A Miscellany of Festive Stories. Edited by Becky Brown. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition is introduced by Ned Halley and features charming illustrations by Alice Ercle Hunt. Round About the Christmas Tree is the perfect Christmas gift for booklovers as all facets of the festive season are represented here in one gorgeous volume. This anthology shows what an ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library ; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's original illustrations and an afterword by novelist Paul Bailey. Proud to be ensconced with his wife Carrie at The Laurels in the desirable London suburb of Holloway, bank clerk ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and mind-expanding powers of opium. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library , a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by biographer, critic and academic Dr Frances Wilson. Thomas De Quincey takes us on a journey from his grammar school childhood to his homeless adolescence in Wales, ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, crafts a marionette from a strange piece of talking wood and inadvertently brings the mischievous Pinocchio - a walking, talking, wooden boy - into the world. The naughty, selfish puppet heads off into the world and encounters all manner of unusual and dangerous characters on his adventures, undergoing a series of fiendishly imaginative trials - among them being swallowed by a giant dogfish and turned into a donkey - that will lead him to self-knowledge. Along the way he will be helped by a beautiful fairy, a talking cricket and ... |
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With more than 280 entries, this architectural A - Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period spanning the 19th to the 21st century, pioneering architects are featured with a portrait, concise biography, as well as a description of her or his important work. Like a bespoke global architecture tour, you'll travel from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Gaudi's Palau Güell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardi's sports and leisure center in a former factory site in São Paulo. You&# ... |
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The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern homes that could be both easily replicated and readily affordable to the average American. Concentrated on the Los Angeles area, the Case Study Houses included 36 model homes commissioned from such major architects of the day as Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones, and Ralph Rapson. Their criteria included "using, ... |
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Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with emigre Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous "silicon roundabout", Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son. Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the ... |
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With a new introduction. Now a Netflix original series. ... What makes a serial killer? John Douglas has looked evil in the eye, and made a vocation of understanding it. In "Mindhunter" the FBI special agent who was the inspiration for Jack Crawford's character in "The Silence of the Lambs" (and who lent the film's makers his expertise) explains how he invented and established the practice of criminal profiling. He also discusses individual case histories including those of Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and the Atlanta child murders. With the fierce page-turning power of a ... |
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Това е Хули, котката на известната актриса Доли Блу, която изчезна (котката, не актрисата). В града са изчезнали още стотици котки, което си е същинска мистерия. Детективът Филип и неговият помощник, кучето Дарвин, са наети да я разгадаят. Случаят се оказва много по-заплетен от очакваното и тримата (кой е третият, предстои да разберете) започват разследване, което ще ги въвлече в опасно приключение. Ще успеят ли да спасят себе си, Коледата, а и целия свят? Книгата е част от поредицата Children's Books на издателство Ентусиаст . Илюстрации - Пенко Гелев . ... |
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Сърцата на тримата открива нова насока в творчеството на Джек Лондон . Романът е завършен точно преди смъртта на писателя и е публикуван през 1919 - 1920 г. в New York Journal. Романът е по идея на Чарлз Годард. Младият потомък на пирата Хенри Морган, който му е оставил богато наследство, иска да намери съкровището на своя прародител. По пътя той среща своя далечен братовчед, също с името Хенри Морган. Заедно те ще открият опасни приключения, непознати земи и любов. През 1992 г. романът е кинематизиран и пуснат под същото заглавие като телевизионен мини-сериал в Русия и Украйна."Положително никога досега не съм ... |
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Защо се влюбват глупаците? Защо годишната заплата на един мъж расте средно с 240 долара за всеки сантиметър от ръста му? Как оптическите илюзии ни позволяват да надникнем в човешката душа? Свежият, дързък, понякога дори скандален психолог от МТИ Стивън Пинкър отговаря на всички тези въпроси и на още много други в своето страхотно забавно, впечатляващо изследване на съвременната наука за мозъка. Пинкър твърди, че Дарвин плюс хитроумни компютърни програми са ключът към разбирането на самите нас - но успява да вмъкне уместно и Стар Трек, Междузвездни войни, история, литература, У. К. Фийлдс, Моцарт, Мерилин Монро, ... |
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1937 г. Кейти и нейната съквартирантка Ив отброяват последните минути на отиващата си година в джаз бар в Ню Йорк, без да знаят, че стрелките на часовника препускат неумолимо към бъдеще, което не са си представяли. Само след миг те ще срещнат човека, който ще промени живота им завинаги - Тинкър Грей, очарователния банкер с теменуженосини очи. Дотогава единственото, което Кейти знае, е: Как човек да се промъкне в киното без пари и как да те почерпят с питие. Как да достигне осемдесет думи в минута, пет хиляди в час и девет милиона в година. Че ако все още съумяваш да се изгубиш в роман на Чарлз Дикенс , всичко може ... |
