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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Everyone who's in business, works for a business, or even just gives others the business is amazed: Scott Adams never lacks for yet another way to lampoon the corporate world. It's not that Adams is anti-business. He's more anti-bad boss than anything. But poor management practices, the effects of bad decisions, and what it all means for the average worker add up to more comedic material than…

Скачать книгу (размер 988 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 195) Аннотация: In this book, based on a series of talks that he gave at a Tibetan Buddhist center in Delhi during the 1990s, the Dalai Lama examines the nature of the human mind and emphasizes the need for each of us to transform ourselves if we wish to lead more fulfilling lives. In his disarmingly personal style, he discusses suffering, happiness, love, and truth, and offers practical wisdom on issues ranging…

Скачать книгу (размер 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 127) Аннотация: This study of Pre-Raphaelite painters and poets reveals a style-derived from the idealized view of nature in the early Italian Renaissance-steeped in mythology and literary allusion and very popular today with lovers of romantic art and poetry. 125 illustrations, 95 in full color, 5 x 7»

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: In this charming sequel to the classic «Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,» Kate and Henry eagerly await Grandpa's return from a vacation that his postcard says has been one of the best and most unusual ever. Thinking about that postcard Kate drifts off to sleep that night and... «With Henry as my co-pilot...» she visits the strange land of Chewandswallow — a land characterized by massive amounts…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Few tales bespeak the holidays as vividly as Dickens' classic story of Jacob Marley, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future. Here it is presented in a gorgeous keepsake Running Press Miniature Edition (TM), sumptuously illustrated by award-winning British artist Christian Birmingham.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their crown jewels, as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West, called by the Sunday Times the unofficial historian of the secret services and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, The Crown Jewels…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: »The Kitchen Planner» takes the confusion out of kitchen redesign and puts the fun back in. Filled with advice and suggestions for everything from the quick touch-up to a complete makeover, this innovative guide covers it all. The uniquely designed section of tri-split pages allows for effortless mixing and matching of wall colors, cabinetry, and floors. The reusable stickers and layout grid make…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This book highlights works from one of the US' most respected museum collection of American art. In his engaging essay, Graham W.J. Beale -places the 96 works in historical context, relating them to contemporary social and artistic trends both at home and abroad. Beginning with the first truly home-grown talent — John Singleton Copley -in the 18th century to the social realism of John Sloan in…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 700) Аннотация: The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the «most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source». Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB’s secrets…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A retelling of classic children's tales by The Brothers Grimm, including Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Ashputtel (Cinderella) and Little Red-cap. This interpretation by Carol Ann Duffy seeks to remove the sugariness of contemporary versions and return to the orginal, darker mould.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: The ever increasing art historical attention being paid to the School of Leonardo lies at the root of this volume published almost sixty years after Suida's classic treatment of the subject. This is the first time since then that Lombard art of Leonardesque inspiration has been the object of a systematic analysis embracing a period of around half a century starting from 1490. The essays opening…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 217) Аннотация: Substance D — otherwise known as Death — is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A matched four-volume boxed set containing J.R.R. Tolkien's «The Hobbit» and the three volumes of «The Lord of the Rings», complete with maps and cover illustrations by Alan Lee.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the eight years since this blockbuster anthology of 44 classic picture books of the 20th century was compiled, important new picture books have been published that Janet Schulman believes are too good to miss. She has selected 15-some by brand-new voices of the 21st century, some by young authors and illustrators who were just getting started during the last decade of the past century, and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 794 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 353) Аннотация: We are in Paris on the Left Bank. The time is now. David meets Pandora in a crowded café, where she recounts her vampire tale — Pandora, two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to write for him the story of her life. We see Pandora from her mortal girlhood as the daughter of aristocrats in the peaceful Rome of…

Скачать книгу (размер 667 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 132) Аннотация: This uniquely personal book, the fruit of a thirty-year friendship, offers an intimate portrait of Lewis the tutor, scholar, and friend, along with new insights into his towering literary and scholarly achievement.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: F. E. Halliday presents in vivid detail what we know about Shakespeare's life after three centuries of discovery, and illuminates and animates the story with illustrations of Elizabethan personalities, pages from the early folios, maps, and photographs of Stratford-upon-Avon. Much of the great playwright's biography is mysterious, but Halliday (an authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment — intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Brilliant in conception, rich in scope, this splendid book confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? «A fascinating perspective on our staunch devotion to mass, mutual slaughter».

Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: In her latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice brings readers the story of Armand — eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel — who first appeared in his dark glory in «Interview with the Vampire». Moving through scenes of luxury, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to 19th-century Paris and toady's New Orleans, this romantic hero is forced to choose between his twilight…