Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul's strikingly original responses to India's paralyzing caste system, its acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. This may be the most ... |
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Discover how a cosmic perspective can change everything. Why are we here? What gives us hope? How do we know? 101 exchanges with the most influential scientist on the planet."The most popular scientist in the world". Sunday Times "Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all." Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acclaimed scientist on the planet. As director of the Hayden Planetarium, and host of Cosmos and StarTalk, he has dedicated his life ... |
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Илюстрована туристическа карта на България Картата е на английски език. ... |
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Compiled by Rosemary Gray. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "London: An Illustrated Literary Companion", captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. ... |
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The book introduces the reader into sociological knowledge and focuses on the classical sociological heritage with its key conceptual and methodological strands and its application in the contemporary reading of social phenomena and processes. The reader will learn about the development of sociology and the characteristics of the sociological perspective and sociological imagination. The book presents the achievements of the classical sociological thinkers and the contemporary sociological schools of thought interpreting social reality. The reader is made aware of the elements of society, as well as of its major research ... |
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Romeo and Juliet meets Chinese mythology in this lyrical and magical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Colour of After. Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He's sick of being haunted by his family's past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his younger brother, a supernatural wind and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents expectations are stifling. Then her life is turned upside down by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival ... |
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Книгата е за всички, които си изкарват хляба с комуникации - рекламисти, пиари, маркетолози, бренд мениджъри, журналисти, икономисти, филолози, социолози, психолози, художници, политолози, учители, както и за студентите от тези дисциплини. Тя показва как да спечелим много като използваме най-успешната световна кампания на интегрирани маркетингови комуникации. Кампанията започва през 1981 г. и продажбите на водка Absolut са се увеличили с около 14 900% до 1995 г. И водката, и книгата са резултат от най-качествените суровини, технологии, научност и креативност. Книгата е подходящ пример за това как процъфтява любовта между ... |
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Соня Курц - бивш войник и оттеглил се наемник, е във Виетнам, посветена на плана си за лично отмъщение, когато получава сигнал за помощ от дъщеря си. Ема е студентка по археология и в момента присъства на разкопки по периферията на Национален парк Етоша в Намибия. Там тя открива останките на човешки труп, който датира от времето на войната за свобода на страната през 1980 г. Тялото, идентифицирано като Хъдсън Бранд, се оказва ключов елемент от пъзел, обещаващ да разкрие местонахождението на заровено съкровище от модерната епоха. За такава находка някои хора са готови да стигнат до убийство. Соня се завръща в родината си, ... |
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Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire's impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They've seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia's brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for ... |
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Красимир Атанасов учи в математическия факултет на Софийски университет Св. Климент Охридски и защитава докторска дисертация през 1986 г. Става доктор на техническите науки през 2000г. От 1998г. е професор в Центъра по биомедицинско инженерство при БАН. Той е главен редактор на 4 международни списания и е член на редакционните съвети на 11 други. Научните му интереси са в областта на размитите множества (той въвежда предмета интуиционистични размити множества и изследва неговите базисни свойства и някои от приложенията му в експертни системи, системни теории, вземане на решения, лекарства и други). Има около 500 ... |
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After losing his mother at a very young age, the narrator is thrust from his comfortable, middle-class environment, afforded by his distant but aristocratic father, into the wider world. His passion for music begins in Georgia's all-black church community and takes him from New York, where he plays ragtime for a rich white gentleman, to the South, where he witnesses lynchings and out of fear gives up his passion, as well as his race, to pass for white. Relevant to this day, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an unflinching account of black experience in America. James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an ... |
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In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe. We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years. Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time ... |
