A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe, a high-minded bluestocking under Mischa`s spell (who also loves two Polish brothers) is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928369-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Flightpath is the definitive course for pilots and Air Traffic Controllers who need an ICAO4 level of English to work in the industry. Written by Philip Shawcross, one of the world`s leading Aviation English experts, and reviewed by a panel of aviation English specialists, this course offers a thorough grounding in the range of communication skills needed by both pilots and Air Traffic Control Officers (ATCOs) aiming to reach ICAO4 level or above. The Teacher`s Book is a complete manual and subject matter reference book for Aviation English teachers of any level of experience, with detailed notes and instructions for each unit. The teacher`s notes provide further support and will help the trainer customise the course for pilots, ATCOs...
ISBN: 978-0-521-17870-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Flightpath is the definitive course for pilots and Air Traffic Controllers who need an ICAO4 level of English to work in the industry. Flightpath is the only Aviation English course to offer a thorough grounding in the full range of communication skills needed by aviation professionals to communicate in non-routine situations. With regular focus on ICAO criteria, learners are given full support in reaching industry standards, including analysis of their own communication skills, exposure to authentic in-flight communication and regular communicative tasks. Flightpath is the most accurate preparation course available for ICAO tests, such as the CAAi EALTS test or Eurocontrol`s ELPAC and includes authentic industry video. Flightpath has...
ISBN: 978-0-521-17871-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This is a brilliant Flip-Flap Book from the Ladybird Baby Touch series. A multi-sensory experience for babies, with touch-and-feels, shiny foil and flip-flap pages for mixing and matching high-contrast pictures. Simple words and phrases are repeated throughout to help develop language skills and encourage interaction between parent and baby as they explore the world together. Ladybird`s Baby Touch series is the perfect way to introduce babies to books, and to the world around them. Encouraging interaction and play, these books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers.
ISBN: 9781409305156
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2014
Next year. Sea levels begin to rise. The change is far more rapid than any climate change predictions; metres a year. Within two years London, only 15 metres above the sea, is drowned. New York follows, the Pope gives his last address from the Vatican, Mecca disappears beneath the waves. Where is all the water coming from? Scientists estimate that the earth was formed with seas 30 times in volume their current levels. Most of that water was burnt off by the sun but some was locked in the earth`s mantle. For the tip of Everest to disappear beneath the waters would require the seas to triple their volume. That amount of water is still much less than 1% of the earth`s volume. And somehow it is being released. The world is drowning. The...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08482-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Flooded England, has changed for ever: most of it is under water. Worse, bloodthirsty pirates prowl the shores, and when they kidnap the Prime Minister`s daughter it looks like war. But out of this drowning world comes Lilly Melkun, a girl determined to put things right, with the help of a pirate boy - and an extraordinary treasure from the past, with the power to change the Future.
Bidding for love can be a costly Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge extends only to the information she has crammed from daytime TV, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put out when she doesn`t receive the warm country welcome she expected. Her curt cousin Charles and his fiancee Annabelle are determined to send Flora packing, and their offer to buy her out is until a strange warning makes her think twice. Stuck with a cat about to burst with kittens, Flora has little choice but to accept the offer to stay in an abandoned holiday cottage miles from any neighbours, let alone a trendy winebar. And between...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947236-0
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Je nachdem, wie Blumen und Pflanzen eingesetzt werden, lassen sich mit ihnen ganz gezielt und nachweislich positive Wirkung erreichen. Diese Tatsache basiert auf Feng Shui, umgesetzt auf Blumen und Pflanzen: Shin Yong. Das zweite Buch zur Thematik Shin Yong stellt die Prinzipien sehr einfach, praxisnah und anschaulich mit vielen anregenden und verbrauchernahen Beispielen dar. Für den Blumenfacheinzelhandel eröffnen sich hiermit völlig neue Verkaufsperspektiven.
Designed to provide a detailed exploration into the exceptional array of art and architecture in the beautiful city of Florence, this captivating volume will surely enthral anyone interested in the city`s buildings, paintings, sculptures and history. This is an extremely comprehensive guide covering all major places of interest, with numerous essays on history and culture. Over 600 full-colour illustrations including detailed town plans help bring this fascinating city to life at the turn of a page.
Христиан Генрих Гейне - легендарный немецкий поэт, публицист и критик, считающийся главой «романтической эпохи». На его стихи писали песни Франц Шуберт, Роберт Шуман, Рихард Вагнер, Иоганн Брамс, Пётр Ильич Чайковский и многие другие. "Флорентийские ночи" - это путевые заметки Гейне во время путешествия по Италии, блестящая серия картин итальянской жизни, соединённых почти невидимой тонкой нитью....
ISBN: 978-5-521-05799-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with righ dead men`s money. Then there`s Sean and David, who love fishing--and helping turtles cross busy thoroughfares. Unfortunately, they`re about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more the suitcase. A hitman wants Satan to reign supreme. A slimy, insurance-frauding dentist wants his fingers back. In the meantime, there`s murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi`s 501s.
ISBN: 978-0-380-73233-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright`s class don`t get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Chosen by children as the pick of the year for the Federation of Children`s Book Groups
ISBN: 978-0-14-036147-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people - and he`s the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he`s a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous?
ISBN: 978-0-575-07995-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A flower fairies alphabet book, with each watercolour accompanied by a poem. This new edition has been re-designed, drawing inspiration from the original connections with The Glasgow School of Art, and features superior draughtsmanship and convincing botanical detail.
ISBN: 978-0-7232-4832-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
One of the original flower fairy books, with each watercolour accompanied by a poem. This new edition has been re-designed, drawing inspiration from the original connections with The Glasgow School of Art, and features superior draughtsmanship and convincing botanical detail.
ISBN: 978-0-7232-4827-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
For the first time in over 10 years all eight Original Flower Fairies Books[trademark] have been re-designed drawing inspiration from the original publishers connections with The Glasgow School of Art to produce these exquisite new covers. With fresh new title pages and endpapers, reset text and printed on a fine quality paper, these new editions make a charming gift for all Flower Fairy enthusiasts.
ISBN: 978-0-7232-4826-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone`s jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-938-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
