Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who believes him to be dead. But the novel is incomplete — Peter has inadvertently used the end pages…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: In this cogent volume, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world's largest religion. Comprising nearly one third of the world's population-more than two billion followers-Christianity is distinctive among major faiths in that it derives both its character and its…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: The fascinating black-and-white and color photographs in this volume lead observers through 175 years of the history of photo journalism. The book will captivate you with its varied and striking images: viewers will be touched, shocked, amused or even moved to tears. Individual chapters provide a clear, chronological summary of themes such as Revolutions, Entertainment, the Third Reich or the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I. Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 840 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 362) Аннотация: Crossing Hitler is a biography of the German trial lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), who dedicated his brief career to an uncompromising struggle against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and suffered accordingly in Hitler's concentration camps. Through the prism of this one remarkable advocate, the book explores the rise of the Nazis, the vibrant criminal courts of the Weimar Republic, and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Monty Python is, arguably, more popular today than it was nearly 40 years ago, when the group first burst onto the comedy scene. Since that time, new generations continue to discover the wit, the genius, and the sheer silliness of the six men that comprised Python. In 1978, Kim 'Howard' Johnson spent several weeks in Tunisia on the set of Life of Brian and kept a detailed journal of what he saw…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life. «Catching Life by the Throat» unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by an 80-minute CD recorded live at the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society. When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judgeas ruling at Londonas Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 322) Аннотация: All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected, wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941, at the outset of Operation Barbarossa. In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in keeping even a proportion of the city's population alive. During the famed 900-day siege of Leningrad, the German High Command deliberately planned to eradicate the city's population through starvation.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The number of women who have ruled as queens or empresses, or governed as presidents or prime ministers, remains but a small subset of the total of those who have attained ultimate political power. But this elite group of women, who — through dynastic succession, democratic election or other means — have reached the heights of political and ceremonial leadership, includes some of the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 27) Аннотация: Children and adults alike will be awestruck as a stunning three-dimensional medieval world unfolds before their eyes The sliding castle gate on the front cover serves as an entrance into a world from long ago. Inside, vibrant art and amazingly intricate pops guide readers through life as it really was for Sir Hugo, a brave and noble knight From pages and ladies, to castles and cathedrals, this…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Following the success of Battle and Weapon, Battle at Sea looks at every aspect of warfare on, above, and under the sea. This dramatic book catalogs the stories of the people, ships, and organizations behind history's greatest naval conflicts.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 002 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 590) Аннотация: »When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it», notes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex in his introduction to this collection of love stories from literature. «But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial…
Скачать книгу (размер 417 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 83) Аннотация: Shakespeare was blinded by love, Dorothy Parker felt the heartache of jilted lovers, Sappho saw the sensuality in love, and Byron despaired that there is little to be said about a happy marriage. From the artist whose illustrations charmed readers in The Sweet Life and Off the Beaten Path comes a delightful and amusing lover's-eye view of human behavior. Laura Stoddart has selected and elegantly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: Most people have heard of blini, borscht and pirozhki (relatives of the pirogi), but what's the story behind these traditional Eastern European dishes? While vodka, caviar and Crimean sparkling wine found their way onto the shelves of Western European supermarkets a long time ago, Russian cuisine is just starting to be discovered. This new book in the popular Culinaria series presents an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the mid-20th century and the central masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook is the story of Anna Wulf, a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fearing the onset of madness, she records her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart. Known among their families as Georgie, Willy, and Nicky, they were, respectively, the royal cousins George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Nicholas II of Russia — the first two grandsons of Queen Victoria, the latter her…
Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: The newest in Barronas Little People Shape Books has its covers and pages die-cut in the shape of the little boy who appears on the front cover, clad in a shining knightas costume. Younger children will be delighted by the color illustrations and simple description of knighthood, its legends, and its many trimmings, as they turn the pages of this sturdy and attractive board book.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Have you ever heard a reindeer's sleigh bells in the sky on Christmas Eve? Have you ever heard a reindeer's hoofbeat on the roof of your house? Or listened to the clatter of antlers outside in the darkness? Of course you haven't Santa's reindeer are so skillful that they can fly in and out of your neighborhood without anyone hearing a thing. But how do they learn to fly in the first place? What…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: »Cranford» is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation. Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of Cranford's inhabitants in this witty and…