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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Do you ever stop to wonder how you got where you are? The Q&A a Day Journal shows you what was going through your head each day — for five years of your life. Simply turn to today’s date, answer the question at the top of the page, and when you finish the journal, start over. As you return to the daily questions again over the years, you’ll notice how your answers change (or don’t)! With…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Global democracy is at a crossroads and David Graeber, one of the most influential scholars and activists of recent decades, here offers the perfect book to address this historical moment: a short, provocative exploration of the idea of democracy, its current crisis, and its still untapped potential as a tool for change.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lunar landscape — Lanzarote. On Lanzarote, one can meet some fascinating human specimens, notably…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 365 days. 5 years. 1,825 happy moments. The Happiness Journal is the ideal project for anyone who is looking to add more meaning and happiness to their lives but is short on time. Based on the book, The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, this five-year journal will help you make a time capsule of the next few years in the simplest way possible. You can start at any point in the year. Simply…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: With three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy's bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed. Until he meets Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wives, children and step-children, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Vanilla Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Bacon-Bound Wings, Spatchcock Chicken, Learning-to-Truss-You Chicken, Holy Hell Wings, Mustard-Spanked Chicken, and more, more, more! Fifty chicken recipes, each more seductive than the last, in a book that makes every dinner a turn-on. “I want you to see this. Then you’ll know everything. It’s a cookbook,” he says…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The principles of creativity revealed in deceptively simple words and pictures by the man behind the world's most successful advertising agency. Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate than simplify. Now in a pocket-sized format, Brutal Simplicity of Thought, presents stunningly simple examples of concepts that have changed the world — from the single piece of paper that became…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Rice, best known for her «Vampire Chronicles» and «Lives of the Mayfair Witches» novels, has taken a new direction in her writing.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wilfred Mott is very happy: his granddaughter, Donna, is back home, catching up with family and gossiping about her journeys, and he has just discovered a new star and had it named after him. He takes the Tenth Doctor with him to the naming ceremony. But the Doctor soon discovers something else new, and worryingly bright, in the heavens — something that is heading for Earth. It's an ancient force…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds, planets created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good — and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan — but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: On a barren asteroid, the once-mighty Haddron Empire is on the brink of collapse, torn apart by civil war. The one man who might have saved it languishes in prison, his enemies planning his death and his friends plotting his escape. The Second Doctor arrives as the last act of this deadly drama is being played out — and with both terrifying killers and cunning traitors to defeat, the future hangs…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Anji has just had the worst week of her life. She should be back at her desk, not travelling through time and space in a police box. The Eighth Doctor is supposed to be taking her home, so why are there dinosaurs outside? The Doctor doesn't seem to know either, or else he surely would have mentioned the homicidal princesses, teen terrorists and mad robots? One thing is certain: Anji is never…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: On a moon of the ruined planet Akoshemon, an age-old terror is about to be reborn. Something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation — and rejoices in it. The Fifth Doctor joins a team of archaeologists searching for evidence of the planet's infamous past, and uncovers more than just ancient history. Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Beautiful Death is the ultimate theme-park ride: a sightseeing tour of the afterlife. But something has gone wrong, and when the Fourth Doctor arrives in the aftermath of the disaster, he is congratulated for saving the population from destruction — something he hasn't actually done yet. He has no choice but to travel back in time and discover how he became a hero. And then he finds out. He…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The aerodrome in Culverton has new owners, and they promise an era of prosperity for the idyllic village. But former Spitfire pilot Alex Whistler is suspicious — when black-shirted troops appear on the streets, he contacts his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart at U.N.I.T. The Third Doctor is sent to investigate — and soon uncovers a sinister plot to colonise the Earth. The Gaderene are on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Arriving on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of the Boer War, the Sixth Doctor is soon involved in the adventures of struggling politician and war correspondent Winston Churchill. Of course, he knows Churchill is destined for great things, but unseen forces seem to be interfering with Winston's historic career. The Doctor suspects the hidden hand of the Players, mysterious beings who regard…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 555) Аннотация: «A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest — and most acute — writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years. Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here — from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the notorious piece on being flat-chested, the clarion call of her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC Reg Cranfield sees his deceased father in the mists along Totter's Lane. Reporter Mae Callon sees her late grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent Warren Skeet finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane. Then the faces begin to talk, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. As Dan Brown comments: Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to…