At long last, The New Well-Tempered Sentence rescues punctuation from the perils of boredom, with wholly original explanations of the rules of punctuation, whimsical graphics, and utterly unforgettable characters (yes, characters in a grammar book). Gordon teaches you clearly and simply where to place a comma and how to use an apostrophe. Gradually, as you master the elusive slashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our most perplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of a bizarre and bemusing comedy of manners. Witty, saucy, and utterly unforgettable, The New Well-Tempered Sentence is a must-have for anyone who has ever despaired of opening a punctuation handbook but whose sentences despair without one.
Автор: Kim Yi Dionne, Название: Doomed Interventions ISBN: 1107195594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107195592 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14098.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is for students and scholars studying political economy, public policy, and global health, and all those who are interested in knowing how ordinary Africans think about the response to the AIDS epidemic. It studies the divergent priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.
Автор: Rodriguez Cindy L. Название: The Doomed Search for the Lost City of Z ISBN: 1666322288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781666322286 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Цена: 1240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Forczyk Robert Название: Velikiye Luki 1942-43: The Doomed Fortress ISBN: 1472830695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472830692 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2523.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A highly illustrated study of one of the most dramatic yet overlooked episodes on the Eastern Front in World War II, the siege of Velikye Luki by Soviet forces in 1942--43.
Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000 during Operation Barbarossa and made it a bulwark on the boundary between Heeresgruppe Nord and Heeresgruppe Mitte. In the winter of 1942--43, while Soviet forces were encircling Stalingrad, the Stavka (High Command) conducted a simultaneous offensive to isolate and destroy the 7,500-man German garrison in Velikiye Luki. After surrounding the city on November 27, 1942, the Soviet 3rd Shock Army gradually reduced the city to rubble, while the German garrison, sustained by Luftwaffe air lifts, hunkered down in the medieval city and awaited rescue. This illustrated title reveals the full story of the tense seven-week siege of Velikiye Luki, which saw Soviet forces striving to liberate the city in the face of a determined garrison and fierce relief efforts. Detailed analysis by renowned World War II historian Robert Forczyk is complimented by stunning and historically accurate battlescenes, maps, and bird's-eye-views to offer a comprehensive look at this gripping campaign.
Описание: Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own-photographed, analyzed, cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London. This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present, richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs, many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus.
Автор: Strugatsky Arkady, Strugatsky Boris Название: The Doomed City ISBN: 1613749937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781613749937 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The magnum opus of Russia's greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of European languages, and now appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield.
The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City "was genuinely delightful and fascinating work." Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.
Автор: Sikes Mark Название: The Doomed Journal ISBN: 0578581191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578581194 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In December 1992-January 1993, Roger Corman produced the first ever live-action film version of Marvel's comic book, The Fantastic Four. Mark Sikes worked on that original film. Marvel bought the film up from Corman and co-producer, New Constantin Films. It has never been released anywhere in the world.
Twenty years later Sikes and film director Marty Langford produced a feature-length documentary about the film. This journal is a day by day diary of the making of the documentary from conception to fund-raising and production as well as distribution and the eventual exhibition at San Diego Comicon.
In addition to the diary is a full telling of the many roles Sikes played in the original production like casting assistant, projectionist, and even a night on screen inside The Thing costume for pick-ups
Anyone interested in how to make a documentary will enjoy this book. It will appeal to comic book fans and filmmaking buffs alike. No one should try to make a documentary without first reading this book.
Why did Marvel refuse to let anyone see this film? How did Sikes and Langford complete principal photography without spending a dime of their own money? Why did Corman sell the film back to Marvel instead of releasing it? Where is the negative of the original film? When did the cast and crew learn that the film they had all worked so hard on was never going to see the light of day? And why did Academy Award-winning producer Roger Corman walk out of the screening of the documentary when it had its world premiere in Santa Monica, California? These questions and many more will be answered in...The Doomed Journal
AN ANCIENT EVIL RETURNS. THE HUNTSMEN OF MUSPELHEIM WANT THE CODEX LACRIMAE, SO THEY'VE SET A TRAP IN 12TH CENTURY CRUSADER LANDS TO GET IT
Believed lost for half a millennium, the Codex Lacrimae reappears when an old scholar brings the Dark Book to the Hospitaller castle of the Krak des Chevaliers. Unwittingly, that action leads the malevolent Huntsmen to the one person they've been seeking: R g, an apprentice who trains the warrior-monks in the castle's library, and seeks only a quiet existence because of a haunted past. The arrival of the Codex Lacrimae and its supernatural temptations will force R g to choose between the peaceful path of a priest or violent ways of a warrior.
Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, the Norns of Fate try to counter the Huntsmen's plot by casting a net around Clarinda Trevisan, a beautiful Venetian sea merchant's daughter who is content to sail with her father's fleet throughout the Mediterranean Sea. After her father disappears, Clarinda's attempt to solve the mystery pulls her into both R g's orbit and matters far greater than the cargoes and crews that usually occupy her time. The girl must learn the ways of war and magic to fulfill Fate's role, and confront strange creatures of Norse mythology, a nefarious Templar Grandmaster, the magical Nine Worlds, and a tempestuous relationship with R g himself.
The return of the Codex Lacrimae unleashes a host of evils that might challenge even the most star-crossed of lovers. If Clarinda & R g can't stop the various forces in pursuit of the Dark Book, they'll find the worlds of the Multiverse at the brink of annihilation
Автор: Rude, Curt Название: Stunned and Seething ISBN: 0988431963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988431966 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: Leuchars Chris Название: A Forlorn Hope: The True Story of a Doomed Wagon Train ISBN: 1076321879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781076321879 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1688.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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