Наистина е трудно да се определи кои и колко са Езоповите басни. В последните столетия са събрани около 600 текста, претендиращи да са негови творби. Учените, занимаващи се с тази материя, като че ли са склонни да припишат на епохата (не толкова на самия Езоп) около 350-360 басни. Толкова са те и в настоящия превод, изпълнен по второто издание на Емил Шамбри от 1927 год. (Emile Chambry, Fables, Les Belles Lettres, Paris), включващо 358 басни, от които шест бяха отделени в приложението Съмнителни и неавтентични басни поради това, че героите в тях (, Демад) принадлежат към доста по-късна епоха. Към тези шест басни в ... |
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"What I wanted was to be one with her, with nothing coming between us." You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Ted Goosen and Philip Gabriel. ... |
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The International Bestseller. ... The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed form MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one. "Riveting... Delicious... Gripping.& ... |
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The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst. ... Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species. In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultures? This is the exhilarating ... |
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A brief history of humankind. ... Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind’s extraordinary history - from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age - and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. ... |
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Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The "Backstory" you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark ... |
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A novel by the author of "Ellen Foster". "Kaye Gibbons shows us the secret core of a love that easily outlasts death. It's invisible mastery - but mastery all the same". Reynolds Prince ... When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other ... |
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Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind’s extraordinary history - from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age - and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. ... |
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From the author of the million-copy bestseller "Sapiens" Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the ... |
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Тефтерът Vintage от серията Conceptum на Sigel се отличава с добър дизайн, отлично качество и висока функционалност. Той е перфектният личен асистент. Може да бъде използван като дневник, работен бележник или за всичко друго - от списъци за пазаруване до парти планиране. Тефтерът има твърди корици с уникално дизайн. Разполага със 194 страници на квадратчета и самозалепващи етикети за специално индексиране. Хартията му е в бял цвят с плътност 80 g/m 2. От вътрешната страна на предната и задната корица има джобове за съхранение на бързи и архивни бележки. Характеристики: формат А5 брой страници: 194 плътност на ... |
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Тефтерът е част от колекцията "Vintage Floral" на "Castelli". ... Характеристики на тефтера с ластик: размери: 13 x 21 cm; обрез на книжното тяло в златен цвят; тонирана хартия; брой страници: 240; широки редове; разделителна лента; твърди корици с рози; заоблени ъгли; ластична лента за затваряне; плик за съхранение на бележки върху задната вътрешна корица; ластик - държач за молив или химикалка. Етикетът FSC е най-довереният знак в света за устойчиво горско стопанство. Когато купувате продукти с етикет FSC, вие помагате на горите. Суровините, използвани за производството на ... |
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Тефтерът е част от колекцията "Vintage Floral" на "Castelli". ... Характеристики на тефтера с ластик: размери: 13 x 21 cm; обрез на книжното тяло в златен цвят; тонирана хартия; брой страници: 240; широки редове; разделителна лента; твърди корици с лалета; заоблени ъгли; ластична лента за затваряне; плик за съхранение на бележки върху задната вътрешна корица; ластик - държач за молив или химикалка. Етикетът FSC е най-довереният знак в света за устойчиво горско стопанство. Когато купувате продукти с етикет FSC, вие помагате на горите. Суровините, използвани за производството на ... |
