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  • 1National and municipal finance, shewing that imperial taxes are excessive and local rates oppressive, why they are so burdensome and how they may be relieved , Jones Walter (2011)
    Книга представляет собой репринтное издание. Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по… 689 руб

  • 2The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women , Naomi Wolf (2009)
    In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded In silence -women's compulsive pursuit of Beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. In… 1429 руб

  • 3Womens view , Natasha Perova (1992)
    Virtually every one denounces the oppressiveness of being a woman in Russia; whether through the oppressive conformity of the past or disorder of the present 1093 руб

  • 4Tremendous Trifles , G. K. Chesterton (1909)
    So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was aniconoclasm; it was the breaking of a stone image… 1775 руб

  • 5Samuel Johnson , Leslie Stephen (1910)
    Boswell saw in him chiefly the great dictator of conversation; and though the reports of Johnson's talk represent his character in spite of some qualifications with unusual fulness, there were many… 1308 руб

  • 6Nadirs , Muller Herta (1999)
    Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual… 1973 руб

  • 7Sense and Sensibility , Austen Jane (2008)
    Famously characterized as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of civilized society and the human desire for romantic passion, there is far more to… 1356 руб

  • 8In Evil Hour , Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014)
    As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster lead to a… 1139 руб

  • 9Letters from the count de Las Cases , Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases (1819)
    Полный вариант заголовка: «Letters from the count de Las Cases : consisting of a 2d letter to Prince Lucien Bonaparte, in which is contained an account of the circumstances… руб электронная книга

  • 10Shirley , Шарлотта Бронте
    Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on… руб электронная книга