In the run up to the biggest NASCAR raceweek of the year, Dr Temperance Brennan is called to a landfill site backing onto the Charlotte speedway track in north Carolina. Someone has discovered a barrel of hardened asphalt with a human hand poking through the top. With the country''''s press trained on ...
Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man growing ...
Pride and Pleasure&,nbsp,- the classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling&,nbsp,Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a tale of ambition, love and lust.Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical ...
Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. In 48 AD, a fire set by the troops of Julius Caesar destroyed much of the Great Library of Alexandria. It was the first of several disasters that resulted in the destruction ...
The effects of 2008 are still with us today. As restricted growth and austerity have endured, so has the profound crisis of ideas the financial crisis precipitated. In Money and Government, Robert Skidelsky accounts for the causes of the crash. He shows that the underlying causes have not been dealt ...
The authors of this book address the topic of image in conjunction with the topic of narrative. Both of these come together in what we might call a tableau or a scene, and the book therefore also addresses a fundamental characteristic of the current age, which may in all seriousness be termed the age ...
As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex ...
"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger\''s profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of ...
After the death of her husband, Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, find they must leave Norland Park and move to a small cottage. There, Marianne falls in love with t
Cena:11.3€ | Autor:Asimov, Isaac | Rok vydania:2016 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780008117504 | Vydavateľ:Harper Collins
Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Now, in his first collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from the warmly personal to the wholly scient ific - Stephen Hawking is revealed variously as the ...
Cena:52.95€ | Autor:Reilly, Vanessa | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780194070256 | Vydavateľ:Oxford University Press
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, The Master and Margarita,, Rok vydania : 2018,.
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ...Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey''s Booker prize-winning ...
