Книги жанра Daedalus Books
Название: Monstrous Regiment
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2003
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War has broken out again on Terry Pratchett's Discworld and, to no one's surprise, it is started by the small, insufferably arrogant, ferociously patriotic duchy of Borogravia, which prides itself on its ability to beat up on its neighbors even for the tiniest imagined slight. But the country is rapidly running out of young men to carry on the fight, so Sergeant Jackrum is inclined not to notice when Polly Perks dons her brother's clothes, stuffs a pair of socks down her pants, and enlists in the hopes of finding her missing brother. With no training, «Oliver» Perks is sent off with a regiment that includes a vampire (off the blood), a werewolf, and an Igor — very handy for stitching legs and such back on.
Название: Birth of America
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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A provocative account of colonial America, exploring the key events, individuals, and themes of this pivotal period. From the fearful crossing of the stormy Atlantic to the growth of the early settlements, to the French and Indian War and the unrest of the 1760s, Polk brilliantly traces the progress of the colonies to the point where the break with England was inevitable.
Название: The Tall Book of Fairies
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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Laminated with a pink cover and illustrated with authentically detailed watercolors in a timeless style, this tall, slim book retells ten classic fairy tales for all ages: «Aladdin and the Magic Lamp», «The Frog Prince», «Peter Pan», «Pinocchio», «Thumbelina» and five traditional tales are each told in a few pages, with pictures reminiscent of such treasuries from decades ago.
Название: Chronicles of Narnia Pop-Up
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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C.S. Lewis's beloved Narnia chronicles spring to life here in the dramatic pop-up tableaus of paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop-up spread, rendered in spectacular detail with special effects; in the scene for «The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe», Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmund are emerging from the wardrobe under a snowy, sparkling forest as Mr. Tumnus walks nearby. Lift the flap to see the Witch on her sleigh. Like Sabuda's other wonderful creations, this book for youngsters up to 8 is best enjoyed with an adult.
Название: InterWorld
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces — armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions. When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes the only possible choice: to join an army of his own, an army of versions of himself from different dimensions who all share his amazing power and who are all determined to fight to save the worlds. Master storyteller Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award-winning science-fiction writer Michael Reaves team up to create a dazzling tale of magic, science, honor, and the destiny of one very special boy — and all the others like him.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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Virtually all versions of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are derived from Thomas Malory's «Morte d'Arthur», one of the most renowned works of English literature. Yet the author, a 15th-century knight, has remained an enigma, while the scant historical records imply he was a criminal, imprisoned for rape, ambush, and attacks on abbeys. Historian, writer, and broadcaster Christina Hardyment uncovers a different Malory, however, from new historical research and a critical examination of the only known manuscript of his book. In this history, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of medieval manuscripts and miniatures, she describes a soldier and a connoisseur of literature, who served under Henry V and remained loyal to the Lancasters in the War of the Roses. Imprisoned largely for his political stance, Malory wished for and wrote of a nobler time.
Название: Modern European History
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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Master Your Coursework with Collins College Outlines The Collins College Outline for Modern European History begins with the emergence of Modern Europe in 1450, continues through the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of European Revolution, the era of the Nation State, both World Wars, the post-World War II Superpower Spheres, and concludes with Europe's current trend toward an ultramodern existence.
Название: Wilt in Nowhere
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004
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Henry Wilt is back. The hapless community college teacher is satirist Tom Sharpe's most famous character, introduced in the eponymous 1976 novel «Wilt» and the subsequent television film of the same name that starred Griff Rhys Jones. In this latest misadventure, Wilt's fifth, the expected impossible scenarios, outsized characters, knotty plot twists, and buckets of sexual innuendo abound.
Название: An Instance of the Fingerpost
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1998
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An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment — intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.
Название: Turkish Gambit
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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In this third Erast Fandorin mystery, set in 1877, Russia is at war with the Ottoman Empire, and the brilliant detective is searching the Russian army for a Turkish spy. He is followed by a young woman with revolutionary ideals, who has disguised herself as a boy to find her fiancé at the front. Her coldness toward Fandorin, a «lackey of the throne», begins to change as she comes to respect his courage, deductive powers, and piercing gaze. The «Russian Sherlock Holmes» who starred in «The Winter Queen» and «Murder on the Leviathan» returns in this novel by Russian literary phenomenon Boris Akunin.
Название: Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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The Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces a new, irresistible sleuth. In a remote province of late 19th-century Russia, Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt's rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family members and hangers-on as possible suspects, the bishop knows the only one who can solve the apparently clueless crime is Sister Pelagia—freckled, bespectacled, lively, curious, clumsy, and extraordinarily persistent.
