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St Petersburg EveryMan MapGuide	Random House, Inc.
Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	PDF, 48 страниц, 1.44 МБ 7 Оценка:
This is a guide for all tastes and budgets with a choice of sites not to be missed. Fold-out maps give the reader instant orientation and help visitors to make the best of their stay. The guide also contains details of restaurants, bars, pubs, theatres, music venues, shops, markets, hotels...and all the practical advice needed. This is a map and a guide, all in one.
173 hitrets 24 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Men Without Women	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Men Without Women» was a milestone in Hemingway's career. «Fiesta» had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory.»
518 alex033ru 17 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Ministry Of Fear	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Graham Greene Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2006	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.
810 allkonekt 09 февраля 2008	Скачать книгу

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Peter Hoeg Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1996	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.
1498 delovar 16 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Moab Is My Washpot	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Stephen Fry Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
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A Moveable Feast	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'. Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him — literary 'stars' like James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein — he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.
518 alex033ru 17 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Murphy's Law	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Arthur Bloch Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1990	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Murphy's Law — popularly known as Sod's Law — with acknowledgements to Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle — explains the truth of man's existence: that if anything can go wrong, it will. In three volumes of murphology, Arthur Block has provided the only comfort possible — laughter — for all those who have ever been exasparated by things going wrong, with a set of rules offering a wise and witty view of the human predicament in the cosmos.
1034 vitalysev 10 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

My Life	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Bill Clinton Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2005	PDF, 1024 страницы, 30.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
«President Bill Clinton's «My Life» is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals. Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions. Filled with fascinating moments and insights, it is told openly, directly, in President Clinton's completely recognizable voice.»
3704 bumbaroma 16 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Umberto Eco Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2006	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhood. His wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between Milan and Turin. Yambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diaries. There, he relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Cyrano de Bergerac. As he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lost.But a relapse occurs. Now in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a Dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image — the schoolgirl he never forgot. Copiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, «The Mysterious Flame» is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable Umberto Eco.»
1679 biomg 25 апреля 2010	Скачать книгу

The Name Of The Rose	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Umberto Eco Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
«The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night. A spectacular popular and critical success, «The Name of the Rose» is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages.»
1851 nniikk 16 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

The Night Watch	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Sergei Lukyanenko Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The «Night Watch», first book in the «Night Watch» trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. When he comes across Svetlana, a young woman under a powerful curse, and saves an unfledged Other, Egor, from vampires, he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce, and the whole city...»
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Non-Fiction	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2005	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise «Non-Fiction» prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer — each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.»
926 lawyer_78rus 24 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Norwegian Wood	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Haruki Murakami Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire — to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
1444 admin 14 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Nuns And Soldiers	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Iris Murdoch Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 514 страниц, 15.42 МБ 0 Оценка:
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story?
1855 budanovpavel 17 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

An Obsession with Butterflies	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Sharman Russell Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
«This work tells the story of man's fascination with butterflies, as symbols, as objects of beauty, and of obsession — in the tradition of Susan Orlean's «The Orchid Thief». From Hindu mythology to Aztec sacrifices, butterflies have served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation. Even during World War II, children in a Polish death camp scratched hundreds of butterflies onto the wall of their barracks. But as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this rich and lyrical meditation, butterflies have above all been objects of obsession. From the beastly horned caterpillar whose blood helps it count time, to the peacock butterfly with wings that hiss like a snake, Russell traces butterflies through their life cycles, exploring the creatures' own obsessions with eating, mating, and migrating. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies as well as the driving passion of such legendary collectors as the tragic Eleanor Glanville, whose children declared her mad because of her compulsive butterfly collecting, and the brilliant Henry Walter Bates, whose collections from the Amazon in 1858 helped develop his theory of mimicry in nature. Russell also takes us inside some of the world's most prestigious natural history museums, where scientists painstakingly catalogue and categorize new species of Lepidoptera, hoping to shed light on insect genetics and evolution. «An Obsession with Butterflies» is a luminous journey through an exotic world of strange beauty; a book to be treasured by anyone who's ever watched a butterfly mid-flight.»
1041 vitalysev 13 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Ode Less Travelled	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Stephen Fry Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple step-by-step advice, «The Ode Less Travelled» guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.»
1390 yury-m 14 марта 2010	Скачать книгу

The Old Man and the Sea	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	PDF, 112 страниц, 3.36 МБ 5 Оценка:
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
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On Ugliness	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Umberto Eco Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
«This book is the follow up to the previous volume, «On Beauty». Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The anthological quotations and the extraordinary illustrations in this book lead us on a surprising journey among the nightmares, terrors, and loves of almost three thousand years, where acts of rejection go hand in hand with touching gestures of compassion, and the rejection of deformity is accompanied by decadent ecstasies over the most seductive violations of all classical canons.Among demons, madmen, horrible enemies, and disquieting presences, among horrid abysses and deformities that verge on the sublime, among freaks and the living dead, we discover a vast and often unsuspected iconographic vein. So much so that, on gradually encountering in these pages the ugliness of nature, spiritual ugliness, asymmetry, disharmony, disfigurement, and the succession of things sordid, weak, vile, banal, random, arbitrary, coarse, repugnant, clumsy, horrendous, vacuous, nauseating, criminal, spectral, witchlike, satanic, repellent, disgusting, unpleasant, grotesque, abominable, odious, crude, foul, dirty, obscene, frightening, abject, monstrous, hair-raising, ugly, terrible, terrifying, revolting, repulsive, loathsome, fetid, ignoble, awkward, ghastly and indecent, the first foreign publisher to see this book exclaimed: 'How beautiful ugliness is!'»
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A Painted House	Random House, Inc.
Автор: John Grisham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
«The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a «good crop». Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks, they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. «A Painted House» is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.»
1733 admin 10 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

Pandora	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Anne Rice Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1999	PDF, 406 страниц, 12.18 МБ 0 Оценка:
«In this first of a series, David Talbot, vampire survivor of «Memnoch the Devil», calls forth Pandora, last seen in «Queen of the Damned», to tell her own extraordinary tale. Once a mortal girl in ancient Rome, she was given immortality by Marius, her lover and the dark genius of the Lestat novels.»
1464 oksador 20 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

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