Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The authors present provocative new perspectives on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From the unfathomable imagination of Douglas Adams, this is his internationally bestselling final book; a zany collection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 130 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 615) Аннотация: This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with «Chrono Displacement» disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life. This leads to some…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand... As combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader, General Grievous. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine continues to strip away constitutional liberties in the name of security while influencing public opinion to turn…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 370) Аннотация: The war that erupted in «Episode II: Attack of the clones» is nearing its boiling point. Now crucial events that pave the way to that time of reckoning unfold in a labyrinth of evil — leading up to the events depicted in «Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Two worlds are about to collide. Justin and Angela Kennedy are doing fine. Better than fine. They have wealth, position, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland, a man determined that nothing endangers his hard-earned supremacy. Into their lives comes Frankie Crowe, an ambitious criminal tired of risking his life for small change. Together with a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 291) Аннотация: Now in paperback from John Burdett-internationally bestselling author! Sonchai Jitpleecheep-John Burdett's hard, bitter Royal Thai Police detective with a Buddhist soul-is summoned to the most shocking crime scene of his career.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal... and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late — the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Her mother Jenny, on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 249) Аннотация: Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley... as long as it's not the kiss of life. But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times, different ears — including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 465) Аннотация: Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he`s moved from place to...
Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: »I am a bunny. My name is Nicholas. I live in a hollow tree.» In the spring, Nicholas likes to sniff the flowers, and in the summer, watch the frogs in the pond. In the fall, he watches the animals getting ready for winter, and in winter, watches the snow falling from the sky. This beautifully illustrated, gentle story is one of Golden's most beloved titles.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a…
Скачать книгу (размер 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 179) Аннотация: When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to say much except 'I was a rat', the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and he's trying hard to adapt to human life. But when he gets lost and ends up on the run, other people, egged on by their newspapers, are quick to see him…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Gulag — a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners — was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, she's ticked almost all the boxes: attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great friends... it's all fallen into place. In theory, at least. There's one part of Cassie's life, however, which is anything but organised, and that's her love for the Darling family. As the only child of ambitious parents, Cassie spent her childhood…