Скачать книгу (размер 1 080 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 213) Аннотация: This is the shocking story of how a continent succumbed to temptation and took leave of its senses. Greek monks became playboy financiers. Icelandic fishermen became investment bankers. And Germans became even more German. Then, the money ran out. In this tragicomic romp across Europe, Michael Lewis sets out to uncover what happens when the greed of entire nations comes back to bite them. What he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: SKYE and SUMMER TANBERRY are identical twins, and Skye loves her sister Summer more than anyone else in the world. They do everything together, but lately Skye's been feeling like second-best ? It's the story of her life. And when her friend Alfie confesses he's fallen not for her, but for Summer, it hurts. Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, how can she? Will…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe and compare the dazzling civilizations of the Orient with Europe and North America, the idea that the West would dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. So how did it happen? The answer, Ferguson argues, was the West's development of six 'killer applications': competition,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as Modern Fiction and The Modern Essay.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there... It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement. (Giles Foden, Guardian ). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, Lila Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, language in all its allusions. She explores his Russian childhood, his European sojourns, the landscapes of 'his' America, hallucinates an interview and seeks the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Lady Chatterley's Lover is both one of the most beautiful and notorious love stories in modern fiction. The summation of D.H. Lawrence's artistic achievement, it sharply illustrates his belief that tenderness and passion were the only weapons that could save man from self-destruction.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: »A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.» After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of The Revolutionist's Handbook. Believing marriage would prevent him from achieving his higher intellectual and political ambitions, Tanner is horrified to discover that Ann…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother's heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. His bedroom at home remains untouched and ready for his return. A place…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dorian Gray is a popular and balanced young man, until he cannot resist corruption from the power of his own beauty. As he falls into the lure of a selfish world of luxury, his beauty remains unaltered. But in an attic, his portrait, painted by Basil Hallward, illustrates the damning effects of his unquenchable vanity. A master of language and turn of phrase — an Oscar Wilde classic.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called marvelous, rewarding, the authors tell how the stress of living on less than 99…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: What is quantum physics? How does it help us understand our amazing world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be sure that the theory is good? This title gives us the real science behind the bizarre behaviour of the atoms and energy that make up the universe.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. But Rachel's love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room. It will also cost her a job and the boyfriend she adores. When her loving family hustles her back home and checks her into Ireland's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic, Rachel is hopeful.…
Скачать книгу (размер 830 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 164) Аннотация: In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. But if only she had found the means to create, urges Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles attempting to block highway and byway, he shows how the world of performance cars may be likened to Battersea Dogs' Home; reveals why St Moritz may be…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Once a cop. Always a cop... Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can't seem to solve. A young bride has been killed in the middle of her own wedding reception. The prime suspect — her new husband's Mexican gardener — is missing. As is the murder…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat? DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 'twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere — later known as Aeropostale — opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative which includes the extraordinary story of his crash in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo... any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo, after years spent gathering…