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Swan Michael: Basic English Usage

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: An alphabetical guide to the most common problems of grammar and vocabulary.

Cellini Benvenuto: My Life

Скачать книгу (размер 2 594 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 510) Аннотация: You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law. Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was his reputation in Renaissance Florence. A renowned sculptor and goldsmith, whose works include the famous salt-cellar made for the King of France, and the statue of Perseus with the head of the Medusa,…

McIntosh Colin: Oxford Italian Grammar and Verbs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This brand-new grammar provides clear and simple explanations of today's written and spoken Italian. Comprehensive and easy to use, with coverage of all the key points of Italian grammar, it is the ideal reference tool for beginner and intermediate students, whether at school, college, or learning on their own. Thousands of examples in an instantly accessible layout show how the language works.…

Beaton K.B.: A Practical Dictionary of German Usage

Скачать книгу (размер 4 777 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 938) Аннотация: One of the most difficult tasks confronting the English speaker learning German is that of finding exactly the right German word to translate an English word in a particular context. Many common English words have several, sometimes a bewildering number of German equivalents. Thus it is all too easy to find yourself saying the equivalent of Have you extinguished the rubbish? instead of Have you…

Ali Paul: The Law of Secured Finance: An International Survey of Security Interests Over Personal Property

Скачать книгу (размер 2 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 396) Аннотация: The security interest is one of the most important devices used by financiers to manage credit risk. A financier that holds a security interest over the assets of a debtor enjoys considerable advantages over those creditors of the debtor who do not — since the security interest confers on the financier, in the event of a default by or the insolvency of the debtor, preferential rights of recourse…

Handbook of Applied Optimization

Скачать книгу (размер 10 326 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 2026) Аннотация: Optimization is an essential tool in every project in every large-scale organization, whether in business, industry, engineering, or science. In recent years, algorithmic advances and software and hardware improvements have given managers a powerful framework for making key decisions about everything from production planning to scheduling distribution. This comprehensive resource brings together…

Craig Edward: Philosophy

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is done.

Bartlett Robert: England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075-1225

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. This was a period in which the ruling dynasty and military aristocracy were deeply enmeshed with the politics and culture of France. Professor…

Date Olivia: Landmark Advanced: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 148) Аннотация: Landmark builds on what learners bring to class and respects their knowledge and experience. Using real-life listening and reading, Landmark gets students thinking, noticing, and reacting.

Scruton Roger: Spinoza

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In…

Janaway Christopher: Schopenhauer

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will — a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind…

Cameron Rondo: A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This is the fourth edition of this successful textbook, which was first written by Rondo Cameron (the third edition having published in 1997). As with previous editions, the book covers economic history from pre-history to the present. It offers an introduction to the study of both economic history and economic development.

Holderness Jackie: Zabadoo! Plus: Class Book

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This is a topic-based four-level primary course with an emphasis on developing reading and writing skills.

Davies Paul: Zabadoo! 1: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Zabadoo is a four-level course that is designed to follow on from the two-level introductory series, Zap! Together, the six levels take children who have just started English right up to the end of primary school. The upper levels of the course give a greater emphasis on reading and writing. Zabadoo features engaging characters such as Zabadoo the genie, Bob the fish and Olly the octopus, who…

Blair John: The Anglo-Saxon Age

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England.

Howard Michael: Clausewitz

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range of firearms was fifty yards, much of what he had to say remains relevant today. Michael Howard explains Clausewitz's ideas in terms both of his…