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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In Small Message, Big Impact, Terri Sjodin teaches you how to make a lasting impression on absolutely anyone — fast. You're at the airport, burning time by checking your email. Then you spot the CEO of a company you've wanted to connect with for ages. He's waiting for his flight. Your flight! Should you walk over? What will you say? We've all been there. An opportunity presents itself and you…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: First published in 1967, Death Kit is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. The novel is a narrative of the suffering of Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «In his lifetime, David Foster Wallace was lauded by critics and loved by fans. But even to those who had barely read his work, he was something of a cult figure. Since his suicide in 2008, Wallace has become the Kurt Cobain of the printed word, and his life and death now stand as symbols of a generation's hopes and their despair. In this compelling account of Wallace's evolution from anxious…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Explore the making of the film Beautiful Creatures in this ultimate visual companion, lavishly illustrated with full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets. This beautiful paperback edition celebrates the on-screen creation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's fascinating world, brought to life by screenwriter and director Richard LaGravenese. With never-before-seen images, exclusive…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical scheming to get her to the altar. She won't be bullied, however, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. She needs a man to infiltrate her suitors and find the villain.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged thousands of secret letters as Lev battled to survive in Stalin's camps. This book tells the story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: 'I think your work will improve no end if you accept my offer of Fenella's cat. And Tabby will have the time of his life down in the kitchen'. Poor Mildred is distraught. On the first day back at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches her beloved but useless cat, Tabby, is banished to the kitchen. Then the class go for a week by the seaside and Mildred can bear the separation no longer. Stowing Tabby…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's Diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality, the conflicts with her mother, her passion for Peter, a boy whose family hid with hers, and her acute portraits of her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith — and the lives of those photographed — with fierce engagement, intensity and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This beautiful, clothbound new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl', originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. It is considered to be one of the defining works of the Beat Generation,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: I am Zlatan — the explosive, critically-acclaimed memoir of Zlatan Ibrahimovich, one of the world's most gifted and controversial footballers 'Guardiola has no balls. He drove me like a Fiat... I'm a Ferrari' 'Messi may have four Golden Balls (FIFA Player of the Year Awards), but at least I don't have to get on a box to buy a chocolate bar in a vending machine...' Zlatan Ibrahimovic —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Junot Dнaz burst into the literary world with Drown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the «eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet» (Newsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Dнaz turns…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. «Wake Up» recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 542 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1088) Аннотация: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In…