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91Egon Schiele. The Egoist , Jean-Louis Gaillemin (2007)
Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his… 817 руб92Tom Cruise: All the World's a Stage , Iain Johnstone (2007)
Tom Cruise is undoubtedly one of Hollywood's biggest stars and of the most powerful actors of his generation. He became a star in his first film, Risky Business, before he was 21. His later career… 1039 руб93The Accidental Billionaires , Ben Mezrich (2010)
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker… 1009 руб94The Broker , John Grisham (2007)
In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden… 509 руб95Mark Twain's America: A Celebration in Words and Images , Harry L. Katz (2014)
Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and healed post-Civil War America… 903 руб96Christian Art , Williamson Beth (2004)
Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the… 493 руб97The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (2008)
Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves? Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles… 616 руб98Planets , David A. Rothery (2010)
This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as… 493 руб99Newton , Lliffe Robert (2007)
This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose… 493 руб100Thomas Aquinas , Kerr Fergus (2009)
Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought… 493 руб
