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
It has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A towering figure in the pantheon of American letters, the leading voice of the `lost generation`, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a Pulitzer Prize, Hemingway is known around the world for the brilliance of his writing. The Essential Hemmingway is the perfect introduction to his astonishing, wide-ranging body of work. This impressive collection includes the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway`s first major novel; long extracts from his three greatest works of fiction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls; twenty-five complete stories; and the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946097-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Headbangers rejoice, because this fantastically illustrated encyclopedia includes all things Metal, from influential bands such as Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, to today s extreme death metal bands. The well-researched witty text befits the raucous, boundary-pushing musicians. From obscure bands such as Armored Saint to megastars as Van Halen and Metallica, each entry contains vital statistics on the band members, a description of the band s history and sound, an essential discography, and more.
Can cuddly Teddy become sexy Eddie - in just three months? Edward Middleton is devastated to be dumped by Jane, his girlfriend of the past ten years. `It`s not me, it`s you`, she tells him. `You`ve let yourself go. So I`m letting you go too.` Determined to get her back, Edward must learn how to make women fancy him again. If he`s to be Jane`s Mr Right, he needs to turn himself into a bit of all right. Edward`s personal self-improvement odyssey from Atkins, Botox and Detox to his lamentable efforts to re-enter the 21st century dating scene make for a truly hilarious read. And on Jane`s return, the truth is finally revealed. Has he managed the transformation from cuddly Teddy to sexy Eddie - and will he be able to win her back? Or has his...
ISBN: 978-0-7434-9552-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
