The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London ... |
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There is less than one hundred Thracian stone-built under-tumular constructions in Bulgaria that are usually called tombs. Most of them were found half-demolished or were demolished subsequently. Thirteen such buildings were constructed in the Kazanlak valley (fig. 1). Their number rises to fifteen, it we add another two constructions, which are not so impressive but possess a high scientific value. They are concentrated within a limited geographic region and in terms of statistics they are considerably more than any other area of Bulgaria. Taking this into consideration and knowing that some fifty years ago the only ... |
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Winner of The 2023 International Booker Prize. ... In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a clinic for the past that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a time shelter, hoping to escape from the horrors ... |
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Once again a New York Times bestseller! First the original edition, and now the new Final Edition. An essential new edition - revised and updated from cover to cover of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 400 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of ... |
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За да запалите двигателя на колата, ви е необходим ключ. А с комплекта от "Maisto Tech" това не е никакъв проблем. Той съдържа количка и ключ, който изстрелва количката с леко натискане на бутон! Внимание! На снимките са показани комплекти с различни колички. При поръчка ще получите количка с дизан, избран на произволен принцип. ... |
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Умален модел на военен учебен самолет - BAe Hawk T1A - използван от Кралските военновъздушни и други световни сили не само за учебен, но и като боен самолет. Hawk T1A e модифицирана версия на Hawk T1, която е предназначена да замени Hawker hunter в Кралските военновъздушни сили. Носи две ракети въздух-въздух - AIM-9L Sidewinder. През 1980 военновъздушните сили на Британия започват да използват самолетите Hawk в т. нар. Смесена бойна сила (Mixed fighter force - MMF). Идеята е да прикачат 3 или 4 самолета Хоук до Фантом или Торнадо инсептър, които ще ги ръководят и отведат с помощта на радар до вражеските цели. ... |
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Умален модел на малък платноход, използван от френски пирати. Корабът има три мачти. Построен е от Денис де Дюнкерк и излиза в открито море през 1776 г. Корабът е пленен и превзет от англичани на 17 юни 1778 по време на битка. Оригинално описание: The lugger was a kind of ship used by the French pirates of the Revolution and of the Empire. It is a type of ship equipped as a “bragozzo”, with 3 masts, a very long bowsprit, several jibs, topsails and some foretopsails. It was built by the Denys de Dunkerque and launched in 1776. The career of this ship was short because it was captured by the English on 17th June 1778 ... |
