Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
This is a new edition of this popular "Young Reading" title re-issued with a hardback cover and the audio CD inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. "Black Beauty" is the classic story of the adventures of a beautiful horse. "The Young Reading" series is developed with experts at Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability. The new packaging allows potential purchasers to view the inside of the book.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9348-1
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2011
LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo, returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly`s second fictional effort is strong and...
ISBN: 978-0-446-61344-6
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 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.
In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative - her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches - to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, “Goblin”, a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes...
ISBN: 978-0-345-44368-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half-century. The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together. And the future of the world depends on their being stopped in time. In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy: the old man`s severed left arm. In Prague, a seemingly worthless painting is stolen from a synagogue. Three cities. Three thefts. Could there possibly be a connection?
This is an audio version of the classic horse story, told by the title character himself. It is suitable for children aged 7 to 9 years old. "Black Beauty" is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty`s life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era. Now even the youngest children can appreciate the story with this handy new audio package, containing a paperback version of the book and two CDs.
ISBN: 978-1-4027-7363-1
Издательство:
Sterling USD
Дата выхода: август 2011
Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find
ISBN: 978-0-8125-2139-9
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children`s Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They`re books to treasure and return to again and again. From his simple beginnings under the shady trees in the meadow, Black Beauty`s life takes many twists and turns - from a riding horse on a country estate to a cab horse on the busy streets of London. Over time he has many owners, some of whom treat him cruelly, but throughout it all he keeps his sweet temper and fine spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-19-272798-5
Издательство:
OXED
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Steven`s Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it`s too late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he`ll do it. So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15884-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Black Hair celebrates the diversity and creativity of black women\'s hairstyles, from traditional African ceremonial styles, and sleek trendy hairdos to the infinite variety of braids, plaits, and twists which pepper the urban landscape. Stories, nonfiction anecdotes, historical details, and poems from some of the finest African-American writers amplify this one-of-a-kind pictorial collection of black women\'s crowning glory. Each page is lavishly illustrated, from rare vintage ads of America\'s first black female millionaire and black hair-care mogul Madame C. J. Walker, to dynamic campaign posters of current hair care products. In addition, renowned hair stylists give expert tips and reveal the secrets of their styling techniques, of...
ISBN: 0789306247
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: май 2002
Black`s Veterinary Dictionary has been a bestseller for over seventy years. It is an essential reference tool for all with a professional or leisure interest in animals and their care. Much more than a list of veterinary terms, its practical approach provides an insight into the signs and symptoms of common, and less common, diseases, their diagnosis and treatment.
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley`s friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all...
A grand master of the form Rex Stout is one of America`s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction`s greatest detectives. In this double helping of classic Nero Wolfe mysteries, Stout presents the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, with a pair of delectable murders that no connoisseur of the whodunit could possibly resist.
The Gateway of the Monster… The Red Hand… The Ghost Hunter To Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume brings together sixteen chilling cases of these supernatural sleuths, pitting themselves against the peril of ultimate evil. Here are encounters from the casebooks of the Victorian haunted house investigators John Bell and Flaxman Low, from Carnacki, the Edwardian battler against the abyss, and from horror master Arthur Machen’s Mr Dyson, a man-about-town and meddler in strange things. Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward’s The Ghost Hunter, Robert Barr’s Eugene Valmont (who may have inspired...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-088-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jav Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, more enticing than the present, and to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another world. As the unusual properties of the strange brew takes effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village of Lansquenet, where a ghost from the past waits to confront him, and the reclusive Marise - haunted, lovely and dangerous - hides a terrible secret behind her closed shutters. Between them, a mysterious chemistry. Or could it be magic?
ISBN: 0-552-99800-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake`s glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom--and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknamed "Bible Johnny" by the media, he is a new menace with violent ambitions. The Bible Johnny case would be perfect for Inspector John Rebus, but after a run-in with a crooked senior officer, he`s been shunted aside to one of Edinburgh`s toughest suburbs, where he investigates the murder of an off-duty oilman. His investigation takes him north to the oil rigs of...
ISBN: 978-0-312-96677-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Остросюжетный детектив. Салахадин Эль Нур работает инспектором в отделе античного искусства египетской полиции. После гибели археолога из Европы он разыскивает бесценную древнюю статуэтку. Вскоре Салахадин нападает на след международной банды контрабандистов.
ISBN: 978-0-230-02923-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A New York Times Bestseller. Kirkus Reviews hailed Clive Cussler`s last Dirk Pitt(R) novel, Trojan Odyssey, as Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous. Nobody has been able to match Cussler for the intricate plotting and the sheer audacity of his work - and Black Wind sets the bar even higher.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20423-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011