This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it. We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we ... |
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Шест истории от майстора на късия разказ Хектор Хю Мънроу, известен с литературния си псевдоним Саки. Настоящата книга съдържа: разказите "The Lumber Room", "The Open Window", "Tobermory", "The Mouse", "The Guest" и "Laura" от Саки (Хектор Хю Мънроу) на английски език; превод на по-сложни думи и изрази; шест теста, подходящи за всички, владеещи английски език на средно ниво (B2); ключ с отговорите на тестовете. Поредицата "Language Trainer" е предназначена да помага на учащите да усъвършенстват познанията си по английски език, като: развиват ... |
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Адаптираната версия на разказите на Ръдиард Киплинг е от поредицата "Language Trainer", предназначена да помага на учащите да усъвършенстват познанията си по английски език на ниво B1, развиват своите умения за четене и за превод. Настоящата книга съдържа: адаптирана версия на разказите на Нобеловия лауреат Ръдиард Киплинг "Mowgli’s Brothers", "Kaa’s Hunting" и "Tiger! Tiger!" на английски език; превод на по-сложните думи и изрази, даден за улеснение на самото място в текста; шест теста, подходящи за всички, владеещи английски език на средно ниво, които се занимават ... |
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Faculty of Classical and modern Philology. ... "Shakespeare’s Wordplay and Possible Worlds" proposes a novel possible-world approach to the complex interpretative potential of Shakespeare’s wordplay. The approach is based on the observation that in Shakespeare multiple significations of ambiguous words or syntactic structures often cohere with other apparently unambiguous words or syntactic structures and thus project parallel cognitive scenarios. ... |
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Editorial Universitaria "San Clemente de Ojrid". Historia de la literatura Española. ... |
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The textbook is intended for preparation on the practicals of Biochemistry for the first and the second year master's degree students, specialty "Medicine" of the Faculty of Medicine at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". ... |
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Three bestsellers by Napoleon Hill. ... Together in one volume for the first time three Napoleon Hill Bestsellers: Think and grow rich The master-key to riches The magic ladder to success "Think and grow rich" will help you to: identify your goals; master the secret of true and lasting success; obtain what you most want in life; join the ranks of the super-successful. In "The Master-key to riches" you'll learn: Andrew Carnegie's "Master mind" method; the magic of going the extra mile; the twelve true riches of life; the obligation to share wealth; the twenty great ... |
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. ... Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms are related, holds tremendous promise for improving human well-being, and has transformed the way we think about life. Matthew Cobb interweaves science, biography and anecdote in a book that mixes remarkable insights, theoretical dead-ends and ... |
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Critical Edition and Commentary of the Texts. ... Настоящото изследване представя обширен коментар на историческия, филологическия и топографския контекст на всички византийски документи и избрани укази и декрети от османския период, съхранявани в архива на манастира Каракал в Атон. Общият брой на представените документи, съставени в периода 1294 - 1835, е 28, като 17 от тях досега не са били публикувани. ... |
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Based on several field trips to mount Athos, the present monograph examines and publushes the texts of seventy post-Byzantine Greek and Slavic documents kept in the monastery of Vatopedi. The author makes an attempt at restoring the monastery's history from the fall of Byzantium up to the year 1707 commenting many interesting details ot Vatopedi's social and cultural relations with the Balkans, the Near East, Italy and Russia. ... |
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This collection incorporates selected texts of various types, including: conference reports; materials intended for national projects or programs; scientific articles; international projects; theoretical works; communications. The compiler’s idea is to provide a mirror-like picture of the developments in the Bulgarian library-and-information sector on the basis of the above texts; to outline the trends of development of this sector during this period; to present some theoretical works containing projections and different policies [that could be] implemented within the library-and-information spectrum. This publication is ... |
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This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. The book celebrates the joy of discovery."Here, on ... |