The Future History of the Arctic
`For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine - these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which...
Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be...
From Ernest Hemingway`s Preface: `There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see,...
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian emigres gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns...
A translation by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson of Platonov`s dystopian novel. It describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.
In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo`s remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
The Family is the belated fruit of Mario Puzo`s life-long obsession with the Borgias, whom the creator of Don Corleone saw as just another family whose family business happened to involve killing people. He never got...
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now, he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle...
Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn\'t synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came...
What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it....
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and...
The Garden of England from the Air
The counties of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, sometimes called the "garden of England", contain some of the most beautiful buildings and lush landscape this country has to offer, and seen from the air it attains...
This work features a young woman`s dream, an old man`s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he...
