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Скачать книгу (размер 4 058 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 797) Аннотация: Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, the close international relationship was forged only recently, preceded by several centuries of hostility and conflict that began soon after the first English colony was established on the newly discovered continent. Burk, a…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The famous inventor of Gonzo journalism portrayed as never before, both his charisma and his adventurous work. Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing campaign coverage in Rolling Stone, When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: From a master military historian comes a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the last year of the Pacific war — an illumination addition to the annals of World War II. of photos
Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous man who never was, Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favorite writers; his work is read with affection--and sometimes obsession — the world over. Doctor, writer, spiritualist: his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh, with the mental illness of his artistically gifted but…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery marks a turning point in the author's career. His compelling, emotional saga recounts the effects of nonconformist behavior — a society woman's adulterous affair and a landowner's unconventional quest for a meaningful existence — against a backdrop of late 19th-century Russia.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalist Desmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life. Without the purposeful routine of the academic year, he finds his role reduced to that of escort and house-husband while his wife as late-flowering career as the owner of a home design…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer. Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine, and her short fiction and…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: From the founding editor of Everyman's Library comes this enthralling illustrated collection of 33 fairy tales. Favorite English characters such as Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, and King Arthur appear alongside Tom Thumb, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, and other figures from the wider world of folklore. This work includes a variety of full-colour plates.
Скачать книгу (размер 427 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 85) Аннотация: Feathers fly when one smart duck decides to teach the farmyard know-it-alls a lesson, in this charming adventure from the beloved author of «Babe: The Gallant Pig» and «The Water Horse.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: Welcome to Business Failure 101. In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. Watson asked the man if he knew why head been called in. The man said he assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, a Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons. In Billion-Dollar Lessons, Paul Carroll…
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