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Planet of the Apes	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Boulle Pierre Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. There they find a planet which resembles their own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their mutual origins. But such revelations will have always been greeted by prejudice and fear...
754 anatoly_24 17 августа 2013	Скачать книгу

A Time In Rome	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Bowen Elizabeth Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2003	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city — its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities. She speculates about the immense noise of ancient Rome, the problems caused by the Romans' dining posture, and the Roman temperament, which blended 'constructive will with supine fatalism'. She envies the Vestal Virgins and admires the Empress Livia, who survived a barren marriage. She evokes the city's moods — by day, when it is characterized by golden sunlight, and at night, when the blaze of the moon 'annihilates history, turning everything into a get together spectacle for Tonight.
925 lawyer_78rus 23 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Anya Von Bremzen Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable. In 1974, when Anya was ten, she and her mother fled to the USA, with no winter coats and no right of return. These days, Anya is the doyenne of high-end food writing. And yet, the flavour of Soviet kolbasa, like Proust's madeleine, transports her back to that vanished Atlantis known as the USSR. In this sweeping, tragicomic memoir, Anya recreates seven decades of the Soviet experience through cooking and food, and reconstructs a moving family history spanning three generations. Her narrative is embedded in a larger historical epic: Lenin's bloody grain requisitioning, World War II starvation, Stalin's table manners, Khrushchev's kitchen debates, Gorbachev's disastrous anti-alcohol policies and the ultimate collapse of the USSR. And all of this is bound together by Anya's sardonic wit, passionate nostalgia and piercing observations. Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a book that stirs the soul as well as the senses.
1628 vtormai 25 июня 2016	Скачать книгу

Byrne	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Burgess Anthony Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2012	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
Byrne is Anthony Burgess' final work: an epic verse novel. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe. He then vanishes and the story passes to his children, including twin sons, one a doubting priest, the other sick of an incapacitating disease, who move across the troubled face of contemporary Europe before encountering their father in one final apocalyptic confrontation. Brilliantly readable, enormously funny and full of passion and energy, it is also Anthony Burgess' last powerful statement of life and art.
638 kubinec12 12 марта 2015	Скачать книгу

Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Burgess Anthony Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2002	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Little Wilson and Big God, the first part of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography, tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement, in 1959, of his career as a professional writer. Born Jack Wilson, the son of Catholic Irish and Lancashire parents, Burgess grew up in one of the toughest areas of Manchester, with a burgeoning awareness of an artistic talent which for a long time could not find its proper outlet. It deals also with an unending struggle to reconcile a Catholic conscience with the prematurely discovered pleasures of sex. It details his tempestuous first marriage, an army career more comic than heroic, and his years as an education officer in Malaya and Borneo. It was in the Far East, at the age of thirty-seven, his marriage in trouble, drinking heavily, that Burgess began to write the first of the novels that were to make his name.
1734 admin 10 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Carroll Lewis Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon, she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom, she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very strange tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood.
1217 phoenix7 15 июня 2010	Скачать книгу

You Against Me	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Downham Jenny Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you? When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offence, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a brave and unflinching novel from the bestselling author of Before I Die. It's a book about loyalty and the choices that come with it. But above all it's a book about love.
1509 delovar 07 апреля 2015	Скачать книгу

Tender is the Night	Random House, Inc.
Автор: F. Scott Fitzgerald Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful.
1277 anarho 25 июня 2013	Скачать книгу

Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Viktor E. Frankl Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest — and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the concentration camp prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
578 admin 25 апреля 2008	Скачать книгу

A Sort Of Life	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Greene Graham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'.
580 admin 26 февраля 2013	Скачать книгу

Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure: Chocolat 3	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Harris Joanne Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2013	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in which eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But returning to her old home, Vianne is completely unprepared for what she is to find there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea — and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the church, a minaret.
1743 admin 13 декабря 2015	Скачать книгу

An Officer and a Spy	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Harris Robert Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	PDF, 624 страницы, 18.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying 'Death to the Jew!' The officer is rewarded with promotion.
2267 metroteam 21 июля 2015	Скачать книгу

The New Atkins Made Easy: The Faster, Simpler Way to Lose Weight and Feel Great — Starting Today!	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Heimowitz Colette Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Atkins remains the world's most famous diet, and for good reason: the Atkins high-protein, low-carb plan has helped millions of people around the world lose weight and keep it off. In New Atkins Made Easy, this amazing lifestyle plan has been further simplified to guarantee quicker weight loss with even less hassle. Alongside simple, straightforward guidelines you'll find: tips and advice for keeping on track with your diet; budget-friendly meal plans and recipes for the whole family; low-carb grab-and-go food options; solutions to common dieting problems; and, inspirational case studies. Simpler than ever before, New Atkins Made Easy is your key to guaranteed weight loss.
1104 stalker1965 03 августа 2016	Скачать книгу

Hemingway on War	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Hemingway Ernest Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World War and during his twenty-five years as a war correspondent. This edition offers an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. It contains extracts from A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, some of Hemingway's very best short stories, his only full-length play, The Fifth Column as well as selections from his wartime journalism. Hemingway on War represents the author's penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare.
1395 yury-m 15 августа 2016	Скачать книгу

Dust: Wool Trilogy 3	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Howey Hugh Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
In a time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has discovered the truth. And they are going to tell. Jules knows what her predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be lived in this way. And she won't stand for it. But Jules no longer has supporters. And there is far more to fear than the toxic world beyond her walls. A poison is growing from within Silo 18. One that cannot be stopped. Unless Silo 1 step in.
1511 delovar 09 февраля 2016	Скачать книгу

Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks	Random House, Inc.
Автор: James Oliver Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating expose, Oliver James reveals the murky underside of modern office life. With cutting-edge research and eye-opening interviews, he highlights the nasty practices that propel people to the top and shows how industries and cultures are fostering this behaviour. He then divulges strategies and techniques for not only surviving but thriving in these difficult environments. With the right mindset, you can distinguish and deal with toxic and over promoted colleagues, charm your way through interviews, and use office politics to your advantage. Office Politics will overthrow your perceptions of office life and set you on a new path to success.
1046 vitalysev 15 июня 2016	Скачать книгу

The Dark Road	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Jian Ma Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life. For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China, picking up work as they go along, scavenging for necessities and flying from police detection. As Meili's body continues to be invaded by her husband and assaulted by the state, she fights to regain control of her fate and that of her unborn child.
1337 lubacha 11 июня 2016	Скачать книгу

The Flamethrowers	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Kushner Rachel Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2014	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
The year is 1977 and Reno — so called because of the place of her birth — has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world — artists have colonised a deserted and industrial SoHo, are squatting in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. She begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged heir of an Italian tyre and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro's family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in 1977. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. The Flamethrowers is a fearless novel, an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake the terrorist. In the centre of it all is Kushner's brilliantly realised protagonist, a young woman on the verge.
1453 admin 17 октрября 2017	Скачать книгу

A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Lee Laurie Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2003	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry, the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness — the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain. Rich with kaleidoscopic images, A Rose for Winter is as sensual and evocative as the sun-scorched landscape of Andalusia itself.
462 liego55 20 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Cider with Rosie	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Lee Laurie Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2002	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
'I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes' Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, 'thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers', he depicts a word that is both tangibly real yet belonging to a now distant past.
867 admin 21 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

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