"From Rembrandt to Vermeer" deals with the most outstanding works of the Golden Age of Flemish and Dutch art and offers a splendid selection of pictures belonging to the most important collection of seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch paintings in the world, that in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin. It includes such masterpieces as "The Money Changer" and the "Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels" by Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer`s "Woman with a Pearl Necklace"; "The Mother", the "Woman Weighing Gold" by Pieter de Hooch, Rubens` "Landscape with a Hanged Man", an extraordinarily beautiful landscape painting, with its oppressive and disquieting atmosphere; "Prince Tommaso Francesco of Savoy-Carignano" and the "Portrait of a Genoese Noblewoman" by Anton...
His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world. On the heels of his #1 bestseller "False Memory", Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search...
ISBN: 978-0-553-58274-1
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
If you have students who wish to build on their vocabulary acquisition skills, improve their academic writing skills, and become more confident and successful readers, From Reading to Writing is the ideal pedagogical tool. This four-level, researched-based course provides a complete sequence of high-interest, thematically connected activities that fully integrate reading and writing. Timeless themes engage students and allow for recycling of ideas and vocabulary, while engaging readings provide a springboard for writing activities.
ISBN: 978-0-13-612780-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Жюль Верн - это один из самых знаменитых и читаемых французских писателей XIX века. Основоположник научной фантастики, он создал уникальный яркий мир, а его книги занимают второе место по переводи-мости на иностранные языки. «С Земли на Луну прямым путём за 97 часов 20 минут» - это научно-фантастический роман, описывающий первое путешествие человека на Луну. Импи Барбикен загорелся идеей создать такую...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05764-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
The arrival of James Bond in Modern Classics at last acknowledges Fleming`s remarkable place in British fiction. The creator of an entire genre and the inventor of the most widely recognised figure in British literature since Sherlock Holmes, Fleming has a presence and flair now denied to most other writers of the 1950s. These three novels show Fleming at his peak - it would be hard to argue whether Rosa Klebb, Dr No or Goldfinger have greater grandeur or repulsiveness - with three plots of deranged implausibility and many of the dazzling set-pieces that made the early films so memorable.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118680-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Scarlett O`Brien is in with the movies. Utterly hooked on Hugh Grant, crazy about Richard Curtis, dying with lust for Johnny Depp, Scarlett spends her days with her head in the clouds and her nights with her hand in a huge tub of popcorn. Which is not exactly what her sensible, DIY-obsessed fiance David has in mind for their future. So when Scarlett has the chance to house-sit an impossibly grand mansion in Notting Hill? The setting of one of her all-time favourite movies? She jumps at the chance to live out her film fantasies one last time. It`s just a shame that her new neighbour Sean is so irritating? And so irritatingly handsome, too. As a chaotic comedy of her very own erupts around Scarlett, she begins to realise there`s more to...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4495-4
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage `54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that`s what it looks There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it`s a boy`s way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0811-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Will Jackson is a desperate man - desperate to be a dad, that is. Tired of his laddish lifestyle, he`s redecorated the spare room, traded in his beloved sports car for a 4x4, and even drawn up a list of his favourite baby names. In fact, there`s only one thing left he`s got to do - find a female who`ll have his child. But where on earth is he going to find a woman who meets his exacting standards? Certainly not in the usual bars and clubs he frequents. But Will has a plan - you can find everything else on the Internet these days - so why not someone to start a family with? From Friends Reunited, through the weird world of online dating, even to auctioning his `services` on Ebay, Will`s journey to paternity is a hilarious romp through the...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-067-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
`We are here to find a target who will fulfil our requirements. Someone who is admired and whose ignominious destruction would cause dismay` A beautiful Soviet spy. A brand-new Spektor cipher machine. Smersh has set an irresistible trap that threatens the entire Secret Service. In Fleming`s fifth 007 novel Bond finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game of cross and double cross.
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless - a difficult task. But as she sorts through conflicting forensic clues, Gault claims his next victim. He has infiltrated the FBI`s top secret artificial-intelligence system developed by Scarpetta`s niece, and sends taunting messages as his butchery continues, moving terrifyingly closer to Scarpetta...
ISBN: 978-0-425-20469-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "From Beyond and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter," "The Temple," "From Beyond" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00245-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of The British Secret Service. The lure? The chance for 007 to bring the Spektor decoding machine from Istanbul to London, and for the British to take the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War. So begins a deadly game of bluff and double bluff, with Bond a marked man as he enters the murky world of Balkan espionage.
"Something wondrous this way With his signature twilight prose ... Ray Bradbury returns to October Country, that dreamscape he long ago conjured out of autumn nights, full moons, and dry leaves rustling in the wind." Orlando Sentinel
ISBN: 978-0-380-78961-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
With an Introduction and Notes by Alex Dolby. Jules Verne was internationally famous as the author of novels based on extraordinary voyages. His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility an engineering dream for the industrial age. Directly inspired by Verne s story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-670-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit in the up-north city of Rhodes. Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, and she`s yearning for things to get back to normal. But that`s just not happening. Too many vampires - some friends, some not - were killed or injured, and her were-tiger boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. It`s clear that things are changing, whether the weres and vamps like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack, blood-bonded to the leader of the local vampire community, is caught up in those changes. She`s about to find herself facing danger and death and, not for the first...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08396-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Hermitage is one of the greatest museums on Earth, the pride of Russian culture, a storehouse of the world`s artistic and cultural heritage. Among its treasures is a celebrated collection of French art from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists through to the beginning of the twentieth century.
ISBN: 5-900530-43-4
Издательство:
Иван Федоров
Дата выхода: январь 2000
When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman`s body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when Mr. Parsons lets the police into his home, a startling discovery leads everyone to question just who Margaret Parsons really was
ISBN: 978-0-345-34817-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "From Beyond and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter", "The Temple", "From Beyond" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08208-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Bond does not himself feature until quite late in this novel - the opening chapters, one of Fleming`s most amazing fantasies, creates the nightmare world of SMERSH - the Russian counter-spy organisation, its sickeningly foul section head Rosa Klebb and her top assassin Grant. When the action shifts to Istanbul and Klebb`s plot to destroy the unsuspecting Bond one of the most brilliant chase sequences in fiction (unrivalled even by Buchan or Greene) unfolds. One of the defining books of the Cold War (and one of President Kennedy`s favourite books) From Russia with Love is perhaps even more enjoyable to read now than when it first became a huge international bestseller.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118760-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Published to coincide with the launch of Ron Howard`s blockbuster film, and following on from the huge success of the eponymous West End and Broadway play, "Frost/Nixon" tells the extraordinary story of how David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career. When he first conceived the idea of interviewing Richard Nixon and trying to bring the ex-President to confront his past, he was told on all sides that the project would never get off the ground. Yet in the end he succeeded, and the resulting television series drew larger audiences than any news programme ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. Including hilarious tales of the people Frost encountered along the way and fascinating insights...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45769-9
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
