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Àííîòàöèÿ: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci-clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter

Àííîòàöèÿ: Dickens' final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the "Sensation Novel" as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in Victorian London. Drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder are among the themes and motifs. A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens' usual command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder, guilt and childhood romance

Àííîòàöèÿ: King Kong is a giant gorilla, a monster of an ape, who lives on a remote island. The beast falls for a beautiful girl, Ann Darrow, and desperate to have her, he finds himself lured into captivity. He is brought to civilization and put on show, but when he sees Ann, he breaks his heavy chains and begins to wreak havoc on the streets of New York.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The book's chief contention, which provides the rationale for its title, is that President Bush planned from early in his presidency to remove Saddam Hussein from power by force, rather than making any serious effort to use diplomacy or other means. The book describes White House deliberations implying that if Saddam were removed from power without a military invasion, Iraq would need a foreign-implemented regime change. It focuses mainly on President Bush, Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Tommy Franks, and CIA Director George Tenet, as well as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair. Other fixtures are White House advisers such as Karen Hughes and Karl Rove.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The colossus among critics (New York Times Magazine) presents his personal selection, with commentary, of the finest poems in the English language. An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Digital Fortress is a provider of Business Continuity Planning Services for small and medium-sized enterprises. We teach businesses how to survive their next disaster, by preventing their emergency from becoming a disaster

Àííîòàöèÿ: Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, NASA makes an astounding discovery: there is a meteor embedded deep within the arctic ice. And it isn't just any meteor. Inside the huge rock, which crashed to earth in 1716, are fossils of giant insects proof of extraterrestrial life. Yet, given NASA's slipping reputation, the question arises: Is the meteor real or a fake? That uncertainty dogs NASA and its supporters in Brown's latest page-flipper, a finely polished amalgam of action and intrigue. Trying to determine the truth are intelligence agent Rachel Sexton and popular oceanographer Michael Tolland, both among the first to suspect something is amiss when the meteor is pulled from the ice. Their doubts quickly make them the targets of a mysterious death squad controlled by someone or something that doesn't want the public to hear the meteor may be a fraud. Together, Sexton and Tolland scramble across arctic glaciers, take refuge on ice floes, are rescued by a nuclear submarine, then find themselves trapped aboard a small research vessel off the coast of New Jersey. All the while, the nation's capital is buzzing as to whether NASA has engaged in deception. Or is NASA just a dupe for aerospace companies that have long wanted a bigger share of space contracts? Brown (Angels & Demons) moves into new territory with his latest. It's an excellent thriller a big yet believable story unfolding at breakneck pace, with convincing settings and just the right blend of likable and hateful characters. He's also done his research...

Àííîòàöèÿ: D+Q—s first graphic novel, The Playboy is Chester Brown's courageous, frank and deeply unsettling account of his relationship with pornography. It begins in 1975 with an abandoned copy of Playboy. Guilt shadows Chester for the next 15 years as he tracks the influence of pornography on his relationships with women. A graphic novel collected from the pages of his classic comic book series Yummy Fur

Àííîòàöèÿ: Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a...

Àííîòàöèÿ: On 4 July 1862, which he later remembered as a 'gold afternoon,' the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a young mathematics tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, entertained three little girls on a river trip with a 'fairy tale' which was to become one of the most famour children's stories of all time. Alice, the heroine of the tale, implored him to write it down for her, but had to wait two years until she received a beautifully hand-written volume, with Dodgson's own pen and ink drawings, entitled 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground.'</p><p>With the help fo many charming illustrations - including several from the original manuscript beautifully reproduced in colour - this attractive gift book tells the story of Dodgson's lifelong devotion to Alice and traces the stages through which the manuscript - now one of The British Library's most treasured possessions - progressed as it was revised, expanded, given new illustrations by John Tenniel and finally published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll' as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'

Àííîòàöèÿ: Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Èçäàíèå âêëþ÷àåò ëó÷øèå îáðàçöû àíãëèéñêîãî ñîíåòà, íà÷èíàÿ ñ òâîð÷åñòâà ïîýòîâ-åëèçàâåòèíöåâ è êîí÷àÿ íåîðîìàíòèêàìè êîíöà XIX â.Ïåðåâîäû íà ðóññêèé ÿçûê âêëþ÷àþò êàê êëàñèêó XIX-XX ââ., òàê è ðàáîòû ñîâðåìåííûõ ïîýòîâ è ïåðåâîä÷èêîâ. Êíèãà ïðåäíàçíà÷åíà øèðîêîìó êðóãó ëþáèòåëåé ïîýçèè.

Àííîòàöèÿ: "English for Computer Science" is an intermediate level reading course in English designed for people working with computers or studying computer science. It is suitable for in-company training programmes, and for universities, colleges and technical schools. The student learns in two main ways: the Units develop the reading skills necessary to extract information from computer-related texts; the Focus sections (highlighted in green) teach the grammar and vocabulary of the English used in computer science.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The wonderful anthology of verse and prose, short stories, reminiscences and diary entries, ranging from the traditional to the subversive, the whimsical to the sinister, the ironic to the tragic. Exquisitely illustrated with black and white drawings from many periods, The Christmas Reader is a perfect source-book for reading aloud to family and friends.