2014
ქართული, დასავლური და აღმოსავლური ისტორიოგრაფიული ტრადიცია
10,00 ₾“ავტორთა მიზანია სპეციალისტებს, სტუდენტებსა და დაინტერესებულ მკითხველს წარმოუდგინონ: I) ქართული ისტორიული მწერლობის სისტემური კვლევა ბიზანტიურ, სომხურ, აღმოსავლურ თუ დასავლურ ისტორიულ მწერლობასთან შედარების გზით; 2) ახლო აღმოსავლური ისტორიული მწერლობის ჟანრებისა და თავისებურებების შესწავლა, აღმოსავლეთის ისტორიის დასავლური „აღქმისა“ და „უცხოს“ პრობლემის ანალიზი დასავლურ და აღმოსავლურ ისტორიოგრაფიაში. 3) დასავლური ისტორიული კვლევების ძირითადი მიმართულებებისა და მათთან დაკავშირებული მეთოდოლოგიური, თეორიული და ასევე ეპისტემოლოგიური პრობლემების ანალიზი”.
Burmese Days – George Orwell
26,00 ₾Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Orwell’s book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for the Empire, whose downfall can only be prevented by membership at an all-white club.
Place of Dead Roads
27,00 ₾This surreal fable, set in America’s Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom.
Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs’ exploration of society’s controlling forces – the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs – with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.
Year at Otter Farm
40,00 ₾WINNER OF THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014
‘Otter Farm is all about flavour. It starts and ends with the question: What do I really want to eat?’
The taste of a perfectly ripe mulberry was Mark Diacono’s inspiration for creating Otter Farm, a unique smallholding in Devon with every inch dedicated to extraordinary produce. Sprouting broccoli, asparagus, artichokes, borlotti beans and chard flourish in the vegetable patch; quince and Chilean guava grow in the edible forest; and pigs and chickens roam freely.
Here Mark shares his colourful, beautiful recipes, all brimming with flavour and with fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit – including a warm salad of Padron peppers, cherries and halloumi, a stew made from chicken, pork and borlotti beans, a curried squash and mussel soup, and cucumber ice cream, quince doughnuts and fennel toffee apples. He charts the seasonal challenges and excitements of rural living, and offers practical advice for cultivating the best of the familiar, unusual and forgotten varieties at home. With luminous photography that captures life in the kitchen and outdoors, this ground-breaking book reveals how even the most exotic and exciting tastes can have their roots in British soil.
Stuff Matters
24,00 ₾Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity. ‘Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives’ Guardian Everything is made of something… From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the inner workings of the man-made world, the miracles of craft, design, engineering and ingenuity that surround us every day. From the tea-cup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, from the ancient technologies of fabrics and ceramic to today’s self-healing metals and bionic implants, this is a book to inspire amazement and delight at mankind’s creativity. ‘A certain sort of madness may be necessary to pull off what he has attempted here, which is a wholesale animation of the inanimate: Miodownik achieves precisely what he sets out to’ The Times ‘Insightful, fascinating. The futuristic materials will elicit gasps. Makes even the most everyday substance seem exciting’ Sunday Times ‘Wonderful. Miodownik writes well enough to make even concrete sparkle’ Financial Times ‘I stayed up all night reading this book’ Oliver Sacks ‘Expert, deftly written, immensely enjoyable’ Observer Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at UCL, scientist-in-residence on Dara O Briain’s Science Club (BBC2) and presenter of several documentaries, including The Genius of Invention (BBC2). In 2010, he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, broadcast on BBC4. He is Director of the UCL Institute of Making, which is home to a materials library containing some of the most wondrous matter on earth, and has collaborated to make interactive events with many museums, such as Tate Modern, the Hayward Gallery and Wellcome Collection. In 2014 Stuff Matters won the Royal Society Winton Prize.
Analytical Psychology
88,00 ₾In 1935 Jung gave a now famous and controversial course of five lectures at the Tavistock Clinic in London. In them he presents, in lucid and compelling fashion, his theory of the mind and the methods he had used to arrive at his conclusions: dream analysis, word association and ‘active imagination.’ Immediately accessible to the general reader, the Tavistock lectures are a superb introduction to anyone coming to Jung’s psychology for the first time and crucial for understanding analytical psychology.
A fascinating feature of the book is the inclusion of some of the questions posed to Jung at the end of each lecture. These questions, including those from leading psychoanalysts such as Wilfrid Bion, and the discussions that follow offer an outstanding example of a great thinker at the peak of their powers. Also amongst the audience was Samuel Beckett, who was deeply affected by what Jung had to say.
