George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world, containing over 400,000 images and negatives - among them the work of such masters as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams. Home also to 23,000 cinema ... |
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This book surveys the major linguistic and social changes which shaped the English language. It begins with the Proto-Indo-European common ancestor, goes through Old English and Middle English providing illustrations of the changes with authentic texts, and finishes with Early Modern English. The text is written for advanced non-native students of English who are curious to find out how from some obscure Germanic dialects spoken in an abandoned Roman colony on the edge of Europe a new global language evolved. ... |
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From the Big Bang to Black Holes. The phenomenal international bestseller. Updated editition. ... Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time - from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and string theory. To this day a A Brief History Of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its ... |
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Andrei Danchev (1933 - 1996) was a Bulgarian linguist, Anglicist and Americanist who worked for the Department of English and American Studies at Sofia University. Danchev was the author of a widely accepted system for the Bulgarian transcription of English names and, together with M. Holman, E. Dimova and M. Savova, also an English-oriented system for the Romanization of Bulgarian known as the Danchev System. ... |
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A very special anthology that's a must for all fans of the Shadowhunter novels! ... Featuring characters from "The Mortal Instruments", "The Infernal Devices" and "The Dark Artifices" among others, this very special illustrated collection showcases beautiful portraits alongside never-before-known details about all your favourite characters from Cassandra Clare 's Shadowhunters' world. ... |
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The Sunday Times bestseller. ... 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top ... |
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"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." ... "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series promoted a second set of stories, "The Memoirs". In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Ned Halley. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A baby is found by wood nymphs in the forest of Burzee. They raise him as their own and give him the name Neclaus. When he grows up, Neclaus has to leave the forest so he makes a home for himself in the laughing valley of Hohaha, where he lives amongst humans for the first time. He discovers there that many children are very poor and neglected so, to cheer them up, he whittles wooden toys as gifts. Eventually he makes presents for all the children and so the story of Santa Claus is born. Fashioned as a whimsical fairy tale, & ... |
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Фентъзи епос на всички времена. ... Разкъсваното от войни кралство най-сетне се оказва на прага на мира... за да се хвърли в пропастта на още по-страшно унищожение. Всичко изглежда твърде хубаво, за да е истина. Войната на петимата крале най-сетне е замряла в тревожно затишие. Изглежда, Домът на Ланистър и техните съюзници са победили. Но като след всяка съдбоносна борба, скоро започват да се събират оцелели, разбойници, ренегати и лешояди, за да разровят костите на мъртвите и да се бият за плячка над издъхващите. Време е мъдрите и тласканите от амбиция, коварните и силните да придобият опита, силата и магията, ... |
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What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. The problem is, we're not very good at it. In a landmark, twenty-year study, Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed that the average expert was only slightly better at predicting the future than a layperson using random guesswork. Tetlock's latest project - an unprecedented, government-funded forecasting ... |
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"It is well know to all how much daily problems the Bulgarian people has in these days. However, more dangerous than anything is the tendency to loose identity and national selfconfidence. This is a clearly visible tendency in the inscriptions of foreign languages, mass emigration and the wish for imitation of foreign culture. At other side, the answer to the question, "Why are you ashamed to call youself Bulgarian?" is more than obvious: there is in the present time to be proud of. The above-described situation makes preservation and popularization of Bulgarian History extraordinarily important. If it ... |
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"За мишките и хората" (1937) се радва на голям успех още с появата си. Това е невероятно затрогващ разказ за сложната спойка между двама мигриращи селскостопански работници - Джордж Милтън и Лени Смол. Те пътуват от ферма на ферма в търсене на временна работа и мечтаят един ден да си имат собствена ферма. Лени е едър и тромав, умствено изостанал мъж, който по детски се радва на всичко пухкаво и меко. Джордж бащински го закриля и внимава Лени да не направи някоя беля поради извънредно голямата си физическа сила, която не умее да контролира... Джон Стайнбек (1902 - 1968) е роден в калифорнийския град Салинас, ... |