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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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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"My Bulgaria" is geared to young Bulgarians abroad who want to trace their roots as well as to any English-speaking people who would like to broaden their knowledge of the history of Bulgaria. All 51 richly illustrated chapters provide a concise yet in-depth description of historical events from Prehistory to Modernity."History does not make us grand but rather rational. It fosters an understanding of the core human values; it helps us learn from the mistakes of our predecessors; it instills in us pride of their achievements and thus boosts our confidence. A confident person is bound to be successful and ... |
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Part 1: Fro the Beginings to 1700 Part 2: 1700-1832 ... В настоящата книга се проследява развоят на английската литература от времето на първите литературни паметници (VII в.) докъм 1830 г., когато завършва периодът на романтизма. На фона на историческото, общественото, културното и техническото развитие на Англия от онова време авторът представя английската литература като постоянно развиващ се процес, очертава новите тенденции в съответните епохи, новите идеи и разкрива пътя, който поезията, драмата и прозата са изминали за десет века: през старо- и средноанглийския период, през епохата на ренесанса, барока и ... |
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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. Важно! Изданието е на много години и наличните бройки не са в перфектния вид, в който обичайно са книгите, които ... |
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Световната сила, каквато са Съединените американски щати, е по-млада дори от Британския музей, Гинес и тоалетната с казанче. През 2026 г. те ще отпразнуват своя 250-и рожден ден. Как тази огромна земя, населявана дълго време от различни индиански култури, се оказва доминирана от англоговорящи? Как страната се е справяла с рязкото противоречие между своите идеали за свобода и мрачната реалност на геноцид и робство? Тази изключителна общност от петдесет различни щата е преминала през огромни - и сравнително скорошни - изпитания, включително Гражданската война, която все още бушувала, когато се открила първата станция на ... |
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Bulgaria made its first steps as an independent state in the distant 681. It is one of the centuries. Its geographical position on the Balkans, the crossing of roads from and to Europe, Africa and Asia, determined the difficult historical destiny of the Bulgarian, state. The hardest ordeal for the Bulgarians was the annihilation of their state by the Ottoman Empire during the 14 th century. For nearly five centuries Bulgaria did not exist, but the Bulgarians manager to preserve their national identity. During the second half of the 19 th century the Bulgarian state once again appeared on the map of Europe and tried to ... |
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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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A Guidebook for Children and Adults. ... Книгата включва: 9 теми, обхващащи периода от възникване на Цивилизацията до IX век; над 1500 уникални цветни фотографии и илюстрации; подбрана галерия от снимки на фотографа Асен Великов, разкриващи красивото лице на България в народна носия. "История на славните българи" - бранител на българската история и образование. Ролята на "История на славните българи" е да покаже, че имаме основание да бъдем горд народ с постиженията си и да помогнем на децата да повдигнат пердето на заблудите, да осветим умозрението, за да видят един свят на древни герои и ... |
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"A yet too rare example of a balanced approach towards the Bulgarian past is what you will come upon in this book... You might not share the opinion of what has been laid out here; you might find the events and their explanation well-known or queer - anyway, it is worth reading it." Andrey Pantev, Professor of history ... |
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"History of medieval Sofia IV - XIV century" is a monograph dedicated to the eleventh-century-long existence of one of the most remarkable Balkan cities during the middle ages - The present day capital of Bulgaria - Sofia. It was situated along the Via Diagonalis through the Peninsula and was mentioned in the Annals from this age under the names Serdica, Sredets, Triaditza. Early Byzantine Serdica was a "Marvellous Metropolis" - the main city in the Province of Midland Dacia. A city favoured by Emperor Constantine The Great, in which he constructed a magnificent architectural ensemble.The council of ... |
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The Juvenilia and shorter works of Jane Austen with an afterword by Kathryn White. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites, representing what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket. It contains not only her hilarious History of England, illustrated by her favourite sister Cassandra, but the unfinished Sanditon, the novel of her maturity on which she was working at her death, aged 42. Also included are the two epistolary novels, "Lady Susan" and "Love and Friendship" [sic], and other, shorter works: "The Watsons", & ... |
