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The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. InVisitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers -... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, per... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations bet... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | The End of the Night,one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. They're known as the notorious ';Wolf Pack': three men and a beautiful girl on a cross-coun... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | Freedom and the Foundation is a study in depth of the first and most controversial of the tax-exempt foundations dedicated to research and public education in the field of civil liberties and civil rights: The Fund for the Republic. The story of its struggle for surv... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie-living at the turn of the century... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | Guidance for Your Sometimes Rocky, Always Important RelationshipsWe all want to have good friends--and to be a good friend. Now, in the teen years, more than ever, you need girls and guys you can trust. You need friends who will stand by your side, no matter what--wh... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) was widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful and emotionally vivid novels about Vietnam. Now, writing with the same sharp, richly expressive language, the same edgy dark humor and complete honesty, ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:36 | In an astonishing history, a work of strikingly original research and interpretation, Heyrman shows how the evangelical Protestants of the late-18th century affronted the Southern Baptist majority of the day, not only by their opposition to slaveholding, war, and cla... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | Forgiveness Is Always Difficult and Often Illogical. But It's the Only Remedy God Offers toHeal Our Hearts.With the experience of more than two decades in the ministry, Dr. Robert Jeffress has come to the conclusion that forgiveness is the bottom-line issue of life. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | Readers of Freeman Dyson's previous books, Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, and Infinite in All Directions, have discovered for themselves what Dyson reveals here: that he was a writer long before he became a distinguished scientist.The aim of this new book... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "e;the trial of the century"e;--has proven irresist... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | Rothenberg chronicles the brief, turbulent marriage between a recession-plagued auto company and an aggressively hip ad agency (whose creative director despised cars), capturing both the ad world's tantalizing gossip and the broader significance of its creations. Sim... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweattthe over-tall eleven-year-old boy whos the talk of the townwalks into her library and changes her ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | Written in the post 9/11 context this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | To many of us, the experiences that we grew up taking for granted leave become distant dreams in our adult lives: marriages that last a lifetime; safe neighborhoods to call home; the certainty that our children will have a better life than we did; and most of all, lo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | In her previous books, Sarah Schlesinger took the fat out of breakfasts, appetizers, soups, main courses, and desserts, with delicious results. Now, in 500 (Practically) Fat-Free One-Pot Recipes, she has streamlined the cooking process and delivered nutritious, affor... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | Billy Getten really wants a dog. Hes so dog crazy that he eats dog biscuits! But Billys parents wont give in. They say hes too irresponsible. Then Billy meets the dog of his dreams. Can Billy convince his parents that hes ready for a pet before the most wonderful dog... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary manMoshe the dreamer, a madman and mysticst... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:37 | It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives....October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:39 | A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins.Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he's nobody's fool. So when the ... Полное описание |
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