The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer`s wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum.
ISBN: 978-0-670-91959-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Миром правят вампиры. Они — не вечно молодые романтичные юноши и девушки с бессонными глазами и кровавыми губами, а вполне обыкновенные мужчины и женщины со следами жизненного цинизма на лице. Только им открыт секрет «гламура» и «дискурса». И именно они — настоящая мировая элита, вербующая в свои ряды прохожих одним лёгким укусом.
ISBN: 978-5-4467-3577-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2022
An unusual and authoritative `natural history of languages` that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet, the history of the world`s great languages has rarely been examined. Empires of the Word is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations - in education, culture and diplomacy - devised by speakers in the Middle East; the uncanny resilience of Chinese throughout twenty centuries of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-711871-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ‘Shadows of the Apt’, about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire. Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by...
ISBN: 978-0-230-70413-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers` decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we`re good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; and, the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ("intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever") the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer`s...
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected English and European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, cutthroats and sociopaths and turned them into the fiercest and most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, `the wickedest city in the New World`, Morgan and his men terrorised Spanish merchant...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0293-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44277-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Сборник включает статьи участников Юбилейной международной научной конференции, прошедшей в Государственном историческом музее 5–6 декабря 2013 г. Представлены доклады участников конференции, прозвучавшие на пленарном заседании и заседаниях секций – „Государственный исторический музей и Государственная публичная историческая библиотека: взаимосвязи и культурные оппозиции“, „Алексей Сергеевич...
ISBN: 9785913730107
Издательство:
Петроний
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself `Mogor dell`Amore`, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess: Qara Koz, "Lady Black Eyes", a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, as two worlds are brought together by one woman attempting to command her own But is Mogor`s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess?
ISBN: 978-0-09-942192-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
- A re-telling of the classic story for children growing in reading confidence. - The Enchanted Castle tells the story of Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy, three children who discover a magical castle occupied by an invisible princess, and enter a world full of magic and adventure. - Evocatively illustrated by Alan Marks. - Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7072-7
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is an Intermediate Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.
ISBN: 978-0-435-27136-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring that grants wishes. But wishes granted are not always wishes wanted, so the children find themselves grappling with invisibility, dinosaurs, a ghost and the fearsome Ugli-Wuglies before it is all resolved. This edition of The Enchanted Castle has forty-seven evocative illustrations by Millar
ISBN: 978-1-85326-129-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2016
For women answer an advertisement in The Times newspaper. They leave cold, rainy London and go on holiday to San Salvatore - an Italian castle by the sea. They leave their husbands, their friends and their unhappiness behind in England. In Italy, they find enchantment, happiness and love. Retold by Margaret Tarner.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7291-5
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, an Enchanted Wood is on their doorstep. And when they discover the Faraway Tree, that is the beginning of many magical adventures! Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? There`ll be adventures waiting for them, whatever happens! Funny, magical adventures that will delight children again and again.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3027-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
A brilliant, intricate and magical novel from the Godmother of British fantasy. When Andrew Hope`s magician grandfather dies, he leaves his house and field-of-care to his grandson who spent much of his childhood at the house. Andrew has forgotten much of this, but he remembers the very strong-minded staff and the fact that his grandfather used to put the inedibly large vegetables on the roof of the shed, where they`d have vanished in the morning. He also remembers the very colourful stained glass window in the kitchen door, which he knows it is important to protect. Into this mix comes young Aidan Cain, who turns up from the orphanage asking for safety. Exactly who he is and why he`s there is unclear, but a strong connection between the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-732080-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Aidan Cain has had the worst week of his life. His gran died, he was sent to a foster home, and now malicious beings are stalking him. There is one person Gran told Aidan to go to if he ever got into trouble--a powerful sorcerer who lives at Melstone House. But when Aidan arrives on the doorstep, he finds that the sorcerer`s grandson, Andrew, has inherited the house. The good news is that Aidan can tell immediately that Andrew`s brimming with magic, too--and so is everyone else at Melstone. The bad news is that Andrew doesn`t remember anything his grandfather taught him. Chaos is swiftly rising, and he has no idea how to control it. A sinister neighbor is stealing power from the land, magic is leaking between and it`s only a matter of...
Angels, elves, bees and Brahma bulls are just a few of the entities woven into the lavishly detailed illustrations of this alphabet primer. Tigers and tuttles have tea, while blue birds whisper tales of sweet harmony. Reproduced in gorgeous pastels, the images are so mesmerizing that adults will enjoy them as much as their intended audience - ages three and above, Tongue-teasing rhyme spins fantasy stories around each letter. With very subtle undertones of Eastern spirituality, this is a work in which imagination and education coexist.
