Beletria, alebo aj prozaické umelecké dielo, prináša do našich životov nové príbehy, vzrušenie i zážitok, ktorý pre nás napísal autor a pred našimi očami ho nakreslila naša vlastná fantázia. Klasická anglická literatúra prináša nezabudnuteľné príbehy Williama Shakespaera či Jane Austenovej. Knihy po anglicky a príbehy ukryté na ich stránkach nám nielenže rozjasňujú dni a vytŕhajú nás z každodennej nudnej rutiny, ale rovnako nás nútia aktívne premýšľať nad vetnými konštrukciami a pomáhajú nám v zdokonaľovaní sa v cudzom jazyku.
Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend 50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary Italian goalkeeper, but you cannot take into account the effects of a dodgy takeaway meal, a dropped bottle of aftershave on a goalkeeper\''s toe, or the fact that your most creative player has to leave ...
Hodder & Stoughton General Division: 'I've always liked Manby's books and this is my favourite so far . . . deeply...
In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life to make way for the new.
This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psycho-biography of a man whose once-brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland\''s tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in a searching ...
The internationally bestselling author reintroduces us to the heroine Cannie Shapiro, from her previous novel Good In Bed, which has been made into a TV series by HBO. Weiner has 3 million copies of her books in print.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejš ie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý ...
Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head'' is the on-scene assessment, but the victim''s relatives are adamant in their rejection of suicide as an explanation. Discovered in a closet, a full week after death, the body is barely recognisable. E xtreme heat has accelerated decomposition, and Dr. ...
Craft has seen a huge resurgence in recent years. This book showcases the new wave of cool crafting quirky, cutting-edge, craft-based artwork, often called Indie Craft or D.I.Y. craft. While the methods and disciplines are often traditional such as embroidery, crochet, knitting, cross-stitch, tapestry, ...
The latest volume in Prestel''''s most successful series profiles the world''''s top 50 designers, including Armani, Balenciaga, Dior, Galliano, Givenchy, Lacroix, McCartney, McQueen, Quant, Versace and Westwood. Their careers and creations are explored through colourful, double-page spreads, with a ...
Nun in aktualisierter Neuauflage erhältlich, beleuchtet diese Sammlung an Landschaftsbildern und -zeichnungen von Egon Schiele einen bislang nur wenig beachteten Aspekt aus dem Gesamtwerk des berühmten Malers. Bekannt ist Schiele in erster Linie für seine Porträt- und Aktdarstellungen, jedoch widmete ...
Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be lef t with no choice but to retaliate ...''A fast-moving ...
When Alton\''s ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it\''s better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton\''s mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices ...
The 2nd book in the fantasy series of vampires and war, first published in the USA during the 1990s, but never before published in the UK.
This beautifully produced and comprehensive survey of fifty influential American artists richly details their important contributions to the art world. Including Homer, Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Hopper, O\''Keefe, Calder, Pollock, Rothko, Bourgeois, Johns, Warhol and Serra, the most important American ...
Dieses Buch gibt Designern Grundlagen für die Druckvorbereitung: Bildschirme kalibrieren, Überfüllung anpassen und Farben so anlegen, dass sie im Druck nicht zur Überraschung werden. Es erklärt das Sc
Beach Clubs vereinen die vier Elemente der Natur auf die denkbar angenehmste Weise: das Wasser als paradiesisches Blau des Ozeans und der Poolanlagen, den Wind als sanfte Meeresbrise, die Erde als feinen Küstensand und das Feuer als wärmende Kraft der Sonne. An einigen privilegierten Orten der Welt verstecken ...
Marnie has a settled life working in a London puppet museum when she gets a phone call telling her that a once-loved friend is dying. She leaves the puppets in the care of her ditzy former stepdaughter and sets off for an isolated cottage in the Scottish Highlands. There is unfinished business between ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and.he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.'' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in ...
The D-day landings the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channe…