Осман — порождение духа фотографии. Другой пример: Макку­айр показывает, как утверждение «взгляда на город сверху» свя­зано с прогрессом военных технологий — после ковровых бом­бардировок Роттердама и Дрездена города перестают восприни­маться как то, что нужно занять, но исключительно как то, что нужно уничтожить. Постнаука

Архитектор Фёдор Шехтель. Энциклопедия творчества

Государственный музей архитектуры им. А.В. Щусева совместно с Издательским Домом «Красивые дома пресс» выпускает двух­томник «Архитектор Фёдор Шехтель. Энциклопедия творчества».Беспрецедентное издание – результат 30-летней научной работы Людмилы Владимировны Сайгиной, старшего научного сотрудника, хранителя фондов графики Музея. Книга посвящена творчеству выдающегося зодчего Федора Осиповича Шехтеля (1859–1926). Это первая столь полная и строго докумен­тированная работа биографического жанра, посвященная круп­нейшему архитектору русского модерна. Исследование представ­ляет собой каталог графического наследия, в который вошли все сохранившиеся работы архитектора: редкие архивные и совре­менные эксклюзивные фотографии объектов и предметов деко­ративно-прикладного искусства, и, кроме того, сохранившаяся на сегодняшний день журнальная, театральная и архитектурная гра­фика, письма и документы (более 1200 единиц). Материалы, опубликованные в книге, принадлежат фондам как Музея архи­тектуры, так и других крупных музеев и архивов, среди которых: Государственный центральный театральный музей имени А.А. Бахрушина, Государственный Литературный музей, Центральный государственный архив города Москвы и т.д. В книгу включены публикации историка архитектуры Е. И. Кириченко и других вид­ных российских исследователей и реставраторов.

Избранные произведения Леонардо да Винчи

Том 1: Глава «О падении тел. О трении»
Том 2: Глава «Спор живописца с поэтом, музыкантом и скульптором»

Рукописи да Винчи, посвященные самым разным областям зна­ний, дошли до наших дней в виде множества разрозненных фраг­ментов и свидетельствуют о том, как сильно Леонардо опередил свое время. Переводчики и составители сборника его литератур­ных произведений стремились в полной мере раскрыть широту интересов и отразить универсализм Леонардо-художника и Леонардо-ученого.

Первый том сборника охватывает научные и инженерные изыска­ния да Винчи. Второй том посвящен Леонардо-художнику, также в него вошли басни, фацетии и предсказания. Кроме текстов да Винчи издание содержит репродукции рисунков и чертежей из его рукописей, а также подробные комментарии переводчиков. Текст печатается по академическому двухтомнику 1935 года, выпущен­ному издательством «Академия» в серии «Искусствоведение». В первый том внесены правки переводчика Василия Павловича Зу­бова, сделанные им на полях личного экземпляра.

Китайские мегатренды. 8 столпов нового общества. Джон и Дорис Нейсбит

Автор книги Джон Нейсбит прославился, опубликовав в конце 1980-х книгу «Мегатренды», в основу которой лег глубокий ана­лиз особенностей развития американского общества конца XX века и их роли в мировой экономике. Книга обрела невероятную популярность не только в США, но и в Китае. После этого в 1996 году Цзян Цзэминь, тогда генеральный секретарь ЦК КПК, лично предложил Нейсбиту поработать над аналогичной книгой, посвя­щенной Китаю.
Нейсбит утверждает, что китайская парадигма развития принци­пиально отличается от любых других, существующих в Европе или США, и не поддается описанию с помощью имеющегося в этих странах политического словаря. Книга «Китайские мегатрен­ды. 8 столпов нового общества» путем анализа политической, экономической и социальной моделей Китая приводит к объясне­нию феномена экономического чуда.

