Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know comes essential reading for everyone who must make decisions that affect the long-term health and prosperity of a business.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a cliche. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints down the pub for lattes and brunch. For the first time in his life, he's feeling, well... grown-up. But something's not right. Something's missing. Until he finds an old address book containing just twelve names. His best mates as a kid. Where are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passions (and his wife's)…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The First Management Classic of the New Millennium! A bold experiment is taking place these days, as leading-edge companies turn upside down the management paradigm that has dominated corporate thinking for more than one hundred years. Southwest Airlines is perhaps the most visible practitioner, soaring through economic downturns while its competitors slash their budgets and order massive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life — love, grief, jealousy — into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From the «New York Times» bestselling author of «The Genesis Code» comes this gripping international thriller. Jack Wilson, brilliant mathematician and diabolical madman, plans to adapt a harmonic resonance weapon to dismantle the technologically interdependent components of Western civilization.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Dr Deepak Chopra, the world-famous pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, addresses one of the fundamental questions of existence. Drawing upon personal experience, the wisdom of ancient Vedic philosophy and state-of-the-art particle physics, Chopra helps us to overcome our fears about dying and to consider the fantastic possibilities that may await us in the afterlife. This is the book that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered — the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day... Thunderous and touching. Financial Times After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A million-copy bestseller in hardcover, this novel explores the strain that diverging career paths can have on an otherwise stable marriage. Attempts at a long-distance relationship between a physician in New York and his investment banker wife in San Francisco end up pulling the couple in different directions and into unexpected new lives.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought. His old enemy Gregory Townsend has come to America to ignite a reign of terror that will sweep across the nation. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The story of one man expending his spirit between obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and an equally passionate search for mystical enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era. Third in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: From the author of the classic study of the aviation industry, The Sporty Game, a new book that chronicles the high-stakes rivalry between the world’s two largest aircraft manufacturers — companies that will bet the house on a single airplane.Long one of America’s most successful and admired corporations — and its biggest exporter — Boeing struggled to maintain 50 percent of the market share for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: At the center of Khufu's Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu's dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates. But in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of... Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created — and they must be destroyed. But not even…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside — but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no ordinary holiday. Edwin is seeking to understand the failure of his marriage to Meg, but it turns out that her parents are staying at the same resort — whether by accident or design — and are keen to patch up the relationship. As the past and his enigmatic wife loom larger, deeper truths emerge and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in 1969 — the first humans to visit another celestial body. This extraordinary lunar odyssey grew out of the rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. To mark the 50th anniversary of Sputnik in 2007 and the 50th anniversary of the founding of NASA in October 2008, this epic moment is recaptured with a lively and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte — ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven — like me — but she's left school and has a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd know what to do about my mum's awful boyfriend and his wimpy little son. I bet she wouldn't mess…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern…