Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Music and photography have always shared a special relationship—when an iconic musician is portrayed by a first-rate photographer, the result is often transformative and transcendent, and a classic pop culture image is born. Music Box gathers more than 340 such legendary photographs of musicians—covering the stars of jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, and all of their contemporary offshoots. Music…
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Inspired by the upcoming 3-D fantasy-adventure film, Rise of the Guardians Deluxe Pop-Up book captures the excitement of this screen saga with dramatic pop-ups and fold-out flaps. More than a collection of the well-known childhood legends, The Guardians are a group of heroes-each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit named Pitch tries to disable the immortal guardians, a battle ensues…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Between 1680 and 1807 British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps each printed on two sheets and conjoined. These maps are a peculiarly British phenomenon of this period and they provide a key indicator of the way the British map trade specifically targeted a newly prosperous and upwardly aspiring class of purchasers. The buyers were hungry for geographical information,…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Thrum-thrum. Bong-bong. Choppetta-choppetta-choppetta. The world is a big and noisy place, filled with wonderful things to do, see, and hear. This book shows them all, from an airport, a train station, and a shopping mall, to school and a swimming pool! Kids will happily explore the many sites and sounds captured in Britta Teckentrup's bright and colorful pictures.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Olive learns the hard way that keeping secrets is tough, and telling them can make for a whole lot of trouble! When Molly shares a secret with Olive, the urge to tell is just too great! Olive tells Joe who tells Matt who tells Lola. But Lola is best friends with Molly. Uh-oh, the secret is out, and Olive is in for it!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: J.R.R. Tolkien's admirers form an international community of writers, scholars, and artists. This richly illustrated anthology gathers together three decades of work dedicated to the master of fantasy. With poems, stories, songs, and dozens of illustrations, A Tolkien Treasur, y is a unique celebration of the author and his creations — the mythical world of Middle-Earth and the magical creatures…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved. A man…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: First read this beautifully detailed pop-up book, then unfold it to transform it into a 3D farmyard landscape playmat, with stand-up cardboard animals and a tractor that you can move all around the farm! A unique and ingenious novelty book that folds away again in its own box.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.Cinema's longest-running franchise, James Bond made his debut in this 1953 novel by Ian Fleming. The unstoppable British agent is dispatched to the French casino Royale-les-Eaux, where he must bankrupt the dissolute and sadistic spy Le Chiffre, in the hope that this Russian pawn will beretiredby his paymasters. It…
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Take an imaginary journey as a young cabin boy on a pirate ship. Meet Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Black Bart; climb into the crow's nest to fix the rigging, and learn about other tough jobs on board; help the pirates capture a treasure ship; and bury your booty on a desert island. This engaging history book is filled with pop-up features, flaps to open, and mini-booklets…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study The Victorians, A. N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation and political expansion. It was also a period of English history more remarkable than any other for the technicolour personalities of its leading participants. Apart from the complex character of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: From Newgate Prison to Covent Garden and from his childhood home in Camden to his place of burial in Westminster Abbey, 'A Pocket Guide To Dickens' London' traces the influence of the capital on the life and work of one of Britain's best-loved and well-known authors. Featuring over forty sites — places of worship and of business, streets and bridges — 'A Pocket Guide to Dickens' London' not only…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: The updated and revised edition of America's favorite cookbook, plus a bonus section of food gifts for year-round giving The Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book has been an American favorite since 1930, selling 40 million copies through fourteen editions. This new food gifts edition includes the complete 15th Edition as well as inspiring projects for creating personalized food gifts that are…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Quentin Blake's Magical Tales is a wonderful collection of more than a dozen tales of magical fun from all over the globe. Retold in wonderful detail by long-time Quentin Blake collaborator John Yeoman, these stories sparkle with enchantment, adventure and beautifully imagined far away places.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations — including his last publishedinterview. During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut — which collectsinterviews from throughout his career — we learn much…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: Timed to coincide with the release of the third and final series of the award-winning Downton Abbey, which has attracted audiences of more than 10 million viewers. This Brief Guidecelebrates the Victorian and Edwardian eras that marked the golden age of the English countryhouse: a time when opulence and formality attained a level that would never be matched again. Author Michael Paterson…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «New York Times Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Washington Post Bestseller * San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * Chicago Tribune Bestseller «A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction.»—Los Angeles Times Book Review After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «In his second novel, from 1959, Kurt Vonnegut revealed his true gifts as a science fiction writer. «The spareness hits you first,» wrote William Deresiewicz in a 2012 retrospective on Vonnegut. «The first page contains 14 paragraphs, none of them longer than two sentences, some of them as short as five words. It's like he's placing pieces on a game board-so, and so, and so.» Vonnegut gives us…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «From the bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre comes an absorbing new adventure, steeped in the haunting secrets of the Languedoc. Summer, 1942. A spirited and courageous young woman, Sandrine, finds herself drawn into the world of the Resistance in Carcassonne under German occupation. Her network — code named Citadel' is made up of ordinary women who risk everything to fight the…