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The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love—and an epic meal—Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle.A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris’ grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected.Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris’s grandfather’s Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana’s kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women—troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations—unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate.Savage Feast is Boris’ tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.

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Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson's Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.Underlying everything in the book is Johnson's belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future.From trouncing Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral race in 2008 to becoming prime minister, he takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and the reasons he took them. The challenges and crises, how they were resolved or not and how he nearly died from Covid. Riots, knife crime, bikes, buses, the London Olympics and so much more. He writes about his role in Brexit and the constitutional sea-change that took place in British politics in 2019 with his landslide election victory and the massive expansion in the groups that think of themselves as Conservative.This is the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, uncens

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A 1,000 piece puzzle from America's premier fantasy artist. Boris Vallejo begins with an old master's gift of understanding every bone, muscle, tendon, and sinew in the human body, and ends somewhere beyond the reaches of time and space. The vision is pure audacity: a warrior astride her three-headed dragon, curved blade at the ready, in a swirl of fire and ice. Follow her, piece by piece, and imagine yourself in a world transformed. Featuring: 1,000 interlocking pieces Mini-poster (9 3/8 x 6 3/4) for reference or framing Completed puzzle size: 26 3/4 x 18 7/8

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Proven currency-specific trading strategies from one of today's top currency analysts "If you trade currency, then you need to have this book on your desk. It's the only book you need for technical analysis of the fastest-moving market on the planet." -Rob Booker, Currency Trader, W.R. Booker & Company "In plain English, Schlossberg lays out the basics in using technical analysis to trade foreign currencies, from the fundamentals of how the FX market works to the variety of technical strategies and trade management techniques traders can employ. Along the way, he offers entertaining examples and observations as well as simple, easy-to-read charts and diagrams. Anyone interested in getting started in the hugely popular FX market would do well to begin with this book." -Sarah Rudolph, Executive Editor, SFO Magazine "Boris Schlossberg has done a fabulous job with this book. It's packed with insightful tips and strategies that are sure to save traders a lot of time and money." -Cory Janssen, CoFounder, Investopedia.com "Schlossberg's book is a great resource for traders just starting out in currency markets. His focus on simplicity is critical for a new trader's education on how to make money." -Andrew B. Busch, Global FX Strategist, BMO Financial Group

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Their love is against the laws of a merciless state—but the heart has its own power. For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He’s used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his heart immune to commitment. But then a commission in repressive North Korea exposes him to emotions he’s never dared to feel. Tour guide Min has a soul that wants to soar, but she knows it’s safer to build walls around her heart and mind. Skilled in showcasing the mesmerising beauty of capital city Pyongyang without revealing its darker secrets, she introduces Theo to a country he will never forget—and begins to question her policy of quiet compliance. But forgetting—or pretending to—is the key to survival for Min’s formidable grandmother Cuckoo. After a devastating heartbreak years ago, she learned that passion and oppression just don’t mix. As Min and Theo grow closer and long-held secrets come to light, all three are forced to confront emotions they’ve tried to suppress. In a country where following their hearts will put them in danger, how much are they willing to risk?

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The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Front - still referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic War - is an essential element of Russian identity and history, as alive today as it was in Stalin's time. It is represented as a defining episode, a positive historical myth that sustains the Russian national idea and unites the majority of Russian citizens. As a result, as Boris Sokolov shows in this powerful and thought-provoking study, the heroic and tragic side of the war is highlighted while the dark side - the incompetent, negligent and even criminal way the war was run - is overlooked. Although almost eighty years have passed since the defeat of Nazi Germany, he demonstrates that many of the fabrications put forward during the war and immediately afterwards persist into the present day. In a sequence of incisive chapters he uncovers the truth about famous wartime episodes that have been consistently misrepresented. His bold reinterpretation should go some way towards dispelling the enduring myths about the Great Patriotic War. It is necessary reading for anyone who is keen to understand how it continues to be misrepresented in Russia today.

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Akunin goes noir as Fandorin meets bandits!Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved Death - so named for the life expectancy of her lovers. But as the bandit community balks at his success on both fronts, threats on his life begin to pour in . A dandy and his 'Chinese' sidekick seem to be taking an inordinate interest in Senka's welfare, and it becomes clear that those threatening Senka are linked to a spate of murders, grizzly even by underworld standards. Fandorin must unweave a tangled web of narcotics, false identities and organised crime - but can he survive an encounter with the ever-alluring Death unscathed? Find out in the darkest Fandorin to date!

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Conversaciones con el lúcido ensayista B. Groys que abordan el arte, la producción de la subjetividad y de la identidad cultural, la filosofía, y la economía de las diferencias invisibles como respuesta a la filosofía postmetafísica del siglo XX.

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Tras saludar a los amigos y tomar una copa, Rock Bailey salió del club del viejo Lem a tomar el aire. Una invitación a fumar, un pequeño mareo y. Rocky, joven y atractivo deportista californiano, se ve envuelto, sin comerlo ni beberlo, en una turbia historia de experimentos genéticos, luchas entre bandas y misteriosas apariciones y desapariciones de rubias despampanantes. A cuestas con su preocupación por conservarse casto hasta los veinte años, Rocky, ayudado por sus amigos, intentará resolver una enmarañada trama a lo largo de las páginas de esta delirante y corrosiva parodia de novela negra, tan de moda en sus días. Aquí todo es posible : dar al traste con los buenos propósitos de castidad, lanzarse en paracaídas sobre una isla, que hablen los perros, que se hagan chistes sobre el presidente Truman. y que se desee la muerte de los feos.

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Sin adscribirse a ninguna tendencia y sin dejarse encasillar en ninguna escuela ni corriente, la obra de Boris Vian (1920-1959) puede resultar huidiza a la vez que cargada de una honda angustia vital, la angustia del tiempo destructor, del deterioro, de la muerte, a través de un universo insólito, descabellado y fascinante.Para el escritor Raymond Queneau, gran amigo de Boris Vian, " La espuma de los días " es ?la más desgarradora de todas las historias de amor contemporáneas?. Casi veinte años después de la muerte de su autor se convirtió en uno de los " best-sellers " de la literatura francesa. El tono festivo, la fantasía de los juegos verbales, la creación de un universo fantástico e insólito son los instrumentos que relatan en un tono agridulce una tragedia de la más depurada sencillez, un drama en el que los personajes son víctimas inocentes de la más despiadada y ciega fatalidad.

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Cómo entender el suicidio de un niño? Este impactante y desatendido fenómeno constituye el núcleo de reflexión de esta obra de Boris Cyrulnik.El sentido de la muerte entre los menores, nos recuerda el autor, se va modificando con la edad y nunca es el mismo que se tiene en la edad adulta. Cyrulnik no postula una sola motivación para explicar esta dolorosa problemática, sino que aplica un enfoque en el que integra diversos factores, como las transformaciones en la civilización, con los flujos migratorios y sus consecuencias de desarraigo en los más jóvenes; o los cambios sociales que debilitan los vínculos de apego y empobrecen el nicho afectivo del menor.Existen, de este modo, aspectos individuales y familiares muy relevantes y a tener en cuenta, pero sin olvidar que se trata en gran medida de un problema social de complejo análisis y resolución, en el que la sociedad tiene aún mucho que elaborar.En diversos países se ha podido verificar la eficacia de una serie de políticas

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Nos ocurre a veces con los grandes investigadores: reducimos la complejidad de su mirada sobre la condición humana a una sola gran idea. En el caso del neuropsiquiatra y psicoanalista Boris Cyrulnik, sería sin duda la noción de resiliencia. Pero má

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