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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A groundbreaking work of science fiction, «The Left Hand of Darkness» tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron; ruthless manipulator, brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellín cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: ‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday...’ Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But César is not the only man to be riled by the rumours being spread in his Colombian hometown – under the cover of darkness, someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: For four years, while statesmen and generals blundered, the massed armies of Europe writhed in a festival of mud and blood. All the madness, massacres, and mutinies of the foulest war in history are brought home here by action pictures of the day and the text of an uncompromising historian.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'For twenty-one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me'. That's how Benjamin Braddock talked when he came down from university. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was really appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson (that was her story anyway) and ran off with her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of «A Year In Provence». Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: ‘In the very depths of his heart, he knew that he had behaved so meanly, so contemptibly, so cruelly’ Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new account shows, it was an empire built on an illusion. From Hitler's plans for vast motorways…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin'. He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner's bed, a passion is ignited in his heart — and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by her factory…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home...Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives. Onboard the steamer to New York…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: After 9/11, the Bush administration declared that it would have to work through 'the dark side'. And it did: the Administration turned its back on the rules and on America's commitment to the dignity of every human person. It embraced torture, looking for legal advice that justified cruelty, and making sure that it found it. Voices of dissent — in the military and elsewhere — were pushed aside,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Young and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck — for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy Farrell accidentally knocks her off her bike ... and not long after is found bludgeoned to death. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home. For the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: »Masters and Commanders» describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others over in order to get his strategy adopted. The book traces the mutual suspicion and admiration,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: You remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. And possibly deadly... When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories, Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child — and what happened…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food — not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In «Defence of Food» is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In «The Ascent of Money», Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history. From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fuelled Britain's war effort to the Wall…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In «The Conscience of a Liberal» Paul Krugman, one of the US’s most respected economists and outspoken commentators, lays out his vision of a New Deal for a fairer society. After the Second World War it seemed that, in the West, society was gradually becoming more equal. Welfare States had been established in many countries, there was a general reduction in income inequality and in America…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The publication of «The World According to Clarkson» in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy's one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our hero's still scratching his head at the madness of it all. But it's not all bad. He's learned a little along the way, including: Why binge drinking is good for you The worst word in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The revolutionary international bestseller that will stop you smoking – for good. ‘If you follow my instructions you will be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.’ That's a strong claim from Allen Carr, but as the world's leading and most successful quit smoking expert, Allen was right to boast! Reading this book is all you need to give up smoking. You can even smoke while you read. There…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children’s health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions that make us poorer, less healthy and less happy. And, as Thaler and Sunstein show,…