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.
You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management. But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails makes it both fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax support, so your web applications are highly interactive? Rails has it built in. Want an application that sends and receives e-mail? Built in. Supports internationalization and localization? Built in. Do you need applications with a REST-based interface (so they can interact with other RESTful...
Anne Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience. At age of nineteen Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07913-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
`Agnes Grey` is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author`s own experience and as such `Agnes Grey` has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century.
ISBN: 1-85326-216-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Agnes Grey is the touching story of a young girl who decides to enter the world as a governess, but whose bright illusions of acceptance, freedom and friendship are gradually destroyed. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte charts the development of gentle Agnes and sympathetically depicts the harsh treatment she receives along the way. Leaving her idyllic home and close-knit family, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfields` residence, inside whose walls reign cruelty and neglect. Although faced with tyrannical children and over-indulgent parents, the generosity of spirit and warm candour learnt from her own family never desert her. Agnes also remains firm in the Murray household, where she is used by the two disdainful young daughters...
ISBN: 0-14-062108-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Anne Bronte`s debut novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, a young woman who is determined to seek work as a governess after her family becomes impoverished. Drawing upon her own experiences as a governess, Anne describes the isolation, insensitivity and occasional harsh treatment bestowed on women in her position by their employers and through Agnes, demonstrates the resilience, integrity and survival of one woman in the face of upper class snobbery and changing social values.
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known.
ISBN: 978-0-451-17135-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In "Aiding and Abetting", the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose. When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildegard Wolf’s Paris office, there is one problem: she already has a patient who says he’s Lucan, the fugitive murderer who bludgeoned his children’s nanny in a botched attempt to kill his wife. As Dr. Wolf sets about deciding which of her patients, if either, is the real Lucan, she finds herself in a fierce battle of wills and an exciting chase across Europe. For someone is deceiving someone, and it may be the good doctor, who, despite...
Paule se mira dans son miroir et у vit "une autre Paule passionnement preoccupee de sa beaute et passant difficilement du rang de jeune femme au rang de femme jeune". Cette phrase d`une melancolie soutenue, si pleine de la "petite musique" chere aux admirateurs de Francoise Sagan, donne la note de ce si celebre roman, porte a l`ecran par Anatole Litvak. decoratrice de mode delaissee par son amant, adoree par un jeune homme de quinze ans son cadet, inquiete, hesitante au seuil d`une nouvelle liaison - amour, passion, toquade? -, tourmentee par un desir deses-pere de bonheur, de Une femme de (presque) quarante ans dont Sagan nous livre ici le portrait tendre, ironique, lucide.
ISBN: 978-2-266-19226-2
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Dieudonné Ferchaux, vieil homme tyrannique, engage comme secrétaire Michel Maudet, un garçon famélique et avide de vivre. Entre les deux hommes se tissent des liens étroits et ambigus où se mêlent haine et admiration. Traqués par la police, ils fuient à travers l`Amérique du
ISBN: 978-2-07-041876-3
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
When the Good Magician Humfrey’s son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young girl beset by an obnoxious curse; Hugo’s beloved wife Wira, whose sightlessness is balanced by a talent for sensitivity, Happy and Fray, a pair of sprightly storm-spirits; Nimbus, the Demon Xanth’s own son; and the mysterious outlaw known as the Random Factor. As they travel through some of the magical realm’s most astonishing locales, these unwitting adventurers discover they are key players in a grand drama whose origins reach back to the origins of time itself. Filled with...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4313-0
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
Heard the one about the airline that has introduced `corpse cupboards` on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air? Heard the story about the First Class air hostess who got fired for sitting on the face of a passenger during a long haul flight? Heard about the amount of knickers and false teeth that are left behind in the body of the plane? Heard how pissed-off stewards put laxatives in your drinks? Heard about the pilot who ran out of runway? Heard of the disabled passengers who miraculously walk again? No? Then you haven`t read Air Babylon. Do you know the best place to have sex on a plane? Do you know how to dress for an upgrade? Do you know that one drink in the air equals three on the ground? Do you know who...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15305-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The dream of flying has preoccupied man since time immemorial. The fascination of discovering distant destinations and overcoming distances quickly resulted in the demand to optimize traveling times from the aspect of comfort. Meanwhile, airline companies offer their passengers a wealth of on-board possibilities: Releaxing sleep in a bed above the clouds, internet connection, or bars. Functionality only turns into a finished contemporary interior as a result of the designed shapes, materials and colours. Starting with the choice of material to the development of an artificial starry heaven inside the cabin, which counteracts against jetlag, everything is taken into consideration while designing the cabin, making the time the passenger...
ISBN: 3-937718-10-9
Издательство:
daab
Дата выхода: январь 2000