Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2017

The story of Christianity is an immeasurably fascinating one. A faith that began in Roman-occupied Palestine, as a small and fugitive faction within Judaism, grew, thrived and finally `conquered` the empire that had sought to exterminate it. Then, over many centuries and in many lands, it became the vital source from which new civilizations sprang. At times, its geographical range expanded mightily, at others contracted perilously. At times, the church proved heroically true to its deepest moral principles; at others, inexcusably traitorous to them. But, by the beginning of the 21st century, this faith that began in such fragility, and that became so powerful - even though its temporal power has now receded in its historic homelands - is...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

The perfect guide to the most important ideas and concepts that underpin Western art: Romanesque; Byzantine; International Gothic; Early Renaissance; High Renaissance; Northern Renaissance; Mannerism; Baroque; Caravaggism; Dutch Golden Age; Rococo; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; Academic Art; Orientalism; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Realism; Impressionism; Symbolism; Post-Impressionism; Neo-Impressionism; Synthetism/Primitivism/Les Nabis; Fauvism; Expressionism; Art Nouveau and Secessionism; Cubism; Orphism; Futurism; Dadaism; Surrealism; Magic(al) Realism; Suprematism; Constructivism; Bauhaus; South American Muralism; Neo-plasticism; New Objectivity; American Scene Painting; Socialist Realism; Abstract Expressionism; Colour Field;...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know is a concise, accessible and popular guide to the central tenets of Western thought. Every important principle of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences is profiled in a series of short illustrated essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features. Platonism, The Soul, Communism, Aristotelianism, Faith, Fascism, The Golden rule, Atheism, Racism, Altruism, Secularism, Feminism, Pluralism, Fundamentalism, Islamism, Liberty, Creationism, Capitalism, Toleration, War, Globalization, Scepticism, Duty, Classicism, Reason, Utopia, Romanticism, Punishment, Liberalism, Modernism, Materialism, Democracy, Surrealism, Relativism, Conservatism, Censorship,...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012

At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism endanger our Security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to Liberty, Democracy and Human rights. Corruption, Spin and a suspect Political culture arouse public indignation, which is further aggravated by an array of Pressure groups and the far-from-disinterested attentions of the Mass media. In 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know, Ben Dupre clears away the murk that obscures key concepts that we ignore at our peril. Justice, Liberty, Human rights, The social contract, Democracy, Tyranny, Federalism, Utopianism,...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

How different are men and women`s brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? If you have you ever grappled with these concepts, or tried your hand as an amateur psychologist, 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know could be just the book for you. Not only providing the answers to these questions and many more, this series of engaging and accessible essays explores each of the central concepts, as well as the arguments of key thinkers. Author Adrian Furnham offers expert and concise introductions to emotional behaviour, cognition, mental conditions - from stress to schizophrenia - rationality and personality development, amongst many others. This is a...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012

Sometimes finding your dream man is a job for a Alice Brown has the best job in the world. She`s a matchmaker and spends her days helping people fall in love, all the while imagining her own Prince Charming, who`s somehow never come along. Her latest client is Kate. She`s 569 days from her 35th birthday and she`s already five years behind in her life plan. Desperate to find the perfect man, she enlists Alice`s help, but will anyone measure up to her standards? Meanwhile Alice is coping with her awful boss, Audrey, and trying to stop herself falling in love with someone else`s man. But what if she`s got it all wrong? Will Alice find Kate`s Mr Right? And when it comes to her own Prince Charming, will she be able to take her own advice?

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Elizabeth Moynihan, a young journalist, has hit the jackpot. It`s 1992 and a chance remark has sent her to a small farm in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. There resides Russia`s most notorious sniper-turned-spy, the one-time beautiful assassin, Tat`yana Levchenko, and she`s ready to tell her story. During the Second World War, Tat`yana was Russia`s secret weapon. After the Germans killed her daughter, aged four, she enlisted as a sniper for the Russian army. Having finally achieved her goal of killing three hundred Germans, she was badly injured in a siege and shipped back to Moscow. She was presented to Stalin, paraded among the ranks of high society and before the world`s press. Her duty to her country not yet over, she was sent to...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

Paha Sapa, `Black Hills`, is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife. Thus begins an intricate narrative that sweeps across decades of American history, building up a portrait of one country`s relentless expansion and what was lost and destroyed in its path. Black Hills is historical fiction with Dan Simmons` trademark twist. He weaves in real places, events and people with his own uniquely weird take on reality...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Roger Ferris is one of the CIA`s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission - to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as `Suleiman`. Ferris` plan for getting inside Suleiman`s tent is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: he prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy`s ranks. This scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity, and when it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan`s intelligence service - a man...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011

