Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Автор: Hilary Mantel
Год издания: 0000
From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia.Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers, and her Muslim neighbours are secretive, watchful. The streets are not a woman's territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers, sounds of distress from the 'empty' flat above her head. She has only rumours, no facts to hang on to, and no one with whom to share her creeping unease. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank – waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.
The increase in power through supercharging of street racing in eBook
Автор: Автоклуб
Год издания:
Content
Foreword
Introduction to boost technology
Lessons from history
Turbochargers: past and present
Nitrous oxide: from the beginnings to the present day
Aspiration: theory and basic principles
What you should know about turbochargers
Turbocharger boost pressure control
The strategy to prevent the turbocharger turboyam
What you should know about turbochargers
Cooling the intake charge
Injection water and other alternative solutions
Fuels and fuel additives
Fuel
Air intake system
Injection of nitrous oxide
Exhaust system
The process of combustion and ignition system
The engine management system
Increased engine durability
Lubrication system
Cooling system
Modification of the factory engine supercharged
Testing theory in practice and a few thoughts
Грозовой перевал / Wuthering Heights
Автор: Эмили Бронте
Год издания:
На вересковых пустошах Йоркшира, открытых всем ветрам, стоит старый фермерский дом, Грозовой Перевал, который скрывает мрачные тайны. Какие же страшные события произошли в нем? Почему таинственный Хитклиф, владелец фермы, ведет столь уединенный образ жизни? И что за неземная девушка бродит ночью по равнинам?
Несложный язык и захватывающий сюжет романа делают чтение приятным занятием. Книга также содержит комментарии и словарь, облегчающие чтение.
Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 4 – Upper-Intermediate).
The Street
Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Год издания:
The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
Wuthering Heights
Автор: Эмили Бронте
Год издания:
Emily Bronte's only novel is famous the world over and is the favorite classic of many readers. It is easy to see why, with hardship, insanity, cruelty, frustrated love, and ghosts.
The Weight of Honor
Автор: Морган Райс
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THE WEIGHT OF HONOR is book #3 in Morgan Rice's bestselling epic fantasy series KINGS AND SORCERERS. In THE WEIGHT OF HONOR, Kyra finally meets her cryptic uncle, and is shocked to discover he is not the man she expected. She embarks on a period of training which will test her stamina and her frustration, as she soon encounters the limits of her power. Unable to summon her dragon, unable to search deep within, and feeling an urgency to help in her father's wars, Kyra doubts if she will ever become the warrior she thought she was. And when she meets a mysterious boy, more powerful than her, deep in the forest, she wonders what her future really has in store for her. Duncan must descend the peaks of Kos with his new army and, vastly outnumbered, launch a risky invasion on the capital. If he wins, waiting behind its ancient walls, he knows, will be the old king and his nest of nobles and aristocrats, all with their own agendas, all of them as quick to betray as they are to embrace. Unifying Escalon may, indeed, be harder than freeing it. Alec, in Ur, must tap his unique skills in the forge to aid the resistance if they have any chance of defending against the looming Pandesian invasion. He is awestruck when he encounters Dierdre, the strongest girl he has ever meet. The time she has a chance to make a stand against Pandesia, and as she bravely faces off, she who wonders if her father and his men will have her back this time. Merk finally enters the tower of Ur, and is stunned by what he discovers. Initiated into its strange codes and rules, he meets his fellow Watchers, the toughest warriors he has ever encountered, and he finds that earning their respect will not be easy. With an invasion looming, they must all prepare the tower; yet even all its secret passageways may not keep them safe from the betrayal lurking from within. Vesuvius leads his Troll nation across a vulnerable Escalon, devastating the land, while Theos, enraged at what becomes of his son, is on a rampage himself, and will not stop until all of Escalon is aflame. With its strong atmosphere and complex characters, THE WEIGHT OF HONOR is a sweeping saga of knights and warriors, of kings and lords, of honor and valor, of magic, destiny, monsters and dragons. It is a story of love and broken hearts, of deception, ambition and betrayal. It is fantasy at its finest, inviting us into a world that will live with us forever, one that will appeal to all ages and genders.