Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semilegendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth`s powerful evocation of illustrious men and deeds captured the imagination of subsequent generations, and his influence can be traced through the works of Malory, Shakespeare, Dryden and Tennyson.
ISBN: 978-0-14-044170-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you`ve ever experienced. You`re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men`s magazines-not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men`s hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form. Former men`s magazine editor Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in six massive and informative volumes. In 460 full-color pages, Volume 2 documents the proliferation of men`s magazines following WWII. Before the war France and Germany were the world`s...
ISBN: 3-8228-2625-1
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: июль 2009
Libro de referencia fundamental para los estudiantes de español que quieran tener una visión general de la evolución del arte en España y en Hispanoamérica, así como libro de texto para los cursos monográficos sobre el arte.
ISBN: 978-84-7711-598-4
Издательство:
Edelsa
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Серия: энциклопедические издания на английском языке по истории, мифологии стран. Книги иллюстрированы и снабжены комментариями. Издание полностью на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-1-84205-018-7
Издательство:
Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of British history. The History of Britain & Ireland traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book offers a definitive visual chronicle of the most colourful and defining episodes in British history. Packed with visually arresting illustrations and clear, concise text, you can now explore the long and fascinating story of the British Isles. It includes profiles of key people in history such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred the Great, Charles Dickens, Queen Elizabeth I and Winston Churchill. The History of Britain & Ireland is ideal as a family reference for...
ISBN: 978-1-4053-6428-7
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Los dieciocho relatos reunidos en "Historias de Amor" tienen como denominador común la relación amorosa contemplada desde la perspectiva de un humorismo distanciador, un escepticismo civilizado y una implícita valoración del sentimiento. Adolfo Bioy Casares explora ese tema eterno a través de una gran variedad de situaciones argumentales, entre ellas la desgracia de un hombre que pierde lo que tiene sin lograr lo que desea, la supervivencia de una mujer en la memoria de dos rivales, la extrañeza de los primeros encuentros, la defensa de la intimidad a través del crimen, una frase que arruina una situación largo tiempo esperada, o la hibernación casual de dos amantes enemistados que se...
ISBN: 978842063-837-9
Издательство:
Alianza Editorial
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history`, as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of one-eyed men and gold-digging ants. This readable new translation is supplemented with expansive notes that provide readers the background that they need to appreciate the book in depth.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953566-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
It has been said that the twenty-first century will be China`s century. Such a remark highlights the importance of being informed about China`s long and tumultuous history. J. A. G. Roberts traces the main course of that history, from the earliest times, through the centuries of imperial government, to the present day. Chapters on China`s imperial history identify the main political and economic changes, whilst introducing key social themes. Turning to the modern period, Roberts then traces the dramatic events of the Opium Wars, the 1911 Revolution and the Republican era. The book ends with a detailed discussion of China under Communist rule and a wide-ranging review of new developments, including China`s economic achievements and its...
Roger Bartlett traces the history of Russia from its beginnings in Kiev Russia, through the Muscovite and Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, to the end of the twentieth-century. While offering a broad perspective on Russia`s historical development, Bartlett focuses on the origins of Russian political culture and the place of the majority peasant population in the Russian/Soviet polity.
Pourquoi l`a-t-on choisie, elle, si peu jolie, si peu cultivée, pour escorter Claudio Roman, ténor célèbre dans le monde entier? Parce qu`il est aveugle? Pour le préserver d`admiratrices trop sensibles à sa richesse et à sa beauté? Quand Laura devient l`attachée de presse de cet homme réputé cynique et brutal, elle découvre un artiste fragile, inquiet et désespérément seul. Elle devine aussi le drame de cet incomparable interprète de Mozart et de Verdi: ne plus jamais remonter sur scène. L`inévitable se produit. La jeune ferrure, qui ne croyait plus à l`amour, s`éprend de celui qui avait renoncé au bonheur. Et parce que Laura n`attend...
ISBN: 978-2-266-13925-0
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The Guide has been described as the National Trust`s bible - and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust`s illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon`s childhood home Mendips, and William Morris` Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes, including the breathtaking coast of Cornwall, Snowdonia, the Peak District, and the lunar scenery of Stragford Lough, are set beside the Trust`s great gardens such as Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire. The Trust`s country houses of course feature in all their varied beauty - from the Tudor splendour of...
What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? This book delivers these themes.
Superficially, John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office manager, the breezily efficient Dot, who organises his `jobs` and who reassures his grumbling conscience. He is an obsessive stamp collector. In a blackly comic twist, he even gets called for jury service. Laid back, couldn`t care less, morally distanced from his vocation, Keller is an intriguing character. A visit to an astrologer tells him, and us, that he is a gentle man who is simply surrounded by violence rather than being a perpetrator of it. His professional satisfaction, we learn, comes from `solving a problem`. Taking lives causes him no real anxiety. And then Keller`s jobs start to go wrong. Targets die...
ISBN: 0-06-103099-6
Издательство:
HarperTorch
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place THE HITCH HIKER`S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07682-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity - "The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy". It`s an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards, to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and his best friend has just announced that he`s an alien. At this moment, they`re hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed with the big, friendly words: don`t panic.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50853-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy: One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekends just Restaurant at the End of the Universe: When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning , the Universe and Everything: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks that things cannot...
Arthur Dent is already having a really bad day, even before the Earth gets demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. After that things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish and a book" Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable alien oddballs. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ISBN: 978-0-330-50811-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2009
One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed ...The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.
When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after. Arthur Dent`s odyssey through space continues as he takes a trip to the end of time itself in search of a decent meal, and accidentally alters the future of the entire human race.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50881-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
What if the second world war had started in 1938? The two sides of the Spanish civil war are still locked in a blood-soaked stalemate. Stalin`s purge of the Red Army is barely underway. And Neville Chamberlain - sickened by the arrogance and duplicity of the Germans - does not return from Munich waving the piece of paper that would give the Czech arms factories to Hitler and postpone the war until 1939. On October 1, German tanks cross the Czech frontier, touching off declarations of war from France, from England, from the USSR. Poland, fearing the Russians more than Hitler, declares war on the German side. Soon Fascist Spain attacks Gibraltar, the Japanese army crosses the Manchurian frontier into the British Army sets off for France,...
ISBN: 978-0-340-92182-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
