Pered vami trogatelnaja i chestnaja istorija o tom, kak spravljatsja s tsiklotimiej, rasstrojstvom, kotoroe legko sputat s bipoljarnym. Tsiklotimija - eto tozhe psikhicheskoe rasstrojstvo, i ono tak zhe soprovozhdaetsja rezkimi smenami nastroenija, ot beskrajnej ejforii do glubokoj depressii. Ot BAR tsiklotimiju otlichaet rjad svojstv, kotorye i vydeljajut ejo v samostojatelnyj nedug. Glavnaja geroinja "Lisy ili reshki" vyjasnjaet, chto ona stradaet imenno tsiklotimiej (khotja chego tolko ej ne pripisyvali spetsialisty) - i teper uchitsja s nej zhit, predstavljaja ejo kak nepredskazuemuju dikuju lisitsu. A zaodno rasskazyvaet nam o svojom dolgom nelegkom puti i delitsja sovetami, osnovyvajas na sobstvennom opyte.Optimistichnaja i vdokhnovljajuschaja istorija o pugajuschem i tjazhjolom.
The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.
For nearly 500 years the painting - and the smile on the sitter's face - has been a source of speculation and reverence. This is a narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world - and one of the world's most powerful cultural icons.
Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual beginning we see how the painting metamorphosed into a 'universal picture' that became the prime vehicle for Leonardo's prodigious knowledge of the human and natural worlds. We learn about the new money of the ambitious merchant who married into the old gentry of Lisa's family. We discover Lisa's life as a wife and mother, her association with sexual scandals, and her later life in a convent. We meet, for the first time, previously undiscovered members of Leonardo's immediate family and discover new information about his early life. The tiny hill town of Vinci is placed before us, with its widespread poverty. We find out about the career and possessions of his father, a notable lawyer in Florence. The meaning of the portrait that resulted from these human circumstances is vividly illuminated though Renaissance love poetry and verses specifically dedicated to Leonardo. We come to understand how Leonardo's sciences of optics, psychology, anatomy and geology are embraced in his poetic science of art. Recent scientific examinations of the painting disclose how it evolved to assume its present appearance in Leonardo's experimental hands. Above all, we cut through the suppositions and the myths to show that the portrait is a product of real people in a real place at a real time. This is the book that brings back a sense of reality into the creation of the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. And the actual Mona Lisa, it turns out, is even more astonishing and transcendent than the Mona Lisa of legend.
How Lisa Loved The King was written in 1867, and recounts, in poetic form, how Lisa, the daughter of a Sicilian merchant family falls in love with the king and how she struggles with the depth of her feelings. Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880) was an English novelist who wrote under her pen name George Eliot to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She wrote seven novels, including The Mill On The Floss, Middlemarch, and Silas Marner, and she became one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. As well as her classic novels, she also wrote exceptional poetry which demonstrated her natural talent at writing prose and rhyme that displayed both realism, fantasy and psychological insight.
Could it last? Baby Lisa came into the world where Jack Benny feuded with Fred Allen. She could walk her dad downtown to his job at the furniture store. She received sage advice from her dear friend, Leonard the Awful Cat and she could hitch a ride on the Pepsi Truck to visit her grandma's farm. And then there was Tracy, present since her first birthday party, and always there to give and receive the comfort only two intimate friends can share. But times were changing rapidly, and Baby Lisa had to change with them.
The art world's most famous smile beckons from the front cover of this handy and inexpensive pocket-sized notebook. Bring Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece wherever you roam as you jot down notes, appointments, birthday reminders, and much more -- and since the 64 pages are blank, it's great for sketching as well.
A witty introduction to the Louvre’s many masterpieces, told from the perspective of the subjects themselves – including resident superstar Mona Lisa. Millions of people visit the Louvre Museum every year to gaze and gawp at its all-star art collection. But there’s one star who gets a lot more attention than anyone else – and her very own special queuing system, if you can believe it! Well, the Louvre’s many other masterpieces aren’t too happy about being overshadowed – and they’re here to tell everyone what makes them just as worthy of the Mona Lisa’s teeming crowds. With a focus on portraits and other person-centred artworks, Mona Lisa and the Others reveals the stories behind some of the Louvre Museum’s most famous artworks. Napoleon Bonaparte takes readers behind the scenes at his own coronation; the Venus de Milo explains what happened to her missing arms; the Seated Scribe lets slip some gossip about the ancient Egyptian royal family; and Madame le Brun has a polite moan about juggling the demands of being Marie Antoinette’s portrait painter and a working mother. But perhaps most intriguing of all, Mona Lisa reveals that there’s more to her portrait than her mysterious smile… Written in a light-hearted and contemporary style by Alice Harman, and illustrated with the energetic artwork of Sir Quentin Blake, Mona Lisa and the Others is an entertaining introduction to the Louvre Museum’s collection that will appeal to children, parents, guardians and teachers from all walks of life.
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.
