Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
Nowadays stage designs reach proportions that by far exceed the classical definition of a stage as we know it from theater. Modern stage environments require increasingly more effort in terms of architecture and technology. For example LED screens of all shapes and sizes are becoming more important than ever, especially in the field of concert or television productions. Those two fields as well as musical, concert, opera and theater productions are documented in this volume photographed by Ralph Larmann. Among the 30 top productions are: Disney`s Lion King; Tosca in the Snow; Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium; Robbie Williams - Close Encounters; Echo 2007; Pop Idol 2006 - Finals; SkyArena Frankfurt. All the projects...
ISBN: 978-3-86654-032-3
Издательство:
daab
Дата выхода: январь 2010
Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy`s greatest interstellar thief and con artist. For novel upon novel, the Rat has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems-and stealing the hearts of thousands of readers. Now three of the Rat`s greatest exploits are collected in a single volume. In "A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born", we see the origin and early days of Jim DiGriz`s brilliant criminal career, as our underworld hero is forced to work for the Good Guys. Conscripted again in "The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted", this time into a planetary army, the Rat must avenge the murder of his mentor-in-crime. And in "The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues", Slippery Jim must...
The twentieth century, with its revolution in architectural methods and materials, opened up new possibilities for stained glass. During the last thirty years, a great many projects have been created in stained glass all over the world, in both new buildings and historical churches and institutions. Studies of this phenomenon have been rare until now, and this book is a pioneer in the survey of this fascinating field. From the magnificent Art Nouveau ceilings of Parisian department stores, to exuberant designs from the Islamic world, and further still to the temples and palaces of India, Indonesia and Japan, stained glass becomes a medium by which the traditional and the avant-garde come together to create sumptuous decoration. Here too...
ISBN: 978-0-500-51372-9
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A stainless steel rat for a stainless steel Meet Slippy Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar DiGritz. A man of many names and many all of which add up to make one of the greatest con men of all time. Charming, quick-witted, physically fit, a master of disguise, a skilled liar, an accomplished bank robber and exceptionally talented at breaking and entering, he`s everything a master thief should be. He`s also about to be caught, turned, and sent back out onto the streets as part of the Special Corps. Join the adventure in this omnibus edition of the first three Stainless Steel rat adventures: The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat`s Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08171-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Grow a glass garden — and beautify any space with the exquisite decorative items you’ve created. George W. Shannon and Pat Torlen, two master teachers and artists who run the On The Edge Glass Studio, offer an array of glorious patterns for stained glass flowers, butterflies, birds, birdfeeders, planters, lanterns, and mobiles. Using dozens of close-up photos, they teach all the basics of both copper foil and lead came construction, from materials and tools to how-to techniques.
Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her job on this earth was to share the wisdom and knowledge that God and the angels were giving her. When Lorna`s husband died, her world fell apart. In Stairways to Heaven she tells the story of how she pulled her life back together and how she, an uneducated mother of four, broke her silence and started to spread the angels` message to the world. Lorna tells us of the future that God envisages for us - and some possible other futures, depending on the decisions we make. `Everyone must play their part`, she says. She reveals some of the most extraordinarily detailed information about angels and the...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0660-4
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
A fresh voice and fresh blood - it adds up to one very sassy vampire Sisters. They`ll swipe your clothes, your boyfriends, your destiny. But it wasn`t exactly Rayne`s twin Sunny`s fault. Magnus, a vamp hottie and coven leader, mistook Sunny for Rayne last month and bit her instead. Now they`re doing the inter-species dating thing. Turns out that for every generation, there`s a Vampire Slayer - and this time around, it just happens to be Rayne MacDonald. Her first mission: infiltrate a seedy vamp bar downtown and expose its vampire owner for purposely spreading a blood disease he created himself - a task almost harder than passing trig. After going it alone once, Rayne realizes she needs help. So Magnus sends his sexy Goth buddy Jareth to...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21210-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Newly vamped Sarah Dearly wants her normal life back, but fate is fighting against her. She tries to get a regular job and gets staked in the interview, only to be rescued by a masked vampire who calls himself the Red Devil. Then a wallflower-turned-witch curses her, making her a bloodthirsty, sun-allergic nightwalker - the worst vampire there is. As if all that weren`t enough, she can`t get married because her 600-year-old boyfriend, Thierry, is in a centuries-long marriage of convenience he can`t escape. As Sarah`s nightwalker tendencies make her more dangerous, even to those she loves, she`ll have to counteract that curse, unmask the increasingly intriguing Red Devil, and get a commitment from her man. But if that`s what it takes to...
In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote `Stalingrad is no longer a Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure`. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin`s determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler`s Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler`s territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline. An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103240-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and passionate affair. Decades later, a reporter in nineties Moscow, her son Owen Matthews pieces together his grandfather's passage through the harrowing world of Stalin's purges, and tells the story of his parents' Cold War love affair through their heartbreaking letters and memories. Stalin's Children is a raw, vivid memoir about a young man's struggle to understand his parents' lives and the history of the strange country in which they lived.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9660-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service`s biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party members. `This is effectively the first full biography since perestroika to encompass the economic, political, diplomatic, military, administrative and, above all, ideological dimensions, as well as the personal aspects of Stalin`s colossal Gritty and unshowy, but enlightened by...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51837-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin`s inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What motivated his chiefs of police, Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav Manzhinsky, Genrikh Iagoda, Nikolai Ezhov and Lavrenti Beria? What did they want? What were their relations with the regime and its ruler? How did their upbringing and experience mould them? And how does the terror they create connect with the terror they felt? "Stalin and His Hangmen" reconstructs the psychological mechanism of a whole regime and what it held together. The extent of...
ISBN: 978-0-14-100375-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Who was the boy from Georgia who rose to rule the Empire of the Tsars? Who were his Himmler, Goring, Goebbels? How did the "top ten" families live? In this history of Stalin`s imperial court, the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous brutality are brought blazingly to life. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet`s defiance of the Kremlin dictator and the Bolshevik regime - particularly his outspoken criticism of Stalin`s collectivization rampage that drove millions of Russian peasants to starvation - reached its climax in 1934 when Mandelstam, putting his life on the line, composed a searing indictment of Stalin in a sixteen-line epigram and secretly recited it to a handful of friends and fellow artists. Would Stalin and his merciless state security apparatus...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-9864-0
Издательство:
Азбука
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a suspect police officer, a former Black Beret who served with glory against the insurgency in Chechnya. But proof of the man`s corruption is proving more elusive to gather. Then Renko`s unpopular boss calls him in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge. Every night at the same time, regular as clockwork. Meanwhile, his adopted son, Zhenya has disappeared, and his girlfriend, Eva, has reignited an affair with the very officer Arkady is investigating. Renko is assigned the help of an expert Stalinist, a decorated war hero and chess grandmaster. Not everyone, it...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4444-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Предлагаем малоизвестный российским читателям роман Г. Грина "Стамбульский поезд". Действие романа разворачивается в знаменитом Восточном экспрессе, следующем через всю предвоенную Европу в Стамбул. Это увлекательный рассказ о встретившихся случайно в пути пассажирах, их тайнах, планах, охвативших их чувствах и страстях. Напряженное ожидание глобальных перемен выражено через судьбы главных героев....
ISBN: 5-8346-0236-3
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2002