Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro`s relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, Prayers for Rain brings them together again to close down a predator whose modus operandi seems to put him beyond the law. This killer`s insidious murder weapon is within his victims` minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81825-3
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2012
As stories told through pictures, the magnificent codices created by Mexico`s ancient Indians are rich in history and folk art. In this dazzling collection of 366 color and black-and-white designs expertly selected from original codices, visual renderings of kings, warriors, tribal ceremonies, and mystical journeys will delight artists and history enthusiasts alike.
ISBN: 978-0-486-99865-7
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: август 2011
\'Genuine ideas to express\'. Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era\'s dominant artistic theories for what they saw as a more spiritual, naturalistic and intensely personal approach. Fascinated by the romantic aspects of medieval culture and the vivid, jewel-like colors of Quattrocento art, the movement abhored the Classical poses and composition of Raphael and those influenced by him — hence the group\'s name — and the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the original Pre-Raphaelites were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-5486-0
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: май 2010
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Precaution is the first novel written by Cooper written in imitation of Jane Austen`s novels of English gentry manners. It is mainly interesting today as a document in the history of American cultural colonialism and as an example of an attempt to imitate Jane Austen`s investigation of the ironic discrepancy between illusion and reality.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07969-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she is urged to write down her thoughts in a book. This is Precious` diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life. Told with tremendous power, vitality and wit; this is an uncompromising and hugely enjoyable novel.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954872-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying of cold after the Jenny Haniver`s engines have failed. They are saved at the last minute, finding Anchorage, a once-beautiful ice city hat has fallen on hard times. Crippled by plague, there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now, and the teenage margravine has made a desperate choice. They are heading for America, the Dead
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1092-9
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Queen of Paranormal Romance ("USA Today") continues her breathtaking GhostWalkers series. Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets former Navy SEAL and GhostWalker Jess Calhoun. The riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal. Original. The new Ghostwalker novel from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets ex-Navy SEAL and Ghostwalker Jess Calhoun. But the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14428-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues - Benton Wesley, Pete Marino, and her niece Lucy Farinelli - have a series of forensic cases as haunting as any they have ever tackled. Working with the National Forensic Institute in Florida, Scarpetta and Marino examine the X-rays of a man who has died from a shotgun blast to the chest. But the pellets embedded show a strange `pinball` pattern and the two can`t help but wonder if this points to suicide - or to murder. In an abandoned house in the rural South, a woman is held against her will. Her captor is unknown to her-and indeed unseen - but even in the dark, she knows that he is near. And on Cape Cod, Lucy awakens to a gray winter morning and the sure feeling that she has made a dreadful mistake.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21088-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Predictably Irrational demonstrates how irrationality manifests itself in situations (often very peculiar and hilarious) where rational thought is expected. In this astounding book, groundbreaking in scope and totally original, Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviors and presents outstanding material that will keep every reader transfixed. He explains why honor codes are actually effective in reducting dishonesty in the workplace, why a 50-cent aspirin can cure a headache that a one-cent aspirin cannot, and, ultimately, why we make decisions contrary to our better judgement.
This book shows around 25 international houses that are based on modular and prefabrication systems. All of them have ecological advantages in comparison to standard construction systems, since they represent a more effective use of resources and a reduction of construction time and there with costs. All houses are built in factories, carried by road and assembled on site. Thus, building materials can be used more economically and very few refuse is produced during construction. Due to the actual spread of technologies and construction typologies, the international prefabrication industry can deliver up-to-date houses, aesthetically modern, and with an average rank of prizes from very cheap solutions to more exclusive ones, depending on...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1143-8
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though dedicated to the cause they have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory--or, as Alexander Herzen put it, a pregnant widow. Twenty years old and on vacation from college, Keith and an assortment of his peers are spending the long, hot summer in a castle in Italy. The tragicomedy of manners that ensues will have an indelible effect on all its participants, and we witness, too, how it shapes Keith`s subsequent love life for decades. Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955412-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Cambridge Preliminary English Test Extra provides official examination papers from Cambridge ESOL, plus a wealth of extra material for use in the classroom or for self-study. It comprises four complete PET examination papers, a useful exam overview and helpful guidance on tackling each part of each paper. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the same four papers that appear in the book, giving students the option of trying out the PET in electronic format. Формат: 22 см x 27,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-521-67668-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2011
