Contemporary / British English When Andrew Manson starts work as a doctor he discovers some unpleasant facts about the medical profession. He struggles against a system that seems to value money more than curing illness. But the system is extremely powerful. Will he win his battle?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8240-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is Volume Three of the "Border Trilogy". In "Cities of the Plain", two men marked by the boyhood adventures of "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Crossing" now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. `In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51120-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From former top trainer Charlie Brooks comes a thriller of horseracing, dirty dealing, big business and a test of loyalty under extreme pressure… General Shalakov, brutal Russian oligarch, has business interests across many continents. Yet he craves prestige in the West. His ambition is to corner the thoroughbred stallion market in Europe. Massively rich, he is prepared to bribe, torture and murder to achieve his goal. Tipper O’Reilly, apprentice jockey, learns the hard way that survival is as much about what happens off the track as in the saddle. And he’s about to be drawn into a whole different world. Coerced into working at Shalakov’s state-of-the-art training complex miles from Moscow, Tipper has no concept of what`s really...
ISBN: 978-0-00-728640-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание (издательство "Rochester, N.Y., The Lawyers\' co-operative publishing Co."). 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. Эта книга будет изготовлена в соответствии с Вашим заказом по технологии Print-on-Demand компанией ООО ""Книга по Требованию""....
ISBN: 1-432682-64-4
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2010
On a far future Earth, mankind`s achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?
The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. The legendary monster has survived the centuries to become a haunted and heroic figure dedicated to battling the truly monstrous evil that has also survived the years: the cruel genius who gave him life, Dr Frankenstein. His name is Deucalion. Having failed to kill his maker, scarred and strange, he lives with monks in Tibet until news reaches him of the next generation of Dr Frankenstein`s monsters. He travels to New Orleans where they are wreaking havoc, and where a cool, tough cop, Detective Carson O`Connor, doesn`t know she is pursuing killers that are more - and less - than human. But Deucalion does....
ISBN: 978-0-00-720312-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues - and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon. What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith`s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She`s willing to do anything...
Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For (Лагу is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing is not just her own life, hut Jace's soul. Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost? What price is too high to pay, even for love?
During the Nazis` brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying woth an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter`s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible. By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary...
NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau`s instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, designed as a last refuge for the human race. But when the storerooms run out of food and the lights begin to fail, it`s up to two teens, Lina and Doon, to decipher the fragments of an ancient parchment and find a way out of Ember.
Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate, Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of an execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter`s wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die. In the depths of the coldest winter in history, through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation, man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate, lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside...
ISBN: 978-0-340-82231-9
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
Antoni Gaudi’s Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, the Grand Central Terminal by Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore and the Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon are all instantly recognizable buildings and symbols of national and metropolitan pride. They are, however, much more than just civic monuments – they have set new standards, breaking with all precedent in their unique three-dimensional forms. Each building is an enduring source of inspiration for students and fellow architects, and bears witness to the free-ranging imagination and genius of its architect. Together, they provide valuable insights into the role of civic architecture.
ISBN: 071483873X
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what`s normal when you`re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? In this sequel to "City of Bones" Clare lures readers back into the dark grip of New York City`s Downworld.
Читателю "City" Алессандро Барико предстоит увлекательное приключение: проходя лабиринт выстроенного автором города-романа, познакомиться с его реальными и воображаемыми персонажами, синусоидами сюжетов, рожденных воображением тринадцатилетнего вундеркинда и загадочной девушки Шатци. Он должен решить, что в этом призрачном виртуальном калейдоскопе круче - захватывающий вестерн, дворовый футбол,...
ISBN: 978-5-389-02994-1
Издательство:
Иностранка
Дата выхода: январь 2012
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, A Unique to break through Diaspar`s stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-763-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
When the bones of a boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories from his past. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child`s identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he won`t be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom - until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1682-0
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
ISBN: 978-0-330-53419-2
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Their hidden world is about to be When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it`s hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary. Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary`s mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon. But why would demons be interested...
ISBN: 978-1-4169-5507-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1909 года (издательство "Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company"). 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. Эта книга будет изготовлена в соответствии с Вашим заказом по технологии Print-on-Demand компанией ООО ""Книга по Требованию""....
ISBN: 1-436807-61-1
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2010
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would...
Clairvoyant Cassie Palmer has inherited new magical powers - including the ability to travel through time. But it`s a whole lot of responsibility she`d rather not have. Now she`s the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her - and her magic - over to their side. But one particular master vampire didn`t ask what Cassie wanted before putting a claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn`t know if what she feels for him is real or
ISBN: 978-0-451-46152-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011