From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Hollywood\'s most distinctive landmarks and home to one of the world\'s most defining labels for the past 75+ years. To commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music, TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its founding

An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position

Before he was Ciri\'s guardian, Geralt of Rivia was a legendary swordsman. Season of Storms is an adventure set in the world of the Witcher, the book series that inspired the hit Netflix show and bestselling video games. Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign,

ErinnerungenErscheinungsjahr: 2009Aus d. Ungar. v. Hans SkireckiGewicht: 348 gr / Abmessungen: 189 mm x 120 mm x 23 mmVon Márai, Sándor / Hrsg. v. Heinrichs, Siegfried / Übersetzt v. Skirecki, HansKindheit, Jugend und Studienjahre eines Europäers: Als deutschstämmiger Ungar verbrachte Sándor Márai seine Studienjahre vor allem in Deutschland und Paris. Mit feiner Lakonie und warmem Humor erzählt er

‘Everybody knows that it is true that any rich, single man must definitely want a wife.’ Mrs Bennet has five daughters and they are all unmarried. When rich, single Mr Bingley comes to live in the area, she is sure that he will be the perfect husband for Jane, the eldest Miss Bennet. Then proud Mr Darcy comes to stay with Bingley. Will any of the Bennet daughters be good enough for him? Lively, intelligent

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery - a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob\'s grandfather, Abe.

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson\'s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they\'re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society\'s attempt to \"civilize\" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.

The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A\'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space. It is also a global publishing phenomenon with sales of over 70 million books worldwide (but who\'s counting?). The publication of SNUFF brought the Discworld canon to 39 books - not including the

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that encourages students to read. Today, hundreds of millions of people use the technology that Steve Jobs and his friend started creating in 1976 in a garage in California. A fascinating and informative biography.

„Kde život náš je v půli se svou poutí“ je úvodním veršem z Pekla Danteho Božské komedie, název se tak již v úvodu staví do trpkého kontrastu k československé realitě 50. let. Autobiografická próza Josefa Jedličky je svědectvím člověka o současnosti zítřků, který svými břitkými pozorovacími schopnostmi odhaluje tragikomický svět stalinské éry. Jednotlivé epizody každodennosti i dějinných zvratů do

\"Sorozatunk híres asszonyokat bemutató ágán elérkeztünk a 18. századhoz. Csupa rejtély ez a korszak is. Ki ügyködött II. Rákóczi Ferenc kuruc táborában, műveivel lelkesítve a katonákat: Cinka Panna, a hegedűs, vagy Losárdy Zsuzsanna, a költő? Hogyan lett irodalmi téma \"a lőcsei fehér asszony\" dicstelen, ám fordulatos, logikai és pszichológiai \"bakugrásokkal\" tarkított története? Miért láthatunk

Opportunities is a new five-level course for teenagers. Modules of topic-based units provide rich, contemporary content based on a wide variety of information themes. With a discovery approach to grammar and an upfront focus on vocabulary, Opportunities ensures the most effective language learning for students.

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie\'s The Satanic Verses\", which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta (\"for fifteen years the biggest star in the

Az Európa-szerte népszerű orosz írónő nem tesz mást A mi Urunk népében, csak mesél és mesél a végtelenségig, megunhatatlanul. Mindenről és mindenkiről van egy jó története: legyen szó önbizalom híján álló vagy bármit eltűrő nőkről, az apaság rejtelmeiről, őrangyalokról. Különösen érzékeny a csodákra, a kivételes eseményekre, ám ezeket is - például egy némának hitt gyerek szavait, az állatoknak tartott

Andrea McLean, No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and award-winning TV broadcaster, opens up about her journey from trauma, toxic relationships and divorce towards empowerment, happiness and healing. Do you ever feel like you\'re just existing, not truly living? Do you often dwell on how unfair life can be, and how things haven\'t worked out the way you planned? We\'ve all been there. But it\'s

Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures. Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn\'t going anywhere, her debt is soaring,

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.