Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the solution to — not the source of — our current economic woes.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Illustrated by the beloved creator of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little House, and Katy and the Big Snow, here is a delightful version of the tale that boys and girls have loved for centuries. The Emperor himself, his court, and his clothes — or lack of them — are as outrageous and comical as only the master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen can make them, and Virginia Lee Burton…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Combining in a single volume an up-to-date dictionary and a thesaurus, this book offers readers a convenient way to examine dictionary entries and research corresponding synonyms at the same time.The split-page design displays full dictionary entries on the upper portion of each page and full thesaurus entries on the bottom portion, which makes finding and understanding the right word easier than…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: It's not just the band name The Beatles that's funny — the Fab Four themselves were as goofy as all get-out. Q: How do you find all this business of having screaming girls following you all over the place? George: Well, we feel flattered... John:... and flattened. When the Beatles burst onto the American music scene in the early 1960s, they were just four unknown lads from Liverpool. But soon…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Popular TV star Candice Olson shows you how to achieve everyday elegance at home Candice Olson Everyday Elegance features approximately 30 of Candice's stunning room makeovers, described in Candice's approachable and authoritative voice. Her gorgeous room sketches and design boards shows how each design took shape, while the more than 200 full-color before-and-after photos provide a wealth of…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Curious George Flies a Kite is now available as a Spanish/English bilingual edition. When Curious George makes some cute bunny friends, one of the babies gets away! George uses a string to help get the bunny back to its mother, and discovers that strings can also be used for fishing and flying kites. But when Bill's kite flies away with George attached it will take the man with the yellow hat to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 297) Аннотация: In the first volume of this legendary fantasy series originally published in 1968, a boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The holidays are filled with joyful noise. But Christmas is sometimes wrapped in quiet: Searching for presents quiet, Getting caught quiet, and Hoping for a snow day quiet. Irresistibly cute, soft colored pencil illustrations of bunnies, bears, and more paint a magical holiday picture indeed.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by the Earthsea novels--yet each stands on its own. It contains the novella «The Finder,» and the short stories «The Bones of the Earth,» «Darkrose and Diamond,» «On the High Marsh,» and «Dragonfly.» Concluding with with an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this collection also features two new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. No academic analysis or bystander's account can capture it. Now Doug Edwards, Employee Number 59, offers the first inside view of Google, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards, Google's first director of marketing and brand…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: From the scarlet ibis to the blue-tongued skink, Jenkins depicts a whole world of colorful animals in his signature style. The animals range from old favorites like the pink flamingo, to rare and fascinating creatures such as the long-wattled umbrella bird and the ringed caecilian. He explores the reasons for each animal's bright colors, from attracting a mate to camouflage. This book is fun,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Tom Perrotta, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary antenna for what is going on in the world ( Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 370) Аннотация: In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there's a ghost who won't keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a disillusioned translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who always wears an aviator's helmet; and Tanya, a student of hope, words, and color. Tanya carries…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of volunteer ministers offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: Best-selling novelist Harlan Coben, a master of suspense and creator of the critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, edits this latest collection of the must-reads in mysteries from the past year.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 845 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 363) Аннотация: Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading (San Diego Union-Tribune). With Brooks picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to satisfy this year.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: After the fall of the Soviet Union, Stalina Folskaya's homeland is little more than a bankrupt country of broken dreams. She flees St. Petersburg in search of a better life in America, leaving behind her elderly mother and the grief of the past. However, Stalina quickly realizes that her pursuit of happiness will be a hard road. A trained chemist in Russia, but disillusioned by her prospects in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 291) Аннотация: Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in — all of them, like her, lost…
Скачать книгу (размер 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 137) Аннотация: «A new paperback edition of Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning classic. As the German troops begin their campaign to «relocate» all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of…