Pursuit
101What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (2014)
Millions visit xkcd. com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun… 2059 руб102Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society , Robert Wuthnow (2006)
On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward… 1050 руб103Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Sanction , Eric Van Lustbader (2009)
After so many adrenaline-soaked years risking his life, Jason Bourne is chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor. Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor asks for help… 469 руб104Villages , John Updike (2005)
In this wry novel of sentimental education and sexual pursuit, we follow Owen Mackenzie, a representative man of the author's generation, from cradle to grave, and from bed to bed. His life and… 949 руб105Breathing On Glass , Cryer Jennifer (2013)
Rhea - dark, intense and brilliant - and her golden, voluptuous sister Amber are not alike, but they are bound tighter than most: by love, by the loss of their father, and by the man who stands… 956 руб106Grandville Bete Noire , Bryan Talbot (2012)
The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state by the intervention of… 1749 руб107Blood Count , Goddard, Robert (2014)
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing… 853 руб108Policy Papers,№ 16: Hezbollah's Vision of the West , Martin Kramer (1989)
Hezbollah has sought to impart to Lebanon's Shi'ites a sense of power by emulating the example of revolutionary Iran, seeking purpose and unity through confrontation with the West. This pursuit of… 750 руб109The Vicar of Wakefield , Goldsmith Oliver (2008)
When Dr. Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the… 805 руб110The Nature of Monsters , Clark Clare (2008)
It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 15, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their… 714 руб