Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Bring me something new and exciting. Bring me a BIG story! says Rosies editor at The Record newspaper. And, when she leaves the office, Rosie does find a story. A story that is bigger then she expects. A story that takes her across Europe, into a dangerous world of art and art thieves.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Шестиуровневый УМК для начальной школы, который интригует и привлекает внимание детей «сюрпризами» и увлекательными рассказами. Рассчитан на 60 — 90 часов. Забавные наборы «сюрпризов» от Uncle Harry, волшебные сундучки, закрытые на замки, и увлекательные вебсайты, вызывают интерес ребят и мотивируют их к изучению языка. Каждый рассказ учебного пособия написан в увлекательной форме и содержит…
Скачать книгу (размер 315 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 63) Аннотация: Шестиуровневый УМК для начальной школы, который интригует и привлекает внимание детей «сюрпризами» и увлекательными рассказами. Рассчитан на 60 — 90 часов. Забавные наборы «сюрпризов» от Uncle Harry, волшебные сундучки, закрытые на замки, и увлекательные вебсайты, вызывают интерес ребят и мотивируют их к изучению языка. Каждый рассказ учебного пособия написан в увлекательной форме и содержит…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it. In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects. It considers how our knowledge has advanced over the centuries, and how it has expanded at a growing rate in recent years. David A. Rothery gives an…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the father of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Forensic science is the application of science to the law. Because of its connections to crime and detective work, it is a subject of wide fascination. A criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint or a tyre mark. High profile cases such as the Lawrence enquiry, and the present Madeleine McCann case have enhanced this interest in recent…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Lie detection, offender profiling, jury selection, insanity in the law, predicting the risk of re-offending, the minds of serial killers and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of scientific psychology broadly known as Forensic Psychology. Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction discusses all the aspects of psychology that are…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease and its main aim is to improve the health of populations. It's a vital field, central to the health of society, to the identification of causes of disease, and to their management and prevention. Epidemiology has had an impact on many areas of…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: As part of the Christian Bible, the New Testament is at once widely influential and (especially among the young and the educated) increasingly unknown. Those who want to know the basics can find in this introduction the sort of information that locates these ancient writings in their historical and literary context. Those who want to learn why these compositions have had such impact can find here…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: With over 140 million copies in print, and serving as the principal proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths, the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly one of the most influential religious texts produced in the western world. Written by Terryl Givens, a leading authority on Mormonism, this compact volume offers the only concise, accessible introduction to this extraordinary work.…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature in the world approaches its power. Yet most Americans have only a murky idea of how it works. In The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it than this? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Who were the first to call themselves agnostics? These are just some of the questions that Robin Le Poidevin considers in this Very Short Introduction. He sets the philosophical case for agnosticism and explores it as a historical and cultural…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque as well as in Castilian-the language that has became known as…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is — or do they? From childhood most of us develop a sense of the mysterious, malign person, usually an old woman. Historically, too, we recognize witch-hunting as a feature of pre-modern societies. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween to superstitions, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American analytical style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible.…