London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. From the Anglo-Saxon graves under St Paul`s, to the hydraulic device in Kensal Green cemetery which lowered bodies into the catacombs below, to the fossils uncovered when the Victoria Line was built and the gold bars within the Bank of England`s vaults, London Under takes you into a hidden world, beneath our feet.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928737-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
In the tradition of his phenomenal bestseller "Sarum", Edward Rutherford now gives readers a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning 2,000 years. He brings this vibrant city`s long and noble history alive through the ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of half-a-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the 20th century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the greatest city in the world.
ISBN: 0-449-00263-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich, this explosive book tells the tale of a group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs who made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism—and then came to London to enjoy their newfound wealth. From the origin of their journeys in Moscow and St. Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge, and Surrey, the book plunges into a shimmering world of audacious multibillion-pound deals, outrageous spending, and rancorous feuds. While London’s flashiest restaurants echoed with Russian laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, however, darker events were also playing themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London and...
ISBN: 978-0-00-735637-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Usborne Beginners and Young Readers series are increasingly being recognized and celebrated as having both the production values, content, and visual and commercial appeal demanded by the home market, and also the clear structure supporting children`s reading development that is desired by schools. In my opinion, the Usborne Beginners and Young Readers series are by far the most appealing and comprehensive reading development supports available, now offering a vast range of subjects. - A colourful information book on London, including the Thames, the Great Fire and the Underground. - - Great for children beginning to read on their own. - Vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative...
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8849-4
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: август 2011
The image of London as a human body is striking and singular; we may trace it from the pictorial emblems of the City of God, the mystical body in which Jesus Christ represents its head and the citizens its other members. London has also been envisaged in the form of a voting man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation; the figure is taken from a Roman bronze but it embodies the energy and exultation of a city continually expanding in great waves of progress and of confidence. Here might be found the "heart of London beating warm".
ISBN: 978-0-09-942258-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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: 978-1-4082-8508-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
This is an abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd`s magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcast, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself.
Whether it`s the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in "London Transports" will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away—and yet so having an affair with a married man brings one woman to a turning another finds that looking for an apartment to share can be a risky nosing into a secretary`s life can have shocking a dress designer just had a god-awful where Maeve Binchy captures the beat of every woman`s heart.
ISBN: 978-0-440-21235-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Too young for Twilight? Get your blood pumping with these great vampire adventures! Jack looked up into the eyes of a vampire. He felt the fangs sink into his Jack wants to believe it was only a dream – the vampires are gone, banished for a thousand years by a ritual that sent their leader to the depths of Hell. But he isn`t sure. The voice of the vampire god still echoes in his mind, promising to return. Jack`s friends Ben and Emily say it`s his imagination, but it seemed so real. Maybe Victorian London is safe – but a strange sickness is raging in Paris. A familiar sickness, that leaves its victims drained of blood. It seems the vampires have moved on, and Jack, Ben and Emily must follow.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1718-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Edward Warren is a prodigal son who left home after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. Now Luke lies comatose in hospital, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured Edward`s younger sister Cara. Cara, 17, still holds a grudge against her brother, since his departure led to her parents` divorce. In the aftermath, she`s lived with her father - an animal conservationist who became famous after living with a wild wolf pack in the Canadian wild. It is impossible for her to reconcile the still, broken man in the hospital bed with her vibrant, dynamic father. With Luke`s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father`s organs. Is he...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2899-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When Luke Warren is involved in a car accident which leaves him in a coma, his family are gathered together against the odds; they face an impossible dilemma. His daughter Cara is praying for a miracle: she will fight everything and everyone to save her father`s life. His son Edward can`t imagine that a man who once ran with wolves could ever be happy with a different life. But Edward hasn`t spoken to Luke for six years. How can he dare to speak on his father`s behalf? Somehow, they must choose: Do they keep Luke alive? Or do they let him go?
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2902-3
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacre-Coeur - Kerouac reveals the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118490-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
As young Tammo dreams of joining the Long patrol--the legendary army of fighting hares which serves the Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, Ruler of Salamandastron--the brutal reality of a battle with Damug Warfang`s mighty battalion of savage Rapscallions fast approaches. Following in the tradition of the Redwall chronicles, this is the tale of young Tammo and his membership of the Long Patrol - the army of fighting hares of Salamandastron, who serve Lady Cregga Rose Eyes
ISBN: 0-441-00599-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer`s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, `pissed his life away`. And on New Year`s Eve he`s going to end it but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin`s private party. They`ve stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it`s hard to jump when you`ve got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?
ISBN: 978-0-241-95023-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, ...
ISBN: 9780552172813
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Lieutenant David Buckalew and his men had left Texas on a march westward to claim the entire Southwest for the Confederacy. But defeat after humiliating defeat at the hands of the Union army has stranded Buckalew and nineteen battle-weary survivors in the New Mexico Territory-a territory crawling with hostile Comanches and Union Buckalew and his men make a run for their homeland of Texas, they learn the location of a cache of Union weapons and ammunition. If they could seize the weapons before the Union troops arrive to collect them, they might be able to shift the odds in the South`s , those keeping the cache for the North have other ideas . . .
ISBN: 978-0-8125-6159-3
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
Harlan Coben`s millions of fans have waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel and soon their patience will be rewarded in spectacular fashion. Myron hasn`t heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He`s had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She`s in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she`s never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she`d ever loved was taken from her. As the years passed Terese heard nothing from her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. But on arrival, Terese...
ISBN: 978-0-451-22849-9
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this tender, beautifully wrought love story by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Demon Rumm," a man and a woman find themselves battling each other for the love of a child, but their heated tug-of-war can only end one way.
ISBN: 9780553589351
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2006
