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Micro
Автор: Crichton Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 541 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20182018-08-31
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An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton's greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research Three men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room, almost invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen MicroTechnologies sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open up a whole new scientific frontier. But this opportunity of a lifetime will teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting-edge! The group becomes prey to a technology of radical, unimaginable power and is thrust out into the teeming rainforest. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, the young scientists face a hostile wilderness that threatens danger at every turn. To survive, they must harness the awe-inspiring creative — and destructive — forces of nature itself.
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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
Автор: Hastings Sir Max Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20132014-05-24
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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children. Reflecting Max Hastings's thirty-five years of research on World War II, All Hell Let Loose describes the course of events, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which varied immensely from campaign to campaign, continent to continent. The author emphasises the Russian front, where more than 90% of all German soldiers who perished met their fate. He argues that, while Hitler's army often fought its battles brilliantly well, the Nazis conducted their war effort with 'stunning incompetence'. He suggests that the Royal Navy and US Navy were their countries' outstanding fighting services, while the industrial contribution of the United States was much more important to allied victory than that of the US Army. The book ranges across a vast canvas, from the agony of Poland amid the September 1939 Nazi invasion, to the 1943 Bengal famine, in which at least a million people died under British rule and British neglect. Among many vignettes, there are the RAF's legendary raid on the Ruhr dams, the horrors of Arctic convoys, desert tank combat, jungle clashes. Some of Hastings's insights and judgements will surprise students of the conflict, while there are vivid descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of ordinary people, in uniform and out of it. 'The cliche is profoundly true', he says. 'The world between 1939 and 1945 saw some human beings plumb the depths of baseness, while others scaled the heights of courage and nobility'. This is 'everyman's story', an attempt to answer the question: 'What was the Second World War like?', and also an overview of the big picture. Max Hastings employs the technique which has made many of his previous books best-sellers, combining top-down analysis and bottom-up testimony to explore the meaning of this vast conflict both for its participants and for posterity.
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2009 Collins: Road Atlas. Europe
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 312 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20112012-04-25
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A4 format Scale 1:1 000 000 (1 cm to 10 kms/1 inch to 16 miles). A fully revised edition of A4 spiral road atlas containing road mapping, route planning maps, large scale road maps of the Ruhr and Rhine, city through route maps, city centre plans and a comprehensive place names index. NEW FOR THE 2009 EDITION: — Extra 24 city through-route maps. — 16 new city centre street plans. AREA OF COVERAGE Europe from North Cape to Gibraltar and from Ireland to western Turkey. MAIN FEATURES: Clear, easy to follow road maps at a scale of 1:1 000 000. Euroroutes and motorways easily distinguished. International road classification, road distances in kilometres and relief shown by attractive layer tints. I NCLUDES: Route planning maps; 72 through route maps of the following cities: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beflast, Belgrade, Berlin, Bern, Birmingham, Bonn, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cardiff, Chisinau, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Firenze, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Gothenburg, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kyiv, Leipzig, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Minsk, Moskva, Munich, Murcia, Naples, Orleans, Oslo, Palermo, Paris, Podgorica, Porto, Prague, Prishtine, Riga, Rome, Rotterdam, Sankt Peterburg, Sarajevo, Seville, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Tallinn, Tirane, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich; 16 centre street plans of the following cities: Athina, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, Dublin, Helsinki, Kobenhaven, Lisboa, London, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Roma, Stockholm and Wien. Also includes larger scale road mapping extending from Amsterdam to Munich and making route following easier through this densely populated area. WHO THE PRODUCT IS OF INTEREST TO Motorists planning a journey in Europe and for use en route.
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Collins GEM German Dictionary
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20132016-03-29
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This latest edition of Collins' multimillion-selling dictionary comes with all the latest words in both languages, making it the perfect choice for anyone needing a portable, up-to-the-minute German dictionary. Features include: All the latest words in both languages; New coverage of vocabulary from Australia and New Zealand; Full GCSE coverage; User-friendly Phrasefinder supplement for travellers, including a handy menu-reader section; Clear, colour layout, useful examples, language and cultural notes. Combining the best traditions of Collins dictionary-making with the latest innovations in technology, the Collins Gem German Dictionary has been designed to give travellers, students, business people and the general user alike all the information they need in a handy, take-anywhere format. Includes all the latest words reflecting changes in modern lifestyle, as well as all the features you would expect from a Collins dictionary: an easy-to-read colour layout, special treatment of key words such as have, this, lassen, so, notes about life in German-speaking countries and warnings on commonly confused words. The Phrasefinder section has been developed to give travellers on business, school and leisure trips all the essential phrases they need. The menu-reader section is a quick guide to the most common words and phrases you will find in German cafes and restaurants, ensuring you always get what you expect from a meal out. Also available in the Collins German dictionary range are Collins German School Dictionary, Collins Easy Learning German Dictionary and Collins German Dictionary & Grammar Comprehensive dictionaries.
