During the last few years, the name of Perperikon, situated in the Balkan Peninsula in the southern part of Bulgaria at some 20 km to the northeast of the town of Kardzhali, in the wilderness of the Eastern Rodop Mountains made quite a stir. In the year 2000 "AD, this has been still c small rocky summit, densely overgrown with thorny shrubs and blackberries. Here and there one could see masonry walls and deeply hewn crevices in the living rock left by ancient cultures, long ago extinct. Once, archaeological excavations were carried out on this hill, but the pits were long ago abandoned and overgrown with weeds. A ... |
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The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller. Immigration, Identity, Islam. ... "The Strange Death of Europe" is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society. This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the ... |
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Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level ... |
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Editor: Phoebe Gloeckner. Series editor: Bill Kartalopoulos. ... "I love comics. Comics is (Comics are?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to "The Best American Comics 2018". This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. "The Best American Comics 2018" includes: Gabrielle Bell; Tara Booth; Geof Darrow; Guy Delisle; Emil Ferris; Julia ... |
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There are films of these stories. ... Can you solve these mysteries? Sherlock Holmes , and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigate the cases of "The Speckled Band", "The Dancing Men" and "The Red-Headed League". This book is in British English and here you can find a story and points for understanding and glossary. There are audio downloadable materials for this book, which are available to buy at www.macmillaneducationebooks.com . ... |
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Editor: Roxane Gay, author of "Difficult women". ... "I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed", writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to "The Best American Short Stories 2018", "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world." The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a ... |
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Новият албум на Pat Metheny, "From This Place" е издаден на 21 февруари 2020 г. Записът включва 10 композиции от Metheny, към когото се присъединяват дългогодишния му барабанист Antonio Sanchez, малазийско-австралийската басистка Linda May Han Oh и британският пианист Gwilym Simcock, както и "Hollywood Studio Symphony" под ръководството на Joel McNeely. Meshell Ndegeocello (вокали), Gregoire Maret (хармоника) и Luis Conte (перкусии) са специални гости във From This Place, първият албум на Metheny от нови творби след "Kin". От 2014 г. Metheny, Simcock, Oh и Sanchez започват обширно ... |
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С над 200 милиона преглеждания в "YouTube", Kehlani се радва на завидна фен база. Талантливата Kehlani има африканско-американски, кавказки, американски, испански и филипински корени, и въпреки трудностите, с които се сблъсква през годините, тя успява да пробие извън родния си Oakland и да завладее света. Микстейпът ѝ от 2014 "Cloud 19" я представя на света, и публиката се влюбва в нея. Медии като "Complex", "Pitchfork", "Vice" и "Buzzfeed" застават зад нея, подкрепяйки творчеството ѝ. През април 2016 г. излезе "You Should Be Here", който ... |
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"The Serenity Of Suffering" е дванадесетият студиен албум на една от най-влиятелните рок банди на съвремието - "Korn". Продуцираният от Ник Раскулинец ("Foo Fighters", "Deftones", "Mastodon") запис включва специалното участие на Кори Тейлър от "Slipknot". Групата (Джонатан Дейвис - вокали, Джеймс Шафър "Munky" - китара, Брайън Уелч "Head" - китара, Реджиналд Арвизу "Fieldy" - бас и Рей Люзиър - барабани) изпълнява за пръв път новия сингъл "Rotting In Vain" пред 25 000 зрители в Чикаго. Това се случва в рамките на фестивала ... |