The Rough Guide to Nepal is the most passionate and knowledgeable guide to this inspiring country. Discover Nepal's highlights with stunning photography, itineraries and colour-coded maps, plus detailed, up-to-date descriptions of the country's best restaurants, lodges, shops and hotels, for all budgets. There's solid practical advice on what to see and do, from rooftop bars in Kathmandu to...

ARCHITECTURE TODAY to przegląd 140 projektów 40 najważniejszych współczesnych pracowni architektonicznych z całego świata. Obok znanych, np.: FORM4 Architecture, Querkraft, RZAPS czy UNStudio, książka prezentuje wschodzące talenty współczesnej architektury, których projekty są już rozpoznawalne i szeroko komentowane. Każde z tych rozsianych po całym świecie biur, w szczególny...

Co kupujesz komuś na 500. urodziny? Araminta rozpaczliwie próbuje wymyślić idealny prezent dla swojego ulubionego ducha, Sir Horace'a, ale trudno jest kupić prezenty dla kogoś, kto nie ma konkretnych zainteresowań i ciała. Wtedy genialny pomysł prowadzi do kłopotów, gdy wszystko nie idzie zgodnie z planem, a Araminta zastanawia się, czy kiedykolwiek jeszcze zobaczy Horace'a lub swoją...

W prowincjonalnym, amerykańskim Hog Town trwają poszukiwania nastoletniej Natalie. Gdy policja znajduje w lesie pusty, płytki grób, atmosfera w miasteczku gęstnieje, a mieszkańcy spodziewają się inwazji żywych trupów... The Rotten Town to wyjątkowa książka do nauki języka angielskiego (American English). Dzięki lekturze przerażająco wciągającej historii...

TW TYM TYGODNIU publikujemy nasz coroczny przewodnik prognostyczny na nadchodzący rok, The World Ahead 2024. Nasi korespondenci i zaproszeni eksperci zastanawiają się nad stanem demokracji , ponieważ kraje, w których mieszka połowa światowej populacji, przeprowadzają wybory krajowe; narastającym konfliktem i niepokojem w coraz bardziej wielobiegunowym świecie; a także nad wyzwaniami i...

Gdy Serena zaczyna pracę jako stewardessa, jej związek z Gregiem zostaje wystawiony na próbę. Kiedy pewnego dnia lot powrotny z Pragi do Londynu zostaje odwołany, znużona wyrzutami Grega Serena postanawia odwiedzić Phila, swojego dawnego nauczyciela muzyki, obecnie znanego pianistę. Spotkanie wzbudza w obojgu niepohamowaną falę pożądania... Serena&s Nocturnes to powieść erotyczna dla...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. Now a major motion picture starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman. Stephen Chbosky's new film Wonder, starring Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts is out now. Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the...

With an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada. This edition includes both Volumes One and Two. Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation....

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes...

Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world...

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste...

With an Introduction by Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University. In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there...

From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGOTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need- a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book' PANDORA SYKES'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON'It's 365 pages of pure exhilaration'...

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the...

‘Wendy Wood is the world’s foremost expert in the field, and this book is essential’ – Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit. What if you could harness the extraordinary power of your unconscious mind, which already determines so much of what you do, to achieve your goals? Shockingly, we spend nearly half our day repeating things we've done in the past without thinking...

Children's Classic Stories is a timeless collection of fairytales, fables and folktales. Many you will know by heart, others you will be familiar with and some will be new to you. Charming illustrations by renowned children's artists bring to life much-loved characters such as Dick Whittington and Snow White--and introduce many new ones-- to keep you entertained time and time again. This...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, 'In a German Pension', appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The...

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With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome,...

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted...