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The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the In... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:52 | How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 an... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:52 | This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:52 | The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future. In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:52 | In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:52 | We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries such as the international order of sovereign nation-states are being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | It is estimated that, by 2010, half of all families will be stepfamilies. This is a practical guide for all those living, or preparing to live, in a step-family. Drawing on real-life examples, the authors - both step-parents themselves - help parents to explore key i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | From ancient times to the present day, people have been telling stories about animals. Bob Hartman is no exception. Over his many years as a professional storyteller, he has told stories about a menagerie of creatures - big and small, tame and scary, real and mythica... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | The Flying Scotsman is probably the most famous railway locomotive in the world. It first caused a sensation for its beauty and its speed in 1923, and it soon became a national icon. The fastest and most comfortable way of travelling between London and Scotland, The ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport. After a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | Written by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights and sounds of Dickens' London and provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of 'The Inimitable Boz'. Each of the eight walks conjures up forgotten s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | Dwarfish Charlie Boylan carries a loaded pistol into the House of Commons. A can of worms waiting to be opened, he was a police spy for nearly forty years. He wants a pension and what he knows will get it! Did he, between Waterloo and Wellington's funeral, cause the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:53 | Ah, the single life. The blind dates, the guiltless sleeping in the starfish position, the 'table for one in a draught, please'. In his hilarious new book, Jeff Green offers practical advice on how to find love, or failing that how to pretend you've got a significant... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:54 | Steven Tyler is one of life's natural born survivors. With an exhaustively vibrant personality, this dynamic lead singer has been one of the most distinctive figures in rock music for more than three decades. Raised in a close, loving family, Tyler survived a tough u... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:54 | THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:54 | Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his min... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:55 | In the mid 1990's, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights lay a more serious purpo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:57 | When sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici marries the fifth Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso d'Este, she imagines life with her handsome husband will be idyllic. But little does she know that he is a very complicated man. The marriage is fraught with difficulties from the st... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:57 | Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and character. England is the most various of countries; within its border... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:58 | The epic struggle begun in THE SUM OF ALL MEN continues in BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahten, but Ahten is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahten seeks to draw out the Earth King fr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:59 | Evie Dexter is in pursuit of a career as a European tour guide. Heart set on success and buoyed on by booze, she begins 'enhancing' her CV and soon lands a job with Insignia Tours, guiding their Paris breaks. Bursting with professionalism, Evie quickly checks her cop... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:59 | Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she used to be E... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:00 | Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics and Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot Michael is certain he w... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:00 | The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:00 | Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South... Полное описание |
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