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Collins GEM French Dictionary
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20152014-10-23
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This latest edition of Collins' multimillion-selling dictionary comes with all the latest words in both languages plus handy links to verb tables, making it the perfect choice for anyone needing a portable, up-to-the-minute French dictionary. Features include: All the latest words in both languages; New coverage of vocabulary from Australia and New Zealand; New links to verb tables; Full GCSE coverage; User-friendly Phrasefinder supplement for travellers, including a handy menu-reader section; Clear, colour layout, useful examples, language and cultural notes. Combining the best traditions of Collins dictionary-making with the latest innovations in technology, the Collins Gem French Dictionary has been designed to give travellers, students, business people and the general user alike all the information they need in a handy, take-anywhere format. Includes all the latest words reflecting changes in modern lifestyle, as well as all the features you would expect from a Collins dictionary: an easy-to-read colour layout, special treatment of key words such as can, that, faire, quoi, notes about life in French-speaking countries and warnings on commonly confused words. The Phrasefinder section has been developed to give travellers on business, school and leisure trips all the essential phrases they need. The menu-reader section is a quick guide to the most common words and phrases you will find in French cafes and restaurants, ensuring you always get what you expect from a meal out. Also available in the Collins French dictionary range are Collins French School Dictionary, Collins Easy Learning French Dictionary and Collins French Dictionary & Grammar Comprehensive dictionaries.
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Don't Cry
Автор: Barton Beverly Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092008-09-20
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Nowhere to run! The spine-chilling new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author. No place to hide! The crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. For grief counsellor Audrey Sherrod it's clear the murders are work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims' physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a past series of horrifying crimes — crimes that hit all too close to home. As the truth is unravelled, its more twisted and terrifying than anyone could ever imagine. Prepare to lose sleep with this shocking and utterly engrossing thriller, for fans of Karen Rose and Karin Slaughter.
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Discovering London: The Illustrated Map
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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Scale: 1:8,250 (7.5 inches to 1 mile). London has a vast array of museums, galleries and other attractions. This hand-watercoloured map contains individual paintings of all the main sites and landmarks, shop-by-shop street maps, theatres and cinemas, comprehensive travel information and index. This attractive, fact-filled map includes: Railway stations, bus routes, London underground map, taxi ranks and car parks. Shop-by-shop street maps for Oxford Street, Bond Street, Covent Garden, Portobello Road, King's Road, Brompton Cross, Exmouth Market, Beauchamp Place, St. Christopher's Place and South Molton Street, Knightsbridge, Jermyn Street and Kensington. London's theatres and cinemas. Places to eat, internet cafes and good places for a picnic. An inset map of the City of London. Comprehensive index. Historical and contemporary anecdotes.
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
Автор: Proulx Annie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 228 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092007-07-04
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Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She knew she had to purchase the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she would build on it — a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character — a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Proulx's first non-fiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of building that house — solar panels, a Japanese soak tub, a concrete floor, elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets — and an enthralling natural history and archeology of the region, inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho and Shoshone Indians. It is also a family history, going back to nineteenth century Mississippi river boat captains and Canadian settlers, and an illuminating autobiography. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.
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Catching the Sun
Автор: Parsons Tony Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of — a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn's family. CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise — and end up discovering themselves.
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The Time of My Life
Автор: Ahern Cecelia Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20152014-07-21
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The stunning and magical new novel from the Number One bestselling author Lying on Lucy Silchester's carpet one day when she returns from work is a gold envelope. Inside is an invitation — to a meeting with Life. Her life. It turns out she's been ignoring it and it needs to meet with her face to face. It sounds peculiar, but Lucy's read about this in a magazine. Anyway, she can't make the date: she's much too busy despising her job, skipping out on her friends and avoiding her family. But Lucy's life isn't what it seems. Some of the choices she's made — and stories she's told — aren't what they seem either. From the moment she meets the man who introduces himself as her life, her stubborn half-truths are going to be revealed in all their glory — unless Lucy learns to tell the truth about what really matters to her. Lucy Silchester has an appointment with her life — and she's going to have to keep it. Touching, warm, funny and poignant, Cecelia Ahern's new novel explores what happens when you stop paying attention to your life.
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Agnes Grey
Автор: Bronte Anne Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-16
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Anne Bronte's debut novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, a young woman who is determined to seek work as a governess after her family become impoverished. Drawing upon her own experiences as a governess, Anne describes the isolation, insensitivity and occasional harsh treatment bestowed on women in her position by their employers and, through Agnes, demonstrates the resilience, integrity and survival of one woman in the face of upper class snobbery and changing social values.
