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Part 3 of 3Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online.When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up.Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie’s behaviour so they place him in care.Stevie is exploring his gender identity, and like many young people he spends time online. Cathy warns him about the dangers of talking to strangers online and advises him how to stay safe. When his younger siblings tell their grandmother that they have a secret they can’t tell, Cathy is worried. However, nothing could have prepared her for the truth when Stevie finally breaks down and confesses what he’s done.

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Part 2 of 3Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online.When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up.Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie’s behaviour so they place him in care.Stevie is exploring his gender identity, and like many young people he spends time online. Cathy warns him about the dangers of talking to strangers online and advises him how to stay safe. When his younger siblings tell their grandmother that they have a secret they can’t tell, Cathy is worried. However, nothing could have prepared her for the truth when Stevie finally breaks down and confesses what he’s done.

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«Семь дней ТВ-программа» – развлекательный иллюстрированный журнал для семейного чтения, содержащий аннотированную телепрограмму. Телепрограмма с 23 по 29 ноября.

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Имя, жизнь и творческое наследие Елены Рерих всегда были окружены покровом тайны. С детства обладавшая способностью предсказывать будущее, сотрудничавшая с Адептами легендарной Шамбалы, осуществившая на высотах Тибета невероятно трудный и опасный эксперимент по йогической трансформации организма, Елена Рерих остается самой таинственной женщиной нашей планеты. В этом году мир отметит 100-летие появления учения Агни-Йоги и 65 лет со дня смерти Елены Рерих, создавшей это учение вместе со своим духовным Учителем. Эти даты совпали с осуществлением пророчеств о будущем всей планеты, изложенных в Агни-Йоге. Почти 100 лет назад в этом учении было сказано и о резком изменении климата на Земле, и о распространении по всему миру эпидемических болезней, поражающих дыхательные органы, и о том, в чем искать спасения от этих болезней и какова будущая судьба нашей цивилизации. Каковым же было мировоззрение Елены Рерих? Как складывалось ее сотрудничество с таинственными Адептами Шамбалы? В чем состояло значение осуществленного ею в Тибете духовного эксперимента? Об этом и многом другом рассказывается в этой книге. Издание предназначается для широкого круга читателей.

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Любимые воспоминания, как старая пленка хорошего кино – в памяти она в разделе «классика». Пересматривая свои фильмы, нужно смаковать каждый момент, но еще лучше – создавать новые. Эта книга о приключениях, воспоминаниях и людях, без которых любое путешествие не было бы таким многогранным. Коллекция путевых заметок, которые автор писала во время жизни в Китае и путешествий по странам в одиночку. Вас ждут: • Стажировка и захватывающий роман в Индии. • 26 часов в пути из Дунгуаня в Эль-Нидо. • Работа учителем в Китае. • Приключения в поезде Самарканд—Маргилан. • Сольный маршрут по нетуристическим местам. • Новые друзья с разных континентов, которых объединяет любовь к путешествиям и поиску нового.

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‘THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ’ Mail on Sunday‘Meticulous and highly readable … Funny and devastating’ Daily Telegraph‘The most compelling in-depth study so far’ GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing Street could mean for BritainAfter four unremarkable decades in politics, Jeremy Corbyn stands on the brink of power. Until his surprise election as leader of the Labour Party in 2015, this seemingly unelectable oddball had not been a major political player. Since then, Corbyn has survived coup attempts and accusations of incompetence that would have felled most politicians, including grave charges of anti-Semitism, bullying and not being the master of his brief. Despite these shortcomings, as the Conservatives rip themselves apart over Europe, he is likely soon to become Britain's prime minister. Yet this hero of the far left has done his best to conceal much of his past and personal life from public scrutiny. In this book, best-selling investigative biographer Tom Bower reveals hidden truths about Corbyn's character, the causes and organisations he espouses, and Britain's likely fate under the Marxist-Trotskyist society he has championed since the early 1970s. Based on eyewitness accounts from those who have known Corbyn throughout his life, the book asks whether a Labour government led by Corbyn would transform the country for the better. Has capitalism, as he argues, run its course, and would our lives be improved by socialism? If so, what is Corbyn's brand of socialism? The same as that experienced under successive Labour governments since 1945, or something more extreme? Will his advocacy of more debt, tax hikes and renationalisation reproduce the fate of Venezuela as championed by his own hero Hugo Chávez? Is he a reformer or a revolutionary? Will he deliver a glowing new era or catastrophe? His supporters damn every opponent and critic, calling them 'traitors' or worse. Does this aggression, and the accusations that paint Corbyn as an entrenched anti-Semite and misogynist, override his image as an authentic 'good bloke'? Many are excited by the prospect of Corbyn’s arrival in Downing Street. Others believe that Corbyn as prime minister will prove to be a dangerous hero.

