The story is about Liesel Meminger, young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor`s wife`s library, wherever they are to be found

Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, comptetitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world

The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel

In this book, author has combined the humor, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come. It was about living

The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee

The story is narrated by an introspective teenager who goes by the alias of "Charlie." He describes various life experiences through a series of letters to an anonymous stranger

В книге кратко описаны извечные мечты человечества познать тайны Вселенной, процесс разработки и воплощения в жизнь выдающимися советскими учеными теоретических основ космонавтики

В данном издании рассмотрены вопросы синтеза фотоэмульсий, оптической сенсибилизации, экспонирования световыми и жесткими излучениями, оценки проявленных изображений и др.

This volume - Europe, North & South America - consists of three books. This book contains accounts of the journeys of Pehr Kalm, with detailed information on the cultural and natural history of both southeastern England and, above all, the eastern regions of North America

This volume - Europe, Southern Africa, East, Southern & Southeast Asia - contains Carl Peter Thunberg`s fact-filled journals from his various sojourns in Europe but principally his detailed descriptions from South Africa, Java, Sri Lanka and Japan. They provide an entertaining text with multidisciplinary observations of great value for cultural and natural history