The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei`s estranged parents live in Kobe. Should he contact them? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm....
ISBN: 0-09-944856-4
Издательство:
Harvill Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Ag4 mediatecture company first developed the idea of a transparent media facade as early as 1992. In order to be able to realise this idea and put it into practice, LED technology had to advance to satisfy the special requirements of a media facade. Around the same time there was a rising demand for the number of projects requiring facades to act as communicative interfaces. ag4 thus increasingly faced the challenge of having to motor the development in this direction. However, it was to take eight years until the appropriate ideas could be put into practice and a further four years until the first project of a transparent media facade was realised. Maintaining transparency while being able to medialise large areas in an economically...
ISBN: 3-937718-97-4
Издательство:
daab
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography, Again Calls the Owl, carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven - one of a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist - made the audacious decision not only to work for a living, but to work as a writer.
ISBN: 0-440-30074-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic litt commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith’s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
ISBN: 978-1-85723-179-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world`s most popular author. Publishing at least one book every year since the 1920s, each one a bestseller, it was even claimed that Agatha must have a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort to more mundane methods of planning her ingenious crimes? Unearthed among Agatha Christie`s affairs at the family home of Greenway were her private notebooks, 73 volumes in Agatha`s almost unreadable handwriting. When archivist John Curran began deciphering the notebooks, the extent of this treasure trove became This book lifts the lid on Agatha Christie`s biggest secret -how her pencilled notes, lists and drafts led to her many successful books, plays and stories....
ISBN: 978-0-00-731057-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette that read: "A Murder is Announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m." Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go...
ISBN: 978-0-00-819655-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2018
