Penny Baird`s intelligence and heightened sensibility are asintegral as her eye to the genius of her work. With characteristic French insistence on beauty even in the everyday Penny shows you how enhancing the look of your home can influence the overall experience of living in it. - Trish McEvoy. Penny Baird embraces the new French interior with her innate taste, sensitive mastery of detail, and eclectic designpassions. - Gael Greene. Beautifully photographed book of a younger, modern Parisienne Perfect for today. - Kenneth Jay Lane. Penny Baird is the quintessential Parisian New Yorker who composed the perfect mix of tradition and elegance paired with a French sensibility for our time. - Daniel Boulud.
ISBN: 978-1-58093-310-0
Издательство:
Monacelli
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The influence of traditional Asian design is far-reaching, and today, contemporary Asian interior designers and architects have developed a new kind of modernism that references the appropriate elements of their own traditions. The New East is the first comprehensive volume to present this ongoing style revolution and is sure to inspire anyone looking to add harmony and sensuality to their homes. Rich photographs brilliantly showcase Asian designs for living. Here you`ll find everything you need to know about combining Western design motifs with Eastern traditional elements, such as the Japanese sliding screens; creating harmonious balance between the indoor and the outdoor space; and selecting specific materials that make up the...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2914-9
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Elisa is no ordinary princess – she loves plants rather than palaces. After the king locks her in a tower, Elisa decides to escape and live life by her own rules… A beautifully illustrated version of the forgotten fairy tale, specially written for young readers who have just started to read alone.Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones.
"The New Cambridge English Course" is a four-level course for learners of English. Level 3 takes learners from pre-intermediate up to a good intermediate level. It can be used with learners who have studied Levels 1 and 2 of the course, or as an independent intermediate course. The "Practice Book" is an integral part of the course, reinforcing, extending and consolidating work done in class with the Student`s Book. It provides extra practice on language forms, functions and skills, including optional listening exercises (in conjunction with the Student`s Cassette). Translation exercises provide learners with the opportunity to relate English to their first languages. The "Practice Book" contains a comprehensive Language Summary - a...
ISBN: 0-521-37651-3
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
ISBN: 978-0-340-93760-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The electrifying sequel to Caves of Steel in which Elijah Baley is once more teemed up with R. Daneel. The two must travel to Solaria, where no human has gone in over a thousand years! Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots, But Baley doesn`t. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel - and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthman...
The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren`t so knobbly), rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety`s sake, you need a guide! The DISCWORLD COMPANION contains everything you need to know about the Discworld. This edition, the first major revision since HOGFATHER was published (1997), covers the eight DISCWORLD novels from JINGO onwards, including THE LAST HERO and MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS, as well as the Diaries, the plays and other Discworld Spinoffery.
ISBN: 0-575-07555-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In the last 100 years mankind has split the atom, walked on the moon and broken the sound barrier we haven`t got any better at making biscuits. The nation`s favourite biscuit, McVitie`s Chocolate Digestive, was first baked in 1892. This is just one of the fascinating facts you will find in The Nation`s Favourite. What is the UK`s favourite karaoke song, or wedding first dance song? What is our favourite cereal, painkiller, pet or garden tool? The Nation`s Favourite brings together 220 lists which provide the answers to these questions and many more. The result is amusing, surprising and reveals a fascinating picture of the tastes and habits of the UK population.
The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skills and vocabulary, effective development of fluency through controlled and freer activities, as well as thorough grounding in accuracy, wide range of...
ISBN: 0521376637
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 1995
One of the most daringly brilliant, grand scale epics in years, The Neutronium Alchemist continues the acclaimed, bestselling saga of The Reality Dysfunction, as nano-augmented Adamists, genetically engineered Edenists, and ancient alien races confront a terror that transcends space and time. The Alchemy of revenge... Seeking vengeance for her people`s genocide, Dr. Alkad Mzu escapes Tranquillity to recover her invention, an ultimate weapon called the Alchemist. But why seek revenge if the dead come back? The war of the Possessed has proved that souls are real, eternally suffering in the Beyond, desperate to escape. Across the galaxy, trauma-shocked humans ask, "Why fight an enemy you will become? Why live, die, exist at all?" Alien...
ISBN: 0-446-60546-8
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
How can the naughtiest girl be good at camp with horrible Arabella in the very same tent? Especially when she`s busy stirring up trouble for Elizabeth`s best friend,
ISBN: 978-0-340-91774-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The New Cambridge English Course is a course teachers and students can rely on to cover the complete range and depth of language and skills needed from beginner to upper-intermediate level. Each level is designed to provide at least 72 hours of class work using the Student`s Book, with additional self-study material provided in the Practice Book. The course has a proven multi-syllabus approach which integrates work on all the vital aspects of language study: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, skills, notions and functions.
ISBN: 0521376661
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 1995
This book and 79-card deck mirror the face of New Orleans Voodoo that has emerged from the Dahomey tradition of West Africa, Creole, and South American cultures. Explains rituals of the Voodoo religion in the context of Tarot spreads and readings, adding a completely new dimension to this ancient tradition of divination.
The much-loved classic Christmas poem is brought beautifully to life in this gorgeous new picture book and CD set, sure to bring visions of sugarplums to everyone`s head. With dreamy, magical artwork by Eric Puybaret and an audio CD recorded by the iconic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, this is the perfect Christmas present for any child.
ISBN: 978-0-230-75029-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Read along and sing along to this rough and tough, swinging and swaying, seawashy piratical yarn! One night, young Tom is awoken by noises outside his house. He peeps out of the window and what should he see but pirates. And stranger still - they`re girl pirates stealing the front of his house! Tom joins their pirate adventure across the high seas to an island where some rather lazy and silly grown-up pirates are guarding their treasure - but not very successfully. Tom and the girl-pirates make a surprise attack and are soon off on the seas once more with the treasure!
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3043-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
