Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Presents stories of the adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin, along with early poems of A.A. Milne about the experiences of children.
Скачать книгу (размер 917 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 181) Аннотация: An acclaimed historian presents a revelatory look at the greatest statesman of the twentieth century. For eminent historian Paul Johnson, Winston Churchill remains an enigma in need of unraveling. Soldier, parliamentarian, Prime Minister, orator, painter, writer, husband, and leader all of these facets combine to make Churchill one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. In…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Between 1995 and 2000, Comrade J. was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB) intelligence in New York City, overseeing all covert operations against the U.S. and its allies in the United Nations. He personally handled every intelligence officer in New York. He knew the names of foreign diplomats spying for Russia. He was the man who kept the secrets. But there was one more secret he was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld. But when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap which holds a pair of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong--their unparalleled success has made their stories into legend. But what if one man had such a dream, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: #1 New York Times — bestselling author J. D. Robb takes us to the New York City of 2060, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer. Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly; it was also an international event that marked the beginning of an arms race that would…
Скачать книгу (размер 774 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 153) Аннотация: There is no other company, industry or premises more closely aligned — indeed almost synonymous — with its home town than Guinness's St James's Gate brewery and Dublin city. From the company's modest beginnings in 1759 to its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its continued strength into the twenty-first century, Guinness has had an enormous influence over the city's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The Museum of Innocence — set in Istanbul between 1975 and today — tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: Born in 1907 in St. Petersburg, Princess Sophy Sofka Dolgorouky was born into a world of privilege and nobility-ten short years later, Sofka's world would crumble when the Tsar and his family were overthrown, exiled, and executed. Burning with shame, Sofka and her family fled to England and then to Paris, where Sofka quickly embraced the bohemian culture of the 1920s and 1930s. During the Nazi…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 845 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 363) Аннотация: Part Blackhawk Down, part The Riddle of the Sands, former MI6 officer Harry Ferguson has written an extraordinarily gripping non-fiction thriller. Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of intelligence services but also uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolution involving a daring rescue attempt and a mission impossible against the best defended naval target in…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: First published in 1942, this re-discovered H.A. Rey title allows readers to recreate the Christmas miracle using text from Matthew and Luke and vintage punch-out-and-fold paper dolls. No paste or tape required. Pockets are included in the inside front and back covers for easy storage of the dolls. Enjoy them today and for many Christmases to come!
Скачать книгу (размер 6 776 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1330) Аннотация: Noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his squire, Sancho, travel throughout sixteenth-century Spain seeking glory and grand adventure.
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Art Deco embraced architecture, furniture, fabrics, stage design, and fashion even painting. Like its forerunner, Art Nouveau, Art Deco was an eclectic style. It drew inspiration from many sources. Designers borrowed from the pictorial inventions of contemporary avant-garde artists. This updated and expanded collection of ART DECO DESIGNS shows a style that is equally adaptable and as enjoyable…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Kimonos have been the ubiquitous garment for Japanese men and women for many centuries. Throughout history, Japans very best designers have devoted themselves to kimono design. KIMONO offers a wide selection of the very best examples of kimono patterns, in various techniques and from various eras.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Baron Ungern-Sternberg took over Mongolia in 1920 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians. While tormenting friend and foe…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history-and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever's quests to prevent the…
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…