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At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesnt particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:53 | Hollis Clayton is in trouble. His wife has decamped for the summer, leaving him to pursue his increasingly overwhelming compulsions: drinking; spying on neighbors; worrying about the fate of an abducted local girl; avoiding his editor, who is on the verge of rejectin... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:53 | People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:53 | In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for Spiritual Pollution, and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:54 | It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can, quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent r... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:54 | Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore.In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects o... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:54 | During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohna psychiatrist for the U.S. Armymonitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:55 | Warriors of God is the rich and engaging account of the Third Crusade (1187-1192), a conflict that would shape world history for centuries and which can still be felt in the Middle East and throughout the world today. Acclaimed writer James Reston, Jr., offers a grip... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:55 | A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:55 | In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embass... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:55 | Dorothy Gallaghers critically acclaimed memoir, How I Came Into My Inheritance, told of her childhood in 1940s New York as the daughter of left-wing Russian Jewish immigrants. Time magazine called it a piercingly funny book . . . unsentimental, breezy, blunt. In Stra... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:56 | The first anonymous letter arrives on July 23rd, Victors 13th birthday. Which is good, because it gives him something to write about in the journal his father gave him as a present. Soon Victor is writing down everything that happens as he tries to solve the mystery ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:56 | On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his hands up. Richardson ha... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:57 | Established in 1968, the Wheaton Literary Series provides insightful books for the thoughtful reader, inspiring imagination, and reflection. These beautifully produced volumes feature prose and poetry of high literary, academic, and artistic merit, written by and abo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:57 | The U.S. government is in crisis.With Americas attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shiftedto a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:57 | A bittersweet, darkly comic novel from a lyrical new voice, Love Will Tear Us Apart tells the story of six childhood friends reunited at a wedding where secrets are revealed, hearts are broken, and new meaning is given to the phrase You cant go home again.High school... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:58 | Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon, w... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:58 | In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, no mercy, and no time off for good behavior.When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with noth... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:58 | This is an essential resource for trainees and experienced teachers working in schools who are looking for new and creative ways of engaging and motivating their learners. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:58 | Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:58 | What if you had a second chance to chart your life?What if you only had a few days to live?Would you love?Would you laugh?Would you give?Would you live differently than you do right now? --Billy Joe DaughertyIf possible, would you do a makeover on parts of your life?... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:58 | It is often said that America has become culturally diverse only in the past quarter century. But from the country's beginning, cultural variety and conflict have been a centrifugal force in American politics and a crucial reason for our rise to power. The peopling o... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:59 | Feeling Bushed, America?In Thanks for the Memories, George, author and Onion contributor Mike Loew takes a humorousyet furiouslook at the last eight years of the Bush administration. From the botched evidence for the war in Iraq to the torture and violation of the Co... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:00 | Sixty-eight-year-old Hollis and his wife Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson, Arizona. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier, when Hollis fought in the Korean War, have left him w... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:00 | The Breastfeeding Book Your Doctor RecommendsWhy is breastfeeding best for my baby? Will I like it? What if it hurts? What happens when my maternity leave is over? Will I be able to use a breast pump? How can I make this work?The American Academy of Pediatrics, the o... Полное описание |
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