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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The third edition of this best-selling title provides both a narrative and analysis of the background, course and effects of the 1917 revolution. Beginning with an overview of Imperial Russia and the problems and challenges it faced, it goes on to look at the growth of revolutionary movements which would eventually lead to the October Revolution. It then examines how the Bolsheviks consolidated…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The naughtiest girl in the school is back! And this term she's trying to be good. But someone wants to spoil things for her. And they're not going to let her forget how she got her nickname!

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When Robin hears of an archer better than him, or any of his merry men, he just has to meet him!

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: A party with pony rides sounds like great fun to Mandy! But when Sparky the pony gets stung by a bee he can't wear a saddle. How can he give the party guests rides? Just in time, Mandy makes a lucky discovery...

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Katie's very excited — her birthday is coming, and she'll be having a fancy dress party! What Katie would like more than anything, is to dress up as a princess, but Grandma can't seem to get her costume quite right! Perhaps a trip to the art gallery will provide some inspiration... Join Katie on her eighth adventure inside five famous paintings as she gets to be a real princess for a day!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Teach Yourself Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis is the essential guide to these fascinating natural hazards. These three phenomena pose the most frightening geological events with which we inhabitants of planet earth have to contend. This book focuses on plate tectonics before delving into the intricacies of each one of these hazards so that you soon have a clear understanding of what causes…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they bought home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barrelling, ninety-seven pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: «Charlie has this little sister Lola. Sometimes he has to try and get her to go to bed. This is a hard job because Lola likes to stay up late. Lola says, «I am not slightly sleepy at 6 or 7 or 8. I am still wide awake at 9 and not at all tired at 10, 11 and 12 and I will probably still be perky at even 13 o'clock in the morning.» An innovative and fun-filled look at tricky bedtimes, this classic…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Although Lola agrees with her brother that it would be useful to learn how to write, read and count, she can't go to school because her invisible friend's too nervous to go. This third title in the 'Charlie and Lola' classic picture book series deals sympathetically with children's fears surrounding the first day at school.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.

Скачать книгу (размер 672 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 133) Аннотация: Не is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart, now and forever.

Скачать книгу (размер 6 603 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1296) Аннотация: Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong’s oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in danger. As Hong Kong itself becomes the deadly playground of the CIA, the KGB and the People’s Republic of China, rival tai-pans, seeking revenge for blood feuds over a century old, gather for the kill.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Let us turn our faces towards Asia, exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. The East will help us conquer the West. Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When Rob's girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester, not only will it mean moving cities, it'll also mean leaving behind his best mate in the entire world. Believing that love conquers all and convinced of his ability to make new friends, Rob takes the plunge.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Why is it that your best friend always seems to end up with men who treat her badly? Why can't any of you find someone quite right? Ruby, Martin and Lou are three old friends who are facing another summer without love. Now, they decide to approach the dating dilemma in the way they approached finding flatmates.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The girl-about-town's favourite author gives us her hilarious take on attempted marriage, attempted murder, and an abundance of mayhem.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother's memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet, despite what he also learns of her suffering in the Soviet Union under Stalin, as an adolescent, he finds himself proud to be a Russian. Torn between the two cultures, he eventually makes a choice which has a wholly unexpected outcome. Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Ben Bova's Tour of the Solar System continues with this thrilling new novel.