Feilchenfeldt Walter: Vincent Van Gogh: The Years in France: Complete Paintings 1886-1890

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Presented here is a comprehensive list of Van Gogh's paintings executed between 1886 and 1890 in Paris, Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise. The works are reproduced in full colour and appear in related scale to their original size. All owners are registered, beginning with Theo van Gogh or receivers of gifts, and ending with the present owners, if known and willing to be mentioned. For the…

Strachey Lytton: Queen Victoria: A Life

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionized the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous, and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother, and widow. Equally fascinating are the depictions of her…

Beumers Birgit: The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Alexander Sokurov's 'Russian Ark' is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russia's cultural history through a single, 90-minute take. Yet this film is but one milestone in the work of this versatile director. Since the 1990s, Sokurov's…

Atherton Mark: There and Back Again: J: R. R. Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future'. The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlorien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are just as pertinent to J R R Tolkien's own fiction. For decades, hobbits and the other fantastical creatures of Middle-earth have captured the imaginations of a fiercely loyal tribe of readers, all…

Dilks David: Churchill and Company: Allies and Rivals in War and Peace

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Churchill continues to dominate the history of the 20th century and this stimulating and original new work by David Dilks, the eminent historian of modern Britain and Churchill scholar, is a fascinating source of new discoveries and insights. Dilks shows Churchill, not only as a war leader and international statesman, but also as a private person — with a rich variety of interests, enthusiasms,…

Chancellor Edwin Beresford: A History of the Squares and Palaces of London

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: The squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James' Square — the names are inextricably linked with the history of London itself. And the great houses of the capital — Buckingham House, Apsley House, Spencer House, to mention but a few — are intimately bound with the story not just of London but of the great families of the land.…

Strachey Lytton: Elizabeth and Essex

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: One of the most famous and tortured romances in history — between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex — began in 1587, when she was 53 and he was 19. Their passionate affair continued for five years, until Essex was beheaded for treason in 1601. In a fast-paced succession of brilliantly-rendered scenes, Lytton Strachey portrays Elizabeth and Essex's compelling…

Haseler Stephen: The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years of Elizabeth II

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 2012, Britain and the Commonwealth celebrate the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. The royal family have overcome a number of obstacles in its recent history, yet today it appears to be riding on a wave of popular affection. But has Elizabeth II's reign been a good thing for the UK? Or have the style, rituals and underlying culture of the modern monarchy held Britain…

Hackett Helen: A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Most readers in the English-speaking world, and many beyond, know his name and have at least a passing familiarity with his work. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media — popular drama, and…

Grummitt David: A Short History of the Wars of the Roses

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Wars of the Roses (c. 1450-85) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern feud between the Percies and Nevilles) as well as the formal clash of royalist and rebel armies at St Albans, Ludford Bridge, Mortimer's Cross,…

Casanova Julian: A Short History of the Spanish Civil War

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama. Not only did it pit countryman against countryman, and neighbour against neighbour, but from 1936-39 this bitterly contended struggle sucked in competing and seemingly atavistic forces that were soon to rage across the face of Europe, and then the rest of the world: nationalism and republicanism;…

Bennett Jill: Practical Aesthetics: Events, Affects and Art After 9/11

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores…

Sleight Graham: The Doctor's Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Doctor Who has been on global television screens for nearly fifty years, and many of its most memorable protagonists have been its monsters, The Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen, the Sonterans, Ood, Wiirrn, and others. Entertainingly and provocatively written, and introduced by Who scriptwriter Paul Cornell, The Doctor's Monsters takes a new look at these and many other creatures, and asks what…

Michael Peel: A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state. The oil-rich Delta region at the heart of it all is, as Peel shows us, a troublespot as hot as the local pepper soup. Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the…

Stewart Jules: Albert

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Albert: Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, social and cultural visionary in his own right, was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of 19th century Britain — a superpower at the zenith of its influence — more than any other British royal or politician. Although he pleaded with his wife that no monument to his memory should be left (a plea that was…

Gilbert Martin: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In 1928, Winston Churchill was at the height of his career. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a powerful and popular orator, leadership of the Conservative Party seemed within his grasp. A year later, all had changed. The Conservatives were defeated and, when a National Government was formed in 1931, Churchill was not asked to join it. Though he was a lone figure from this point, his acute…

Salibi Kamal S.: Кем был Иисус (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Seeks to uncover the historical figure of Jesus, and explore what it was about his teaching that created a dedicated following that propagated a religion in his name. This book suggests that there may have been a conspiracy between Paul and Peter to disseminate a distorted image of Christ.

Rashid Ahmed: Талибы (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: This is a new, revised edition of the universally acclaimed and best-selling account of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement — the most radical and extreme Islamic movement the world has seen.

Fleming Peter: На Пекин: Забытое путешествие из Москвы в Манчжурию (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Peter Fleming, brother of James Bond author Ian Fleming, was one of the greatest adventurers and travel writers of the 20th century and author of several classic and bestselling books. This is the first paperback edition. It presents an exciting adventure that could never be made today — it will appeal to all interested in the region. When in 1934 at the age of twenty-seven, Peter Fleming set out…

Joachim C. Fest: The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Who were the men who helped Hitler establish the Third Reich and then carry out some of the worst atrocities in modern history? In fifteen chilling profiles, Joachim Fest examines the lives of the most infamous Nazi leaders. They include Hermann Goering: the self-styled 'Iron Man', who directly issued orders for the Final Solution; Joseph Goebbels: the mastermind behind Kristallnacht; Heinrich…