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In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González EchevarrÃa peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls “watching them at a distance, th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | The Victorian era was the first great Age of Doubt and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium uncontrolled by any o... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Contentious debates over the benefits-or drawbacks-of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism-often calling for more vocational instruction... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today.From fabled axe men lik... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no othe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | ';I like to go out for walks, but it's a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time.'housewife from Churchill, ManitobaYes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Bouts of Mania describes the glorious era when Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman fought each other in every possible combination, on nearly every possible continent. In their most memorable bouts from 1971 to 1975, the three men created athletic set piece... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | In this revealing, in-depth look at the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy, Adam Lazarus takes readers into the locker room and inside the huddle to deliver the real story behind the rivalrywhen Joe Montana and Steve Young battled on and off the field and forged ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Irish-born Anne Bonny is only a teenager when she is left destitute by her mothers death. Abandoned by her father, she seems destined to be forgotten by the world. But Anne chooses to seek her fortune in the lush tropics of the colonial West Indies, where she passes ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:40 | She Survived Her Own Innocence, and the Treachery of Europes Royal CourtsGreed, lust for power, sex, lies, secret marriages, religious posturing, adultery, beheadings, international intrigue, jealousy, treachery, love, loyalty, and betrayal. The Last Boleyn tells the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:40 | What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with many different answers. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Her paisan Frank Sinatra would add the cor... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:41 | In this tour-de-force sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa with the story of her unforgettable family.In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multi-layered narrative around the Happy Valle... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:41 | The fourth and final novel in the magnificent saga of Britains warrior queen (Boudica Bringer of Victory and the last defender of the Celtic culture) will capture readers hearts and minds, as Manda Scott brings the series to a stunning close.It is AD 60 and the flame... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:41 | The gripping, marvel-filled account of how a native son took a casual walk up a mountain on Cape Breton Island and made an archeological discovery of world-shaking proportions.In the summer of 2002, at home for his parents fiftieth wedding anniversary, Paul Chiasson ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | The story of Atlas and HeraclesAtlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every da... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | An adoptive mother writes the book she wishes had been available -- sympathetic, up-to-date, useful, hopeful and highly readable -- when her family welcomed a little girl not knowing that she struggled with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).When Bonnie and her h... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | 1. WHO IS DAVE GORMAN? Dave Gorman is an award-winning comedian, storyteller and writer from the UK. He won the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Jury Prize for Best One Person Show. He has appeared on the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous and The Late Show With David Letterman... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | In this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of Make Believe Love returns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western.Sam McMahon cant understand why his banker colleagues in Toron... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:43 | A spellbinding, profound novel from one of Canadas most accomplished poets, Between Mountains sets a heart-rending love story amidst the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.Daniel, a Canadian journalist, has been living in Bosnia for ten years, long after most ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:44 | As compelling and revelatory as Colm Toibin's The Master, Walt Whitman's Secret mines the life of the most influential poet in the American canon for insights about creativity, relations between the sexes and the dangers of excessive patriotism.In this wonderfully im... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:45 | Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represe... Полное описание |
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