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Walter John: Handguns: The Definitive Guide to Pistols and Revolvers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Handguns is a comprehensive visual directory of over 350 guns. Divided into five chapters, with each covering a category of pistol or revolver, the book begins with an introduction to the history of handguns and then examines the different types of firearm in chronological order. Each selected weapon features an authoritative description of the gun and its history, accompanied by a list of key…

Torday Piers: The Last Wild

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn't know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this: 1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom. 2. They are talking to him. 3. His life will never be quite the same again... A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages.

Sullivan Mark: Outlaw

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: AN ENEMY EMERGING FROM THE EAST. The US Secretary of State is abducted while conducting secret negotiations aboard a tanker in the South China Sea. 'Seven days' is her captors' warning. Seven days before she is beheaded, live on the internet. Seven days for Robin Monarch to save her. A TREACHERY TRACING TO THE TOP. The CIA asset and master thief journeys into the underworld of Southeast Asia to…

Gstrein Norbert: Winters in the South

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: As ethnic tensions escalate into war, Marija returns in confusion to her native Croatia — call it a mid-life crisis. She soon takes up with a young soldier, but her age does not give her the least power over him. On the other side of the world, her estranged father is gearing up to enter the fray, raising the cash to raise an army. Exiled to Argentina, he has been waiting for this moment since…

Kauffmann: A Journey to Nowhere

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB…

Boyd Hilary: When You Walked Back Into My Life

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: For eight years Flora and Fin had an exciting, intense relationship, but when Flora wanted to settle down and have children, Fin vanished. Three years on, Flora has resigned herself to being single, convinced she's left it too late to find love, though part of her still pines for Fin. Then suddenly he reappears. They pick up where they left off — his betrayal forgotten, or at least forgiven. But…

Gill Elisabeth: Miss Appleby's Academy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Mid Haven, New England, 1894. Emma Appleby's ordered and loving existence comes to an abrupt and painful end with the death of her father. Her brother Laurence has no concern for her welfare and, at her wits' end, Emma plots her escape to the town in England where her father was born. Tow Law Town, North East England, 1904. Emma's arrival in the village offers Mick Castle a lifeline. His days are…

Fabbri R.: Vespasian: Tribune of Rome

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «ONE MAN Born in rural obscurity ONE DESTINY To become one of Rome's greatest Emperors 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil and an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri, leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus, commander…

Gessen M.: The Man without a Face

Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was…

Mason Antony: Dream Islands

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Whether your idea of island heaven is relaxing on a warm, sandy beach, or a cool and invigorating mountain hike, this beautifully illustrated survey has it all. Part travel guide, part reference, Dream Islands combines spectacular photography with insightful narrative descriptions, providing the perfect way to discover some of the most beautiful and unique corners of the world. Looking at every…

Harwood J.: Atlas of History's Greatest Military Victories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: From Marathon in 490 BC or Hastings in 1066 to Trafalgar and Austerlitz in 1805; from Midway, Stalingrad or Leyte Gulf during the Second World War to the fall of Baghdad in 2003, this meticulously illustrated companion to great battles of the world will be essential reading for anyone fascinated by military set-pieces and strategy. When did an Asian power first defeat a European one? How did Joan…

Ryan T.: Project Sunshine

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour's worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet's food and energy needs for an entire year. Project Sunshine tells the story of how scientists are working to reconnect us to the 'solar economy', harnessing the power of the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 9 billion people: an…

Schmitt E.-E.: Noah's Child

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is to…

Suter M.: The Chef

Скачать книгу (размер 1 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 297) Аннотация: «A huge international bestseller — «The Cook» is a thriller and a love story that has gripped readers across Europe. As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan — a…

David Bentley Hart: The Story of Christianity: A History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In The Story of Christianity, acclaimed theologian David Bentley Hart provides a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond for over 2,000 years. From the persecutions of the early church to the papal-imperial conflicts of the Middle Ages, from the religious wars of 16th and 17th-century Europe to the challenges of science and secularism in the…

Lichtenstein: Rodinsky's Room

Скачать книгу (размер 1 840 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 362) Аннотация: Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the thirties. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky — which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London — with Iain Sinclair's…

Bartlett: Tolstoy: A Russian Life

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a privileged aristocratic family, he seemed set to join the ranks of degenerate Russian noblemen, but fighting in the Crimean war alongside rank and…

Taylor D.: Getting the Job You Want

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Introducing Getting the Job You Want supports you through all the stages of finding your perfect job — from organisation and preparation to the different ways to implement a job search campaign. In a challenging job market you need to create a resume that will sell you, and to be well prepared for interview. Both new graduates and those returning to the job search will learn simple yet effective…

May Peter: The Chessmen

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill — a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. THE FINAL CHAPTER. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and…

Lindqvist John Ajvide: Let the Old Dreams Die

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of…