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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From the Vanderbilts' Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum-like Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a vanished world of privilege, yet more often than not reflected their builders' insecurities about how they were expected to proclaim their wealth and position. Clive Aslet, known for his acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Nine men — Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, Compton — brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the amazing workings of an invisible world. Some of them were fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb. At a secret…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 017 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 789) Аннотация: A must for every family bookshelf! This comprehensive collection of the greatest poems in the English language written by our greatest poets. Includes Keats, Longfellow, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Pope, Browning. More than 1,400 poems.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernset Hemingway went to the war to end all wars, in the ambulance service in Italy. He was wounded and twice decorated. Here he recreates the fear, comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer and the men an women he meets in Italy.

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Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: With just 27 words, the inimitable Ruth Krauss created a charming little universe. Now Maurice Sendak has turned her bears into a troupe of players in a slapstick comedy starring a familiar boy in a wolf suit.

Скачать книгу (размер 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 137) Аннотация: When Marion Dutilleul enters the service of the Marquise de Montespan, she never imagines that her ability to recognize scents and to blend them into perfumes will win her the favor of Louis XIV's mistress. But the marquise quickly has the young girl creating new perfumes for her. Eager to please and hopeful that her olfactory gifts will win her recognition, Marion concocts memorable fragrances.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: You know what a pigeon is, but what is a pugeon? An overweight bird of course. If you are late to ballet class, you are leotardy. Fun to browse and hilarious to share aloud, the imaginary, but oh so meaningful words are a celebration of the elasticity of the English language.

Скачать книгу (размер 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 197) Аннотация: On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body. Then follow more murders — an elderly man on a life-support machine is found dead with needle marks in this throat; the percussionist of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 383) Аннотация: Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared. By the author of The Return of the Dancing Master. 25,000 first printing.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The Christmas story, told and retold in many formats, never loses its meaning or magic. Aimed at children ages 4-8, this book weaves the story of Jesus' birth into a rhyming, alphabetical journey. At the back of the book, author Debbie Trafton O'neal provides instructions for making four crafts inspired by the beautiful modern folk-art illustrations from Jan Bryan-Hunt.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 636) Аннотация: Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs, this book also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The latest release from the best-selling Simpsons Library of Wisdom series. Resident of Springfield and owner of the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, the infamous Comic Book Guy spends his days at the comfort of his stool, patiently awaiting his next paying customer. The Comic Book guy embodies all the traits of your typical comic book shop owner, being tubby, and wearing his brown hair in…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land. This Pocket Essential traces the chronology of the Crusades between these two dates and highlights the most important figures on all sides of the conflict. It covers the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It was a chance encounter with Armistead Maupin (of Tales of the City fame) in San Francisco which inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write his daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the city, verging on the Bohemian, where…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The excitement and wonder of a mid-winter sled ride — seen through the vivid imagination of a young child — allows readers to follow along as the child transforms into a queen, observes colorful soldiers in formation, visits a gypsy camp, and goes wherever her lucid imagination takes her.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: This brilliant work by one of Russia's foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A wondrously enthralling (The Times [London]) history of the bloody battle that halted the French attempt to dominate Europe and changed the course of history In 1704, the armies of French King Louis XIV were poised to extend the French frontiers to the Rhine and install a French prince on the Spanish throne. But as French forces marched toward Vienna, allied armies commanded by John Churchill,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. As she did with Sex with the Queen, Eleanor Herman takes readers into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs to relate history from the women's point of view. She finds that in most cases, the main…