Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it. Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way — they all started with why. Simon Sinek explains…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The story of obsessive young love and the power of grief — the bet novel yet from the Booker prize winner.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. In the title story of this rich new collection, Boyle writes a tale that is by turns magical and moving, a powerful investigation of what it means to be human. Other tales range from the drama of a man who spins Homeric lies in order to stop going to work, to the sad comedy of a child born to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «The Fall of the House of Usher» by Edgar Allan Poe «To Build a Fire» by Jack London «The Necklace» by Guy de Maupassant «The Man Who Would Be King» by Rudyard Kipling «The Gift of the Magi» by O. Henry «The South» by Jorge Luis Borges «Good Country People» by Flannery O'Connor «The Blind Dog» by R. K. Narayan and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume Masterpieces by some of the finest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «With wry humor and penetrating satire, «Flatland» takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions — irrevocably flat — and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent! Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but then a surprise blizzard hits and the Heffley family is trapped indoors.
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Spot is on the move in this fantastic finger puppet book. Wiggle your finger to help Spot drive a car, a train, a boat, a tractor, a bus and even a plane — what a busy puppy! This is the perfect book for your little Spot fan. There are lots of fun and educational Spot books available including: Spot's Dressing-Up Fun, Spot's Snowy Day, Spot Says Please and many more.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: «Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by Michiko Kakutani and the «New York Times Book Review» «Blinder is a master storyteller... one of the best books yet about the financial crisis.» «The Wall Street Journal» Alan S. Blinder — esteemed Princeton professor, «Wall Street Journal» columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan — is one of our wisest and…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Hairy Maclary causes trouble again when he is simply not in the mood for the Kennel Club's Obedience Class. He feels mischievous and mad and not only does he scamper away but all his friends — Bottomley Potts, Muffin McLay, Hercules Morse, Schnitzel von Krumm and the rest follow Galloping here, galloping there, rollicking, frolicking everywhere.
Скачать книгу (размер 254 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 51) Аннотация: Keri Smith's Everything is Connected is not just a book of postcards. It's a series of experiments designed to shake us out of our ruts. Through the ingenious use of the common postcard, Keri Smith encourages us to embark on a quest to reanimate everyday life. No matter how hard we try, everyday life always becomes predictable. From the toothpaste we use and the clothing we wear, to the way we…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The Empty Stocking is a brilliantly funny Christmas story by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb. Brilliant read by the one and only Dawn French. In this fantastically funny and heartwarming story by Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, it's Christmas Eve and there's one very important question on everyone's mind — have you been good this year? For twins Sam…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard luck story?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I should have a stab at recollecting how it all happened'... Jennifer Saunders' brilliant comic creations have brought joy to millions for three decades. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Absolutely Fabulous to Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Why are English train seats so narrow? It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. This intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics — our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex — are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains. To Steve Jobs, Simplicity wasn't just a design principle. It was a religion and a weapon. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It's what helped Apple recover from…