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Daedalus Books
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Post-Impressionism
Автор: Gualdoni Flaminio Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122013-08-23
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Post-Impressionism is a movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that styles inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. Most of these painters began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature in terms of the fugitive effects of colour and light.The Post-Impressionists rejected this limited aim in favour of more ambitious expression, admitting their debt, however, to the pure, brilliant colours of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with short brushstrokes of broken colour. The work of these painters formed a basis for several contemporary trends and for early 20th-century modernism.
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Dinner at the North Pole: A Fun-To-Find Lift-The-Flap Book
Автор: Jonas Fearon Bell Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 20 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20182017-03-29
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Hide and Seek through the North Pole in these fun holiday lift-the-flap books. Whether little ones are helping Santa find toys for his toy bag, Mrs. Claus get Christmas dinner ready, or elves find ornaments to decorate the tree, they will love these books, while their parents will love this combination of features and price! Product Features: Attention getting illustrations; Classic story basics to promote the joy of reading through illustrations and inspiration for learning with parents. Supports hand / eye coordination with interactive lift the flap action to find whats hidden; Padded board construction for quality and long life with a touch of sensory soft cover; Child safety tested.
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Life of Pi
Автор: Martel Yann Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 401 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142015-07-24
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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Monday Is One Day
Автор: Arthur A. Levine Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132013-10-13
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A love note from a working parent to a child, counting the days of the week — each one a special opportunity to spend time together. One by one, the days of the week roll by. Monday is one day, Tuesday is blue shoes day, and Wednesday is halfway day. When Saturday and Sunday finally come, it's time for little ones and the adults who love them to play, share, and celebrate. Every day of the week offers a special opportunity for families to enjoy being together!
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My First Book of Letters
Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 20 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20182017-03-29
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Explore the world of shapes, letters, numbers, and colors in this fun, interactive 1st Book of Learning series! Ten spreads of colorful, labeled photographs of familiar items will keep children engaged while learning!
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My First Book of Numbers
Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 20 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20182017-03-29
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Explore the world of shapes, letters, numbers, and colors in this fun, interactive 1st Book of Learning series! Ten spreads of colorful, labeled photographs of familiar items will keep children engaged while learning!
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Paddington in the Garden
Автор: Bond Michael Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102010-10-13
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When Paddington starts to make a list of all the nice things he can think of about being a bear and living with the Browns he is sure to include 'the garden'. Paddington feels very lucky to have such a nice garden, especially as he has his own little patch in it, to keep him out of mischief! But when Paddington is around things are rarely simple and he soon finds that gardening is not as easy as he had first thought. He sets out, with a jar of marmalade of course, to look for ideas and ends up in a building site behind the Browns' garden. He is sure that if he climbs up a nearby ladder he will get an excellent view of his own little garden and that will help him with his design. Unfortunately, bears, building sites and marmalade don't really mix. But, as usual, Paddington is able to turn circumstances to his advantage and come out on top after all!
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Piglet's Rainy Day
Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20162015-07-14
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A warm and funny little pocketbook featuring A.A. Milne's little Piglet and Winnie-the-Pooh. When the heavens open and Piglet finds himself stranded in his house surrounded by flood water. So brave Piglet writes a message asking for help and sends it off in a bottle — then he must wait to be saved. A.A. Milne's classic children's characters continue to charm readers across the world down the generations with the help of E.H. Shepard's original illustrations.
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Pooh's Party
Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20162015-07-14
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A warm and funny little pocketbook featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends. Everyone in the Hundred Acre Wood is invited to a party that Christopher Robin is throwing for Pooh. There'll be sweets and games and presents, and Piglet and Tigger and Eeyore. And most importantly, there will be Pooh. A.A. Milne's classic children's characters continue to charm readers across the world down the generations with the help of E.H. Shepard's original illustrations.
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Victims of Yalta: The Secret Betrayal of the Allies — 1944-1947
Автор: Tolstoy Nikolai Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20132016-03-29
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A respected Russian historian and descendant of the Tolstoy family draws on extensive research, survivor interviews and the author's visits to repatriation sites to document the brutal post-World War II deportation of two million Russian POWs.
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The Works: Every Kind of Poem You Will Ever Need for the Literacy Hour
Автор: Cookson Paul Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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The Works is 10 years old and this special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom and Pie Corbett. The Works contains every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader. It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse and performance poetry that's just for starters. It features poems from the very best classic and modern poets, for example: William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare to name but a few. This is a book packed with gems for dipping in to time and time again.
