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'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…'Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or hours wasted flying over a virtual Earth, navigating a way around a shopping centre, watching the weather forecast, planning a walk or a trip, catching up on the news, booking a holiday or hotel. Maps pepper logos, advertisements, illustrations, books, web pages and newspaper and magazine articles: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. At a stroke, they convey precise information about topography, layout, history, politics and power. They are the unsung heroes of life: Map Addict sings their song.There are some fine, dry tomes out there about the history and development of cartography: this is not one of them. Map Addict mixes wry observation with hard fact and considerable research, unearthing the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic in a celebration of all things maps. In Map Addict, we learn the location of what has officially been named by the OS as the most boring square kilometre in the land; we visit the town fractured into dozens of little parcels of land split between two different countries and trek around many other weird borders of Britain and Europe; we test the theories that the new city of Milton Keynes was built to a pagan alignment and that women can't read maps. Combining history, travel, politics, memoir and oblique observation in a highly readable, and often very funny, style, Mike Parker confesses how his own impressive map collection was founded on a virulent teenage shoplifting habit, ponders how a good leftie can be so gung-ho about British cartographic imperialism and wages a one-man war against the moronic blandishments of the Sat Nav age.
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Глубокая по содержанию и охвату материала книга, написанная доступным, ярким литературным языком, представляет страну от микро- до макроуровня. Она, раскрывая традиции, отражает как положительное в молдаванах (гостеприимство, хозяйственность, трудолюбие), так и отрицательное (неотрайбализм, коррупция, фасадность). Оригинально осмыслены отношения Молдовы с Румынией, дано объяснение стремлению молдаван постоянно балансировать между внешними игроками, разобраны приднестровский и гагаузский вопросы.
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Татьяна приехала на свадьбу к подруге в Италию, а там познакомилась с Роберто Сальвони. Они стремительно поженились, через год после знакомства родился их первый сын Алехандро. После успеха бестселлера «Италия. Любовь, шопинг и dolcevita» в 2014 году Татьяна написала эту книгу об итальянцах. Книга изобилует юмористическими зарисовками, реальными историями любви и страсти. Где и как знакомиться с итальянцами, секреты гармонии в смешанных семьях, итальянского стиля жизни и многое другое!
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Снова у тебя в руках книга о счастье. Но это не руководство о том, как его достичь, а личная история простой девушки. История, в которой героиня идет по своему пути через разрушенную семью, военный город, от неудач к счастью, обретая статус везунчика и баловня судьбы.В книге собраны инструменты и техники лайфкоучинга, которые помогают не только легко преодолевать трудности, но и генерировать счастье и удачу в себе и вокруг себя.На основе реальных историй и опыта.
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Во вторую книгу «географической дилогии» Андрея Михайлова вошли путевые очерки и эссе, посвящённые Индии, Китаю и Юго-Восточной Азии. Насыщенный разнообразными сведениями и прекрасно иллюстрированный авторскими фотографиями труд будет интересен не только тому, кто ещё собирается посетить этот своеобразный регион планеты, но и всем тем, кто там уже побывал.
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1990 was a positive and fateful year for Germany.
The world around Germany changed as well. New states were founded, others were dissolved and revolutions bore their fruit. For Krause, it was a year that changed everything in his life. He went on an adventure trip to Sri Lanka and found his love of dogs. From this point on, Krause’s life changed drastically and turned into something completely different. However, it also introduced certain dark elements. A life-threatening disease was only one of several strokes of fate. All these changes started with a small dog, who Krause brought home from Ceylon. 8 years later he turned his passion for dogs into a job, which he still carries out successfully to this day. All that was possible because of what happened one day in March of 1990 in Kandy, Sri Lanka. In this book, he finally gets to tell this very personal story.
The world around Germany changed as well. New states were founded, others were dissolved and revolutions bore their fruit. For Krause, it was a year that changed everything in his life. He went on an adventure trip to Sri Lanka and found his love of dogs. From this point on, Krause’s life changed drastically and turned into something completely different. However, it also introduced certain dark elements. A life-threatening disease was only one of several strokes of fate. All these changes started with a small dog, who Krause brought home from Ceylon. 8 years later he turned his passion for dogs into a job, which he still carries out successfully to this day. All that was possible because of what happened one day in March of 1990 in Kandy, Sri Lanka. In this book, he finally gets to tell this very personal story.
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A superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.Few historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaningfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after his death, the shadow of Ayatollah Khomeini still looms over Shi'ite Islam and Iranian politics, the state of the nation fought over by conservatives and radicals. They are contending for the soul of a revolutionary Islamic government that terrified the Western establishment and took them to leadership of the Islamic world.But times have changed. Khomeini's death and the deficiencies of his successor, the intolerance and corruption that has made the regime increasingly authoritarian and cynical, frustration at Iran's economic isolation and the revolution's failure to deliver the just realm it promised has transformed the spirit of the country.In this superbly crafted and deeply thoughtful book Christopher de Bellaigue, who is married to an Iranian and has lived there for many years, gives us the voices and memories of this 'worn-out generation': be they traders or soldiers, film-makers or clerics, writers or taxi-drivers, gangsters or reformists. These are voices that are never heard, but whose lives and concerns are forging the future of one of the most secretive, misunderstood countries in the world. The result is a subtle yet intense revelation of the hearts and minds of the Iranian people.
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Рассказ об очередном приключении детектива Суханова в своём заграничном отпуске. И об его расследовании местного преступления! Содержит нецензурную брань.
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Die Journalistin Andrea Freiermuth radelt mit einem E-Bike über die Seidenstrasse von Europa nach Asien. Die 46-Jährige will damit beweisen, dass heutige Elektrovelos fit für eine solche Reise sind. Zwölf Monate ist die radelnde Reporterin unterwegs mit 2 Akkus durch 17 Länder und über 16 000 Kilometer. Auf ihrer Reise weiss sie morgens oft nicht, wo sie abends enden wird. Aber es kommt immer gut. «Die Welt da draussen ist viel besser als das, was wir auf dem Sofa sitzend in den Nachrichten sehen. Gerade in muslimischen Ländern ist die Gastfreundschaft unglaublich gross.» Interessante Begegnungen, spannende Erfahrungen, aber auch schwierige Momente bringt diese Abenteuerreise mit sich. Besonders zu dem Zeitpunkt, als Andrea Freiermuth erfährt, dass sie ihre Reiseroute wegen Einreisebestimmungen ändern muss. Es läuft nicht alles wie geplant, aber dadurch letztlich vielleicht sogar besser. «Die Reise hat mich Demut und Gelassenheit gelehrt», fasst die Schweizerin ihre Erfahrungen zusammen. Sie beweist mit ihrem Projekt nicht nur, dass E-Bikes die Seidenstrasse und sogar den legendären Pamir Highway problemlos meistern, sondern auch, dass es sich lohnt, die Komfortzone zu verlassen und sich nicht entmutigen zu lassen. «‹Das geht nicht› kann man nicht sagen, bevor man es selbst versucht hat.»