In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe. We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years. Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time ... |
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"Far from the Danube" is the story of an extraordinary woman who rescued a heavily wounded knight from a battlefield in northern Bulgaria and managed to return him to a less than grateful family in Normandy, just as the Hundred Years War was about to start. Set against the national and religious conflicts of the early 15th century this is a powerful account of a hazardous journey into exile and of a love between Maria Iskra and Gilles Guiton that flew in the face of contemporary mores, given that as a knight of St John, Gilles had taken a vow of chastity. Based on a recorded meeting between English King Henry V ... |
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This heartwarming storybook introduces wild animals as endearing characters in their natural forest homes. Meet a sloth who loves to tell stories, a chameleon who wishes he was like the other animals, an owl who's very bossy, a deer who loves solving mysteries, and a frog who overcomes her timidness. Children will love the stories with their simple messages, and illustrations that will hold them spellbound. ... |
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Illustrated by Helen Allingham. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Far From the Madding Crowd" was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. 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. ... |
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Compiled and edited by Nevena Dishlieva-Krysteva. ... This anthology contains twenty-six personal tales of youthful adventures, ridiculous hairstyles, bootleg cassette tapes, mafia thugs, hitchhiking and guitar-playing, free falling, and hopes for a bright future. All this took place against the backdrop of political and social cataclysms during the most vertiginous decade in Bulgaria’s recent history. A chronicle of euphoria, aspirations, and painful collapse. Stories from the '90s is the third and final book in the series of themed anthologies published by ICU, which also include My Brother's Suitcase and ... |
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Over one million copies sold in Japan. ... A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week... Because how do ... |
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Translation by Angela Rodel. ... The world is a book, which someone is constantly recopying and rewriting. The world is a mirror, out of which peer ancient images. There are exercises in style. There are also exercises in meaning. "Love Stories from the Babylonian Library" is an exercise in both. In this book, the biblical tale of Bathsheba and David is retold through the idiom and worldview of six of the 20 th century's great writers - Jaroslav Hasek, Franz Kafka, Andrey Platonov, Jorge Luis Borges, J. D. Salinger и Robert M. Pirsing. Valery Stefanov is a professor of literary history at Sofia ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. Второ преработено и допълнено издание. ... Миши-Маши от Портокаловата къща е сборник с разкази за смелата мишка Миши-Маши, книга 4 от поредицата Белобрадият разказвач от автора Христо Сантулов. Миши-Маши е главната героиня и е най-голямата от трите мишлета, която се грижи всеотдайно за по-малката си сестричка Маша и малкото им братче Рони. Когато той е болен тя проявява огромна смелост и рискува живота си, за да му осигури храна. Със своята голяма доброта и съобразителност спечелва симпатиите на Дебелата хазяйка и даже успява да се сприятели с домашния котарак Зоро и ... |
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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" comes "Tales from the Cafe", a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Toshikazu Kawaguchi 's previous novel, we will be introduced to the man who goes back to see his best friend who ... |
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"A loving one is inside God, not inside religion. The eyes of Love are living Suns. Love is deeper than words. Difficulties, torments and trials cannot endure Love." Eleazar Harash ... |
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Тази книга поднася методите за връзка с ангелите и разчитането на техните послания към хората. Тя също ще ви даде отговори колко вида ангели има, как се хранят ангелите, от какво са изградени, както и кои са условията за това, ангелите да устроят твоя живот."Ангелите са звукът на лекотата и ароматът на светлината. Когато винаги ти е приятно със себе си - ти си в уюта на своята ангелска душа, ти имаш дом. Ангелите изливат мислите си в душата на човека. Ангелското сърце е Вселена на чистата Светлина. Ангелите познават Любовта само като духовно Сияние." Елеазар Хараш ... |
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Based on the story of Jules Verne. Text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould. ... It is 1865. Impey Barbicane and J.T. Maston are very good with guns and explosives, and want to do something important DS so they decide to build a big gun and use it to go to the Moon. But no-one has gone to the Moon before, and many people, like the great Captain Nicholl, believe that it cannot be done. What will happen when Barbicane and Nicholl meet? And will the men who try to go to the Moon come back alive? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language ... |