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5890 рубA Dictionary of Contemporary World History: From 1900 to the Present
Jan Palmowski With more than 2,600 entries, all written by an expert in the field, the third edition of this authoritative dictionary provides in-depth coverage of major recent historical events, from 1900 to the present day. The book includes informative entries on every country in the world, with maps and historical summaries, and has biographical profiles of major historical figures, political and military leaders, and leading thinkers who influenced events. Readers will find information on international organizations, treaties, religious and political movements, as well as key incidents, places, and battles. The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and boasts a wealth of new material, including extended coverage of historical context in the country entries, new and expanded biographical entries on figures such as Angela Merkel and President Lula of Brazil, web links that can be accessed via a special companion website (regularly updated to ensure accurate information), and useful...
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809 рубA Handful of Dust (8)
Evelyn Waugh After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. The breakdown of the Last marriage, is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society.
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5768 рубA History of Arctic Exploration: Discovery, Adventure and Endurance at the Top of the World
Juha Nurminen, Matti Lainema As global warming melts polar ice and opens northern seaways, a book on Arctic exploration couldna??t be timelier. This one fills the bill in grand style. Filled with rare illustrations, it tells stories of triumph and tragedy in the search for the fabled Northwest Passage and the race for the North Pole. Along with familiar explorers, including Captain Cook, Amundsen, and Byrd, it introduces readers to the men behind the names on the map, such as Barents and Bering, as well as unfamiliar but equally important navigators, such as Franklin, Cheluskin, and Nordenskiold.
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336 рубA Murder is Announced
Agatha Christie The personal ad in the "Gazette" was certainly intriguing: an open invitation to partake in a murder at the home of Letitia Blacklock. The uncharacteristic prank comes as a surprise to Letitia's friends and neighbors - and an even bigger surprise to Letitia herself. Still, the proper hostess has welcomed her unexpected guests for an evening of fun and games. But when the lights go down, and a gunshot rings out, delighted gasps turn to horrified screams. Now one guest. Miss Jane Marple, wants to play a new game. It's called "whodunit". Формат издания: 10,5 см х 17 см.
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321 рубA Murder of Quality
John le Carre Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carre moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.
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1818 рубA World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
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3682 рубA Year with the Queen
Robert Hardman What really happens when the most powerful man in the world invites the most famous woman in the world to dinner? What is life really like in the 650 rooms beyond the gates of Buckingham Palace? Who are the 50 people in the line of succession to the throne? What does a Lady-in-Waiting do? What do you actually say when it's your turn to meet royalty? "A Year with the Queen" tells the story from the inside. No Monarch in history has travelled as far and met as many people as Queen Elizabeth II. And no book has revealed the workings of the Monarchy like this - with members of the Royal Family and world leaders telling their own stories, too. Like the brilliant television series it accompanies, "A Year with the Queen" shows the extraordinary world of the Monarch and her family - from sacred constitutional talks with the Prime Minister to the razzmatazz of a stay at the White House and from a seaside stroll with the Prince of Wales to a weekend in Iraq with Prince Philip....
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1729 рубAn Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933
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364 рубAnimal Farm
George Orwell When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell?s chilling ?fairy story? is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.
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3745 рубAnimal Farm and 1984
George Orwell, A.M. Heath ANIMAL FARM George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . 1984 In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage...
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502 рубArthur & George
Julian Barnes Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obseurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. With a mixture of intense research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner workings of these two very different men. This is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we...
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330 рубAshenden, or The British Agent
W. Somerset Maugham Сомерсет Моэм как-то сказал, что жизнь шпиона совершенно не похожа на то, как ее обычно изображают. Свои впечатления от службы в Ми-5 (Британская служба безопасности) писатель изложил в своем сборнике новелл "Эшенден, или Британский агент" (1928), который представляет собой цепочку эпизодов, в основном, собственной карьеры Моэма, изложенных в хронологической последовательности. Мастерски разработанная интрига, великолепный стиль и продуманная композиция произведений доставили автору славу "английского Мопассана".
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820 рубAspects of the Novel
E.M. Forster Forster’s lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls “pseudoscholarship,” he freely examines aspects all English-language novels have in common: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm.
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447 рубBinge Trading: The Real Inside Story of Cash, Cocaine and Corruption in the City
Seth Freedman The City of London is one vast casino. For the last decade traders and bankers have gambled with their own money, their clients' money, and our pension funds. They won millions; we lost billions. "Binge Trading: The Real Inside Story of Cash, Cocaine and Corruption in the City" is a shocking expose of life in the Square Mile. Seth Freedman - who gambled and partied with the best - shows us just who the biggest traders are and how they get their kicks. He takes us inside their world of fast cars, champagne and con tricks - and inside their fevered minds, craving the high of the next deal. Finally, "Binge Trading: The Real Inside Story of Cash, Cocaine and Corruption in the City" reveals just how easy it becomes, when a fortune is put in your hands, to forget that anything else matters. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
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3382 рубBirth Control in China 1949-2000: Population POlicy and Demographic Development
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