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Haig Matt: Reasons to Stay Alive

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: What Does It Mean To Feel Truly Alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book…

Konnikova Maria: The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for it Every Time

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From the New York Times best-selling author of Mastermind, a compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists — and the people who fall for their cons over and over again. Con artists hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. True conmen — the Bernie Madoffs, the Jim Bakkers, the Lance Armstrongs — are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and…

Tofield Simon: Simon's Cat: Off to the Vet and Other Cat-astrophes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In the last five years, Simon's Cat has become a global phenomenon. Star of thirty-nine films, which have been watched over 600 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon's Cat has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience. In this brand new book we see Simon's Cat face any feline's most dreaded scenario — he's off to the vet. And he's not at all happy about it. Sharing…

Ness Patrick: The Crane Wife

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: The extraordinary happens everyday. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most…

Pink Daniel H.: To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: We're all in Sales now. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn. We sell our bosses on giving us more money and more time off. And in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and Match.com profiles. Relying on science, analysis and his trademark clarity of thought, Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be. The…

Pullman Philip: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is the story of two brothers. One is impassioned and one reserved. One is destined to go down in history and the other to be forgotten. In Philip Pullman's hands, this sacred tale is reborn as one of the most enchanting, thrilling and visionary stories of recent years.

Faber Michel: Under The Skin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Isserley spends most of her time driving along empty, winding Highland roads in her red Toyota. She is interested in hitchhikers — so long as they are male, well-muscled and alone. But once she has coaxed them into her car, what she does to them is truly astonishing. Meeting Isserley is only the beginning of their journey, and a gateway to a new world. Cutting across different genres, Under the…

Rash Ron: Serena

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and even saves her husband's life in the wilderness. But when Serena learns she will never bear a child, it sets in motion a course of events that will change the lives of everyone in the community.

Dyer Geoff: Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In this spellbinding new book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Like the film Stalker itself, it confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of life and how to live.

Simon Tofield: The Bumper Book of Simon's Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: In the last five years, Simon's Cat has become a national treasure and a global phenomenon. Star of over twenty-five films, which have been watched over 300 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon's Cat has captured the hearts of a global audience. In this first major paperback edition author, animator and illustrator Simon Tofield brings together the best cartoons from…

Tofield Simon: Simon's Cat Vs: the World!

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In the four years since Simon's Cat first leapt in to our lives he has stared in more than 15 films, appeared in three best-selling books and has entertained and delighted millions of fans across the world. Along the way he has swotted flies, pulled down Christmas trees, and generally terrorized his long-suffering owner, Simon. And for the most part, he has had things his way. Until now. This…

Carroll R.: Comandante: Inside Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: Hugo Chávez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chávez has been compared to Napoleon, Nasser, Perón and Castro but the truth is there has never been a leader like him. He was democratically elected, reigned like a monarch from a mobile television throne, and…

Hagena K.: The Taste of Apple Seeds

Скачать книгу (размер 1 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 241) Аннотация: For Iris, childhood memories are of long hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in her grandmother's garden, a place where redcurrants turned to pale tears on the branches of trees and beautiful Aunt Inga shook sparks from the tips of her fingers. But now her grandmother is dead and, along with inheriting the property, Iris finds that she also inherits her family's darkest secrets.…

Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Tan Twan Eng writes with breath-catching poise and grace. (Independent). In the lush highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Ling's quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists, and to Aritomo, a man of extraordinary skill and reputation, once the gardener of the Emperor of…

Ruth L. Ozeki: A Tale for the Time Being

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Within the pages of this book lies the diary of a girl called Nao. Riding the waves of a tsunami, it is making its way across the ocean. It will change the life of the person who finds it. It might just change yours, too. Crossing generations and continents, from World War Two to present day Japan, A Tale for the Time Being tells an unforgettable story, as wondrous as it is wise.

Tofield Simon: Play Time: A Simon's Cat Book

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A pocket-sized collection of play-themed Simon's Cat cartoons selected from the first three Simon's Cat books. In full colour and featuring a selection of brand new cartoons, Simon's Cat is back, smaller, cheaper and cuter, but still up to his usual tricks.

Booth Stanley: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'Sounding like one instrument, a wild whirling bagpipe, the Stones chugged to a halt. But the crowd didn't stop, we could see Hells Angels spinning like madmen, swinging at people. By stage right a tall white boy with a black cloud of electric hair was dancing, shaking, infuriating the Angels by having too good a time.' The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is not just the greatest book about…

Nowak Martin: Supercooperators

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated…

Eagleman David: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

Burkeman Oliver: Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It's a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna — but how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past five years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest outposts of the 'happiness industry' in an attempt to find out. In Help!, Oliver presents his…