Far removed from the picture of Tehran we glimpse in news stories, there is another, hidden city, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and falsehoods. It is a place where Mullahs visit prostitutes, cosmetic surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is bought and sold in the bazaars. It is also the home of our eight protagonists, drawn from across the spectrum of Iranian society: the porn star, the ageing socialite, the assassin and enemy of the state who ends up working for the Republic, the volunteer religious militiaman who undergoes a sex change, the dutiful housewife who files for divorce, and the old-time thug running a gambling den. These are ordinary people forced to live extraordinary lives. Plotted around the city's pulsing central thoroughfare, Vali Asr Street, CITY OF LIES is an energetic, intimate and unforgettable portrait of modern Tehran and of what it is to live, love and survive under one of world's most brutally repressive regimes.
Flash cards are one of the quintessential keys to successful language learning, and Chinese Flash Cards Kit Volume 3 contains all the necessary ingredients you need to read and write Chinese. Many Chinese language students understand that
Ring! Ring! Another phone call for Stanley's Garage - but can he fix all the cars with problems today? There's an overheating radiator, a flat tyre, and a bit of an oily mess! What a job for Stanley and his pick-up truck. Join Stanley and friends for a mucky adventure in this colourful new series from William Bee...
Heinrich Severloh, dans son émouvant récit autobiographique, raconte la plus grande opération du débarquement amphibie de toute l’histoire, lorsque les Alliés, au Jour-J, le 6 juin 1944, lancèrent à l’aube devant le côte normande leur offensive contre le Mur de l’Atlantique avec 7 000 navires et 13 000 avions. A son poste de combat, sur le point d’appui WN 62 (Widerstandnest 62).Pendant neuf heures, il fit feu de sa mitrailleuse et de son fusil sur les GI’s qui se trouvaient sur la plage (plus de 2 000 d’entre eux ne se relèveront pas). D’une manière impitoyable et saisissante, Severloh décrit ces heures dramatiques au cours desquelles, dans son secteur baptisé Omaha la Sanglante, débarquèrent 34 000 GI’s se heurtant à seulement 350 soldats allemands qui se défendirent avec acharnement. Severloh survécut à ce déluge de feu dans des circonstances aussi effrayantes que mouvementées, devant le marquer pour le reste de sa vie.Un grand nombre de publications dues à des historiens de guerre, ainsi que des articles de presse et des émissions télévisées l’ont immortalisé sous le nom de Hein Severloh. Jusqu’à la parution de cette triste confession, les Américains ne connaissaient pas le nom de celui qui fit de leur débarquement cette terrible catastrophe.
Alexander Scriabin occupies a special position among the Russian piano composers around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Already in his early works, he went beyond the Chopinesque traditions of his contemporaries Glazunov and Rachmaninoff. As he also did in his innumerable preludes, of which he brought together 24 in his op. 11, allowing for each major and minor key. However, in spite of keeping to the strict order of the circle of fifths, he took care to ensure that "each prelude is a small composition which can exist self-contained, independent of the other preludes". By comparing the autograph and the first edition of 1897, this Henle Urtext edition has corrected a number of errors and inaccuracies. A grandiose work which should belong in the repertoire of every pianist!
Colin Wilson's great classic work is a comprehensive history of mystery and "magic." His genius lies in producing a skilful synthesis of the available material; clarifying without simplifying, seeing the occult in the light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal. It is a journey of enlightenment - a wide-ranging survey of the whole subject and an insightful exploration of Man's latent powers. Republished two years after the author's death and with a new foreword by bibliographer Colin Stanley, Wilson brings his own refreshingly optimistic and stimulating interpretation to the worlds of the paranormal, the occult and the supernatural. ""The Occult "is the most interesting, informative and thought-provoking book on the subject I have read" "--Sunday Telegraph"
What's a lie among friends? It's murder--in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead...It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest pa
No. 1 bestselling memoir of Roy Keane, former captain of Manchester United and Ireland - co-written with Man Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle. Now updated.§§In a stunning collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, Roy Keane gives a brutally honest account of his last days as a player, the highs and lows of his managerial career, and his life as an outspoken ITV pundit. 'Roy Keane's book is a masterpiece ...It may well be the finest, most incisive deconstruction of football management that the game has ever produced' Mail on Sunday 'A genuine pleasure ...His thoughts on his players are humane, interesting, candid and never less than believable' The Times 'The best things are the small things: regretting joining Ipswich when he discovered the training kit was blue; refusing to sign Robbie Savage because his answerphone message was rubbish; being appalled that his side had listened to an Abba song before playing football' Evening Standard 'The book is brilliantly constructed, rattling along at breakneck speed ...full of self-deprecation ...a ruthless self-examination' Daily Telegraph
