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Скачать книгу (размер 830 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 164) Аннотация: «Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, «A Brief History of Time», has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include «Heroes and Hidden Voices», have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark times'. In «Freedom Next Time», he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: ‘Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.’ All of the following is true.Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch. Then one day, with a heart full of agony, Pearl drops…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: DON`T GO TO FRANCE WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows — the only witness is a small boy who insists the murderer was a masked man on a horse. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors… Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Becky's life is blooming. She's working at London's newest fashion store, The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room) ... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed — especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery ... to the latest, coolest pram ... to the celebrity,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States — a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to: lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota); play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California); and, catch a fish with a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who?…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real home. Little did he know that he had entered the Longden world, in which the unexpected…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock — especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. As passions flare and the conflict escalates, the whole community takes sides. Can the solemnity of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Late at night, in a New York cafe, Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china. So he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a woman who said no or a case he couldn't solve. But now Reacher faces a new case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work the clues. Doing it the hard way, until what started on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story Running out of Dog which was featured in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. It also includes the full text of the acclaimed play Coronado. Infused with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air? Heard the story about the First Class air hostess who got fired for sitting on the face of a passenger during a long haul flight? Heard about the amount of knickers and false teeth that are left behind in the body of the plane? Heard how pissed-off stewards…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future'. There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics: especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Susan had never hung up a stocking. She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn't that her parents didn't believe in such things. They didn't need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn't. There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss' mistress? Paul opens his English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential…