Автор: de Waal Edmund
Название: The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family`s Century of Art and Loss
ISBN: 0374105979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374105976
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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.
The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection.
The netsuke—drunken monks, almost-ripe plums, snarling tigers—were gathered by Charles Ephrussi at the height of the Parisian rage for all things Japanese. Charles had shunned the place set aside for him in the family business to make a study of art, and of beautiful living. An early supporter of the Impressionists, he appears, oddly formal in a top hat, in Renoir’s "Luncheon of"" the Boating Party." Marcel Proust studied Charles closely enough to use him as a model for the aesthete and lover Swann in "Remembrance of Things Past."
Charles gave the carvings as a wedding gift to his cousin Viktor in Vienna; his children were allowed to play with one netsuke each while they watched their mother, the Baroness Emmy, dress for ball after ball. Her older daughter grew up to disdain fashionable society. Longing to write, she struck up a correspondence with Rilke, who encouraged her in her poetry.
The Anschluss changed their world beyond recognition. Ephrussi and his cosmopolitan family were imprisoned or scattered, and Hitler’s theorist on the “Jewish question” appropriated their magnificent palace on the Ringstrasse. A library of priceless books and a collection of Old Master paintings were confiscated by the Nazis. But the netsuke were smuggled away by a loyal maid, Anna, and hidden in her straw mattress. Years after the war, she would find a way to return them to the family she’d served even in their exile.
In "The Hare with Amber Eyes," Edmund de Waal unfolds the story of a remarkable family and a tumultuous century. Sweeping yet intimate, it is a highly original meditation on art, history, and family, as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves.

Автор: de Waal Edmund
Название: The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Family`s Century of Art and Loss
ISBN: 0374168288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374168285
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 2631 р.
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Автор: De Waal, Esther
Название: The Celtic Way of Prayer
ISBN: 0385493746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385493741
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 788 р.
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Автор: Waal, Edmund de
Название: The White Road
ISBN: 0099575981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099575986
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Winner of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, this book is about a journey undertaken by the author that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.

Автор: Waal, Edmund de
Название: Hare With Amber Eyes, The
ISBN: 0701184175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701184179
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: A Hidden Inheritance.

Автор: de Waal Edmund
Название: White Road
ISBN: 0701187700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701187705
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Описание: With a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall, the author tells the history of porcelain.

Автор: de Waal Edmund
Название: The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession
ISBN: 0374289263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374289263
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Цена: 1776 р.
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Автор: De Waal Edmund
Название: Hare With Amber Eyes
ISBN: 0701187166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701187163
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Presents photographs of the celebrated netsuke collection - 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, the author traces the netsuke`s journey through generations of his family.

Автор: de Waal, Edmund
Название: White Road, The
ISBN: 0701187719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701187712
Издательство: Random House
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Автор: de Waal Frans
Название: The Age of Empathy: Nature`s Lessons for a Kinder Society
ISBN: 0307407772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307407771
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1034 р.
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Описание: "An important and timely message about the biological roots of human kindness."
—Desmond Morris, author of "The Naked Ape"
Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests? In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of "Our Inner Ape" examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
By studying social behaviors in animals, such as bonding, the herd instinct, the forming of trusting alliances, expressions of consolation, and conflict resolution, Frans de Waal demonstrates that animals–and humans–are "preprogrammed to reach out." He has found that chimpanzees care for mates that are wounded by leopards, elephants offer "reassuring rumbles" to youngsters in distress, and dolphins support sick companions near the water's surface to prevent them from drowning. From day one humans have innate sensitivities to faces, bodies, and voices; we've been designed to feel for one another.
De Waal's theory runs counter to the assumption that humans are inherently selfish, which can be seen in the fields of politics, law, and finance, and whichseems to be evidenced by the current greed-driven stock market collapse. But he cites the public's outrage at the U.S. government's lack of empathy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a significant shift in perspective–one that helped Barack Obama become elected and ushered in what may well become an Age of Empathy. Through a better understanding of empathy's survival value in evolution, de Waal suggests, we can work together toward a more just society based on a more generous and accurate view of human nature.
Written in layman's prose with a wealth of anecdotes, wry humor, and incisive intelligence, "The Age of Empathy" is essential reading for our embattled times.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Автор: de Waal Frans
Название: The Age of Empathy: Nature`s Lessons for a Kinder Society
ISBN: 1400163552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400163557
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1216 р.
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Описание: Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and ""survival of the fittest,"" but, in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy.
Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals--highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving--just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture.

Автор: de Waal Frans, Waal Frans
Название: Age of Empathy: Nature`s Lessons for a Kinder Society
ISBN: 1400143551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400143559
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3650 р.
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Описание: Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and ""survival of the fittest,"" but, in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy.
Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals--highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving--just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture.