Dear Reader, I`m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune. In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast. It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing...
ISBN: 978-0-06-114630-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins USA
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A new generation of talent is currently developing its own interdisciplinary and refreshingly off-key visual vocabulary. Lemon Poppy Seed is a compilation of work by young, international artists whose styles defy current trends and classifications and are all the more brilliant for doing so. The book is the perfect source for those who want to see the organic development of new artistic terrain before the mainstream attempts to erect shopping centres upon it.
ISBN: 978-3-89955-210-2
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Femme d`un haut fonctionnaire parisien, Anna souffre d`amnesie, d`hallucinations terrifiantes. Une psychiatre lui revele alors qu`elle a subi une operation de chirurgie esthetique importante. Quand, o?, pourquoi, de cela Anna ne se souvient Dans le Xe arrondissement de Paris, deux policiers sont charges d`elucider les meurtres particuli?rement horribles de trois Turques qui travaillaient dans les ateliers clandestins. L`un est un jeune inspecteur quasi debutant, l`autre un vieux routier du district, arrache a sa retraite. Au coeur de l`enquete, "les loups gris", une organisation turque d`extreme droite, m?lee a tous les trafics, des tueurs impitoyables. Leur piste va croiser celle d`Anna qui, petit a petit, retrouve son passe dans les...
ISBN: 978-2-253-11393-5
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tout empire est condamné à périr! Celui de Russie constitue une extraordinaire exception à cette règle. Dans l`Histoire, il fut l`un des plus vastes. Des plus durables aussi, battu seulement par les empires romain, byzantin et ottoman. II est le seul qui ait péri en 1917 puis se soit reconstitué. En 1992 il laisse la place à un pays qui ressemble à maints égards à l`Empire tel qu`il naquit en 1552. Comme celui-ci, la Russie embrasse deux continents, l`Europe et l`Asie; comme lui, elle conserve dans ses frontières une multitude de civilisations et de peuples différents. Comme lui, elle est un Etat chrétien, mais aussi formé de musulmans et même de bouddhistes;...
ISBN: 978-2-253-12188-6
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Deshalb beschliesst Lenchen, die Fee Franziska Fragezeichen aufzusuchen, damit die ihre Eltern entsprechend verzaubert. Aber dann kommt alles ganz anders, als Lenchen es sich vorgestellt hatte. Michael Ende, Grossmeister fantastischer Literatur, erzahlt wieder einmal eine seiner staunenswerten Geschichten, die von der Innenwelt der Menschen handelt.
ISBN: 978-3-12-675624-2
Издательство:
Klett
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Le Livre que vous tenez entre vos mains est une expérience. Il contient des informations que vous ne trouverez pas ailleurs. Des informations dans des domaines aussi étranges ou complémentaires que: les grandes énigmes du passé, les casse-tête mathématiques, les recettes de cuisine étranges, les paradoxes de la physique quantique, des anecdotes inconnues de l`histoire de l`humanité, ou des blagues philosophiques. Ici l`hypnose, l`alchimie, le shamanisme ou la kabbale côtoient la sociologie, la biologie ou l`archéologie. Ici on découvre comment rêvent les dauphins et comment est né l`Univers. Comment les Chinois ont rencontré les Occidentaux et comment se...
ISBN: 978-2-253-15530-0
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Plus de 500 sujets classés par ordre alphabétique sur tous les grands domaines de la connaissance, une mise en page vivante et un texte accessible à tous qui captiveront les lecteurs de tous âges, plus de 4 500 illustrations tout en couleurs (photos, dessins, cartes, schémas, tableaux), accompagnées de légendes, pour mieux comprendre une époque, un événement, un personnage, un mouvement artistique, une Véritable outil de la connaissance, L`Encyclopédie Hachette s`avérera particulièrement utile aux élèves, grâce à: des articles informatifs courts, rédigés dans un style simple et vivant; un index détaillé permettant d`accéder...
