Its their Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he`s still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she cant have: Paul. Meet Chris and Vicky: Theyr`e so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair? Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to take a grown-up gap year - but can their relationship really survive a year apart? Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations. "The Life and Soul of the Party" is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we`ve all spent in the kitchen at parties.
ISBN: 978-0-340-89567-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With his trademark disarming honesty, Richards brings the story of a life fans have all longed to know more of--unfettered, fearless, and true.
ISBN: 9780316034388
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: октябрь 2010
Walter Scott (1771—1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. As the title suggests, "Life of Napoleon" is a monumental biographical work representing the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. In an attempt to convey an accurate picture of events, Sir Walter Scott visited the Waterloo, and also interviewed officers engaged in the battle. The book is also based on The British governments to archives dealing with Napoleon`s exile in St. Helena.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07542-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
This book is a celebration. Yes, undeniably, there is some sadness in these pages. Why in the world was Kennedy killed? Why couldn`t Marilyn have found happiness? Why did Michael leave the stage so early? But also, we revisit the dynamism of JFK, the beauty of Marilyn Monroe and the pure excitement that was Michael Jackson. In these pages, we lament the premature exits, but thrillingly celebrate the lives that were lived lived, often, to the very fullest. This special LIFE book is brimful with the stories of people we loved. The fans of Judy Garland, Elvis Presley and John Lennon were legion, and so were those of Tim Russert and John Ritter. These are people who, when we learned they had passed, made us sit up, take notice and focus on...
ISBN: 978-1-60320-143-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011
LIFE has covered all of the lavish royal weddings since even before Queen Elizabeth II wed in 1947, and of course the magazine documented in splendid, intimate detail the "wedding of the century," that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, years later. Now LIFE celebrates the royal engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
ISBN: 978-1-60320-216-9
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
For seven decades, "Life" has been thrilling the world with its unrivalled presentation of the very best photography to be found. Here, the editors have assembled the creme de la creme from the magazine`s vast collection of images. Because "Life" has always dealt with matters of every sort, the entire spectrum of society is represented in these pages. One after another, there are unforgettable photos from Hollywood`s greatest stars, from the wonders of small-town America, from the terrible wars, as well as from the zestful years of childhood. "Life" has always represented the apex in photojournalism and its roster of great photographers is unequalled.
ISBN: 978-1-933405-17-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those inhabitants nothing apart from death, disease and destruction. Yet for the Old World of Europe the four voyages of Columbus brought revelation where before there had been only myths and guesswork. People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia sailing west from Spain. No one had predicted that a vast continent stood in the way. And indeed, for Columbus himself, the revolution of understanding was too much to comprehend. He had counted on a new route to Asia that would bring him glory, riches...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-069-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Christopher Ciccone`s extraordinary memoir is based on his forty-seven years of growing up with, working with and understanding the most famous woman of our time. Throughout most of the iconic star`s kaleidoscopic career, Christopher played an important role in her life: as her back-up dancer, her personal assistant, her dresser, her decorator, her art director and tour director. If you think you know everything there is to know about Madonna, you`re wrong - only Christopher can tell the full and riveting story behind her carefully constructed mythology, and reveal the real woman behind the glittering facade. From their shared Michigan childhood and the early days in Manhattan, when he slept on her roach-infested floor and danced with...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-636-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. Discover the origins of life on Earth - and don`t be shocked if it`s not what they taught you at school.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50882-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And just when he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they do. He discovers that not only is the Galaxy mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly final part of the original Hitch Hiker`s Guide trilogy confirms Douglas Adams as one of the most original and funniest of Britain`s comic writers.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07485-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Polly, an average, completely ordinary property lawywer, is convinced she`s losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner`s to pick up her dress for the party, it`s not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner`s. And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it`s going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.
ISBN: 978-1-84149-508-8
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Accompanied by twenty-five prints that are designed to be framed, a definitive collection of some of LIFE magazine's most famous photographs includes important historic events such as the sailor kissing the nurse on V-J Day, as well as portrait photographs of world leaders, celebrities, and screen icons.
ISBN: 978-1-603-20030-1
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: март 2011
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones` first fame and success as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust and subsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishment that led to his enduring image...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2661-4
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
This magical book represents the fruits of a 27-year collaboration between a renowned photographer and a legendary woman. Howell Conant first met trace Kelly on a 1955 modeling assignment, and found an instant, easy rapport. From then until Grace`s untimely death in September of 1982, Conant was always present - in New York City, in Jamaica, in Hollywood, in Monaco - to make the most intimate pictures of this astonishingly lovely person. (In fact, his attendance at the princess`s funeral marked the very first time he traveled to Monaco without his camera.) Many of the sublime images in this book appeared in the pages of LIFE, Look, Paris Match, Collier`s, and other magazines. Several more of these photographs are seen here for the first...
ISBN: 978-1-60320-039-4
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
No movie star in history is as iconic as Marilyn Monroe. This fact has had the unfortunate effect of distancing the observer from the human being. Marilyn is too often seen as an object instead of as a person. Not in this book. Carefully choosing from the portfolios of photographers who knew her well and who were with her in her unguarded moments, Life presents an intimate, warm portrait of a bravely, vulnerable woman. The work of great Life shooters - Milton Greene, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and others - is here, as is material from several other equally fine lensmen. They show different aspects of Marilyn, sometimes in famous imagery and sometimes in shots rarely if ever seen by the public. The accompanying narrative, too, tries to get in...
ISBN: 978-1-60320-079-0
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: март 2012
The perfect job. Working for an easy-going boss at his luxurious mansion by the sun-kissed beach, watching beautiful women walk by. The perfect girl. Tess – gorgeous, funny, apparently very rich and crazy for him. The perfect score. Five million up for grabs. And to get his share, all he needs to do is trigger three house alarms to throw the cops off the scent of the real robbery. Could things get any better for Ned Kelly? But things don’t go according to plan. And when Tess is brutally murdered and the others involved in the robbery are massacred, Ned is the prime suspect. With danger at every twist and turn, he’s running for his life. James Patterson skilfully delivers an addictive cocktail of suspense, surprise and tension that...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-2569-6
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
"LifeLike" offers a new approach to learning about the cultures of the English-speaking world, presenting them primarily from an insider’s viewpoint. "LifeLike" focuses on real-life experience and the way culture shapes daily life in today’s multicultural societies. Together with material such as articles, websites, songs, maps, geographical data, "LifeLike" employs a range of short, accessible passages of fiction, essay and autobiography by young writers from all over the English-speaking world. "LifeLike" is subdivided into 8 topic areas connected to aspects of everyday life: Home; Education; Work; Food; Travel; Leisure Sport; Fashion Shopping; Music The Arts Special features: - SONGLINES with a song connected to each topic...
ISBN: 978-8-853-00327-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: январь 2011
To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne`s career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a window box. So when it appears someone is targeting London`s homeless community it seems perfectly natural for Thorne to take a step nearer to the gutter and go undercover amongst them. He blends into the sometimes invisible community easily - too easily perhaps - but the information he gleans quickly proves that this is no random killer, it is someone with a very distinct purpose and a very specific list of victims, only the team supporting Thorne from the outside don`t have the key to motive or identity. Then...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3616-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the ‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. The tales which make up Life`s Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy`s last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social...
ISBN: 9781853261787
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Thomas Hardy (1840—1928) was an English novelist and poet. The phrase life\'s little ironies\' is now proverbial, was coined by Hardy as the title for his third volume of short stories. The tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels of Hardy. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy\'s art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin de siecle bourgeois life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06913-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
