Грейс Щрасер-Мендана e пенсионирана антроположка и богата вдовица от управляващата фамилия на Бока Гранде. В тази измислена република в Централна Америка пристига и североамериканката Шарлът Дъглас. Тя се надява, че по някакъв начин там ще я открие дъщеря ѝ, която бяга от закона. Грейс разказва историята на Шарлът като история за семейните отношения и ценности, за невинността и злото, за отчуждението и политическото насилие. В крайна сметка, има ли място за любовта в един разпадащ се от вътрешни противоречия и напрежения свят? Молитвеник е една от най-известните книги на Джоун Дидиън - легендарна журналистка и ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Животът се променя за секунда. Сядаш да вечеряш и животът такъв, какъвто го познаваш, свършва. Какво остава от него, когато съпругът ти, с когото си споделил четиридесет години, умира внезапно, а единствената ти дъщеря е в кома в болницата? Култовата писателка Джоун Дидиън търси отговора в разтърсваща автобиографична изповед. Разказът на Дидиън за скръбта ѝ след смъртта на мъжа ѝ - писателя Джон Грегъри Дън, е болезнен, но и топъл - разказ за загубата, спомена и любовта, която бди над смисъла на живота. Джоун Дидиън (р. 1934) е американска писателка - авторка на романи, филмови сценарии, публицистични ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The first official Stranger Things novel. Before the Demogorgon... before the Mind Flayer... terror wore a human face. ... A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven’s mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down. It's the summer of 1969. The world is changing, and Terry Ives isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment, she signs on as a test subject. But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory - and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner - lurks a dark ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Книгата е част от "Индийската поредица" на издателство "Жанет-45". ... Джумпа Лахири е родена в Лондон през 1967 г., в семейство на индийски имигранти, но израства в Америка, на североизточното крайбрежие. Първият ѝ сборник с разкази - "Преводачът на болести", излязъл през 1999 г., ѝ носи международна известност и наградата "Пулицър" за литература през 2000 г. Романът ѝ "Името" е екранизиран от режисьорката Мира Наир. Публикуваната през 2008 г. "Непривична земя" я извежда на първо място в списъка с бестселъри на "Ню Йорк Таймс", ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is now a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai became ronin, samurai without a master. And so began their long plan for revenge on Kira. Their loyalty to their dead master made him famous, and people in Japan remember them to this day. The story of the fortyseven ronin has been told and retold for 300 years - in plays, novels, and films. A major Hollywood film was made about the forty-seven ronin in 2013. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The monograph Education 4.0 and innovative techniques in teaching attempts to present the latest models and techniques of teaching, as well as the challenges facing higher education institutions in a COVID-19 pandemic. Given the specifics of the subject, the publication will be useful for professionals in the field of teaching accounting and finance at universities, and for all who are interested in the problems of innovative teaching methods. Assoc. Prof. Nadya Velinova-Sokolova , PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Finance and Accounting at the Faculty of Economics and Business Adminisration, Sofia University St. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Foreign languages are the communicative means of bridging the gap between cultures and people (Vesselinov, 2019a, p. 7). At the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) - Sofia, Bulgaria, the foreign language teaching is organized and carried out by the lecturers at the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of International Economics and Politics, who periodically update their syllabuses and regularly publish textbooks and workbooks for the different majors (Vesselinov, 2019b, p. 180). Along with studying English as a first or second foreign language, UNWE students of Economics or ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Join Holly and Tom on a family day out - with them you can enjoy funfair rides, games and a meal in a restaurant. In all the excitement, Holly and Tom remember to be kind to their baby brother. "Macmillan English Explorers" is an eight-level reading scheme written specifically for young learners of English. They bring first language teaching methods to reading lessons in international classrooms. Informed by the National Literacy Strategy and by teaching methodology for first language speakers of English, "Macmillan Explorers" is supported by an understanding of the needs of young learners and teachers ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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This textbook is designed for students taking a university degree in International Relations (IR), European Studies (ES) and Political Science (PS) at Bulgarian universities, including the University of National and World Economy (UNWE). Another potential target group of users are students majoring in journalism, law or management who need to understand and express key concepts in politics, economics and international relations. Students with an advanced level of proficiency in English will gain most benefit from this textbook. The latter has been graded as advanced level, considering that a basic prerequisite for ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Брилянтен военноисторически труд, който напълно доказва твърдението на Уинстън Чърчил, че първият месец на Първата световна война е бил "ненадмината драма". Нюзуик В това знаково, наградено с "Пулицър" изследване, историкът Барбара Тъкман пресъздава първия месец на Първата световна война: трийсет дни през лятото на 1914, които определят хода на конфликта, на историята и в крайна сметка - на облика на настоящия свят. Започва с погребението на английския крал Едуард VII - най-голямото събиране на кралски особи и висши държавници някога, и проследява ескалирането на напрежението и неизбежния сблъсък, ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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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 ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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"The history of the Jewish ethnicity and its material culture are inseparable from Bulgarian history and culture. Regardless of the preceding series of conscientiously carried separate studies on the topic of the fate of local Jewish communities and especially on the issue of synagogues as their most prominent artistic creations during the long centuries of exile, the "last word" in that respect was not either said or written until now. Professor Jan Assmann of Heidelberg University says: "The cultural memory procures "breathing air" to the world that is too narrow for the everyday realities ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |