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Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen
The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish

2005 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: On the bicentennial of Hans Christian AndersenТs birth, this collection takes Andersen out of the nursery and places him squarely in the literary pantheon. While AndersenТs tales continue to seize the imagination with their singular blend of simplicity, eccentricity, and charm, English-language readers have until now had to content themselves with inaccurate retellings and inadequate translations. Diana Crone Frank, a Danish novelist and linguist, and Jeffrey Frank, a novelist and editor at the New Yorker , offer a much-needed modern translation. In this collection are twenty-two tales that best represent AndersenТs literary legacy, including such classics as A?AИA?The Little Mermaid,A?AИA? A?AИA?The Ugly Duckling,A?AИA? A?AИA?Thumbelisa,A?AИA? and A?AИA?The EmperorТs New Clothes,A?AИA? as well as largely unfamiliar stories like A?AИA?By the Outermost Sea.A?AИA? Illuminating notes clarify references in the tales. And in an introductory essay, theЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 0822336936
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 304.

 

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Mary Gordon
The Stories of Mary Gordon

2006 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: The masterly stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writerТs craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age, it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the more complex anxieties of modern life. Gordon captures the sharp scent of feelings as they shift, the shape of particular lives in their hope and incomprehensibility. In УThe Neighborhood,Ф a seven-year-old who has lost her father finds birthday parties, with their noisy games and spun-sugar roses on fancy cakes, her greatest trial. УCity LifeФ explores the dark side of Manhattan apartment living. УIntertextualityФ proposes a dream meeting between ProustТs characters and theЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 0375423168
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 480.

 

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Paul Bowles
The Stories of Paul Bowles

2003 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book Description An American literary cult figure, Paul Bowles established his legacy with the novel The Sheltering Sky. An immediate sensation, it became a fixture in American letters. Bowles then returned his energies to the short story -- the genre he preferred and soon mastered. Bowles` s short fiction is orchestral in composition and exacting in theme, marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry. In `Pastor Dowe at TecatE,` a Protestant missionary is sent to the far reaches of the globe -- a place, he discovers, where his God has no power. In `Call at CorazOn,` an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In `Allal,` a boy`s drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death, but not before he feels the `joy` of sinking his fangs into his human prey. Here too are his most famous works, such as `The DelicateЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 006093784X
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 672.

 

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Richard Bausch
The Stories of Richard Bausch

2003 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book Description Few writers of the past quarter-century have so consistently surprised, startled, and delighted their readers as has the masterful Richard Bausch, whom the Washington Post Book World calls `a virtuoso of language and literary grace.` His nine critically acclaimed novels have established him as one of the most important fiction writers of his generation, a visionary stylist with an acute eye for the minute detail that illuminates the deepest wells of human experience. Yet it is for his award-winning short fiction that Bausch is perhaps most admired. The Stories of Richard Bausch celebrates the work of a great American artist, a writer the New York Times calls `a master of the short story.` By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch`s remarkable range and versatility, and affirm hisЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060196491
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 672.

 

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Laura L. Williams
The Storks` Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside

2008 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 1555916295
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 320.

 

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Hermann Sudermann
The Storm Komrade Sokrates

2003 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionThe Storm Komrade Sokrates centers on aging radicals who were leaders in German student revolution of the 1848. The main characters are Dr. Hartmeyer, a Dentist and Dr. Marcuse, the local Rabbi. When the play was produced in 1903, the author was threatened with imprisonment because the script was viewed as an attack on the monarchy and the noble class. This is the first English edition of the play. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0761826408
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 92.

 

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Lebbeus Woods
The Storm and the Fall

2004 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionBy any measure, Lebbeus Woods is one of the most original architects working today. His body of theoretical work focuses on buildings of crisis, whether marred by major earthquakes, suffering the effects of economic embargo, or damaged bywar. Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, his designs have taken on new meaning and significance. In The Storm and the Fall, Woods brings his visions to a new depth, moving them from feverishly rendered drawings to three-dimensional space. The book focuses on two recent Woods installations - one at the Houghton Gallery at New York`s Cooper Union, the other at the Fondation Cartier pour l`art contemporain, Paris - that address the role of today`s architecture. The Storm critiques the geometric box that rules most building designs and proposes instead a dynamic field of potential energy, represented by a complex array of vectors. The Fall crystallizes a built space in the midst of collapse, witnessing a moment too brief toЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 1568984219
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 192.

