Описание: This book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of The Federalist, using the ancient historian Thucydides` account of ancient commercial Athens as an interpretive guide. It argues that The Federalist highlights the importance of a new commercial republic that promotes a culture of enterprise to shape both America`s civil and military character.
Автор: Marra, Anthony Название: The Peacock Palace ISBN: 0451495217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451495211 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Marra, Anthony Название: The Peacock Palace ISBN: 0451495209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451495204 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2666.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles--a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022--BookPage Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European йmigrйs: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate--and her own. Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work TheWashington Post calls "a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles."
Автор: Peacock Anthony A. Название: Freedom and the Rule of Law ISBN: 0739136186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739136188 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 16187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At a time when the `social` analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology. -- .
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