A Discworld novel. It`s hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, everyone thinks you`re the Tooth Fairy, and you have to face the new and addictive musi that has reached the Discworld.
ISBN: 0-552-14029-5
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Baltic War which began in the novel "1633" is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville--the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident - are caught in the middle of it. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Emperor of the United States of Europe, prepares a counter-attack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark--former enemies which have allied in the League of Ostend to destroy the threat to their power that the Americans represent - which are besieging the German city of Luebeck. Elsewhere in war-torn Europe, several American plans are approaching fruition. Admiral Simpson of Grantville frantically races against time to finish the USE Navy`s...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5588-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Rome, 1635, and Grantville`s diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more. Sharon doesn`t mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time. Cardinal Borja is gathering votes to bring the Church`s reformers to a halt in their tracks, on the orders of the King of Spain. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the streets, shadowy agitators are stirring up trouble and Spain`s armies are massed across the border in the Kingdom of Naples, Cardinal Barberini wants the pamphleteers to stop slandering him and it looks like it`s going to be a long, hot summer....
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5536-0
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Признанный классик американского юмора умеет заинтриговать, рассмешить, заставить задуматься и узнать в его героях себя или соседа. Теперь прочитать его рассказы смогут даже те, кто не очень уверенно читает по-английски. Серия "Английский в адаптации: чтение и аудирование" — это тексты для начинающих, продолжающих и продвинутых. Теперь каждый изучающий английский может выбрать свой уровень и своих...
ISBN: 978-5-699-92844-6
Издательство:
Эксмо
Дата выхода: апрель 2017
Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons terror and panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can`t even spell the word `wizard`...Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime`s experience of not a very special butterfly.
ISBN: 0-552-14235-2
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This sumptuously illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, exquisite stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up the clothing in the V&A`s superlative seventeenth and eighteenth-century fashion collection. Using an authoritative text, exquisite colour photography and line drawings of complete garments, the reader is allowed the unique opportunity to look closely at clothing, often too fragile to be on display. Part of the "V&A Fashion in Detail" series, "Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail" is an inspirational resource for students, designers, collectors and all followers of fashion. This title was previously available as "Historical Fashion in Detail".
ISBN: 978-1-85177-567-5
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
'No review can do justice to the human sensitivity of this book, or to the horror it describes 1812 is one of the greatest stones ever told 'Christopher Woodward, Spectator Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the terrible retreat from Moscow were a military epic and a human tragedy on a colossal scale - history's first example of total war. 1812 is a masterful account of this turning point in European history, both a poignant tale of the individual foot soldier and a sweeping history of a turbulent time. Adam Zamoyski lias drawn on a vast pool of first-hand accounts in French, Russian, German, Polish and Italian, many never before translated into English, to paint a harrowing and vivid picture of the experiences of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-712374-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury–only now the Brits are alongside the Confederacy. Outraged when the Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels – and suddenly it’s a whole new war. Once again, cotton is king as the North’s blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy. While Lincoln confronts the monumental challenge of vanquishing mighty Britannia, the Redcoats revive their 1812 penchant for burning down American cities, and Union troops see Canada as ripe for the picking. From the Mississippi bayou to the Pennsylvania farmlands to the woods of Maine, the great armies of Generals Grant and Lee face off in the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48237-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Двадцатилетний Джордан Скотт, шесть лет назад изгнанный из дома в Месадейле, штат Юта, и живущий своей жизнью в Калифорнии, вдруг натыкается в Сети на газетное сообщение: его отец убит, застрелен в своем кабинете, когда сидел в интернет-чате, а по подозрению в убийстве арестована мать Джордана — девятнадцатая жена убитого. Ведь тот принадлежал к секте Первых — отколовшейся от мормонов в конце XIX века,...
ISBN: 978-5-389-02583-7
Издательство:
Иностранка
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. If they don`t, world war will result. In this dramatic account Richard Overy re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace in 1939, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of European civilization. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down. The one constant feature was the determination of Poland to fight against the armed might of Germany. Countdown to War brings to life a defining moment in the history of the...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104130-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame – their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy’s brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito’s capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before – from POWs used as human shields to a...
ISBN: 978-0-345-49479-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1960s and early 70s - Endless Night, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Passenger to Frankfurt and her last book Postern of Fate. Agatha Christie`s imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, her prolific output would bring her publisher William Collins at least one book every year. Twenty of her contemporary crime novels were to feature neither Poirot or Marple, instead a wide range of ingenious plots would be played out by a selection of amateur sleuths, professional detectives, young...
ISBN: 978-0-00-720866-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room Формат: 11 см x 18 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-141-03614-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: март 2012
"1984" - роман-антиутопия Джорджа Оруэлла, написанный в 1949 году и ставший классическим образцом политической и антиутопической беллетристики. В романе поднимаются темы последствий тоталитарной власти, идеологической цензуры и политических репрессий, а действие разворачивается в тоталитарном государстве будущего, в котором идет непрекращающаяся война, а граждане живут под непрерывном надзором Большого...
ISBN: 978-5-517-08767-6
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: февраль 2023
