Ivan - Libros y biografía

While Percy's best friend and business partner lies in a coma, Percy has only days to figure out whether it was an accident or attempted murder before he loses everything. Percy gets a call that Johnny...

What if your family was cursed or murdered? What would you pay to find out? In this award-winning multi-genre novel set in 1977 New York, Percy is brought back into the world of his childhood when his...

Ivan Sergeievich Turguêniev (1818 - 1883, Paris, França) foi um dos mais importantes romancistas e dramaturgos russos, mas não deve ser visto somente como um grande romancista, mas também como um grande...

Se um dia, olhando para o céu, você avistar uma nuvem que mais se parece com um jacaré, não se preocupe: é que a nuvem está recheada de sonhos. E não é só ela, não. Os sonhos estão por toda parte: no...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAROne of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it'We are able to imagine anything...

On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of...

The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates...

Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend...

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there.Introducing...

Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the...

When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida....

For model engineers and small workshops that don't have access to sophisticated and expensive measuring equipment, this guide will show them how to sufficiently measure and mark themselves! Measuring...

Écrit en 1923, ce texte relate le dernier séjour de Chméliov en Crimée, lieu de vacances qui fut jadis paradisiaque. La première vague partagea le butin, mais la seconde, celle de la terreur rouge, suivie...

Ivan Tourgueniev (1818-1883)'C’était une calme matinée d’été. Le soleil montait dans le ciel limpide, et la rosée brillait dans les champs. Une fraîcheur odoriférante s’élevait du vallon à peine éveillé...

Ivan Sergeievich Turguêniev (09/11/1818, Orel, Rússia - 03/09/1883, Paris, França) foi um dos mais importantes romancistas e dramaturgos russos, juntamente com Tolstoi e Dostoievski. Publicado em 1856,...

Você pode ter dinheiro, fama, diplomas, falar vários idiomas e até ter uma ocupação profissional importante, mas se não souber lidar com pessoas – especialmente as mais difíceis –, não terá sucesso e...

Bazárov, um jovem talentoso, impaciente e cáustico, viaja para a casa de seu amigo Arcádio Kirssanov. Mas logo a rejeição aberta de Bazárov à autoridade e às convenções sociais desencadeia brigas, mal-entendidos...

SummaryFunctional Programming in C++ teaches developers the practical side of functional programming and the tools that C++ provides to develop software in the functional style. This in-depth guide is...

As Arkady Kirsanov returns home after graduation, his father waits patiently for him—excited to see his much-loved son once again. But in returning home to a world that has remained static, Arkady and...

This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies.Jick McCaskill,...

A fresh new voice in American Buddhism -- a twenty-nine-year-old raised among Buddhists in California -- offers wisdom for both longtime practitioners and a new generation of students in this fascinating...

In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar’s empire, four Scandinavian indentured servants—seven-year men no better off than slaves—resolve to escape from Russian Alaska. They steal an Indian canoe...

Ivan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky—inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II—is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence and...

Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal’s most audacious projects—the damming of the Missouri River.Through the...

At fifty-something, environmental reporter Mitch Rozier has grown estranged from Seattle's coffee shop and cyber culture. His newspaper is going under, and his relationship with Lexa McCaskill is stalled...

" Une soirée littéraire " est un texte de Gontcharov publié en 1890 et inédit en français, qui offre au lecteur un extraordinaire moment théâtral où s’affrontent les tenants de différents courants littéraires....

Ce recueil, composé de trois nouvelles nous fait découvrir un auteur plein d’humour et de curiosité pour ses semblables. « Est-il bien ou est-il mal de vivre en ce monde » révèle davantage un Gontcharov...

Do you feel like a fraud? Do you sabotage yourself before reaching your goals?If your answer is yes, you are likely struggling with excessive self-criticism or imposter syndrome. These two silent enemies...

Does it ever make sense that anger dominates you and negatively affects your relationships, your health, and your overall well-being? If you are looking for an effective way to manage and control anger,...