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Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Антология «Личностный магнетизм» — третья в серии («Искусство и взгляд», 2013; «»Странный» Достоевский», 2013). На основе научных и художественных текстов в книге по-новому обосновывается гипотеза об энергетической (материальной) природе психики, позволяющая объяснить с естественнонаучных позиций феномен личностного магнетизма (а также гипноз, телекинез и т.п.) Для широкого круга читателей,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Сборник статей разных лет (1981-2012) объединяют три темы: личность первого папы-славянина Иоанна Павла II, политический кризис в Польше 1980-1989 гг. и роль в нем Католической церкви. В сборнике представлены политические портреты Иоанна Павла II, лидера «Солидарности» Леха Валенсы, генерала Войцеха Ярузельского, идеолога польской антисоциалистической оппозиции Яцека Куроня, литературоведа и…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Techniques and procedures for collecting and analysing different types of data are examined and analysed in detail. The skills necessary to promote the effectiveness and validity of research within the creative industries are highlighted in case studies, all of which also demonstrate what a well-designed research project can achieve.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design explores the many approaches designers take to their work, deconstructing the design process. How do objects “communicate” to us? This book reveals how designers can learn to read the signals an object sends, interpret meaning, and discover historical context, and use those messages in their own new product designs. Readers will learn to…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Пособие составлено с учетом действующего учебного плана для специальности 28010165 «Безопасность жизнедеятельности в техносфере» включает основные положения радиобиологии и радиоэкологии. Предназначено для самостоятельной работы студентов, бакалавров и аспирантов, а также в качестве дополнительного материала на лекциях и методического материала на семинарских занятиях по курсам «Экология» и…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions of reality and imagination, combining nostalgic anecdote with frank personal assessment and philosophical extrapolation.…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 884) Аннотация: Considered to be Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina is an epic tale which scrutinizes fundamental moral and theological questions through the impassioned and tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, moral life, standing for honesty and sincerity, but this flies in the face of the morally corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. In the background to Anna's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Quite simply, this is a collection of Michel Roux's finest recipes — devised, refined and perfected during the course of his illustrious career. Recipes for all seasons and to suit all occasions are covered in this generous compendium, which contains over 250 recipes plus numerous variations. The book is divided into 9 chapters: Breakfast and brunch; Starters; Fish and shellfish; Poultry, meat…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Boutique Baking has an unrivalled range of recipes that combines traditional baking with chic, simple finishing touches. It captures the essence of Peggy's technical skill and inspired use of colour while also ensuring that each cake is both achievable and delicious to eat.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Only beauty can save the world, proclaims the hero of The Idiot, perhaps Dostoevsky's most personal and intense work of fiction. But in the brutally materialistic world of late nineteenth-century Petersburg, infested with greed and vulgarity, Prince Myshkin's naive beliefs can only be the subject of mockery and ultimately lead to failure and tragedy. Populated by an unforgettable cast of…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact petty revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A short collection showing Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works In The Death of a Civil Servant, an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Through surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov gives an ingenious new twist to the «Frankenstein» parable, in a new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society. Having been scalded by boiling water earlier that day, and with little chance to survive the severe winter night, a stray dog is left for dead on the streets. Lamenting his fate, he is…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth — which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself — is the subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig. As Zweig describes in this volume: Imaginative writers rarely have a biography, and men who have biographies are only in exceptional circumstances able to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Reprinted with a new cover in B format, A Life is the gruelling tale of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul. The artistic aspirations of the protagonist and the emptiness of his daily life become tragic in the great divide between what he wants and what he actually has and gets. Alfonso the bank clerk wants to be a poet and seems to be falling in love with Annetta, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: While working for his uncle, Alexis Hartz is introduced to Laura who shares his scientific interests, and in particular his fascination for crystals. To his amazement Laura has discovered a way to enter this alluring world and together they travel the vast and glittering landscape. But it cannot last forever.

Скачать книгу (размер 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 58) Аннотация: The acclaimed aviator and adventurer wrote Letter to a Hostage while waiting in neutral Portugal for a passage to the United States, having just escaped from the terrors of war-torn France. Saint-Exupery's observations on the aimless existence of his fellow exiles in a Lisbon filled with parties, gambling and spies leads him to examine the nature of existence itself. The particularity of this…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Queen of Spades is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in The Stationmaster, from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters is one of Pushkin's bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman , inspired by a St Petersburg…

Скачать книгу (размер 917 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 181) Аннотация: Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were put away in a drawer and only came to light one year after Chanel's death. Through Morand's transcription of their conversations, Chanel tells us about her friendship with Misia Sert, the men in her life — Boy…