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Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «An illustrated book discussing the basic technical considerations as they apply to outdoor close-up nature photography. Information covers exposure, equipment, composition and necessary equipment applications which include: extension with tubes and bellows, macro lenses, tele-converters, flash and lighting. The reasons are given for the impracticability of the studio situation for close-up…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: During the current recession it seems our traditional stiff upper lip can only last so long before those other world-beating British skills come to the fore — quiet grumbling and resigned cynicism. Sod Calm and Get Angry is for anyone who has finally had enough of bankers and politicians and bosses telling them to keep sodding calm and to carry bloody on. Sod Calm and Get Angry is both a rallying…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student' he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 151 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 227) Аннотация: Full of magic and appealing characters, this classic novel takes readers on a remarkable adventure. It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic Indian brave. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts the Indian in a metal cupboard and locks the door with a mysterious skeletonkey that once belonged to his great-grandmother. Little does Omri know that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg — an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius — were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 513 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 494) Аннотация: Hitting shelves just before Lee Child's wildly anticipated new hardcover, comes the mass market paperback of the #1 Reacher thriller that's leaving everyone breathless. Child ratchets up the tension minute by minute, leading up to the most talked-about cliff-hanger in suspense today.
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'You have an enemy, Dr Brennan. It is in your interest to learn who placed that call.' A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation that she missed or concealed crucial evidence. Before Tempe can get to the one man with information, he turns up dead. The heiress isn't the only…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 471) Аннотация: When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation. Few people are as interested when a local hero, Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas, however, becomes fascinated by his story. He was loved by so many — who would…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 442) Аннотация: A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. And the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know — however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be. And when a single volume missing from the original collection mysteriously surfaces…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice — on the eve of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 304 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 453) Аннотация: Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O'Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira's global search has led her to a small California town that's about to become hell on earth. Tormented by his own terrifying past and driven by powers he can't explain,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Back from the dead. That's how it feels for Nan Vining, a Pasadena homicide cop determined to find the brutal madman who attacked her a year ago. Nan's daughter calls the unknown assailant T. B. Mann — The Bad Man. On the job, Nan breaks rules and steals evidence, building a case file based on the certainty that T. B. Mann is obsessed with women who wear uniforms, that he hunts them, kills them,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: NEVER SAY DIE McKenna Sloan saved Lucas Kane's life and then vanished. Lucas moved mountains trying to find her again, and finally McKenna relented — for one fleeting night. The truth is, McKenna's life is all about the dark, deception-filled world of Last Chance Rescue, and for her, there's no hope of love or Lucas. But fate, and Lucas's determination, soon change everything. A kidnapped young…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the New York Times -bestselling author of Acts of Mercy comes a novel about a man who's sworn off women and a woman haunted by her past. When fate offers them a second chance, will they take it?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «A gripping novel packed with heart and heat based on the hit television series «Saving Grace» Life's been tough for Oklahoma police detective Grace Hanadarko. She's got the talent it takes to make her a damn fine cop — but a personal life that can make your hair stand on end. Earl is not your average angel, but he is determined to lead Grace down the road to salvation — if he can handle the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: From the New York Times — bestselling author of Original Sin comes the second book in her new, fantastically thrilling paranormal suspense series, The Seven Deadly Sins.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Morgan Kingsley, a kick-ass exorcist, can deal with Lugh, the supersexy demon living inside her, but does he have to moan softly during her intimate moments with her mortal lover? Understandably, Brian is reluctant to share the pleasures of Morgan's flesh with a gorgeous rogue from the Demon Realm. But personal matters will have to wait when the opportunistic owner of the Seven Deadlies demon…