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Agatha Christie The Pale Horse ENA priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub. To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit,…
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Django Wexler The Palace of Glass ENFor Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out. Having figured out the role her master and uncle, Geryon, played in her father's disappearance, Alice turns to Ending – the mysterious, magical giant feline and guardian of Geryon's library – for a spell to incapacitate Geryon. But, like all cats, Ending is adept at keeping secrets and Alice doesn't know the whole story. Once she traps Geryon with…
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Claudia Stauble, Julie Kiefer The Paintings That Revolutionized Art ENWhat makes the Book of Kells such an extraordinary example of illuminated manuscript? Why is Durer's self-portrait so iconic? How did Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed turn the art world on its head? What's so great about Jasper John's Flag? And who was Whistler's mother, anyway? Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged and mystified their audiences - paintings that exemplified the period in…
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Anna Rumsby The Painting-In Book ENCan you give the gorilla a jungle to hide in? Can you create some honeycomb for the bees? And can you mix up some delicious flavours of ice cream? Create paint masterpieces, with nothing more than your poster paints and Anna Rumsby's entertaining activity pages. A great big book of painting fun! Also contains an introduction to mixing colours and simple, easy-to-copy painting techniques.
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Julie Klassen The Painter's Daughter ENSophie Dupont, daughter of a portrait painter, assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often walks the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It's where she met the handsome Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful. Captain Stephen Overtree is accustomed to taking on his brother's neglected duties. Home on leave, he's sent to…
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Painter of Battles ENA man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle.He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in aninstant, the meaning of war. But one day a stranger knocks on his door andannounces that he has come to kill him. The man is a shadow from…
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Peter V. Brett The Painted Man ENThe stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Sometimes there is very good reason to be afraid of the dark! Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day's ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet's Brook. As dusk falls…
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Peter V. Brett The Painted Man ENThe Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Voted one of the top ten fantasy novels of 2008 by amazon.co.uk. The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world…
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Elizabeth Hickey The Painted Kiss ENGustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siecle Austria and the subject of Helen Mirren's latest film, Woman in Gold takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Floge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The Kiss, and whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of…
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Cathy Marie Buchanan The Painted Girls ENA heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant…
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Jan Dobrovský The Painted BirdNení pochyb o tom, že česká kinematografie dosahuje v Nabarveném ptáčeti jednoho ze svých vrcholů. Nejen excelentní výkony herců světového formátu, ale i strhující vizuální poetika zajistila snímku režiséra Václava Marhoula nominaci do hlavní...
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Bernard Cornwell The Pagan LordThe seventh novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg...
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Pentawards The Package Design Book 5Attract, protect, inform, collect―good packaging is synonymous with multitasking. Creating these ultimate all-rounders calls for a deep understanding of the good, the market, the customer, the environment, the flow of trade―no easy task...
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Julius Wiedemann The Package Design Book 4 ENGood design stands out. Great design is transparent. Whether its food, drinks, cosmetics, books, or luxury items, successful packaging serves to stir senses and appeal to our emotions in ways that are as subtle as they are striking. In The Package Design Book 4, TASCHEN celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Pentawards with the stars of the 2015 and 2016 competitions. Organized around the key competition categories…
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Julius Wiedemann Pentawards The Package Design Book 3 ENPackaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting awards to designs from around the world. Designers compete in five main categories beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets and no fewer than 50 sub-categories.
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Julius Wiedemann The Package Design BookPackaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting awards to designs from around the world. Designers compete in five main categories―beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets―and no fewer than 50 sub-categories. Featuring a selection of…
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Hugh Ambrose The Pacific ENThe Pacific presents the Pacific War, from America’s first battle with the Japanese to the final shot. It blends eyewitness accounts into a larger perspective on the course of the war. However, this larger perspective is not solely provided by the historian, but also by the veterans. Put another way, instead of layering some oral histories onto a historical framework, I follow the lives of five veterans who, between…
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Hugh Ambrose The Pacific ENBetween America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey…
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Patrick McKeown The Oxygen Advantage ENThe secret to your health, fitness and overall wellbeing lies in the most basic and overlooked aspect of your workout: how you breathe. Developing body strength while ignoring breathing strength is counterproductive. In The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick McKeown combines his successful breathing exercises with techniques designed to simulate high-altitude training in a highly successful programme that will significantly…
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William Shakespeare The Oxford Shakespear: CymbelineThis is the first full-scale edition of Cymbeline for 37 years. During that time, there has been considerable interest in Shakespeare's late work in the theatre, and several notable productions have demonstrated the powerful impact of Cymbeline...
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The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and ReasoningThinking and reasoning, long the academic province of philosophy, have over the past century emerged as core topics of empirical investigation and theoretical analysis in the modern fields of cognitive psychology, ...
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Yan Huang The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics ENThis volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics,…
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