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Roses (+ DVD)
Автор: Redoute Pierre Joseph Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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The Mini Archive series is a new series capturing the best of the best of ancient, rare, and significant volumes. Each book in the series will focus on a single topic through abundant illustration and documentation. The topics will cover a wide range of subjects including art, architecture, fashion, heraldry, geography, navigation, medicine, and the natural world. Drawing from the roses depicted in Pierre Joseph Redoute's three volume masterpiece, Les Roses (first published in installments between 1817 and 1824) and James Sowerby's thirty-six volume botanical monolith English Botany (1790-1813), Roses will feature 170 of both artists' magnificent hand-colored engravings in all their blooming glory. To bring this lovely volume into the 21st Century, the paperback format and low price will keep the book fun and affordable. A visual index will categorize each rose according to name, species, class, and genome; and an accompanying DVD containing all of the images in the book (in Tiff and Jpeg format) will be supplied copyright free to be used in any manner the reader sees fit, completing this unique package. Roses will appeal to horticulturists, collectors, students, teachers, artists and rose-lovers alike, for no one will be able to resist the undeniable beauty of these two artists' absolutely breathtaking illustrations.
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The Hidden Child
Автор: Lackberg Camilla Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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Worldwide bestseller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe's past! Erica Falck's mind is racked by a single question. Why did her mother save an old Nazi medal? The only person who might provide clues about its origins is a retired history teacher. He unnerves Erica with his bizarre and evasive behaviour. Disappointed with his lack of answers, Erica is unsure whether he couldn't tell her anything! or wouldn't. Two days later he is found dead. Murdered. Erica is appalled that her meeting with him might have triggered his violent death. With hesitation and guilt, she reads her mother's wartime diary and discovers the truly horrible experiences she endured. The tragic circumstances and the uncontainable damage the war did goes some way to explaining why her mother was never able to bond with her daughters. A seed of an investigation is planted. During the Second World War, her mother had the same circle of friends as the murdered teacher. But who would still be prepared to kill so ruthlessly to conceal secrets so old? And, could what little knowledge she has be enough to endanger her husband and newborn baby? The dark past is coming to light, and no one will escape the truth of how they came to be!
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Divergent
Автор: Roth Veronica Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20152015-04-15
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In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue — Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is — she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are — and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves... or it might destroy her. Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the YA scene with the first book in the Divergent series — dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.
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Frog and Toad All Year
Автор: Lobel Arnold Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1984 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20091987-02-26
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«Two very good friends are back in «a quintet of tales loosely set around the seasons — one for each with a bonus Christmas number. Another winner for (Frog and Toad) fans young and old». Booklist. ALA Notable Children's Book. Three-color illustrations.»
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Frog and Toad Are Friends
Автор: Lobel Arnold Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1979 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20091983-03-26
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The best of friends From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other — just as best friends should be.
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Pigs in Heaven
Автор: Kingsolver Barbara Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1994 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20091997-09-14
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When Turtle witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her mother responds and a man's life is saved, but their lives are changed by the incident.
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Princess in Love
Автор: Cabot Meg Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 229 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20112009-12-10
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In Volume III, an inordinate amount of Mia's time is spent avoiding her new beau — and his supremely undesirable smooches. Also: anonymous poems, a planned walkout, a scandalous fashion spread, and, possibly, true love? In Volume IV, Mia must convince her future subjects that she is in fact capable of running an entire country someday, while also attempting to schedule her first real date. Also: a Speedo-donning prince, an otherworldly (stolen) birthday gift, and a hidden talent. The life of Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo is about to get a whole lot crazier. Keep up with New York' s most reluctant royal in these, her (fictional) diaries. And hang on to your tiaras.
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The Princess Diaries, Volume IV and a Half: Project Princess
Автор: Cabot Meg Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092005-10-27
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«What on earth is that princess up to now? Hammer in hand, Princess Mia embarks on an epic adventure for one so admittedly unhandy: Along with her cohorts from school, she's off to build houses for the less fortunate. It doesn't take Mia long to realize that helping others — while an unimpeachably noble pastime — is very hard work. Will her giving spirit prevail? Will the house collapse due to royally clumsy construction? And most importantly, will Michael stop working long enough to kiss her? What comes between Volumes IV and V of «The Princess Diaries?» Volume IV and a Half, of course!»
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Princess in Waiting
Автор: Cabot Meg Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Never before has the world seen such a Princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. But Genovian politics are nothing next to Mia's real troubles. Between canceled dates with her long-sought-after royal consort, a second semester of the dreaded Algebra, more princess lessons from Grandmere, and the inability to stop gnawing on her fingernails, isn't there anything Mia is good at besides inheriting an unwanted royal title?
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