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Эта книга, посвященная истории еврейского народа, рассматриваемой как часть мировой истории, во взаимодействии с крупнейшими культурами четырех тысячелетий, вплоть до конца ХХ столетия, стала международным бестселлером и неоднократно переиздавалась как в оригинале, так и в переводе на русский язык. Она полюбилась читателю своим темпераментным, ярким, увлекательным и воодушевляющим изложением, спос...

И.А.Залетаева - одна из основателей любительского кактусоводства в нашей стране. Первое издание ее `Книги о кактусах` вышло в 1972 г. большим тиражом и до сих пор не утратило своей актуальности. Пройдя путь от начинающего кактусовода-любителя до научного руководителя секции кактусов Московского общества озеленения и охраны природы, И.А.Залетаева воссоздает перед читателем все этапы этого пути, пре...

The publication of "The World According to Clarkson" in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy's one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our hero's still scratching his head at the madness of it all. But it's not all bad. He's learnt a little along the way, including: - Why binge drinking is good for...

A.D. Miller's Snowdrops is a riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a thirty-something Englishman's moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets - and corpses- come to light only wh...

Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights. Again. En-route he discovers how rhubarb will become the new crack, that a comb over will end anyone's quest for global domination and what unites a Filipino chambermaid in Abe...

Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn. But this is his real story…In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world’s most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother’s heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomi...

Explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, this title explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino.