Play Dead (MARSONS, Angela)

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

This workbook will introduce your child to grade five vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises in a step-by-step manner.

With 680 illustrations, 582 in colour. This comprehensive volume of over 200 projects - from the earliest experimentations to product design, from speculative follies to large-scale built works, including the London Aquatics Centre, the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul and the Dominion Office Building in Moscow - is a testament to the depth, range and excitement of Zaha Hadid's vision.

Dear Carys, Zoe and Andrea, Come and join me for my fortieth birthday adventure weekend, full of mysteries and surprises the like of which you can’t imagine. When Joanne’s friends reluctantly accept an invitation to her birthday party, it quickly becomes clear that there is more to this weekend than they are expecting. One of them is hiding a secret...

Your ultimate guide to overcoming losses and injuries and achieving greatness on and off the field. 

These Norwegian church paintings on wood display a rich brilliance of colour and design and a tenderness of religious feeling that are quite unlike other styles of the Gothic period.

Have you ever wondered what Hungarian goulash is doing in the Czech Republic? Would you like to know where one of Europe’s largest museums dedicated to washing machines is located? And how about the several places in this quiet, often-overlooked little country where you are welcome to come on over and look for the long-lost treasure no one else has been able to find?

Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 1579. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott. In two Volumes. Vol. II. Authorized edition. 

The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Revised edition with new material. By Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap, with video content produced by Robert A. Compton. 

In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable insider indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund... 

This text systematically presents the basics of quantum mechanics, emphasizing the role of Lie groups, Lie algebras, and their unitary representations. The mathematical structure of the subject is brought to the fore, intentionally avoiding significant overlap with material from standard physics courses in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. 

Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded.

Nicholas Lash shows how the main contours of the Christian doctrine of God may be mapped onto principal features of our culture and its predicaments. Nicholas Lash considers three dimensions of our contemporary predicament: globalization, a crisis of language, and the pain and darkness of the world, in relation to the doctrine of God as Spirit, Word, and Father.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of our future in space and of humanity's ultimate destiny.

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...

Kniha v anglickém a čínském jazyce. Kniha obsahuje básně v čínštině s fonetickým přepisem do latinky a anglickým překladem. Součástí jsou také dobová vyobrazení s jejich popisem v angličtině a čínštině.