150 лет современного искусства. Уилл Гомперц

Инструкция по эксплуатации современного искусства от бывшего директора галереи Tate и действующего арт-директора BBC, рассказанная с шутками и анекдотами. Отказавшись от серьезно­сти и нравоучительного тона, Гомперц пытается объяснить, за­чем нужно было выставлять писсуар Дюшана в музее и почему вы на самом деле никогда бы не смогли нарисовать «Чёрный квадрат» Малевича.

“[A] highly lucid, lively, and buoyantly composed history…while his tone is breezy and conversational, [Gompertz] astutely and often wittily describes the core of every movement and its key artists.” – Publishers Weekly

The End of Time. Peter Mettler

Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmmable.

From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha's enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday.

THE END OF TIME, at once personal, rigorous and visionary, Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.

Locarno International Film Festival Award,
7 nominations

The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, the True Story. Joe Medeiros

A man steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. His 84-year-old daughter thought he did it for patriotic reasons. A filmmaker spends more than 30 years trying to find the truth.

Mona Lisa is Missing is the untold story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian immigrant who committed the greatest little-known art theft in history. For more than 30 years, writer/director Joe Medeiros was obsessed with finding out Peruggia's true motive. So with the help of researchers, art experts and Celestina Peruggia's children Silvio and Graziella, Medeiros and his team embarked on an epic journey leading them to the Louvre, to Peruggia's hiding place in Paris, to Florence where he returned the painting, to thousands of documents in the French and Italian archives. And ultimately ...to the truth.

Austin Film Festival  Nominated
San Antonio Film Festival Award

Futaba kara tooku hanarete. Atsushi Funahashi

March 11, 2011: A huge tsunami triggered by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, crippling the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, releasing radiation, and turning the residents of Futaba into "nuclear refugees." The devastation experienced by the town - dead livestock left to rot, crops abandoned, homes and businesses destroyed - was infinitely worse than anything reported by the newspapers. A year later, many refugees are still unable to return to contaminated homes. The irony of this disaster occurring in a nation that experienced two nuclear bombs is not lost on the victims who poignantly question their responsibility for striking a Faustian bargain with nuclear power. Nuclear Nation examines the tragedy of Fukushima, and also whether it could one day be replicated on a grand scale - perhaps in your own backyard.

"This film will force you to reassess all the arguments for and against nuclear power." - The New York Times

Hong Kong International Film Festival Nominated

Secret Files Of The Inquisition. TV Series. David Rabinovitch, Colin King

A gripping tale of faith and fervor, torture and courage, the fight for human rights, and the quest for religious freedom told over four amazing HD hours for the very first time in this release. With never before seen extra material, this incredible production comes to life on screen. Every gruesome detail was documented by the Catholic Church in the 'Files'. In 1998, more than 700 years after the Inquisition began, the Vatican granted access to the archive. Secret Files now uncovers the truth behind the most notorious suppression in religious history. Narrated by actor Colm Feore, the 4-part docudrama portrays true stories of the tragic victims of religious intolerance and the oppression , spanning time periods and locations from medieval France, to 15th century Spain, Renaissance Italy and even into the 19th century. Secret Files is at once epic and intimate, focusing on compelling characters in the 600-year drama, from the ruthless architects of the Inquisition to its helpless victims. Each episode features first person testimonies from the files - verbatim accounts from nobles and peasants, priests, scholars, mothers and fathers defending themselves and their families against accusations of heresy, literally arguing for their lives. The series was shot in HD in Spain on historic locations including castles, monasteries and cathedrals. More than six hundred extras were engaged in the production. It includes commentary from Catholic theologian Rev. Joseph A. Di Noia, Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, according to The Guardian (London) ""possibly the highest ranking Vatican official ever to be interviewed publicly on the subject."" Secret Files of the Inquisition also includes insights from some of the world's foremost writers and researchers on the Inquisition. It has won many awards for Best Direction, Cinematography, Original Score, and even the Gold Medal for Docudrama from the New York Festivals, Gemini Award
Leo Award