The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey Into Earth's Deep History
8 best books like The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey Into Earth's Deep History (Jan Zalasiewicz): The Day of the Jackal, City of Saints and Madmen, The October Man, Finch, Shriek: An Afterword, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols
| Author | Frederick Forsyth |
| ISBN | 0553266306 |
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The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.
One ...
City of Saints and Madmen
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0553383574 |
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor....
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1473224314 |
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter...
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0980226015 |
In Finch, mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts...
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0765314657 |
An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling...
The epic true story of Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, and a rousing history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built.
The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world. It engineered a civilization, empowered the world's first...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 0880294264 |
Вашему вниманию предлагается комплект из 4 книг У.Черчилля ИСТОРИЯ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ НАРОДОВ.
Том 1
Рождение Британии (Автор: Черчилль Уинстон...
