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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: This book looks at one of the most fundamental of our species' distinguishing characteristics: the use of language. The author argues that our language abilities are part of our genetic inheritance, not a cultural artefact, bringing together Darwinian natural selection and Chomsky's linguistics. The author debunks many of the standard facts — the dozens of Eskimo words for snow, the belief that…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The unforgettable letters of a high-spirited orphan to 'Daddy-Long-Legs,' her anonymous benefactor. A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month, and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties, and a growing friendship with the handsome…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Newly revised for this edition, Richard Pipes's highly acclaimed study analyses the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1880s and its unique role in managing Russian society. The harsh geographical conditions and sheer size of the country prevented the creation of participatory government, and a 'patrimonial' state emerged in which Russia was transformed into a gigantic…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Evidence indicates that Thad Beaumont whose novels seem to be the product of a twisted imagination, may just be quilty of a series of monstrous murders.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Qwilleran and the cats are visiting an island known by many names. Qwill has always called it Breakfast Island, but to the taciturn natives, it's Providence Island. To the rich summer residents it's Grand Island — and to the developers and tourists who are turning this once-peaceful place upside down, it's Pear Island. But when some odd «accidents» occur, including a fatal boat explosion, Qwill…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: With the publication of «On the Road» in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed teh face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in «Desolation Angels».

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: There are some new gods in the town of TunFaire, but temple real estate on the Street of Dreams is at a premium. So the big gods on the block issued a challenge-find the «key» to the one temple still available. When two rival pantheons try to hire Garrett, he knows he is in for it...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of contemporary terrorism-and the literary precursor to today's espionage thriller.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: A delightful collection of magical folk tales. Hans Andersen's evocative stories blend wit and pathos, his light but shrewd touch revealing the selfishness and stupidity of man. In 'The Emperor's New Clothes' it takes a child to point out the Emperor's foolishness and his excess of pride eventually makes him a laughing stock. His stupidity is therefore punished, just as the modesty and good…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves — now a fellow exile — and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, «As You Like It» is an exuberant combination of concealed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: She was tall, blonde, and offering P.I. Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers, Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Everyone wants to find it — a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. It’s the legendary Book of Shadows, made of brass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master — and Garrett must make sure no one ever has the chance to work its spells on an unsuspecting and unprotected world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Stormwarden's children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold-after all, even in this enchanted land, he's only human.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: That's what it seems like Garrett has committed himself to when Blake Peters calls in some overdue favors. Someone is trying to kill Peters's boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and maybe poisonous way. Can Garrett keep the general among the living? But Stantnor's mansion holds a host of surprises for a detective who thought he'd seen it all. While the general…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that «the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it». Only a human sacrifice is «big» enough to raise this old soul — and Anita's no murderer.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha weaves together the oral traditions of the American Indian into an epic poem. Susan Jeffers has illuminated some of the poem's most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha's boyhood.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The number-one «New York Times» bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini.