Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. This book includes information about heat islands and their mitigation. It describes how heat islands are formed, what problems they cause, which... Zobraziť viac
Elena, une jeune Roumaine née en Bessarabie et ballottée par l'Histoire, rencontre a un bal en 1958 un homme dont elle tombe passionnément amoureuse. Il est juif, et ses parents s'opposent au mariage. Elena finit par épouser Jacob et par réaliser son... Zobraziť viac
Jane ne recevait jamais de paquet chez elle. Elle le prit. Solide, rectangulaire et plutôt lourd : sans doute un livre. Elle se battit contre l'enveloppe rembourrée, agrafée et collée. Elle en sortit une chemise en carton jaune. Une disquette tomba sur... Zobraziť viac
Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire - 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator - can be read on many levels. With its piercing clarity and deceptively simple style it is no surprise that... Zobraziť viac
When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect. Rather... Zobraziť viac
Introduces Mrs Boot the farmer, her children Poppy and Sam, Rusty the dog, Curly the pig, Woolly the sheep and all the other animal characters at Apple Tree Farm. Zobraziť viac
Ship from Germany, hardcover. "Prestuplenie i nakazanie" - vysochajshij obrazec kriminal'nogo romana. V ramkah zhanra policejskogo rassledovanija pisatel' postavil voprosy, i po sej den' ne reshennye. Kem dolzhen byt' chelovek: "tvar'ju drozhashhej",... Zobraziť viac
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival, for her, is second... Zobraziť viac
As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything.Power, position, a career and a family, which mean everything to him, and forwhich he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key in PeterHaskell's life, and integrity... Zobraziť viac
Explains the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB, the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves, and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets. This book... Zobraziť viac
The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets completes nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. The volume closes with an up-to-date overall ground plan... Zobraziť viac
When stars begin to twinkle in the night sky, it's time for an outer-space lullaby. A perfect bedtime read to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! Rocket-bye, Baby, up to the moon. Nighttime is falling; sleep will come soon. We'll climb... Zobraziť viac
Das Atomabkommen mit dem Iran ist Geschichte: Die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm. Warum aber haben die USA es aufgekündigt, gegen den erklärten Willen der Europäer? Obwohl sich Teheran an alle Verpflichtungen hält? Worum geht es in diesem Konflikt? Um die... Zobraziť viac
Where Does Pig Live? is a novelty board book for toddlers that takes them around the farm to look for Big Pig's home, and to meet lots of farm characters on the way. Slide the doors open, and lift up the flaps to discover who lives where, until,... Zobraziť viac
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his... Zobraziť viac
Oui, j'y voyais clair soudain : la plupart des gens s'adonnent au mirage d'une double croyance : ils croient a la pérennité de la mémoire (des hommes, des choses, des actes, des nations) et a la possibilité de réparer (des actes, des erreurs, des... Zobraziť viac
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. It is an integrative field of inquiry that unites concepts and information from ecology, evolutionary biology, and other biological... Zobraziť viac
