Why do we love something or someone is not a question we often ask ourselves. It is difficult to answer. Perhaps this is because love is a feeling that is not easy to catch in words. And that is why the book in front of you, that asks the question - Why do I love Bulgaria, makes you curious and especially because a foreigner has made the effort to answer this question. Hans Wissema is not a stranger to Bulgaria and Bulgaria is not a stranger to him, for several reasons. Some of the reasons you will understand when you read the book or perhaps you have already read his book (in Bulgarian translation) "Siberian ... |
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"In a fast paced world with media focused on single, dramatic images there is the danger that extended documentary work like that of Babak Salari’s may be missed in the rush for the next great cover shot. Salari’s photographs, by contrast, require us to slow down and savour the moments he has rendered on film. Like any story, the best way to experience “Remembering the People of Afghanistan” is to be conscious of the telling and willing to let ourselves be affected by it. Salari’s photos form a rich, complex story told in a soft voice. It is the story of a people recounted with empathy and respect. At times, it is ... |
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Между десетките пътища, които следва съвременния човек, пътят на война е най-малко познат. Може би и най-неправилно разбраният. Но със сигурност е най-вълнуващият. Дан Милман е шампион по гимнастика и следва в университета Бъркли в Калифорния. Живее един обикновен живот, лутайки се между своите амбиции, страхове и илюзии. Само че, още не го е осъзнал. Тази книга е опитът му да сподели с всички това уникално изживяване. Казват, че това е книгата, която "може да промени живота ви". И това не е пресилено. Откликът на читателите и техните коментари го доказват. Това е така, защото във всеки от нас живее един ... |
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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. Widely accepted as Henry James great masterpiece, "The Portrait of a Lady" is a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and identity. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by Costa Award-winning author Colm Toibin. Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and ... |
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Предлаганата на читателите книга е резултат от десетилетните мащабни проучвания на Перперикон - един от най-известните археологически обекти в България. Животът на прочутия хълм край Кърджали започва още преди 7000 години в края на каменно-медната епоха. Тогава там е създадено светилище, което продължава да функционира и през бронзовата, ранно- и късножелязната епоха (II - I хил. пр. Хр.). Вече след идването на римляните в началото на новата ера е основан значителен град, просперирал и през Средновековието чак до 1361 г., когато след тежка обсада е превзет от османските турци. В книгата подробно се разглеждат най-вече ... |
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It was then that Erda, the great mother goddess, uttered an onerous prophesy: only a man of free will could wear the Ring and direct its might. The Rheingold brought damnation to all others and they all, dwarf or giant, mortal or god, would fall victim and the Ring would vanquish them... But if a man of free will were to don it, all would be freed and the gods would perish. Peter Stanimirov is a Bulgarian artist. His name associate with comics magazine "Rainbow", with "Pleiades Publishing House" and book covers of Stephen King and Dean Koontz , with the boom of books games at Bulgaria, with his ... |
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Aestheticization in tourism is used in different types of projects in all kinds of tourism objects like hotels, resorts, restaurants, sport and golf clubs, casinos, cruise ships and others. The designer’s role is especially important for the success of these projects. In his activities he will comply with the essence of the tourist, the functional requirements of the object, the requirements of the standards for achieving a certain image (for example in the hotel chains), as well as with the budgetary and financial constraints. Aesthetic solutions in the tourism reflects the goals that the objects want to implement, such ... |
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From the author of "Small Great Things" and "A Spark of Light" comes a "powerful" novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. ... |
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. In snowy Manhattan a client asks private investigator Nat Marley to help with a family problem. But after someone dies, things turn serious and Marley has an unusual case on his hands. As his client says, 'Snakes and drugs don't go together.' Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book. ... |
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Края на 1327 г. Монахът Уилям от Баскервил, натоварен с деликатна дипломатическа мисия, попада в един манастир в Северна Италия. Още в началото му се налага да разплита поредица от тайнствени убийства, които окървавяват манастирската библиотека - един недостъпен лабиринт. Уилям ще разкрие загадките, но за това ще трябва да разгадае поредица от улики и знаци - от поведението на светците до това на еретиците; от езика на тревите, до езика на старинните ръкописи. ... |
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London ... |
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Abridged, introduced and annotated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, ... |