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Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sens... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Death In Summer - a beautiful and haunting novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor'Possibly the most perfect of Trevor's novels . . . Astonishing' Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThere were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, sudden and quite unexpected,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | A Penguin Special on Roy Lichtenstein by Alastair Sooke - read in 2 hours or less'Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece! My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work!' Roy Lichtenstein - architect of Pop art, connoisseur of the comic strip... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | The final chapter in the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 10, Inheritrix.All is becoming clear and the cabal's dastardly plot is slowly revealed, as the unlikely trio battle to save themselves,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold o... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | The Badlands by Paul French - a gripping criminal portrait of pre-communist Peking, from the interntional bestselling author of Midnight in PekingThe Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Ho... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Why do some countries have a vibrant nonprofit sector while others do not? Nonprofits in Crisis explores the theory of risk as a major mechanism through which economic development influences the nonprofit sector. Nuno S. Themudo elaborates this idea by focusing on Me... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. Scott Christianson follows Nalle from his enslavement by th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America explores the evolution of postal innovations that sparked a communication revolution in nineteenth-century America. Wayne E. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nations dominant religious group, struggl... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the publication ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the linguistic turn that isolates culture from historical processes, The Task... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China's War of Resistance against Japan during World War II. By presenting women's remembrances of the war, this stud... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | Overflowing with powerful testimonies of six female community activists who have lived and worked in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Chicanas of 18th Street reveals the convictions and approaches of those organizing for social reform. In chronicling a pivotal mom... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology and cybernetics. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | For more than a decade, the UCLA dynasty defined college basketball. In twelve seasons from 1964 to 1975, John Wooden's teams won ten national titles, including seven consecutive championships. The Bruins also rose to prominence during a turbulent age of political un... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. Nishime's perceptive readings of popular media... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. He is arguably the most acc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrat... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin on land owned by his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. After 26 months he transformed his stay in the woods into one of the most famous events in American history. In... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers wh... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | A symbol of Indiana's past, the covered bridge still evokes feelings of nostalgia, romance, and even mystery. During the 19th century, over 500 of these handsome structures spanned the streams, rivers, and ravines of Indiana. Plagued by floods, fire, storms, neglect,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | The work of T. C. Steele, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, Otto Stark, and Richard Gruelle, known collectively as the Hoosier Group, established plein air ("e;in the open air"e;) painting as a major art form in Indiana. The vitality of this style is represent... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutions. As she explores the character of the ... Полное описание |
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