Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods` bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes by conjuring a gigantic catfish that carried the world on its back - and earthquakes occurred each time it flipped its tail. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, which lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality - science. Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time, evolution and clever thought experiments, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77890-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Насколько хорошо мы знаем себя и своих близких? Вдруг в ком-то из них обитает древний демон? Вдруг любимый супруг на самом деле окажется серийным убийцей? Вдруг наши ночные кошмары были не просто ужасными видениями, а реальностью? В каждой семье есть свой скелет в шкафу, но вопрос в том, стоит ли его оттуда доставать? Современные технологии позволяют человеку сыграть временную роль всемогущего бога и...
ISBN: 978-5-94962-280-3
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: июнь 2015
Издания, представленные в серии «Простое чтение на английском языке», являются учебными пособиями по страноведению и истории, развивают познавательную активность и способствуют развитию у учащихся навыков аналитического мышления. Предназначены для учащихся 7—8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или школьников старших классов обычной средней школы. Также могут быть полезны...
ISBN: 978-5-17-054655-8
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2008
Ньютон Бут Таркингтон - знаменитый американский писатель первой половины XX, один из немногих авторов, удостоенный Пулитцеровской премии более одного раза. "Великолепные Эмберсоны" - это одно из самых известных произведений Таркингтона, которое было экранизировано Орсоном Уэллсом. Действие разворачивается в начале XX века на Среднем Западе в богатой семье Эмберсонов, веривших в прочность и незыблемость...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05714-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earth
ISBN: 978-1-4516-7819-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula," the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. The novel "The Mystery of the Sea" tells the story of Archibald Hunter, an Englishman from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress Marjory Drake. She is involved with the intrigues of the Spanish-American War, and all of a sudden, Archibald becomes a participant in a complex scheme including kidnapping, secret codes and even second sight that unfolds in front of him over the course of the story.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07519-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
"Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive... "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One-Eye won`t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..." This omnibus volume comprises the novels Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live.
Suze should be spending the summer vacation at the beach. Instead she`s been forced to get a babysitting job at a swanky resort. She`d expected to look after some boring brat, so Suze is surprised to find that her charge is actually a budding mediator – with a totally hot older brother. Not that Suze`s head could be turned by some guy – she`s pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. But it`s tough when the boy you love doesn`t seem to love you back, and it`s even tougher when you think you`ve found his 150-year-old grave in your backyard. Suze knows it`s dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?
ISBN: 978-0-330-43740-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Роман "Тайна Клумбер-холла" - один из шедевров А. Конан-Дойля, на страницах которого читатель погружается в мистическую атмосферу таинственного и загадочного. Для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0156-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004
This collection of short stories propels the reader into the lowlife of America`s underworld, rail of drunks, bums and gamblers, where sex and violence are everywhere and the most beautiful woman in town drinks and fights. Bukowski writes with brutal honesty and sardonic humour of the things he experienced in life; poverty, hard women and chronic hangovers. During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels "Post Office", "Factotum", "Women" and "Pulp", all available from Virgin Books.
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1377-4
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
`...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from ` Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe`s brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the creeping insanity of "The Tell-Tale Heart", the Gothic nightmare of "The Masque of the Red Death", and the terrible doom of "The Fall of the House of Usher". The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119897-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Man with the Golden Gun, Paco Scaramanga, is one of the deadliest hit men in the world and the British Secret Service want him eliminated. A brainwashed James Bond tried, and failed, to kill his boss, M. It`s time for him to prove he can be trusted again. Bond finds his man in the sweltering heat of Jamaica. His plan is to infiltrate Scaramanga`s gang of criminals to get close to the man himself. But if he fails, Bond will be the next target for the golden gun.
