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Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate...

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Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: The final volume in the series drawn by Tove Jansson «Moomin Book Five: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip» features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the «London Evening News,» before Lars took over both the art and the writing. The first «Moomin Winter» returns with more unwanted guests than in «Book One,» especially the curious and secret-spilling…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 079 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 409) Аннотация: For fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories or how markets facilitate innovation, create wealth, and allocate society's resources efficiently. But what about when they fail, when they lead us to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, and credit crunches? In How Markets Fail, John Cassidy describes the rising influence of «utopian economies» — the thinking…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London, to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale, where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victim's pocket, scribbled on a slip of paper,…

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