Added by: cucuruza | Karma: 1705.05 | Kids, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 30 June 2009
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Это очень полезный словарь, который поможет и в школе, и дома. Ведь в нем вы найдете 1200 самых употребительных слов. Рядом с каждым словом - перевод, транскрипция и, главное, пример, которых подскажет, как лучше использовать это слово. For Russian speakers
Словарь содержит около 20 тыс. фразеологических единиц. Включены все широко употребительные в английском языке фразеологизмы. Словарь снабжен многочисленными иллюстрациями из произведений английских и американских классиков и современных писателей с указанием автора и произведения.
Added by: Romadzha | Karma: 827.99 | Non-Fiction, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 26 June 2009
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If you rate films by their aesthetic or intellectual content, horror films will certainly not appear at the top of the list. But if you rate films by their popular appeal or their returns at the box office, they will quickly rise to the top-at least some of them. Ever since the cinema has existed, so have horror films. Today there is sure to be at least one showing at a neighborhood theater, as well as a couple on late-night television.
The author headed for South America at the age of twenty-five with a clear aim "to do something in [his] life." Fascinated by the beauty of quartz crystals in Brazil, he started to collect them enthusiastically and he is now the only collector of giant crystals in the world. Conquered by their secret power and the perfection of their forms, he penetrated the intimate world of crystals and marveled at the magnificent play of light reflected on their smooth faces. Some of the phenomenal crystals "survived" hundreds of millions of years untouched.
Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Added by: huelgas | Karma: 1208.98 | Non-Fiction, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 26 June 2009
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Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? was the Gettysburg Address written on the back of an envelope? Where did the Underground Railroad run? Did General Sherman really say, "War is Hell"?
If you can't answer these questions, you're not alone. Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events...
