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Matthews Andrew: The Kingfisher Treasury of Funny Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 159) Аннотация: These funny stories all contain favourite characters such as Posy Bates, Dilly the Dinosaur, flying dogs and dancing cows.

Boyd Heidi: Simply Beautiful Beading

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 40 affordable projects featuring the newest bead styles and fashions. Crafters will learn basic beading and jewelry making with the help of over 250 color photographs for a wealth of ideas.

Quinion Michael: Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological folk tales. The real story of a world or phrase's origin and evolution is often much stranger — and much more humorous — than the commonly accepted one; the many entries will certainly leave you happy as a clam.…

Curry Patrick: Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity

Скачать книгу (размер 1 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 198) Аннотация: «In a particularly insightful examination of the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth in «The Lord of the Rings», Curry argues that Tolkien found a way to provide something close to Spirit in a secular age, and focuses on three main aspects of this monumental work of literature.»

Huxley Aldous: Crome Yellow

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. Crome's hosts, the world-weary Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Pricilla are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues and opinions ensure Denis' stay is a memorable one. In the course of the weekend Henry tells his guests fantastical stories from the…

Valeria Manferto De Fabianis: The Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Atlantic, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, the South Pacific-here are all the oceans in all colors and aspects: clear, tropical waters; turbulent open seas; immense plains of water seen from space; magical icy polar oceans; and delicate and frothy photographs from inside powerful waves. The Sea's camera eye emerges from underwater-from the multicolored coral reefs and underwater wrecks and washes…

Davis Kenneth: Don't Know Much about Geography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 395) Аннотация: Who Killed The Dead Sea? Where was the Garden of Eden? What's So Bad About the Badlands? Get on board as Kenneth C. Davis, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About(R) History, takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth — opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew.

Courthion Pierre: Manet

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Written by scholars for a general audience, each title in the 'Masters of Art' series has illustrations accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Living to Tell the Tale

Скачать книгу (размер 2 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 483) Аннотация: «In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, «Living to Tell the Tale» is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who…

Alastair Duncam: The Technique of Leaded Glass

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Illustrated survey with expert on Tiffany glass as its guide. Topics include traditional and stained glass items; Tiffany revival; varieties of glass and tools; soldering; cutting glass; design; window ornaments; lead cane lampshades; copper foil techniques. For crafters at every level of experience. 252 black-and-white illustrations. 8 full-color illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

The Master of Ballantrae

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Master of Ballantrae features some of Robert Louis Stevenson's best writing. The tale opens in the old Scottish castle of Durrisdeer, the ancestral home of the Durrie clan, and then moves to India, France, and the American Adirondacks. The Master of Ballantrae draws readers into a fast-paced adventure that encompasses sea voyages and encounters with pirates. Unabridged republication of a…

Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: «Becky is back in her third Shopaholic adventure, a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who can't say no to saying «I do.» Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood — she's become the top personal shopper at Barneys; she and Luke are living happily in Manhattan's West Village; and her new neighbor is a fashion designer. When Luke proposes, bridal…

Henry James: Golden Bowl

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: The Golden Bowl, Henry James' last completed novel, is a story of the union of European class and American money. American millionaire and widower Adam Verver lives with his daughter Maggie in Europe, where they spend their time collecting object d'art and enjoying each other's company. Maggie becomes engaged to the aristocratic but penniless Amerigo, ignorant of the fact that Amerigo had…

Morrison Toni: Love

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida — even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces — a…

McIntyre Bethany: Victorian Visions

Скачать книгу (размер 575 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 114) Аннотация: This exhibition of 64 exquisite drawings and watercolors is comprised of works by Victorian artists, primarily from England, and examines methods and motivations behind drawings and paintings of this era. Victorian Visions reflects the wide range of styles found in this collection. Some of the pieces are careful portraits of recognizable individuals, while others are fleeting sensory images or…

Avery Derek: Georgian and Regency Architecture

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Georgian and Regency architecture spans the years from 1714 until 1830, a period that bequeathed a rich heritage of buildings to the British landscape. From great country houses and churches to the formal city squares of Edinburgh and the graceful crescents of Bath, Georgian structures are distinguished by the elegance and harmony of their design. Georgian and Regency Architecture contains over…

Thiede Cindy: Inside Log Homes

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: From the biggest notions of carefully styled rooms to the smallest comforts and delights of accessorizing a home with your favorite things, Inside Log Homes offers suggestions, understanding, and inspiration regarding the intensely personal and expressive world of log-cabin living. Author Cindy Thiede peeks through doors into hundreds of uniquely styled and personally appointed spaces. Sometimes…

Lehane Dennis: A Drink Before the War

Скачать книгу (размер 1 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 267) Аннотация: Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents. Finding…

Pritchard R.E.: Shakespeare's England

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. Shakespeare's England brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's…

Carew-Miller Anna: William Shakespear: Great English Playwright and Poet

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: William Shakespeare grew up in a small town in England during the Elizabethan era. As a young man his father's business suffered financial difficulties, and Shakespeare was unable to continue his Latin studies and was forced to help his father support his brother and sister. After he married and had three children he worked hard to support his extended family. Feeling unfulfilled, he decided to…