10000 - 500 BC: The river civilizations; Danube; Mesopotamia; Indus; Early empires; China to the Zhou; Egypt; Mycenae and Knossos. 500 BC - 1000 AD: An Axial Age? Plato; Ezra; Buddha; Confucius; The glory that was Greece; Alexander and his successors; Rome to Byzantium; Republic to empire; Jews and Christians, Constantine; Islam; Rise of Islam, Muslim Spain, Early America; India to the Guptas; Gaul and Britannia; Clovis to Charlemagne, Angles and Saxons, Carolingian State, Vikings. 1000 - 1600: Clash of cultures; Holy Roman Empire and the papacy; Crusades; Great Schism; Africa and America; Sudanese empires; Aztecs and Incas; Plans and Forest Indians; Pueblos and Beotuk; China and Asia; The horse in history; China and the Mongols; SE...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The fascinating history of humanity`s bond with the horse is spectacularly brought to life in this beautifully illustrated volume. With over 100 giant images from the extraordinary Parthenon Frieze to the thoroughbred portraits of Stubbs; and from the enigmatic paintings of Edgar Degas to the contemporary creations of Damien Hirst, this book will delight horse and art lovers alike. Drawing on his extensive equestrian knowledge, Simon Barnes tells the story of horses and their unique relationship with humans. Rachel Barnes, as art historian, traces changes and development in Western art revealed through paintings and sculptures of the horse and explores the animal`s role as the subject of myth and legend, as a symbol of royal power and...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
`I Have a Dream` is an anthology of history`s most inspiring words and thoughts from history`s greatest leaders from all ages and nations. Each of the 370 quotations is accompanied by an extended annotation that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. Includes: `Heroes have the whole earth for their tomb` - Pericles (431 BCE); `I am confident in the justice of my cause` - Socrates (399 BCE); `I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen` - Martin Luther (1520); `I have the heart of a king, and a king of England, too` - Queen Elizabeth I (1588); `Give me liberty or give me death!` - Patrick Henry (1775); `We hold these truths to be self-evident` - Gen John Nixon (1776); `This...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin`s Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer. As Bernie digs to unearth the truth, he discovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its dramatic and violent conclusion twenty years later...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire`s fancy. Over fifty years, its eccentricities earned a place in readers` hearts around the globe. But now, circulation is down, the paper lacks a website, and the future looks bleak. Still, those involved in the publication seem to barely notice. The obituary writer is too busy avoiding work. The editor-in-chief is pondering sleeping with an old flame. The obsessive reader is intent on finishing every old edition, leaving her trapped in the past. And the publisher seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer. The Imperfectionists interweaves the stories of eleven unusual and endearing...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
People in London are being taken away in unmarked police vans, never to be seen While trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his football team stays top of the league, it`s Johnny`s job to safeguard planet Earth. Suspicious of the strange occurrences, Johnny investigates to find that alien enemies are feeding humans to their Queen on a nearby planet. He then discovers a more terrifying secret: the aliens are planning a devastating invasion of Earth. The battle for Earth will take all of Johnny`s and his friends` strength and resolve. Can they win? If they do, what price will they pay to save the world?
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When thirteen-year-old Johnny`s talking computer Kovac detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change for ever. Until then, stuck in his children`s home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr Wilkins watching his every move, football had been his only escape. But soon things start happening around him that Johnny doesn`t understand: why is his mother, who is on life support in a hospital for the criminally insane, being guarded by sinister looking men? And why was a journalist murdered shortly after Johnny talked to him? When Johnny finds out he has a sister, he decides to run away to find her. His search for answers takes him farther from home than he could ever have imagined, on a spectacular journey through...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
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...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
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...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
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.
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city`s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he`s frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn`t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist`s novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Pittsburgh was too small for Beryl Wexler. Barely out of high school, she changed her name to Buzz and set off for the bright lights of London. She never looked back. Now she`s at the top of her game in the music PR business, looking after the coolest groups on the planet. And for a woman who was forty-two last birthday she certainly keeps up the pace. But her life is about to change. Some twenty-year-old has been given the new Japanese girl band predicted to go stellar, and Buzz is being sidelined. Instead, Buzz gets to tour with the Gorni Grannies, Bulgarian singers of a certain age. These ladies may not be the tantrum-throwing celebs Buzz is used to, but they present other challenges. How to stop Lubka straining yogurt through her...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Luciano Hernando Valdez is his Latin American nation`s most celebrated novelist and he`s suffering from writer`s block. So far his latest great work comprises the words `The scrawny yellow cat crossed the road`. He`s tried all his usual tricks to get back on track - he`s had a few debates with his trusty colleagues at the university, he`s had an affair with the banker`s wife, nothing will work. Until he meets Caterina. Beautiful, young and one of his biggest fans, she has idolized him since she was a child and he has inspired her to write. Convinced that falling in love with her, spending every minute he can alongside her, moulding her to his world, will unlock something and enable him to write, he pursues her and soon enough, he falls...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal`s red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby`s life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations, new foster homes, new places, new people, all the while longing for stability and a `normal` life. But Baby has a gift - the ability to find the good in people, a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright, smart,...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sneaking out of prison isn`t easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he`s out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wizard Nevery, is furious. With a new order of exile, this time with a death penalty, Conn has never been in such a tight fix. But Wellmet is in danger from an evil predator coming to destroy the city. Now Conn must set off on a quest to find something that will help him fight back. After an explosive experiment, he follows the call of his magic stone to a distant land. When Conn is swept away in the mouth of a magnificent Dragon, he is to face a power unlike any but is he a match for it and can he save his city, and...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
