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Maggie Black, Ben Fawcett
The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1844075435
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Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl
The Last Theorem

2008 y.
Publisher: Del Rey
Description: Grand Masters Pohl and the late Clarke collaborated on a can`t-put-down adventure that focuses on their mutual strengths: high adventure, fun characters and hard science. Sometime in the near future, teenage Sri Lankan math prodigy Ranjit Subramanian manages to reconstruct and then publish Fermat`s claimed proof of his famous last theorem. As Ranjit celebrates fame and fortune, the all-powerful aliens called Grand Galactics see the flash from early nuclear explosions and decide that humanity will have to be wiped out. When Earth`s superpowers deploy a new, nonlethal way of handling renegade nations and humanity begins working on global peace and large-scale engineering projects, Ranjit and his family try to broker a truce with the destructive alien force, modeling human optimism through rationality and science. Long passages of math tricks and intrusive narration mar an otherwise enjoyable tale of the struggle between reason and fear. Издание на английском языке. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0345470214
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Anita Shreve
The Last Time They Met

2007 y.
Publisher: ABACUS
Description: When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers` festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the mid 1970s and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode… Written with reverse chronology, Anita Shreve`s new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last pages. Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, `The Last Time They Met` is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not lived. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-349-11360-9
Book size: 125x200; Page extent: 368.

 

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Jerome Loving
The Last Titan : A Life of Theodore Dreiser

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWhen Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality--for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of `the godless side of American life.` It was a sideof life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. Thismasterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser`s literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0520234812
Book size: —; Page extent: 525.

 

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Stephen Miller
The Last Train to Kazan

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0007191235
Book size: —; Page extent: 432.

 

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Andrew Martin
The Last Train to Scarborough (Jim Stringer Steam Detective 6)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railway man vanishes, leaving his belongings behind…It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It`s not so much the prospect Scarborough in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railway man to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It`s more that his governor, Chief Inspector Saul Weatherhill, seems to be deliberately holding back details of the case - and that he`s been sent to Scarborough with a trigger-happy assistant. And when Jim encounters the seductive and beautiful Amanda Rickerby a whole new personal danger enters Jim`s life… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0571229697
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Rainey, Stephen Mark
The Last Trumpet

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThe night the stars fell, we could hear the sounds: that low thump-thump from somewhere in the sky, like the beating of some gigantic heart…In Sylvan County, Virginia, strange sounds often accompany the coming of darkness. They drift among the remote and shadowed hills, mountains, and valleys as if with a purpose…cognizant…alive. Like an ominous fugue, this music emanates from portals unknown, weaving a soundtrack for the night itself…a dirge for those who dare to venture into themysterious and forbidding spheres beyond sound.Download Description`The night the stars fell, we could hear the sounds: that low thump-thump from somewhere in the sky, like the beating of some gigantic heart… In Sylvan County, Virginia, strange soundsoften accompany the coming of darkness. They drift among the remote and shadowed hills, mountains, and valleys as if with a purpose…cognizant…alive. Like an ominous fugue, this music emanates from portals unknown, weaving a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587152118
Book size: —; Page extent: 200.

 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon

2002 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: The studio lot looks like `thirty acres of fairyland` the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr`s pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald`s panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-18563-7
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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William D. Cohan
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard FrA?res &, Co.

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among theA most powerfulA firms, Lazard FrA?res &, Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, andA subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. ForA more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the `Great Men` who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard andA presents aA compelling portraitA of Wall Street through theA tumultuous historyA of this exalted and fascinating company.A Cohan… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0385514514
Book size: —; Page extent: 752.

 

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William D. Cohan
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres &, Co

2008 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything. This is the astonishing story of Lazard Freres, the world`s most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its `Great Men`: from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire `Sun King`, from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, `Bid-Em-Up Bruce`, who broke with the bank`s traditions and made himself billions in the process. In `The Last Tycoons` William Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-1410-3689-2
Book size: —; Page extent: 752.

