The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride and they go `rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta down the road.` They help themselves to ice creams, pies, buns, crisps, biscuits, lollipops and apples, and the shopkeepers follow them down the road shouting and waving. All ends well as the Bad Baby learns to say `Please` and his mother makes pancakes for everyone.
Elephants are magnificent creatures that have long intrigued people with their strength and intelligence. This book brings to life the story of their earliest origins on the plains of northern Africa more than 50 million years ago to the precarious future they face today. Starting with the life of a giant woolly mammoth, the book features elephant anatomy in close-up and explains the social structure of the herd, what happens when a bull elephant is in `musth`, and how females protect their young. Learn about the relationship between elephants and humans in India, where they are used for transport and haulage. Discover the cruelty of the ivory trade, and what you can do to help elephants from becoming extinct. Full of amazing facts and...
ISBN: 978-0-7513-6005-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A thrilling and moving novel about an extraordinary animal caught up in a very human war, for anyone who loved The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips or The Butterfly Lion…By the award-winning former Children’s Laureate and author of War Horse.Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli`s mother works at the zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals – including the elephants – must be shot before the town is bombed. Unable to give Marlene up, their mother moves her into the back garden to save her… and then the bombs start to fall.Their home destroyed, the whole family must flee the bombed-out city and through the perilous, snow-covered landscape, all the...
A brilliant board book from bestselling author-illustrator, Nick Sharratt.Lift the flaps to reveal your favourite elephant! Will it be the Fruit Jellyphant, Cinderellaphant, or maybe the stinky Rude Smelliphant? There`s an elephant for everyone in this utterly original comic masterpiece.Now in a handy board book edition that`s perfectfor young children. Collect them all: Moo-Cow Kung-Fu Cow, Octopus Socktopus and Elephant Wellyphant.Amazon reviews for Elephant Wellyphant:"So good, we bought it twice!" - Raisin Bean"Fabulous book for pre-schoolers" - M Ely"FANTASTIC BOOK, highly recommend" - Sue Bell"Best book ever" - H Mercer
It`s been a long journey for Maurice Micklewhite - born with rickets in London`s poverty-stricken Elephant & Castle - to the bright lights of a glittering career spanning more than five decades and starring roles which have earned him two Oscars, a knighthood, and an iconic place in the Hollywood pantheon, the man now known to us as Michael Caine looks back over it , warm, honest, Caine brings us his insider`s view of Hollywood (where there`s neither holly nor woods). He recalls the films, the legendary stars, the off-screen moments with a gift for story-telling only equalled by David has been his home and his playground. But England is where his heart lies. And where he blames the French for the abundance of snails in his plaque now...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0003-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Love is a terrible thing that will make you " - So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for is a fantasy. The reality - selling herself to survive - is a dehumanising grind that pushes her further away from real love, towards a fascination with pure physical pleasure. But when her emotional barriers are tested by a handsome young painter, she must choose between the dark path she is on and risking everything to find her "inner light". Can she move beyond the meeting of bodies to a meeting of minds or even souls - to a place where sex itself is sacred? Формат издания: 11 см х 17,5 см.
ISBN: 0-00-716605-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
The new bestselling novel, now in paperback, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria`s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, `sexual pleasure for its own sake`, or risking everything to find her own `inner light` and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. A daring modern...
ISBN: 0-00-716604-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Stephanie is stalked by a maniac returned from the grave for the sole purpose of putting her into a burial plot of her own. He’s killed before, and he’ll kill again if given the chance. Caught between staying far away from the bounty hunter business and staying alive, Stephanie reexamines her life and the possibility that being a bounty hunter is the solution rather than the problem. After disturbingly brief careers at the button factory, Kan Klean Dry Cleaners, and Cluck-in-a-Bucket, Stephanie takes an office position in security, working for Ranger, the sexiest, baddest bounty hunter and businessman on two continents. Tempers and temperatures rise as competition ratchets up between the two men in her life—her on-again, off-again...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98534-9
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Connor Fitzgerald is the professional`s professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA`s most deadly weapon. But for twenty-eight years, he has been leading a double life. And only days from his retirement, he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss. And she has only one purpose: to destroy him. Meanwhile, the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe: a new Russian President, determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. Ranging from the Oval Office in the White House to a Russian Mafia boss luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg, The Eleventh Commandment sets new standards in contemporary thriller writing. Jeffrey Archer scoops his...
ISBN: 978-0-330-52318-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Connor Fitzgerald is the professional`s professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA`s most deadly weapon. But for twenty-eight years, he has been leading a double life. And only days from his retirement, he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss. And she has only one purpose: to destroy him. Meanwhile, the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe: a new Russian President, determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. Ranging from the Oval Office in the White House to a Russian Mafia boss` luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg, The Eleventh Commandment sets new standards in contemporary thriller writing. Jeffrey Archer scoops his...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41907-9
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951857-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
As a member of the House of Lords and a former member of the House of Commons, Jeffrey Archer knows some of the most powerful people in the world. Indeed, the acknowledgements of this closely plotted thriller include current and former members of the American CIA, FBI, NSA, Secret Service, and a former U.S. attorney general. From this background, Archer weaves a tale that follows his hero, CIA assassin Connor Fitzgerald, while simultaneously shadowing his bosses in Washington.
ISBN: 0-06-101331-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
"ELExpres - workbook" - is a support in this intensive course of Spanish as a Foreign Language addressed to adolescents and adults that want an effective and quick progress on the language. This workbook offers a compilation of activities
ISBN: 978849778-475-7
Издательство:
SGEL
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ELExpres is an intensive course addressed to adult students. The book is divided into 27 units that go from beginners to intermediate level B1, according to the Common European Framework of the Languages. The first 15 units deal with the A1 and
ISBN: 978849778-418-4
Издательство:
SGEL
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recent past. A trading town, protected by vast fortifications and adorned with many temples dedicated to the gods of the Sidonians, was built by civilized men in the heart of Africa may not be accurately known, but there is ample room for speculation as to the life of the ancient city, and in this romance the author has tried to picture incidents such as might have accompanied the first extinction of Zimbabwe.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06611-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa, a trading town that was built by civilized men. The author has tried to picture incidents such as might have accompanied the first extinction of Zimbabwe.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07606-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Set in 1195: Prince John plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart - and in his wicked schemes he is supported by King Philip of France, who offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohammedan named Nizam, who claims to be able to transmute base metals into gold.
ISBN: 978-0-7434-9215-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sur le point de mourir, Bartholoméo Belvidéro demande à son fils don Juan de le ressusciter en lui appliquant sur le corps, dès qu`il aura rendu le dernier soupir, l`eau contenue dans un petit flacon de cristal. Mais plutôt que de sauver son père, don Juan ne pourrait-il pas se réserver à lui-même le précieux élixir? C`est un dilemme comparable que met en scène El Verdugo - Le Bourreau - pendant la guerre que le Premier Empire livre à l`Espagne: le jeune Juanito acceptera-t-il d`obéir aux soldats français et de sauver sa tête et son nom en exécutant sa propre famille? Ces deux nouvelles que Balzac fait paraître en 1830 avant de les remanier et de...
ISBN: 978-2-253-19315-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
