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Born of noble stock to parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the law of the jungle to survive. As he matures, his strength and agility develop to match those of the beasts that he is surrounded by, yet he realizes that he is different. He combines higher intelligence, superhuman strength and his jungle training to become the unconquerable Lord of the Jungle! But, when a group of civilized people invade his paradise, his life is changed forever, for with them is Jane. Jane is the first woman Tarzan has ever seen and he must have her as his own! How can this uncivilized ape-man hope to win her?

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The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk's darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator's suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim's direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song's devastating potential. Lullaby then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona's vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.

In his previous works, including the cult favorite Fight Club, Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses Lullaby like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen's possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments, Lullaby casts a powerful spell.

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Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of Choke are more or less true. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.

"Art never comes from happiness." So says Mancini's mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son's life would be chock-full of nothing but art. Alas, that's not the case. In the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus, and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn't quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he's trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he's settling for the Heimlich.

Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palahniuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot, but suffice it to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room, and, well, a little bit of Fight Club. Just as with Fight Club and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, including this skeptical bit on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."

Whether this is the novel that will break Palahniuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end, though, the author's nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just barely.

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Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."

A Song of Ice and Fire is set primarily in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a large, South America-sized continent with an ancient history stretching back some twelve thousand years. The original inhabitants of the land, the "children of the forest" (whose "old gods" are still worshipped in the North) were conquered by the First Men, who came from the east. Later, the Andals, who brought their seven-faced god across the narrow sea with them, arrived and conquered the southern portion of Westeros, though they were never able to overthrow Moat Cailin and defeat the King in the North. The six Andal kingdoms, Dorne excepted, were later united by Aegon Targaryen, called the Conqueror, and King Torrhen Stark bent the knee to Aegon rather than risk the destruction of his kingdom at the hands of Aegon's dragons. Some 283 years after Aegon's conquest, the Targaryens are overthrown in a civil war and King Robert Baratheon, backed primarily by his friend Lord Eddard Stark and foster father Lord Jon Arryn, takes the Iron Throne. The novels, which begin fifteen years into Robert's reign, follow the fall-out from this event across three major storylines, set not only in Westeros but on the eastern continent as well.

Если вы человек, который не хочет быть "как все", то эта книга для вас. Ни для кого не секрет, что в любом виде деятельности, будь то бизнес, наука или искусство, помимо профессионализма нужно что-то еще, чтобы люди пошли за вами. Бытует мнение, что способность быть лидером дается человеку свыше. Но это не так. Лидером может стать каждый из вас, надо лишь только постоянно работать над собой. Прочитав книгу И.Вагина и А.Глущай "Поднимись над толпой!", вы убедитесь в этом сами. С помощью уникальных психотехник, разработанных Академией иррациональной психологии, вы сможете из "ведомого" превратиться в "ведущего" и достичь любых целей.

В книге современной английской писательницы Морин Уоллер подробно и разносторонне описывается столица Великобритании город Лондон на рубеже XVII и XVIII веков: его политическая, экономическая и культурная жизнь; быт, традиции, нравы людей разных сословий; отношение общества к личности, семье, труду, науке, религии, инакомыслящим и т. д.
Написанная живо и увлекательно, книга будет интересна как специалистам, так и всем интересующимся мировой историей.

В 1840 г. небольшой пароход "Британия" открыл эру регулярного трансатлантического судоходства между Европой и Америкой. Голубая лента Атлантики - это символический ежегодный приз, учрежденный свыше 100 лет назад английским судовладельцем Кунардом. Обладателем Голубой ленты объявлялось судно, которое пересекало Атлантический океан в восточном и западном направлениях в рекордно короткое время. О всех интересных событиях, связанных с историей Голубой ленты, и рассказано на страницах книги. История Голубой ленты Атлантики - это летопись конкурентной борьбы пароходных компаний, хроника драматических событий на трансатлантических трассах, это рассказ об эволюции судостроения, о настоящем и будущем пассажирского судоходства.

Эта книга рассказывает об инквизиции в прошлом и в наши дни. Майкл Бейджент и Ричард Ли убедительно демонстрируют, какими "иезуитскими" способами католическая церковь распространяла свое влияние, жестко контролируя сакральную информацию и беззастенчиво манипулируя идеями, которые угрожали основам ее деятельности. Она всегда настойчиво требовала беспрекословного послушания от своих прихожан, используя широкий набор средств воздействия — от анафемы и Индекса запрещенных книг до откровенного насилия и махинаций со священными реликвиями. Методология запугивания и контроля, отточенная "цепными псами Ватикана", оказалась так эффективна, что в свое время ее охотно взяли на вооружение гестапо и НКВД.
В фокусе интереса авторов — борьба инквизиции с катарской ересью и тамплиерами, масонством и розенкрейцерами, иудаизмом и исламом. По мнению исследователей, инквизиция и родственные ей организации, "ватиканские секретные спецслужбы", представляющие значительную силу в западном мире, до сих пор активно используются церковью в борьбе за мировое господство — как духовное, так и политическое.