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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Автор: Timothy Snyder Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20142013-07-04
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In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields — today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast — an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of deliberate policies unrelated to combat. In his revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler and, using scholarly literature and primary sources, pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. The result is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine the greatest tragedy in European history and re-think our past.
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Atonement
Автор: Ian McEwan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092005-02-29
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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100 Places That Made Britain
Автор: Dave Musgrove Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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In 100, carefully selected places, «BBC History Magazine» editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British historians such as Dominic Sandbrook, to nominate the sites they believe to be the most important in our history, and has travelled to each place to provide a visitor's point of view alongside the captivating stories that make each one great. Covering the length and breadth of the British mainland and two thousand of years of history, «100 Places that Made Britain» visits renowned sites such as the Tower of London and Runnymede, as well as less well-known places like Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire — a three-sided, three-themed house built during the Reformation and designed to represent the Holy Trinity — and Jarrow, home of the first chronicler of Anglo-Saxon Britain, The Venerable Bede. Each essay adds another layer to our understanding of Britain's story, whether it be an advance in politics, religion, law or culture. Bringing the vast history of this small island to life, «100 Places that Made Britain» is a captivating historical compendium that will have every reader criss-crossing the country to explore its myriad treasures.
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The Gropes
Автор: Tom Sharpe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family... This is a brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing... At the dawn of the new millenium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud. Tom Sharpe's trademark humour abounds in this new novel, marking him out once again as an outstanding and unique British storyteller.
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The Sense of an Ending
Автор: Julian Barnes Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
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Nemesis
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 279 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20132016-08-11
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In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. At the centre of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-three-year old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and a weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground — and on the everyday realities he faces — Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, and the pain. Moving between the smouldering, malodorous streets of besieged Newark and Indian Hill, a pristine children's summer camp high in the Poconos — whose 'mountain air was purified of all contaminants' — Roth depicts a decent, energetic man with the best intentions struggling in his own private war against the epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point about Cantor's passage into personal disaster and no less exact about the condition of childhood. Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth's late short novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, and now, Nemesis: what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances?
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The Future History of the Arctic
Автор: Charles Emmerson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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'For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine — these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which we filter all subsequent information about it. Yet many of those preconceptions — the same ones which, as a child, drew me towards the Arctic — are wrong'. Always lingering at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition and the remaking of global trade patterns. In The Future History of the Arctic, geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area of the globe, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges. We travel with him from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay to the shores of Greenland, from the northernmost settlement on earth to the militarised borderlands of northern Norway. And along the way we meet diplomats, spies, businessmen, oil-workers, fishermen, politicians and scientists. The Arctic is coming of age. This engrossing book tells the story of how that is happening and how it might happen — through the stories of those who live there, those who study it, and those who will determine its destiny.
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Complete Prose Tales
Автор: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112009-12-07
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Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of world literature. Gillon Aitken's distinguished translation is the only volume that contains all his prose fiction, including some tales which remained unfinished when Pushkin was tragically killed in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.
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The Cat's Table
Автор: Michael Ondaatje Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England — a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, 'bursting all over the place like freed mercury'. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner — his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves from the decks and holds of the ship and the boy's adult years, it tells a spellbinding story about the difference between the magical openness of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding — about a life-long journey that began unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage, when all on board were 'free of the realities of the earth'. With the ocean liner a brilliant microcosm for the floating dream of childhood, The Cat's Table is a vivid, poignant and thrilling book, full of Ondaatje's trademark set-pieces and breathtaking images: a story told with a child's sense of wonder by a novelist at the very height of his powers.
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The Campus Trilogy
Автор: David Lodge Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 912 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20122012-12-30
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'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' — Time Out. Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
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Blue Diary
Автор: Alice Hoffman Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092005-04-12
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Ethan and Jorie, the perfect couple, have been married for 13 years, and are still very much in love. But 13 years ago, Ethan committed a brutal rape and murder. A young girl's phone call exposes him, and nothing will ever be the same for them again.
