Автор: Maloney Alison Название: Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants ISBN: 1250017653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250017659 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 2758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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UPSTAIRS, an Edwardian home would have been a picture of elegance and calm, adorned with social gatherings and extravagantly envisioned dinner parties.
DOWNSTAIRS, it was a hive of domestic activity, supported by a body of staff painstakingly devoted to ensuring the smooth running of the household.
Brimming with family secrets, society scandal, and of course elaborate parties, dresses, and social customs, the world of an aristocratic Edwardian household as depicted on the hit show Downton Abbey has captivated millions. But what was life really like for the people who kept such a household running: the servants? In Life Below Stairs, international bestselling author Alison Maloney takes readers behind the scenes to reveal a lively and colorful picture of what went on "downstairs," describing servants' daily life in this now-vanished world.
Detailing everything from household structure, pay and conditions, special duties, and rules and regulations, to perks, entertainment, and even romance, Maloney examines the drudgery and hardships below stairs, as well as the rewards and pleasures. Thoroughly researched and reliably informed, this charmingly illustrated volume also contains first-hand stories from the staff of the time, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the lifestyle and conduct of a bygone era.
Автор: Maloney, Leo J. Название: Angle Of Attack (Kpd) ISBN: 1516110080 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516110087 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1467.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Real-life Black Ops veteran Leo J. Maloney launches an electrifying new series featuring Alex Morgan, daughter of legendary operative Dan Morgan and a formidable force in her own right.
ANGLE OF ATTACK
Alex Morgan's new mission for Zeta plunges her into a web of danger threatening Europe's glamorous Formula One racing circuit. It quickly escalates into a race against time to track down a missing supply of weapons-grade plutonium headed for North America. From a secret prison in Iran to the glittering casinos of Monaco, to the jungles of Malaysia, and to the dark side of Montreal, Alex is up against a deadly and far-reaching conspiracy. Each step of the way, she's dogged by a shadowy figure determined to destroy her. Alex has the grit to deal with any external threat, but this is a new kind of peril from a source shockingly close to home--one that will make Alex question everything she once believed... Praise for Leo J. Maloney and His Novels "Fine writing and real insider knowledge." --Lee Child
"Rings with authenticity." --John Gilstrap
"Everything a thriller reader wants." --Ben Coes
"The new master of the modern spy game." --Mark Sullivan
"A ripping story " --Meg Gardiner
Автор: Maloney, Leo J. Название: Rogue Commander (Kpd) ISBN: 1616509805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616509804 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "The new master of the modern spy game."-Mark Sullivan
From Black Ops veteran Leo J. Maloney comes a nonstop thrill ride straight into the secret world of covert agents . . .
Rogue Commander
Four-star general James Collins has been accused of stealing a cache of Tomahawk missiles-and reaches out to his friend, CIA veteran Dan Morgan, for help. But Morgan is playing with fire. The Zeta Division, chasing down a black-market middleman, discovers a connection to a North Korean military officer-and one of his team winds up a prisoner in Pyongyang. As Morgan takes a series of escalating risks, it becomes clear that a global plot is already in motion-and if they can't stop it, an unimaginable number of innocent civilians will be slaughtered . . .
Praise for Leo J. Maloney and His Novels
"Utterly compelling Dan Morgan is one of the best heroes to come along in ages." ---Jeffery Deaver
"Fine writing and real insider knowledge."-Lee Child
"Everything a thriller reader wants."-Ben Coes
"A ripping story "-Meg Gardiner
"Rings with authenticity."-John Gilstrap
Автор: Maloney, Leo J. Название: Storm Front (Kpd) ISBN: 1516110102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516110100 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1467.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The second installment in acclaimed Black-Ops thriller author Leo J. Maloney's spin-off series featuring Alex Morgan, daughter of Zeta operative Dan Morgan.
STORM FRONT
Ares, an insidious challenger to the Zeta group, is sowing conflict around the world, orchestrating an explosive endgame. Indentifying the next target as a cruise ship on the Coral Sea, Zeta sends undercover operatives Alex Morgan and Alicia Schmitt to avert catastrophe. Infiltrating the crew and passengers is easy for the skilled agents--but also for the fortified and highly trained extremists, who topple security and gain control of the ship.
The attackers' demands: inconceivable. Their threats: immediate. As a massive storm bears down off the Australian coast, Alex and Alicia are outnumbered, outgunned, and out to sea. In full chaos mode, Alex shores up her last defenses, unaware that someone close to her could shift the odds in her favor--or against her. Ares has every advantage in this operation, but they have overlooked one key thing. Never underestimate a Zeta agent . . . especially one whose last name is Morgan.
Praise for Leo J. Maloney and His Novels
"Utterly compelling." --Jeffery Deaver
"Fine writing and real insider knowledge." --Lee Child
"Rings with authenticity." --John Gilstrap
"A ripping story!" --Meg Gardiner
"The new master of the modern spy game." --Mark Sullivan
Автор: Maloney Leo J. Название: Black Skies ISBN: 0786036117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786036110 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Maloney, Leo J. Название: War Of Shadows (Kpd) ISBN: 1516103343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516103348 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1467.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Maloney, Leo J. Название: Threat Level Alpha (Kpd) ISBN: 1516103327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516103324 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Dan Morgan is one of the best heroes to come along in ages." -Jeffery Deaver
Black Ops veteran Leo J. Maloney delivers a high-level thriller that spans the globe, changes the game, and raises the threat level to all-out, worldwide destruction . . .
