The world is peering into the terrifying chasm of a new kind of conflict, where computers take over from missiles and global damnation comes at the click of a button. Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off energy lifelines, crippling the financial markets, starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown, while on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seabord is plunged into darkness. Nobody knows - yet - who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Minister is about to take place. They have the weekend to save the world - and they must...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-322-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Ladybird Tales are based on the original best-selling "Well-Loved Tales". These classic stories have been combined with beautiful new illustrations to bring the magic of Ladybird Tales to a new generation. Children have always loved these stories, and reading them together is an experience to treasure.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-1426-4
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley`s gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and is certain of her evil. Then Alice finds an old diary in Ginny`s room and reads the story of Daniel Holmes, who lived in Cambridge forty years earlier, and fell under the fatal spell of Rosemary Ashley. As the two stories intertwine, Alice`s suspicions about Ginny increase - until the past meets present in a terrifying
ISBN: 978-0-552-77504-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Based on the classic story "The Elves and the Shoemaker", this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Meet the poor and hungry shoemaker who wakes up one morning to find that his shoes have been magically made for him! Part of the Ladybird "First Favourite Tales" series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - this hardback book contains lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds. Retold by Lorna Read.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0628-3
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The post-Cold War is drawing to a close. For the first time since 1945 Europe is about to experience the centrifugal forces of multipolarity. It does so after two decades of intense institution with a collective presence in the shape of the European Union. Asle Toje asks the question, what place will the EU take in a multipolar global order? In examining the historical forces that converged in the post-war integration project, the efforts to construct a common foreign and security policy and experiences from the field, he argues that due to the lack of a workable decision-making mechanism the EU is destined to play the limited but at the same time distinct role of a small power. Toje explains that only with the surge of integration in...
At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It`s a brutalstructure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic warthat`s long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entire population of the planet waskilled in an instant by the weapon housed deep in the heart of the Fortress. Nowonly the ghosts remain. When The Doctor arrives, determined to fight his waypast the Fortress`s automatic defenses and put the weapon beyond use, he soondiscovers he`s not the only person in Arcopolis! What is the true nature of theweapon? Is the planet really haunted? Who are the Eyeless? And what will happenif they get to the weapon before the Doctor?
ISBN: 9781846075629
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009
Coinciding with the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, comes this retelling of his comical fairytale about a fashion-crazy emperor who will stop at nothing to have the most talked-about outfit in the land! Amusingly illustrated throughout by award-winning cartoonist Mike Gordon. Young readers will treasure this gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. The Young Reading Series is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a range of subject matter, including the retelling of children`s classics, fairytales, and a wide variety of narrative non-fiction.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6775-8
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dot-com years. For a while it seems that soaking up reconstruction money isn’t the worst plan ever. But then they both meet Clare, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, and they both realise she is the best person they`ve has ever met, and that they can’t both have her as much as they would, ideally, like. Meanwhile the city is awash with black marketeers, poker hustlers, intelligence officers, and expat hedonist, and by the time Frito and Bannerman have started bounty hunting men accused of war crimes, their lives have taken on all the risk - but very little of the money - that they’d bargained
ISBN: 978-0-09-951345-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Этьен Жерар - герой Французской армии, ветеран наполеоновских войны и тщеславный автор героических баек о своих подвигах. Эта коллекция сатирических рассказов, созданная автором романов о Шерлоке Холмсе сэром Артуром Конан Дойлем, была впервые опубликована в 1 890х годах. Хитроумный и ловкий кавалерист Жерар отправится из Франции во все страны Европы, где ступала нога Наполеона, дойдет до России и примет...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05554-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
