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Author
Series
Russians volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Yevnovana Burenin, a young peasant girl, brings her faith to her new work in a prince's palace in St. Petersburg where it has a transforming effect on the spoiled Princess Katrina.
Author
Publisher
D&B Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New fully revised and updated edition, complete with 2 brand new chapters on Chronic Pain and Well-being. Developed over a period of 100 years the Alexander Technique has helped people to successfully manage a wide variety of conditions, including back pain, stress, anxiety, ME, and asthma. The Alexander Technique is not a therapy or an exercise program. It is an in-depth study of how human reaction, co-ordination and movement play a part in everything...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but na�ve Natasha. As Napoleonb2ss armies menace their privileged lives, the horrors of the battlefield reach into the elegant ballrooms...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Revisit the timeless classic in this graphic retelling of Tolstoy's celebrated 1869 novel. In this beautifully rendered graphic adaptation, both fans and newcomers alike will be immersed in the world of War and Peace, one of the most celebrated Russian novels of all time, about the misadventures of Pyotr Kirillovich, Ilya Rostov, and company during the Napoleonic era of Russia. With richly detailed settings recreating the villas and ballrooms of 19th...
Author
Publisher
BLUME
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
"La técnica Alexander es una manera muy eficaz de liberar la tensión muscular de su cuerpo. Le enseñará nuevos modos de sentarse, de estar de pie y de moverse para ejercer menos tensión en sus músculos, huesos y articulaciones. Siga los métodos y ejercicios que se muestran en el libro y se moverá con comodidad y facilidad, y aliviará o evitará muchos dolores y molestias frecuentes."--Publisher's website.
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity-but it was an unimaginable tragedy...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.
17) War and peace
Author
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
℗2017
Language
English
Description
Tolstoy's beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. The lives of Pierre, Prince Andrei and Natasha are changed forever as conflict rages throughout the early nineteenth century. Following the rise and fall of some of society's most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever.
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