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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A new edition of the famous Dahl story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his amazing chocolate factory. Great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Paul Krugman has made a reputation for himself by telling us the truth about economics however unlikely it may seem and however little we want to believe it. In this wonderfully cohesive set of sharp, witty essays, Krugman tackles bad economic ideas from across the political spectrum, giving us clear-eyed insights into unemployment, globalization, economic growth, financial speculation, among…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: »Eugene Onegin» is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Be careful who you trust. It might just be the death of you... Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A successful young businesswoman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of Holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side — where she makes evermore reckless mistakes. And when those mistakes start mounting up, the two…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting ... and Leah has been itching to peek behind the front door of Toby's eccentric house, always packed to the rafters with weird and wonderful tenants. When fate finally lets her in, Leah finds that Toby needs her as much as she is surprised to realize she might need him. Sometimes life needs a helping hand and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: In his monthly accounts of what he's read – along with what he may one day read – Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: Beautiful girls. Crime lords. Assassins. Deadly secrets … It’s all in a day’s work for Bond. Whether he’s making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Cuban hit-man in wild country, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoying New York’s special pleasures or foiling a surprisingly alluring assassin in Berlin’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings — whether a grain of sand, an insect or a blade of grass — as he journeys on a sensory adventure from cradle to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clézio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Josh thinks Fizz is dentally challenged and fluent in gibberish. Fizz thinks Josh is the Prince of Handsomeness. They're destined to work together at Marigolds Old People's Home – can Cupid's arrow strike among the Zimmer frames? Throw in Josh's wacky mother with her goats on the sofa and Fizz's goddess-like big sis and one thing is certain. Things will get a LOT weirder before they start making…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator together in a single bumper volume, with a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section about Roald Dahl.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy, tells of his time working in Africa and his wartime exploits. This edition has a great new cover with illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about Roald Dahl and his world.

Скачать книгу (размер 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 90) Аннотация: The giraffe, the pelican and the agile monkey set out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning company around. This edition has some new facts about Roald Dahl, and a great new cover featuring Quentin Blake's illustrations.

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When Ellie puts on her new pyjamas, strange things start to happen. She and her little brother, Max, are whisked off to the Christmas Shop where a battle is raging between a valiant troop of toys and the scaaaarry Christmas Tree Fairy and her army of angels. Can Ellie and Max save Christmas for the world – or will they be arrested for being mince spies? This is the first book in a new series…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era “a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this “Lost Generation” been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald’s short fiction. Spanning…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This novel is a weaving of lives and events around a ancient Hebrew book: the Sarajevo Haggadah. The novel moves between the present, where Dr Hanna Heath is researching and restoring the Sarajevo Haggadah, and events and people specific to the creation and journey of the manuscript in the past. Along the way, the reader learns something of the creation of such manuscripts and of their…