Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How`s Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master`s riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis`s musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man`s Diet, The Mean Sod`s Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk - all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0383-7
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Philip Roth`s new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from one family`s harrowing encounter with history (New York Times) to one man`s lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth`s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage...
Rachel Morgan`s back! Bestselling author Kim Harrison returns with a new supernatural adventure that fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Charlaine Harris won`t want to miss. Some days, you just can`t win. Witch and former bounty hunter Rachel Morgan`s managed to escape her corrupt company, survive living with a vampire, start her own runner service, and face down a vampire master. But her vampire roommate Ivy is off the wagon, her human boyfriend Nick is out of town indefinitely and doesn`t sound like he`s coming back while the far-too-seductive vampire Kisten is looking way too tempting, and there`s a turf war erupting in Cincinnati`s underworld. And there`s a greater evil still. To put the vampire master behind bars and save her family,...
Philip Roth`s twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth`s Everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad...
ISBN: 978-0-099-50726-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: март 2012
International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his first collection of short stories in almost a decade. In this spine-chilling compilation, King takes readers down a road less traveled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-Book "Riding the Bullet", bad table service turns bloody when you stop in for "Lunch at the Gotham Caf?", and terror becomes dejavu all over again when you get "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" - along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybreak. Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
Книга заданий для проверки качества усвоения материала. Соответствует разделам учебника "Everyday English". Отдельно выпущен CD-аудио с оригинальными текстами, начитанным носителями языка. Позволяет быстро и эффективно проверить знание лексики. Традиционная методика множественного выбора + творческие задания. Включает проверку понимания речи на слух. Матричная система ответов упрощает проверку тестов.
ISBN: 978-5-94962-154-7
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2009
Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin`s death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951916-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
`An astonishing feat` - "The Times". A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a `blind` old man haunted by memories of the war; and, an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103732-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a `blind` old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find tums all their worlds upside down. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-100825-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An Alex Delaware thriller - compulsive, intriguing and unputdownable Early one morning a foreman shows up at the building site of a mega-mansion. Proceeding up unfinished plank steps, he arrives at the master bedroom. There, lying on a blanket, are a man and a woman, stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Who are the lovers? Why have they chosen a construction site for their late-night tryst. Is the double murder simply a horrific example of wrong-place, wrong-time? Or were the victims stalked? And will the outrage be repeated? Alex and Milo are called in and as they struggle to make their way through the alternative universe that is the domain of the impossibly rich, they discover a scheme rooted in deception and evil beyond even their...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4272-3
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Evidence of Dragons brings Pie Corbett`s achingly beautiful poems together for the very first time. His poems are full of the wonder of the ordinary and introduce us to characters and topics as varied as `The Last Unicorn`, `My Brother`s Pig`, `The Dragon Whistler`, `Stars, Shadow Puppets` and `The Cloud Appreciation Society`. `The Dragon Whistler tucks stars into her pocket, reaches for a sunset; purses her moonlit lips and `
ISBN: 978-0-230-75194-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From DNA profiling to consideration of the accused`s previous conduct, the law of evidence is a fascinating amalgam of logic, common sense, philosophy and tactics. Evidence explains the fundamentals and looks at the principles behind it.
At the Jolly Roger Hotel the guests appear to be relaxing in the sun. But when a beautiful woman is killed, there are many possible suspects. What can the motive be? Is there evil at work on the island? By chance, the great detective, Hercule Poirot is also a guest. Can he solve the mystery?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3204-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Despite his new-found fame on ITV 5`s latest soap, womaniser Dan Davis is failing to score with the ladies. Every time. And he can`t understand why. All is revealed when Dan and his friend Ed Middleton come across a mysterious website - - where women rate their experiences of their exes, and where Dan is shocked to learn that long after he`s given them one, his ex-girlfriends are giving him one - one out of ten, that is. Faced with the prospect of a lifetime of singledom, Dan needs to crack the code of a website that`s strictly women only to find out where he`s been going wrong. Then he must track down his many exes in order to put things right. Along the way, Dan discovers he has much to learn about himself. Particularly when he meets...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-068-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin`s nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. But where the perilous journey inward ends - in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis - something else is waiting for Sam Conklin and his exploratory party. A thing created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something terrifying.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8381-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
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