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Stardust
Автор: Joseph Kanon Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 506 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-11
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The author of The Good German returns with his most accomplished novel yet — a tale of Hollywood glamour, post-war espionage, and family secrets.
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Florence
Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20152013-09-10
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Designed to provide a detailed exploration into the exceptional array of art and architecture in the beautiful city of Florence, this captivating volume will surely enthral anyone interested in the city's buildings, paintings, sculptures and history. This is an extremely comprehensive guide covering all major places of interest, with numerous essays on history and culture. Over 600 full-colour illustrations including detailed town plans help bring this fascinating city to life at the turn of a page.
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Battle at Sea: 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare
Автор: R. G. Grant Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20132012-03-29
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Following the success of Battle and Weapon, Battle at Sea looks at every aspect of warfare on, above, and under the sea. This dramatic book catalogs the stories of the people, ships, and organizations behind history's greatest naval conflicts.
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Dante's Numbers
Автор: David Hewson Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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»The return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! A literate, page-turning tale that finds our hero — one of the most appealing in crime fiction — zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco — Jeffery Deaver, «New York Times» — bestselling author».
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Eyewonder: Earth
Автор: Penelope York Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20122013-09-12
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Explore the geological earth — mountains and oceans, valleys and volcanoes, islands and caves — and the creatures who live in its many environments, including us, in this vividly illustrated tour of our home in space. Like the other titles in Dorling Kindersley's Eyewonder series for readers 9 to 12, it explores the natural world in dramatic color photographs — many two-page spreads feature one large photo across both pages with several smaller images, each with its own description.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Автор: Moshin Hamid Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 184 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092009-10-11
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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens into night, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful encounter. Changez has lived an immigrant's dream, studying at Princeton and snapped up by a powerful firm in New York, with the beautiful Erica on his arm and the promise of entry into Manhattan's elite society. All of this changes after the September 11th attack, and allegiances are unearthed that may be more fundamental than money, power, or even love. The author of the PEN/Hemingway Award nominated New York Times Notable Book Moth Smoke here explores the unexpected connections between the political and the personal.
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The Adventure of English
Автор: Melvyn Bragg Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 322 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20142016-08-23
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Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the lingua franca of the global market, spoken by one-and-a-half billion people worldwide. Melvyn Bragg's «adventure» takes in the Norman invasion of England in 1066; the arrival of The Canterbury Tales and a «coarse» playwright named William Shakespeare; the songs of slaves and the Lewis and Clark expedition, which led to hundreds of new words as the explorers discovered uncataloged flora and fauna.
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The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 196 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092008-07-21
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This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant story-telling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, A House of Pomegranates, Lord Arthur Savile's Crim and Other Stories, Poems in Prose, and the critical essay «The Portrait of Mr. W. H.» Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted use of parady, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites — idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocene and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit — offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.
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The Daring Book for Girls
Автор: Andrea J. Buchanan Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092008-12-07
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Boys don't get all the fun. Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this is the manual for everything that girls of all ages really need to know. Find out about female heroes in history, secret note-passing techniques, science projects, and friendship bracelets. Learn to play Double Dutch and cat's cradle, turn the perfect cartwheel, and induce giggles at sleepovers and discover the eternal mystery of what boys are actually thinking.
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Gothic: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
Автор: Achim Bednorz Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 520 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20122013-04-24
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Gothic art originated around 1140 in the Ile-de-France. Initially confined to the cathedrals and the most important abbeys of this region, it was soon regarded as a model for the rest of France and finally for Europe as a whole. This splendidly appointed volume, with nearly 800 color illustrations, describes the development of the Gothic aesthetic in all its diversity, from minutely detailed paintings to the magnificent cathedral of Notre-Dame at Reims. The book traces Gothic architecture from its initial flourishing, while individual essays then follow the formal development of Gothic architecture in England, in the Germanic countries, and in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the rest of northern and eastern Europe. The text also describes late Gothic architecture in France and the Netherlands, with contributions on stained glass and gold work, and individual studies devoted to such themes as the Cathar heresy, the Papal Palace in Avignon, urban development, and technical knowledge.
