Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: This sturdy picture book is used for teaching samples in The Teacher's Gude to the Four Blocks-Grade 1. Perfect for emerging readers, this title uses pictures and simple text to portray the thoughts of one, young cat lover.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: This is a book about how language works, not about how the study of language works. Each chapter is designed as a self-contained unit, and there are many cross-references to associated chapters. This is the book's distinctive feature. Though above all, the book is a personal account without much ado about the methodology of linguistic inquiry. With a short bibliography.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 422) Аннотация: For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. But this year the wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork, and information technology are beginning to overshadow St. Oswald's tradition, and Straitley is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Chronicles of Narnia are classics of children's literature — firm favourites with adults as well as children. Colin Duriez weaves together information and interpretation of Lewis's life and his writing, centring on the Chronicles of Narnia but drawing on his other fictional and non-fiction works. The world of Narnia involves a carefully created history where the old world, not dominated by…
Скачать книгу (размер 672 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 133) Аннотация: The Poema de Mio Cid recounts the adventures of Rodrigo Diaz, an 11th-century hero of Islamic Spain. The Cid and his legendary exploits were already the subjects of ballads, songs, and children's tales by the time of this 12th-century epic poem. The sole dual-language edition currently available.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 229) Аннотация: For lovers of words and seekers of wisdom, a lively history of aphorisms — the shortest and oldest written art form — and the intriguing people who have penned them, from the Buddha to Emily Dickinson. Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, «The World in a Phrase» tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A splendid, new, magical adventure from Diana Wynne Jones, set in the worlds of Chrestomanci! Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances — well, to be brutally honest, he is DOOMED. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the…
Скачать книгу (размер 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 107) Аннотация: Inspired by the similarities between human existence and the seasons, Ram, n del Valle-Incln created four modernist stories known as the «Sonatas tetralogy.» From that highly regarded series comes this 1904 tale of innocence betrayed, the most popular of Valle-Incln's works — now in a dual-language edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bad Cat returns in this loopy picture book for readers up to 8, and he's up to his old tricks. The toothy feline runs into a restaurant kitchen to cook himself breakfast, puts his painty paws on an artist's canvas, and climbs up a ladder some thieves are climbing down. Finally he slinks backstage and finds himself the center of a big dance production. Yet somehow everything Bad Cat does «wrong»…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Anne Taintor celebrates the fine American tradition of shopping in this 5 x 7-inch lined journal. Encouraging captions also appear randomly on the pages, such as: «change your shoes ... change your life»; «darling! let's get deeply into debt»; and «she would show them consumer confidence». The journal is one in a series featuring her hilariously acerbic domestic divas, office gals, and party…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: On August 12, 2000, the giant Russian submarine Kursk suffered a catastrophic explosion and sank in the icy Barents Sea. As survivors of the 118-man crew struggled to survive, the Russian Navy failed to notice the accident, while Western observers immediately alerted leaders in the United States and Britain. Why then did Western officials fail to alert Vladimir Putin and his new post-Soviet…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Becky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic, is back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!). What's a round-the-world honeymoon if you can't buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong… the hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs)…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In an endearing and amusing photographic account of cats, Jules Farber, with the help of passionate photography curators the world over, has assembled a stunning collection, comprising the works of early photographers such as Felix Nadar, a pioneer of avant-garde photography; Jacques-Henri Lartigue, whose professional recognition at age sixty-nine came long after his photographic debut at six;…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 270) Аннотация: Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. The Elagin Affair contains two of the author's greatest novellas, the title piece and Mitya's Love, as well as a broad range of stories written between 1900 and 1940…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Time and Transformation brings together a variety of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings and works on paper in a major examination of themes dealing with the transformative effects of time and circumstance. The Dutch were fascinated with this idea and the variety of motifs used to convey it. Included are images of local landscapes with medieval structures left in ruins in the wake of the Spanish…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Cristian Crisbasan lives and works as an independent Photographer in Bucharest, Rumania. He was working as stylist and editorial journalist at the Playboy Magazine in Rumania, until he dedicated himself to photography and became already a well known name inside the fashion world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age. Throughout his career, he continually experimented with composition, light, paint handling, and pictorial structure in innovative new ways that challenged traditional and contemporary painting. He taught himself by working side-by-side with fellow Impressionist masters Monet and Sisley, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: In the best tradition of sound-bites and pithily entertaining witticism, the authors gather together essential facts and fascinating insights about William Shakespeare — probably the most famous writer of all time — and the world in which he lived and worked.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Here is the perfect introduction to the work of William Shakespeare for older children. Extracts from his plays, as well as his poetry, are helpfully arranged by themes such as love, mystery, nature and justice. Quotations are used in decorative headings to highlight the content of each spread. Exquisite full-colour illustrations ensure this is a collection that can be referred to with ease and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: One of the most delightful and witty Russian operas, The Love of Three Oranges was composed by Prokofiev in 1919 and first performed at the Chicago Opera House with Prokofiev conducting in 1921. This complete vocal score includes both Russian and French text and a piano reduction of the orchestral part. Indispensable for recital and rehearsal purposes.