Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Lost Face" is a collection of seven great short stories including "Flush of Gold", "The Passing of Marcus O`Brien", "The Wit of Porportulc" and London`s best known tale "To Build a Fire".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07500-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn`t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99808-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lost Control is the self-deprecating title of the new publication by Neasden Control Centre. The book presents graphic design, installations and collages in NCC’s incomparable style that always comes across as simultaneously spontaneous and calculated. These seemingly contradictory, but in NCC’s work so coherently united characteristics give their work a powerful appeal. Neasden Control Centre is not only influencing creatives from around the world today, but is also being increasingly recognised by international museums such as the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and clients such as Volkswagen.
ISBN: 978-3-89955-189-1
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: август 2011
Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves. Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd`s search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103707-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Original / British English This is Nicky`s first visit to New York. He is going to stay with his aunt, but she is not at the airport. Then some older boys on motorbikes play a dangerous game with him. Not long after he arrives, the police are looking for Nicky. Can he find his aunt before the police find him?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7697-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The vision has haunted him for four years - a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant`s death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the , Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he`s on his own. And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he`s ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61163-3
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
SOMEONE NEW IS PLAYING GOD The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. In a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time, Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more malignant than ever. Frankenstein`s first monster, Deucalion, has spent two hundred years trying to put an end to his creator. Now he learns that a new Frankenstein clone, Victor Helios, is out there again, somewhere. Terrifyingly, with each incarnation the sinister doctor draws closer to the possibility of succeeding in his ambition to create a new human race - which he will control. He has found an enigmatic backer and is working in a secret location. Together with the two ex-cops who helped...
Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now `the same age as Jesus was when he died` (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a `Big Boy Arouser` condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from the notorious Gaitskell estate before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club? In the meantime, Adrian continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents who are conducting a matrimonial square-dance with the Braithwaites - the parents of the beautiful but unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104138-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling that finds famed symbologist Robert Langdon in a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen all under the watch-full еyе of Brown`s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, , The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced story with surprises at every turn. This is Dan Brown`s most exciting novel yet.
ISBN: 978-0-307-74190-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
``The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.`` Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost word holds great danger for the four men, whether from fiendish ape-men or terrifying prehistoric creatures. Arthur Conan Doyle`s Top page classic tale of adventure and discovery still excites the reader today, just as dinosaurs continue to grip the popular imagination.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953879-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
"This is wonderful, Professor Challenger"! I said. "You have found a place which no one knows about - a lost world. A world where creatures from the past still live". "But nobody in London believes my story", said the Professor. "People say the drawing and the photograph are fakes - they aren`t real". "I want to return to the Lost World. Other people must see the Lost World. Then everyone will know it is real"! Retold by Anne Collins.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7271-7
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom. When Langdon`s mentor, Peter Solomon - prominent mason and philanthropist - is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend`s life is to accept this mysterious summons. It is to take him on a breathless chase through Washington`s dark history. All that was familiar is changed into a shadowy, mythical world in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.
ISBN: 978-0-552-16123-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Опоре де Бальзак - один из самых известных французских писателей, и основоположник реализма в литературе Европы, заслуженный классик, покоривший сердца читателей во всём мире. "Утраченные иллюзии" — блестящий роман автора, в котором раскрывается многообразие тем, а перед нашими глазами предстаёт целое историческое полотно, выхваченное из общественной жизни Франции начала XIX века. Главные герои, молодые...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05739-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Contemporary / American English Six years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed and Jurassic Park was closed. But now people are finding dead animals again - are they dinosaurs? Dr. Levine is going to find out. On Isla Sorna, off the coast of Costa Rica, he and his friends find themselves in a lost world.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8225-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Lost Face" is a collection of seven great short stories including "Flush of Gold", "The Passing of Marcus O`Brien", "The Wit of Porportuk" and London`s best known tale "To Build a Fire". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08118-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Original / British English The stories in this book are exciting and sometimes very strange. Some are sad and some are happy. We meet many interesting people - a young man in love, a lonely customer in a shop, a shy soldier. Strange things happen to all these people. But life is strange sometimes. This Pack contains a Book and MP3.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8509-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, the Palais des Machines by Ferdinand Dutert and Pennsylvania Station by McKim, Mead and White are three of the grandest and most innovative buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These structures – with their innovative approaches to design and the use of new technology – paved the way for the modern architectural movement, but sadly no longer survive. Their destruction was irreparable and in stark contrast to the self-confidence of the original climate in which they were designed.
ISBN: 0714838721
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2000
With recipes of glamorous by-gone desserts, and packed with history and anecdotes of famous classic restaurants and the people who frequented them, Lost Desserts features delicious and sometimes exotic favorites from the new world and the old. Conjuring up the heyday of Hollywood are such American classics as the Brown Derby’s Orange Chiffon Cake, Trader Vic’s Flaming Tahitian Ice Cream, and Chasen’s Banana Shortcake with Banana Sauce, while the old-world elegance of Paris and London is evoked with delightful concoctions like Escoffier’s Mont Blanc and Lady Jekyll’s Orange Jelly with Compote. The seventy recipes included here, adapted for the home cook and updated for the modern palate to taste as good as they look and are...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2983-5
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: август 2011
The next searing adventure from the author of The Last Legion. Manfredi has created a rip-roaring adventure seen from the perspective of a woman. Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient world. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the vast army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from virtually every Greek city state that was employed by Cyrus the Younger, in his quest to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. A new and intense account of the most celebrated march in man`s history.
Wanted: new the strays from a local dogs` home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the lost dogs who need rescuing. Helen`s ex-husband has given their children a puppy. The kids are in love, but she`s the one stuck training the impossible Labrador. She`s nearly at the end of her tether - until then the puppy bounds up to a handsome Kirsten and Johnny are happily married, even if it`s not been so easy since they started trying for a baby. But can owning a neurotic basset hound really make up for not having a child? And Ambrose and Winnie just fear that they`re too old for a new dog. But there`s life in them yet, as a loyal dachshund will teach them. As the new owners` paths cross, their lives all become...
ISBN: 978-0-340-91920-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
