Guinness World records 2011 exploding with thousands of new records

This book contains the author`s essays that shows the breadth of his scholarship, covering subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America

Разговорник содержит минимум слов и фраз, необходимых туристам и деловым людям, отправляющимся в Румынию

Goguryeo tomb murals, now registered as UNESCO World Heritage, are an important cultural heritage and are a historic record of the kingdom, which was one of the most powerful states in Northeast Asia 2,000 years ago. The murals, which excavated from the late third to seventh centuries in areas of Pyeongyang and Anak in North Korea and Ji

After years of standing against the U.S. government, Geronimo, the great warrior and spiritual leader, is coming to the end of his life. His grandson visits him where he is imprisoned, in Fort Sill, Oklakhoma, in 1908, a visit which ignites a story brimming with a little-known, thoroughly researched details about the man who said to "see into the future and walk without creating footprints." In this gripping novel, Joseph Bruchac brings history alive with one of the most legendary and fascinating figures of our time

Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god - the town`s water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. While Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, Shin obsesses over writing their bible, and the explosive Henry schemes to make the new faith even more exciting and dangerous

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos

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