Daniel Picouly L`Enfant léopard 16 octobre 1793. Dans sa cellule de la Conciergerie, Marie-Antoinette se prépare à mourir. Au-dehors, un ultime complot s`est formé. Il ne reste que douze heures pour sauver la reine. Pendant ce temps, dans ce Paris tumultueux de la Révolution, on traque un mystérieux enfant léopard. Certains pour le protéger. D`autres pour le tuer. Mais qui est cet enfant léopard si convoité? Est-il vrai qu`il est le fils caché d`une grande dame du royaume, voire de la reine elle-même? Difficile à croire. Et C`est à une folle cavalcade romanesque derrière ce mystère que nous invite Daniel Picouly. Les intrigues s`entremêlent, les...
ISBN: 978-2-253-15074-9
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: август 2011
Why restore the Marie-Galante, old abandoned schooner in the harbor of Fecamp? Why make him out to sea at night like a ghost ship? Who is the woman whose body was found in the tank? Who killed her? So many questions to be answered for his first investigation as a private detective. But a nasty cold confined him to bed! A short history to experience the atmosphere, humor and colorful characters of Simenon, a master of crime fiction.
ISBN: 978-2-07-042869-4
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. What followed was one of the most horrific sieges in history. When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate circumstances, Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboo truths, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism. But, for many ordinary citizens,...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-6942-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first complete picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides an account of one of the greatest turning points in modern history. Through the prism of Lenin`s career, Service examines events such as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the one-party state, economic modernisation, dictatorship, and the politics of inter-war Europe. In discovering the origins of the USSR, he casts light on the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51838-3
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected, wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941, at the outset of Operation Barbarossa. In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in keeping even a proportion of the city`s population alive. During the famed 900-day siege of Leningrad, the German High Command deliberately planned to eradicate the city`s population through starvation. Viewing the Slavs as sub-human, Hitler embarked on a vicious program of ethnic cleansing. By the time the siege ended in January 1944, almost a million people had died. Those who survived would be marked permanently by what they endured as the city descended into chaos. In Leningrad, military historian Michael Jones chronicles the human story of...
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth century - would have been very different. Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal stories - immediate accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides. These twentieth-century European civilians living through unbearable hardship reveal the terrible details of life in the blockaded city: the...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-1982-1
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a powerful narrative with profound analysis, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked and that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis and character. Central, of course, to the catastrophe were the dictators Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler and this book makes unprecedented use of recently opened Russian and German sources to explain how their pursuit of...
L`ordre est tombé, émanant du président américain Knezevitch, ce chef balkanique connu pour son charisme, mais aussi pour ses méthodes peu compatibles avec le "politiquement correct", doit être enlevé et traduit devant un tribunal international créé pour l`occasion. Toutefois les services secrets américains, face aux difficultés de l`entreprise, préfèrent "repasser le bébé" aux Français, qui assumeront ainsi l`échec éventuel. C`est à un jeune capitaine répondant au pseudonyme de Martin, que revient la mission de mener à bien l`enlèvement. Mais est-il si aisé de livrer à un tribunal de complaisance un homme pour lequel...
ISBN: 978-2-253-15223-1
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: август 2011
Glasgow, 1953: the war may be over but the battle for the streets is just beginning. Three crime bosses control the murky streets, but a small-scale con is trying to invade their territory. The balance is shifting. Lennox, a hard man in a hard city at a hard time, finds himself caught in the middle - a dangerous place to be. One night, a body is discovered on the road, his head mashed to pulp, and Lennox is in the frame for murder. The only way of proving his innocence is to solve the crime - but he`ll have to dodge men more deadly than Glasgow`s crime bosses before he gets any answers. The first in a unique and memorable crime series, Lennox is gritty, fast-paced, mordantly funny and totally compelling.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-320-0
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Music historian and journalist Tim Riley`s biography challenges many popular assumptions about Lennon`s life, from his widely misunderstood `Working Class Hero` origins to his epic romance with Yoko Ono. Riley also explores Lennon in all his contradictions: the misogynist turned peace activist, the moralist who loved to outrage and the `bigger than Christ` LSD enthusiast who settled down to become a house-husband. A pre-eminent scholar of Beatles music, Riley has consulted some of the most important Beatles scholarship of the past two decades. In a field littered with untrustworthy memoirs, he has culled the most reliable information from hundreds of books, and tracked down even more insightful sources among Lennon`s friends, enemies,...
ISBN: 978-0-7535-4020-6
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made many discoveries about him, his work and his circle of associates. The book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy....
ISBN: 978-0-14-103533-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
