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From the author of THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE – a romantic historical quest set in Renaissance Florence and China surrounding the search for ultramarine.THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN is a fictional account of a young man who travelled to what are now Afghanistan and China to discover lapis lazuli, the precious stone that when turned into ultramarine changed the history of painting – allowing artists to abandon gold as a background and open up depth, landscape and perspective with the most beautiful shade of blue.Along the way, Paolo suffers the torments of unfulfilled love before he returns to his anxious family in Venice, where he also plays a part in the early development of lenses and spectacles!

"The Colour Out of Space" is a 1st-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed Boston surveyor. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned five-acre farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The treatises of Aristotle, on the heavens, on generation and corruption, and on meteors / translated from the Greek, with copious elucidations, from the commentaries of Simplicius on the first, and of Olympiodorus on the last of this treatises by Thomas Taylor».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Chromatics , or an essay on the analogy and harmony of colours».

Вниманию читателей предлагается фразеологический словарь нового формата. Впервые в него включены не только фразы, но и отдельные слова, которым найдены яркие, красочные эквиваленты в английском языке. В приложении читатели найдут пословицы, поговорки и крылатые слова, по крупицам собранные авторами. Для удобства пользователей словарь снабжен алфавитными указателями. Благодаря английскому указателю, словарь может выполнять функции и англо-русского словаря. Словарь включает 5000 единиц и адресован самой широкой аудитории.