Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother\'s medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves\" you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.\"

Twenty-first century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury apartments, will make each of its residents rich - if all agree to sell. But not everyone wants to leave; many of the residents have lived there for a lifetime, many of them are no

As a child I loved The Jungle Books . . . If you want to look at the India of Kipling\'s time, there is no writer who will give it to you better. —Salman Rushdie The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book tell stories of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \'We said there warn\'t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don\'t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a

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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole? Black Holes are the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe, but they are a riddle that confounds our intuitions. Anything that enters them can never escape, and yet they contain nothing at all. They are bigger on the inside than the outside suggests. They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. They invert time into space and space into

Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable

Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths. It\'s December in Cornwall and Art\'s mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so he\'s paying Lux, a young immigrant he found on the street, to impersonate her - but Lux has no intention

It is Christmas Eve, 1957. Flying home, on leave from Germany, he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire. Sixty-six minutes of flying time, with the descent and landing - destination Lakenheath. No problem, all routine procedures. Then, out over the North sea, the fog begins to close in. Radio contact ceases and the compass goes haywire. Suddenly, out of the mist appears a World War II bomber. It is

Now in Spanish: the story of Pablo Picasso\'s brilliant life! Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating them into art. Young readers now have a Spanish translation of this entertaining, highly readable biography, with more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations.

This illustrated volume takes the reader on a visual tour of more than 60 of the world\'s most outstanding hotels. It is divided equally among metropolitan and resort hotels in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East and contains colour photographs.

Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man describes the unexpected arrival in England of a mysterious giant \"metal man\" who wreaks havoc on the countryside by attacking the neighbouring farms and eating all their machinery. A young boy called Hogarth befriends him and he and the extraordinary being end up defending and saving the earth when it is attacked by a fearsome \"space-bat-angel-dragon\"

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr. Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble.

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible. Then they moved in. In \"The Obamas\", Jodi Kantor takes us deep inside the White House as they grapple with their new roles,

Prodolzhenie serii posobij SHkoly dialoga kultur, nachatoj knigoj Zagadki chisla (M., 1996). Forma knigi zaimstvovana u I. Lakatosa (Dokazatelstva i oproverzhenija) - eto voobrazhaemye uroki-dialogi, v kotoryh obsuzhdajutsja na prostom i privychnom materi

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn\'t know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization

THE WAR OF THE REALMS is upon us! Malekith, king of the Dark Elves, has been conquering the Ten Realms and now has his sights set on the last one: Earth. And with armies of Frost Giants, Fire Goblins, trolls, angel warriors, Roxxon corporate soldiers, the Enchantress and the prince of lies himself, Loki, at his side, Malekith may just succeed. Asgardia is no more, Old Asgard is in ruins, and the majority