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Qiu Xiaolong: Red Mandarin Dress

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic island. The death of a dancing girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had been left openly in the centre…

Dervla Murphy: Through Siberia by Accident

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen — and what happened instead. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. But by accident, or rather because she had an accident — a painful leg injury — she found…

Qiu Xiaolong: Death of a Red Heroine

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep…

Peter Stimpson: IGCSE Business Studies

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: IGCSE Business Studies third edition is a student-friendly Business Studies textbook covering all the components of the latest IGCSE syllabus. All aspects of the syllabus content are covered in a straightforward way, assuming no prior familiarity with the subject. Examples are carefully selected, relevant business situations are used to illustrate concepts and theories. Key terms are simply…

David Weller: Teach Yourself Setting Up a Small Business

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This title has been successful since the first edition published in 1992. DTI statistics show that at the beginning of 2004 there were 4.3m business enterprises in the UK, a third of a million up on 2003. Of these 99.3% are classed as small businesses (0-49 employees) so the potential customer base is huge. As unemployment figures continue to rise so do the number of people setting up in business…

Anna Hipkiss: Teach Yourself Consulting

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: If you are a consultant in any field, working for any size of organisation from 'one man and his dog' to 'massive' then this is the book for you! Coverage includes: *What makes a successful consultant, *Setting a clear vision *Assessing resources *How to write reports and give presentations *Building up your customer facing skills *Dealing with difficult clients *Balancing your work with the rest…

David Lloyd: Teach Yourself Small Business Accounting

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: TEACH YOURSELF SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING is a jargon-free joy for the small business owner or manager, providing practical examples of real businesses to show the reader, step by step, how to record each transaction. This book does not assume that you know anything at all about business records and accounts and gives a system for real businesses to be operated by real business people who want a…

Enid Blyton: Go Ahead Secret Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: When a sinister-looking man gets George in trouble with the police, the Secret Seven are outraged! Spying on him, the gang are certain he's bad news, but what exactly is he up to? They need to investigate, and solve the mystery, once and for all.

Enid Blyton: Good Old Secret Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: There are strange happenings indeed at Torling Castle! Someone is hiding out in the ruined tower, making the resident jackdaws very unsettled. Who is it, and what do they want? The Secret Seven are on it!

Enid Blyton: Shock for the Secret Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Dogs are disappearing from the village, but the Seven are so busy arguing and falling out with each other that they don't even notice. Then poor Scamper becomes the latest victim and it's all systems go for the Secret Seven!

Enid Blyton: Look Out Secret Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: What on earth would the Secret Seven do without Scamper the spaniel? First he discovers an unwanted visitor — then he protects them as they spy on a thief late at night in Bramley Woods!

Enid Blyton: Fun for the Secret Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Seven are very fond of Tolly and his horse, Brownie, so they're determined to help out when Brownie is sick. But they need to find Tolly and Brownie somewhere to hide out — somewhere that dangerous horse thieves will never find. But where?

Stephen King: Danse Macabre

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of «Count Dracula» and «Frankenstein», Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. Told in the chatty, intelligent style of the course for which this was originally devised, this is a charming book replete with pertinent…

Riley Andy: Great Lies to Tell Small Kids

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: New wicked humour from the author of the bestselling Bunny Suicide books This Christmas you can finally let your bunnies out of their padded hutches, because Andy Riley doesn't want them anymore. He wants your children! From the creator of the bestselling Bunny books comes more wicked humour — GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS. They range from merely bogus to truly cruel: 'Every ant you meet must be…

Jackson Lisa: Malice

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The scent is unmistakable: the perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. But Jennifer died twelve years ago. Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere, haunting and taunting him, then vanishing without a trace. Could she still be alive? But it was…

Holden Wendy: Gallery Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: A hilarious tale from Sunday Times Number 1 bestselling author Wendy HoldenZeb's the darling of Brit Art; the rock n' roll bad boy artist whose works go for bazillions. But can he keep his end up — in every sense — now that his powerful female patron is losing interest? Beth loves art and the traditional gallery she works in and loves her boyfriend, doctor David. But the hospital hours he keeps…

Stirling Jessica: The Last Voyage

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: At first handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish does not appear to be an ideal catch for Julie. But when a whirlwind seduction leads to love and marriage and Clive's ambitious schemes begin to pay off Julie is more than happy to be the wife of an up-and-coming painter and the mother of his children. Anna's suitor, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody and reclusive. He prefers painting Dartmoor's…

Salmon Peter: The Coffee Story

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At the end of his sorry life, Teddy Everett, reluctant heir to the Everett fortune realises that he may have been at his best when he was 14, the night Kebreth made him a communist by rubbing coffee bean oil on his face. Then he was with Lucy, who gave him Chinese burns and taught him how to smoke. As he remembers his family, his wives (and their lovers) he tries to understand what happened to…

O'Connell Sanjida: Sugar Island

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 1859. Unrest is brewing in the South as Emily, an actress from England, arrives in Georgia to begin life with her new husband Charles. On arriving, Emily realises that Charles has been keeping a terrible secret from her — he is a slave-owner. On the surface, Emily appears to reconcile herself to his way of life, whereas in reality she finds herself irrevocably caught up in the lives of the slaves…

Frey James: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: James Frey isn't like other writers. He's been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He's been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He's been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of his controversies. Berated by TV talk-show hosts and condemned by the media. He's been exiled from America, and driven into hiding. He's also a bestselling phenomenon. Published in 38 languages, and…