One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne won the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field`s most prestigious award. Mayne`s influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions around the world. Since Rizzoli published Volume I of the Morphosis series in 1989, the Los Angeles-based firm has attained the highest levels of international esteem and influence as it continues to push its intricate modernism into new territory. In the tradition of its three comprehensive and visually groundbreaking predecessors, this fourth volume packs 575...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2803-6
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: январь 2010
In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea… Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family’s embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for thousands of years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world—and those beyond it… Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan’s charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power...
ISBN: 978-0-515-14165-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas lead the detective to look upon the festive season with uncharacteristic goodwill? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? This dazzling collection of short stories from Inspector Morse’s creator, Colin Dexter, includes six ingenious cases for the world’s most popular fictional detective – plus five other tantalizingly original tales to delight all lovers of classic crime fiction.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45190-1
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Elle est belle, attirante, disponible. Il n`a pas hésité à la suivre pour prendre un dernier verre. A présent il est seul, dans une cave, enfermé dans une cage. Isolé. Sa seule compagnie? Sa séductrice et son bourreau. Et elle a décidé de faire durer son plaisir très longtemps. De le frire souffrir lentement. Pourquoi lui? Dans ce bras de fer rien n`est dû au hasard. Et la frontière entre tortionnaire et victime est bien
ISBN: 978-2-266-18136-5
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: август 2011
Fils de fonctionnaire, Ivan Ilitch a gravi avec succes tous les echelons de la hierarchie administrative. Il aime sortir, frequenter la haute societe, et fait son possible pour eviter des responsabilites familiales assommantes. Mais, au sommet de sa reussite sociale, Ilitch est frappe par la maladie. Accable d`atroces souffrances, conscient de l`imminence de sa mort, il comprend la futilite de ses ambitions. Trop
ISBN: 978-2-07-041153-5
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Trois nouvelles, six morts exemplaires, dont celle d`Ivan Illitch - l`agonie la plus célèbre de la littérature. La mort, la vie et son mensonge - soit qu`au dernier moment on s`accroche encore à ce mensonge comme la vieille dame (Trois morts), soit qu`on s`en dépouille enfin, comme Ivan Illitch, soit qu`on meure, comme l`arbre, "paisiblement, honnêtement, en beauté". "A la grâce de Dieu. Nous y passerons tous un jour!".
ISBN: 978-2-253-00177-5
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death`s apprentice...
ISBN: 0-552-13106-7
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In Edinburgh you`re never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim`s identity - and his killer - Rebus searches from Edinburgh`s most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland - amongst petty thugs, gunrunners, and heavyweight criminals. But before Rebus can get to the truth, he`s bloodied by the dream of society`s madmen - and staring into the glint of a killer`s eyes.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96094-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This is an extraordinary fiction from a brilliant author. It`s six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal`s bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with In a Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve brilliantly...
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1094-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ann Rule brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy-America`s most notorious serial killer-could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is totally trusted-but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill. Featured here is the case of a family man who appeared the picture of healthy living with his expertise in naturopathic healing. Luring a beautiful flight attendant into a passionate affair, he swept her away to a secluded home on the coast where his jealous rages escalated, ultimately leading to a...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4220-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Fever Crumb is a stunning, stand-alone prequel to Philip Reeve`s brilliant science fantasy quartet. It is set many generations before the events of Mortal Engines, in whose dazzling world huge, predatory cities chase and devour each other. Now, London is a riot-torn, ruinous town, clinging to a devastated landscape and hiding an explosive secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0243-6
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is the second book in the urban fantasy trilogy that began with the bestselling `City of Bones`. With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New York`s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters.
MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve`s brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic first instalment intrduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground. Repackaged with a stunning double cover and eye-catching new brand look that features the famous recycled `Old-Tech` of Reeve`s fantastic world.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1091-2
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a travelling theatre. Now she arrives in the extraordinary crater city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs - but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets. This is the fabulous sixth book in the Morta Engines series, from the brilliant and award-winning Philip Reeve.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1759-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose body she is examining apparently died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam 40 years before. So who is buried in the soldier`s grave? Tempe`s investigations take her to Honolulu where she is caught up not only in the mystery of the unidentified body in the soldier`s grave, but also dragged into investigating who, or what, killed the young men whose body parts have floated up onto a popular Hawaiian beach. And as Tempe gradually unravels the tangled threads of the mystery, it becomes clear that there are some who would rather the past stays dead and buried. And when Tempe proves difficult to...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955686-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Anchorage has become a static settlement on the shores of the Dead Continent, and its inhabitants have been living peacefully for sixteen years. But now trouble is approaching - in a limpet sub, and fast. The Lost Boys are back, and they`ll do anything to get what they want. Tom and Hester`s daughter Wren is their eager dupe, bored and desperate for adventure. When the theft of the mysterious Tin Book of Anchorage goes wrong, Wren is snatched away in the limpet, who knows where. Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but this is the end of their quiet life on Anchorage. The journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them back into perilous
From the incredible wizadry of Merlin to the passion of Sir Lancelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epic adventures with the supernatural as well as timeless battles with out own humanity.
ISBN: 978-0-451-53149-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
