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…
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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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: Smart-opedia: The Amazing Book About Everything is designed to make learning an absorbing adventure that's a treat for even the most reluctant learner. Expertly organized so readers can find what they want when they want it, the book's four main sections (The World Around Us, Life, History, and Genius) are separated into nine detailed chapters (Astronomy, Planet Earth, Plants, Animals, The Human…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In «Death in the Afternoon», Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: »As is evident from his previous novels Election and Little Children, Tom Perrotta seems to enjoy putting characters with divergent belief systems together in a bag, as it were, and shaking it up. That is the technique he uses in The Abstinence Teacher, to satiric effect. Ruth Ramsey, divorced, is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school; she believes in being honest with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 230) Аннотация: Congratulations — just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the host of televisions highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23? hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesnt have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. Dictated directly into a microcassette…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 029 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 203) Аннотация: A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Ewetopia the sheep thinks she has finally hit upon the costume that will get her noticed at the Woolyones Costume Ball: she'll come dressed as a wolf. Unfortunately, this doesn't earn her any points with the rest of the sheep, who find such a thing in rather poor taste. And yet, in this topsy-turvy fairytale for readers 6 to 8, Ewetopia does find a dance partner in a tall, attractive sheep at the…