The Art of the Assassin - Kevin Sullivan

Anatomy drawing school: Animal

The Anatomy Drawing School recognizes the prominent role of the anatomy for the fine arts. The familiar high quality of the illustrations and anatomic content

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions. Pamela Dalziel's new introduction incorporates

Ceausescu and the Securitate. Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989

The author draws on the memoirs, published and unpublished, of victims of the 1950s terror and on his own interviews with prominent dissidents. The result

Illustrated Alice

A collection of stories ideal for young readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme

Theft of a Nation. Romania since Communism

Since 1989 Romania has gone from communist isolation under the megalomaniac Nicolae Ceauescu to being a key player in America’s war against terrorism. This book

Far from the Madding Crowd

Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young

The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction

The thrill Woolf got from these stories is readily apparent to the reader. She wrote them in defiance of convention, with a heady feeling of

Dictionar vizual Englez-Roman

Contine peste 6000 de notiuni si index alfabetic detaliat. Este ideal pentru calatorii in strainatate, afaceri sau studiu individual

Oxford. Dictionar scolar englez-roman

La scoala sau acasa, dictionarul este un instrument de nelipsit. Grafica: Peter Bull Editor

The Way to Paradise

'Vargas Llosa's storytelling gifts are pretty much unrivalled, and they don't desert him this time either. His recreation of the tactile, sensuous, brilliant, whiffy details

Selected Poetry

Wordsworth's verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of pleasure,

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby's life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he

Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have

Art & Architecture Andalusia

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in

Smoothies: Refreshing, healthy & delicious

Each recipe comes with a short informative text with background information on, for example, the nutritional content of the fruits used and tips on preparation or modification. A

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

The best-value edition, combining Northanger Abbey with three minor works, two early, one late, showing her originality across the full range of her career.New introduction

Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up

Feast for Crows: Book 4 of a Song of Ice and Fire

Autori: George R.R. Martin, George R R Martin

Selected Poetry

The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the

The Complete Short Stories

Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They

On Liberty and Other Essays

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The  Subjection of Women show Mill applying

Complete Poetry

A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite

Art & Architecture Berlin

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and

Icecream

How about some refreshing coconut ice cream? Or a lusciously creamy chocolate ice cream made from real chocolate? The author shares all her best advice

The Thirty-Nine Steps

The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication and has been filmed three times, most notably by

Art & Architecture: Egypt

Travel Guide and Art Guide in one. Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated

Art & Architecture Louvre

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and

Art & Architecture Musée d'Orsay

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and

Art Pocket: Digital Art

Packed with information, the most important facts and background stories are presented at a glance

Art Pocket Street Art

Packed with information, the most important facts and background stories are presented at a glance

SimsalaGrimm - Hans im Glück

Auf ihrem fliegenden Marchenbuch landen Yoyo und Doc Croc direkt bei dem jungen Mullersburschen Hans. Der bekommt von seinem Meister fur seine Arbeit einen Klumpen

SimsalaGrimm - Frau Holle

Das fliegende Marchenbuch bringt Yoyo und Doc Croc in die Marchenwelt von Simsala. Dort treffen sie die fleisige Anna. Als Anna in einen verzauberten Brunnen

SimsalaGrimm - Aladin und die Wunderlampe

Auf ihrem fliegenden Marchenbuch reisen Yoyo und Doc Croc in die geheimnisvolle Marchenwelt von Simsala, wo sie fantastische Abenteuer erleben. Diesmal helfen sie Aladin, den

Animal Farm

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the

Del amor y otros demonios

El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel Garcia Marquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para

Patty Diphusa

Patty Diphusa, estrella internacional (eso dice ella) de fotonovelas porno, es invitada por el director de un posmoderno magazine a relatar sus memorias. Patty no

The Brooklyn Follies

The Brooklyn Follies tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced and

Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada

Parece que los ojos se te hubieran volado y parece que un beso te cerrara la boca. Como todas las cosas estan llenas de mi

Cien sonetos de amor

«Con mucha humildad—escribe Neruda—hice estos sonetos de madera, les di esta opaca y pura substancia», que contrapone a las «rimas que sonaron como plateria, cristal

Hunger Games

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

Tandy Angel is a whip-smart prodigy and a magnificently wealthy heiress. She's got secrets- some even she doesn't understand.She's damaged, the product of her parents'

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.It

The Razing of Romania's Past

The programme, only halted by the regime's downfall at the end of 1989, has meant the almost complete destruction of at least 29 towns, with

Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality (Basic Art)

Les portfolios TASCHEN proposent des impressions de grande qualite qui ne demandent qu'a etre encadrees. Chaque portfolio contient 14 reproductions en grand format, chacune decrite

Lord of the Flies

Autor: William Golding

Selected Poetry

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling,

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness.

Selected Poetry

As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist,

My Name is Red

A thrilling murder mystery, My Name is Red is also a stunning meditation on love, artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West.‘Fabulous ...

Selected Poetry

This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Keats's major works, demonstrates the remarkable growth in maturity of his verse, from early poems

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of

Silent House

Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life

The Remains of the Day

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside

Baiatul cu ziare

Editie bilingva romana-englezaIn cartierul Central Gardens din Memphis, a aparut peste vara un nou baiat cu ziare. Se pricepe de minune sa arunce ziarele pe

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender

Shroud for a Nightingale

But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and

A Mind to Murder

As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming facade.

Ghid Romania - engleza

Up to date and easy to use: Historical landmarks, The Ten Best Places to Go in Romania,  The Ten Most Interesting Romanian Experiences, Essential fact

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony

I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape, he said, or pass my hand over breast or back

Never Let Me Go

Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham