Скачать книгу (размер 2 283 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 449) Аннотация: An illuminating account of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world. Walter Russell Mead, one of our most distinguished foreign policy experts, makes clear that the key to the predominance of the two countries has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. Mead…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back at all costs — without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 425) Аннотация: The ideas in his book will help you see the world in a new way. Mark Penn has a keen mind and a fascinating sense of what makes America tick, and you see it on every page of Microtrends. In 1982, readers discovered Megatrends. In 2000, The Tipping Point entered the lexicon. Now, in Microtrends, one of the most respected and sought-after analysts in the world articulates a new way of understanding…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 631 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 321) Аннотация: Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence (and the man who will one day write that exhaustive treatise on criminology, the Inferno), is on the case. It is his first official investigation. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Imagine a sparkling quilt of snow or a frosted window pane, listen out for carol singers or the sound of Santa's sleigh, and follow a star to find a baby in a stable. Here is a festive collection of poetry for children, with poems from Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Berlie Doherty, A.A. Milne, and many more. Beautifully illustrated by Mark Marshall, Joanne Partis and Melanie Williamson, these…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that sixty-five years later, Suite Francaise would be published for the first time, and hailed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 258) Аннотация: Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour. Normally, that is, until two of its members end up dead and someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far. Flavia de…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In his first novel since The Light of Day, the Booker Prize-winning author gives us a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds. On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. A revelation lies in store. Her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue. Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A riviting portrait of the long-neglected and yet one of the most important artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: In «Depths» Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel at once tense and compelling, but also powerful, moving, and ultimately tragic.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley the love affair immortalized in Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover but nearly fifty years have passed since a book has been dedicated solely to their lifelong love. Soon after Elizabeth became queen she scandalized the royal court with her passionate obsession with the married Robert…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Buried beneath the crumbling gray walls of England's majestic castles lie some of the most colourful stories in history — tales of triumph and disaster, courage and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal, ingenuity — and stupidity. Enemies at the Gates takes an entertaining look at English castles under siege, from the tunnels and trebuchets of the early Middle Ages to the Civil War when many…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Mankell delivers a timely and riveting thriller that will have readers on the edge their seats until the very end.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 445) Аннотация: In this history of the pre-Victorian era, Wilson begins with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics; and ends with the rise and eventual victory of stolid middle-class values. The result is a radical tour de force, a brilliant reworking of the pre-Victorian age.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: About the Book: Who were the major figures that shaped English society at this crucial, and somewhat brutal, stage? Who managed to come through umpteen decades of harsh living, foul disease, rats, terrifying capital punishment, more rats and squalor with reputations that would shine through into the present — and are sure to illuminate the future?
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: This third Shardlake novel is set in the autumn of 1541, during the reign of Henry VIII. This time Matthew Shardlake is faced with the most terrifying fate of the age: imprisonment in the Tower of London.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multimillion-pound gaming business lie at the heart of this intriguing new novel by the author of «The Player of Games» and «Consider Phlebas.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From the author of the bestseller «A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian» comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across England in pursuit of a better future.
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: There's that short period of time before toddlers grow up and discover Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network when you can still enchant them with a classic fairy tale. If you open that door when they're young, they'll always love and want a bedtime story. This is a wonderful collection for reading aloud: eight traditional stories with broad appeal, from The Princess and the Pea, King Midas, Stone…