Название: Чай с Джейн Остин
Автор: Ким Уилсон
Издательство: СЛОВО/SLOVO
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Язык: Русский
Размер: 67 Мб

Чай - напиток, без которого невозможно представить ни дня. Мы пьем чай на завтрак, после обеда и за ужином. Черный чай, зеленый, листовой и в пакетиках, холодный, с фруктами - миллионы вариантов на любой вкус. Однако не так давно чай был предметом роскоши, позволить себе который могли лишь обеспеченные люди. Удивительно трепетным было отношение к чаепитию: это был ритуал со своими правилами и особенностями.

Название: You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City
Автор: Katharine Harmon
Издательство: Princeton Architectural Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilities, thick with mythology, and glutted with history. You Are Here: NYC assembles some two hundred maps charting every inch and facet of the five boroughs, depicting New Yorks of past and present, and a city that never was.

Название: How to Do the Times Crossword
Автор: Brian Greer
Издательство: Trafalgar Square
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Times crossword has a reputation above all other crosswords. There are many techniques required to tackle the clues and this guide explains them all. Written by Brian Greer, a former Crossword Editor of The Times, How to do The Times Crossword provides the introduction to understanding how The Times crossword is compiled and how you should go about solving its clues. It provides advice on how to tackle the crossword and how to read each clue so that you can find its solution. Clues could be homophones, anagrams or a combination of the two! What is common to all the clues is that they require a clear and logical approach to solve them successfully. Indeed, what at first sight appears opaque in a clue is explained and made clear, showing the variety of ways in which cryptic clues can be constructed.

Название: Lonely Planet Eastern USA
Автор: Karla Zimmerman
Издательство: Lonely Planet
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 140 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Lonely Planet Eastern USA is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Hail a yellow cab in New York City, take in some honky-tonk in Nashville, or laze in the dunes of Cape Cod; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the Eastern USA and begin your journey now!

Название: Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords
Автор: Charles Pappas
Издательство: Lyons Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 41 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Every time you plug your phone into a wall socket, flick on a TV, withdraw money from an ATM, lick an ice-cream cone, switch on a computer, ride an escalator, play a DVR, watch a movie about dinosaurs, get fingerprinted, or pop a tranquilizer, you're doing something that originated at a world's fair or trade expo.

Название: Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book
Автор: Jack Waley-Cohen and Victoria Coren Mitchell
Издательство: BBC Books
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 43 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Keep the whole family entertained at Christmas RY CLV RNGH? Can you find the connection between Jezebel, Chopin's piano, Jan Masayrk and The Burghers of Prague? Only Connect is the ultimate test of knowledge and lateral thinking. Since 2008 the fiendishly difficult quiz show has been challenging contestants to find connections between apparently unrelated clues.

Название: Собачьи радости
Автор: Ортолия-Байрд Александра
Издательство: Добрая книга
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 96
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 45.0 Мб
Язык: русский

Эту книгу придумала английская студентка Александра, лучшие друзья которой валлийский терьер Д'Артаньян и красавица-кошка Амелия Джейн. Откройте ее и улыбнитесь, глядя, как радуются жизни собаки.

Название: 101 Bets You Will Always Win: The Science of the Seemingly Impossible
Автор: Howard Hughes
Издательство: Boxtree
Год: 2001
Формат: AZW3, EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

What would you do if someone bet you they could balance a coin on the edge of a banknote, walk through a postcard, or make you move your limbs through the power of suggestion? Would you take that bet? From Richard Wiseman, the creator of the 350-million-view YouTube phenomenon, Quirkology, comes a thrilling mix of lateral thinking, magic tricks and scintillating science stunts which is sure to appeal to curious minds everywhere.

Название: Lonely Planet Thailand, 16th Edition
Автор: Lonely Planet
Издательство: Lonely Planet
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 58 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Lonely Planet Thailand is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander through wild orchids in Mae Hong Son, charter a longtail boat on the Andaman Coast or look for tigers and monkeys in national parks; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Thailand and begin your journey now!

Название: Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability
Автор: Paul J. Nahin
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2013
Формат: AZW3, EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? Will you be alive ten years from now? These are just some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that acclaimed popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book. Nahin brings probability to life with colorful and amusing historical anecdotes as well as an electrifying approach to solving puzzles that illustrates many of the techniques that mathematicians and scientists use to grapple with probability. He looks at classic puzzles from the past--from Galileo's dice-tossing problem to a disarming dice puzzle that would have astonished even Newton--and also includes a dozen challenge problems for you to tackle yourself, with complete solutions provided in the back of the book.