 

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Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan
The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist

2007 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 0143112139
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 336.

 

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Ivor van Heerden, Mike Bryan
The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist

2006 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: The ultimate inside story: how bureaucracy, politics, and a disregard of science combined to cripple?perhaps forever?a great American city As deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Ivor van Heerden had for years been warning state and local officials about New Orleans`s vulnerability to flooding. But like Cassandra`s, his predictions were ignored?until Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005. Suddenly, van Heerden found himself at the center of a media maelstrom. Stepping forward to challenge the official version of events, he revealed the truth about the city`s shoddy levee construction. Now, in The Storm , van Heerden shares up-to-the-minute reporting from his investigations and connects the dots among the Army Corps of Engineers, the bureaucrats, the politicians, and the chain of events?both natural and human?that culminated in catastrophe. An epic of cutting- edge science and systemic bureaucraticЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 0670037818
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 320.

 

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The Stormrider Guide Europe Atlantic Islands (Stormrider Guides)

2007 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 0953984044
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 224.

 

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Robert Williams
The Storms of Eternity

2005 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Download DescriptionMike Rhoades, Reese Patterson, Josh Carter and his twin sister Jen are inseparable friends, but they each have a secret they cannot share with the others. All that changes, however, during a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast, when they are struck by a violent storm. After the winds clear, the friends find themselves lost in a nightmare landscape where clouds cover the Earth with eternal darkness, roaming gangs stalk the unending night seeking victims, and two militant factions battle to rule the devastated land by any means necessary. Mike, Reese, Josh and Jen are caught up in a fight for their lives, freedom, and their very humanity as they are drawn towards the inhuman being that has brought them into this apocalyptic future.for its own enigmatic plans. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0595354955
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 260.

 

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The Story Behind Mark Twain`s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery (History in Literature)

2008 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 0431081883
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 56.

 

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Beecher, Jr. O`Quinn
The Story Behind the Hank Williams Commemorative Stamp

2005 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Ч [detailed...]

ISBN: 0615128939
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 216.

 

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Richard D. Barnet
The Story Behind the Song : 150 Songs that Chronicle the 20th Century

2004 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionSongwriters often use lyrics to describe the current events and social attitudes of a particular period or people. An examination of America`s popular songs--and the stories behind their creation--can help us better understand our historyand culture. This chronologically organized volume provides the stories of 150 songs in 20th-century American history. Each chapter begins with an historical overview of how songs from the period reflected the political, social, and economic culture of the decade. A discussion of 15 influential songs from each decade provides the songs` histories, what inspired the writers to create them, and why they have resonated over time. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0313319766
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 328.

 

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Dan Gardner, Anthony Obey, Crystal Obey
The Story Behind the Storefront

2006 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 1592680739
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 104.

 

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Edited by Peter Turchi and Andrea Barrett
The Story Behind the Story

2004 y.
Publisher: W. W. Norton &, Company, Inc.
Description: This outstanding anthology offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of contemporary fiction and how it is made. Taking the reader backstage through original essays written especially for this volume, the writers reveal how their stories came into being: what inspired them, how they evolved through different drafts, how `real life` and fiction intersect, and how the stories, in their final form, both fulfill and transcend their authors` original designs. ‘ормат: 14 см x 21 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-393-32532-6
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 480.

 

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Muriel Barbier
The Story Of Lingerie

2005 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionWhat do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, since Antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, the economy and the corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zestly humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention the authors believe it deserves. About the authors: Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher Muriel Barbier is a talented postgraduate student at the Ecole du Louvre where she now teaches 17th to 19thЕ [detailed...]

ISBN: 1859958044
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 270.

 

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Jim Mezzanotte
The Story Of The Cadillac Eldorado

2005 y.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
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ISBN: 0836845323
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 24.

 

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Winston, Sir Churchill
The Story Of The Malakand Field Force

2004 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionUnabridged audiobook in MP3 format.Download DescriptionThe episode with which this chapter is concerned is one that has often occurred on the out-post line of civilisation, and which is peculiarly frequent in the history of a people whosewidespread Empire is fringed with savage tribes. A small band of soldiers or settlers, armed with the resources of science, and strengthened by the cohesion of mutual trust, are assailed in some isolated post, by thousands of warlike and merciless enemies. Usually the courage and equipment of the garrison enable them to hold out until a relieving force arrives, as at Rorke`s Drift, Fort Chitral, Chakdara or Gulistan. But sometimes the defenders are overwhelmed, and, as at Saraghari or Khartoum, none are left to tell the tale. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0809595605
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 276.

