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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: »The Soul of Leadership» decodes the mysterious qualities that have propelled history's greatest leaders to the top of the ranks and shrouded them in legend — Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Buddha — and provides a hands-on approach to understanding and mastering these qualities. The 10 Fundamental Principles, that Deepak Chopra believes all leaders should follow, include: a leader…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This title comes with an introduction by Johnny Depp. This is a screenplay based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson. It's 1960. In a highrise hotel not far from the beaches of San Juan, a man is recovering from an animal of a hangover. Paul Kemp is an alcoholic journalist who's barely seen better days, arriving at the only job he can get: writing horoscopes for failing rag «The Daily Star». His…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of «The End of Poverty», Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential reading for everyone — politicians, people in business and industry, and you. Setting out a bold and provocative, yet responsible and achievable, plan, «The Price of Civilization» reveals why we must — and how we can — change our entire economic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a leather bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts — until he realises that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted maximum revenge. Trailing…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: The day of the dragon dawns... Christopher Paolini returns with the eagerly anticipated fourth and final book in the phenomenally successful INHERITANCE Cycle. Not so very long ago, Eragon — Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider — was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. The Rider and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »I Am a Chechen!» offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tells the stories of those who stayed behind. He brings dead friends back to life again, revisiting their first loves, their passion for rock music, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at best...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: From the award-winning and bestselling author Jennifer Egan, a dazzling, shape-shifting new work of fiction that spans fifty years and stars an aging record executive and the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 712 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 337) Аннотация: Over the last twenty years, a species of math whizzes known as quants has usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk-takers whove long been the alpha males of the worlds largest casino. The quants believe that a dizzying, indecipherable-to-mere-mortals cocktail of differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry holds the key to reaping riches from the financial markets.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Fodor's Choice ratings you can trust. Exceptional restaurants, hotels, and sights selected to help you make the best choices. Simple pleasures. Embrace the local culture as you sample «blini» with caviar, stroll along the Neva River during the White Nights festival, or relax in the steam room at a Russian «banya.» Boundless activities. Find choices for every traveler, from exploring the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Updated for paperback publication, «Aftershock» is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath. When the nation's economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The highly anticipated sixth book of Jean Auel's Earth's Children(R) series, The Land of Painted Caves, is the culmination fans have been waiting for. Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago. The Land of Painted Caves is an exquisite…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 246) Аннотация: »Pilgrimage» took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. «That's when I started…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Despite their initial hesitation, living with Anne has softened the flock, so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave. With Thanksgiving so near, though, all of them want to stay, at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances, and while the flock's new school seems normal and safe, secrets are hidden beneath its…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die — only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. «The Dead Republic» opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel summons up for us the world of fifteenth-century Rome: of Michelangelo and Raphael, of the Holy Inquisition and of Leo X, second son of a Medici, holding forth on the papal throne... a city of domes and rooftop gardens and rising towers. And into this time, into this century, Toby O'Dare, former government assassin is summoned, by the angel Malchiah, to solve a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Through most of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson — the second of the three bosses to head the Republican machine that dominated city politics and society. In «Boardwalk…