Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs in human courage and the need for radical social change. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library - a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by Helen Graham, a leading historian on the Spanish Civil War. When George Orwell arrived in Spain in 1936, he ... |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last , a bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers-only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play ... |
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Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and ... |
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Умален модел на малък платноход, използван от френски пирати. Корабът има три мачти. Построен е от Денис де Дюнкерк и излиза в открито море през 1776 г. Корабът е пленен и превзет от англичани на 17 юни 1778 по време на битка. Оригинално описание: The lugger was a kind of ship used by the French pirates of the Revolution and of the Empire. It is a type of ship equipped as a “bragozzo”, with 3 masts, a very long bowsprit, several jibs, topsails and some foretopsails. It was built by the Denys de Dunkerque and launched in 1776. The career of this ship was short because it was captured by the English on 17th June 1778 ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James's classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE. A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children - but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. ... |
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Комплектът Art от серията Exclusive на T'nB съдържа безжична оптична мишка и подложка. Той е с дизайн, вдъхновен от пастелните цветове и Line Art, който би внесъл елегантност на всеки работен плот. Ултра тънкият пад за мишка е с дебелина 3 mm и с противоплъзгаща повърхност, осигуряваща прецизност и изключителна стабилност по време на работа. Мишката разполага с 3 стандартни бутона, безжична 2.4 GHz технология и висока разделителна способност (800 / 1200 / 1600 DPI), позволяваща гладка и точна навигация на курсора. Тя е ергономична, с плавен, текстуриран захват - пасва идеално в ръката когато се използва. Лесна е ... |
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In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe. We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years. Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time ... |
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Historical novel. ... The historical plot encompasses the period between 1840 and 1885. The crossing of the paths of people of different nationalities knits together the entire novel. Bulgarians, Romanians and Serbs support each other in their struggle for independence. They meet diplomats and the kings of European monarchies in order to obtain entreaties and favorable attitude towards nascent Bulgarian uprising and the Serbian-Turkish War. And so the geographical borders of the novel prove to be infinite. Britain with its "eternal and perpetual interests", is portrayed; France, torn apart by internal ... |
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Пистолетът е част от серията White Line , където ще откриете още аксесоари за поливане. ... Пистолетът на Bradas е подходящ както за поливане на цветя и растения, така и за почистване на градински мебели и инструменти . Разполага с патентован начин на включване и изключване на водния поток on/off, както и с регулиране на дебита. Свързва се към маркуч посредством бърза връзка . Изработен е от висококачествена ABS пластмаса. ... |
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Пистолетът е част от серията White Line , където ще откриете още аксесоари за поливане. ... Пистолетът на Bradas е с компактен размер и е подходящ както за поливане на цветя и растения, така и за почистване на градински мебели и инструменти . Разполага с патентован начин на включване и изключване на водния поток on/off, както и с регулиране на дебита. Свързва се към маркуч посредством бърза връзка . Изработен е от висококачествена ABS пластмаса. ... |
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Пистолетът е част от серията White Line , където ще откриете още аксесоари за поливане. ... Пистолетът на Bradas е подходящ както за поливане на цветя и растения, така и за почистване на градински мебели и инструменти . Струята му може да се регулира с 9 степени - от права струя до фино пръскане. Разполага с патентован начин на включване и изключване на водния поток on/off, както и с регулиране на дебита. Свързва се към маркуч посредством бърза връзка . ... |
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"My Bulgaria" is geared to young Bulgarians abroad who want to trace their roots as well as to any English-speaking people who would like to broaden their knowledge of the history of Bulgaria. All 51 richly illustrated chapters provide a concise yet in-depth description of historical events from Prehistory to Modernity."History does not make us grand but rather rational. It fosters an understanding of the core human values; it helps us learn from the mistakes of our predecessors; it instills in us pride of their achievements and thus boosts our confidence. A confident person is bound to be successful and ... |
