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Clem Martini: The Mob

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's springtime — hundreds of Crows set out on their yearly migration and converge at the Gathering Tree. This sacred Gathering is an opportunity for the six crow Clans of the Family Kinaar to assemble, to make decisions and to celebrate being together. But when young blood is lost, sacred laws are tested as an illegal Mob seeks revenge, and a schism threatens the unity of the flock. The Family's…

Rawdon Wyatt: Check Your English Vocabulary for Law

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: »Check Your English Vocabulary for Law» is a workbook designed to help non-native English speakers improve their knowledge and understanding of core legal terminology. The workbook includes crosswords, puzzles and word games to test English vocabulary and a combination of self-study exercises and practical speaking activities meaning that this book is ideal for both home and classbased study.

Tony Thorne: Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: With more than 15,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this convenient paperback edition of the highly acclaimed «Dictionary of Contemporary Slang», language and culture expert, Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of…

A. Ivanovic: Dictionary of Human Resources and Personnel Management

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This dictionary offers over 7,000 key terms covering all aspects of human resources, including recruitment and selection, appraisals, payment systems, dismissals, and industrial relations. It is ideal for all professionals who work with personnel terminology, particularly those in HR departments, recruitment consultants, and employment lawyers.

Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The topics covered in this title include travel, tourism, ticketing, hotels and staff, restaurants, kitchens, table settings, service and cooking, along with general business, accounting and personnel terms. Handy supplements include quick-reference lists of airline and airport codes, currencies, international dialling codes, time zones, balance sheets and international public holidays. This work…

Andrew Dalby: Dictionary of Languages

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, «Dictionary of Languages» offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of…

Sue Miller: Lost in the Forest

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo; the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident, and killed. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the desolation of loneliness, finding herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence…

Gillian Shields: Mermaid SOS — Scarlett's New Friend

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Just as Scarlett and her friends start to make their way back to Coral Kingdom with the magic crystals for Queen Neptuna, a storm whipped up by the evil Mantora, throws them right off course! Scarlett and her fellow Sisters of the Sea are lost, but they must find their way home as quickly as possible in order to complete their important mission. Scarlett comes up with a plan to help her mermaid…

Gillian Shields: Mermaid SOS — Sophie Makes Splash

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Just as Sophie and her friends start to make their way back to Coral Kingdom with the magic crystals for Queen Neptuna, a storm whipped up by the evil Mantora, throws them right off course! Sophie and her fellow Sisters of the Sea are lost, but they must find their way home as quickly as possible in order to complete their important mission. This time Sophie leaps to the rescue to help her…

Dominic Barker: Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Blart is not an average boy. He lives on a pig farm with his grandfather and doesn't care about being heroic or famous or legendary, but he does know that if you want to catch a pig you have to sneak up behind it and take it by surprise. So when a great wizard visits and explains that humankind depends on Blart joining his quest, Blart says no — until the wizard threatens his pigs. Reluctantly,…

Gabriel Tolliver: Bling: The Hip-hop Jewellery Book

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This stunning collection of the wildest and the brightest in outlandish jewels treats readers to the decisive showcase of all things bling. Connoisseurs Reggie Osse and Gabriel Tolliver consider the influence of bling on the burgeoning 1980s hip-hop scene, unearth its possible historical exponents such as 'Sun King' Louis XIV, and bring the subject right up to present-day pop culture, showing how…

Steve Turner: The Man Called Cash

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash is an icon to people of all ages the world over. In Cash's first ever authorised biography, Steve Turner sifts the man from the legend and presents an unflinchingly honest picture. «The Man Called Cash» follows the star on his stumbling journey from the cotton fields of Arkansas to the drawing rooms of presidents, and through a career that took him from…

Alexander McCall Smith: The Banana Machine

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Patty lives with her Aunt Bat on a banana plantation in Jamaica. Unfortunately, as it's such a small plantation, they're having trouble keeping up with the competition, and Aunt Bat is worried they'll have to sell up. Patty needs to think of an idea to turn things around, and fast! Inspiration comes to her as she's digging into a chocolate banana special at her local ice-cream parlour. All she…

Alexander McCall Smith: The Bursting Balloons Mystery

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Max and Maddy are on the trail of a criminal who'll stop at nothing to sabotage Mr Helium's trans-American hot-air balloon race. The prize is a gold balloon worth one million and one dollars, and all the money raised by the race is to go towards the Home for Children Whose Parents Have Disappeared in Balloons — so there's a lot at stake! They take to the skies on board Mr Helium's very own…

Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: How do you describe Elsewhere? This is a novel so astoundingly original and carefully crafted that its complexities become common place and the common place resounds with poetry. In this delightful novel death is a beginning, a new start. Liz is killed in a hit a run accident and her 'life' takes a very unexpected turn. At nearly sixteen she knows she will never get married, never have children,…

Patricia Duncker: Hallucinating Foucault

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of…

Will Self: My Idea of Fun

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as 'The Fat Controller' — a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian' s mental illness. As Ian's idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity…

Alexander McCall Smith: Teacher Trouble

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Jenny is very tall for her age, and when her mum makes her dress smartly for her first day at a new school, she looks very grown-up indeed. So grown-up, in fact, that when she arrives at the school, she is mistaken for a new teacher, and left in charge of a classroom of kids! Jenny's first instinct is to escape, but on her way out she gets caught by Miss Ice, the strict school principal, who is…

Alexander McCall Smith: The Chocolate Money Mystery

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Max and Maddy Twist's parents were once famous, international detectives — before the evil Professor Sardine ruined their careers, that is. Now they run an ice-cream parlour, and it is the services of their crime-busting Cluedo-champion children that are called upon. Mr Huffendort, a rich Swiss banker is very worried about a series of raids upon banks, carried out by a team of highly-trained St…

Alexander McCall Smith: The Joke Machine

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Jeffrey spends his Saturdays working in Mr Prendergast's junk shop. One day, while they are sorting things out, they uncover a mysterious machine. Jeffrey takes it home to see if he can make it work. It turns out to be a joke-producing machine, and an extremely funny one at that! Soon everyone in town wants one of its jokes. Everyone except Mr Jenkinson, that is, the miserable owner of the shop…