Decades\' worth of images have been distilled down to 512 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki\'s work, selected by the artist himself. First published as a Limited Edition and now back in a new format to celebrate TASCHEN\'s 40th anniversary, the curation delves deep into Araki\'s best-known imagery: Tokyo street scenes; faces and foods; colorful, sensual

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling in love with Montmartre - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own particular

A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world\'s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier\'s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand...Seven of the world\'s greatest crime

A train journey from Turkey to France is delayed by thick snow. So when a passenger on the train is found murdered in his bed, it is the perfect opportunity for Agatha Christie\'s famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to prove his ability and solve the crime using the power of his brain.

This is a collection of 45 Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan\'s premier fanzine. \"Fruits\" was established in 1994, by photographer Shoich Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. The magazine has since grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER \'This is that rare thing - a series that gets better with each book\' Telegraph The eighth brilliant mystery from the bestselling and award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event: the fiftieth Anniversary. Plans for a weekend of celebrations are in full swing. But all is not

V knihe nájdete skrátenú verziu príbehu Winnetoua, jeho pokrvného bieleho brata Old Shatterhanda a statočného lovca Old Firehanda. Príbeh je spracovaný pre začiatočníkov a mierne pokročilých čitateľov, ktorí si chcú vyskúšať, ako si poradia so súvislým textom v nemčine. Slovenský zrkadlový preklad umožní záujemcom obratom skontrolovať, či cudzojazyčnému textu správne porozumeli. Audionahrávku vo formáte

When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds \'the Pearl of the world\' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against

* Cutting Edge focuses on the key language areas of the accompanying Students\' Book. The tests can be used for revision or as diagnostic tests at the beginning of the course. There is a full answer key at the back of the book.

Umberto Eco s first novel, an international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Medicis Etranger awards The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle,

One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House A

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she belongs in the world and who she really is. So begins a year-long trial as Cassie leaves her sheltered life in rural Scotland to stay with each of her best friends in the most glamorous cities

On ne marie pas aujourd\'hui, sans dot, une fille aussi belle que l\'est mademoiselle Hortense, reprit Crevel. C\'est comme un cheval de luxe qui exige trop de soins coteux pour avoir beaucoup d\'acquéreurs. Vous ne pouvez, dans la situation o vous tes, marier votre fille que de trois manires : par mon secours, vous n\'en voulez pas ! et d\'un ; en trouvant un vieillard de soixante ans, trs riche,

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor\'s Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide inthe1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial

For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary...until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph hotel. Then, two days later, a naked and battered corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell. A coincidence? Morse is determined to prove the link...