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Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Not everyone has a head for numbers, but if looking after them is part of your job, they're unavoidable.Get to grips with budgets will boost your confidence with numbers and help you do your job better and more easily. The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: An increasing number of people are deciding to work from home. Whether they are setting up their own business or trying to cut down on the amount of time they spend commuting, the idea of turning a space at home into an office is an appealing one. Work well from home will help you make that idea a reality. The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Rome, in 1979, a shy young Englishwoman called Julia meets Ennio. The two fall deeply in love, but theirs will be a troubled affair, shrouded in secrecy and constantly under threat. For Italy in 1979 is a country of violent radical politics: a dangerous, heady time, filled with bitter hope and fear. And Ennio is one of the most wanted men in Italy, a member of the notorious terrorist group,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This in-depth exploration of the English language covers every nuance and curiosity of this constantly evolving linguistic pastiche. It is estimated that every year 800 neologisms are added to the English language, and include acronyms (NIMBY, Not In My Backyard), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an a-to-z format with detailed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden’s air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city. At least 25,000 inhabitants died in the terrifying firestorm and thirteen square miles of the city’s historic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. 'The person you want is Nurse Matilda', they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen. Brought together in one volume are the three remarkable…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: When a boy swaps his dad for two goldfish he does not really think through the consequences! After all, he is not the only person who can swap stuff. When the boy is told by his mother that he has to get his father back it is not so easily done. It seems that the father has a pretty high value as he has been traded by one child to the next leaving a trail that the son has to follow. Where will it…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's almost graduation and the lives of New York's private high school elite are really heating up. Everyone's got into college and it's clearly time to party — not that they haven't been doing plenty of that already. This is the eighth book in this series.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Lucy, Hermione and Sam offer to accompany the captain and his dog, Biscuit on the next trip to keep a lookout for danger. But danger is exactly what they run into! The pirates aren't just after more popcorn they want new recruits too! Will three children — and a dog — defeat the greediest gang of grub-guzzling pirates ever to sail the high seas?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Billy, Nicola and Mr Gopal are off to India in a flying boat to solve a baffling mystery! The gum that comes from the wonderful bubblegum trees that grow in the Indian jungle has not been delivered for two months. Without this secret ingredient, there'll be no more Gopal's Best Pink Bubblegum, and even more importantly, no more Bubblegummies — the people who live in the trees and harvest the gum.…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: John and Nicky have never eaten spaghetti and would give anything for the occasional bowl of chips or piece of chocolate cake. But they live with their rather strange and grumpy aunt who insists upon the most uncompromising of health food diets. When they decide to use some birthday money to go out for lunch, they experience the delights of spaghetti and decide that they simply have to have more.…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Jim and his friends are upset to hear that their school janitor's car has been stolen, and just before he's due to retire too. So Jim comes up with a bright idea for a way to help raise money to buy a new car: selling doughnuts. They start by making their own very delicious doughnuts to sell, but run into problems when demand exceeds supply. That's when Jim has another brainwave and decides the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff. At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A beautifully illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's nonsense verse: most people are familiar with the verse from Alice through the Looking-Glass, for example The Walrus and the Carpenter, and also other classics such as You are Old, Father William and The Jabberwocky. These are of course all included, alongside some lesser-known poems that are a delight to discover, including The Three Badgers,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Moose Flanagan and his family move home, yet again, and become residents of the famous prison island Alcatraz, things get interesting. First of all, they share the island with a few other families and a lot of pretty heavy-duty criminals including Al Capone. And secondly, Moose's sister is starting a new school, which everyone hopes will help her become more integrated with those around her.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 329 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 458) Аннотация: The Chartered Management Institute Dictionary of Business and Management provides full and jargon-free definitions for over 6,000 key business terms, as well as up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of key business terminology and concepts. It covers terms drawn from the key subject areas of: General Management, HR & Personnel Management, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, E-Commerce, Statistics…