Тутта Карлссон и Людвиг Четырнадцатый

Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal.The shame and humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts and the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. And meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on and away.The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom and iconoclasm for our uncertain times, and one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity.

Однажды невезучий англичанин Артур Дент чудом спасается от неминуемой гибели благодаря своему другу Форду Префекту, оказавшемуся инопланетянином. Планета Земля стёрта с карты звёздного неба, и им ничего больше не остаётся, кроме как странствовать по галактике, отбиваясь от монстров полотенцем, попивая коктейль "Пангалактический грызлодёр" и оттягиваясь по полной. По счастливой случайности "Золотое сердце", недавно угнанный корабль на невероятностной тяге, подбирает Артура и Форда. На борту они встречают безбашенного президента галактики Зафода Библброкса и его подружку Триллиан, с которыми Артур, оказывается, уже знаком. Вместе они отправляются на поиски сокровищ легендарной планеты Магратея. А в это время некие высшие существа охотятся на Артура в отчаянной попытке найти Основной Вопрос к Основному Ответу, касающемуся Жизни, Вселенной и Всего Остального. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень B1.

The book is devoted to a man of outstanding personality of the Soviet state — Patolichev Nikolay Semyonovich (1908-1989) - the Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1958 to 1985. During this period under his direction a powerful complex for foreign economic activities was formed, which played an exclusive role in the development of industry, energy, transport, agriculture and meeting the demands of the population. Thus, that was quite an outstanding period in the Russian Foreign Trade history. .The authors of the book for many years have been engaged in the system of foreign economic relations, participated in or continued undertakings of N.S. Patolichev. .Vladislav Leonidovich Malkevich, the General Director of the Central Exhibition Complex "Expo-centre", used to work in the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR (MFT) as a member of the Board (the Chief of Engineering and Technology Department), the Deputy Minister, the First Deputy Minister, the President of the Chamber of Commerce of the USSR. .Igor Leonidovich Mitrofanov in 1980— 1990s was engaged in scientific researches in the field of foreign trade, and then was the Chief of the General Directorate of the government regulation of foreign trade activity, the First Deputy Minister of Trade of the Russian Federation. .Alexander Sergeyevich Ivanov having graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Relations has devoted all his life to the development of foreign economic relations of the USSR and Russia, worked under the direction of N.S. Patolichev from the first days of his stay in the Ministry and now continues working in the field of foreign trade research in the All-Russian Market Research Institute. .The work presented to the reader is based on the archive of N.S. Patolichev, the memories of his daughter N.N. Trubitsina-Patolicheva, his colleagues and contemporaries. The authors tell of what was done by N.S. Patolichev and with his support, about the invaluable experience of building up and developing foreign trade, about the new standarts created in those years which are still being effected. After having read the book, the reader would acquaint himself with the rewarding experience of those years, which is highly important for today's participants of foreign economic activities. . .The Patolichevs express their deep appreciation to V.L. Malkevich for taking the initiative to write the book and for arranging its publication. . .For the first time the book was published by the Society of Maintenance of Literary Heritage (Moscow) in Russian in 2010. . .Published with financial support of the Central Exhibition Complex "EXPOCENTRE" and Joined Stock Bank "PERESVET"

The monograph "Evolution of Telecommunication Protocols" is devoted to a wide range of questions related to signaling protocols in telephone networks of former USSR Public Switched Telephone Networks. . .The SDL-oriented analysis method enabling the description in a relatively simple way of the specifics of interoffice signaling systems and call handling procedures, as well as specifications and scenarios required for designing is discussed. The evolution of Russian interoffice signaling systems, from three-wire trunks and so called "R 1.5" to Signaling System No.7 protocols is considered. All engineering solutions are directed toward up-to-date digital switching nodes and exchanges. . .The book is primarily intended for engineers and scientists involved in the research, development, and operation of switching nodes. The book will be a valuable reference source for students and postgraduates studying in these areas. .

1998. Kosovo is in the grip of civil war, and John Hart is an aspiring photojournalist determined to capture the devastating scenes. On his mission to shed light on the atrocities he discovers a house where women are enslaved purely for the pleasure of the Serbian soldiers. Hart risks his own life to free the imprisoned women.2015. John Hart has his world turned upside down when he is left to care for a young woman - the daughter of one of the women he freed that fateful day in Kosovo. She is determined to track down the man known as the Captain: a war criminal, and her father. Unable to turn his back on the girl, Hart sets out to find the Captain. His quest takes him across Europe and into Africa where, on an isolated plateau in the mountains of Ethiopia, he confronts the man who shows no remorse, and no regard for life.