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The definitive biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world ââ?¬â?? updated to include her final months in office

Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his Mythologies on the masculine pursuits of wrestling, striptease and the Citroën DS. Since the dawn of philosophy, the world's great thinkers have been unable to resist the lure of applying their formidable brains not only to the meaning of life, but also to the meaning of coffee, trapped wind or efficient boiler installation. Now, from Wollstonecraft to Wittgenstein, Laozi to Locke, Aristotle to Arendt, Great Minds on Small Things brings together their varied observations, alongside delightful black and white illustrations, in a highly entertaining and eye-opening miscellany that is guaranteed to make life’s mundanities suddenly seem a lot more highbrow.

Eta kniga predstavljaet soboj pervuju sereznuju biografiju Angely Merkel. V nej rasskazyvaetsja istorija professionalnogo i tseleustremlennogo lidera, kotorogo inogda nazyvali "matematikom vlasti", raskryvaetsja lichnost, strasti i proshloe nichem ne primechatelnogo, skromnogo kvantovogo fizika, sumevshego vsego za neskolko mesjatsev podnjatsja iz politicheskogo nebytija k vershinam vlasti. V knige proslezhivaetsja zhizn i epokha zhenschiny polskogo proiskhozhdenija, vyrosshej pri kommunisticheskoj diktature i byvshej odno vremja skvotterom i ofitsiantkoj v pivnoj, kotoraja zatem stala odnim iz samykh moguschestvennykh liderov mira. "Ljudi prakticheski nichego ne znajut o 35 godakh moej zhizni", - skazala ona v intervju zhurnalu "Shtern" v 2004 godu. Segodnja, shestnadtsat let spustja, eto utverzhdenie ostaetsja, po suti, vernym. Mnogie slyshali, chto ona vyrosla v Vostochnoj Germanii, izuchala estestvennye nauki i stala pervoj zhenschinoj na postu Federalnogo kantslera Germanii. No ostalnye detali ee zhizni izvestny kuda menshe, kniga priotkryvaet nekotorye stranitsy zhizni i cherty lichnosti Angely Merkel. Tot fakt, chto ona otlichaetsja jazvitelnym jumorom i sposobnostju imitirovat golosa - vkljuchaja golos Papy Rimskogo, - vozmozhno, udivit mnogikh. Metju Kvortrup, politicheskij obozrevatel, zhurnalist i avtor knigi, takzhe objasnjaet, pochemu frau Merkel istratila znachitelnuju chast svoego tschatelno sobrannogo politicheskogo kapitala na prodvizhenie gluboko nepopuljarnoj politiki. Pochemu zhenschina, izvestnaja v pervuju ochered svoej ostorozhnostju, vnezapno prodemonstrirovala vsemu miru takuju reshimost? Dlja otveta na etot vopros ponadobitsja polnaja istorija ee zhizni.Kniga predstavljaet soboj pervuju sereznuju biografiju Angely Merkel. V nej rasskazyvaetsja istorija professionalnogo i tseleustremlennogo lidera, kotorogo inogda nazyvali "matematikom vlasti", raskryvaetsja lichnost, strasti i proshloe nichem ne primechatelnogo, skromnogo kvantovogo fizika, sumevshego vsego za neskolko mesjatsev podnjatsja iz politicheskogo nebytija k vershinam vlasti.Perevodchik: Lisova Natalja