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61What a World. Listening 3: Amazing Stories from Around the Globe (+ Audio CD) , Broukal Milada (2012)
What a World: Amazing Stories from Around the Globe, is a six-book series that explores many fascinating topics from around the world and across history. The stories in What a World cover a diverse… 1681 руб62Walker Evans: American Photographs , Kirstein Lincoln (2013)
More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also… 2983 руб63Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain , Welshman John (2010)
'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on. People pulled and tugged at the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market... people just waded in. I went with a lady and her… 976 руб64Tolstoy: A Russian Life , Bartlett (2013)
In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most… 1307 руб65The Spectre of Alexander Wolf , Gazdanov (2013)
Gaito Gazdanov, the son of a forester, joined Baron Wrangel's White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from 1920 onwards, he took on what jobs he could and… 998 руб66Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) , Krull Kathleen (2000)
It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people - and other famous musicians - really like… 988 руб67Leningrad: Siege and Symphony , Moynahan Brian (2014)
In Leningrad Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it… 928 руб68Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs , Adams Ansel (2013)
Beautifully reproduced and cleanly presented, the four hundred images in this volume represent the finest work of a pre-eminent landscape photographer. The photographs are arranged chronologically… 1838 руб69Russian Empire , Гайдамак Аркадий (2000)
Strange as it may seem, however, there are almost no books devoted to this most famous of periods in Russian art. The most recent fundamental studies on the Russian Empire style appeared as long ago… 1218 руб70Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace , Massie Suzanne (1993)
Like the rings in a tree, two centuries of turbulent events have left their imprint on the history of the palace at Pavlovsk. In this, her first book since her classic Land of the Firebird, Suzanne… 1157 руб
