Book Twelve of "The Wheel of Time" ... The final volume of "The Wheel of Time", A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson , New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan's editor his wife, Harriet McDougal, to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai'don and Rand al'Thor's ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. Второ преработено издание. ... Учебникът е предназначен за подготовка на бакалаври и специалисти във висши и средни учебни заведения по дисциплината "Теория и устройство на кораба". Той е съобразен изцяло със съответната програма на Международната морска организация за подготовка на вахтени офицери и с елементи от програмата за капитани и главни механици. Корабоплаването изисква добро владеене от командния състав на специализиран английски език. От тази гледна точка учебникът е замислен и като помагало при изучаването му. Идеята да се съпоставят на съседни ... |
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In Easy-to-Read Type. ... Pinocchio was naughty from the very first day that Geppetto created him. Instead of going to school of learning a trade, the little puppet who magically came to life wanted only to eat drink, sleep and play. Poor Pinocchio's problems grew - as did his nose every time he told a lie, which was quite often. And even worse, he found himself in one dreadful situation after another: in prison, turned into a donkey and even stranded in the belly of an enormous shark. Enhanced by Thea Kliros' 32 original illustrations, this newly abridged version of the beloved story includes all the familiar ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. ... Книгата е замислена като поредица от книги за малки и пораснали деца. Всяка книга от поредицата обхваща хронологично подредени периоди от изкуството. Началото е поставено с Праисторията. Следват приказки и игри за Асирия, Вавилон, Египет, Рим, Византия, Западното средновековие, Ренесанса, Барока, изкуството на XVII век, романтизма, реализма, класицизма и импресионизма. Поредицата обхваща и XX век с неговата пъстрота от стилове и личности. Всяка книжка съдържа една приказка, кратък, но образователен текст посветен на един исторически период, стил или епоха. Децата ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. ... Книгата е замислена като поредица от книги за малки и пораснали деца. Всяка книга от поредицата обхваща хронологично подредени периоди от изкуството. Началото е поставено с Праисторията. Следват приказки и игри за Асирия, Вавилон, Египет, Рим, Византия, Западното средновековие, Ренесанса, Барока, изкуството на XVII век, романтизма, реализма, класицизма и импресионизма. Поредицата обхваща и XX век с неговата пъстрота от стилове и личности. Всяка книжка съдържа една приказка, кратък, но образователен текст посветен на един исторически период, стил или епоха. Децата ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury and must be silenced. But even with his memory taken from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. A taut thriller and a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene is ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. However, Lily has an independence of spirit that stands in the way of her committing to the suitors available to her. As her options diminish, her friends become her enemies and her situation grows increasing perilous. In "The House of Mirth", ... |
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To the outside world Alice, Jake and Harry have little in common. Alice is a social outsider: reclusive, middle-aged, and with only 850,000 honeybees for company. Jake, following an accident at a high school party, is grappling with life in a wheelchair and dashed dreams of music school. And Harry is an aimless twenty-four-year-old suffering from debilitating social anxiety. But when Alice nearly crashes her pick-up truck, packed with thousands of honeybees, into Jake, the last thing she expects is to find that Jake has a gift: he can hear her bees buzzing as a form of music. And when Harry also arrives at Alice's ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This is a fresh, contemporary translation of Sun Tzu 's "The Art of War" for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance, it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. It also contains a full commentary on Sun Tzu, the man and his ideas, contemporary of Confucius and Buddha; and a critical guide to further reading. ... |
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Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. ... Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. Drawing upon her cutting-edge research Professor Blakemore explores: What makes the adolescent brain different? Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? What drives the excessive risk-taking and the need for intense friendships common to teenagers? Why it is that many mental illnesses - depression, addiction, schizophrenia - begin during these formative years. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In "A Study in Scarlet", Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective faces an even greater challenge: solving both the disappearance of Captain Arthur Morstan and the theft of the Agra treasure in India. In this "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition, Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies ... |
