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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Dalai Lama visited New York in 2003 and gave a series of lectures, culminating in a public talk in Central Park, which drew over a quarter of a million people. Based on these lectures, this new volume will provide practical instruction on how we can use meditation to realise the mind's phenomenal potential. Leading the reader through the diverse schools of Buddhist philosophy, this book also…

Скачать книгу (размер 305 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 61) Аннотация: From a celebrated team comes a fascinating look at why we don't have super powers (alas) — and why size matters, for creatures big and small. Did you ever wonder why there are no high-flying, wall-climbing, tall-building-leaping superheroes in real life? Find out what keeps big animals (like us) from engaging in astonishing feats of strength and agility, and yet why being tiny and all-powerful…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: If you wanted a pet, if you really really wanted just the right pet, what would it be? A gecko, a goose, or a humpback whale? A Minnesota minnow or a South Dakota snail? Come to Ralph's World and join Ralph on a zany adventure across land and water in happy celebration of animal friends of all kinds. Kids' rock star Ralph Covert's playful lyrics to the popular song Me and My Animal Friends are…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Father Christmas is starting his rounds on Christmas Eve, but his little helper has forgotten to bring the gifts and sweets! Can she collect them all in time? Or will some children have no presents this year? This traditional story gives children a glimpse into the busy lives of Father Christmas and his helpers on Christmas Eve, showing the work of the angels up in the heavens and how all the…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Lively, warm and friendly, this illustrated collection — plus a CD with Peter Yarrow, his daughter Bethany and cellist Rufus Cappadocia — will bring families together to read and to sing. Peter makes every tune sound fresh and irresistible and Terry Widener's appealing pictures capture the spirit of each song, from the wild waves and rocking boat of Sloop John B to happy dancers ready to Skip to…

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Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A few simple tricks will carry you far in the social world, and the menagerie in this book will help you to master them, from the proper way to converse (don't open your mouth just to hear yourself roar) to good manners while bathing (don't hog the mud bath!).

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot owner of the ailing Kalahari Swoopers, that one thing lady detectives know very little about is football. And when the glamorous Violet Sephotho sets her sights…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: Le Carre's fiercely compelling novel begins as a half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. Annabel, an idealistic German civil rights lawyer, determines to save him from deportation. Soon, her client's survival becomes more important than her own career-or safety.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: How will the Second World War be remembered? Not as a series of strategic battles but as a dramatic turning point in world history, recorded through the personal accounts, diaries, and speeches of those that were there. World War Two: the Autobiography places centre stage the individual accounts of over 200 people who saw events unfolding before their eyes: from the first stirrings of Nazi…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This exquisitely illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling guide through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. Bill Bryson's Shakespeare pairs our most celebrated writer in history with one of the most cherished writers in the English language today. In this elegant new illustrated…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: THE POWERFUL NEW BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF THE NATION'S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS Harry always knew he would go back on day! Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the pace he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of peace.Yet through every waking moment during…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar captured by pirates and put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market. Acquired by a brilliant Turkish inventor, he is set to work on projects to entertain the jaded Sultan.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century — and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet's defiance of the Kremlin dictator and the Bolshevik regime — particularly his outspoken criticism of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Ever since the extraordinary events of Inkspell, when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie, Mo and Dustfinger back into its pages, life in the Inkworld has been far from easy. With Dustfinger dead, and the evil Adderhead now in control, the story in which they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor, left alone in the real world, believes her family to be lost — lost between…