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Pinker # Steven: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: «A provocative history of violence from the «New York Times» bestselling author of «The Stuff of Thought» and «The Blank Slate» Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, «New York Times» bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence…

Dewdney Anna: Llama Llama Zippity-Zoom

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: «Llama Llama ZIP! Llama Llama ZOOM! Llama Llama Red Pajama VROOM, VROOM, VROOM!» On the playground, Llama goes fast! Llama zips by on his scooter and swishes down the slide — whoosh! Younger audiences will love doing as Llama does in this supremely adorable fourth board book.»

Margaret Wise Brown: The Friendly Book

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: This whimsical collection of poems and stories by Margaret Wise Brown is back in print in its original format the Little Golden Book. Garth Williams' artwork shines here, with the friendliest bunnies, dogs, and people ever!

Celeste Davidson Mannis: Who Was William Shakespeare?

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. With black-and-white illustrations that include a diagram of the famous Globe theater, Celeste Davidson Mannis puts…

Buehner Caralyn: Snowmen at Work

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: If you were a snowman, what job would you choose? Ten years ago, on the publication of Snowmen at Night, we discovered the secret lives of snowmen. While we humans sleep, the snowmen go sledding, play baseball, and drink cocoa. But now it's revealed that snowmen don't just play all night — they have jobs to do, just like the parents of human kids. Dentists replace missing coal from snowman smiles…

Kafka: Metamorphosis

Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early-twentieth-century work.

Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.

Philip Roth: The Humbling

Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long days journey into night, told with Roths inimitable…

Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

Скачать книгу (размер 3 038 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 597) Аннотация: PREMIUM MASS MARKET EDITION #1 Worldwide Bestseller — More Than 80 Million Copies Sold. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece — from its opening pages to its…

Deepak Chopra: Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This important book picks up where Dr Deepak Chopra left off in his pioneering work Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Having revealed the connection between our health and our thoughts, Dr Chopra shows us how to create a whole new self — the self we want to be — in this revolutionary sequel. Dr Chopra explains how the body is a reflection of the mind, 'a symbol in flesh and blood of everything you…

James Patterson: A Maximum Ride Thriller: Fang

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Fang will be the first to die. For years, Max has been on the run from evil forces threatening her and the Flock — but nothing could have prepared her for this horrifying prophesy delivered to her by Angel. Fang is Max's best friend, her soulmate, her partner in leadership of her flock of winged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings…

Anna Politkovskaya: Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption. Nothing but the Truth is a defining collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writing for Novaya Gazeta, published between 1999 and 2006. Beginning with a brief introduction by the…

Henning Mankell: Faceless Killers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they…

Karin Slaughter: Broken

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Karin Slaughter's internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life... When…

Justin Cronin: The Passage

Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is. Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row. He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming. It is. THE PASSAGE. Deep in the jungles of eastern Colombia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been…

Guy Deutscher: Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? In Through the Language Glass,…

Susie Dent: How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: If you were a Londoner visiting Cornwall would you know how to recognise a grammersow? If you were from the West Country and took a trip up to Scotland, would you be bewildered if someone described you as crabbit? And what if you left your native Belfast for Liverpool, would you understand if someone called you a woollyback? How to Talk Like a Local is an entertaining guide that gathers together…

Anna Gavalda: Consolation

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite. Charles Balanda is forty-seven; a successful architect, he is constantly on the move. But from the moment he hears about the death of the woman he once loved — Anouk, the tragically big-hearted mother of a childhood friend —…

James Patterson: Witch and Wizard: The Gift

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Ever since Whit and Wisty Allgood were cruelly torn from their home and family in the middle of the night, the soldiers of a brutal totalitarian government have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them for 'collusion, conspiracy, and experimentation with the dark and foul arts'. But this supremely skilled witch and wizard have instead boldly spearheaded the fight against the wicked regime…

John Grisham: The Confession

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When Travis Boyette, a convicted felon, walks into a church in small-town Missouri, he carries with him a terrible secret. Nearly a decade earlier Nicole Yarber, a high school senior with her whole life ahead of her, vanished. For two weeks, her home town stood still as thousands of volunteers combed the alleys and fields and ditches and abandoned buildings. But the search was futile. Nicole's…