This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev\'s unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the KGB, who unexpectedly supported him, realizing the importance

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS \'A sprawling kaleidescopic fable\' Guardian, Books of the Year \'A dazzling return to form\' Independent \'An astonishing intimate epic. This is the novel one

A kötet García Márqueznek a keleti blokk államaiban 1957-ben tett látogatásáról írt útinaplóit, riportjait tartalmazza. A fiatal újságíró a moszkvai Világifjúsági Találkozó résztvevőjeként Budapesten, Kelet-Berlinben, Csehszlovákiában és Lengyelországban is járt. A riportok egyúttal sajátos korrajzok - a szerzőt itt is az élet izgatja: a mindennapok pulzálása, a szokások, a gesztusok, az emberi arcok.

This famous novel about a respectable doctor with a double life marks a milestone in modern horror fiction. The book includes a history of horror stories, and looks at the medical profession in the 19th century.

Who wants to go on a trip to London? You? Then join us on our A-Z journey through this ancient and modern city. London is a city which is full of surprises and there’s always something to see and do in this exciting capital. If you like art or nature, sport or culture, food or museums then this is the place for you! So, what are you waiting for? Let’s start our journey now and discover everything there

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Daenerys Targaryen, die Letzte aus dem Geschlecht der Drachenkönige, bereitet jenseits des Meeres ihre Rückkehr in die Sieben Königreiche vor. An der Spitze einer riesigen Streitmacht und unterstützt von drei Drachen will sie die Krone zurückfordern.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Teachers will be keen to promote Jane Austen\'s well-known classic to their students. The reader is illustrated with full-colour stills from the Oscar-winning movie starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet.

The Scholastic DVD Readers combine graded reading with engaging, authentic audio-visual material that is sure to appeal to teenage students around the world. Take Away My Takeaway is a UK TV series in which teenage fast food addicts get a surprise trip to the country where their favourite takeaway originates. They learn all about their favourite food, before serving it up to top food critics and chefs.

Magický realizmus samoty v priamom prenose... Famously associated with the term magical realism, Marquez is probably South Americas most famous literary export. Equally tragic, joyful and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude inhabits a strang e dream-like space where very little makes real sense, but everything is mysteriously and vividly alive nonetheless. Blending fantasy and reality seamlessly,

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton\'s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight Judge Judy - loving best friend riding shotgun

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her

We are entering an age of energy crises and food shortages. This book reveals why. Meet the swashbuckling traders who supply the world with energy, food and metal. Their goal: To make billions by buying and selling raw materials - flogging Russian gas to Europe, Saudi oil to America and Congolese metals to Silicon Valley. Their methods: Whatever it takes - whether funnelling cash to Vladimir Putin\'s

The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss--her life--and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend\'s memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully

What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? At first glance, very little. But Roger Kneebone is the expert on experts, having spent a lifetime finding the connections. In Expert, he combines his own experiences as a doctor with insights from extraordinary people and cutting-edge research to map out

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world\'s story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place?

This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the fi rst people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future.

The classic bestseller behind this year\'s biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and