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Foundation
Автор: Asimov Isaac Жанр: Daedalus Books Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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(Part of the original Foundation Trilogy, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series) This is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga, originally a three-part masterwork-for which a special Hugo Award was created, Best All-Time Novel Series, recognizing its status as a central work of science fiction-that was later expanded to a seven-part series. Foundation describes a far future in which humanity numbers in the quadrillions, spread across millions of worlds, governed by the vast and presumably eternal Empire. But genius mathematician Hari Seldon-who has developed the study of psychohistory, or the dynamics of very large numbers of humans-has predicted the Empire's certain downfall. In order to mitigate the chaos that would follow, he proposes that a Foundation of all human knowledge be built at the edge of the galaxy.
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Death is Forever: James Bond
Автор: Gardner John Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 289 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20162015-04-25
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The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent 'Easy' St John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members of 'Cabal', a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorised signal to disband. It's not long before Bond and Easy find themselves playing a life-or-death game as they try to figure out who they can trust. All the while, Cabal agents are dying one by one...
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The Transformed Mind
Автор: Dalai Lama Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 195 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092003-04-19
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In this book, based on a series of talks that he gave at a Tibetan Buddhist center in Delhi during the 1990s, the Dalai Lama examines the nature of the human mind and emphasizes the need for each of us to transform ourselves if we wish to lead more fulfilling lives. In his disarmingly personal style, he discusses suffering, happiness, love, and truth, and offers practical wisdom on issues ranging from religious tolerance to the world economy. Stressing the need for compassion and non-violence, the Dalai Lama reiterates the essential goodness of the human heart and teaches us how to live and die well, reminding us constantly of the responsibility of our actions and thoughts.
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The Ultimate Book of Business and Legal Words You Should Know
Автор: H. Dean McKay Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 438 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20152012-06-11
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Don't be out-jargoned at your next brainstorming session, contract signing, or consultant review — this A-to-Z guide defines hundreds of business buzzwords, legal terms, financial concepts, and standard acronyms, from ABA Numbers to Zero-Based Budgeting. Each entry includes a definition, similar and related terms, and sample sentences.
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The Ultimate Book of Words Students Should Know
Автор: Robert W. Bly Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 440 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20122015-08-14
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An indispensable accessory for the autodidact, this petite yet compendious dictionary is packed with hundreds of 50-cent words guaranteed to make you sound smarter — or at the very least, better educated. Articulate your most sublime aspirations, avoid mortification, and scintillate in conversation, from classroom to boardroom to dining room.
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A Scanner Darkly
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 217 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20092004-08-17
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Substance D — otherwise known as Death — is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.
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The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 230 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092006-09-12
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On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence — especially when the drug is Can-D, which translates its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value. This 1965 book is one of Philip K. Dick's enduring classics, at once a deep character study, a dark mystery, and a tightrope walk along the edge of reality and illusion. A visionary, Hugo Award — winning author, Philip K. Dick was inducted posthumously into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. His stories have been made into such blockbuster films as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, and he was the first science fiction writer to be included in the Library of America series.
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Gorey Cats: Address Book
Автор: Edward Gorey Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 110 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082006-07-28
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Decorated with Edward Gorey's unicycling puss in a rugby jersey, this little blue address book is pretty on the outside, handy on the inside, with 112 pages and space for over 400 names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. The page edges are alphabetically indexed (additional cats appear within), while the smart red wire binding lets the book lie flat (or even fold back), and the thoughtful elastic band keeps the whole arrangement neatly closed. It measures about 4 x 5 inches.
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Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Little
Автор: Davies Nicola Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 61 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20112012-02-23
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From a celebrated team comes a fascinating look at why we don't have super powers (alas) — and why size matters, for creatures big and small. Did you ever wonder why there are no high-flying, wall-climbing, tall-building-leaping superheroes in real life? Find out what keeps big animals (like us) from engaging in astonishing feats of strength and agility, and yet why being tiny and all-powerful might have a downside. What if you could lift fifty times your weight (hello, ant), but getting wet could kill you? Or you could soar like a bird, but a cold breeze would do you in? Whether big or small, our size defines more about us than we could ever imagine. Join the duo that brought us POOP, EXTREME ANIMALS, and WHAT'S EATING YOU? for a fun and intriguing exploration of what it means to be just the right size.
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