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Суперлинкоры Муссолини |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Корабли, подводные лодки |
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Автор: Арсений Малов, Сергей Патянин
Издательство: Яуза, Эксмо, Коллекция
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 978-5-699-39675-7
Количество страниц: 176
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
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"Итальянцы строят корабли лучше, чем потом на них плавают" - правота этого уничижительного отзыва Уинстона Черчилля подтверждается всей историей Второй Мировой. К началу войны Италия всерьез претендовала на господство в Средиземном море, обладая самыми мощными кораблями на этом театре военных действий - великолепными линкорами "Литторио", "Витторио Венето" и "Рома", превосходившими все, что имели Союзники. Однако достойно распорядиться этими шедеврами кораблестроения итальянские адмиралы так и не смогли - результативность новейших суперлинкоров дуче оказалась близка к нулю: за всю войну они записали на свой счет лишь одно (!) попадание во вражеский корабль, причем в эсминец, да и то скорее случайно. Зато их противники неоднократно ухитрялись вывести итальянские линкоры из строя - "Литторио" и "Витторио Венето" то и дело отправлялись на верфь ремонтироваться после удачных атак английской авиации и подводных лодок. А кульминацией "невезучести" стало потопление "Ромы" и повреждение "Литторио" недавними союзниками немцами по пути на Мальту, где должна была произойти капитуляция итальянского флота. Германские асы накрыли линкоры радиоуправляемыми планирующими бомбами - первый в истории опыт успешного боевого применения высокоточного оружия!
О незавидной судьбе, несчастливой службе и бесславной гибели гордости фашистского флота рассказывает эта книга, богато иллюстрированная сотнями уникальных чертежей и фотографий. |
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Блюда из птицы |
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Категория: Домоводство, досуг » Кулинария, пища |
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Автор: коллектив
Издательство: Цитадель-трейд
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 5-9564-0024-2
Количество страниц: 64
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
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Если Вы хотите приготовить какое-то особенное, и в то же время по домашнему вкусное блюдо из птицы, то его рецепт Вы обязательно найдете в этой книге.
Побалуйте себя вкусненьким... Это же так просто!!! |
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When the Universe Took a U-turn |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: B. G. Sidharth
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Company
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 9814277819
Количество страниц: 200
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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This book addresses some of the baffling questions encountered at the final frontier of space and time related to particle physics and cosmology in the context of recent iconoclastic observations and developments. When particle physics stagnated in the early seventies, a new development emerged - String Theory. For the past 25 years, String Theory, popularly called the Theory of Everything, has mesmerized not just scientists, but also the general public. Yet a closer scrutiny today reveals that it is no more than a mathematical marvel. It has neither predicted anything nor has it been anywhere near verification. We are essentially where we were in the early seventies. Another chronic problem that Einstein had abandoned was the unified description of his theory of General Relativity that deals with the Universe at large and Electromagnetism which is to do with particles. Such a description is necessary even if it warrants a radical departure from our time-honoured ideas of space and time. A bright spot has now appeared in Cosmology. Iconoclastic observations in the past years have shown that the Universe is actually accelerating, driven by a mysterious Dark Energy. This book takes the lay reader through these uncharted waters and mind-boggling developments on an unimaginable journey from the ultra small to the farthest stretches conceivable, via such imagination defying concepts as extra dimensions and multiple universes. |
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Youth Prolonged: Old Age Postponed |
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Категория: Генетика, иммунология, бактериология, Прочая медицинская литература |
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Автор: Robert Weale
Издательство: Imperial College Press
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 1848165072
Количество страниц: 148
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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What exactly is human ageing? Can it be slowed down? These questions have puzzled scientists and laymen alike for generations, and continue to do so today. The author addresses these thought-provoking issues by challenging pre-conceived notions of age-perception, age-acceptance and inter-age relations. Pertinent matters of age-related communication are dealt with, and the reader is treated to a grand tour of the latest theories of ageing, age-related biological changes and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease. Here, the author's expertise in age-related eye diseases truly comes into its own.
Weale's unique work not only underlines important genetic and avoidable risk factors but gives ample consideration to possible consequences stemming from different early lifestyles. Readers will re-consider their ideas of what it means to age, and gain a better understanding of what can and cannot slow down the process of ageing. |
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The Age of Constantine the Great |
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Категория: Гуманитарные науки » Исторические науки » Всемирная история, древний мир |
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Автор: acob Burckhardt; Moses Hadas (Translator
Издательство: University of California Press
Год издания: 1983
isbn: 0520046803
Количество страниц: 11
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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No epoch of remote history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of transition between the ancient and the medieval world, when a familiar order of things visibly died and teas supplanted by a new. Other transitions become apparent only in retrospect; that of the age of Constantine, like our own, was patent to contemporaries. Old institutions, in the sphere of culture as of government, had grown senile; economic balances were altered; peoples hitherto on the peripheries of civilization demanded attention, and a new and revolutionary social doctrine with an enormous emotional appeal was spread abroad by men with a religious zeal for a new and authoritarian cosmopolitanism and with a religious certainty that their end justified their means. For us, contemporary developments have made the analogy inescapable, but Jacob Burckhardt's insight led him to a singularly clear apprehension of the meaning of the transition almost a century ago, and the analogy implicit in his book is the more impressive as it was unpremeditated. |
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The Other St Petersburg |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Науки о Земле » География, путешествия, путеводители |
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Автор: John Nickolson
Издательство: St Petersburg
Год издания: 1994
isbn: 5-88143-010-7
Количество страниц: 102
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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An alternative guide to St Petersburg. Who are the real Petersburgers? What is portwine? Why is it important to be kind? Are Petersburgers just very inept? Why could you never mistake a Petersburger for a Muscovite?
