The Complete Handbook of Obstetric Surgery, Or, Short Rules of Practice in Every Emergency, from the Simplest to the Most Formidable Operations Connected with the Science of Obstetricy Clay Charles Книга по Требованию

This is the complete waste of time you've been waiting for! • Cram your cranium full of nonsense as you solve over 40 wacky and absurd puzzles in this collection. Filled with absurd situations, nonsense plays on words and perplexing picture puzzles, these conundrums showcase the best of British humor with hilariously surreal full-colour artwork accompanying each one • Includes • Riddles • Anagrams • Rebus puzzles • Cryptograms • Whether you're looking to curb the boredom for a few minutes or procrastinate your life away*, these highly addictive puzzles are for you • * This book cannot be held responsible for the loss of your job, partner or social life

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey"; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in "Mansfield Park"; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility"; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight

Уильям Шекспир (1564-1616) признан величайшим драматургом всех времен. Его талант - это и великие трагедии "Гамлет", "Король Лир", "Отелло" и "Макбет", и трогательные исторические пьесы, и комедии "Сон в летнюю ночь", "Укрощение строптивой" и "Как вам это понравится" с их волшебным сочетанием юмора, колкости и нежности. Шекспир. Полное собрание сочинений Шекспира (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare) - это репринтое издание Shakespeare Head Press и представляет все пьесы в хронологическом порядке их написания. Кроме того, в книгу включены сонеты Шекспира, а также его более длинные поэмы "Венера и Адонис" и "Похищение Лукреции". Книга на английском языке • William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time

From the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage and the tragic crash of the Columbia, Flight takes you on a sky-high journey through the history of aviation.Charting the trailblazers, jet test pilots and constant progress at the cutting-edge of technology, every aspect of flight is explored in this stunning book. Recalling memorable events - record-breaking flights, aerial warfare and hijackings - Flight is the story of how man's dream to fly became a reality.This new compact edition features incredible photography and breathtaking stats; the perfect bookshelf addition for everyone interested in how we took to the skies

From the author of the worldwide bestseller Raising Boys, this bind-up of the parenting classics The Secret of Happy Children and More Secrets of Happy Children by parenting expert and child psychologist Steve Biddulph tells parents everything they need to know about raising happy, healthy, confident children from babyhood to teens • This bind-up brings all of Steve's parenting tips and secrets together for the first time • This book shows parents how to be true to themselves while also bringing up secure children who feel loved and respected, with self esteem and responsibility • The book is aimed at a wide age group- from babies and toddlers to older children and teenagers • Authoritative yet accessible, the book is full of case histories and familiar conversations and scenarios, as well as cartoons, that help parents relate to Steve's message

Featuring new and iconic images, this follow-up to Prestel's highly successful A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive includes some of the most striking photography ever collected in one volume. As readers flip the pages they will find themselves traveling from west to east across the globe. Each country is represented in three or four images captured by a single photographer. While renowned figures such as Robert Capa, Bruce Davidson, and Martin Parr are included, readers will also find younger photographers such as Olivia Arthur, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Mikhael Subotzky, all of whom present dazzling new views of our changing world. Shining a light on the human condition in every corner of the globe, this compilation exemplifies Magnum founder Henry Cartier- Bresson's vision of "a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume • J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron • It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor

There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight

A collection of 52 pieces of writing displaying Woody Allens own brand of humour • Allens three outrageously funny collections in one volume • Complete Prose brings together Allens three outrageously funny collections, Without Feathers, Getting Even and Side Effects • "No 500-page book ever contained a laugh a line, but this one gets pretty close" • Daily Telegraph

An inspiring collection of quotes from The Talks, a much-loved online magazine featuring candid interviews with visionaries • Over the last decade, The Talks has conducted more than 500 interviews with cultural visionaries - illuminating conversations with artists, actors, directors, chefs, fashion designers, architects, authors, musicians, and athletes. For this book, The Talks' founders Sven Schumann and Johannes Bonke have selected the finest quotes from those conversations and arranged them by category - including acting, advice, age, beauty, creativity, inspiration, love, money, nature, rebellion, and more. The result: a fast-paced, insightful look into the lives and minds of the creative voices of our time

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li