Threat Level Alpha
They strike without warning, in key locations around the world. In Russia, a Soviet-era storage facility is raided by terrorists. In the Phillipines, an important international conference is under siege. In the United States, Dan Morgan is stalked by Russian agents. And at Berkeley, Morgan's daughter is kidnapped with other students and taken to a remote laboratory. The attacks are neither coincidental nor random. They are part of a carefully orchestrated plan by a new and merciless organization. As Zeta Division struggles to make sense of the international chaos, Dan Morgan races to stop a deadly biochemical weapon-one that Morgan's daughter is being forced to help build...
Praise for Leo J. Maloney and His Novels
"Rings with authenticity."-John Gilstrap
"Fine writing and real insider knowledge."-Lee Child
"Everything a thriller reader wants."-Ben Coes
"The new master of the modern spy game." -Mark Sullivan
"A ripping story "-Meg Gardiner
"Maloney has a real winner." -Marc Cameron
Автор: Maloney James Название: The Panoramic Seer ISBN: 0768413443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780768413441 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3447.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Felix Martin awakes to what he has been waiting for all his life: for civilization to finally meet its destiny. A massive explosion in the west by what, no one knows. Multiple presumed nuclear attacks in almost every major city. An airborne zootoxic infection that has manipulated the very genetic physiology and physical characteristics of the infected. And an entire country experiencing true freedom for once in its existence. Felix navigates the ash-covered and quiet remnants of the United States, coming across friends and survivors along the way and derailing his futile attempts to find out for himself his fiancee`s disposition. To find out what happened to her. However, the universe has other plans. Gangs and false flags, the true evil of what a human being can do to another, are all distractions as he fights onward. Catching the attention of those responsible for the infection further guides him down a dark path. In his travels, he finds that what is coming is far greater than reality, ending up in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where all that remains is gathering just outside that old fort`s walls. He slowly lets himself ride that spiral as far as it goes, down into that maddening dark place only the fallen know. With secrets all about him and a new fascist remnant of the old government on the rise, he merely smears his face with a jagged grin all the while being chased by the queen of the feral and something far older than even the light. The Black Dog watches as Felix slowly loses himself when he finds out he is no longer just a man. He leaves his humanity behind because after all, monsters deserve to kill monsters. Regardless the trial or adversary, it wasn`t his world that ended.
Автор: Maloney, Thomas Название: Learning to die ISBN: 1912854198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912854196 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 1780.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It all starts with a crack that we can hardly see, It happens when we shout or if we disagree. But with every kindness that we care to show, Something good and magical then begins to grow... Angry words and thoughtlessness cause a crack to open up, but find out what happens when kindness begins to blossom, in this thought-provoking book by award-winning illustrator Britta Teckentrup.
Автор: Maloney, Leo J. Название: Arch Enemy (Kpd) ISBN: 1616509783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616509781 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Maloney Suzanne Название: The Iranian Revolution at Forty ISBN: 0815737939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815737933 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How Iran--and the world around it--have changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took power
Iran's 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the late twentieth century. The overthrow of the Western-leaning Shah and the emergence of a unique religious government reshaped Iran, dramatically shifted the balance of power in the Middle East and generated serious challenges to the global geopolitical order--challenges that continue to this day. The seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran later that same year and the ensuing hostage crisis resulted in an acrimonious breach between America and Iran that remains unresolved to this day. The revolution also precipitated a calamitous war between Iran and Iraq and an expansion of the U.S. military's role in maintaining security in and around the Persian Gulf.
Forty years after the revolution, more than two dozen experts look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the startling events of 1979 continue to mean for the volatile Middle East as well as the rest of the world. The authors explore the events of the revolution itself; whether its promises have been kept or broken; the impact of clerical rule on ordinary Iranians, especially women; the continuing antagonism with the United States; and the repercussions not only for Iran's immediate neighborhood but also for the broader Middle East.
Complete with a helpful timeline and suggestions for further reading, this book helps put the Iranian revolution in historical and geopolitical perspective, both for experts who have long studied the Middle East and for curious readers interested in fallout from the intense turmoil of four decades ago.
Автор: Shane Maloney Название: The Brush-Off ISBN: 1841953563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841953564 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1038.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Summer in the city. Murray Whelan is in the undergrowth of the Botanic Gardens having a romantic encounter with the delicious Salina Fleet. Meanwhile, across the park, the body of a disgruntled artist is being fished out of the public art gallery's ornamental moat. Whelan, political spin doctor and artless lover, must ensure there is no fallout for his boss, and in the process stumbles upon a scam to swindle the tax payer, a forgery racket and three beautiful women. As Whelan is drawn ever deeper into this tangled web, his childhood nemesis lurks menacingly on the edge of the action, and people are dropping like flies ...
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