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21Thomas Reid , Alexander Campbell Fraser (1898)
1898. This little book is an attempt to present Reid in a fresh light, and in his relations to present-day thought. It deals with the Scottish chapter in that enduring alternation between agnostic… 680 руб22The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun , J. R. R. Tolkien (2010)
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J. R. R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of… 847 руб23The Obamas , Firstbrook Peter (2005)
Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family, tracing Obama's roots from the present back through more than 20 generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's… 1064 руб24Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black , Gordimer Nadine (2009)
"You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you... But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with… 823 руб25The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinise Antology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (2011)
Chu ci (The Songs of the South) and its northern counterpart, Shi jing, are the two great ancestors of Chinese poetry and contain all we know of its ancient beginnings. The Songs of the South is an… 949 руб26The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun , J. R. R. Tolkien (2010)
In the Lay of the Volsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie… 689 руб27The Penguin Book of Word Histories , Fred McDonald (2012)
Compiled by Fred McDonald, this new book traces the origins and explains the meanings of approximately 15, 000 words. Words with similar ancestry or semantic development are cross-referenced or… 1987 руб28Pegasus , Danielle Steel (2014)
As widowers, two men are raising their children alone - Nicolas's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter - and lead contented, peaceful lives. Until a long-buried secret about Nicolas's… 1149 руб29The English Language: A Historical Introduction , Barber (2009)
Where does today's English come from? This new edition of the bestseller by Charles Barber tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day. In response to demand from… 2165 руб30Tocqueville , Harvey C. Mansfield (2010)
No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and… 493 руб
