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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…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: An international cabal drives Volk back to blood-soaked Chechnya, where he confronts an old nemesis and reunites with his lost love in this gripping sequel to the acclaimed series debut. The headquarters of an American oil company hemorrhages chemical-pink smoke into the Moscow night, the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack. A Russian army captain carrying a priceless Faberge egg and…

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…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Easy-to-use and packed with new images and illustrations, the Macmillan First Dictionary is the one to beat This First Dictionary offers far more than the others — it's the most updated, contains charts and tables, and features more than double the illustrations and photos than similar dictionaries. This completely revised edition has been designed especially for beginning readers.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries. What happened to Wallander before the series began? Several years ago, right when I was done with the fifth book, Sidetracked, I realized that I had started to write stories in my head that took place long before the start of the series —…

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…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Here is another brilliantly original novel from the cult author of Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon. Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable saecular world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is…

Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: Photographs from the Internet phenomenon Stuffonmycat.com clearly demonstrate the alphabet from A-Z by identifying all the stuff that is on the cat! This is the first Stuff on My Cat book for children!

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…