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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Dashing through the snow... Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way... The holiday classic is now a pop-up book! Vibrant art and delightful pops will make both children and adults fall in love with this song all over again.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency's shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB's enduring presence in Russian politics, Spymaster is Kalugin's impressively…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 951 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 776) Аннотация: This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays — including The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman — which are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: From military sportswriter to roving correspondent for the National Observer, from quasi Hell's Angel to counterculture author and gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson led a life of legend. Hunter S. Thompson: The Glory Years tells the remarkable insider's story. Jay Cowan, who was caretaker on Thompson's ranch and a trusted friend, paints a sensitive portrait of a man who redefined participatory…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume that truly captures the style of A. A. Milne-a worthy sequel to The House at Pooh Corner and…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Jewelery has made a spectacular comeback on the fashion catwalks and is now to be seen in all the popular high-street stores. This fantastic collection of 25 projects, ranging from necklaces, chokers, bracelets, cuffs, brooches, earrings and rings, shows just how easy it is to make your own individual jewelery pieces using simple techniques and the fabulous range of semi-precious beads and stones…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The whole story of The Rolling Stones is here illustrated with classic, rare and unseen photographs from the extraordinary archive of the Daily Mail.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 205) Аннотация: Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America's greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and themes had a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted — a surreal extravaganza, as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home economics class in Iowa, and ogled Shirley MacLaine as she filmed a dance scene in Can-Can. He…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 182 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 233) Аннотация: Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Monty Python comes this book that celebrates the incredibly popular British comedy phenomenon. Color photos throughout.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Among the newest of Barron's fun activity kits for boys and girls holds the ingredients for an imaginary journey to the mysterious land of Transylvania and the spooky castle that is home to Count Dracula! Enclosed with an assortment of creepy vampire accessories is a 32-page illustrated book that retells Draculaas classic story. The box also contains a collection of items to enhance the scary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger 'the Raker' who drowned in his own sewage, a 'merman' imprisoned in Orford Castle and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories'. One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond's world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era — written by the grandson of one of them. Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning — and surviving — that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Utterly fascinating, a sad and sinuous study. Richard Schickel, Los Angeles Times For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the Soviet and American intelligence services-a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. It surfaced briefly in 1992, when Boris Yeltsin handed over…

Скачать книгу (размер 968 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 191) Аннотация: Doomed queen of Henry VIII, mother to Elizabeth I, the epic story of Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to sit on the throne of England. From her early days at the imposing Hever Castle in Kent, to the glittering courts of Paris and London, Anne caused a stir wherever she went. Alluring but not beautiful, Anne's wit and poise won her numerous admirers at…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations — a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel.…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Notes from Underground is one of the most profound and most unsettling works of modern literature, prefiguring Dostoevskys later masterpieces such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. The underground man has become one of the fixtures of the contemporary worldview. No discussion of the predicament of modern man would be complete without some allusion to this archetypal…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 350 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 266) Аннотация: A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was…