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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Now readers can sing along with this hilarious book and CD read by Lenny Henry. You can never have enough pants, as this exuberant celebration of lots and lots more pants proves! Giles Andreae's brilliant rhyming text and Nick Sharratt's hilarious, vibrant illustrations will delight children and adults alike. Featuring amongst others, a hippo, a limousine and a dinosaur in pants, plus a rather…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Why are we more likely to fall in love when we feel in danger? Why would an experienced pilot disregard his training and the rules of the aviation industry, leading to the deadliest airline crash in history? Why do we find it near-impossible to re-evaluate our first impressions of a person or situation, even when the evidence shows we were wrong? Discover the answers in «Sway». We all believe we…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Most anti-smoking campaigns inadvertently encourage people to smoke. The scent of melons helps sell electronic products. Subliminal advertising may have been banned, but it's being used all the time. Product placement in films rarely works. Many multi-million pound advertising campaigns are a complete waste of time. These are just a few of the findings of Martin Lindstrom's groundbreaking study…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »Conspirator» is the compelling story of Lenin in exile. It tells how, for seventeen years, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence outside Russia, working towards the upheaval that in 1917 transformed the political landscape of Europe: the Russian Revolution. Constantly watched by the secret police, the arch conspirator and his cohorts were dependent on the protection of a shadowy network of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75% of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs? Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind … but at least we’re…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »The Last Watch» is the stunning sequel to the Night Watch trilogy, following the fortunes of the Others. Indistinguishable from normal people but possessed of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark, or to the Light...While on holiday in Scotland, visiting 'The Dungeons of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a commitee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: »Possession» is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he’s good-looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career, and possibly his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley – they have a deeply compromising video…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for «The Guardian beginning», ‘It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment’. And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, 'In the Palce of the End' and 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta'. All are collected…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A black comedy in the grand tradition of word-drunk intellectuals-en-dementia, The Thought Gang follows the larcenous adventures of blackout alcoholic philosopher Eddie Coffin, who, in the wake of scandal, flees his professorship in England to begin the next logical step in his career: robbery. Coffin and his new partner in crime and metaphysics, Hubert the one-armed armed robber, road-trip…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 'It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks'. The long-haired poet — 'Mad Shelley' — and the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other's animated interest in the new philosophy of science which is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of «good «cooking with her cookbook «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» and her television show «The French Chef», but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France. Indeed, when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In the fabulous new installment in the best-selling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds her interest piqued. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In the days when powerful witches used their magic to shield humanity from demons, their allies and guardians were a group of men gifted with preternatural abilities of their own – the witch guardians. But when a band of witches traded their humanity for demonic power, the ancient bond was broken, and the guardians became the hunters. Darcy MacAlister knows nothing of demons or magic. But this…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The #1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden, coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, delivers a masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror—as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. For centuries, Mongol tribes had warred with one another. But now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy:…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Against the scandal and seduction of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh introduces an extraordinary family—the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is the second daughter, proud and daring, a young widow who has her own reason for pursuing the most eligible bachelor in London. One that has nothing to do with love. Or does it? The arrival of Elliott Wallace, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives. In this pair of classic Nero Wolfe mysteries, Stout is at his unparalleled best as the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, are served two lethally appetizing cases. Too Many Cooks…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: It’s autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia — a time for golden days, crisp nights…and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted “come-here” set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She’s determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends — and enemies — and she’s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it.…