The story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men`s clothing store, his cold middle-class wife, Martha, and their nephew, Franz. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, Martha longs for their nephew instead.
ISBN: 978-0-679-72340-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
From the author of "The Court of the Air" comes a hugely engaging, Victorian-style adventure, filled with perilous quests, dastardly deeds and deadly intrigue - perfect for all fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke.
ISBN: 978-0-00-723221-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them Journalist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground. Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time
ISBN: 978-0-330-45212-0
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this latest Fargo adventure, husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi are sent to find the missing father of a Texas oil barron. Their journey leads them to Tibet, Nepal, Venice, and more.
From the reign of Alfred the Great - the first king of Wessex to call himself `king of England` - in the 9th century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story of England`s kings and queens is to a large degree that of England herself. Kings and Queens of England offers readable profiles of 59 English monarchs from Harold II to Henry VIII, and from Ethelred the Unready to Elizabeth II. Each monarch is elegantly profiled and the impact of their rule on wider English history clearly and concisely described and analysed. For every king and queen there is a detailed timeline, and the narrative is...
ISBN: 978-0-85738-531-4
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
"The fourth novel in the immensely satisfying Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte opens with a Spanish galleon sailing into a home port that is festooned with English corpses. The slain enemies, fruit of a failed Anglo-Dutch attack on Cádiz, `hung from gallows erected on the shore, along the edge of the bunches of grapes ripe for harvesting, except that these grapes had been harvested already`. Such carnage is a welcome sight to Spanish eyes in 1626, even eyes as jaded as those of our hero, Alatriste. For us, though, the scene is unsettling. Instead of action, we find action`s putrefied aftermath. The tone is not triumphant but exhausted. Alatriste, his young protégé Ínigo and his battered comrades...
Children will be fascinated to learn about every King and Queen of Britain from the Norman conquest to the present day by matching the stickers of important artefacts to their frames on each page. Each frame is accompanied by fascinating historical facts. Each illustrated double spread is based upon the different royal dynasties, including the plantagenets, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Windsors. It contains over 100 stickers.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-2286-7
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Learn about Royalty with this informative and fun sticker book. Use the stickers to test your knowledge of Kings and Queens. Ideal for home and school project work.
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed `The Quack who saved a King`. Logue wasn`t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied, Duke of York into the man who was capable of becoming King. Had Logue not saved Bertie (as the man who was to become King George VI was always known) from his debilitating stammer, and pathological nervousness in front of a crowd or microphone, then it is almost certain...
ISBN: 978-0-85738-111-8
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a new edition of the drama and history of Britain`s royal lineage from the Saxons to the Windsors. Don`t know your Albert from your Ethelred? Which Henry had six wives, and which was crowned at eight years old? "Kings & Queens of England and Scotland" is the essential guide that will help you sort your Tudors from your Stuarts, and discover how each monarch helped to shape the country we live in today. Easy to read biographies of each sovereign highlight key dates and achievements and family trees illustrate relations and ancestors - new edition includes noteworthy recent events in the Royal Family including the engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton. "Kings & Queens of England and Scotland" is suitable for those just...
"The King`s English" is Kingsley Amis`s authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh rarebit. If you have ever wondered whether it`s acceptable to start a sentence with "and", to boldly split an infinitive, or to cross your sevens in the French style, Amis has the answer - or a trenchant opinion. By turns reflective, acerbic and provocative, "The King`s English" is for anyone who cares about how the English language is used. With a new introduction by Kingsley Amis`s son, the novelist...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119431-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I am far more to people than just someone who paints pictures." Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) was one of the most complex artists of the 80s and 90s. His ?uvre could not be reduced to any one medium. To him, sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, catalogues, invitation cards and posters were all equally valid forms of artistic expression and he constantly played off one against another in an output so prolific that it verged on the inflationary. His maxim was that "good artists are never on holiday" and he demanded the same total commitment from those who viewed his works. This book documents two decades of Martin Kippenberger’s work in 400 illustrations, from the early...
ISBN: 3-8228-2686-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: октябрь 2010
Kinder mit geringen oder ohne Deutschkenntnisse können in Regelklassen nur schwer dem Unterricht folgen. Sie brauchen spezielle Förderung. Die Materialien in "Kiras Lernwelt" eignen sich für die Arbeit in kleinen Lerngruppen und anschließend zur selbstständigen Bearbeitung. Die Kinder üben in erster Linie mündliche Sprachfähigkeiten: Die Wortschatz- und Satzbildungsarbeit steht im Vordergrund. Die dabei verwendete Sprache ist gebunden an Situationen aus der unmittelbaren Erfahrungswelt der Kinder und aus dem Sachunterricht. Aussage- und Fragesätze sowie die Benutzung häufiger Fragepronomen führen zu einem vorbewussten Umgang mit grammatischen Strukturen. Ganz wichtig: Aufgaben zum...
Can you find all the eggs in this Easter hunt book? Kirby the farm dog thinks he`s the Easter Bunny. Every year the big black lab puts on his bunny ears (a pretty comical sight in itself) and delivers beautifully decorated eggs to all the animals in the farmyard. Each pop-up spread in this book for youngsters up to 6 features elements that move as the pages are opened, sometimes revealing eggs and sometimes hiding them. Sharp-eyed readers can add up all the eggs they`ve spotted; the total is hidden on the last page under a flap.
Kirby the black lab hosts an annual soapbox derby for his animal friends in this pop-up book for readers up to 6. Animal puns abound, as well as hilarious themed vehicles - Monkey drives a banana-shaped car, of course - and each two-page spread is full of comical details.
