Gabrielle `Coco` Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. Chanel knew instinctively that the road to success...
ISBN: 978-0-500-51216-6
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: август 2011
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors` empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But now Norman Stone, one of Britain`s greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse, brilliantly written, opinionated and witty short history of the conflict. In only 140 pages he distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking into what will be one of the most talked about history books of years to come.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103156-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
n 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed-"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)-and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an...
ISBN: 978-0-451-22446-0
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
- A fascinating introduction to Shakespeare`s life, work and times. - Includes the `tricks of the trade` employed by Shakespeare and how his works have been interpreted over the past few centuries. - Useful glossary included. - Fully-updated Internet links.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6720-8
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This is a brand-new flexiback edition of this popular guide to the animals that inhabit planet Earth. Divided by continent, this book describes the wide diversity of wildlife which can be found all over the world, from soaring bald eagles in the Rocky Mountains to dancing lemurs in Madagascar and graceful turtles in the South Pacific. It includes a section of amazing information, such as animal records, amazing facts, a comprehensive glossary and a fun animal quiz to test how much you have learnt throughout the book. It comes with internet-links to recommended websites for further research.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8996-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World WarZ is the only record of the plague years.
ISBN: 978-0-307-88868-6
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Six little board books in a slipcase, all celebrating positive and uplifting values: love, friendship, happiness, fun, respect and teamwork. When you`ve read the books, turn them over and together they make a jigsaw picture. From the creator of "Purple Ronnie, Edward Monckton" and a whole host of winning children`s books.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5963-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Help students become world savvy with this bulletin board set that features the seven continents. Includes color-coded fact cards and photographs of animals and places that students can match with each continent, a complete world map, and an activity guide. For use with Grades 25.
ISBN: 978-0-545-11839-2
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Three years in preparation, the authors` fourth book on the World of Wade is now complete. This new full color book by the preeminent experts in the field features Wade ceramic figurines and miniatures from the 1930s through to the present time. With over 2,500 items shown in color and organized in 17 chapters, this comprehensive guide to the popular collectibles has current values both in dollars and British pounds. Included are many of the highly collectible Wade ladies of the 1930s, nursery rhyme figurines, Irish Wade figurines, and miniature and large animal and bird figurines from the 1930s and 1950s. Also shown are the Whimsey-on-Why village series, early and later Whimsies, Disney miniatures and "Blow-Ups", Christmas party cracker...
This is the life of , the bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes-even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases". Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 0-345-36676-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Selected Short Stories by British and American Writers Selected by Gabriella Bonavoglia These short stories by Graham Greene, Kate Chopin, Bernard MacLaverty, Roald Dahl and Shirley Jackson – all with a surprise ending – explore themes such as appearances and reality, prejudices and beliefs, and isolation – all raising questions which relate to the human condition. Text analysis activities focus on comprehension, characters, setting and plot, as well as style, language, narrative techniques and themes. Follow-up work offers creative tasks for students – imagining a different ending and point-of-view re-writing – which highlight their personal response to the texts. Book + CD
ISBN: 978887754-268-7
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8959-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From Snuff: `Vimes` prompt arrival got a nod of approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam. Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whoever had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam laugh until they were nearly sick. The bit about sailing down the river almost made him smile. But interspersed with the scatology was actually quite interesting stuff about septic tanks and dunnakin...
In the greedy, grasping media business, married men don`t stay that way for long ...David Cooper cheats ...his wife doesn`t ...but then Claudia comes into his life and David wants out of his marriage. But Claudia wants her name in lights and doesn`t care how she gets there. Phony showbiz promises ...hustlers with little talent and no principles ...the power of the casting couch ...all play their part in Jackie Collins` devastatingly raunchy expose of life in the fastest lane of them all. 3 reissues of classic Collins novels, with brand new jackets.
ISBN: 978-0-330-51845-1
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
