In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon`s was the first `total` war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. With a historian`s sharp eye for detail, Bell resurrects Napoleonic Europe and brings a new perspective to a period we thought we knew.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
One day, out of the blue, Harriet Bean`s dad says to her, `Your aunts would like to hear about that!` Harriet is shocked - this is the first time she`s heard anything about any aunts, and suddenly, she has five of them! Naturally, she`s very curious to meet them, especially as her dad has told her that they each have a rather special ability (apart from Aunt Majolica who`s just extremely bossy). The trouble is, the family was split up years ago and they all lost touch with one another. Will Harriet be able to reunite her dad with his sisters and enable the family portrait that was started many years ago to finally be completed? She is determined, and starts her quest for the five missing aunts with a trip to the circus.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: март 2012
Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue the holy relics taken from the church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio. Their journey has been long and their adventures many, but it is not until they meet the playwright William Shakespeare that they get to tell the entire story from beginning to end! But where will this remarkable tale ultimately lead Violetta and her companion? And will they manage to save themselves, and the relics from the very evil intentions of Malvolio.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there`s the puzzle of lunch break.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth: the bandstand melts, the Pier droops, and Sospan the ice-cream seller experiments with some dangerously avant-garde new flavours. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator`s uniform walks into Louie Knight`s office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century Czar. But he hadn`t believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man`s story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. His life imperilled by snuff philatelists and a...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard, her French exchange, before he comes to visit, and her normal ability to write charismatic, charming and seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution - a digitally enhanced solution - and who better to ask to help than her best mate Fred! Fans will lap up this prequel as it charts Fred and Jess`s relationship - and Jess`s relationships with others - before Fred and Jess actually get together. The whole book sparkles with Sue Limb`s characteristic wit and humour, and will send fans racing to read the rest of the books in the series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Read on to catch up with more gossip-licious pleasure from the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut with Gossip Girl and has enthralled readers in the juicy sequels, You Know You Love Me and All I Want is Everything. In Because I`m Worth It, Gossip Girl dishes up more doses of hefty dirt on all her friends - New York`s wealthiest private school teens. In fact, wintertime has never been hotter in NYC as things steam up all over Fifth Avenue. Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this wildly popular series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Also... the moment of truth has finally arrived. Everyone`s back from a week of apres-ski hot tub fun in Sun Valley and cream-coloured envelopes from the Ivy League are beginning to drop all over Fifth Avenue doorsteps. The question is: are the envelopes thick or thin? Has Nate`s devotion to his misbehaving heiress dimmed his chances of getting into Brown? Is Blair too busy daydreaming in Eric`s old pinstriped Oxfords to remember her real mission in life - Yale?? Hopefully Serena can snap her newest-and-oldest best friend out of it. That is, if Serena hasn`t already become too much of a vapid, celery-eating supermodel to even care. But we know that Serena is made of sterner stuff ... don`t we?
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2011
It`s the Spring break and love is in the air. Or is that a blend of "Chanel No 9" and Gucci Rush? Blair moves in with Serena and they`re back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one another`s newly highlighted hair? Nate is on the straight and narrow with his crazy girlfriend, Georgie. And Vanessa wait, is that Vanessa shopping at Barneys with a guy in a Lacoste shirt? The long cold winter is over and the sun is finally shining along Fifth Avenue. The trees are in bloom and NYC`s most fabulous are ready for a truly outrageous vacation! Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this wildly popular series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein`s regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, detailing not only the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army and the ludicrous attempt to train the new police force, but absurdities such as the aide who based Baghdad`s new traffic laws on those of the state of Maryland, downloaded from the net, and the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of revitalising Baghdad`s stock exchange. This is...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Imagine if you were able to change history. By altering one tiny thing you could start a chain of catastrophic events. Ethan is one of the Named, fated to stop this ever happening, although the forces of chaos have other ideas and Ethan is finding it more and more difficult to stay one step ahead. He is also a normal schoolboy, whose life is rapidly becoming far too confusing. So when Isabel arrives on the scene she is only going to make matters is she? This is history in the making - literally.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In blurring these boundaries, Patricia Duncker has written a novel of astonishing power and beauty.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Harriet is invited to help her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate serious cheating in the world of horse racing. Initially excited by this prospect, Harriet quickly begins to regret getting involved. Will Harriet overcome her fears and find out who is causing Mr Fetlock`s horses to lose all their races? Hold on tight for this bumpy ride!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Harry can`t wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts School. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a chamber of secrets, holding unknown horrors for wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that paralyse people, making them seem dead, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect - and always in the wrong place - is Harry. But something much darker has yet to be unleashed.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can`t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn`t if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There`s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school ... A fantastic story featuring Harry and his friends from the spellbinding
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he`s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord`s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping his hideous Muggle guardians for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It is Harry Potter`s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort`s sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes more and more clear to Harry that he will soon have to confront his destiny. But is he up to the challenges ahead of him? In her darkest and most breathtaking adventure yet, J.K. Rowling skilfully begins to unravel the complex web she has woven, as we discover more of the truth about Harry, Dumbledore, Snape and, of course, He Who Must Not Be Named...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2010
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K.Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight - and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season`s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars - the Death Eaters - are out for murder.Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. So it\'s the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts,...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2005
It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. But Harry needs to be careful - there are unexpected dangers lurking ...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. `It is time,` he said, `for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.` Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his whole world upside down... But before he even gets to school, Harry has an unexpected and frightening encounter with two Dementors, has to face a court hearing at the Ministry of Magic and has been escorted on a night-time...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2005
Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has already survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It`s assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney`s ghoulish predictions seriously?
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. So it\'s the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts,...
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2005