 

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David K. Leff
The Last Undiscovered Place

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWith warmth and a keen eye for the nuances of history and place, David K. Leff offers this affectionate, insightful portrait of his adopted home of Collinsville, Connecticut, a village that looked perfectly ordinary until he fell prey to its rhythms and charm. The town taught him a new way of seeing his environment, and through this process he discovered what many Americans long for amid the suburban sprawl decried in James H. Kunstler`s `The Geography of Nowhere` and many other recent books: a sense of community. When Leff began to look for a suitable place to raise a family, his criteria were familiar: an affordable fixer-upper with some historical character, pleasant neighbors, good schools, walkable streets, and attractive naturalsurroundings. The suburbs around Hartford were uninviting, so he settled sixteen miles away in Collinsville, a small village that grew up around -- indeed was largely built by -- The Collins Company, once the world`s leading maker of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 081392264X
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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William Sleator
The Last Universe

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionSleator`s most diabolical science-fiction novel in a decade William Sleator, of such classics as House of Stairs, Strange Attractors, Interstellar Pig , and Singularity , explores the strange, fascinating quantum world in this gothic sci-fi thriller. From their isolated house, fourteen-year-old Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, venture daily into the tangled, sprawling garden planted by their late uncle and tended by a mysterious gardener. Overgrown with impossibly large plants and exotic flowers, the garden holds at its heart a hedge maze that hides a quantum secret, outside the laws of the macro world. And Susan and Gary may not return from the labyrinth unchanged. AUTHOR BIO: For more than thirty years, William Sleator has thrilled readers with his inventive books. His House of Stairs was named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Young Adult Library Services Association. He divides his time between homes in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0810958589
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Mary MacKey
The Last Warrior Queen

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionLike Jean Auel and Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Mackey takes us to a place where myth and reality meet. The year is 3643 B.C.E. The great matriarchal cities which have dominated the earth are about to disappear as hordes of nomads overrun the fertile valleys of Mesopotamia. Born into one of these tribes is Inanna, a woman who speaks the language of plants and whose touch can heal. Led by her powers to the City of the Dove, where love is sacred and sex is an act of worship, Inanna fulfills her destiny by becoming a great warrior queen. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0595278345
Book size: —; Page extent: 242.

 

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Lukyanenko
The Last Watch

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 978-0-09-951015-4
Book size: —; Page extent: 400.

 

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Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan
The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus`s Final Days in Jerusalem

2007 y.
Publisher: HarperOne
Description: Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson`s blockbuster `The Passion of the Christ`, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus`s crucifixion. Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus`s final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem. The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city, symbolized military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey. The Jesus introduced by Borg and Crossan is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church`s traditional teachings. `The Last Week` depicts Jesus giving up his… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060872608
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Nortin M. Hadler
The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0773532544
Book size: —; Page extent: 313.

 

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Starhawk
The Last Wild Witch

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1890931594
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Ian McAllister
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Rain Forest

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0520254732
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Germano Almeida, Sylvia Glaser
The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: New Directions is proud to introduce the masterwork of Cape Verde`s greatest living writer, Germano Almeida: an ironic and original tragic-comedy from a new voice in African literature. Everyone in Cape Verde knows SeA±or da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island`s first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, SeA±or da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged?one good suit was good enough for him?and he never wandered from the straight and narrow. Or so everyone thought. But when SeA±or da Silva`s 387-page Last Will and Testament is read aloud?a marathon task on a hot afternoon which exhausts reader after reader?there`s eye-opening news, and not just for the smug nephew so certain of inheriting all SeA±or da Silva`s property. With his will, SeA±or da Silva leaves a memoir that is a touching web of elaborate self-deceptions. He desired so ardently to prosper, to be… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0811215652
Book size: —; Page extent: 176.

 

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Tracy Goss, Betty Sue Flowers
The Last Word on Power: Re-Invention for Leaders and Anyone Who Must Make the Impossible Happen

— y.
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ISBN: 038547492X
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David Falkner
The Last Yankee: The Turbulent Life of Billy Martin

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Chronicles the career of the controversial baseball manager whose energetic success was usually terminated by his exaggerated antics and combative behavior. 40,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. [detailed...]

ISBN: 143918125X
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Rudy Marzano
The Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0786430060
Book size: —; Page extent: 216.

 

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Sigrid Nunez
The Last of Her Kind: A Novel

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. Ann is rich and radical, Georgette, the narrator of The Last of Her Kind, is leery and introverted, a child of the very poverty and strife her new friend finds so noble. The two are drawn together intensely by their differences, two years later, after a violent fight, they part ways. When, in 1976, Ann is convicted of killing a New York cop, Georgette comes back to their shared history in search of an explanation. She finds a riddle of a life, shaped by influences more sinister and complex than any of the writ-large sixties movements. She realizes, too, how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, after all this time, as she tells us, I have never stopped thinking about her. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312425945
Book size: —; Page extent: 391.

