Celebrity and Entertainment Obsession: Understanding Our Addiction, Levy Michael S.

Автор: Levy Deborah
Название: Hot Milk
ISBN: 0241146542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241146545
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath, landing screen-side down. The digital page shattered. Apparently there`s a man in the next flyblown town who mends computers. He could send off for a new screen, which would take a month to arrive. Will I still be here in a month?

Автор: Levy, Deborah
Название: Hot Milk
ISBN: 0241146550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241146552
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Examining female rage and sexuality, this novel explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point.

Автор: Levy Andrew
Название: Huck Finn`s America HB
ISBN: 1439186960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439186961
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 2874.00 р.
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Описание: A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain s writing of "Huckleberry Finn," which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America s favorite icon of childhood.
In "Huck Finn s America," award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern readers have been misunderstanding "Huckleberry Finn" for decades. Twain s masterpiece, which still sells tens of thousands of copies each year and is taught more than any other American classic, is often discussed either as a carefree adventure story for children or a serious novel about race relations, yet Levy argues convincingly it is neither. Instead, "Huck Finn" was written at a time when Americans were nervous about youth violence and uncivilized bad boys, and a debate was raging about education, popular culture, and responsible parenting casting Huck s now-celebrated freedom in a very different and very modern light. On issues of race, on the other hand, Twain s lifelong fascination with minstrel shows and black culture inspired him to write a book not about civil rights, but about race s role in entertainment and commerce, the same features upon which much of our own modern consumer culture is also grounded. In Levy s vision, "Huck Finn" has more to say about contemporary children and race that we have ever imagined if we are willing to hear it.
An eye-opening, groundbreaking exploration of the character and psyche of Mark Twain as he was writing his most famous novel, "Huck Finn s America" brings the past to vivid, surprising life, and offers a persuasive and controversial argument for why this American classic deserves to be understood anew."

Автор: Beranbaum, Rose Levy
Название: Cake Bible, The
ISBN: 0688044026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780688044022
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 3919.00 р.
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Описание:

An IACP Culinary Classics Hall of Fame book - Winner of the James Beard award

"If you ever bake a cake, this book will become your partner in the kitchen." --Maida Heatter

This is the classic cake cookbook that enables anyone to make delicious, exquisite cakes. As a writer for food magazines, women's magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark is her ability to reduce the most complex techniques to easy-to-follow recipes. Rose makes baking a joy. This is the definitive work on cakes by the country's top cake baker.

The Cake Bible shows how to:

• Mix a buttery, tender layer cake in under five minutes with perfect results every time
• Make the most fabulous chocolate cake you ever imagined with just three ingredients
• Find recipes for every major type of cake, from pancakes to four-tiered wedding cakes
• Make cakes with less sugar but maximum flavor and texture
• Make many low- to no- cholesterol, low-saturated-fat recipes

Автор: Levy Bernard-Henri, Houellebecq Michel
Название: Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World
ISBN: 0812980786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812980783
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1655.00 р.
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Описание:     "Everything, they say, separates us--with the exception of one fundamental point: we are both rather despicable individuals." And so begins the galvanizing, passionate correspondence between (in their own words), "nihilist and scandalous misogynist" Michel Houellebecq, and "vain, immoral" Bernard-Henri L?vy. More than just snarky insults, Public Enemies is a fascinating exchange between two bad boys of French letters as they reject polite distance in favor of open, honest dialogue.    Begun as an "experiment with confessional literature," Houellebecq and L?vy compellingly discuss how they view the world, and the issues they grapple with. The letters are sometimes funny, sometimes touching, but always genuine. This is intellectual theater at its best.

Автор: Beranbaum, Rose Levy
Название: Rose`s heavenly cakes
ISBN: 0471781738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780471781738
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: Spanning thousands of years, this collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions. It reveals the similarities and differences among the teachings of each tradition and the development of their ideas and practices over time. Selections address a range of subjects, including sexuality and sexual pleasure, the meaning and purpose of marriage, the role of betrothal, the status of women, the place of romance, divorce, celibacy, and sexual deviance. Drawn from a variety of genres, including ritual, legal, theological, poetic, and mythological texts, the chapters present and analyze a diverse range of sources, such as the Zohar on conjugal manners, a contemporary Episcopalian liturgy for same-sex unions, Qur`anic passages on the equality of the sexes, the Ka-masu-tra on husbands, wives, and lovers, Buddhist writings on celibacy, and Confucian teachings on filial piety.

Автор: Levy Deborah
Название: Swimming Home
ISBN: 0571299601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571299607
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: "Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely." So says Kitty Finch, the central character in Swimming Home, a powerful, offbeat novel that explores the impact an intruding outsider has on the relationships of two couples who are sharing a vacation home in the Alps-Maritimes. Whether any of the vacationers will get home safely becomes the novel's burning question.