London today: a world of sex and drugs and designer clothes, where Robert searches for fulfilment in gay clubs and chat rooms. London 50 years ago: fresh out of National Service, Michael enters a secret queer underworld, negotiating the dangers of the law and the closet, longing for liberation and love. Past and present collide when Robert moves into a new flat, and discovers that history is alive and kicking on his doorstep. Their two worlds barely recognize each other; but do Robert and Michael have more in common than they think? Man s World is a funny, sexy, and moving story about friendship and desire; about how much the world has changed - and how little.
The book presented by Taekwon-Do Master Mr. Hee Il Cho. In this book Master Hee Il Cho describes and personally demonstrates all basic aspects of Taekwon-Do training, including various fighting techniques, weight lifting equipment training, bag training, special exercise and breaking techniques.
«Проект Better Man» — это готовый набор мощных инструментов, способный в корне преобразить вашу жизнь. Билл Филлипс — главный редактор журнала Men’s Health — вместе с командой крутых экспертов подготовил подробное руководство, как правильно питаться, сбросить лишний вес, накачаться и не надорваться, снизить стресс, взять свое здоровье под контроль, сэкономить кучу денег и упростить себе жизнь. Самое главное, для...
ISBN: 978-5-9614-6516-7
Издательство:
Альпина Паблишер
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce`s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Jonas Jonasson`s The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared.The word-of-mouth bestseller causing a sensation across Europe, Fredrik Backman`s heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.`Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving` Daily Mail`Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it` Spectator Books of the YearAt first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots -...
"Last Man Standing" offers an in-depth biography of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, written with the full blessing of the man known to all as the Savior of Wall St.
ISBN: 9781416599531
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
В декабре 2018 года американец Колин О’Брэйди решился пересечь Антарктиду в одиночку. Ему предстояло: - Пешком пройти расстояние около 1500 км. - Тянуть сани с поклажей весом 170 кг. - Строго придерживаться скудного пайка из белковых батончиков. Любой срыв может закончить его путешествие досрочно. - Ставить палатку каждый раз, когда нужно справить нужду. - Терпеть невыносимый холод, когда температура...
ISBN: 978-5-04-113624-6
Издательство:
Бомбора
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
The Shadow Man is a twisty crime thriller that will leave you gasping for more. It`s the first standalone book from the bestselling author of the Perfect series, Helen Fields.He collects his victims. But he doesn`t keep them safe…Elspeth, Meggy and Xavier are locked in a flat. They don`t know where they are, and they don`t know why they`re there. They only know that the shadow man has taken them, and he won`t let them go.Desperate to escape, the three of them must find a way out of their living hell, even if it means uncovering a very dark truth.Because the shadow man isn`t a nightmare. He`s all too real.And he`s watching.Helen Fields is back with a heart-pounding new book, perfect for fans of Cara Hunter and Stuart MacBride.
Another silly story in the Mr Men Magic series!It`s perhaps not so surprising to hear that one day Mr. Greedy was feeling hungry. And also not particularly surprising to hear that he made himself a giant gingerbread man. But before he has the chance to enjoy his snack the gingerbread man is on the run!Run, run, as fast as you can. You can`t catch me, I`m the gingerbread man!The Mr Men and Little Miss Magic series takes kids on a series of sparkling adventures where they meet some extraordinary characters including a dragon, an ogre, a mermaid, a princess, a fairy, pirates and many others.These colourful adventures will delight children of two years and upwards. Bold illustrations and funny stories make Mr Men and Little Miss the perfect...
ISBN: 9780755500864
Издательство:
Farshore
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson`s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedIt all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they`re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-unSoon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicatedPraise for The Hundred-Year-Old...
ISBN: 9780008275570
Издательство:
МЦНМО
Дата выхода: июль 2023
In the village of Iping, a strange man arrives at a local inn wrapped in bandages. He refuses to leave his room where he is carrying out experiments to make himself invisible.The stranger`s success has grave implications for everyone. When he realises that he cannot reverse the experiment, he is gradually driven insane.This seminal tale acts as a powerful warning about unintended consequences. The journey on which The Invisible Man embarks turns out to be a penetrating, unflinching, and unsettling look into the heart of human nature.
A popular European folk tale. A little old woman makes a boy out of gingerbread. When she opens the oven, The Gingerbread Man jumps out and runs away. Animals, farmers and schoolchildren join the chase. Finally a fox offers to carry the gingerbread man across a river. How kind of him - or is it? The Usborne English Readers series is a new range of graded readers in simplified English for younger learners. They include activities, glossaries and a full audio recording of the text in both British English and American English.
In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the `races` of mankind by means of what he calls sexual selection. This book presents a full explanation of Darwin`s ideas about sexual selection, including his belief that many important characteristics of human beings and animals have emerged in response to competition for mates.This was a controversial work. Yet Darwin tried hard to avoid...
ISBN: 9781840226980
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
Astonishing power now available to women as well as men; to white as well as black. THE HIGHLY GUARDED FORMULAE OF THE MFUMU REVEALED ONLY IN THIS MANUAL. 'MFUMU' is the African name for the 'medicine man', also called 'witch doctor'. White Euorpean W. Van studied under a mfumu in an undisclosed location in Africa and returned with powers that made others fear! Shortly before his death, released from his oath of secrecy, he presented his knowledge to Finbarr in the daring manual of lethal magick. ONLY FINBARR WOULD PUBLISH THIS! This is forceful magick for the woman and man of serious intent. Everything you need to know to work this magick is explained here. This is the definitive 'know how' of witch doctor magick, which can be practised...
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. This volume includes many wonderful short stories like "The Other Two", "Expiation", "The Lady`s Maid`s Bell" and the title story "The Descent of Man". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07842-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Пришельцы атаковали Землю! Герои класса S решили действовать сообща, а Сайтама на инопланетном корабле сошелся в смертельной схватке с их предводителем Боросом – Великим Космическим Помазанником. Кто же из них двоих окажется сильнее? Наши герои едва успели остыть после битвы, как помощь понадобилась самому сильному мужчине на Земле – Королю! И, несмотря на то, что один только звук Движка Короля...
ISBN: 9785389155459
Издательство:
Азбука-Аттикус
Дата выхода: январь 2019
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce`s Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19`th century Ireland.
ISBN: 9781853260063
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Shabba me whiskers! It`s a bold new look for Mr Gum, the best-selling cult classic, ready for a new generation of nibbleheads.`It`s time for action,` said Mr Gum to nobody in particular. `Nasty action.`Good evening. Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. This book`s all about him. And an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. And Jake the dog, and a little girl called Polly. And there`s heroes and sweets and adventures and everything.You`re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! is the first book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children`s Book Award.
ISBN: 9781405293693
Издательство:
Farshore
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
It`s the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He`s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn`t that be a bonus?But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn`t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man Without a Country is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.
ISBN: 9780747586050
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .`Death has to happen. That’s what bein` alive is all about. You`re alive, and then you`re dead. It can`t just stop happening.`But it can. And it has.Death is missing – presumed gone.Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn`t come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime?You can`t have the undead wandering about like lost souls - there`s no telling what might happen!Particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living . . .The Discworld novels can be...
ISBN: 9780552166683
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - joggers, neighbours who can`t reverse a trailer properly and shop assistants who talk in code.But isn`t it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible . . .
