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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something different about Santaroga. Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The witch and her cat fly happily over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch’s hat, bow and wand. They are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, and each animal asks for a ride on the broom. They climb on, one after the next, until the broom is so heavy that it snaps in two! What will happen next as they tumble into a bog and meet a greedy…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, are conditioned by constant hunger and war. They are subjects of the Dosadi Experiment, which has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the God Wall to exact revenge on the Universe that created them. From the author of the classic Dune series.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Way Ahead получил высокую оценку Федерального Экспертного Совета МО РФ и допущен к использованию в школах (классах) с углубленным изучением английского языка в качестве учебного пособия (Письмо Министерства образования РФ № 13-58-2130/17 от 03.07.02, Вестник Образования России №4/2003, с. 72, 74). Way Ahead имеет целый ряд достоинств: сбалансированное обучение всем видам речевой деятельности,…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: This popular Proficiency course has now been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes in the revised Cambridge Proficiency Examination. Key features: — Ten topic-based units with motivating and stimulating material to help students develop and practise the advanced language and skills required to pass the exam. — Help sections give advice on how to approach the exam, including speaking…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «A proven bestseller time and time again, «Robert Frost's Poems» contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are «Birches», «Mending Wall», «Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening», «Two Tramps at Mudtime», «Choose Something Like a Star», and «The Gift Outright», which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. An essential addition to every…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: «Sequel to the New York Times bestselling «Faith of the Fallen». New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. With winter descending and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 126) Аннотация: In People Like Us you'll meet people from different countries all over the world. But remember that your culture is not just your country. It's what you do and how old you are. It's where you live. It's the things you like doing and the things you don't like doing. It's the way you talk and your education. It's about your friends, your family and your own character. This is your cultural…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissle defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse than a grave malfunction — he suspects sabotage...The USS America — the world's most technically advanced nuclear submarine — is launched on its maiden voyage. Then shortly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp. Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. Marry me the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her life under terror. In her distraction, she misses her stop, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises — from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. He is the first to give a full report on the nation's endangered environment — its seashores lined with concrete, its roads…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: An unknown doomsday virus quickly claims the lives of four people across the country — including Dr. Sophia Russell, a researcher leading the team trying to crack the disease. Devastated and enraged, her fiance, Lt. Colonel Jonathan Smith, uncovers evidence that his lover's death was no accident — that someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens countless millions of lives…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 513) Аннотация: It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away – never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal – a former stripper forty years his junior – is just as sure he is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A dictionary of the basic vocabulary used in information technology, this book covers computers, programming, telecommunications, electronics, graphics, desktop publishing and many other applications.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 528 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 693) Аннотация: After the death of his beloved Queen Lostris, Taita performs the rites of embalmment and burial for her. Then, stricken with grief, he retreats into the forbidding deserts of North Africa where he becomes a hermit. Over the years that follow he devotes himself to the study of the mysteries of the occult until, armed with these extraordinary powers, he gradually transforms himself into the…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 099 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1001) Аннотация: Roy Jenkin's Churchill is an exhaustive biographical picture of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century. From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters — each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly 20 years) — «Watermark» associatively and brilliantly evokes one city's…