 

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Laurel and Associates
The Last of the Mohicans (Graphic Novels)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1599053039
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans (Penguin Popular Classics)

1994 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Cooper`s most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, `The Last of the Mohicans` recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be reunited with their father. They are aided in their perilous journey by Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his companions Chingachgook and Uncas, the only two survivors of the Mohican tribe. But their lives are endangered by the Mangua, the savage Indian traitor who captures the sisters, wanting Cora to be his squaw. In setting Indian against Indian and the brutal society of the white man against the civilization of the Mohican, Cooper, more than any author before or since, shaped the American sense of itself as a nation. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0140620451
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans (подарочное издание)

2004 y.
Publisher: CRW Publishing Limited
Description: Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. `The Last of the Mohicans` is an epic tale of American frontier life, set in the period when the French and the British fought for control of the continent, and while the Native American tribes still had considerable power and influence. The daughters of General Munro, Cora and Alice, set off from one British fort to visit their father who is in charge of another. On their way they are betrayed by their Iroquois guide, who has only pretended to be allied to the British and is in fact secretly on the side of the French. Fortunately, the women`s companion, Duncan Heyward, a major in the British army, chances upon the scout Hawk-eye and his Mohican friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, and they attempt to lead the party to safety. What follows is a wonderful story of adventure, which has captivated successive generations of readers both in America and abroad. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1 904633 75 7
Book size: 105x155; Page extent: 528.

 

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J. Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans

2002 y.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Limited
Description: It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and Prance struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister `Indian runner`, they find help in the persons of Hawk-eye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe. Cooper`s novel is full of vivid incident - pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality - but reflects also on the interaction between the colonisers and the native peoples. Hawk-eye`s moral code is dictated neither by white nor by native notions of honour and self-interest, and through him… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-85326-049-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans

1994 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, `The Last of the Mohicans` recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be reunited with their father. They are aided in their perilous journey by Hawk-eye, a frontier scout, and his companions Chingachgook and Uncas, the only two survivors of the Mohican tribe. But their lives are endangered by Magua, the savage Indian traitor who captures the sisters, wanting Cora to be his squaw. In setting Indian against Indian and the brutal society of the white man against the civilization of the Mohican, Cooper, more than any author before or since, shaped the American sense of itself as a nation. Формат: 11 см х 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-14062-431-1
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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Pattie Pink
The Last of the White Ants

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Last of The White Ants unrolls a colourful canvas of events and relationships interwoven within the daily life of British Colonial Civil Servants in Zomba, Nyasaland, in the 10-year run-up to Independence in 1964. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1425191665
Book size: —; Page extent: 220.

 

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Amy Cohen
The Late Bloomer`s Revolution

2007 y.
Publisher: Hyperion
Description: The debut of a sparkling and reassuring memoirist - an inspiration to late bloomers everywhere. `I like to consider myself a late bloomer, meaning someone who will eventually, however late, come into bloom. Although when and if I will bloom remains a mystery. I wish I knew how to speak a foreign language fluently. I wish I knew how to cook a simple roast chicken, or that I had read The Idiot, whose main character sounds like someone I can relate to`. In quick succession, Amy Cohen lost her job writing sitcoms, her boyfriend (with whom she`d been talking marriage), and her mom, after a long bout with cancer. Not exactly the stuff humor thrives on, is it? But filtered through Amy`s worldview, there`s comedy in the most unexpected places. In this unforgettable, engaging memoir, she recounts her (seemingly) never-ending search for love, her evolving relationship with her widowed dad, and her own almost unintentional growth as she stumbles through life. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 1401300022
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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John P. Marquand
The Late George Apley

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionSweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where only the city`s wealthiest and most powerful congregate, this novel gives us-through the story of one family and its patriarch, the recently deceased George Apley-the portrait of an entire society in transition. Gently satirical and rich with drama, the novel moves from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression as it projects George Apley`s world-and subtly reveals a life in which success and accomplishment mask disappointment and regret, a life of extreme and enviable privilege that is nonetheless an imperfect life. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0316735671
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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