With a new foreword by Kevin Lu
Ancient Near East: The Basics
Original price was: 69,00 ₾.55,00 ₾Current price is: 55,00 ₾.Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times. the struggles of state-building and empire construction. and the dissent from those efforts. Topics covered include:
What do we mean when we talk about the Ancient Near East?
The rise and fall of powerful states and monarchs
Daily life both in the cities and out in the fields
The legacy of the Ancient Near East: religion. science and writing systems.
Featuring a glossary. chronology and suggestions for further reading. this book has all the tools the reader needs to understand the history and study of the Ancient Near East.
Der Garten der Dariatschangi
128,00 ₾»Mein Buch«, sagte Tschiladse über seinen ersten Roman von 1973, »zeigt Medea, wie sie bis zum Eintreffen der Griechen war: ein gewöhnlicher lebendiger Mensch, ohne alles Magische. Sie vermag zu lieben und begeht um der Liebe willen Taten, für die sie später leiden muss.« Otar Tschiladse erzählt in diesem gewaltigen Roman über die sagenhafte Medea aus der ungewöhnlichen Perspektive der eroberten »Barbaren«, der Bewohner der antiken Kolchis (dem heutigen Georgien). Er verwendet dabei die uns aus der griechischen Überlieferung bekannten mythologischen Stoffe und Gestalten, erzählt sie jedoch als Geschichten aus einem gewöhnlichen Alltag, dass sie unser aller Geschichten sein könnten. ›Der Garten der Dariatschangi‹ schildert elementarste menschliche Leidenschaften: Liebe und Hass, Selbsttreue und Opportunismus, Stolz und Demut, aber auch Demütigung, Gewalt und Duldsamkeit. So lotet Tschiladse die verborgensten Winkel der Seele aus und verleiht seinen Figuren eine große menschliche Dimension.
Alan Turing: Enigma (film tie in)
32,00 ₾It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades–all before his suicide at age forty-one. This acclaimed biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936–the concept of a universal machine–laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program–all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.
Dr Bloodmoney
30,00 ₾Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal – except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her. Their barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down. But they didn’t know they were harbouring the one man who almost everyone left alive wanted killed…
Sons of Anarchy: Bratva
28,00 ₾From the mind of Executive Producer Kurt Sutter, Jax learns that his half-sister, Trinity, has been in the US for months without his knowing – and has gone missing – he heads to Nevada with Chibs and Opie to search for her… only to find that Trinity has gotten herself caught in the middle of a war between rival factions of the Russian mafia…
Some Desperate Glory
25,00 ₾The story of World War I, through the lives and words of its poets The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars is in 2014. And while World War I devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry―words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets―many of whom were killed―show not only the war’s tragedy but also the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory, the historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Wilfred Owen with his flaring genius; the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon; the composer Ivor Gurney; Robert Graves, who would later spurn his war poems; the nature-loving Edward Thomas; the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert Brooke; and the shell-shocked Robert Nichols―all fought in the war, and their poetry is a bold act of creativity in the face of unprecedented destruction. Some Desperate Glory includes a chronological anthology of the poets’ works, telling the story of the war not only through the lives of these writers but also through their art. This unique volume unites the poetry and the history of the war―so often treated separately―granting readers the pride, strife, and sorrow of the individual soldier’s experience coupled with a panoramic view of the war’s toll on an entire nation.
Behold the Man
25,00 ₾Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ – a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter’s shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, then who will take his place?
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
32,00 ₾One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of teh mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and billiant chronicle of life and death and the tragicomedy of man. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family one sees all mankind, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo one sees all of Latin America.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
25,00 ₾Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a ‘good job’ in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.
Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.
Fiesta. The Sun Also Rises
27,00 ₾In mid 1920s Paris a group of young American expatriates set out for a festival in Pamplona. Among the bullfights and bouts of heavy drinking the relationships between them are tested, with jealousy coming to the fore as well as the protagonists youthful exuberance.
Mortal Instruments Shrinkwrap pack
150,00 ₾All six books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series, now available in a collectible hardcover boxed set.
Enter the secret world of the Shadowhunters with this handsomely packaged boxed set that includes City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire. The Mortal Instruments books have more than five million copies in print, and this collectible set of six hardcover volumes is a perfect gift for newcomers to the series and for loyal fans alike.
Mortal Instruments Slipcase
120,00 ₾Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary’s own brother.
