Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. An ambitious and passionate film director, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. But she has little interest in the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, instead focusing intently on her work and family. She has close, loving relationships with her daughter, her elderly father and Hunter Lloyd - her co-producer and partner of four years. Completing her trusted circle is Brigitte Parker - Tallie`s best friend and devoted personal assistant. They`ve been friends since film school, and Brigitte`s polished glamour and highly organized style provides a perfect balance to Tallie`s casual appearance and down-to-earth approach to life. However as Tallie is...
Better Writing Through Editing teaches intermediate students how to edit their own writing for correct sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and expression. Using a systematic approach for studying writing and editing problems, students discover the
This is a cassette of a highly successful and widely-used text on pronunciation. It provides a systematic and thorough introduction to the pronunciation of English to help intermediate and more advanced students improve their pronunciation of the spoken language. A recording of all the practice material in the book is available on the cassettes.
`Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants` Philadelphia Inquirer Since his blazing 1972 opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again without leaving home yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign, in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton`s top aides, and 100 per cent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51075-2
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate, argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. Extraordinarily, however, Steven Pinker shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare - really has declined from prehistory to today. We are much less likely to die at someone else`s hands than ever before. Even the horrific carnage of the last century, when compared to the dangers of pre-state societies, is part of this trend. Debunking both the idea...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103464-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Georges Simenon, écrivain belge de langue française, est né à Liège en 1903. A seize ans, il devient journaliste à La Gazette de Liège. Son premier roman, signé sous le pseudonyme de Georges Sim, paraît en 1921: Au pont des Arches, petite histoire liégeoise. En 1922, il s`installe à Paris et écrit des contes et des romans-feuilletons dans tous les genres. Près de deux cents romans parus entre 1923 et 1933, un bon millier de contes, et de très nombreux 1929, Simenon rédige son premier Maigret: Pietr le Letton. Lancé par les éditions Fayard en 1931, le commissaire Maigret devient vite un personnage très populaire. Simenon écrira en tout...
ISBN: 978-2-253-12492-4
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Odette, who looks like Linda Lusardi in a DKNY suit and has more zeros at the end of her bank balance than an astronaut`s altimeter, decides to throw up the high-powered job that doesn`t leave time for relationships and start her own club/restaurant.
ISBN: 0-340-68229-9
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
"His is the grand, messy flux itself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. Posterity will certainly give him that due place in English literature". Angela Carter, Guardian The third novel of the Pyat Quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of the twentieth century.
ISBN: 978-0-09-948512-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish anti-Semite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, cocaine-loving engineer/inventor/spy, he enthusiastically embraces Fascism. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator`s circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini`s wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Rohm, the homosexual stormtrooper leader. His crucial role in the Nazi Party`s struggle for power has him performing perverted sex acts with `Alf`, as the Fuhrer`s friends call him. Pyat`s extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitler`s massacre of Rohm and the SA. At last he is swallowed up in Dachau concentration camp. Thirty...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948882-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Original / British English Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse in Australia. She works with a Flying Doctor. One day a baby is very ill. Joanna takes the baby to Sydney. It`s her first visit to a big city, and she loves it. Does she stay in the city or go home?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8053-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
War has broken out between Earth, Mars, and Venus, and Don Harvey is stuck on Venus. He is in possession of a ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. When Earth troops land on Venus and start looking for the mysterious ring, Don realizes he is trapped in a war between worlds.
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3321-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Outwardly a novel about life in a country house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The tableau, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf guestions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive role of the artist.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118452-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century. She also was part of a group of English intellectuals, writers, and artists, graduates of Cambridge, called the Bloomsbury group. The story of the novel "Between the Acts" takes place in an English country house right before the Second World War, in the day of the pageant, the annual celebration of English history attended by the local community. It tells the story of the Oliver family, their hopes, worries, desires, and serves as a moving valedictory, as it is the last thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07855-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads between the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. A series of sketches that together form a blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The White Tiger, enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.
For Maggie and Bill it was love at first sight. One impulsive wedding later and with the arrival of three perfect children, Jake, Aly and Stan, the Barrett family seem to have it all. Until the day their world stops turning. When Jake dies suddenly, they`re swept away on a tide of grief that fractures Maggie and Bill`s marriage. She and the children are left clinging to the wreckage of their family. And they need help, because in her grief Maggie is in danger of losing Aly and Stan Kate, housekeeper, companion and shoulder to cry on. She`s here to pick up the pieces and fix what isn`t completely broken. But can Maggie trust Kate? And why is Kate so keen to help?When Bill falls for another woman, Maggie realizes she will have to fight to...
