Andrew Davidson crea narrazioni psicologicamente intense che approfondiscono gli estremi del sacrificio e del desiderio umano. I suoi romanzi immergono i lettori in complessi dilemmi morali, esplorando le sfaccettature più oscure della condizione umana. Con uno stile avvincente e caratterizzazioni profonde, Davidson si è affermato come maestro della narrativa ricca di suspense e che invita alla riflessione.
The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Hebrew grammar, focusing on syntax. It is a high-quality reprint of the original 1896 edition, preserving the integrity of the content while providing a resource for learners and scholars interested in the structure of the Hebrew language.
Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. The origins of the first ymbryne. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar —known to hide information about the peculiar world—first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history, with a collection of original stories, as collected and annotated by Millard Nullings, ward of Miss Peregrine and scholar of all things peculiar.
One thousand business leaders from across the globe--including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton, and more--provide colorful and instructive career anecdotes for anyone interested in achieving success in the business world.
Suvremeni neimenovani cinik, privlačan i seksualno iskusan muškarac, ovisnik o kokainu, doživljava tešku nesreću koja mu uzrokuje strašne opekotine. U bolničkoj agoniji odlučuje da će se ubiti čim mu dopuste izlazak, smatrajući se čudovištem. Međutim, pored njega se pojavljuje pacijentica Marianne Engel, prekrasna kiparica koja vjeruje da su oboje bili ljubavnici u srednjovjekovnoj Njemačkoj. Ona mu priča o tragičnoj ljubavi kroz različite povijesne periode, od viktorijanske Engleske do Japana i Islanda tijekom Vikinga. Njene priče ga polako vraćaju u život, a on se iznova zaljubljuje u nju. Ova jedinstvena naracija nudi nezaboravne likove i nevjerojatan zaplet, držeći čitatelja u napetosti do posljednje stranice. Roman je izazvao veliku pažnju i borbu među nakladnicima prije objavljivanja, a sada je dostupan u više od dvadeset zemalja. Priča o ljubavi koja nadilazi patnje i vrijeme budi usporedbe s klasicima poput "Imena ruže" i "Engleskog pacijenta". Hrvatski prijevod djela je Anja Majnarić, a naslovna ilustracija potpisuje Patti Ratchford.
A young man is fighting for his life.Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him.Their journey will have you believing in the impossible.The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over he is now a monster.But in fact it is only just beginning. One day, Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale, Scheherazade fashion, and relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan, Greenland, Italy and England, he finds himself drawn back to life and, finally, to love.
Intelligent and self-assured Buck, a cross between a St. Bernard and a Scottish shepherd, lives a royal life in the family of a California judge. However, during the gold rush, there is a demand for strong dogs, and Buck is stolen by a trader who supplies dogs to the Far North. In a struggle with a brute armed with a heavy club, the dog has no chance: he is defeated, but his spirit does not succumb. When the dog team runs out of strength and the ruthless, dull owner beats Buck into unconsciousness, the prospector Thornton drives off the brute, kneels beside the dog, and with rough, gentle hands searches for signs of broken bones… a deep, mutual friendship and love develops between man and dog. They experience many dangerous adventures together! Several springs pass, and they find a shallow deposit in a wide valley, where gold appears like a layer of yellow butter across the bottom of the pan – but the most brutal event that Buck has faced in the company of humans is approaching. And the bond with man begins to break… The Call of the Wild, Jack London's most widely read book, is a great adventure novel with a rich, dramatic plot and vividly portrayed characters of people and dogs. It is also a philosophically grounded book. These are the reasons why it continually evokes excited interest from readers of all ages.
This is the perfect book for any wildlife enthusiast: a unique selection of over twenty stories and extracts about the animal kingdom, from the very finest writers of the genre. This carefully selected collection features writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Charles Darwin, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Dick King-Smith and Michael Morpurgo himself. Illustrated throughout with detailed etchings, this is a fantastic introduction to many great writers and a great present for any animal-loving child.
Everybody wants to know why life's winners are so successful: how did they do it?, why they do it?, what makes them different? All of us are fascinated by the lives and backgrounds of the rich (and sometimes famous). Behind every entrepreneur is a story. Andrew Davidson has interviewed dozens of leading entrepreneurs over many years. He has asked the questions we all want to ask. He has probed into their backgrounds, delved into their psyche. Compared, contrasted and considered just what it is about them that makes them different. Here he pulls together all the information, and takes an overall look at the bigger picture and what we can learn from the living giants, who did it their way. Davidson interprets the psychology of success, telling the entrepreneurs' stories in their own words, and the words of the people closest to them. For anybody with a will to succeed or a fascination as to how others do this combination is unputdownable.
Una grave minaccia incombe sulle città di Ercolano e Pompei: il Vesuvio sta per eruttare! In lotta contro il tempo, Flavia, Gionata, Nubia e Lupo, aiutati dal misterioso fabbro Vulcano, rischiano la vita per salvare i loro amici... Età di lettura: da 9 anni.
Full of the power and fantastic imagination of his famous book The Iron Man, this sequel from the late Poet Laureate is a passionate and brilliant cry against the relentless pollution of the Earth's waterways through the dumping of industrial waste.
In this collection of tales from the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. The author's other books for children include The Iron Man.
Un gigante di ferro apparve un giorno in cima a una scogliera. Nessuno sapeva da dove venisse né dove sarebbe andato. Il vento cantava tra le sue dita di ferro, mentre lui esplorava con i suoi grandi occhi luminosi il mare che non aveva mai visto. Erano molte le cose da scoprire, lì sulla Terra, e l'Uomo di Ferro fu felice di trovare una discarica di metalli in cui fare scorpacciate di rottami e un piccolo, intrepido amico da difendere. Perché dallo spazio stava per arrivare un pericoloso drago-angelo-pipistrello... Età di lettura: da 9 anni.