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Barbarians at the Gate
Автор: Bryan Burrough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20132012-07-14
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The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties. «Barbarians at the Gate» recounts this two-month battle with breathtaking pace and flair, and transports back to the Wall Street empire before it crumbled, through the boardroom doors, into the midnight meetings, the betrayals, the deal makers and publicity flaks, into a world where — as Nabisco CEO Ross Johnson put it — 'a few million dollars are lost in the sands of time'. Twenty years on, the world is once again recovering from a period of financial extravagance and irresponsibility. This revised edition brings the ultimate business thriller up to date for a new generation of readers.
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My Many Colored Days
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 30 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092000-10-31
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This beautiful board book edition of My Many Colored Days presents Dr. Seuss at his very youngest. Use it as an innovative color concept book. Use it to help toddlers express how they feel. Use it to introduce the fun of Dr. Seuss!
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Автор: Larsson Steig Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 736 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20102012-02-16
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Crusading publisher Mikael Blomkvist has decided to run an explosive expose of a wide-ranging sex trafficking operation. Just before the piece is published, the two reporters responsible are murdered. The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled hacker genius Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Lisbeth herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, and is forced her to face her dark past.
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The Whiskey Rebels
Автор: David Liss Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 548 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20112012-02-19
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David Liss's bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting-America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to shape a country's destiny. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington's most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of treason has long since cost him his reputation and his beloved fiancee, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most desperate moment he is recruited for an unlikely task-finding Cynthia's missing husband. To help her, Saunders must serve his old enemy, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who is engaged in a bitter power struggle with political rival Thomas Jefferson over the fragile young nation's first real financial institution: the Bank of the United States. Meanwhile, Joan Maycott is a young woman married to another Revolutionary War veteran. With the new states unable to support their ex-soldiers, the Maycotts make a desperate gamble: trade the chance of future payment for the hope of a better life on the western Pennsylvania frontier. There, amid hardship and deprivation, they find unlikely friendship and a chance for prosperity with a new method of distilling whiskey. But on an isolated frontier, whiskey is more than a drink; it is currency and power, and the Maycotts' success attracts the brutal attention of men in Hamilton's orbit, men who threaten to destroy all Joan holds dear. As their causesintertwine, Joan and Saunders-both patriots in their own way-find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will forever change their lives and their new country. The Whiskey Rebels is a superb rendering of a perilous age and a nation nearly torn apart — and David Liss's most powerful novel yet. From the Hardcover edition.
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There's No Place Like Space
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20092000-12-10
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Blast off for educational fun! Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched via Seussian sorcery on a wild trip to visit the nine planets in our solar system along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, and Dick and Sally.
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Oh, Say Can You Say DI-No-Saur
Автор: Bonnie Worth Жанр: Литература на иностранных языках Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20092000-12-10
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The Cat in the Hat Learning Library is a new series of super simple non-fiction books, written expressly for beginning readers. An offshoot of the phenomenally successful Beginner Book Series (which has combined sales of over 53 million copies sold since 1957), each hardcover features the Cat and cast from the original Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back — Sally, Dick, Thing One, Thing Two, Mother, Norval, Little Cats A through Z — in a funny, irreverent, rhyming, fact-filled (but scientifically sound) introduction to such concepts as birds, animals, dinosaurs, space, weather, and ocean life. Developed in cooperation with a leading children's reading authority, and thoroughly vetted by experts for accuracy, the books are classically Seussian in sound, spirit, and look. Each book includes a simple glossary and index.
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Oh the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You: All About Staying Healthy
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 44 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092006-08-31
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The Cat in the Hat takes children to the Feeling Great Clinic, where they learn about exercise, germs, healthy eating, and playing safely.
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My, Oh My A Butterfly!: All about Butterflies
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 45 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20122011-03-24
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With a little help from the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Dick observe a small miracle in their own backyard — the metamorphosis of an egg into a caterpillar into a chrysalis into a bright new butterfly Along the way, beginning readers will find out how butterflies see thousands of images at once, drink nectar from flowers, avoid predators, and can be identified by size, shape, and color. Readers will also follow the amazing migration of millions of monarchs.
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Inside Your Outside!
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 45 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20082007-03-24
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The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a trip in his Inside Your Outside Machine.
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