Mosaics offer a medium to experiment with a wide variety of materials and to create imaginative color schemes. The authors, Kaffe Fassett and Candace Bahouth, are accomplished designers known especially for dramatic color combinations, and for their first collaboratioin they have chosen the rich subject of mosaics - presenting a collection of creative projects for interiors and exteriors. This book offers plenty of inspiration for those already interested in this increasingly popular craft, as well as solid information for the beginner. The mosaic projects in this book can bring life to your home and garden. You`ll find both simple and ambitious ideas here, and the many contemporary materials used here include broken crockery, tiles and...
ISBN: 978-1-56158-568-7
Издательство:
Taunton Press Inc.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence (and the man who will one day write that exhaustive treatise on criminology, the Inferno), is on the case. It is his first official investigation. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of Florence, following a trail full of intrigue and mystery. Why have seven scholars, each a master of his art, assembled in the city? What was the secret that might have been revealed had the artist lived to complete his work? Was it an alchemist`s formula to transform lead into gold? Did it have to do with Antilia, wild and beautiful, who dances...
В пособие включены наиболее интересные материалы о Москве, ее истории, культурной жизни, архитектурных памятниках и достопримечательностях. Оно предназначено для развития навыков ознакомительного чтения, письма и устной речи по страноведческой тематике на английском языке. Пособие поможет учащимся расширить кругозор и лексический запас в рамках данной тематики, а также будет полезно для подготовки к...
ISBN: 5-8346-0060-3
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 2000
The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. Not to the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a modern Moscow awash with oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of rich Stalinists plotting to challenge an old enemy: the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel, whose global empire is built on a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer – and he`s about to sell Russia`s most dangerous weapon to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will suffer its deadliest terror attacks since 9/11. The countdown to Armageddon has
ISBN: 978-0-14-104139-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
The violent death of a journalist leads agent turned art-restorer, Gabriel Allon to Russia. Here he finds that in terms of spycraft, the stakes are the highest they`ve ever been. He`s playing by "Moscow Rules" now. It is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost, and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22755-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The threat of Russia as a hostile superpower returns in this chilling spy thriller. When British spy, Finn, is brutally murdered by a Russian assassin, Adrian, chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers - answers that can only be revealed by Finn`s widow, Anna, the former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for love and has now disappeared with their child. Adrian isn`t the only one desperate to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so confidential that the KGB are willing to kill to protect it, and now everyone wants to know what Russia is concealing beneath its veil of political cordiality.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5756-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: май 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Mosses from an Old Manse is Hawthorne`s interesting story collection, which the was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. And The Blithedale Romance, one of Hawthorne`s major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love it represents one of Hawthorne`s best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07770-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The thrilling prequel to "Redwall". The clever and greedy wildcat Tsarmina becomes ruler of all Mossflower Woods and is determined to govern the peaceful woodlanders with an iron paw. The brave mouse Martin and quick-talking mouse thief Gonff meet in the depths of Kotir Castle`s dungeon. The two escape and resolve to end Tsarmina`s tyrannical rule. Joined by Kinny the mole, Martin and Gonff set off on a dangerous quest for Salamandastron, where they are convinced that their only hope, Boar the Fighter, still lives.
ISBN: 0-441-00576-4
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Le Carre`s fiercely compelling novel begins as a half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. Annabel, an idealistic German civil rights lawyer, determines to save him from deportation. Soon, her client`s survival becomes more important than her own career-or safety.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-9489-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night with an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, even if the price is her career - and her safety. Searching for clues to his mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank - and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror" the rival spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, "A Most Wanted Man"...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-9609-7
Издательство:
Азбука
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client`s survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa`s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant,...
ISBN: 978-0-340-97708-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The fifth hilarious novel in the classic Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy series follows the exploits of Arthur Dent, who has to adjust to a new life when his spaceship crashes on a remote planet. If you were hoping for more of the zany, nonsensical, mayhem produced in the earlier books, you`re in luck.
ISBN: 978-0-345-41877-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mother Teresa was a small, quiet nun. She lived for God and helped poor people on the streets of India. She was very famous for her work. She died in 1997, but people remember her today. People in many countries love her. This is her story.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7815-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, "Mother Night" is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr -an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of its themes. It is one of the blackest comedies ever. Формат книги: 13 см x 19,5 см.
Grade 5–8—As the Mumby family gathers to celebrate Christmas at Larklight, their Earth-orbiting home, a dire message arrives alerting them of a "Great Danger" threatening the universe. The family sets off across the solar system to Georgium Sidus (aka Uranus) to find out what is wrong. So begins Art and Myrtle Mumby`s latest space adventure. The danger turns out to be the Mothmaker, a malevolent Shaper or creator of planetary systems. It is determined to conquer the worlds, including Earth, created by another Shaper, Mrs. Mumby, and enslave the creatures, including humans, created by her. A series of exciting and entertaining episodes involving various characters and imaginative creatures leads up to a final confrontation between the...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9416-1
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011
