Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn`t understand people, but animals she gets - especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she`s ever felt among humans ...until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what`s really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and liberating the apes, John`s human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he`ll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show, Ape House, featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest - and unlikeliest - phenomenon...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2450-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
`We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater`This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche`s brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin`s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian...
ISBN: 9780141397900
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway - the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich`s defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother`s fate. But when he receives the sudden good news that Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry`s cover been blown? And if so, why has the...
ISBN: 978-0-553-56957-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Liz teaches archaeology in Athens. She works too hard and her doctor tells her she needs to take a holiday. So she goes to the beautiful and peaceful Greek island of Sifnos. But the peace does not
ISBN: 978-0-521-79499-2
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
It is April 13, 1970, and Apollo 13 is flying to the moon. Suddenly, something goes wrong. The ship is losing power and oxygen. Will the astronauts walk on the moon? Will they get home?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8491-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Apollo 13 is an exciting movie - and a true story! It is Monday, April 13, 1970 and Apollo 13 is flying to the Moon. Suddenly, something goes wrong. The ship is losing power and oxygen. Will the astronauts walk on the Moon? Will they get home again?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8156-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In the latest pulse-pounding thriller from "New York Times" - bestselling author Thor, Navy SEAL-turned-covert-Homeland Security-operative Scot Harvath must find the kidnapped daughter of a politically connected family.
A new president means a new approach to counter-terrorism, and that means covert agent Scot Harvath is out of a job. But every politician has a secret, and when the daughter of a highly-connected family is kidnapped abroad, America`s new leader will agree to anything - even a crazily dangerous rescue plan - to keep his secret hidden. And there is only one man he can call on to execute the THE APOSTLE is a blistering novel of action and duplicity from the Number One New York Times bestseller Brad Thor.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1232-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Die Heidelberger Apothekerin Hella Moormann erzählt in der Frauenklinik ihrer Bettnachbarin Rosemarie Hirte ihre abenteuerliche Lebensgeschichte. Hella, die schon in ihrer Kindheit unabsichtlich mordete, fühlt sich seit jeher zu kriminellen und gescheiterten Männern hingezogen. Mit 35 Jahren verliebte sie sich in den verkrachten Studenten Levin, durch den sie in einen Strudel mörderischer Verwicklungen geriet: Ein vergifteter Großvater, eine tödlich verunglückte Rivalin, eine ungeklärte Vaterschaft und die Liebschaft mit einem verheirateten Mann spielen in den Geschehnissen eine prominente Rolle.
Une morte vetue de blanc supplie qu`on la coiff`e, un loup monstrueux attaque les chasseurs, un enfant reve de la limit de son pert, une piene tombale se Hallucinations, cauchemars on phenomenes surnaturels ? Des cimetieres aux chateaux hantes, Maupassant nous attire aux confins de la folie et de la peur. Формат: 11 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 978-2-07-035792-5
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town`s water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24381-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a...
Book Description Publication Date: November 18, 2008 In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town`s water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948176-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky`s speeches give an extraordinary insight into a man whose words and actions determined the fates of millions. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103675-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An unexpectedly endearing biographical gem from the author of MISADVENTURES Misadventures was one of the most unexpected and extraordinary debuts of recent years. Appleby House sees the return of Sylvia Smith in another hugely entertaining volume full of everyday incidents and accidents, talk and scurrilous activity. The story of her housemates, of the kindly Mr and Mrs Appleby, of the various suitors who come and go, is all set down with great good humour. Not since `The Diary of a Nobody` has daily life been so wonderfully and endearingly evoked
ISBN: 0-330-49128-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Includes one large 24 apple calendar, 12 monthly header leaves, 38 special day cover-up cards, 5 birthday cover-up cards, 33 red and 33 blue calendar days, 6 blank cover-up cards, 7 days of the week cards, 4 Today Is cards, and 5 weather cards.
ISBN: 978-0-439-73160-7
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2011
