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Kerouac called this his "best most serious sad and true book yet." Kerouac weaves his later Buddhist tendencies into a memoir about his Franco-American Catholic childhood, focusing on the time leading up to the death of his beloved older brother Gerard when Jack was five years old and Gerard was nine.

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, rhetoric. How to Win an Argument gathers the rhetorical wisdom of Cicero, ancient Rome's greatest orator, from across his works and combines it with passages from his legal and political speeches to show his powerful techniques in action. The result is an enlightening and entertaining practical introduction to the secrets of persuasive speaking and writing--including strategies that are just as effective in today's offices, schools, courts, and political debates as they were in the Roman forum. [This book] addresses proof based on rational argumentation, character, and emotion; the parts of a speech; the plain, middle, and grand styles; how to persuade no matter what audience or circumstances you face; and more. Cicero's words are presented in lively translations, with illuminating introductions; the book also features a brief biography of Cicero, a glossary, suggestions for further reading, and an appendix of the original Latin texts. Astonishingly relevant, this unique anthology of Cicero's rhetorical and oratorical wisdom will be enjoyed by anyone who ever needs to win arguments and influence people--in other words, all of us. -- Inside jacket flap.

A novel of a clown and mime who retreats to his home in post World War two Germany after an accident cripples him and leaves him trying to cope with his life, his "friends" desertion, and the world around him.

A guide for the reading of four historians: Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay and Burckhardt.

The photos of the Farm Security Administration of the 1930s, in an unprecedented feat, documented an entire land and its people. Of the 270,000 photos taken between 1937 and 1943, under the enthusiastic goading of Roy Stryker, hundreds today are considered masterpieces of photography worthy of exhibition and publication as art. Taken by such great photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee, and showing that even in poverty there is a spirit of hope, these images, which are a national treasure, bring to life a historic time.--cover

Adam: Hitler's once great army is broken and demoralized, and the end of the war is imminent, yet Jews are still being "evacuated" and soldiers are still being rounded up like criminals and sent to the front. Böll paints war as acts of imbecility, senseless accidents, and bizarre coincidences related only through death. Train: Twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas boards a troop train to Germany to return to the front. He knows that Hitler has already lost the war and realizes that he is unlikely to survive the war. As Andreas meditates on the futility of war, his early battles, and his regrets, he is shocked to discover that he can still make friends, sleep, eat and drink. Heinrich Böll's first novel.

Published for the first time in 1950, this "lost" classic sets forth the events of nine momentous months in the life of the 22-year-old James Boswell, later to become the biographer of Samuel Johnson. It is an account of Boswell's personal struggle for independence from his family, and for self-preservation ...

Это - "Машенька". Книга, в которой талант Владимира Набокова поднимается до уровня Достоевского. Книга отчаянно проста, отчаянно горька - и бесконечно, надменно изысканная.