Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 30 wunderschöne Postkarten warten nur darauf, an die Leute verschickt zu werden, denen man in Worten gar nicht sagen kann, wie lieb man sie hat.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: In this groundbreaking book, Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. When faced with complex situations, we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action and blaze a path to success. Harford argues that today's challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: A respected Russian historian and descendant of the Tolstoy family draws on extensive research, survivor interviews and the author's visits to repatriation sites to document the brutal post-World War II deportation of two million Russian POWs.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 289) Аннотация: The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent 'Easy' St John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members of 'Cabal', a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorised signal to disband. It's not long before Bond and Easy find themselves…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: J. R. R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today as they were fifty years ago. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: From the strange case of The Red-Headed League to the extraordinary tale of The Engineer's Thumb, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging, no mystery insoluble, for the immortal detective's unique powers of deduction.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 114 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 808) Аннотация: Elegant, sophisticated and full of humour and romance, the novels of Jane Austen have been favourites of readers around the world for more than two centuries. Although set at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the England that she herself knew, Austen's characters espouse values and sentiments that still speak to modern sensibilities. No author has captured so vividly the affairs of hearts in…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: 4 books: Murder on the Orient Express, And then there were none, The body in the Library and Clues to Christie.
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: This is the story of Cinderella told through six beautifully illustrated 3D peep-through tableaux. A young girl with an unpleasant stepmother and two cruel stepsisters...and a Fairy Godmother with a magic wand. The classic tale of Cinderella is theatrically retold in six exquisite three-dimensional scenes by Jane Ray. Each scene is three layers deep so you can peer through to wonderfully romantic…
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: With realistic illustrations and creepy fun facts about each bug, this colorful book will fascinate young readers as it brings six different bugs to life in 3-D. Readers will meet a hairy orange spider, a honeybee, a huge red cockroach, a blue beetle, a grasshopper, and a spotted ladybug. Along the way readers will discover all sorts of fascinating facts, including: there are eight million beetle…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Cliches, those trite little phrases that often get a point across quickly and efficiently, have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech. This entertaining book takes an in-depth look at hundreds of these common expressions in their many forms — where they came from, what they mean, how they've evolved over time, and their prominence in today's society.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 285) Аннотация: Black Mischief, Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a Birth Control Gala, the rightful ruler's demise at his own…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Cartoon-style boy-astronaut Doodle Tom and his sidekick Astrocat take kids on a doodle odyssey through space. Offers over 40 space-related topics, with each spread or double spread featuring info on that topic (i.e. planets, things in space, space travel, ETs, technology, etc.) and a related drawing activity. The space info is mostly factual and written in a kid-friendly manner; the drawing…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This essential guide will cover all prominent actors including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Patrick Stewart and will explore the connection between Star Trek and the US cold war foreign policy, why much of the far-out science from the show is now at the forefront of research, why linguistics are now studying Klingon, and much more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: By 1600, England became a radically different nation in which family, work, religion, and politics were radically altered. In this Brief History, Tudor historian and expert DerekWilson describes the dramatic changes that occurred to England, how the nation became Protestant, and why it still matters today.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 737 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 538) Аннотация: A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters (Time).
Скачать книгу (размер 2 737 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 538) Аннотация: A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters (Time).
Скачать книгу (размер 1 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 301) Аннотация: Subtitled A Novel of Many Manners, Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the heathen idol of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 916 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 377) Аннотация: The Dick Francis Collection Three intriguing racetrack mysteries Former champion jockey Dick Francis invented his own genre of mystery-thriller when an accident cut short his riding career. No longer able to perform at the track, he began writing about it, using jockeys and other track types to show what went on behind the scenes, where murder and mystery were as prevalent as horses and hay.…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: The Big Bad Wolf is fed up with blowing down the Three Little Pigs' houses. So off he goes in search of a new fairy tale to be in! Wearing the ball gown in Cinderella didn't work because wolves don't wear dresses!, climbing up the beanstalk and seeing the giant's huge feet scared the wolf, and yuck getting kissed by the prince in Sleeping Beauty is not for the wolf at all! As the wolf runs from…