The Pasteur Institute, Paris. A bomb explodes, a fire rages, and a renowned computer scientist is dead. Dr. Emile Chambord had been working on a molecular DNA computer that could virtually control all computerized operations around the globe. Now,
Renowned Flash wizard and innovator Robert Penner reveals the fascinating programming and design concepts behind his signature creations. Detailing his groundbreaking designs, this book showcases Penners work that merges math and design with Flash. Youll get an inside look at his sophisticated and unique approach to design--which incorporates advanced ActionScript programming--and discover exclusive techniques associated with some of the most groundbreaking interactive designs ever created. "Gives Macromedia Flash developers the foundational best-practice OOP examples theyve been craving for years. New and experienced OOP programmers will appreciate Penners reassuring hand." --Colin Moock, Author of ActionScript: The Definitive Guide...
ISBN: 0-07-222356-1
Издательство:
Osborne/McGrawHill
Дата выхода: декабрь 2009
THE BOURNE LEGACY: After the events of THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, David Webb is now living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But from the other side of the world someone is planning to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Jason Bourne to save his life and his THE BOURNE BETRAYAL: Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear shipments. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material. But is...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1430-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Robert Mapplethorpe`s black-and-white Polaroid photographs of the 1970s are brought together in this exquisite Volume for the first time. Critically praised for his classically composed photographs, Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. Revealing the themes that would inspire him throughout his career, this book brings together almost three hundred images, many never published, from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation`s archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe`s formative years as an artist. Included is a selection of his color Polaroids and objects incorporating his early "instant" photographs. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, while others have...
ISBN: 978-3-7913-3835-4
Издательство:
Prestel
Дата выхода: август 2011
For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world`s greatest storyteller. "What they`re going to do, I never would have believed it. It`s insanity"! They were the final words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia`s security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins` bullets. In possession of Danko`s classified papers, Covert-One operative Jon...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98158-7
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2012
THE BOURNE IDENTITY: He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was fished out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face, a Swiss bank account containing four million dollars, and a name: Jason Bourne. But he is marked for death, racing for survival through the layers of his buried past into a world of murderous conspirators - led by the world`s most dangerous assassin, Carlos. And no one can help Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY: In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. The Chinese vice-premier has been...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6039-8
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Presented in a large picture-book format with moving features - opening flaps, pull-tab actions, miniature books and hidden documents - this retelling of Treasure Island, for readers 7 to 10, captures the excitement and adventure of Robert Louis Stevenson`s immortal pirate tale. The book also includes a game board and play pieces, so youngsters can make their own pursuit of Captain Flint`s fabulous treasure.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-306-4
Издательство:
Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: январь 2012
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly "recorded" by Defoe.
ISBN: 1-85326-045-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
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. Robinson Crusoe is at sea when there is a great storm. His ship goes down, and his friends die. The sea throws Crusoe onto a beach. He is on an island. But which island? Are there other people on it? And are they friendly? What will Crusoe do now?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7815-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Robinson Crusoe, a novel, first published in 1719, tells the story of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before being rescued. Despite its simple narrative style, the novel was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08174-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 9788877549877
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Средневековая английская баллада о предводителе лесных разбойников Робине Гуде, боровшемся за справедливость - шайка грабила богатых и отдавала добытое беднякам. Множество фильмов поставлено по этой легенде.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-8723-0
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Robinson Crusoe, a novel, first published in 1719, tells the story of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before being rescued. Despite its simple narrative style the novel was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00168-2
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Three fantastic, fun-filled, dynamic and dramatic stories, to follow on from the story of Jason and the Argonauts and Ali Baba, published in February. These are tales that every aspiring boy-adventurer will want to read, from Robin outwitting the evil sheriff and William Tell`s astounding shot that pierced an apple at one hundred yards, to Aladdin`s discovery of his very own magic lamp complete with genie. Illustrated throughout with Tony Ross`s energetic, bold and brilliant line drawings.
These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are the legends of half-remembered heroes and people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold in the sparkling and inspirational words of the multiple award-winning and much-loved children`s author, Geraldine McCaughrean, the tales will delight and entertain readers of all ages. Together, ROBIN HOOD AND THE GOLDEN ARROW AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES with its two companion volumes, KING ARTHUR AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES and GEORGE AND THE DRAGON AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES, make a wonderful gift collection of classic tales from around the world - many of them unavailable anywhere else.
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0236-2
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
