The secrets of our planet revealed. Built around a journey from the inner core to the Earth's surface, this sumptuous, fully illustrated volume covers a wide range of environments and processes in fascinating yet accessible detail. Elegant design combined with beautiful images to explore and explain Earth's natural riches. This is an informative, visually arresting introduction to planet Earth. The core of the book features large, detailed photographs of single objects, many of them small enough to be held in the hand, that each speak volumes about an aspect of Earth's environments and how they work. For ... |
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Превод от исландски Стефан Паунов. ... Млад мъж язди край ледници и горещи извори, пресича тъмни пространства и остри като пламък върхове. Това пътуване е неговото израстване и сбогуване с илюзиите. Придружава го мрачна история за кръвосмешение и убийство. Понеже си пръст и в пръстта ще се върнеш... Тор Вилхялмсон е роден в Единбург на 12 август 1925 г. Учи в Исландския университет през 1944 - 1946 г., в университета в Нотингам през 1946 - 1947 г. и в Сорбоната в Париж - 1947 - 1952 г. Тор е библиотекар в Националната библиотека на Исландия от 1953 до 1955 г. и работи за Националния театър от 1956 до 1959 г. Бил е в ... |
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The book is part of "Ladybird tales" collection. Illustration by Erica - Jane Waters. ... This beautiful hardback "Ladybird books" edition of "The Princess and the Pea" is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers. The tale is sensitively retold, retaining all the key parts of the story beginning with the princess finding her way to the castle one stormy night, through to her sleepless night on top of twenty mattresses! "Ladybird Tales" are based on the original Ladybird retellings by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind ... |
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Julie is a coked-up, burnt out thirty year old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in need of help. Keeping Sarah safe becomes top priority. Julie is desperate for a quick fix to break the dead end grind and save her friend. But her power grab sets off a deadly chain of events that puts Sarah - and the entire ... |
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Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers’ troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal ... |
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Чукът на Тор отново липсва. ... Богът на гръмотевиците има дразнещия навик да губи оръжието си, а то е най-могъщото в Деветте свята. Този път чукът не е просто изгубен, а е попаднал във вражески ръце. Ако Магнус Чейс и приятелите му не успеят бързо да го върнат, смъртните ще останат без защита срещу атаката на великаните, Рагнарок ще настъпи и Деветте свята ще изгорят! За съжаление, единственият човек, който може да уреди сделката за връщането на чука, е най-лошият враг на боговете - Локи. И цената, която иска в замяна, е твърде висока... ... |
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"Казвам се Красимир Николов - обществено познат повече като Краси Майски. Това е прякор, а тях обикновено ги измислят другите хора. Смятам се за късметлия, Майски звучи добре и си има своята история. Като си помисля, познавам мнозина с прякори, директно събуждащи предубеждения към носителите им. Е, случаят не е такъв и затова избрах на заглавната корица да бъда Краси Майски. Отдавна прекрачих в седмото си десетилетие на този свят, а това е възраст която дава основания за известни равносметки. Те пък обикновено са плод на натрупан житейски опит, а това е другата дума за спомени, нали? А спомените е полезно да се ... |
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Book Twelve of "The Wheel of Time" ... The final volume of "The Wheel of Time", A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan's editor his wife, Harriet McDougal, to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai'don and Rand al'Thor's ... |
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Historical novel. ... The historical plot encompasses the period between 1840 and 1885. The crossing of the paths of people of different nationalities knits together the entire novel. Bulgarians, Romanians and Serbs support each other in their struggle for independence. They meet diplomats and the kings of European monarchies in order to obtain entreaties and favorable attitude towards nascent Bulgarian uprising and the Serbian-Turkish War. And so the geographical borders of the novel prove to be infinite. Britain with its "eternal and perpetual interests", is portrayed; France, torn apart by internal ... |
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In search of a reward, Geralt brings the carcass of a slain creature to a small town where he is told it may be of use to the local sorcerer but the mage isn't who he is alleged to be. In hiding for his life, he requests Geralt's help in slaying the monster who seeks to murder him a young woman said to have been born under the Curse of the Black Sun a prophecy of inborn evil. He declares that she is more a monster than the creature presented before him. Geralt later encounters the woman, who asserts that it is the sorcerer who is the true monster committing unspeakable crimes at the behest of his superstitious ... |
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Illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love. ... "Kevin Crossley-Holland is the master." Neil Gaiman The gods of the Vikings come to life as never before in this extraordinary illustrated anthology by Carnegie Medal-winning author Kevin Crossley-Holland and artist Jeffrey Alan Love. These dramatic, enthralling and atmospheric tales are based on the Scandinavian myth cycle - one of the greatest and most culturally significant stories in the world - and tell of Odin with his one eye, Thor with his mighty hammer and Loki, the red-haired, shape-shifting trickster. In this stunning collection of myths, the strange world of ... |
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360 meditations on wisdom. Perseverance and the art of living. The beloved classic daily devotional of Stoic meditations - the only authorized print edition in the US and complete with a ribbon marker - with more than two million copies sold! Why have history's greatest minds - from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities - embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a ... |
