Exploring the changing styles and uses of bags from the Middle Ages to the present day, this gorgeous book, featuring specially commissioned photography of bags from the V&A`s world famous collections, includes everything from delicate drawstring purses to must-have designer handbags by the likes of Chanel, Moschino and Prada.
ISBN: 978-1-85177-536-1
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by “middle-class” jobs are a thing of the past. In "Bait and Switch", Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible résumé of a professional “in transition”, she attempts to land a “middle-class” job. She submits to career coaching, personality testing, and EST-like boot camps, and attends job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and—again and again—rejected. "Bait and...
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to Beauty, the resident femme fatale, and even Mr Druce, the unsuspecting Managing Director himself.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118835-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde`s two year`s hard labor in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresses perfectly Wilde`s belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119267-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание. Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие "огрехи": помарки, кляксы и т.п. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 9781149216866
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: май 2011
Leap into the world of ballet with this beautiful guide and accompanying DVD. From first position to pirouettes, from make-up to mime, this book is a practical introduction to the world of ballet for all budding ballerinas. Stunning step-by-step photography, shot at the English National Ballet School, and clear, concise text illustrate and explain basic steps, with advanced versions to inspire young dancers. The accompanying DVD shows many of the steps in action, and also features two complete dances.
ISBN: 978-1-4053-1980-5
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Todd Belknap, a field agent for Consular Operations, is cut loose from the agency after a job gone wrong. But when his best friend and fellow agent is abducted abroad and the government refuses to step in, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Andrea Bancroft learns she’s about to inherit six million dollars from a cousin she never met—with one condition: She must sit on the board of the Bancroft family foundation. Having been estranged from her father’s family for most of her life, Andrea is intrigued. But what exactly is the Bancroft’s involvement with “Genesis”, a mysterious person working to destabilize the geopolitical balance at the risk of millions of lives? In a series of devastating...
ISBN: 978-0-312-99070-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A description of life in the Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, US Army, from the time of their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory. Drawing on interviews, journals and letters, the author tells - often in their own words - the story of these American heroes.
When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. Then, as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into a deadly deal of violence and murder.
ISBN: 978-0-425-23775-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
In January 2009, a new American president moved into the White House. But who is Barack Obama? What do we know about his family and his early life? Why did he want to be a politician? And how did he get the top job? This is his story.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6126-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly narrates the course of the dramatic and brutal war between the German and Russians on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. From the invasion of Russia mounted on Midsummer`s Day 1941 and the German Army`s advance to the outskirts of Moscow, to the terrible turning point of Stalingrad and the eventual defeat of the Nazis at the Fall of Berlin after the hard years of fighting and advance by the Red Army, this is epic history narrated by a master.
Barry Edelstein gathers together the timeless Shakespearean wit and wisdom that`s right for the big moments in life-and some of the not-so-big moments as well - and presents it in accessible and entertaining terms. Selections are grouped by occasion and presented with lively and succinct background material. For public speakers or letter writers hoping to enhance their remarks with some choice Shakespearean gem, "Shakespeare for All Occasions" provides nuts and bolts tips on pronunciation, delivery, and emphasis, and offers suggestions and examples that illustrate ways in which musings from the Bard can be woven into a simple and elegant speech, missive, or meditation. This `how-to` material makes "Shakespeare for All Occasions" stand...
"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan`s vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious black residue from a small-plane crash. But most troubling of all are the bones… Tempe`s daughter`s new boyfriend invites them to a picnic - a pig pickin` - in the North Carolina countryside, where a cache of bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can`t reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter - and how far they will go to keep her from uncovering the truth.
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: • How a war started when a Brit insisted on sitting on a stool? • Who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls? • Why a Brit soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe? Discover all the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-407104-21-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
Dickens`s first historical novel is set against the infamous `No Popery` riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who would exploit these for political ends, are Dickens`s targets. His vivid account of the riots at the heart of the novel is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism. A typically rich cast of comic characters, from the snivelling Miss Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted `Barnaby Rudge` of the title, ensures high entertainment.
ISBN: 1-85326-739-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
It`s carnival time under the sea! Join all of your underwater friends for games, goodies, and rides galore! This incredible hardbound book features eight fully-illustrated spreads of aquatic antics and amazing pop-ups, with enough hilarious details to keep you exploring again and again. Sales of this book benefit Conservation International.
Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the ‘culture of excess’ in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in Stephen Calloway’s consideration of the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical. The author examines early examples of Baroque excess – by the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and others – as well as the darker Baroque spirit of the wartime Neo-Romantics or film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman. Tracing the Baroque tendency into the 1990s, he shows how ideas have cross-fertilized, providing links between such unlikely bedfellows as Leon Bakst and Luis Bunuel, Coco Chanel and Nigel Coates, Liberace and Lacroix....
ISBN: 0714838608
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satirical works such as "Vanity Fair" that showed an ironic representation of the British society of those times. Set in Europe near the end of eighteen century, the novel "Barry Lyndon" tells the story of Redmond Barry of Bally Barry, a clever young man and a member of Irish gentry, who tries his luck in every way possible. For the decades he travels all around Europe trying on the roles of a soldier, gambler, and even a vagrant. After that, he reaches the top after becoming a part of the English aristocracy by marrying an English heiress.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07821-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018