Over the past 150 years, the role of plastics within the field of design has been fundamental to the development of the manmade environment. Synthetic polymers have quite literally molded the modern world, transforming utopian dreams into three-dimensional realities. Indeed, the impact of plastics has been felt in every area of human life, from healthcare and food distribution to communications, transportation and financial transactions. Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design tells the fascinating story of these truly wondrous materials, charting their evolution from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, across a huge range of landmark product types, from Wells Coates` iconic AD 65 radio to Konstantin Grcic`s MYTO stacking...
Three sassy, but very different heroines: knock-out brunette Peaches Gold, LA`s most influential madam, who in her late thirties is certainly fooling everyone that she`s much younger than she looks; twenty-something blonde South African yacht stewardess Frankie Willis, and English socialite Lady Emma Harvey - in her prime at nearly fifty. The hooker, the maid, and the lady. They have every reason to distrust and despise each other, but their hatred for one man will unite them. Forever. That man is Yuri Khordinsky. He`s typical of the new-comers to the ranks of the world`s super-rich - a handsome, ludicrously wealthy, utterly ruthless Russian with a murky past, desperate for acceptance in society. And he`ll stop at nothing to get it.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15887-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Here`s a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It`s Philosophy 101 for those who know not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously.
ISBN: 978-0-14-311387-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Andy Carpenter rescues a golden retriever from being put down and finds that the dog was supposed to have died five years before during an incident that resulted in his master being convicted of murdering his fiancee at sea. Encouraged by the prisoner`s sister, Andy endeavours to reopen the case by using the dog as a witness in court. He finds himself the object of violent interest by persons unknown who very much do not want a new trial, resulting in car chases, attempted assassination and dog-napping. Andy displays his usual court-room theatrics, but he has to bring in the Mafia before he gets to the bottom of a remarkable chain of impersonations and murder.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61452-8
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the best-selling and much-loved author of "The Gruffalo" and other classic picture books, this title contains eleven fun-to-act short plays for primary-aged children (Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2) complete with helpful, simple guidance on target age, running time and cast! Ranging from adaptations of traditional tales (, the "Legend of Persephone" and "Three Billy Goats Gruff") to original and contemporary short plays, Julia Donaldson has produced an entertaining, simple, satisfying play collection.
ISBN: 978-0-330-44595-5
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
"The Playboy" is the second of three lighthearted and sexy contemporary romances about the three Chandler brothers, whose mother schemes to marry them off in order to get what she wants most in life: grandchildren.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61055-1
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Harry Hunter was everywhere you looked - bearing down from bus billboards, beaming out from the society pages, falling out of nightclubs in the gossip columns, and flirting up a storm on the telly chat show circuit. Harry Hunter is the new golden boy of the literary world. With his books selling by the millions, the paparazzi on his tail, and a supermodel on each arm, he seems to have the world at his feet. Women all over the world adore him but few suspect that his angelic looks hide a darker side, a side that conceals a lifetime of lies and deceit. Tor, Cress and Kate have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Through all the challenges of marriage, raising children and maintaining their high-flying careers, they have...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51376-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Vonnegut`s spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
ISBN: 978-0-385-33378-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Издание полностью на английском языке. This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and, finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953819-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Connie has been happily married for a year. She`s just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He`s a walking stag weekend. He`s a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is also completely unscrupulous. He`s about to destroy Connie`s peace of mind, her grand plan for living happily ever after with her gentle, loving husband Luke. It`s against the rules. It`s the closest thing you`ll get to an affair, without actually having one.
ISBN: 978-0-14-029065-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: май 2012
Книга для чтения на английском языке. Английский писатель Артур Конан-Дойль известен как создатель Шерлока Холмса и один из основателей детективного жанра. Несколько менее известен он как автор исторических, фантастических и приключенческих романов, повестей и рассказов. И почти совсем не известен как сочинитель увлекательных историй, в которых сильны элементы загадки, мистики и необъяснимо...
ISBN: 5-8346-0036-0
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go. Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock - and was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds. Rick finally gets a job - as the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers… of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player - any former NFL player - at their helm. And...
In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city`s creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions - `nothing is what it seems!` warns Gogol. St Petersburg is also the setting for "Marriage", Gogol`s satire on courtship and cowardice. Finally, for "The Government Inspector", indisputably Russia`s greatest comedy, we move to the provinces although even here St Petersburg`s preoccupation with status and appearances makes its presence felt.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955506-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Anton Chekhov`s popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than a dramatic voice or histrionic skills. He takes from everyday life themes of frustration which apply to us all - the difficulty of carving out a happy existence, the problems of love, the fading of hope, the universal feeling that time passes and we never quite get things right. This seems pessimistic, and yet Chekhov claimed he was writing comedy. Readers, actors and directors must decide for themselves which way to play these pieces. They are full of sadness, but a sadness...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-617-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and villains, and focused instead on the individual grappling with a moral dilemma. In place of the happy ending came ambiguity, in place of dramatic conflict came the solitary quest. Shocking to his first audiences, his plays are equally provocative today. A new translation by Peter Carson with an introduction by Richard Gilman.
ISBN: 978-0-14-044733-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Question: What do you get the kid who wants everything? Answer: Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!, the wonderfully exaggerated LeSeig Beginner Book that gently pokes fun at the green-eyed monster in all of us. Reissued with a new cover taken from the interior, this backlist classic is a parent`s wish come true!
Leonie was in love and engaged. But now she has fled her beloved Dublin to start again - somewhere no one knows her or the secret she`s running from. Settling in to her new apartment she happens upon a bundle of love letters, all written by a man called Nathan to an unknown woman, and all intriguingly ending with the same three words `Please forgive me`. Moved by Nathan`s heartfelt words, Leonie sets out to uncover the mystery behind the couple and what went wrong between them. If she reunites the letters with their rightful owner, might the love of Nathan`s life find it in her heart to forgive him? And along the way, Leonie might just resolve a few forgiveness issues of her
ISBN: 978-0-340-95295-5
Издательство:
Hodder Education
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work`s pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. Along the way he tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can ask about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet? Characteristically lucid, witty and inventive, Alain...
Dan, an Irishman who`s ended up in New Jersey, finds himself embroiled in a world of murder, kidnapping and corrupt cops. Dan works as a bouncer in a seedy club, half in love with hostess Connie. When Connie is murdered on the premises,
Recuperating in Long Island after a being injured on duty, NYPD homicide detective, John Corey, is hired to investigate the murders of Tom and Judy Gordon. Had the biologists discovered a new vaccine or dreaded virus at their animal disease research site on Plum Island? Corey thinks otherwise.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-2185-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