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Little Sleepy Eyes: A Collection of Lullabies (+ Audio CD)
Автор: J. Aaron Brown Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 6 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20102009-05-26
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This title contains a book & CD. From the creators of A Child's Gift of Lullabyes, here is a Grammy-nominated soundtrack for children. With soothing melodies, meaningful lyrics and beautifully orchestrated arrangements, this collection is sure to give little ones hours of listening pleasure. The one-hour CD includes vocal and instrumental tracks of eight original lullabies, while the lyric book provides words to the songs.
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Snuggle Up: A Gift of Songs for Sweet Dreams (+ Audio CD)
Автор: J. Aaron Brown Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 6 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20102009-05-26
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This title contains a book & CD. From the creators of A Child's Gift of Lullabyes, here is a Grammy-nominated soundtrack for children. With soothing melodies, meaningful lyrics and beautifully orchestrated arrangements, this collection is sure to give little ones hours of listening pleasure. The one-hour CD includes vocal and instrumental tracks of nine original lullabies, while the lyric book provides words for the caregiver.
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The Interpretation of Murder
Автор: Jed Rubenfeld Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 367 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092010-03-18
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Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only, traumatic visit to America (a society of savages, he was to claim), Jed Rubenfeld's novel is an intricate tale of murder and the mind's dangerous mysteries. On a sweltering August evening in 1909 Freud disembarks from a steamship in New York City, accompanied by his protégé and rival Carl Jung. Across town, a debutante is found dangling from a chandelier, whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty—a rebellious heiress—barely escapes the killer, but is hysterical and can remember nothing. American Freudian Stratham Younger calls on his idol to analyze the spirited girl. «As The Interpretation of Murder races past ravished damsels, sinister aristocrats, architectural marvels (the building of the Manhattan Bridge), hysterical symptoms, a Hamlet-Freud nexus and downright criminal wordplay ('there are more things in heaven and earth, Herr Professor, than are dreamt in your psychology'; 'sometimes a catarrh, I’m afraid, is only a catarrh'), it cobbles together its own brand of excitement. That excitement is as palpable as it is peculiar».
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years Of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, And Revenge
Автор: Eleanor Herman Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 287 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20082007-07-21
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Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. As she did with Sex with the Queen, Eleanor Herman takes readers into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs to relate history from the women's point of view. She finds that in most cases, the main function of a royal mistress was not providing the king with sex as much as with companionship. «Open Sex With Kings at almost any page and you'll find yourself immersed in a bawdy, deliciously appealing illicit scene occurring in the highest places.... Herman has written an enlightening social history that is great fun to read.»
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Senator's Wife
Автор: Sue Miller Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112010-06-21
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Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia — wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton — is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller — beloved and bestselling author of While I Was Gone — brings us a highly charged, superlative novel about marriage and forgiveness.
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Автор: Jeffrey Eugenides Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 590 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092013-08-03
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»When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it», notes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex in his introduction to this collection of love stories from literature. «But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.» Here then are 27 such cures for lovesickness and antidotes to adultery — by Harold Brodkey, Grace Paley, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Milan Kundera, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee
Автор: Charles J. Shields Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 337 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092007-06-28
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After years of research, Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who created two of American literatures most unforgettable characters — Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout. Scout — and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. At the center of the book is Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant on the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City.
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I Love Cats
Автор: Barney Saltzberg Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 20 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20112010-03-29
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This sturdy picture book is used for teaching samples in The Teacher's Gude to the Four Blocks-Grade 1. Perfect for emerging readers, this title uses pictures and simple text to portray the thoughts of one, young cat lover.
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The Human Body: Giant Pop-Up Poster
Автор: David Hawcock Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092008-12-07
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This book about the human body, for readers 7 to 9, looks at the muscular system, the digestive system, and the other systems of the body in colorful, captioned illustrations. Then the book unfolds to reveal a pop-up model of the body on an 18 x 43-inch poster, including skeletal features, muscles, and organs.
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How Language Works
Автор: David Crystal Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 500 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20102008-07-04
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This is a book about how language works, not about how the study of language works. Each chapter is designed as a self-contained unit, and there are many cross-references to associated chapters. This is the book's distinctive feature. Though above all, the book is a personal account without much ado about the methodology of linguistic inquiry. With a short bibliography.
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