For centuries, the true history of the Maya--one of the most mysterious cultures of the ancient world--has eluded archeologists. Now, thanks to a recent breakthrough in the decoding of Maya hieroglyphics, A Forest of Kings is able to provide the first full history of this ancient culture. 16 pages of color photos; 20 B&W photos; 250 illustrations; 35 maps.
Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London`s financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max`s Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will - an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour`s drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about the money in modern wine, he heads for France. What Max discovers is a beautiful house, wonderful weather and a bustling village. The downside is the quality of the wine in his vineyard, but when Max suggests calling in an expert, Roussel, a former employee of his uncle`s, is resistant. Help is at hand, however, when a beautiful blonde...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3966-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
В сборнике, выходящем к 125-летнему юбилею великого русского поэта Сергея Александровича Есенина (1895–1925), представлены его избранные стихотворения и поэмы. Они печатаются на двух языках — в русском оригинале и с параллельным стихотворным эквиритмическим переводом на английский язык и постраничными комментариями известного российского филолога проф. Д. И. Ермолови ча. В комментариях раскрываются...
ISBN: 978-5-6042967-5-2
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: август 2020
There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so? In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible... The word-of-mouth bestseller causing a...
Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2567-5
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Джеймс Джойс - не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы XIX-XX веков, но и ярчайший представитель модернизма, обладающий изысканным слогом. "Портрет художника в юности" - первый и отчасти автобиографический роман, в котором Джойс рисует яркий, но вместе с тем узнаваемый мир мальчика-подростка. В праздники все дети должны быть счастливы, но, несмотря, на блеск огней и уютную обстановку,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05396-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce`s Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19`th century Ireland.
ISBN: 9781853260063
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Award-winning actor Baldwin--whose split from wife Kim Basinger and subsequent custody battle surrounding their child exacted a heavy toll on all involved--makes a powerful case for reexamining and changing the way child custody is decided in this country.
ISBN: 9780312363369
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2008
Substance D -- otherwise known as Death -- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain`s two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.
ISBN: 1-85798-847-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. A Set of Six I contains three stories including The Informeran, The Brutean and Gaspar Ruiz, an enthralling novel of inspirational rise from obscurity to light.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07573-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. A Set of Six II contains three stories including An Anarchista, Il Condea and The Duel, both satiric and deeply sad tale about two officers in Napoleon`s Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07574-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold War. As Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting`s disappearance, he will discover that the face of International relations - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could possibly have imagined.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119638-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. His story A Smile of Fortune is a masterly tale of misplaced loyalty, family feuds, and illicit bargaining. Embarking in the tropics, a ship`s captain makes the instant acquaintance of a seemingly genial Mr. Jacobus and his irritable brother.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07579-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the twentieth century, "A Son of the Sun" includes of eight wonderful stories like "The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn", "The Devils of Fuatino", and "The Jokers of New Gibbon". Most of them describe the thrilling adventures of Captain David Grief in the exotic South Seas.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07492-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018