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Noel Lenski The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine ENThe Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history,…
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Steven Crowell The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism ENExistentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted…
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Simon Beckett The Calling of the Grave ENAt first glance it could have been anything – a stone, a knotted root – until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...’ It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk’s teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to…
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Kelley Armstrong The Calling ENMaya Delaney's paw-print birthmark is the sign of what she truly is - a skin-walker. She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly anyone else. Experiencing intense connections with the animals that roam the woods outside her home, Maya knows it's only a matter of time before she's able to Shift and become one of them. And she believes there may be others in her small town with surprising talents…
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Juan Marsé The Calligraphy of Dreams ENThis is the novel that secured for Juan Marsé the biggest literary prize in the world bar the Nobel. It is the culmination of the life's work of arguably the greatest living Spanish man of letters. Gracia: a working-class district of Barcelona in the shadow of civil war. Life is hard, the city is grey, the oppressive Fascist regime oversees all. With his stepfather imprisoned for opposing Franco's regime, teenager…
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Karin Fossum The CallerOne summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood...
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Chris Carter The Caller ENAfter a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring. The video call request comes from her best friend, Karen Ward. Tanya takes the call and the nightmare begins.Karen is gagged and bound to a chair in her own living room. If Tanya disconnects from the call, if she looks away from the camera, he will come after her next, the…
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Alex Barclay The Caller ENIn The Sunday Times bestselling novel 'Darkhouse', Alex Barclay took you on a terrifying excursion to hell and back. In 'The Caller', she leaves you stranded there! NYPD Detective Joe Lucchesi is on the trail of a killer locked into a dark fantasy world that has come crashing into reality with devastating result !and a rising body count. People are being murdered in their own apartments, their faces savagely beaten,…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild and White FangThe Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are two classic American adventure novels depicting the evolution of two dogs in the wild. The novels are in fact mirror images of one another, as Call of the Wild depicts Buck's journey from domestic to wild dog, while White Fang recounts White Fang's transformation from wild beast to domestic companion. Both convey powerful themes of redemption and survival that…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild and White Fang ENThe Call Of The Wild is thestory of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrustinto the merciless life of the Arctic north toendure hardship, bitter cold, and the savagelawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal part dog, partwolf turned vicious by cruel abuse, thentransformed by the patience and affection of one man. Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller andhis uncanny…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild and White Fang ENPresented together in one volume, these are two of the greatest and most popular animal stories ever written. Even to designate them as animal stories seems to undervalue them, because these tremendous works are so much more than mere children's tales, although they are admittedly still greatly loved by the young. Penned by Jack London at the beginning of the twentieth century, the first, The Call of the Wild, tells…
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Jack London The call of the wild / Volanie divočiny +Audio CDRomán Jacka Londona patrí medzi najúspešnejšie vo svojom žánri. Rozpráva príbeh psa Bucka, ktorý sa zo skroteného maznáčika stane vodcom vlčej svorky na divokom Severe v období Zlatej horúčky. V zjednodušenej verzii je anglický text doplnený slovenským prekladom na protiľahlej strane, slovníčkom a okomentovaním zaujímavých gramatických javov. Čitateľ môže čítať originálny príbeh a pokiaľ by niečomu nerozumel, ihneď…
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Jack London The Call Of The Wild + CDBuck, a big happy dog, is kidnapped from his comfortable home in California and is sold as sled dog in the cold Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. His new life in the Norhland is difficult, chellenging, adventurous...
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Jack London The Call of the Wild + CD ENWhen men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow ... and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.
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Jack London The Call of the WildIn Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? Penguin Readers is...
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Jack London The Call of the WildBuck is a strong, intelligent dog who moves from an easy life in Californiato the Klondike. Life is tough in the cold north of Canadaand Buck has to learn many hard lessons to survive...
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Jack London The Call of the Wild ENWhen men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines.
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Jack London The Call of the Wild ENHalf St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck's natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works as a mail carrying sled dog, scavenging for food, protecting himself against other dogs and sleeping out in the cold snow. Sold to a…
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The Call of the Wild ENFollowing Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve—all at an incomparable price. Here is the ultimate dog story, one filled with emotion, adventure, and…
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Jack London, Silvana Sardi The Call of the Wild ENWhen The Call of the Wild was published the first printing of 10,000 copies sold out immediately and it is still one the best known stories written by an American author. Buck, a happy, quiet dog living in sunny California, is kidnapped and sent north to begin a new hard life as a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. Read about his adventures and the many problems he has to face in this new cruel world. Discover…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild CZRomán od Jacka Londona vypráví příběh psa Bucka, který se z ochočeného mazlíčka stane vůdcem vlčí smečky na divokém severu. Předlohou pro Bucka byl skutečný pes – kříženec bernardýna a kolie. Kniha se dočkala mnoha divadelních i filmových ztvárnění. Naše zjednodušená verze prochází zkrácenou formou všemi důležitými místy románu. Účelem je rozšířit slovní zásobu i schopnost rychle a bezpečně porozumět mluvené…
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Chris Sidwells The Call of the RoadEddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. A sole cyclist battling over a pass high in the mountains is one of the most romantic of sporting images...
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories ENFrequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft’s preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master’s fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as The Outsider to the…
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories ENH.P. Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S.T. Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. These stories reveal the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establish him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.
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