Paha Sapa, `Black Hills`, is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife. Thus begins an intricate narrative that sweeps across decades of American history, building up a portrait of one country`s relentless expansion and what was lost and destroyed in its path. Black Hills is historical fiction with Dan Simmons` trademark twist. He weaves in real places, events and people with his own uniquely weird take on reality...
ISBN: 978-1-84916-090-2
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the wake of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the quagmire in Iraq, and other apparently unexpected disasters, it seems reasonable to wonder about our stunted powers of prediction. Couldn`t we have foreseen these debacles and others and taken steps to avoid them? Informed skeptic and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb very much doubts it, and in this arresting meditation on our wrongheaded beliefs about what is and isn`t likely - he draws his title from the illogical assumption that all swans are white - he explores how and why we`re wired to get the future wrong. You may be put off by Taleb`s discursiveness and, ironically, his smug certainty about our incurable "epistemic arrogance"; but in the face of his deeply considered...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103459-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of the Roses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.
ISBN: 978-0-451-52916-9
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Alexandre Dumas`s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas`s most famous tales, the real hero is no Musketeer, but a flower. The novel - a deceptively simple story - is set in Holland in 1672, and weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also a timeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra. This new edition reprints the first, classic...
ISBN: 978-0-19-954046-4
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Designed for students at the top end of primary school and lower secondary school, as well as adult basic skills learners, this dictionary contains over 8000 words with simple definitions. It offers writing and spelling support without complicated meanings and grammatical labelling.
Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7889-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
