2016
სვანის მხარეს
24,90 ₾მარსელ პრუსტი (1871-1922) მე-20 საუკუნის ერთ-ერთ ყველაზე გავლენიან მწერლადაა აღიარებული, მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ მას „ერთი ნაწარმოების ავტორს“ უწოდებენ. ფრანგი მწერალი, რომელიც მოდერნიზმის მამამთავრად, დეკადენტური რომანის ფუძემდებლადაა მიჩნეული, ცნობილი გახდა შვიდი რომანისგან შემდგარი ციკლით – „დაკარგული დროის ძიებაში“. „სვანის მხარეს“ ამ ციკლის პირველი წიგნია.
მაღალი წრის შეძლებულ ოჯახში დაბადებულ-გაზრდილი მწერლის ცხოვრებაზე გავლენა მოახდინა XIX-XX საუკუნეთა მიჯნაზე მომხდარმა მნიშვნელოვანმა ცვლილებებმა საფრანგეთის ისტორიაში. ფრანგული არისტოკრატიის ზეგავლენის შესუსტება და საშუალო კლასის მომძლავრება შემდგომ მის შემოქმედებაშიც აისახა. „დაკარგული დროის ძიებაში“ მარსელ პრუსტის რეალური ცხოვრების სხვადასხვა ეტაპზე მიღებული, გონებაში ღრმად დალექილი შთაბეჭდილებების ნაკრებია. ციკლის პირველ წიგნში მთხრობელი საკუთარ ბავშვობას იხსენებს. ცხრა წლის მარსელი ასთმით დაავადდა და იძულებული გახდა, ზაფხული ილიეში გაეტარებინა. ილიე „დაკარგული დროის ძიებაში“ კომბრედ იქცა. სწორედ იქ მიმდინარეობს რომანის უმთავრესი პერიპეტიები. „სვანის მხარეს“ გარდა მთხრობელის ბავშვობისა, ოჯახის ძველი მეგობრის, მესიე სვანის ცხოვრების ერთ მნიშვნელოვან ეპიზოდზეც გვიყვება. ღრმად ფილოსოფიურ-ფსიქოლოგიური, „იმპრესიონისტული“ ტექსტი, რომელიც მოვლენათა ობიექტურად გაანალიზების ნაცვლად ინტუიციურ წვდომას, სუბიექტურ აღწერას გვთავაზობს, ღრმად იჭრება მკითხველის გონებაში და წარუშლელ შთაბეჭდილებას ტოვებს.
აღსანიშნავია, რომ „სვანის მხარეს“ ქართულად პირველად გამოიცემა – წიგნის გამოსვლიდან (1913 წ.) საუკუნეზე მეტი ხნის შემდეგ.
პინოკიოს თავგადასავალი
6,90 ₾,,პინოკიოს თავგადასავალი‘‘ ერთ-ერთი ყველაზე სასაცილო და გულისამაჩუყებელი კლასიკური საბავშვო ზღაპარია ხის კაცუნაზე. იგი 240 ენაზეა თარგმნილი, რაც კიდევ ერთხელ უსვამს ხაზს მის პოპულარობას. ამ სასაცილო ისტორიას ხის კაცუნაზე, რომელიც ოცნებობს გახდეს ნამდვილი ბიჭი, უკვე მრავალი წელია ყველგან ინტერესით კითხულობენ. ყველაფერი კი იმით დაიწყო, რომ მარტოხელა მოხუცმა ოსტატმა, ჯეპეტომ, მოლაპარაკე ხის ნაჭრიდან თოჯინა გამოთალა. გრძელცხვირა პინოკიო ცოტა მავნე, მაგრამ კეთილი ხის კაცუნაა; ურჩი, ჯიუტი და დაუდგრომელია, თუმცა ამავდროულად – ძალიან მგრძნობიარეც. ზარმაც პინოკიოს არ უნდა სკოლაში სიარული, უყვარს ტყუილები, რის გამოც, ისედაც გრძელი ცხვირი კიდევ უფრო ეზრდება. იგი ხშირად ხვდება უსიამოვნებებშიც: ცბიერი მელა და კატა მოატყუებენ, ციხეშიც ჩასვამენ, სახედრადაც გადაიქცევა და ბოლოს, მშიერი ზვიგენიც გადაყლაპავს. ამასობაში პინოკიო გაიაზრებს სიკეთისა და კარგი საქციელის ფასს და მიხვდება, როგორ უნდა აიხდინოს სანუკვარი ოცნება.
Dürer
58,00 ₾The art, theory, and woodcut print revolution of Albrecht Dürer
A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits, watercolors, and books, but is most celebrated for its astonishing collection of woodcut prints, which transformed printmaking from an artisan practice into a whole new art form.
Dürer’s woodcuts astonish in scale as much as detail. Through works such as Apocalypse and the Triumphal Arch for Emperor Maximilian I, he created dense, meticulous compositions that were much larger, much more finely cut, and far more complex than any earlier woodcut efforts. With an ambitious tonal and dynamic range, he introduced a new level of conceptual, emotional, and spiritual intensity. His two major woodcut series on Christ’s Passion, named The Large Passion and The Small Passion after their size, are particularly remarkable for their vivid human treatment of the Christian narrative. In his copper engraving, Melancholia I, meanwhile, Dürer created a startling vision of emotional ennui, often cited as a defining early image of a depressive or melancholic state.
Ever inquisitive, Dürer absorbed ideas not only from masters and fellow artists in Germany but also from Italy, while his own influence extended across Europe for generations to come. In this essential TASCHEN introduction, we explore this pioneering figure’s complex practice, his omnivorous intellect, and the key works which shaped his enduring legacy.
Sport Management: The Basics
72,00 ₾Sport Management: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to sport management which considers a range of contemporary philosophical. social. cultural and political matters as they impact on this growing field. Drawing links between academic theory and practice. it explores the current challenges facing managers in the sport industry. addressing topics including:
the history of sport management
the role of the manager
levels of management
the public. private and voluntary sectors
sport management in the global marketplace
With suggestions for further reading throughout the text. a comprehensive chapter on employment and employability. and case studies which explore both theory and practice. Sport Management: The Basics offers a clear and concise introduction for anyone seeking to study or work in sport management.
Margaret Thatcher- At Her Zenith: In London, Washington & Moscow.
45,00 ₾In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government’s parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain’s first woman prime minister changed the course of her country’s history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.
The book reveals as never before how Mrs. Thatcher transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as “a man to do business with” before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soul mate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between the superpowers.
But even at her zenith she was beset by difficulties. Reagan would deceive her during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. She lost the minister to whom she was personally closest to scandal and faced calls for her resignation. She found herself isolated within her own government. She was at odds with the Queen over the Commonwealth and South Africa. She bullied senior colleagues and she set in motion the poll tax. Both these last would later return to wound her, fatally.
Charles Moore has had unprecedented access to all of Mrs. Thatcher’s private and government papers. The participants in the events described have been so frank in interviews that we feel we are eavesdropping on their conversations as they pass. We look over Mrs. Thatcher’s shoulder as she vigorously annotates documents and as she articulates her views in detail, and we understand for the first time how closely she relied on a handful of trusted advisers to carry out her will. We see her as a public performer, an often anxious mother, a workaholic and the first woman in Western democratic history who truly came to dominate her country in her time.
In the early hours of October 12, 1984, during the Conservative party conference in Brighton, the IRA attempted to assassinate her. She carried on within hours to give her leader’s speech at the conference. One of her many left-wing critics, watching her that day, said, “I don’t approve of her as Prime Minister, but by God she’s a great tank commander.” This titanic figure, with all her capabilities and her flaws, storms from these pages as from no other book.
Lines
65,00 ₾What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.
Ingold’s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
Teach Yourself: Sport Psychology- A Complete Introduction
32,00 ₾Organized into two parts, this compact volume introduces some of the key psychological traits necessary for sporting achievement, such as confidence and motivation, before offering insights into the role of sports psychologists.
World Mythology in Bite-sized Chunks
34,00 ₾From the signs of the zodiac to literature and art, the influence of world mythology can still be seen in everyday life. With a stunning array of fascinating tales, World Mythology in Bite-Sized Chunks gets to grips with the ancient stories of Aboriginal, Sumerian, Egyptian, Mesoamerican, Maori, Greek, Roman, Indian, Norse, and Japanese cultures, encompassing legends from the most diverse societies and the most ancient cultures from across the globe. Learn about why Odin, the Father of the Gods in Norse mythology, was so keen to lose an eye, the importance of the Osiris myth of Ancient Egypt, and much more besides. Entertaining, authoritative, and incisive, this is an enlightening journey into the fascinating world of mythology.
Chinese Alchemy
29,00 ₾Here in one slender volume is a basic introduction to Chinese alchemy–a tradition that dates back 5,000 years. Chinese alchemy, largely associated with Taoism, has a recorded history of more than 2,000 years, but traditionally it goes back even further to nearly 3000 BC and the time of the Yellow Emperor. While Western alchemy was concerned with the search for spiritual and material gold, classic Taoist alchemy was a mystical quest for immortality with its aim being union with the Absolute. Jean Cooper describes the history and development of Taoist alchemy, compares it to similar traditions in India and Turkistan, and gives it context by contrasting it with the rationale of the Western hermetic tradition. As she writes in her concluding The whole work of alchemy is summed up in the phrase “To make of the body a spirit and of the spirit a body”. . . . The goal of the Taoist alchemist-mystic was transformation, or perhaps more correctly, transfiguration, of the whole body until it ceases to “be” and is absorbed into and becomes the Tao. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese legend and lore, Chinese magic and medicine, and Taoism.
Great Ideas- Why I Write
27,00 ₾Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell’s timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today’s era of spin.
Fire Upon the Deep
30,00 ₾Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind’s potential is determined by its location in space – from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these ‘zones of thought’, but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines – an alien race with a harsh medieval culture – and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the children – and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.
Prelude to Foundation
32,00 ₾The Prelude to Foundation is a captivating read that sets up the Foundation series. It tells the story of Hari Seldon and the genesis of psychohistory. The book is filled with twists, turns, and surprises that are purely Asimov. However, the font and type size may be difficult for senior readers, and there is a lack of female representation. Overall, it’s an excellent addition to the Foundation Trilogy story that both old and new fans will enjoy.
Maestra
29,00 ₾By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house.
By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars.
Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She’s learned to dress, speak and act in the interests of men. She’s learned to be a good girl. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart.
So she turns to a long-neglected friend.
A friend that kept her chin up and back straight through every past slight.
A friend that a good girl like her shouldn’t have: Rage.