Nikolai: 339 books

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like...

This book provides a systematic, self-sufficient and yet short presentation of the mainstream topics on introductory Probability Theory with some selected topics from Mathematical Statistics. It is suitable for a 10- to 14-week course for second- or third-year undergraduate students in Science, Mathematics,...

Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Touristik / Tourismus, Note: 3,0, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Ravensburg, früher: Berufsakademie Ravensburg, Veranstaltung: Projektarbeit der 2. Praxisphase, 29 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit klärt im...

This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation. It explores the management experience and challenges that key stakeholders involved in PPP governance face in Russia and Kazakhstan. An increasingly common method of delivering public services, PPP...

Les Âmes mortes est un roman de Nicolas Gogol paru en 1842. Narrant sur un ton comique les mésaventures d'un petit escroc dans la province de l'Empire russe des années 1820, le roman est aussi une troublante dénonciation de la médiocrité...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Fibonacci numbers date back to an 800-year-old problem concerning the number of offspring born in a single year to a pair of rabbits. This book offers the solution and explores the occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in number theory, continued fractions, and geometry. A discussion of the "golden...

Die Crew des Raumschiffes Delta VII um Mark Brandis ist heimatlos geworden. Brandis fasst daraufhin einen folgenschweren Entschluss: Um der Reinigenden Flamme zu entkommen, versucht er, einen neuen Verbündeten gegen das Regime zu gewinnen. Doch dieser mutige Alleingang hat ernste Konsequenzen für den Ausnahmepiloten! Nach der beliebten Roman- und Hörspielreihe Mark Brandis!

Im 22. Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit Raumstationen im Weltall errichtet und erforscht eifrig das Sonnensystem – stets bemüht, auch im Reich der Sterne das zerbrechliche Gleichgewicht aufrechtzuerhalten, das auf der Erde zwischen den zwei Machtblöcken existiert: der Europäisch-Amerikanisch-Afrikanischen...

Enchantment is one of the best additions to the game of Minecraft. It turns your typical old equipment into complex and valuable artifacts that make you a better fighter or a more efficient worker. But enchanting can be a pretty complex system. This guide will prepare you for all the challenges of...

The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons. As...

The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and fear.

This collection contains: THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S. Pushkin THE CLOAK N.V. Gogol THE DISTRICT DOCTOR I.S. Turgenev THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING F.M. Dostoyevsky GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS L.N. Tolstoy HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS M.Y. Saltykov THE SHADES, A PHANTASY V.G. Korolenko THE SIGNAL...

"The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is compelled to buy it. The painting is magical and offers him a dilemma to struggle to make his own way in the world on the basis of his own...