Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven. Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77757-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man but found its location during the reign of Richard II, the Lionheart, who was away from England fighting in the crusades. In his absence, his brother John lay waste to the country. But does this tell the full story? Was Robin a bandit prince ahead of a troop of brigands? Who was the Sherrif and was he in fact the legitimate law in the land fighting vigilantes?
ISBN: 978-1-84901-301-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Oscar is a sweet but overweight sci-fi obsessed introvert who - from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister - dreams of becoming the Dominican and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku - a curse that has haunted Oscar`s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from New Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo. Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar`s story opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere - and risk it all-in the name of love.
Brief einer Unbekannten (1922) — eine kurze Novelle in Briefform. Die Rahmenhandlung beginnt damit, dass ein Schriftsteller nach einem Bergurlaub in seine Heimatstadt Wien zuruckkehrt. In seiner Post findet er einen langen Brief ohne Absender, in dem eine ihm unbekannte Frau ihr Leben schildert, das von der unerwiderten Liebe zu ihm bestimmt war.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00489-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: апрель 2017
Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his new book, Derek Wilson explores the myths behind the image of the Tudor Lion. He was the monarch that delivered the Reformation to England yet Luther called him `A fool, a liar and a damnable rotten worm`. As a young man he gained a reputation as an intellectual and fair prince yet he ruled the nation like a tyrant. He treated his subjects as cruelly as he treated his wives. Based on a wealth of new material and a life time`s knowledge of the subject Derek Wilson exposes a new portrait of...
ISBN: 978-1-84529-903-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 and ending with the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, this is an account of an eventful and contradictory age. The author draws together all the strands of Tudor social life into a tapestry displaying every aspect of the times. He contrasts the life of palaces, grand tournaments and English drama with the harshness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors and the misery of the Plague.
В издание включены четыре самые популярные новеллы Стефана Цвейга, объединенные темой любви: "Гувернантка", "Амок", "Письмо незнакомки", "24 часа из жизни женщины". Тонкий психолог и блистательный мастер слова, Цвейг создает яркие, неповторимые образы любящих, страдающих и гибнущих женщин. Книга рассчитана на лиц, владеющих основами современного немецкого языка и желающих усовершенствоваться в нем.
ISBN: 9785797404897
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2008
"A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro and the macrocosmic world - observations that have confirmed many of Hawking`s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why...
ISBN: 0-553-17698-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Why it started, when, and what was the reality of `The Crusades` are some of the questions this book aims to answer. Many people saw the Crusades as pilgrimages, many believed they were doing the will of God, and many more were there for the booty. This was an institution that for more than five centuries punctuated European history, troubled Christian consciences and embittered Muslim attitudes towards the West. Geoffrey Hindley takes us from the Middle East and Muslim Spain to the pagan Baltic when `Crusaders` reclaimed or extended Europe`.
/Neil Gaiman /Jill Thompson and Vince Locke, illustrators Delirium, youngest brother of the Endless, prevails upon her brother, Dream, to help her find their missing sibling. Their travels take them through the world of the waking until a final confrontation with the missing member of the Endless and the resolution of Dream s relationship with his son change the endless forever. Introduction b
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-139997-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey`s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless...
Bright Ideas Level 5 provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.How do we discover things? What`s exciting about exploring? How can we help at home?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Level 1 offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.The...
Robert Rankin`s THE BRENTFORD TRILOGY - seven books and counting - catapulted him into the dizzy heights of cult success, but over the years that cult following has grown and Robert Rankin is now the second best-selling writer of comic fantasy in Britain, after Terry He Always Makes Me Laugh Pratchett. Were you aware that there are, hidden in the streets of Brighton, twelve ancient constellations, like the Hangleton Hound and the Bevendean well, there are: and on each one hangs a tale, a tale so strange that only The Lad Himself, that inveterate spinner of tales and talker of the toot, Hugo Rune, can get to the bottom of them. And he`d better do it quickly, because if he doesn`t solve the dozen mysteries before the year is out, that`ll...
ISBN: 0-575-07773-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: март 2011
An account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.
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Bright Ideas Level 2 provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.Why do we like birthdays? How can we be healthy? What`s fun about being outdoors?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Level 2 offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.The...
Bright Ideas Starter provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.What`s your favourite toy? What can you do? Who`s in your family?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Starter offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics. Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration. Downloadable tests and...
