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Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of educated readers of English, French, German, and Italian. But few know about the literary tradition from which these writers emerged. This Very Short…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today. Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of authors and…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home decor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Enjoy the famous tale of Cinderella, who wanted to go to the princes party.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Find out what happened when kind, clever Beauty had to live with a beast...

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Enjoy the famous tale of Snow White and the bad queen who wanted to kill her.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Enjoy the tale of the old woman's magic brocade. What did her sons do when it blew away?

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: 'We have some wonderful mosaics in Pompeii, but I've never seen a better one than this!' After the young Roman mosaic designer Felix starts work in Pompeii, his whole life changes. There he falls in love with the beautiful Greek slave Agathe, who can see into the future. When the volcano Vesuvius sends hot ash over the city, Felix — and Agathe's brother Alcander — ride to the port of Misenum for…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Fearful of returning home to a violent father without having sold enough matches for the day, the Little Match Girl remains on the street resigned to warming herself by lighting matches. With each match, she sees a vision — a warm stove, a table laden with hot food, a beautiful Christmas tree decorated with lights leading up to the sky, so high that one becomes a shooting star. According to her…

Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: 'What's your job?' Yukio asks. I'm a sorcerer, the old man smiles, 'and I need a young apprentice.' One day, Yukio — a young boy from old Japan — leaves his sister in the country and looks for a job in the town. He finds interesting work there, as a sorcerer's apprentice. But why must Yukio wait to learn magic? And what happens after he puts a spell on a broom when the sorcerer is away?

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in…

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. Our very own star, the Sun, is crucial to the development and sustainability of life on Earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a modern, authoritative examination of how stars live, producing all the chemical elements beyond helium, and how they die, sometimes spectacularly, to end as remnants such as black holes. Andrew King shows how…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Yet, despite these…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal crops, fruit, and vegetables, but in their many other uses in wood and paper, and in providing medicines. Their aesthetic importance too in our parks…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic therapies being proposed over the centuries and still popular today. Why are its mysterious important to solve? In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen J. Blundell explains why. For centuries magnetism has been used for various exploits;…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Engineering is part of almost everything we do — from the water we drink and the food we eat, to the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on. In this Very Short Introduction, David Blockley explores the nature and practice of engineering, its history, its scope, and its relationship with art, craft, science, and technology. He considers the role of engineering in the modern…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and…