Hearing that his old friend Cassiopeia Vitt is in trouble, Malone follows the few clues he has and realises that they are in the middle of something huge, involving Russian and US oil interests and a centuries-old secret. After stumbling across two dead bodies and into the crosshairs of his former boss, Malone finds himself in a race to unravel the mystery of an emperor`s tomb, a sinister society, and a deadly battle between two ruthless men for supremacy in China - and the world.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1274-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
The acclaimed author of "Emperor: The Gates of Rome" returns to the extraordinary life of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to as Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, and leader. In a sparsely settles region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24095-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Eight titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3357-3
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The emperor loves clothes and his new clothes are the best yet. What`s more, they`re invisible to anyone stupid. So the emperor is a little worried that he can`t actually see them This book comes with a CD that brings the story to life through lively music, dramatic sound effects and superbly characterized readings. A listenalong version is followed by a readalong version with prompts for page turns. Retold by Susanna Davidson.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8534-9
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to life–the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and glory–and commands his famous legions on one of history’s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns. It is the heart of the first century For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24096-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The second volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction. The young Caesar must overcome enemies on land and at sea to become a battle-hardened leader - in the spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of The Gates of Rome. Forced to flee Rome, Julius Caesar is serving on board a war galley in the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean and rapidly gaining a fearsome reputation. But no sooner has he had a memorable victory than his ship is captured by pirates and he is held to ransom. Abandoned on the north...
ISBN: 978-0-00-713692-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction. THE GATES OF ROME, THE DEATH OF KINGS and now THE FIELD OF SWORDS tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world. Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption...
ISBN: 978-0-00-713694-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A clash of armies and leaders takes center stage in the triumphant conclusion of Iggulden`s bestselling series, in which the life of Julius Caesar is followed through epic rivalries, world-shattering battles, and doomed love.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24160-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers` decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we`re good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; and, the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ("intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever") the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer`s...
Introduction, notes and activities by Dorothea Barret In the second half of the 19th century, the British Empire, was at its greatest. Imperialism left a lasting mark on Great Britain itself as well as on the ex-colonies. The atmosphere and issues of this bygone age are evoked in Empire Tales , an anthology of stories by some of the most outstanding British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Ruyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Orwell and Jean Rhys.
ISBN: 978887754-296-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer`s wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum.
ISBN: 978-0-670-91959-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Миром правят вампиры. Они — не вечно молодые романтичные юноши и девушки с бессонными глазами и кровавыми губами, а вполне обыкновенные мужчины и женщины со следами жизненного цинизма на лице. Только им открыт секрет «гламура» и «дискурса». И именно они — настоящая мировая элита, вербующая в свои ряды прохожих одним лёгким укусом.
ISBN: 978-5-4467-3577-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2022
An unusual and authoritative `natural history of languages` that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet, the history of the world`s great languages has rarely been examined. Empires of the Word is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations - in education, culture and diplomacy - devised by speakers in the Middle East; the uncanny resilience of Chinese throughout twenty centuries of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-711871-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected English and European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, cutthroats and sociopaths and turned them into the fiercest and most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, `the wickedest city in the New World`, Morgan and his men terrorised Spanish merchant...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0293-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
"New York Times" bestselling author, Card is a master storyteller who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario of a new American civil war.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5522-5
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Que pensent les anges de nous ? Que peuvent-ils faire pour nous aider ? Lorsque Michael Pinson (stupidementtue dans un accident d`avion) a passe avec succes l`epreuve de la "pesee des ames", il a accede au royaume des anges. Le voila charge de trois mortels, qu`il devra desormais guider et aider tout au long de leur vie. Ses moyens d`action : les reves, les signes, les mediums, les intuitions, les chats. Que faire pour leur montrer la voie du bonheur? Et puis comment s`occuper intelligemment au Paradis, un endroit bien sympathique mais sans cinema, sans musique, sans restaurant? Apres Les Thanatonautes, Bernard Werber nous donne une fois de plus a reflechir sur notre statut d`etre humain, en melangeant sagesse ancienne, philosophie...
ISBN: 9782253152071
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ‘Shadows of the Apt’, about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire. Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by...
ISBN: 978-0-230-70413-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The focus on careful reading in theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored reading behaviours such as skimming, scanning and search reading in the teaching and testing of reading. These theories do not explain how readers process texts quickly and selectively. The development of the Advanced English Reading Test (AERT) for university students in the People`s Republic of China under the auspices of the National College English Test Committee was the vehicle for investigating the nature of and the relationships between skimming, scanning, search reading and careful reading. This volume reports on the methodological procedures that led to the development of this important test and discusses the results of the empirical...
ISBN: 978-0-521-65381-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
