Sixty years ago food was in short supply and malnutrition rates were high. The Ministry of Food was set up to teach the public how to make the best use of the food available to them. Fast forward to the present day, where we have unlimited choices and plenty of food, yet we\'re living in a world of junk food, additives and preservatives. Our war is now against obesity, as most people have little or

This slipcase will be a must-have for all die-hard Paolini fans. When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a drag

What can I do?...I must get up in the morning and do what everyone else does. It is all like a dance set beforehand. I seem to see all that can be - and I am tired and sick of it. And the world is all confusion to me\'. George Eliot\'s last, most controversial novel opens as the spoiled Gwendolen Harleth, poised at a roulette table about to throw away a small fortune, captivates Daniel Deronda. As

\'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?\' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac\'s Comedie humaine. The Grandet household , oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie\'s cousin Charles,

A Révai Nagy Lexikona pótkötetsorozata a gazdag és értékes mai magyar lexikonirodalom által fel nem ölelt, de sok, az olvasó számára fontos, jelentős - vagy csak érdekes - adatot tartalmaz. A sorozat nemcsak a nemzetközi mérce szerint jelentős hazai értékeket mutatja föl, hanem a magyarság országos, vagy helyi jelentőségű, emlékezetre méltó jelenségeit is. Az új lexikont a kiadó 16 kötetesre tervezi,

After a devastating act of war by the Whisperers, Rick must chart a path for his community. But when his leadership is questioned, how will he respond? Collects THE WALKING DEAD #145-150.

Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things. The Grammy Award-winning singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour\'s curiosity has drawn him into situations that would\'ve sent most people screaming scared and running for the hills. Corey\'s ballsy enough to go into the darkness and deal with the consequences though. As a result, he\'s seen ghosts up close and personal, whether it be while combing through

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months

Agatha Christie\'s first Tommy & Tuppence book is a thrill-packed novel of international intrigue, murder and suspense. Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd. Their advertisement says they are \'willing to do anything, go anywhere\'. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges

This is a Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words, Beginner Level (600 basic words), Elementary Level (1100), Intermediate Level (1600), and Upper

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen\'s spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work

For the first time, Curtis \"50 Cent\" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback-from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable\'s highest-paid executive-in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law. In his early twenties Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent rose to the heights of fame and power in the cutthroat music business. A

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head . . . It’s not easy being a witch, and it’s certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching – teen witch – is doing her best.Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea.Worse still, this evil ghost from

Read on to catch up with more gossip-licious pleasure from the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut with Gossip Girl and has enthralled readers in the juicy sequels, You Know You Love Me and All I Want is Everything. In Because I\'m Worth It, Gossip Girl dishes up more doses of hefty dirt on all her friends - New York\'s wealthiest private school teens. In fact, wintertime has never been hotter

It\'s a classic thing we\'ve all heard: \"New York is great to visit, but I wouldn`t want to live there.\" New Yorkers laugh it off because they know the secret: it\'s even better when you live there. New York Interiors offers readers the chance to see th e Big Apple`s most fabulous pads in all their eccentric splendor. The Hell\'s Angel who sleeps next to a coffin, the painter who makes art from trash,

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. \'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house\'. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing

Terremer est un nom magique, mais Terremer est d\'abord un lieu magique, ensorcelé, un chapelet d\'îles. La plus étrange et la plus puissante est l\'île de Roke, qui abrite l\'école des sorciers. Car, dans le monde de Terremer, la sorcellerie est une science qui se pratique selon des rgles strictes. Ursula Le Guin est revenue explorer sa création dans ces contes qui se situent avant, entre ou aprs

En avril 1945, Budapest est libérée par l´armée russe au terme d´un si ge implacable. Cet épisode historique, que S ndor M rai évoquera vingt-cinq ans plus tard dans ses Mémoires de Hongrie, lui inspire, chaud, ce roman qu´il ach ve en quelques mois. Pendant les derni res semaines du si ge, une centaine de réfugiés se terrent dans les caves d´un immeuble, attendant l´issue d´un combat incertain. Autour

Soviel Mut hat Clara sich selbst nicht zugetraut; Eigentlich wollte sie auf Mallorca ja nur günstig Urlaub machen. Nachdenken, was sie ohne Paul und all sein Geld anfangen soll. Außerdem braucht sie einen Job und zwar schnell. Warum nicht wieder als Innenarchitektin arbeiten, denkt sie spontan, hier sind so viele wundervolle Häuser einzurichten. Und unterstützt von ihren neuen Freundinnen Lizzy, Britta

Depassee par les sombres secrets de Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele a mis un terme a leur relation pour se consacrer a sa carriere d\'editrice. Mais Grey occupe toujours toutes ses pensees et, lorsqu\'il lui propose un nouvel accord, elle ne peut lui resister. Peu a peu, elle decouvre le douloureux passe de son sulfureux M. Cinquante Nuances. Tandis que Christian lutte contre ses demons interieurs,