Mystic Quest, Hickman

Автор: Katie Hickman
Название: Courtesans
ISBN: 0007113927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007113927
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 1583.00 р.
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Описание: 'Irresistible...history at its most human. Elegant and addictively readable.' William Dalrymple During the course of the 18th- and 19th-century a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives - and those of other people - and made the world do their will.

Men ruined themselves in desperate attempts to gain and retain a courtesan's favours, but she was always courted for far more than sex. In an age in which women were generally not well educated she was often unusually literate and literary, courted for her conversation as well as her physical company. Courtesans were extremely accomplished, and exerted a powerful influence as leaders of fashion and society.

They were not received at Court, but inhabited their own parallel world - the demi-monde - complete with its own hierarchies, etiquette and protocol. They were queens of fashion, linguists, musicians, accomplished at political intrigue and, of course, possessors of great erotic gifts. Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much-envied achievement.

In 'Courtesans' Katie Hickman, author of the bestselling 'Daughters of Britannia', focuses on the exceptional stories of five outstanding women. Sophia Baddeley, Elizabeth Armistead, Harriette Wilson, Cora Pearl and Catherine Walters may have had very different personalities and talents, but their lives exemplify the dazzling existence of the courtesan.

Автор: Katie Hickman
Название: Daughters of Britannia
ISBN: 0006387802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006387800
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.

Автор: Weis/hickman
Название: Dragons of a Fallen Sun
ISBN: 0786918071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786918072
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 735.00 р.
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Описание: Forty years after the destructive "Chaos War," dragons have divided the continent among them, but a magical storm will begin to shake up the existing order.

Автор: Hickman T.&Hickman L.
Название: Mystic Warrior
ISBN: 0446612227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446612227
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 835.00 р.
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Автор: Weis/hickman Ed.
Название: Best of Tales. Volume 1
ISBN: 0786915676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786915675
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 551.00 р.
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Описание: Featuring an entertaining role-playing adventure by Tracy Hickman, a collection of short fiction set in the Dragonlance universe encompasses works by Nancy Varian Berberick, Jeff Grubb, Richard A. Knaak, Douglas Niles, Michael Williams, and other other authors. Original.

Автор: Hickman Jonathan
Название: Avengers
ISBN: 1846536375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846536373
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics. Elkind shows that business groups secured their political power by providing Los Angeles authorities with much-needed services.

Автор: Hickman Jonathan
Название: Fantastic Four
ISBN: 0785151435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780785151432
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 2089.00 р.
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Автор: Hickman
Название: Mystic Empire
ISBN: 0446612243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446612241
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 835.00 р.
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Описание: Eighty Years have passed since the Mystics founded Calsandria, and now their nation is mired in politics and bloodlines. A woman with no magic, Theona Conlan leads the desperate search for the missing Prince of House Arvad. In the faery realm, Dwynwyn learns that slave creatures are mastering a magic that threatens the fragile peace between the faeries and their enemies. And while the goblin Lunid builds a device to reach across worlds, her masters plot to use it for their own dark ends. But unknown to them all, the gates between realities are about to burst open and plunge humans, faeries, and goblins into a war that can be won only with an undiscovered magic...
One that will unite--or destroy--three worlds.

Автор: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Название: Well of Darkness
ISBN: 0006486142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006486145
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Gareth is just a frightened young lad when he is drafted in to be the whipping-boy for the unruly Prince Dagnarus. Yet as they grow to be men, an unshakable bond is formed. And it is their destiny for them to become the two most powerful - and feared - men in the kingdom. But when Dagnarus decides to become a knight himself, he begins a chain of evil events that threaten to destroy the entire kingdom. Only by uniting the Sovereign Stone can peace be restored, and it is up to Dagnarus' brother Helmos to try to achieve this impossible task, using his father's soldiers against his brother's army. All the while, Gareth is gaining mastery over the sinister Void magic, and he is devoted to helping his childhood companion.. This gripping story of magical power and corruption takes the unique viewpoint of focusing on the evil characters, as we follow them from boys to men. Filled with action, suspense and wonderfully imaginative characters, Water From the Well of Darkness is set to elevate the careers of bestselling authors Weis & Hickman to spectacular new heights.

Автор: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Название: Guardians of the Lost
ISBN: 0006486150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006486152
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The second volume in the Sovereign Stone trilogy, a gripping fantasy series filled with unique characters, from the authors of the bestselling DRAGONLANCE books Generations after Vinnengael was laid to waste at the hands of Dagnarus, Gustav, the last human Dominion Lord, finally achieves his lifelong quest when he discovers the lost portion of the Sovereign Stone. Badly injured in a battle with one of Dagnarus's fearsome, otherworldly servants, Gustav entrusts the stone to young Bashae, without revealing its significance. Bashae must make the long and dangerous journey to the Elven lands and deliver the jewel to a trusted friend of Gustav's, who will ensure it reaches the altar built for it in New Vinnengael. At all costs, the Stone must stay out of Dagnarus's hands. But hearing that it is in the possession of his enemies, Dagnarus unleashes war, hoping to seize the Stone in the conflict.