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Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: The extraordinary images of Surrealist master, Rene Magritte, often began in a viewfinder. In this major study, the first of its kind, noted photography critic and Magritte scholar, Patrick Roegiers draws revealing connections between the artist's paintings and his use of the emerging medium of photography, which Magritte used as a hobby, as a serious component of his painting, and as an art in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: • Over 200 best-of-the-year photos. • Index of top photographers and their representatives, plus technical information. Art directors, designers, photographers, students, and everyone who’s interested in the latest and most innovative photography needs a copy of Photo Annual 2006. This eagerly anticipated yearly anthology presents the latest in cutting-edge images, with profiles of top…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 367) Аннотация: «Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only, traumatic visit to America (a society of savages, he was to claim), Jed Rubenfeld's novel is an intricate tale of murder and the mind's dangerous mysteries. On a sweltering August evening in 1909 Freud disembarks from a steamship in New York City, accompanied by his protégé and rival Carl Jung. Across town, a debutante is found dangling from a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 378) Аннотация: This is the definitive thesaurus for middle school and high school students seeking to communicate more effectively by means of a broader vocabulary. No other book at this level offers as many synonyms, example sentences, or features. New to this edition is an informative Parts of Speech table.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 580 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 311) Аннотация: Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnant mother and the step-fascist are eagerly awaiting the birth of the alien life form known as Fanboy's new little brother or sister. Fanboy, though,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Book by Scire, Nepi Giovanna.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The Beauty of the Beast is an exciting book offering lasting value. The poetic parade of the animal king dom ranges from the lowly earthworm to the majestic whale an d just about every creature in between. All poems are brief and fun to read aloud.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 609 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 709) Аннотация: This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh's magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate, all too aware of the war clouds beginning to gather. Though he still maintains a family life…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest — but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire. A Palladian mansion filled with western art in the centre of old Calcutta, the Mughal Emperor's letters in an archive in the French…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: In this classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale that follows the tradition of “Hansel and Gretel” and “Snow White”, a young peasant boy is predestined to greatness — once he overcomes an outlandish decree from the king. Demanding that the boy pluck three golden hairs from the scalp of the devil in order to win the princess’s hand, the king dispatches him to the devil’s cottage in the woods. Along the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father, Revd Marmaduke Mumby, in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The compelling story of a young Muslim boy coming to terms with both his growing manhood and his need to feel a part of a larger family than his own, which is fatherless. It leads him into contact with Islamic extremists.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Guy Fawkes is amongst the most celebrated figures in English history and Bonfire Night is a remarkably long lived and very English tradition. But why every November do we still mark a planned act of treason and terrorism that was defeated 400 years ago? James Sharpe examines the fateful night of 5 November, 1605 and the tangled web of religion and politics which gave rise to the plot. He uncovers…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 230) Аннотация: One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 383) Аннотация: Artie Wu and Quincy Durant, one of Southern California's unlikeliest pairs, find that the local mix-up they are looking into has suddenly expanded in space, from Vietnam to Washington, and in time, through twenty years of intrigue and deception.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France. Indeed, when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly recognized and honored for their creativity and enduring influence in the worlds of comedy and…

Скачать книгу (размер 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 107) Аннотация: «Inspired by the similarities between human existence and the seasons, Ram, n del Valle-Incln created four modernist stories known as the «Sonatas tetralogy.» From that highly regarded series comes this 1904 tale of innocence betrayed, the most popular of Valle-Incln's works — now in a dual-language edition.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age. Throughout his career, he continually experimented with composition, light, paint handling, and pictorial structure in innovative new ways that challenged traditional and contemporary painting. He taught himself by working side-by-side with fellow Impressionist masters Monet and Sisley, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of…