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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: This elegantly illustrated series exhibits fantastic biographical accounts of the great names of all time. Full color.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The early 1900s were a time of great discovery. Robert Scott was a proud commander in the British Royal Navy who dreamed of planting his country's flag at the South Pole. Travel with Commander Scott and his team across the frozen Antarctic on their scientific expedition as they race to the South Pole. Experience the many hardships and trials of Scott and his team as they face disappointment and…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Vincent van Gogh was a Western painter who lived at the end of the 19th century. His work as an artist continues to inspire today because it is fresh and unique. The paintings van Gogh created are full of movement and life, although the subjects are often simple. This is because the artist tried to paint the energy behind what he was seeing. As a result, people and flowers — even the houses and…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Going strong after more than 50 years, the Berenstain Bears still have some adventures ahead of them and some lessons to learn. In these tales for readers and listeners 4 to 8, Brother and Sister Bear discover the importance of keeping their room clean; the whole family realizes that they are watching too much TV; the bears start eating healthy foods; and the kids are cautioned about strangers.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Born in Salzburg Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recognized as a musical prodigy when he was three years old. He was 35 years old when he died. During his life, he completed 41 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, 23 string quartets, 17 piano sonatas, 7 major operas, and numerous works for voice and other instruments. But his road to fame was not easy. It was littered with loss and…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Confucius was an important Chinese philosopher who lived in the fifth century B.C. The son of a poor nobleman, Confucius became a scholar of ancient Chinese music and literature. He spent most of his life as a traveling teacher. Much of his teaching focused on what made people happy and what made society run smoothly. He taught about the importance of polite behavior and proper ceremonial forms.…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: On a cold winter's night in 1835, Halley's Comet blazed across the sky, as it did every 75 years. In a small house in a village in Missouri, the wail of a newborn baby shattered the night. He was the family's fifth child. They called him Samuel Langhorne Clemens. When Halley's Comet once again crossed the skies above the earth, Samuel Langhorne Clemens quietly took his leave of the world and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Newsday called it the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives... of the oft-scrutinized group. In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend and business manager of the band-and the best man at John and Yoko's wedding-looks at the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is the story of special operations in the second world war as it has never been told before-directly by those who took part.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »Koba the Dread» is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin:…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: As the 19th century gives way to the 20th, the Forsytes, presided over by the patriarchal Soames, must face the disintegration of the society that has upheld their family's position for generations. This beloved family saga, with its huge and lively cast of characters, remains a classic of popular literature.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With Hitler's invasion of Russia on Sunday 22 June 1941, the Eastern Front opened in World War II and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw men and equipment against Russia in unprecedented numbers: a total of five million men took part in the Blitz attack along the entire Russian frontier. Using interviews and primary…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: This wonderfully engaging book asks young children to locate and count an assortment of objects placed in scenes with silly animals. It presents reproductions of eleven spectacular double-spread oil paintings framed with Joan Gallup's unique sculpted clay borders, along with plenty of her charming characters and creations. This beautiful gift edition is designed to become a childhood favorite!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, one of her finest collections of short stories. Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and 'rather literary', share a shocking flaw, a secret…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In the concluding volume of his portrait of Ivan Bunin, Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigre Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive the memory of «patriarchal» Russia against a backdrop of personal suffering, poverty, war and longing for the homeland.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: A memoir of Winston Churchill. It contains extracts from the candid diaries of Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, his devoted friend and confidant, revealing how the great man faced up to and absorbed the strain of events during the war years, the tremendous burden of his responsibilities, and his extraordinary resolution. Moran's keen observation, sensitivity, truth and insight should shed light on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Twenty selections include humorous, touching tales about life in the shtetl, lovingly translated from the Yiddish with all the warmth and spirit of the originals. Features Progress in Kasrilevke, Summer Romances, Birth, There's No Dead, Someone to Envy, Three Widows, Homesick, On America, A Home Away from Home, and more.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories — collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, His Oeuvre — cast an affectionate eye on the famously…