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There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Steinmetz Sol Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Word geeks (1984), rejoice! Crack open these covers and immerse yourself in a mind-expanding (1963) compendium of the new words (or new meanings of words) that have sprung from American life to ignite the most vital, inventive, fruitful, and A-OK (1961) lexicographical Big Bang (1950) since the first no-brow (1922) Neanderthal grunted meaningfully. From the turn of the twentieth century to today, our language has grown from around 90,000 new words to some 500,000 — at least, that's today's best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap (1924)? In There's a Word for It, language expert Sol Steinmetz takes us on a super califragilistic expeditious (1949) joyride (1908) through our nation's cultural history, as seen through the neato (1951) words and terms we've invented to describe it all. From the quaintly genteel days of the 1900s (when we first heard words such as nickelodeon, escalator, and, believe it or not, Ms.) through the Roaring Twenties (the time of flappers, jalopies, and bootleg booze) to the postwar 50s (the years of rock ’n’ roll, beatniks, and blast-offs) and into the new millennium (with its blogs, Google, and Obamamania), this feast for word lovers is a boffo (1934) celebration of linguistic esoterica (1929). In chapters organized by decade, each with a lively and informative narrative of the life and language of the time, along with year-by-year lists of words that were making their first appearance, There's a Word for It reveals how the American culture contributed to the evolution and expansion of the English language and vice versa. Clearly, it's must-reading (1940). And not to disparage any of the umpteen (1918) other language books on the shelf — though they have their share of hokum (1917) and gobbledygook (1944) — but this one truly is the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas (1920s).
928 lawyer_78rus 27 апреля 2014	Скачать книгу

Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Sapphire Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.
696 zorkuzz 15 июня 2012	Скачать книгу

Rotten Apple	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Eckler R. Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Apple is the opposite of her outspoken mother and gossipy, chatty best friends; she’s always been the cool, calm, and collected one. But her life is about to spiral out of control. Apple’s super-sized, secret crush on her friend Zen leads her into major trouble. And she’s realizing it might not have been such a good idea to pose as her mother–the famous talk show host and self-help guru, Dr. Bee Berg–and send out fake advice emails to keep her (devastatingly beautiful) friend Happy away from Zen. Before she knows it, her best friend hates her, the whole school knows about her crush, and she is humiliated on national TV. How much more will it take for Apple to learn that taking advice is just as important as giving it?
870 admin 23 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

Strangers on a Train	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Highsmith Patricia Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1999	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
923 lawyer_78rus 22 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Diary	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Palahniuk Chuck Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
Diary takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's refurbished and scrawling vile messages all over the walls. Angry homeowners are suing, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. The canvases are taken away by her mother-in-law and her doctor, who seem to have a plan for Misty — and for all those annoying tourists...
983 radius 27 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Yates Richard Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
1797 neptun 15 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Gayeton Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define the Slow Food movement and pays tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of vibrant characters, whose shared culture revolves around the everyday pleasure of growing, preparing, and eating food. With an anecdotal charm reminiscent of Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence, Douglas Gayeton’s interplay of pictures and words conveys a thrilling narrative that transports you halfway around the globe to the charming town of Pistoia, nestled in the outskirts of Florence. There we meet the mushroom hunters and sheep farmers, the winemakers and fishermen, the bakers, butchers and chocolate makers whose lives are profoundly bound to the rhythms of nature. It is a riveting story told in a riveting way: each image comprised of multiple photographs taken over a period of time that can range anywhere from ten minutes to several hours, and layered with Gayeton’s handwritten notes, recipes, facts, and sayings. With this process, Gayeton has managed to introduce the concept of story and time; both compressed and exploded, into his portraits. The result is a photographic approach critics have dubbed flat film; the effect is exhilarating. As Gayeton observes, “What my eyes saw was always grander than any lens could capture…How could I introduce the presence of time, of an emerging and evolving story comprised of not one, but many moments, into a single photograph?” In the accompanying text, Gayeton offers an absorbing first person account of his immersion into rural Italian culture, offering an intimacy that draws us deeper into this romantic and rustic world. A photographer, a pioneering new media creator, a wonderful writer and an award winning documentarian, Gayeton is passionately interested in food, culture, art, and people.
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Fire and Ice	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Garwood J. Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 394 страницы, 11.82 МБ 0 Оценка:
Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaper and the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-time thief. When asked to write an exposé about her notorious father, Sophie quits and goes to work at a small newspaper, covering local personalities such as William Harrington, the 5K runner whose trademark is red socks. Those socks—with Sophie’s business card tucked inside—are practically all that’s found after Harrington is killed near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, seemingly in a brutal polar bear attack. Sophie heads north to investigate, but danger follows in her wake. After one attempt on her life, she’s assigned brash but sexy Jack MacAlister as a bodyguard. But Sophie and Jack will soon be fighting more than their growing passion for each other. Powerful forces will stop at nothing to prevent the exposure of the sinister conspiracy Sophie and Jack are about to uncover.
1429 folders 26 мая 2013	Скачать книгу

No One You Know	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Richmond Michelle Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
Ellie Enderlin spent most of her childhood living in her sister's shadow. Lila was the good daughter — a mathematical genius who could do no wrong in their parents' eyes. Whereas Ellie was younger, wilder and could never quite match up. Until one day the shape of their family changes forever. Lila is brutally murdered. In the aftermath of her sister's death, Ellie entrusts her most intimate feelings to a man who betrays her utterly by turning the story into a bestselling true crime book — a book that both devastates her family and identifies one of Lila's professors as her killer. Twenty years later and two Americans meet by chance in a remote village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an inveterate traveler and incapable of trust. Peter is the academic who saw his career ruined by being named as Lila's killer. He protests his innocence and leaves Ellie with a gift — the notebook that Lila carried everywhere, a piece of evidence not found with her body. Stunned, Ellie will return home to San Francisco to explore the mysteries of Lila's notebook, filled with mathematical equations, and begin a search that has been waiting for her all these years. It will lead her to discover more about the lover no one knew Lila had, to the motives and fate of the man who profited from their family's anguish — and to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other.
1218 phoenix7 16 мая 2012	Скачать книгу

Bitter in the Mouth	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Truong Monique Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. But then a tragedy and a revelation will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
987 radius 28 июня 2013	Скачать книгу

The Glovemaker	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Brown Stacia M. Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2005	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
Offers an account of the legal case against a fictional woman condemned to death for secretly burying her dead, illegitimate newborn in Cromwell's England.
1389 yury-m 14 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Complete Enderby	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Burgess Anthony Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2013	PDF, 672 страницы, 20.16 МБ 5 Оценка:
Enderby — poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic — is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.
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A Game of Groans	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Washington George R.R. Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2005	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
There was a bloodied knife on Allbran's bed. Lady Gateway Barker knew what she had to do; what all the royals in Summerseve did when somebody tried to kill a member of their family: gather up a bunch of people and horses, and go from one place to another.
868 admin 22 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Old Man and the Sea	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Hemingway Ernest Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2015	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 Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
407 dimon0 06 мая 2018	Скачать книгу

Jezebel	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Nemirovsky Irene Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.
754 anatoly_24 17 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

Fun Inc	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Chatfield Tom Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
The sheer pervasiveness of game experience — 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game — means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. This book shows that computer game-playing has a strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.
1045 vitalysev 14 августа 2013	Скачать книгу

Doctor Zhivago	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Pasternak Boris Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms, tone, precision, and poetry of Pasternak's original, bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers.
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London ABC	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Hawkes Ben Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2012	PDF, 64 страницы, 1.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
From Aquarium to Zoo: all of London is here in this covetable portable guide to the capital. This title is brilliant for any visitor to London as a handy checklist, as well as a gorgeous gift for the London lover. There are tons to spot in the pictures, including a lost penguin, trying to find his way home. Illustrated in a gloriously retro palette by Ben Hawkes, The London ABC is quirky, witty and endlessly appealing.
232 apollon7777777 10 сентября 2017	Скачать книгу

Catch-22	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Heller Joseph Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	DjVu, 576 страниц, 23.04 МБ 0 Оценка:
At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.
2072 nergon 23 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Catch-22	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Heller Joseph Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
1974 garun-al-rashid 23 октрября 2014	Скачать книгу

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