Carter and Sadie have nothing in common but their parents: their father Dr. Julius Kane, a brilliant Egyptologist, and their mother, a famed archaeologist who died under mysterious circumstances when they were young. The siblings barely know each oth er, but one night, their father brings them together at the British Museum, promising a \'research experiment\' that will set things right for their family.

Unfortunately, Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret, and his notes were apparently destroyed in the fire. Then suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes and there\'s no explanation; utilities cease to function; and all telecommunications abruptly stop, with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker - only the enormous power

Complete First provides thorough preparation for the revised 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with first-hand knowledge of the challenges students face. This course provides comprehensive language development integrated with exam-task familiarisation. There are exercises to help students avoid repeating the typical mistakes that

The \"New York Times\"bestsellingauthor of \"The Wrong Billionaire s Bed\" delivers a delicious new novel about a secret society of six men who are incredibly wealthy but not always so successful when it comes to love Kylie may be a makeup artist to the stars, but she knows what it feels like to be overshadowed. Especially by her famous boss, the pop star Daphne. That s why she s stunned and delighted

George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In \"Mrs. Warren s Profession,\" \" Arms and the Man,\" \" Candida,\" and \"Man and Superman,\" the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical

Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who goes to work for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him and he loves Jane too, but he hides a terrible secret which will bring them both great sadness. \"Penguin Readers\" is a series of simpli fied novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed

Nancy Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture, or Bunny Williams to interiors—a master, a visionary, a seasoned professional at the very pinnacle of her craft. The designs Power creates—whether for parklands, playgrounds, or private sanctuaries—reflect the meticulous attention she pays to each place’s particularity and to the desires and living patterns of those who will use

Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, King describes his ideas on how horror works and how he brings it to bear in his own novels.

Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. ‘You murder my father, and I’ll murder your wife,’ he suggests. So begins Guy’s journey into a world of madness, lies and death.

Who will guard the living when the dead arise? Sabriel is sent as a child across the Wall to the safety of a school in Ancelstierre. Away from magic, away from the Dead. After receiving a cryptic message from her father, 18-year-old Sabriel leaves her ordinary school and returns across the Wall into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with

An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and visual ephemera behind its creation, growth, and continued popularity. From one of the most iconic game brands in the world, this official DUNGEONS & DRAGONS illustrated history provides an unprecedented look at the visual evolution of the brand, showing its continued

Fixed-wheel cycling has today become the coolest form of urban transport, giving rise to a global fixed-wheel culture. Fixed is the first book to document fixed-wheel culture. The authors have travelled to cities around the world to examine at first hand the intersections between the fixed-wheel bikes design and its racing heritage, and the street style and customisation that are at the heart of its

This is the new novel from Milan Kundera. \"Enchanting...it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously...In this novel of Flaubertian seduction, free of blame and guilt, insignificance is the very essence of life.\" (La Repubblica). Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe\'s extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe\'s tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions

Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Cicero\'s Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating

Le bel Adonis n\'a rien d\'un campeur. Apéritifs entre voisins, tentes et caravanes, disputes familiales, assiettes en plastique et linge qui pend... C\'est dans ce joyeux décor que le jeune homme retrouve son frre aîné. Avec cet allié redoutable, l\'été sera la saison de toutes les révoltes.

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There\'s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it\'s more than a year before the man is identified. And that\'s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the

Der frühe Ausbruch aus der unerträglichen Enge einer Salzburger Kindheit führt den Autor (Jahrgang 1948) nach Paris, ins europäische Ausland und später in die USA. Nach einem Selbstmordversuch hat er nichts mehr zu verlieren. Als die Ausbruchsbewegung in eine Kreisbahn übergeht und ihn zurück in die Zwangsverhältnisse ehelicher, bürgerlicher Normalität führt, träumt er von einem neuen Ausbruch.

Eine mutige Auseinandersetzung mit der deutsch-tschechischen Nachkriegsgeschichte Gita will nur noch nach Hause unter die warme Zudecke, den vertrauten Geruch ihres Elternhauses aufnehmen, die Schrecken des Konzentrationslagers vergessen. Doch als die Sechzehnjährige 1945 nach Kriegsende nach Hause ins tschechische Puklice kommt, wohnen Fremde in der Villa ihrer Familie. Gita wird vertrieben, als Staatsfeindin

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued