Dan Pearson's irresistible enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge overflow in a book teeming with tips to inspire your own space, be it a city window box or country field. Bringing you a new-found appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed, reading Natural Selection is a deeply restorative experience.
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Kniha v anglickém jazyce... An FBI Thriller. When Father Michael Joseph is viciously murdered in his San Francisco church, his identical twin brother, FBI agent Dane Carver, along with husband-and-wife team, Savich and Sherlock, is determined to find the monster responsible...
Kniha v anglickém jazyce... A Stephanie Plum holiday novel. It's five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There's not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment—and there's a strange man in her kitchen...
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Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College. Contents: Introduction, The Merchant of Venice, Notes, Glossary, Appendix (The Sources of the Play: Shakespeare and Venice: Usury: Some points in the Trial-Scene.), Hints On Metre, Hints on Shakespeare's English, Addenda, Index.
The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov’s last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky.
There was a time, not long ago, when all Zara wanted was to have Nick back. Rescuing him from Valhalla should have made all her problems disappear. He's Bedford’s greatest warrior, not to mention Zara’s true soulmate. Except Nick isn't the person he used to be. And neither is Zara. She’s a pixie queen. Astley’s queen...
Tommy’s Honour is golf’s first father-and-son story. Old Tom Morris grew up a stone’s throw from St Andrews
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Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing - if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him?
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life exploring in extreme conditions. The loss of several fingers to frostbite is a testament to the horrors he has been exposed to at such perilous temperatures. His limits of endurance have been tested to the maximum and he deservedly holds the title of ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’.
Back from summer vacation, Kyousuke and his classmates prepare for the Athletic Festival. However, Purgatorium Remedial Academy is no normal school, and the students' physical activities could lead to broken bones — or even death! And if that isn't enough to crush his spirits, Renko’s mother pays a surprise visit...
Written in a clear and accessible style, Tolkien: Author of the Century reveals why all of these books will be timeless. Taking issue with the uninformed criticism that has often been levelled at Tolkien and fantasy in general. Professor Shippey offers a new approach to Tolkien, to fantasy and to the importance of language in literature...
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The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga...
