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The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century
Автор: Service Robert Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20172016-12-07
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Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond. This new edition also discusses Russia's unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.
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Doctor Who: Official Annual 2016
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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Join the Doctor for brand-new adventures on board the TARDIS in Doctor Who Annual 2016. With secrets from the brand-new series, fact files on the latest terrifying monsters, exciting comic strips, stories, puzzles, and activities, it is bound to keep all Doctor Who fans happy!
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Doctor Who: Ultimate Time and Space Collection (3-book slipcase) (количество томов: 3)
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20172017-10-21
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This special Doctor Who box set contains reformatted editions of Doctor Who: The Essential Guide to Fifty Years of Doctor Who, Doctor Who: 100 Scariest Monsters, and Doctor Who: Doctionary. Three essential resource books for any traveler in time and space!
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Doctor Who: Model-Building Book
Автор: Laing Moray Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20182019-03-18
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Inside this activity book, you'll find three fantastic Doctor Who model-building challenges to complete. Featuring easy-to-follow instructions and fact file pages, press out the pieces to create cool keepsake models of the TARDIS, a Dalek, K-9, and a sinister Cyberman head!
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Doctor Who: Time Lord Quiz Quest
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20192016-12-16
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Get ready for the ultimate Doctor Who challenge! Packed with tricky puzzles and quiz questions, the Time Lord Quiz Quest sorts the pudding-brained humans from the actually quite handy ones. Can you solve a pressing problem like a true Time Lord? Do you know your Siltheen from you Silurians? And just how high is your Who IQ? With challenges devised by the Twelfth Doctor himself, this quiz book is the perfect test for any intrepid Doctor Who fan!
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Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book of Monsters
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20182018-02-26
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In his travels across time and space, the Doctor has met hundreds of monsters — now, he's created this handy spotter's guide to the biggest, smallest, tallest, hungriest, smelliest, and most dangerous creatures in the Whoniverse! In this fantastic companion guide to How To Be A Time Lord, the Twelfth Doctor reveals, in tips and doodles, everything you need to know about each dangerous monster, advice for battling them, and how and when to make a speedy escape.
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World Order
Автор: Henry A. Kissinger Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20182017-09-12
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As Henry Kissinger observes in this magisterial book, there has never been a true world order. For most of history, civilizations have defined their own concepts of order, each one envisioning its distinct principles as universally relevant. Now, as international affairs take place on a global basis, these historic concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously — yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process, or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension. Blending historical insight with prognostication, World Order is a meditation from one of our era's most prominent diplomats on the 21st century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology and ideological extremism.
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Madame Bovary
Автор: Flaubert Gustave Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20162016-12-07
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: Madame Bovary, c'est moi. One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert's torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall's brilliant translation. This edition features an introduction by Wall, and a preface on Emma Bovary's femininity and modernity by novelist Michele Roberts. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
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Hard Times
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092004-12-20
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Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.
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Look at the Harlequins!
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20142012-12-30
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Look at the harlequins... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre numerical nimbus syndrome.
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The Wife of Bath
Автор: Chaucer Geoffrey Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call good were rich and old... One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). Chaucer's works available in Penguin Classics are The Canterbury Tales, Love Visions and Troilus and Criseyde.
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The Great Fire of London
Автор: Pepys Samuel Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops. A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703). The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is available in Penguin Classics.
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The Figure in the Carpet
Автор: James Henry Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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Did she know and if she knew would she speak? The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as troubled artistic consciousness. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Henry James (1843-1916). James' works available in Penguin Classics are The Portrait of a Lady, The Europeans, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories, The Turn of The Screw, The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, The Wings of The Dove, Washington Square, The Tragic Muse, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, Selected Tales, Roderick Hudson, The Princess Casamassima and The American.
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The Infinite Sea
Автор: Yancey Rick Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20172019-03-29
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The hugely anticipated second book in in the phenomenal new series that began with The 5th Wave — from Carnegie-shortlisted Rick Yancey. For Cassie Sullivan and the rest of Earth's remaining human survivors, the situation was already desperate when the 5th Wave hit. It's about to get worse. No one yet knows the depths to which Earth's conquerors — the Others — will sink in order to rid the Earth of the human infestation, nor have they guessed the heights to which the human spirit can reach. Characters introduced in Book One will come to the fore — and others will face the ultimate test.
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This Book Loves You
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20182018-09-20
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This book is cleverer and better looking than you. This book will blow your mind. This book loves you. This Book Loves You is a collection of beautifully illustrated inspirational sayings by which you should live your life. If you follow each and every one, your life will become easier, more fabulous, more rewarding. Imagine what a chilled-out and wonderful human being people would think you were if you lived by the simple principle: You can never fail if you never try. Your wasted life would be an inspiration to others. Think of all the pointless, unhappy striving you could simply give up. Throw away that guitar! Give up on your dreams! Embrace your astounding mediocrity. This Book Loves You has something for everyone — or at least everyone willing to give up and stop caring. If all else fails, remember: Don't be yourself. Be a pizza. Everyone loves pizza. PewDiePie is the most popular YouTuber in the world, with 37 million subscribers and 9 billion views. He is Swedish and lives in Brighton. PewDiePie was sent to planet Earth to dispense wisdom, teach us common sense and instruct us in the ancient art of Inspirology. PewDiePie just wants to make you happy. PewDiePie loves you even more than this book does — isn't that enough for you?
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The Tea Planter's Wife
Автор: Jefferies Dinah Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20182020-08-13
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Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And there are clues to the past — a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds — that her husband refuses to discuss. Just as Gwen finds her feet, disaster strikes. She faces a terrible choice, hiding the truth from almost everyone, but a secret this big can't stay buried forever...
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East of Eden
Автор: Steinbeck John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20192016-05-28
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There is only one book to a man. Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families — the Trasks and the Hamiltons — whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of indentity; the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.
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The Magical Christmas: A Colouring Book
Автор: Lizzie Mary Cullen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20182016-06-25
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From Lizzie Mary Cullen, the illustrator behind hit colouring book The Magical City, comes a brand new treat for the winter. Settle down by the fire and immerse yourself in this mesmerising new colouring book for adults and children alike. Join celebrations across the world and throughout the years, from skating at the Rockefeller Center to surfing in Sydney and frost fairs on the Thames to Victorian toy shops. Travel with the wise men following a star, spot Santa's sleigh skimming over the rooftops and discover dazzling gingerbread houses with Lizzie's intricate inky illustrations. Fans of mindfulness and art therapy will love this beautiful Christmas gift book. This is a whole world of festivity is waiting for you inside...
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After You
Автор: Moyes Jojo Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20172018-09-14
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Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for — or just more questions? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in... A tender, funny and hopeful look at love, grief and life. Bumper box of tissues required' Stylist.
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Boyfriend by Christmas
Автор: Stallard Jenny Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20202017-10-23
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Boyfriend by Christmas is a hilarious and romantic novel about bad dates, perpetual optimism and what it's really like to be alone at the most wonderful time of the year. It's bad enough to be perpetually single, without also being the dating journalist for a major lifestyle website. And Genie Havisham has just been set her toughest deadline yet: find a boyfriend by Christmas or find a new job. Determined not to end the year alone and jobless, Genie sets out to find where all the eligible bachelors in London have been hiding, using whatever means possible. But among the terrible dates, one night stands and the unexpected return of her 'supposedly reformed' ex-boyfriend, could Genie have overlooked what's been right under her nose all along? A fun and flirty debut from Jenny Stallard about one woman's race to find a man in time for Christmas.
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