Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Norris Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Norris Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Norris, The New Yorker's Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way,

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Norris Mary)(Pevná vazba)

In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Norris Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Norris Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker's renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help

Mary, Queen of Scots Book of Days (Times Tudor)(Pevná vazba)

Hugely informative and stunningly produced, the Mary, Queen of Scots Book of Days pairs a practical perpetual diary with a wealth of material on the life and times of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587). The first woman to be crowned as a queen regnant in the British Isles, the tumultuous life and

You Don't Own Me (Clark Mary Higgins)(Pevná vazba)

'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds

Fast Cakes - Easy bakes in minutes (Berry Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Quick and easy bakes by the undisputed Queen of Cakes, Mary

Mary Poppins (Travers P. L.)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! The original best-loved classic about the world's most famous nanny - Mary

Mary Berry's Quick Cooking (Berry Mary)(Pevná vazba)

The nation's queen of home cooking brings her foolproof, delicious approach to quick fix recipes. In this brand-new, official tie-in to the major BBC Two series, Mary shows how being in a rush will never be a problem again. Find brilliant 20- and 30-minute meals and enjoy wonderful dishes that can

New Windmill Book Of Greek Myths (McCaughrean Geraldine)(Pevná vazba)

This selection of 16 Greek myths provides tales of adventure, courage and mystery. Geraldine McCaughrean's re-telling makes them accessible for Key Stage 3

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Seacole Mary)(Pevná vazba)

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon

Dance of Thieves (Pearson Mary E.)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning new young adult adventure set in the kingdoms of the Remnant, by the author of the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles and the Jenna Fox Chronicles.A formidable outlaw family that claims to be the first among nations. A son destined to lead, thrust suddenly into power. Three

Queen Mary (Pope-Hennessy James)(Paperback)

The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers. When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her - unusual for a Queen Consort. Queen Mary's life,

Piece of My Heart (Clark Mary Higgins)(Pevná vazba)

In the latest thrilling collaboration from #1 New York Times bestselling author and 'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fianc e's nephew--just days before her wedding. Television producer Laurie Moran and her

The Scent of Danger (Buckley Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

Ursula's visit to her Devon relatives leads to murder, mayhem and a possible plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots in the latest Ursula Blanchard Tudor mystery. February, 1586. When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns that Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to

The Greek Anthology (Paton W. R.)(Pevná vazba)

The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called 'Stephanus', wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century

The Queen of Nothing (Black Holly)(Pevná vazba)

Greek Lyric (Anacreon)(Pevná vazba)

The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these

The Quest for Queen Mary (Vickers Hugo)(Pevná vazba)

'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year'Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's

The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary (Kitromilides Paschalis M.)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic Prize On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present