Название: The American Country House
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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From the Vanderbilts' Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum-like Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a vanished world of privilege, yet more often than not reflected their builders' insecurities about how they were expected to proclaim their wealth and position. Clive Aslet, known for his acclaimed study of English country houses, here offers a heavily illustrated history of their American cousins, drawing on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the life the buildings served as well as the architectural features they boasted.
Название: Pandora's Keepers
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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Nine men — Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, Compton — brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the amazing workings of an invisible world. Some of them were fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb. At a secret laboratory in the mountains of northern New Mexico, they would crack the secret of the nuclear chain reaction and construct the most fearsome weapon mankind had ever known. Together they built a device that could incinerate a city and melt human beings so thoroughly that the only thing left would be their scorched outlines on the pavements. During the war, few of the atomic scientists questioned the wisdom of their desperate endeavour, but afterwards they were forced to deal with the sobering legacy of their creation. Some were haunted by the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and would become antinuclear weapons activists; others would go on to build bigger and even deadlier bombs.
Название: Room Full of Mirrors
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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Jimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell huge quantities of albums, even 35 years after his death. Quite apart from his influence on musicians and fans, a large part of the appeal of his sensational life story lies in the thrill of the era whose values he came to stand for. The Sixties still exert a massive pull over pop culture and this is genuinely a book for anyone interested, not only in Hendrix but also in anything to do with the pop culture of the last 40 years. Meticulously researched and sensitively and beautifully written, this is a labour of love that reveals the nuances, foibles and tragedies of the human being behind the iconic image. This is the sweeping, authoritative and colourful biography that Jimi Hendrix deserves and that his legions of fans, young and old have been waiting for.
Название: Best Dog Stories
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1991
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Lesley O'Mara. ed. Introduction by Gerald Durrell. B&W Line Art. Outstanding authors Virginia Woolf, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, Jack London, James Herriot, O. Henry and many others have contributed to this touching collection of stories that pay tribute to man's (and woman's) best friend.
Название: Mark Twain: His Words, Wit, and Wisdom
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2001
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As Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had something or two to say about nearly every subject under the sun, and few above it, to boot. This fully indexed book collects more than 1800 such pearls, illustrated with some 100 drawings from Twain's books, on the topics of advertising, Adam & Eve, numerous other authors, Bermuda, celebrity, dogs, hymnbooks, luck, his pen name, Niagara Falls, porpoises, Satan, the Sphinx, Thanksgiving Day, and youth. He is even quotable on quotations: «He made me better satisfied with myself than I had ever been before. It was plain hat he had a deep fondness for humor... he made me laugh all along, and this was very trying — and very pleasant at the same time — for it was at quotations from my own book.»
Название: Illustrated Library of World Poetry
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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A must for every family bookshelf! This comprehensive collection of the greatest poems in the English language written by our greatest poets. Includes Keats, Longfellow, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Pope, Browning. More than 1,400 poems.
Название: Manet/Velazquez
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2003
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In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the 19th century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial holdings of works by such Spanish masters as Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo, and Goya. At the same time, French writers and artists — among them Delacroix, Géricault, Courbet, Millet, Bonnat, Degas, and especially, Manet — came to understand, appreciate, and emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age. Illustrated with 349 black and white and 380 color photographs and reproductions, this book vividly demonstrates how direct contact with Spanish painting led to the taste for Realism in the 1860s, and provided a foundation for modern art. Also included in this volume are works by American artists like Whistler, Cassatt, Eakins, Chase, and Sargent that clearly reflect the pervasive influence of and taste for Spanish painting.
Название: Learning To Kill
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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With Cop Hater, the first of his superb 87th Precinct crime novels, Ed McBain debuted in 1956. Here, after more than 100 books, the MWA Grand Master culls 25 stories he wrote before he was Ed McBain, writing in «Manhunt» and other detective magazines as Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten, and Hunt Collins. Hunter — already well known as the author of «The Blackboard Jungle» and other books before he adopted the name McBain for his police procedurals — provides new introductions for these stories of kids in trouble and women in jeopardy, private eyes and innocent bystanders, and cops and robbers, explaining how they helped launch his career as McBain.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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Honored with a National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000, a National Medal of Arts in 2004, and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 2007, Ray Bradbury continues to present new work after 70 years. This is an omnibus of two previously unpublished novellas: «Somewhere a Band Is Playing» follows a writer drawn by his dreams to tiny Summerton, Arizona, a community hidden in plain view, where no small children play, and where the residents never seem to age; «Leviathan '99» is a futuristic adaptation of «Moby Dick» (Bradbury co-wrote the screenplay for John Huston's 1956 film version of Melville's book), in which fledgling astronaut Ishmael Hunnicut Jones boards the ship of a madman pursuing a planet-smashing comet.