The Other St Petersburg asks the questions other guidebooks are afraid to ask and comes up with the answers no one else has yet dared to publish.
The Other St Petersburg contains - amongst much else - translations of short stories by Daniil Kharms (The Old Woman, 1939) and Yevgeny Zvyagin (Shades of the Hermitage, 1983), and absolutely no mention of the Kirovsky Ballet, matryoshki, Peter the Great or what to do when your baggage gets rerouted via Melbourne. |
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100 Years of Fashion Illustration |
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Категория: Домоводство, досуг » Одежда, мода, украшения |
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Автор: Cally Blackman
Издательство: Laurence King Publishers
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 1856694623
Количество страниц: 384
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, this is a comprehensive survey of the genre over the last century. The book also offers an overview of the development of fashion, as seen through the eyes of the greatest illustrators of the day. Early in the century fashion illustration reflected new, liberating currents in art and culture, such as the exoticism of the Ballets Russes, while the postwar period saw inspiration from the great Parisian couturiers. After the dominance of the celebrity fashion photographer in the '60s, a new generation of illustrators emerged, embracing the medium of the computer, while many returned to more traditional techniques.
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Composting For Dummies |
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Категория: Домоводство, досуг » Садоводство, цветоводство, огород, растения |
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Автор: Cathy Cromell, The National Gardening Association
Издательство: For Dummies
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0470581611
Количество страниц: 216
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Back-to-basics gardening that will benefit the earth and your wallet!
Want to use ordinary waste to create an extraordinary garden? Composting lets you turn household food waste, yard clippings, and more into free compost and mulch that's chock-full of nutrients. From building and working with traditional compost bins to starting an indoor worm-composting operation, Composting For Dummies makes these often intimidating projects easy, fun, and accessible for anyone!
• Digging into compost basics — get a handle on the benefits of composting and the tools you'll need to get started
• Choosing the best method and location — find the best composting method and location that's right for you, whether it's above ground, in a hole, in a container or bin, or even right in your kitchen
• Building your pile — learn which ingredients can go into your compost pile, what stays out, and how to mix it all up in the right proportions
• Stepping beyond traditional composting — get the lowdown on vermicomposting (letting worms eat your garbage), growing green manures to compost later, and sheet composting in the same spot you plan to plant |
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Cercidiphyllum and Fossil Allies: Morphological Interpretation and General Problems of Plant Evolution And... |
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Категория: Биологические науки |
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Автор: K. Krassilov
Издательство: Pensoft Pub
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 9546425249
Количество страниц: 151
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Cercidiphyllum is a relict angiosperm bringing to us a flavor of Cretaceous Period. Its reproductive morphology was interpreted, in the spirit of the dominant evolutionary paradigm, as inflorescences of reduced flowers represented by solitary pistils and groups of stamens. Evolutionary significance of Cercidiphyllum has long been anticipated despite the unpersuasive morphological interpretation and irrelevant paleobotanical evidence. This work was initially intended for paleobotanists who willingly compare their fossil material with the living Cercidiphyllum, using schematic descriptions and illustrations of traditional plant morphology. The idea behind this book was to provide an adequately illustrated material for such comparisons. Yet it turned out that there are more things in Cercidiphyllum than are dreamed of in our traditional plant morphology. Some of morphological findings of this study, such as the replacement of the floral structure by leafy shoots or the subtending bract-leaf conversion are relevant to the experimental "evo-devo" studies and bear on general problems of angiosperm evolution. In Cercidiphyllum, the vegetative body is partly or mostly produced in the reproductive line, suggesting a neotenic ancestral form, in which the vegetative development was drastically reduced relative to reproductive domain. Later in evolutionary history, the vegetative body was rebuilt in the lineage on the way to arboreal forms, with foliation of the floral receptacles and the carpel-leaf convergence as side effects of the process. |
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Plant Bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera Heteroptera), of Cuba (Faunistica) |
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Категория: Биологические науки, Малакология. Моллюски |
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Автор: Louis M. Hernandez, Thomas J. Henry
Издательство: Pensoft Pub
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 954642529X
Количество страниц: 212
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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This taxonomic review of the Cuban Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) treats 105 species in 57 genera. Twelve new species are described, two new synonyms are recognized, and four previously recorded species are removed from the list. All genera and species are diagnosed, and a thorough literature review and information on host plants and distribution are given. Male genitalia are illustrated and a color image is provided for nearly all species. Identification keys to subfamilies, tribes, genera, and species are included, and the biogeography of the Cuban and West Indian mirid fauna is discussed. This work will form a solid foundation for future research on the plant bugs of Cuba, providing a summary of the information known about each species and the means to accurately identify them. |
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