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.
Sport Management: The Basics
Original price was: 72,00 ₾.58,00 ₾Current price is: 58,00 ₾.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.
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.
Britt-Marie Was Here
29,00 ₾For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It’s not that she’s judgemental, or fussy, or difficult – she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example (forks, knives, then spoons). We’re not animals, are we? But behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer heart than anyone around her realizes.
So when Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is Borg – of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it – and somehow tasked with running the local football team, she is a little unprepared. But she will learn that life may have more to offer her that she’s ever realised, and love might be found in the most unexpected of places.
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.
Plague
29,00 ₾The Plague is Albert Camus’s world-renowned fable of fear and courage
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.
An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France’s suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
‘A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice’ Independent
‘Magnificent’The Times
Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
35,00 ₾A new terrifying collection inspired by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft. The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu brings some of the best established and upcoming writers sharing their best Lovecraftian horror.
Smith: White Teeth
30,00 ₾At the centre of this novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them to his Islamic faith.
Morrison: Song of Solomon
32,00 ₾In 1930s America Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned with escaping the familial tyranny of his own father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. But his odyssey back home and a deadly confrontation with Guitar leads to the discovery of something infinitely more valuable than gold: his past and the origins of his true self.
Punke: Fire & Brimstone
25,00 ₾From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history.In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead.
Winnie-the-Pooh Classics box set
58,00 ₾‘When Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was.’ This slipcased set contains the four children’s classics by AA Milne, all with their original line drawings by EH Shepard: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. Slipcased. Age 6+