"The Sourcebook of Contemporary Graphic Design" is a cutting-edge design anthology featuring material from established and emerging designers around the world, as well as hundreds of full-color examples of work forging new graphic ground across a complete range of visual media. For ease of reference, graphic design illustrations and explanations are categorized according to design type: websites, brochures, posters, company reports, stationary, and promotional materials. Also included is a visual index for quick reference and designers` contact information.
ISBN: 978-0-06-170438-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
`It`s vital to remember who you really are . . . it isn`t a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.`An eighth son of an eighth son is born, a wizard squared, a source of magic. A sourcerer.Unseen University, the Discworld`s most magical establishment, has finally got its wish: the emergence of a wizard more powerful than ever before. You`d think they would have been a little more careful what they wished for . . .As the sourcerer takes over the University and sets his sights on the rest of the world, only one wizard manages to escape his influence. Unfortunately for everyone, it`s Rincewind.Once again the cowardly wizard must embark on a quest: to deliver a precious artefact - the...
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we`d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth wizard source of a Sourcerer. "Sourcery" sees the return of Rincewind and the luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest - and funniest - challenge yet.
ISBN: 978-0-06-102067-4
Издательство:
HarperTorch
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "South Sea Tales" is a collection of amazing short stories like "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki" and "Yah! Yah! Yah!" Most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08111-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
In this explosive follow-up to the bestselling police thriller "Hornet`s Nest, " former police chief Judy Hammer has been brought into clean up the police force in Richmond, Virginia. She and two assistants must find the link between the desecration of Confederate president Jefferson Davis`s statue and the brutal murder of an elderly woman.
ISBN: 0-425-17254-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father`s record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.
ISBN: 0-09-944857-2
Издательство:
Harvill Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This guide covers Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It features a wildlife section as well as a guide to the region`s wildlife reserves and practical information on trekking, white-water rafting and canoeing.
ISBN: 1-74059-223-9
Издательство:
Lonely Planet
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Assistant D A Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial, until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil.
ISBN: 978-0-552-16025-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of `The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp` and `The Isle of Voices`, and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in "The...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953608-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel—at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. SOUTHERN LIGHTS Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, raising her daughter alone and making a name for herself as a top prosecutor taking on some of the city’s toughest cases. But as Alexa prepares for her latest case, the high-stakes trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin, threatening letters addressed to Savannah, her beautiful...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24332-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
События описанные в рассказах происходят на тихоокеанских просторах и островах, но, как и в северных новеллах писателя, человек оказывается здесь лицом к лицу с природой, с бушующим ураганом и пенящимися громадами волн, выйти победителем из схватки с которыми способен только самый сильный.
ISBN: 978-5-93763-013-1
Издательство:
Рыбари
Дата выхода: май 2010
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "South Sea Tales" is a collection of amazing short stories like "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki", and "Yah! Yah! Yah!". Most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07487-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
This surprising and multi-hued collection of interiors ranges from Dutch colonial to traditional wood and thatched-roof houses, townships, modern city apartments, and funky artist homes, reflecting the country`s tumultuous political history while celebrating its rich culture.
ISBN: 3-8228-3913-2
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
La maison des morts, c`est le bagne de Siberie ou Dostoievski a purge comme condamne politique une peine de quatre annees de travaux forces et de six ans de " service militaire ". Mais la maison des morts, c`est I aussi le Goulag. La Russie de Dostoievski est deja celle de Staline, de Beria, de Vychinski, des grands proces ou les accuses rivalisent devant leurs procureurs de contri- I tion et d`aveux. Comme l`ecrit Claude Roy, " la Russie d`hier et la Russie moderne sont exemplaires dans la science du "chatiment" sur deux points essentiels. Elles ont pousse plus avant peut-etre qu`aucun peuple l`art de dormer aux tortionnaires cette paix de l`esprit que procure la bonne conscience. Elles ont su simultane-ment contraindre un nombre...
ISBN: 978-2-07-036925-6
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Fasciné par la machine judiciaire comme par les aperçus des replis de l`âme humaine que lui apporte son expérience de juré, l`écrivain André Gide assiste pendant plusieurs semaines à divers procès: affaires de mœurs, infanticide, vols. Dans son texte dense et grave, Gide s`interroge sur la justice et son fonctionnement, mais surtout insiste sur la fragile barrière qui sépare les criminels des honnêtes gens.
ISBN: 978-2-07-035995-0
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
It is autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York.
ISBN: 978-0-330-43608-3
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
