The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell

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

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.

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

Narratives of Singleness Fluid Female Identities in Postmodern Times

The author's interdisciplinary study combines feminist ideology and theory with narratology and a social-psychoanalytical perspective in order to achieve a refined analysis of the female

Eat, Pray, Love

'It's what I'm giving all my girl friends' Julia Roberts 'Every woman should read it' Elle Macpherson 'I adore it' Sophie Dahl 'I loved it

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built. Though little

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

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter about Almost Everything

The Freakonomics books have come to stand for something: challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emotion to answer questions and learning to unravel 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

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

My Name is Red

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by

Revenge

A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits.

Locked On (Jack Ryan Book 14)

Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even

A Murder of Quality

Being the second novel by John le Carre starring George Smiley, it is a departure from the world of espionage to that of a very

Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or

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'

El tunel

El amor ilimitado truncado por un engano convertira el corazon de un hombre en un pedazo de duro y frio hielo y colocara en sus

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

A Certain Justice

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her

Aventuras de Don Quijote de la Mancha. Versión infantil

Para ello, una vez seleccionados los capitulos mas emblematicos, pero manteniendo siempre su hilo conductor, el lenguaje, depurado de toda afectacion y dificultad semantica, facilita

Amuleto

La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga, un crimen atroz y lejano. Auxilio, uruguaya de mediana edad, se oculta en los lavabos de

Dictionar vizual Englez-Roman

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

El peregrino de Compostela

 En compania de su guia espiritual, el misterioso y enigmatico Petrus, Paulo se enfrenta a una serie de pruebas y ejercicios, conoce a figuras que

Robert Doisneau

Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's

Oxford. Dictionar scolar englez-roman

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

A Taste for Death

One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up

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

In Praise of the Stepmother

In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence

El último cuaderno

Nos acerca al mundo de Kafka, o a la inevitable tristeza de Charlot, o nos describe la soberbia aventura de coronar la cima de la

Portugheza pentru incepatori cu CD audio

Asigurand exersarea lexicului util unei viitoare calatorii in capatul celalalt al Europei, in Portugalia, poate chiar in mai indepartata Brazilie, sau, in orice caz, in

Tierra de nadie

El presente puro, sin vestigios del pasado ni atisbos del futuro, y la accion, casi siempre nimia, caracterizan a estos personajes que circulan por esa

España en los diarios de mi vejez

Este es un libro que se lee con el deleite de quien sacia la sed. Un texto hecho de pinceladas de infancia, de lecturas, de

Esio Trot

Autori: Roald Dahl, QUENTIN BLAKE

Tiempo de un centenario

Escrita en la decada de 1970, Tiempo de uncentenario –que ha servido de inspiracion para una pelicula de Francis Ford Coppola– auna la ciencia-ficcion y

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

RO-KIT. Identitate romaneasca in 50 de componente

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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

Masters of Italian Art: Caravaggio

The volumes in this series provide unique portraits of European art history. Authoritative texts illuminate the decisive stages in the artists' lives and the development

The Noise of Time

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending.In 1936,

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