From Athena to Alexander the Great and from Egypt to Ethiopia, author Piotr Socha explores different methods of beekeeping and uncovers the debt that humans owe this vital species. His beautiful guide for children offers full-color two-page topical entries dominated by large, detailed illustrations with text running along the lower half of the pages. Bees are essential to the health of...

In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant’s box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no ‘manager of the Holocaust,’ as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt—covering the trials for The New Yorker—believed him. Eichmann Before Jerusalem challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmann’s story and...

Книги знаменитой на весь мир английской писательницы Джейн Остин уже давно снискали себе славу и читательскую любовь. Перу Остин принадлежат такие изящные и искрометные романы, как «Мэнсфилд-парк», «Эмма», «Нортенгерское аббатство» и другие. В них, как отмечал С. Моэм, «ее интересовало обыкновенное, а не то, что зовется необыкновенным. Однако благодаря остроте зрения, иронии и остроумию все,...

Map covers the Transcarpathian Hiking Trail, showing the marked and signed trail.

Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly...

«Мастер и Маргарита» М. А. Булгакова — самое удивительное и загадочное произведение ХХ века. Опубликованный в середине 1960-х, этот роман поразил читателей необычностью замысла, красочностью и фантастичностью действия, объединяющего героев разных эпох и культур. Автор создал «роман в романе», где сплетены воедино религиозно-историческая мистерия, восходящая к легенде о распятом Христе,...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, ‘aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair,’ a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the...

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II. The thrilling story of their courage and defiance, brought to life in the Oscar-nominated film Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, is beautifully told in this special 80th anniversary edition of Annette Dumbach & Jud Newborn's...