Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Are you a cat lover? A dog person? Either way, this book is for you Read about how your favorite companion came to be a pet and how its body works. Then, flip the book over and find out about the other kind. Once again Steve Jenkins takes children's nonfiction to a new level. Here is an amazing book filled with great information, visual facts, and lots of animal history. The illustrations are so…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The tortoise and the hare seem old friends on the cover of this journal, as the turtle kicks his heels and the rabbit looks on. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages — lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: «In this 30th anniversary edition, Goldman frames the famous fairy tale with an «autobiographical» story: his father abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.»
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: An enormous elephant takes a gleeful ride on a positively tiny swing on the cover of this journal. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages — lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 515) Аннотация: Young Pushkin was first published in serial form between 1935 and 1943 and immediately achieved classic status in Russia. Although the author did not live to accomplish his full epic scheme, he did complete the first part, his fictional masterpiece of Pushkin's early years. This is the first English translation. In a blend of encyclopedic knowledge and creative imagination, Tynyanov thrillingly…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Check Plus combines Spell Check, Word Check, and The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition, in a handsome and sturdy slipcase. Spell Check is a handy and up-to-date guide to the correct spelling of 40,000 commonly misspelled words. Word Check is a compact thesaurus that discusses 3,000 synonyms in easy-to-read paragraphs. The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary, Third…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates one of the world's best-loved forms of rustic architecture — the cabin. The ultimate in escapism, the log cabin — whether functional or sophisticated — has the power to make us feel at home yet close to nature. The Orvis Book of Cabins is a compelling illustrated tour of more than twenty cabins, both large and small, rustic and sophisticated. Some have…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career — and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Did you know, that in Germany a young man with suspiciously good manners is called Tantenverf rhrer (literally, aunt seducer), that in Namibia there is a word for walking on tiptoe through warm sand or that, in Welsh, gwarlingo is the rushing sound a grandfather clock makes before striking the hour. Whether you are physiggomai (Ancient Greek — excited by eating garlic) or knedlikovy (Czech —…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A big bear with a straw hat and his young companion take a break for some fishing on the cover of this journal. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages—lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. This book dismantles this false conclusion using a researched study that helps in understanding the French emperor better.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A final, apocalyptic, world war has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending the majority of mankind off-planet. Those who remain, venerate all remaining examples of life, and owning an animal of your own is both a symbol of status and a necessity. For those who can't afford an authentic animal, companies build incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 855 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 365) Аннотация: A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.
Скачать книгу (размер 208 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 42) Аннотация: A Victorian scientist, R.W. Greasebeam, presents the original correspondence of early explorers who encountered some of the world's most fearsome dragons. Base's fans will be delighted by his humorous stories and intricate renderings of these colorful creatures.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: Western-style furniture was a relatively late arrival in Asia, where climates and lifestyles were markedly different from those in Europe. But colonial incursions and circumstances of history conspired to bring about profound changes, and furniture design in Asia blossomed into a major decorative art. Each of the eight countries covered here — China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand,…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Create Jewelry: Crystals presents 20 glittering projects ranging in difficulty from easy stringing pieces to seed bead weaving designs. All projects are glamorous and timeless and represent unique ways to use crystals in jewelry designs for necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings. In Create Jewelry: Crystals, the editors of Beadwork magazine combine innovative designs with intriguing anecdotes,…
Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue explores the flourishing of archaeology in the nineteenth century, the part played by the Louvre in the rediscovery of the Ancient world, and the growth of the Louvre's departments of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities and Eastern Antiquities. The text (in English translation), is by current curators at the museum.
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