The Sunday Times bestseller. ... 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top ... |
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Първият път, когато срещнете някого, установявате зрителен контакт. Усмихваш се, казваш здравей. Всичко е така просто, нали... ако този някой сте вие, а не съм аз. Първият път, когато срещнах Дилън Рийд, установих зрителен контакт с различна част от тялото му. Все пак, аз съм много добра в едно - да бъда срамежлива, да не говорим, че, за съжаление, съм и доста доста умела в това да се правя на глупак пред човек, който ме привлича. По онова време не знаех нищо за него, но се оказа, че Дилън беше звездата на футболния отбор, един от малкото играчи, за които се очакваше да влязат в НФЛ, и в крайна сметка, го срещах из целия ... |
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За всички свои фенове, които и за миг не спряха да вярват в таланта му, канадският тийн-любимец Джъстин Бийбър (Justin Bieber) издаде чаканият албум с ремикси "Believe (Acoustic)". Световната му премиера се състоя в края на януари 2013 г., а самия Бийбър го представи така: "Много неща се изписаха за този албум, и - ДА - той е факт! В него има нови аранжименти на песните и... няколко изненади!". Албумът включва акустични и лайв-версии на песни от третия му студиен албум "Believe" (2012), както и три нови записа. За лиричните души композицията "I Would" ще е истинска изненада в стил & ... |
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This book is an adaptation of seven of Edgar Allan Poes's famous short stories. It has about 3 000 headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text has been adapted and simplified, but it keeps the ideas and flavor found in the original stories. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, literary critic and a major figure in world literature."It would also be just to say that Edgar Allan Poe sacrificed his life to work, his human destiny to immortality." Jeorge Luis Borges "It's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's strories so much ... |
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As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family mansion of Edgar Allan Poe's dark psychological thriller, "The Fall of the House of Usher", to the bustling modern apartment building of John Cheever's domestic drama, "The Enormous Radio". Moods and attitudes shift from the simmering menace of a lynch mob in William Faulkner's "Dry September" to the gentle optimism of an elderly ... |
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Адаптирани разкази на английски език. ... "Поредицата "Adapted stories" на издателство "Веси" е предназначена за читатели, които са средно напреднали или напреднали (III - VI ниво) в обучението си по английски език. Тук оригиналният текст не е адаптиран в общия смисъл на понятието. Вместо да бъдат извадени относително сложните думи и изрази, те са допълнително обяснени. Идиоматичните, фразеологичните и някои по-особени лексикални форми са преведени под черта. За научните понятия (исторически, географски, митологични и пр.) са дадени обяснителни бележки. А евентуално непознатите за читателите думи ... |
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Based on several field trips to mount Athos, the present monograph examines and publushes the texts of seventy post-Byzantine Greek and Slavic documents kept in the monastery of Vatopedi. The author makes an attempt at restoring the monastery's history from the fall of Byzantium up to the year 1707 commenting many interesting details ot Vatopedi's social and cultural relations with the Balkans, the Near East, Italy and Russia. ... |
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Darian, autobiographical novel - Roman Sakarski."Darian is a novel about one's road through life. A road that can be described with the word freedom. This is a personal story in which the past is seen but its reflections are breathing in the present. The time in which one boy becomes a man. To get in love, to fall, but to rise again and to forget about the illusions. In this debut novel, the main character Darian leaves in two different eras: the communist-led Bulgaria, and after the fall of the Iron curtain and the democratic changes in its country. Darian seeks the truth during his path to happiness. Darian is ... |
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Compiled and edited by Nevena Dishlieva-Krysteva. ... This anthology contains twenty-six personal tales of youthful adventures, ridiculous hairstyles, bootleg cassette tapes, mafia thugs, hitchhiking and guitar-playing, free falling, and hopes for a bright future. All this took place against the backdrop of political and social cataclysms during the most vertiginous decade in Bulgaria’s recent history. A chronicle of euphoria, aspirations, and painful collapse. Stories from the '90s is the third and final book in the series of themed anthologies published by ICU, which also include My Brother's Suitcase and ... |
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It is now a traditional that the intellectual efforts of the participants at the Early Fall School in Semiotics (EFSS), organized annually by the Southeast Center for Semiotic Studied (SEECSS) at the New Bulgarian University, result in a collection of selected papers... ... |
