Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks—the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture. Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases.Arti...

Najistotniejsze zagadnienia z gramatyki angielskiej przedstawione w atrakcyjnej formie ułatwiającej efektywną naukę, wytłumaczone w prosty, zrozumiały sposób. Z książki korzystać mogą zarówno osoby początkujące, jak i bardziej zaawansowane, traktując ją jako repetytorium gramatyczne. Jest ona cenną pomocą dla studentów uczęszczających na lektorat języka angielskiego, maturzystów, słuchaczy szkół językowych i samouków.

Słownik zawiera około 5000 podstawowych terminów angielskich z dziedziny spawalnictwa, a także z dziedzin z nią powiązanych, takich jak elektrotechnika, metaloznawstwo, wytrzymałość materiałów, wraz z ich odpowiednikami lub objaśnieniami w języku polskim.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFYIn this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals.As Gabriel’s reluctant initiation takes hold, he is drawn deeper into th...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself in a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But hi...

Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

Shh! Listen! What is that I hear Gallumphing softly up the stair? This beautiful edition of Dirty Beasts, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl’s books that were publis...

Podręcznik przeznaczony dla szerokiego kręgu odbiorców. Zakres materiału obejmuje wszystkie zagadnienia gramatyczne przewidziane w programach nauczania w szkołach, na kursach i lektoratach. Poszczególne zagadnienia gramatyczne zostały omówione szczegółowo i zilustrowane wieloma przykładami. Podręcznik zawiera ćwiczenia wdrażające, automatyzujące, utrwalające i testujące (kontrolne), wszystkie opatrzone rozwiązaniami zawartymi w Kluczu, co pozwala uczącym się samodzielnie prze...

Tytuł prezentuje 100 idiomów wraz z przykładami użycia obrazującymi ich znaczenie. Dlaczego warto uczyć się idiomów? Zwroty idiomatyczne to zagadnienie niezmiernie ważne w nauce każdego języka - idiomy pojawiają się przede wszystkim w tzw. żywym języku: w codziennych konwersacjach, telewizji, prasie czy internecie. Ich poprawna znajomość będzie zatem procentować - z jednej strony większą pewnością w rozumieniu wypowiedzi, z drugiej strony możliwością poczucia się ...

Rozmówki angielskie nauczą Cię posługiwania się tym językiem w codziennych sytuacjach. Znajdziesz tu najpopularniejsze zwroty i wyrażenia. Książkę uzupełniają zabawne ilustracje, krótkie dialogi oraz ciekawostki z krajów anglojęzycznych. Dołączone w formie plików do ściągnięcia nagranie z obszernym komentarzem lektora pomoże w zrozumieniu zasad i ćwiczeniu ich zastosowania w codziennych sytuacjach.

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage - not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence.Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles...

Hailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.And made into an acclaimed, chilling 10-part Ridley Scott-produced BBC TV seriesHailed as the most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph.But for almost two years his ships HMSTerrorandErebushave beentrapped in the Arctic ice. Supplies of fuel and food are running l...

Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That’s what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and opportunities are no longer shaped by what we learn or earn but by whether we have access to the Bank of Mum and Dad. We’re living in an inheritocracy, where parental support is what matters most – whether that’s covering the cost of universit...

“There is no end for you and I, Witchling.”For hundreds of years, the Coven has presided over Hollow’s Grove University, their skeletal fingers grasping for control over the witches who pass through the gates.Now, after a bloody and violent coup, Willow Madizza must come to terms with the role she was forced to play in the Coven’s demise.And face the demons she has unwittingly unleashed upon the world.Preparing to fight for the future of the Coven, Willow has no choice but to...

Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of potential meanings and intimations'Times Literary SupplementDazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of literature, life and ar...

Książka dla wszystkich, którym poprawne użycie czasów sprawia trudność. Znajdziesz w niej zwięzłe wytłumaczenie zasad stosowania czasów w języku angielskim, liczne przykłady poprawnego ich użycia oraz ćwiczenia umożliwiające utrwalenie poznanych reguł.Wybór czasu gramatycznego (tense) zależy między innymi od tego, czy czynność (lub stan) ma charakter stały (lub tymczasowy), czy jest zakończona (lub nie), czy dwie czynności odbywają się jedna po drugiej (lub jednocześnie), czy...

Two exes. One pact.Could this holiday change everything?Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world.Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone.But the cottage is for sale, so this is th...

Yassou! Pull up a chair at Greece's beloved tavernas with this gorgeous cookbook.'OPA' is a phrase that captures the warmth of Greek culture, an expression that can carry many meanings based on the context it's used in from joy to excitement, celebration to surprise. For Peinao (2023) authors Helena and Vikki Moursellas, it's a phrase that best captures what sits at the heart of Greece's rich food culture, making it the natural namesake for their latest book.With recipes for ...

A beautifully illustrated pocket-sized book featuring stunning and lifelike illustrations of plant life from prints and drawings in the Royal Collection. The perfect gift for plant-lovers and anyone inspired by botanical drawings.Celebrate the beauty of botany with this album of exquisite illustrations from the Royal Collection. A source of inspiration for those with a love of plant life, illustration and design, discover more than 80 meticulous and scientifically accurate dr...

'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, ...

Some secrets are best left in the dark... A gothic mystery with an immersive setting and strong heroine at its heartLondon, 1833Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees – a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia.If Hester can cure the ailing health of its owner, Gervaise Cherville, she will receive payment that will bring her eve...

The light-hearted, hilarious and gorgeous novel from the much-loved classic author.Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter.Local tongues w...

As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered what she was to experience on the Riviera.Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie surrounding Nicky, was a revelation - and so, ultimately, was she. A wild Yorkshire rose among the thorny model girls, Cable and Yvonne, with a rare asset that they'd mislaid years ago...But the path of a jet-set virgin in that lovely, wicked world was a hard one.Imogen began to wonder if virtue real...