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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. He had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, films, video games and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he ended up at the centre of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His on-going three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Why are some products and ideas talked about more than others? Why do some articles make the most emailed list? Why do some YouTube videos go viral? Word-of-mouth. Whether through face-to-face conversations, emails from friends, or online product reviews, the information and opinions we get from others have a strong impact on our own behaviour. Indeed, word-of-mouth generates more than two times…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Too many of the most prominent management gurus today make steel-clad guarantees, based on claims of irrefutable research, promising to reveal the secrets of why one company fails and another succeeds, and how you can become the latter. Combining equal measures of solemn-faced hype and a whole body of delusions, statistical and otherwise, these self-styled experts cloud our ability to think…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Duty to the job or personal ambition? Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie... Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. His death was quickly determined to be a suicide, the investigation was closed... a case done and dusted. Until now. A young man, awaiting trial for armed robbery has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West. His first attempt was to approach two American students in Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to deliver it to the American embassy. Inside was an offer to work as a 'soldier-warrior' for the free world. MI6 and the CIA ran Penkovsky jointly, in an operation that ran through the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Hannah Connelly, a twenty-eight-year old designer and rising star in the fashion world, is plunged into a web of horror and grief when she learns that Connelly Fine Reproductions, the family-owned furniture business founded by her grandfather, has been levelled by an explosion in the middle of the night. Everything has been destroyed — the warehouse, the showrooms, and the mansion where priceless…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Who is Lucky Saint? She's a fifteen year old wild child who discovered her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. In Confessions of a Wild Child you will follow Lucky as she navigates her teen years — boys, drugs, family dramas, and many adventures from Greek islands to Vegas penthouses. You will meet the Santangelo family. Gino Santangelo,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: PRE-PRODUCTION SCREENPLAY, COMPLETE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION AND CONCEPT VISUALS BEHIND THE #1 FILM. This amazing book also includes an introduction and notes from concept and comics artist Jock and an exclusive introduction from screenwriter Alex Garland: Part of [Jock's] huge contribution was a full-length comic book version of the script, that we distributed to everyone from financiers to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville — the White Queen — the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli artbooks, which include interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels from classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. Princess Mononoke was the first Hayao Miyazaki film to break out into the American mainstream. The journey from initial idea to the big screen is captured here, in the hundreds of images from…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Odysseus tackles a monstrous challenge in this illustrated Level 3 Ready-to-Read retelling of the Cyclops myth, from Goddess Girls author Joan Holub! On their way home to Greece after fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus and his army are shipwrecked on an island—the island where Cyclops, the one-eyed monster, lives! Cyclops traps Odysseus and his men and threatens to eat them one by one. Can…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Rediscover the story of the Trojan Horse in this beautifully illustrated Level 2 Ready-to-Read retelling of the myth, from Goddess Girls author Joan Holub! During the Trojan War, the Trojans receive the gift of a huge wooden horse from the Greeks. Thinking the gift means that they have won the war, the Trojans celebrate. But what they don’t realize is that Greek soldiers are hidden inside the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Get to know Po’s world in this bodacious storybook with stickers, based on the popular television show Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness! Welcome to the Jade Palace, home of the Furious Five, Master Shifu, and of course, Po, the Dragon Warrior. Tag along on this fantastic journey and learn about Po and his fierce friends, his awesome adventures, and his legendary world in this book that also…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Murder, scandal, political espionage and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport's going to be lucky to get out of this one alive. A Minnesota political fixer has hit the jackpot — or so he thinks. Hired to take down the incumbent U.S. senator with a vicious smear, to open the way for an ambitious, take-no-prisoners heiress who sees the Senate as merely a stepping-stone, he decides his…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white. Philippa Gregory, №1 New York Times best­selling author and “the queen of royal fiction” (USA Today), presents the latest Cousins’ War novel, the remarkable story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen. When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: THE OVERLOOK HOTEL was where his boyhood gift for shining opened a door to hell. Dan Torrance is a man now, but ghosts of the Overlook— and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting for decades. Now, sustained by an AA community in a New Hampshire town, Dan comforts the dying at a nursing home, where they call him “Doctor Sleep.” But before his remnant power can fade…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Love, honour, children are sacrificed in the name of ambition, as the family becomes…