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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: No one writes about food or cooking quite like Anthony Bourdain. In his books Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour, Bourdain captivated readers all over the world with his gritty, action-packed tales of the kitchen. Now he brings his inimitable style and energy to Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. It features over a hundred mouth watering recipes from lobster bisque to cassoulet, and from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Where does the Queen keep her armies? Up her sleevies! Laugh your way through this hilarious book packed with hundreds of splendidly silly jokes on every topic under the sun, such as animals, school and family, plus plenty of good old knock, knock jokes and lots of royalty themed jokes. Handy practical tips will advise you on crucial regal accomplishments, such as how to perfect the royal wave…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Deep in the forest, a very large and very selfish crocodile shouts, 'Stay away from my river! If you come in my river, I'll eat you all'. All the animals are thirsty and frightened — until one day... Put the jigsaw puzzles together to discover how the animals solve their snappy dilemma! This fantastic jigsaw storybook includes six puzzles with press-out pieces that neatly fit back into the book…

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: What better way to get to grips with animal words than in the company of the selfish crocodile! Stars, flowers and insects bring the pages to life in this fantastic first word book for children who like their books snappy.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, 'best of all the Greeks', is everything Patroclus is not — strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess — and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 018 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 397) Аннотация: A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community — the so-called Concept House in Willesden — maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the frozen body of a dead Russian spy in his apartment. So begins the race to take possession of the spy's secret, a race which threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A fantastically festive colouring book! Packed full of Christmas doodles and stickers for hours of colouring fun. This book is the ultimate in Christmas colouring with brilliantly festive illustrations as well as over 100 stickers to extend the fun. Bloomsbury Activity Books is an exciting new Bloomsbury brand designed to provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years... Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar's camp,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which has been opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic childless couple. Soon Anna…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The British Empire was the creation of a tremendous outpouring of energy and opportunism, when the British were at their most self-confident, and the wealth they gathered was prodigious. At its heart lay a sense of the rectitude of the British way of life, meted out to vast swathes of the rest of the world without let or hindrance. Yet, as this book shows, the empire was not formed by coherent…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A feral boy is captured and civilised in the Languedoc region. A young woman is hired to look after a cloned dog that cost its owners $250,000. A widower in a self-satisfied suburb engulfs his loneliness in a sea of rats. A weary city GP is baffled by a Mexican boy, the son of a taco-seller, who can feel no pain. A junior film editor invents the death of his own daughter because he can't face…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is Moscow, in 1939. In the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison, a young archivist is sent to verify the authorship of an unfinished story, confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there. The writer is Isaac Babel. The great author of Red Cavalry is spending his last days forbidden to write, his final works consigned to the archivist, Pavel Dubrov — who will ultimately be…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The ultimate Christmas activity book! Packed full of festive activities and stickers for hours of holiday fun. Bloomsbury Activity Books is an exciting new Bloomsbury brand designed to provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book includes enchanting, bright and beautiful illustrations which children and parents will find very hard to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the heart of the deception was the Double Cross System, a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book, Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic vocabulary' and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select academic words that could be part of a common-core academic vocabulary syllabus.…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Since fossils first revealed a prehistoric world filled with Terrible Lizards, humans have been fascinated by dinosaurs. This fantastic volume packs in every intriguing dinosaur fact from their evolution to extinction — with pictures — for a riveting and funny experience. What could possibly be larger than a Giganotosaurus? Discover the biggest, deadliest, fastest and stupidest dinosaurs…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard, her French exchange, before he comes to visit, and her normal ability to write charismatic, charming and seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution — a digitally enhanced solution — and who better to ask to help than…