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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for starters. «The Secret Life of Words» is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how words witness…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city`s civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate circumstances, Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on newly available eyewitness…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever published? Nowadays, there are so many books: how can anyone be well read anymore? Well, help is at hand. Let Henry Hitchings educate you in the invaluable skill of literary bluffing in this survivor`s guide to talking about books you haven`t read. With tips on how to bluff with confidence using quotable insights and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: »Bright Shiny Morning» takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey`s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma; or…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that when it works it can come close to heaven. With examples from Elizabeth I to Tommy Cooper, courtesans to nomads, The Art of Conversation is full of tips on listening, the perfect handshake, talking…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death a death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Wanted: new homes...When the strays from a local dogs' home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the lost dogs who need rescuing. Helen's ex-husband has given their children a puppy. The kids are in love, but she's the one stuck training the impossible Labrador. She's nearly at the end of her tether — until then the puppy bounds up to a handsome doctor...Meanwhile…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A new edition of 'Access to History: International Relations 1878-1941' updated to support the current A Level History specifications, with revised content, an accessible design and exam support through the examiner-authored study guides.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This is a rich, romantic historical novel showcasing the glamour, spectacle and theatrical energy of the Weimar Republic. As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous murder-suicide, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one won't lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never break, and it means you're stronger than the things they do to you. I know this is true because I have been through fire, and I am the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta — a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obsetrician…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In her provocative second novel, Spanish author Julia Navarro takes readers on an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents, as an upstart archaeologist and a murderous group of conspirators vie for a treasure that will rewrite history an explosive account of the worlds creation recorded millennia ago by a humble scribe onto the legendary Bible of Clay. From the tense months preceding…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe.Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitler's submarines — his 'grey wolves' — prey on the Atlantic convoys that are the country's only lifeline. Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay is amongst just a handful of men picked up when his ship is torpedoed. Unable to free himself from the memories of that night at…

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Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The Cat is the wildest Animal in the Wild Wet Woods. But when he sees Man and Woman living in a warm dry Cave, he starts thinking about how he can join them...

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Join Class Two as they wander round the zoo. They see all sorts of animal antics, but they don't notice the anaconda slipping up behind that's determined to make a meal of them. But Class Two are a resourceful bunch and come up with a rescue plan.