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Скачать книгу (размер 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 59) Аннотация: This heart warming children's book blends the foundations of language and master-works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts into a lovely journey that both parent and child will enjoy. Twenty-six works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon accompany delightful prose that unites the alphabet and art in bold color. As the first ABC book published by the VMFA, it surely will be the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. Between the war's beginning and the October Revolution of 1917, approximately 6,000 women answered their country's call. These courageous women became media stars throughout Europe and America, but were brushed aside by Soviet chroniclers and until now have been…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come…

Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from one family's harrowing encounter with history (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: The curious and intrepid editor of Edinburgh's Review of Applied Ethics returns, this time to ponder the philosophical implications of love. In this third outing for Isabel Dalhousie in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, her American cousin introduces her to Dallas bigwig Tom Bruce and his fiancée. Isabel cannot suppress her intuition that the girl is marrying Tom for his money, and begins…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 579 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 703) Аннотация: The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England. After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver--booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: In the faces found in art (portraits, self-portraits, masks, etc.), readers discover how people from different cultures and times saw themselves. By looking at landscapes and cityscapes, readers become aware of everyday life as well as times from the past that don't exist anymore as well as a glimpse of the future. Among the works included are an African mask, a West Mexican clay-pole dance…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Master Your Coursework with Collins College Outlines The Collins College Outline for Modern European History begins with the emergence of Modern Europe in 1450, continues through the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of European Revolution, the era of the Nation State, both World Wars, the post-World War II Superpower Spheres, and concludes with Europe's current trend toward an…

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 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…