When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma force. For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedral`s golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings. Commander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists that dates back to the Middle Ages and seeks to establish a new world order using the mystical bones. Pierce and his team follow a trail that leads from Europe`s Gothic cathedrals through the remnants of the seven wonders of the ancient world to a mystical place where science and religion unite to unleash a threat not seen since the beginning of...

ISBN: 978-1-4091-1752-0
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780007349982
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: январь 2010

ISBN: 9780141187686
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2004

Since the dramatic events in 1989 and 1990, Central and Eastern Europeans have been engaged in a process of democratization and liberalization which are transforming their societies fundamentally. The rapid transformation processes appear to be very differential and the particular patterns are complex to interpret and understand. This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working of democracy, the public support for, legitimacy and efficacy of democracy and the free market economy, and of course the stability of the newly established political culture.

ISBN: 978900418-562-3
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Written by the writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, this slipcase features Tolkien`s maps of The Hobbit, Beleriand and Middle-earth. Each map is presented in a box-set illustrated by Tolkien artist John Howe, the conceptual artist employed by Peter Jackson to work on his Lord of The Rings film trilogy. The maps, presented with individual books and wallets show Tolkien`s mythical lands in detail - they are also bound with fewer folds, making them suitable for portfolios or framing.

ISBN: 978-0-00-716970-2
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Roy Strang is engaged is a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy`s bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.

ISBN: 0-09-943511-X
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism - the action takes place two centuries after our era - Joseph Brodsky`s only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely physical confines. The fusion of its dour, somewhat terrifying vision with the macabre hilarity of its verbal texture allows Marbles to take its audience beyond the farthest reaches of the theatre of the absurd, into territory more suitable for...

ISBN: 978-0-374-52116-5
Дата выхода: июнь 2012

A box of possessions. A father with no memory. A daughter with just one day to piece together the past. When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father`s belongings, her seemingly uneventful life suddenly alters and shifts. In the single day she has to search for answers about the man she thought she knew, a man who can no longer remember his own story, Sabrina uncovers far bigger secrets than she could have imagined. And discovers that sometimes it`s the people closest to us that we know the least.

ISBN: 9780007501854
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017

Que feriez-vous si un fantome debarquait dans votre vie et vous demandait de l`aider a realiser son voeu le plus cher ? Seriez-vous pret a partir avec lui en avion a l`autre bout du monde ? Au risque de passer pour un fou ? Et si ce fantome etait celui de votre pere ? Thomas, pianiste virtuose, est entraine dans une aventure fabuleuse : une promesse, un voyage pour rattraper le temps perdu, et une rencontre inattendue...Digne des plus belles histoires de Capra et de Billy Wilder, Ghost in love donne envie de croire au merveilleux.

ISBN: 9782266307192
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Marc Newson`s complete works to date He has designed chairs, restaurants, boutiques, cars, planes, and even a spaceship. For Australian industrial designer Marc Newson, the sky is no limit. From mass-produced objects to limited edition furniture to fashion, Newson has blurred boundaries, mapped new territories, and made himself an international superstar. This comprehensive tome leaves no stone unturned in cataloguing all of Newson`s works to date, from early pieces such as Lockheed Lounge (which holds the world record for the highest price paid for a piece of designer furniture, at over two million dollars) through designs of household objects and more recent, large scale projects such as the interior of Qantas`s A380 and the Aquariva...

ISBN: 978-3-8365-0807-0
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: август 2014

Original / British English Marcel and his friend Celine are on holiday in Los Angeles. They are staying in the home of Arnold Waldman, a famous film director. But on the first night of their holiday, kidnappers take away Arnold`s daughter

ISBN: 978-1-4058-7810-4
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Original / British English Marcel is a mouse and a famous detective. He lives in Paris. One evening, two thieves steal a very expensive diamond ring the White Star`. Then they steal a car. Marcel follows them across Paris to a cafe. Can he get the White Star` and bring it back?

ISBN: 978-1-4058-6956-0
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011