Expect the A wrongly convicted murderer exacts a flawless plan of Headlights in a rear-view mirror tail a female traveler on a lonely stretch of A serial bride secures her future by marrying only the wealthiest of An escaped Iraqi with a price on his head pays an involuntary visit to his A brush with death proves the biggest break of an aspiring artist`s Two strangers, struck by lust-at-first-sight, consider a myriad of possibilities for where the day will take them. ...And you’ll still be surprised, because nothing is what it seems. Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, "one of the most captivating storytellers writing today" (Pittsburgh Press), engages the reader in a cunning game of cat-and-mouse as he spins twelve ingenious tales of...

ISBN: 978-0-312-93771-3
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011

This is the classic fairytale about the princesses who like to have fun. When their father finds out they`ve been sneaking out to go dancing, he`s furious. Dancing is banned, he declares. But will that stop them? It is part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton. The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.

ISBN: 978-1-4095-0532-7
Издательство: Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Fallingwater, the Villa Mairea and the Eames House – by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames respectively – represent pinnacles of modern residential design. Fallingwater is one of Wright’s most inventive houses, showing him to be an architect of immense creativity and daring. Aalto drew on a deep understanding of vernacular building, classicism and modernism, and on a love of natural materials, to create the humane, rich and lyrical Villa Mairea. Charles and Ray Eames’ own house was assembled entirely from standardized industrial components composed with a sensitive irregularity. Together, these buildings represent the responses of some of the world’s most respected architects to the problems of...

ISBN: 0714838705
Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the `Father of Science Fiction`, but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.

ISBN: 9781853260315
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020

The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city`s leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, `The Twenty-Seventh City` shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

ISBN: 978-1-84115-748-1
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9780099528531
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011

The New National Gallery, Berlin, Kimbell Art Museum and Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt are striking examples of modern museum design, built in three different decades. The Berlin Gallery was Mies van der Rohe’s last great building – a ‘temple’ to art in glass and steel. Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum is a building of severity and restraint, its architectural effects arising from rhythmical spaces and a refined treatment of materials. Richard Meier’s Museum fur Kunsthandwerk is a subtle and intricate building of shifted grids and superimposed planes – an interesting precursor to his Getty Center. By presenting these works together, one can examine the similarities and differences in approach taken by three renowned...

ISBN: 0714838780
Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002