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Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's Great British Class Survey. Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. In this book, Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey report their definitive findings and propose a new way of thinking about social class in Britain today. The book presents…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire.' The Steel Flea is an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style — an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home — and homesick.…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' A gothic novella about love, torment and doomed aristocracy, set in the remote mountains of Spain. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A brilliant collection of photographs that brings together two of the world's favorite things: hot men and cute kittens. Based on the chic French Tumblr Des Hommes et Des Chatons, Men & Cats presents an original collection of 50 pairs of sexy men and cute cats. Each clever match-up shows a heartthrob posing alongside a cat in a similar pose or with a similar expression. Not sure if you want to…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This is an official tie-in edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy to accompany the major new film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror — killing…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: «Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Be short, be simple, be human. When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print. Six decades on, writer Rebecca Gowers has created a new edition of this now-classic work that both revises…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris — a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris — a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. As an early pioneer of the short story, Irving provides us with a host of memorable characters and haunting landscapes. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.' With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: '... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died. Surrounded by the memories of her happy marriage, Nora must find new ways to live. In Nora Webster we see a family remade, a woman who, consumed by grief, is at times resilient, at times distant — who is unmoored yet who will be ultimately…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: «Murder Squad 4: Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London. Spring 1890. The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day, his injured leg a daily reminder of his violent brush with London's most feared killer. He alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large. But, worse is to come for Scotland Yard's Murder…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes — one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across…