Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "My Family and Other Animals" is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic. This edition features an afterword by Peter Olney, former ... |
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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe , an enchanting short story that boldly re-imagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant ... |
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„Емоционалното изнудване” е могъща форма на манипулация, при която близките ни заплашват да ни накажат за това, че не постъпваме, както те искат. Те познавата слабите ни места и най-дълбоките ни тайни. Това може да са родителите или партньорите ни, шефовете или колегите, приятелите или любовниците. Без значение колко им пука за нас, те използват тази вътрешна информация, за да получат това, което искат: нашето подчинение. В книгата авторът на бестселъри С. Форуърд прави дисекция на анатомията на взаимоотношенията, увредени от манипулация, за да даде на жертвите на изнудването инструментите, от които се нуждаят, за да се ... |