`I`m just saying that if you ever want, like, a boyfriend or anything - not that I think you should get one right now - but if you did want a boyfriend ever, you might have to start being a bit more like a girl than a boy.` Thirteen-year-old Gwynnie is just about to turn fourteen. While other girls in her year are all about boys and make-up, the closest she`s got to a boy is in a tackle on the football field. But when the totally hot Charlie Notts starts at school, Gwynnie decides now might be the time to start being a girl. Gwynnie enlists the help of a gang of girls at school, headed by the super-confident Jenny. But is it really safe for Gwynnie to be let loose with lash curlers and strong eye-shadow? Has Jenny got a hidden agenda...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

In a hulking drab warehouse in a hulking drab city in the center of an empty state, Parker is caught moving pharmaceuticals into a waiting truck. Led into a joint called Stoneveldt - from which no one has ever escaped - Parker has to find a way out, before his whole violent past catches up with him. And getting out of Stoneveldt means taking on the only partners he can find, including one who is already planning his next job. For Parker and his fellow jail breakers, freedom is just another word for committing their next felony. They pull off the perfect jailbreak and then start the perfect heist. But things go south in a hurry - leaving three men dead and Parker and his fellow escape artists scratching, clawing, and running for their...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012

On 10 May 1941 Rudolph Hess, then the Deputy Fuhrer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government. After being held in the Tower of London, he was transferred to Mytchett Place near Aldershot on 20 May, under the codename of `Z`. The house was fitted with microphones and sound recording equipment, guarded by a battalion of soldiers and codenamed Camp Z. Churchill`s instructions were that Hess should be strictly isolated, and that every effort should be taken to get any information out of him that might be useful. During the ensuing thirteen months a psychological battle was waged between intelligence officers using the new Freudian...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2010

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy, recently widowed, is a cook and food journalist; Joanna, a successful business woman, never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads and they quickly form a bond.

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, `always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality`. Whatever one`s view of `the greatest Briton`, and despite the best efforts of an army of writers who have penned portraits of him, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced. In this new biography Ashley Jackson describes the contours of Winston Churchill`s remarkable life and political career, and gives a sense of the man behind the dark eyes and bulldog features. From Cabinet outcast to the greatest war leader ever, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill`s appointment with destiny.

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012

Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When she`s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives, alone but happily so, in a bleak, marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea and Norfolk`s vast skies with her cats and Radio 4 for company. She`s a salty character - quirky. When a child`s bones are found in the marshes, near a dig that Ruth and her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before, Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who`s been missing, presumed dead, for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

Matthew Sobol is dead, but his final creation survives. It begins with a bizarre murder, where the only possible perpetrator happens to be dead. As more killings follow, the police are completely out of their depth. It falls to the unlikely partnership of Sebeck, a computer-illiterate cop, and Ross, an enigmatic hacker, to realise the scale of the imminent danger. The Daemon is seemingly unstoppable, and murder is the least of its capabilities. As it leaves a trail of death and destruction in its wake, Sebeck and Ross must face up to a terrifying possibility. Can they convince a disbelieving world to take drastic action, and shut down the Daemon before it is too late? Explosive, action-packed, terrifyingly relevant, Daemon redefines the...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers band together to fight. Seventeen-year-old Ellie and her friends have survived the invasion and hit back at the soldiers who still hold their family and friends captive. But two of their band are captured: Kevin is imprisoned and Corrie is alive, but in a coma. Homer and Ellie are determined to get them back and to continue their campaign against the enemy. They discover that there are other rebels out there, fighting the invaders - but who are they and can they be trusted? As the pressure grows, can Ellie work out her conflicted feelings for the brilliant, arrogant Homer and the strong, gentle Lee? As war rages, and the enemy closes in, Ellie and her...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012

The Demi-Monde is the most advanced simulation ever devised. Thirty million people ruled by history`s cruellest tyrants, locked in eternal civil conflict. The intention: to create the closest thing to Hell, and prepare soldiers for the nightmarish environment of war. But something has gone badly wrong. Reinhard Heydrich - or at least a simulacrum resembling the Nazi monster - has kidnapped the President`s daughter from the Real-World and concealed her within the Demi-Monde, making it impossible for the program to be switched off. This achieved, he has cut off all contact with reality. It falls to Ella Thomas, a young jazz singer, to infiltrate Heydrich`s virtual domain and rescue the missing girl. But once inside she will discover that...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

Sealed for one hundred and twenty-five years, Wilkie Collins`s scribbled words launch a feverish descent into the underbelly of Victorian London as he is dragged into Charles Dickens`s pursuit of a spectral figure known only as Drood.

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, feldspar crystals, diamond, crystal, the water cycle, seawater, clouds, glacier ice, volcanic gas propelling pyroclastic flow. Earth`s Engine: computer model of flow in the core and the magnetic field, major fault zone San Andreas or East African Rift; folded rocks in mountains one of the alpine `nappes` or Zagros mountain folds and erupting volcano. Earth`s Changing Face: Earth`s oldest rocks (Greenland or Pilbara, Australia), stromatolites...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2013

`A man doesn`t work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.` So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German...

Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011