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THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably the most influential Irish person ever to have lived. He was Ireland’s youngest ever attorney general; the youngest ever European Commissioner; UN special representative for migration; and special adviser to the Vatican.His landmark achievement was the signing of the Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations in Marrakesh on April 15th, 1994. Under Sutherland’s stewardship, a historic global agreement on the removal of trade barriers and market liberalisation was achieved, earning him a reputation as the ‘father of globalisation’.He became chairman of BP and Goldman Sachs International and sat on the board of some of the biggest companies in the world. Public service, however, remained his true calling. The position he most prized was President of the European Commission but a combination of domestic political tribalism and French resistance derailed his chances.Drawing on a wide range of interviews with major political and business figures, including Hank Paulson, Mickey Kantor, Pascal Lamy, Sir Tom McKillop, Mary Robinson, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen, Catherine Day, David O'Sullivan and Klaus Schwab, The Globalist examines key episodes in Sutherland’s life and career – the Arms Trial, the introduction of the Eighth Amendment, the Anglo Irish Agreement, the development of the EU single market, the establishment of the WTO, and migration policy.Towards the end of his life Sutherland became a tireless advocate for the rights of asylum seekers and migrants, which made him a target for nativist and populist movements around the world.

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Перед тем, как «Взвод» принес Оливеру Стоуну международный успех, он воевал во Вьетнаме, был дважды ранен. Вернувшись с войны, он поступил в Нью-Йоркский университет, где учился киноискусству у Мартина Скорсезе. По ночам Стоун водил такси, а днем подрабатывал ассистентом продюсера и писал сценарии, раз за разом получая отказы. Эта книга – история режиссера «Взвода» и «Сальвадора», сценариста «Полуночного экспресса», «Конана-варвара» и «Лица со шрамом», талантливого и честного человека, который боролся с обстоятельствами и искушениями, импровизировал и пробивался, чтобы снимать свое кино. Это история о взрослении в годы великих перемен, когда люди жили политикой и социальными проблемами, поражениях и потере уверенности, ранних успехах и высокомерии. Это рассказ современника о лицах американской киноиндустрии 1970-х и 1980-х годов, жуликах и героях – людях, которые одним своим присутствием приносят вам благо или уничтожают вас, если вы им это позволите. И, конечно, эта книга о любви к кино и самой жизни.

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A global history of botany and plant collecting in 18th century based on original research in many languages.Joseph Banks, botanist for Cook’s great voyage to the South Pacific on The Endeavour, was a child of the Enlightenment. He believed that reason, in the shape of scientific knowledge, was the key to political and economic progress. He was also what Malcolm Gladwell terms ‘a connector’. In the second half of the 18th century, people who wanted something done in science and exploration went to Banks. And what Banks cared most about was botany.Botany was the darling of European science in this period. A bounty of new plants was found wherever European ships ventured, in the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. Exotic plants entered and changed Europe in many different ways: as ornamental varieties that began to adorn private gardens; or medicinal agents applied to cure what had been considered incurable conditions; or industrial raw materials; or as new and brilliant dyes. This was a time when travelling physically also meant travelling intellectually. Banks and his fellow pioneers were expanding the horizons of knowledge itself.Jordan Goodman’s brilliant, epic history tells how science changed the balance of powers in the world. Each of its thirteen chapters follows a different expedition or mission set in motion by Banks – Masson’s voyage to Cape Colony, Staunton’s plant hunting in China, James Bowie in Australia, Bligh in Tahiti and Jamaica, Roxburgh and the founding of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, to name just a few. It is a vast story, spanning every continent – a huge jigsaw, told through meticulous use of Banks’s 20,000 extant letters, scattered across the globe from San Francisco to Australia. This is a book that tells great stories, on every continent of the planet.

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В увлекательной и поэтичной форме автор рассказывает о богинях и женщинах-мистиках, объединенных стремлением облегчить страдания всех живых существ. Героини книги – представительницы самых разных традиций: христианства, индуизма, буддизма, даосизма, иудаизма, ислама и шаманизма. Мудрость Софии, ясновидение Марии, сострадание Тары, неукротимость Кали – все это грани великого женского начала. Его проявлениям в культуре человечества и возрождению в современном мире посвящена эта книга. В конце каждой главы есть практики, которые можно включить в свою жизнь. Мирабай Старр – преподаватель философии и мировых религий, переводчик священных текстов и писатель. Сегодня ее лекции об учениях мистиков, созерцательной практике и сострадании в разных духовных традициях известны по всему миру. В этой книге она также делится откровениями из собственной жизни.

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