encompassing Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria and a villainous secret society. A photographic retelling of the original uproarious story by acclaimed author Gideon Defoe. `I HATE pirates!` declares Queen Victoria. Nevertheless, deterined to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, the Pirate Captain takes his life in his hands and enters the city of London. With the help of Darwin, a manpanzee and a crew of motley misfits, the Pirate Captain struggles to seize booty and restore his pirate honour. Having written the script for the film, Gideon Defoe has brilliantly revisited his story for younger readers. This hilarious book will delight a new generation of fans.
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
ISBN: 0714827290
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
This selection of Poe`s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In "The Tell Tale Heart", a murderer`s insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Cask of Amontillado" explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119062-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
More than any other event, World War I made the 20th century what it has been. Now as the 20th century draws to a close, 80 years after the armistice of 11 November 1918, the time is right for a radical reassessment of the Great War. In this book aimed at appeal to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.
ISBN: 978-0-14-027523-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Electrifying color images show readers the most innovative campaigns for advertising and publishing clients dreamed up by the new digital designers in their relentless pursuit of concepts that surpass the norm in capturing our attention and influencing the way we view the media around us
ISBN: 3-931884-69-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2003
Pizza Margherita, Vier Jahreszeiten, all Tonno, Capricciosa, Calzone, Quiche Lorraine oder Elsässer Flammkuchen - hier kommt jeder auf seine Buch bietet die besten Rezepte für klassische Pizzen, raffinierte Quiches und Tartes, Fleisch und Gemüsestrudel, pikante Kuchen und herzhaftes Kleingebä#228;tzlich erfährt man alles Wissenswerte über die Herkunft der verschiedenen Backwaren, die wichtigsten Zutaten und die richtige praktisches Backbuch mit erprobten Rezepten und vielen farbigen Abbildungen. Alle Gerichte mit Kalorien- sowie Joule-Angaben und Nährwerttabellen.
St Paul’s Cathedral is an iconic British building combining Renaissance and Baroque elements. Vaughan Hart examines Wren’s extraordinary exterior, brilliantly constructed dome and radiant interior. The Church of the Sacred Heart by Jo?ze Ple?cnik – a key representative of the Modern Movement – dominates a quiet square in Prague; Ivan Margolius discusses the classical and traditional Slovenian elements which create a building of great architectural force. The Church on the Water and Church of the Light complement each other perfectly: one rural and ‘open’, the other urban and ‘closed’. Philip Drew explains how Ando created in them a synthesis of opposites. Considering these churches together allows an insight into the...
ISBN: 0714838772
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
When Lionel Lawrence opens his rambling rectory to rehabilitate young offenders he has no idea of the consequences, least of all that they will include blackmail and murder. Chief Inspector Barnaby has a good idea of the identity of the violent individual responsible, now all he needs is evidence.
Burroughs` classic, surreal reworking of the myth of the Old West. William Burroughs` surreal fable set in America`s Old West features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of smalltown America. With a narrative of fantastical proportions and a rich, dry, growling humour, `The Place of Dead Roads` continues Burroughs` exploration of society`s controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style utterly unique in 20th century literature.
ISBN: 978-0-00-734193-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh - a slave by birth - is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. Independent, rebellious Lizzie Hallim, meanwhile, is engaged to Jay Jamisson, the ruthless landlord`s son and heir to an exploitative business empire. Born into separate worlds, Mack and Lizzie are thrown together when Mack becomes an enemy of the state and is forced to flee his homeland. Lizzie aids his escape, and it is not long before passions rage in the old world as well as the new ...Set in an era of turbulent social changes, "A Place Called Freedom" is a magnificent novel from the undisputed master of suspense and drama, Ken Follett. "A compulsive, sweeping...
ISBN: 978-0-330-34483-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he`d have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years. Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication,...
ISBN: 978-0-312-97953-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Ever since the day her classmate Jenny-May Butler vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something - or someone - disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother Donal who vanished into thin air a year ago. So then he spots an ad for Sandy`s missing persons agency, he`s certain that she will answer his prayers and find his missing brother. But then Sandy disappears too, stumbling upon a place that is a world away from the only one she has ever known. Now all she wants, more than anything, is to find her way home.
ISBN: 978-0-00-725887-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics and position, are bound by their search for a place called
The "New York Times" bestselling author explores new territory in the darker landscapes of human relationships in this gripping story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, and love and loss on an isolated island in the English Channel.
ISBN: 0-553-58237-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
An extraordinary and brilliant work of historical imagination – this is Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution. A spellbinding novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution’s three protagonists – Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution’s ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends. Critically acclaimed upon first publication, ‘A Place of Greater Safety’ is one of Mantel’s most celebrated works of fiction.
ISBN: 978-0-00-725055-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it - and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed a top-secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104069-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jean M. Auel`s enthralling Earth`s Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey - away from the welcoming hearths of The Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills,...
ISBN: 0-553-28941-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Редъярд Киплинг - самый индийский из всех английских писателей, который до сих пор покоряет сердца читателей по всему миру. В этот сборник "Простые рассказы с гор" вошли самые известные рассказы этого писателя: "Липсет", "Отброшенный", "Саис мисс Йол", "За чертой" и многие другие. Читателя ждут необычные сюжетные повороты, тонкий юмор и увлекательные истории. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05787-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
From the bestselling author of My Sister`s Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country-and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn`s mother, took the child`s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide-and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4918-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
