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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Произходът на богатството и неравенството. ... Каква е била причината човечеството да тъне в нищета през по-голямата част от историята? Какво е предизвикало огромната трансформация в жизнените стандарти от последните два века, бързия икономически растеж, по-високия жизнен стандарт, увеличаването на продължителността на живота? И какво е довело до огромните разлики в развитието в различните части на света и сред различните култури и нации днес? Отговорите на тези въпроси могат да преобърнат начина, по който разглеждаме миналото и по който мислим за бъдещето. В Пътят на човечеството израелският икономист и мислител Одед ... |
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"Двадесет години по-късно" е продължението на романа "Тримата мускетари" от Александър Дюма - баща . ... "Двадесет години по-късно" е публикуван е за пръв път през 1845 г. В него са развити характерите на главните герои от първата част на трилогията, които сега са разделени от политическите си убеждения - докато Атос и Арамис подкрепят каузата на принцовете, Д’Артанян и Портос са на страната на Мазарини. Въпреки това неразделните приятели отново се събират и оказват помощ на английския крал Чарлз I. Появяват се и нови герои като Раул (виконт дьо Бражелон), синът на Атос. Действието се ... |
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Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his hometown of Glasgow during his lifetime, his bold new blend of simplicity and poetic detail inspired modernists across Europe. Mackintosh's avant-garde approach embraced a variety of media as well as fresh stylistic devices. His multi-faceted oeuvre incorporated architecture, furniture, graphic design, landscapes, and flower studies. He embraced strong lines, elegant proportions, and natural motifs, combining an ... |
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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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This is the Taschen 25 - Special edition! The Case Study House program (1945 - 66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was "Arts & Architecture" editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's ... |
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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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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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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, ... |
