2011
ისას დაბლობი
5,00 ₾„არაფერი ჟღერს ყალბად ამ პოეტურ და რეალისტურ ნაამბობში. ის სცენებიც კი, რომელიც სულ სხვა დროსა და სირცეს ეკუთვნის“– ასე აფასებდა წლების წინ ჩიკაგო ტრიბუნი დიდი პოეტის რომანს.
2011 წელს შესრულდა 100 წელი ჩესლავ მილოშის დაბადებიდან. სწორედ ამ თარიღს მიეძღვნა მისი რომანის – ისას დაბლობის გამოცემა ქართულ ენაზე. წიგნის კითხვისას, თითოეული ადამიანი გრძნობს, რომ ნამდვილი ოსტატის ხელშია და ელეგიური თხრობა ლიტვაში გატარებულ ბავშვობაზე ამიტომაცაა ასე შთამბეჭდავი და ორიგინალური.
Sirius
28,00 ₾Sirius is Thomas Trelone’s great experiment – a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone’s own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly with Plaxy, is deep and close, and his inquiring mind ranges across the spectrum of human knowledge and experience. But Sirius isn’t human and the conflicts and inner turmoil that torture him cannot be resolved.
Greybeard
27,00 ₾Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of human children.
Lady in the Lake
26,00 ₾Derace Kingsley’s wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he’s denying nothing – on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe’s on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . .
Snow Country
25,00 ₾At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages—a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
Tender is the Night
26,00 ₾Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline.
Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934, and is even more beloved by readers today.
Terrorism: The Basics
72,00 ₾Terrorism: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in one of the most discussed. written about and analysed aspects of modern life. Common misconceptions are dispelled as the authors provide clear and jargon-free answers to the big questions:
What does terrorism involve?
Who can be classified as a terrorist?
What are terrorists trying to achieve?
Who are the supporters of terrorism?
Can there ever be an end to terrorist activity?
These questions and more are answered with reference to contemporary groups and situations allowing readers to relate theory to what they have seen on the news. Written with clarity and insight. this book is the perfect first book on terrorism for students of all levels.
Islam: The Basics
72,00 ₾Now in its second edition. Islam: The Basics provides an introduction to the Islamic faith. examining the doctrines of the religion. the practises of Muslims and the history and significance of Islam in modern contexts. Key topics covered include:
the Qur’an and its teachings
the life of the Prophet Muhammad
gender. women and Islam
Sufism and Shi’ism
Islam and the western world
non-Muslim approaches to Islam.
With updated further reading. illustrative maps and an expanded chronology of turning points in the Islamic world. this book is essential reading for students of religious studies and all those new to the subject of Islam.
Education: The Basics
72,00 ₾Everyone knows that education is important. we are confronted daily by discussion of it in the media and by politicians. but how much do we really know about education? Education: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to education as an academic subject. taking into account both theory and practice. Covering the schooling system. the nature of knowledge and methods of teaching. this book analyses the viewpoints of both teachers and pupils. Key questions are answered. including:
What is education and what is it for?
Where does education take place?
How do we learn?
Who are the students?
What is being taught in schools and universities and why?
What is the state of education across the world?
With further reading throughout. Education: The Basics is essential for all those embarking on undergraduate courses in Education and Education Studies. and for those with an involvement in teaching at all levels.
Awakenings
29,00 ₾‘The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it’ Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber. ‘A brilliant and humane book’ Observer ‘Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius’ Washington Post ‘It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on’ Doris Lessing
A Clockwork Orange
27,00 ₾In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him – but at what cost?
Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these.
My Family & Other Animals
29,00 ₾A bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu
‘What we all need,’ said Larry, ‘is sunshine…a country where we can grow.’
‘Yes, dear, that would be nice,’ agreed Mother, not really listening.
‘I had a letter from George this morning – he says Corfu’s wonderful. Why don’t we pack up and go to Greece?’
‘Very well, dear, if you like,’ said Mother unguardedly.
Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family – acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long suffering mother and Roger the dog – take off for the island of Corfu.
But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna – among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies.
Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood.
Into the War
25,00 ₾Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino’s own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, ‘Into the War’, we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to be conscripted into Mussolini’s army, while in ‘The Avanguardisti in Menton’, Calvino and his friends take a revealingly anti-climactic trip to the garrisoned French town of Menton, the sole Italian conquest of the early months of the conflict. The final story, ‘UNPA Nights’, is a touching, comic tale of friendship in a blackout, where the narrator’s imagination wanders as he roams through the seedier parts of the darkened town instead of guarding the school buildings.
Into the War is Calvino at his autobiographical best, combining brilliantly recollected memory with compelling wit and perfect prose.
On the Road
25,00 ₾On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
Goodbye To All That
29,00 ₾one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. They were to haunt him for the rest of his life.
Great Gatsby
26,00 ₾The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth…a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression., ” Gatsby is a connoisseur’s guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it’s also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story . . . A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love–and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America’s true “business”: “the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.” –Times, ” The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth . . . a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression.” — Times, “His masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all.” — Los Angeles Times, “The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight.” — Mirror, “It is a marvellously suggestive novel . . . a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life.” — Daily Telegraph
Les Enfants Terribles
24,00 ₾A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood.At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game — but unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that two children must die.
Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia (Beige Cover)
28,00 ₾Gomorrah is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man’s impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.
