Gossel Peter: The Architect's Home

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The houses architects design for themselves The greatest challenge in designing homes is negotiating the delicate balance between aesthetics and the personal desires of the occupants. While it's important for the structure to reflect the vision and style of the architect, the client must ultimately feel at home beneath the roof. It is particularly interesting, therefore, to examine the homes that…

Cast P.C.: Untamed

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A week ago Zoey had a group of special friends, three boyfriends and a (kinda) clear conscience. Now she has none of the above. Luckily ice-queen Aphrodite is showing signs of melting and ex-roomie Stevie Rae isn't as dead as she'd thought. Though Stevie's now hanging out in tunnels with freaks — gross. If she can get them to listen, Zoey will need all her friends as events take a frightening…

Cast P.C.: Neferet's Curse

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The all-new House of Night Novellas delve into the backgrounds of some of the Tulsa House of Night's most important — and mysterious — professors.

John H. Oakley: The Greek Vase

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: Wonderfully preserved Greek vases are a unique source of information about the mythology, religion, drama and daily life of the ancient Greek world. This sumptuous photographic book offers a superb visual introduction to the artistry of ancient Greek vases, exploring them not merely as beautiful vessels to bear water and wine, but also as instruments of storytelling and bearers of meaning.…

Late Raphael

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museo del Prado, this book focuses on a crucial but hitherto neglected part of Raphael's oeuvre: the work he and his pupils executed in Rome during the seven years from 1513 to the artist's death in 1520. Nearly ninety works — including paintings such as Saint Cecile and Portrait of Baldassere Castiglione, as well as drawings and a tapestry —…

Easy Read Britain 2014

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: This A4 format atlas provides giant scale mapping, at 2.3 miles to 1 inch, making it very easy to use. Each page has been titled with its geographical location so you can turn to the page you need more easily. Static speed camera locations with speed limits are pinpointed. Wide minor roads (more than and less than 4m wide), National Trust, English and World Heritage sites, crematorium and other…

Easy Read France 2014

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Fully revised and updated for 2014, this specialist A4 road atlas is designed for the British motorist in France. The large-scale mapping is very easy-to-read and the atlas includes 86 city centre plans to help you find your way in and around busy centres. A 12-page route planner is also included, over 18,500 tourist sites, and French place names are used to match local road mapping. There is…

Cast P.C.: Marked

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. But Zoe is no ordinary fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the Goddess Nyx and discovers her amazing new power to conjure the elements: earth, air, fire, water and spirit. When Zoey…

Dressendorfer Werner: The Vegetable Garden

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: «This is an art book for food lovers. It features mouthwatering illustrations of 19th century French garden vegetables. The French company Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie arose in the 18th century from the collaboration of Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin — a grain and plant merchant and connoisseur — and his father-in-law, Pierre Andrieux, Botanist to the King. The Vilmorins, though only producers and…

Cast P.C.: Chosen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean, she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. And she hadn't tried to bite me, which was a plus. Of course, the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing... Zoey's best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead — in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way, not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She's struggling to retain her humanity and Zoey doesn't have a…

Cast P.C.: Hidden

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: I'd known it before we saw the fire trucks and the smoke. I'd known all hell had broken loose at the House of Night the moment it had been proven beyond all doubt that Neferet was on the side of Darkness. Only now I had a terrible feeling that outing Neferet would serve more to free her than to force her to pay the consequences for her lies and betrayals. At last, Zoey has what she wanted: the…

Nicholas D. Kristof: Half the Sky: How to Change the World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More…

Great Escapes Mediterranean

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: This title discusses about the mythical and magical mediterranean. It offers information about where to get lost — in style and comfort — on the Mediterranean coast. The Mediterranean is a mythical place, with three continents — Europe, Africa and Asia — and 30 countries sharing its coastline. These disparate cultures are all blessed with its fine climate, luxuriant fauna and flora, and the…

Listri Massimo: Casa Mundi: Inspirational Living Around the World

Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: This spectacular book offers a scintillating, visually outstanding tour of more than 65 of the world's most fascinating houses. Massimo Listris' stunning photographs vary between sweeping panoramas of the houses in their glorious settings to close-ups of specific rooms, furniture and design details, and they span homes around the world, from India to France, from Morocco to Sweden, from the USA…

Pape Thomas: Palladio

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: The classical Roman revivalist No other architect in the history of Western art has had an influence so spontaneous and yet so enduring as Andrea Palladio. Palladianism broke through all cultural stylistic barriers. It spread not only throughout the Neo-Latin nations but held Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the countries of Eastern Europe in its sway and formed the lineaments of English…

Brooks Terry: The Elfstones of Shannara

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: An ancient evil threatens the Elves and the Races of Man. The Ellcrys, the tree of long-lost Elven magic, is dying, unravelling the spell of Forbidding that locks the hordes of Demons away from the world. Already the fearsome Reaper is free. Only by quickening a new seed in the mysterious Bloodfire can the Ellcrys be reborn and the Forbidding made whole. Amberle, a young Elven girl, is chosen to…

Brooks Terry: The Wishsong of Shannara

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Horror stalks the Four Lands. The Ildatch, ancient source of evil, has stirred to life. It sends its foul Mord Wraiths to make war on all living things and bring about, at last, Mankind's destruction. Once again Allanon, Druid Protector of the Races, must seek the help of a descendant of the Elven King, Jerle Shannara. Brin, daughter of Wil Ohmsford, has been born with the magic of the Wishsong,…

Soviet Bus Stops

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Photographer Christopher Herwig first noticed the unusual architecture of Soviet-era bus stops during a 2002 long-distance bike ride from London to St. Petersburg. Challenging himself to take one good photograph every hour, Herwig began to notice surprisingly designed bus stops on otherwise deserted stretches of road. Twelve years later, Herwig had covered more than 18,000 miles in 14 countries…

Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Susan Herbert's delightful feline re-imaginings of famous scenes from art, theatre, opera, ballet and film have won her a devoted following. This unprecedented new compilation of her best paintings provides an irresistible introduction to her feline world. An array of cat characters take the starring roles in a variety of instantly recognizable settings. The masterpieces of Western art retain…

Betrayed

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: It seems that (un)life is going pretty well for zoey redbird. She's settled in at the house of night finishing school and is coming to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, nyx, has given her. She even has a boyfriend . Or two. Best of all, zoey finally feels she has found somewhere she belongs. Then the unthinkable happens. Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points…