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January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...

THE GRIFFIN FIXED its hungry eyes on Sadie . . . 'Sadie,' I said, 'drop the scroll.' 'Hello? It's stuck to my hand!' she protested. 'And I'm on fire! Did I mention that?' The scroll seemed to have triggered every reservoir of Egyptian magic in the room. Walt and Jaz stood frozen in shock. I suppose I couldn't blame them. This was their first real monster. It took a step towards my sister. EVER SINCE THE GODS of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, S adie, have been in trouble. As descendants of the magical House of Life, they command certain powers. But now a terrifying enemy Apophis, the giant snake of chaos is rising. If Carter and Sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days time. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they musty revive the sun god Ra a feat no magician has ever achieved. First they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant the spells . . . Can the Kanes destroy Apophis before he swallows the sun and plunges the earth into darkness . . . forever?

Oxfordský slovník je spoľahlivý a prehľadný anglický výkladový slovník, ktorý ponúka jedinečné spojenie overených definícií a ozrejmujúcich ilustrácií. Nájdete v ňom 187 000 jasných a presných definícií hesiel, ktoré pokrývajú všeobecnú slovnú zásobu, ako aj množstvo odborných, technických, knižných a historických termínov či nových slov a fráz; 4 500 starostlivo vybratých obrázkov, ktoré dokonale dopĺňajú slovné definície a uľahčujú ich porozumenie a 600 pútavých ilustračných panelov, ponúkajúcich detailnejšie informácie o mnohých témach - od vedy a techniky až po prírodovedu, umenie a hudbu.

This year Valentine’s Day isn’t for romance. It’s for murder.Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine’s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder.Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack’s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing’s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.

She witnessed a murder - and now her life is in danger ...Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world. Sn atched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her, Belle's dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle's cou rage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home? Lesley Pearse, author of Number One bestseller "Stolen", has done it again with "Belle" - a heroine for our times: a strong woma n trying to be good in a world gone bad.

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things really started going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with m y friends, and generally trying to stay alive.

Kniha je bezodnou pokladnicou súčasných šperkov, ktoré nasýtia kreatívny apetít všetkých umelcov a výrobcov šperkov. Inšpiruje sa hostinou farieb, lesku, textúr, dimenziami a šikovným využitím materiálov. K dispozícii máte tisíc farebných obrázkov od jednoduchých a elegantných po krásne a vypracované šperky. Môžete sa nimi inšpirovať pri vlastných projektoch. Dodatok a popisy základných šperkárskych techník pomôžu aj neskúseným adeptom, aby mohli začať vytvárať vlastné šperkárske klenoty.

Kniha je bezodnou pokladnicou súčasných šperkov, ktoré nasýtia kreatívny apetít všetkých umelcov a výrobcov šperkov. Inšpiruje sa hostinou farieb, lesku, textúr, dimenziami a šikovným využitím materiálov. K dispozícii máte tisíc farebných obrázkov od jednoduchých a elegantných po krásne a vypracované šperky. Môžete sa nimi inšpirovať pri vlastných projektoch. Dodatok a popisy základných šperkárskych techník pomôžu aj neskúseným adeptom, aby mohli začať vytvárať vlastné šperkárske klenoty.

Back in the 40s, Leo Fender and his team ran a small business in California making a handful of steel guitars and amplifiers. Using this expertise to produce the world's first commercial solidbody electric guitar, they made musical history. Everyone from Hendrix and Cobain to Clapton played a Fender, and millions of unknown guitarists drawn to them today ensure Fender is still the world's leading guitar maker.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, architects and decorative artists were constantly seeking new sources of inspiration to satisfy the demands of their rich patrons. While some revisited the canons of the classical world, others began to turn their eyes towards the East, and the 'Oriental' became a byword for spectacle and sensuality. The result was a wave of creative expression that encompassed everything from the smallest objects dart to entire buildings. This sumptuously produced book explores t he enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned these opulent interiors. Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate fu rniture, this book will transport the reader to another time and place.

Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. Evolution in Action , a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a uniqu e and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time. Now updated and presented in a smaller format with seventeen new utterly distinctive photographs, this book steps beyond the debate and presents the undeniable truth of Darwin's theory, showing through 200 photographs of skeletons both obscure and commonplace, but always intriguing, the process by which life has transformed itself, again and again.

Taking font creation back to basics, this comprehensive book explores innovative ways to design contemporary lettering of all kinds, examining everything from classic design examples to 3D and illustrated fonts, digital lettering and radical conceptu al alphabets. "Handmade Type Workshop" is ideal for anyone looking to move beyond existing typography and fonts to create, explore and use original or customized letterforms

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Time alone is the final judge of the value of any work of architecture."--Fumihiko Maki, from his foreword "Time alone is the final judge of the value of any work of architecture."--Fumihiko Maki, from his foreword Hide synopsis

501 of the most spectacular journeys one could possibly take are collected here, ranging from the vast African Sahara desert to the famous route 66 in America. The book is divided by location, with a picture of each site and essential information inc luding what to see, when to go and how to get there. Complete your collection of the must-have 501 travel series with this latest installment.

This new retrospective monograph, produced in direct collaboration with internationally renowned contemporary artist Anish Kapoor, is the most comprehensive to date. Anish Kapoor, one of the most highly acclaimed sculptors working today, is winner of the 1991 Turner Prize and creator of Monumenta 2011. Kapoor enjoys immense popularity and has represented Britain at both the Paris Biennale and the Venice Biennale. His first solo exhibition in Paris in 1980 was been followed by numerous solo exhib itions in major venues around the world, including Sky Mirror installed at Rockefeller Center in New York in 2006. He is the fourth artist to be invited to the Grand Palais in Paris to create a unique and original work for the immense interior space. At once metaphysical, profoundly poetic, and visually explosive, Kapoor's work demands a visceral as well as meditative response. Full color reproductions spanning more than three decades of artistic output are accompanied by an incisive interview w ith the artist, while Kapoor's work is situated and explored in a critical essay by a leading Harvard scholar