 

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Ann Charters
The Story and Its Writer

2006 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the first edition of her The Story and Its Writer was as notable for its student appeal as it was for its quality and range. And to complement these stories, she introduced a lasting innovation: an array of the writers` own commentaries on the craft and traditions of the short story. In subsequent editions her sense of what works was confirmed as the book evolved into the most comprehensive, diverse -- and bestselling -- introduction to fiction anthology. Instructors rely on Ann Charters` ability to assemble an authoritative and teachable anthology, and anticipate each edition`s selection of new writers and stories. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312442726
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 1856.

 

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Dick Adair
The Story of Aloha Bear

2007 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 1597004928
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 24.

 

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William G. Eliot
The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom (Dodo Press)

2009 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Archer Alexander (1828-c1880) was a former black slave who served as the model for the slave in the statue, variously known as Freedom Memorial and the Emancipation Memorial located in Lincoln Park. He was also the subject of a moving biography, The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom (1885), written by William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887). [detailed...]

ISBN: 1409977005
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 78.

 

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Marquis James, Bessie R. James
The Story of Bank of America: Biography of a Bank

Ч y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: The story of the rise and growth of the Bank of America. This is a reprint. Original title was: Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America NT &, SA [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587981459
Book size: Ч; Page extent: Ч.

 

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Katharine Tynan
The Story of Bawn

2008 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: I am Bawn Devereux and I have lived as long as I remember at Aghadoe Abbey with my grandfather and grandmother the Lord and Lady St. Leger.` (Excerpt from Chapter 1) [detailed...]

ISBN: 0554358174
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 212.

 

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Tyler Trafford
The Story of Blue Eye

2004 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionThe Sun on the Mountains trilogy traces the James family from the loss of their Quaker bank during the American Revolution to their oil company headquarters in present day Calgary. The first book The Story of Blue Eye opens the trilogy ata full gallop over the western prairie controlled by the powerful Plains Indian horse culture of the early 1800s. Without stopping a moment of drama, Trafford constructs the foundation of a western Canadian epic that layers Indian and European mythology in a perfect blend of history and adventure through his central character, Blue Eye James, whose time honoured codes of hard work, honour, fairness and trust lay the groundwork for an empire. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1894345789
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 349.

 

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Lesley Sims
The Story of Castles (+ CD)

2005 y.
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd.
Description: The fascinating history of castles told for children just beginning to read growing in reading confidence and ability. Explains in a lively way why castles were first built, what it was like to live in one, and the cunning tricks used to defend them. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton. The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns. ‘ормат: 13 см x 19,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0 7460 7098 5
Book size: Ч; Page extent: Ч.

 

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Utako Yamada
The Story of Cherry the Pig

2007 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 1933605251
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 32.

 

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Fu Wei-Kang
The Story of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion

2003 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionAcupuncture and moxibustion are therapeutic methods characteristic in traditional Chinese medicine. They have a recorded history of more than 2,000 years. This book elucidates vividly and concisely the beginnings and development of these methods. It also describes how Chinese medical workers, following Chairman Mao?s teachings, explore the legacy of Chinese medicine and achieve new breakthroughs in this branch of medical science. Acupuncture anaesthesia is also covered. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1410206130
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 52.

 

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Andrew Wilson-Dickson
The Story of Christian Music: From Gregorian Chant to Black Gospel, an Authoritative Illustrated Guide to All the Major Traditions of Music for Worship

2003 y.
Publisher: Ч
Description: Book DescriptionMusic has been at the heart of Christian worship since the beginning, and this lavishly illustrated and wonderfully written volume fully surveys the many centuries of creative Christian musical experimentation. From its roots in Jewish and Hellenistic music, through the rich tapestry of medieval chant to the full flowering of Christian music in the centuries after the Reformation and the many musical expressions of a now-global Christianity, Wilson-Dickson conveys `a glimpse of the fecundity of imagination with which humanity has responded to the creator God. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0800634748
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 256.

 

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Golden Books
The Story of Cinderella (Color Plus Chunky Crayons)

2007 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 0375839720
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 48.

 

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Patricia A. Pingry
The Story of Coretta Scott King

2007 y.
Publisher: Ч
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ISBN: 0824967178
Book size: Ч; Page extent: 26.

 

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