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Pink Daniel H.: To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: We're all in Sales now. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn. We sell our bosses on giving us more money and more time off. And in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and Match.com profiles. Relying on science, analysis and his trademark clarity of thought, Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be. The…

Ness Patrick: The Crane Wife

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: The extraordinary happens everyday. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most…

Faber Michel: Under The Skin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Isserley spends most of her time driving along empty, winding Highland roads in her red Toyota. She is interested in hitchhikers — so long as they are male, well-muscled and alone. But once she has coaxed them into her car, what she does to them is truly astonishing. Meeting Isserley is only the beginning of their journey, and a gateway to a new world. Cutting across different genres, Under the…

Rash Ron: Serena

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and even saves her husband's life in the wilderness. But when Serena learns she will never bear a child, it sets in motion a course of events that will change the lives of everyone in the community.

Tofield Simon: Simon's Cat Vs: the World!

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In the four years since Simon's Cat first leapt in to our lives he has stared in more than 15 films, appeared in three best-selling books and has entertained and delighted millions of fans across the world. Along the way he has swotted flies, pulled down Christmas trees, and generally terrorized his long-suffering owner, Simon. And for the most part, he has had things his way. Until now. This…

Burkeman Oliver: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Is our search for happiness futile? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? In this fascinating new book, Oliver Burkeman argues that 'positive thinking' and relentless optimism aren't the solution to the happiness dilemma, but part of the problem. And that there is, in fact, an alternative path to contentment and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid…

Dyer Geoff: Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In this spellbinding new book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Like the film Stalker itself, it confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of life and how to live.

Carroll R.: Comandante: Inside Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: Hugo Chávez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chávez has been compared to Napoleon, Nasser, Perón and Castro but the truth is there has never been a leader like him. He was democratically elected, reigned like a monarch from a mobile television throne, and…

Cave N.: The Death of Bunny Munro

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.

Hagena K.: The Taste of Apple Seeds

Скачать книгу (размер 1 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 241) Аннотация: For Iris, childhood memories are of long hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in her grandmother's garden, a place where redcurrants turned to pale tears on the branches of trees and beautiful Aunt Inga shook sparks from the tips of her fingers. But now her grandmother is dead and, along with inheriting the property, Iris finds that she also inherits her family's darkest secrets.…

Tofield Simon: Play Time: A Simon's Cat Book

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A pocket-sized collection of play-themed Simon's Cat cartoons selected from the first three Simon's Cat books. In full colour and featuring a selection of brand new cartoons, Simon's Cat is back, smaller, cheaper and cuter, but still up to his usual tricks.

Simon Tofield: The Bumper Book of Simon's Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: In the last five years, Simon's Cat has become a national treasure and a global phenomenon. Star of over twenty-five films, which have been watched over 300 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon's Cat has captured the hearts of a global audience. In this first major paperback edition author, animator and illustrator Simon Tofield brings together the best cartoons from…

Ozeki Ruth: A Tale for the Time Being

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Within the pages of this book lies the diary of a girl called Nao. Riding the waves of a tsunami, it is making its way across the ocean. It will change the life of the person who finds it. It might just change yours, too. Crossing generations and continents, from World War Two to present day Japan, A Tale for the Time Being tells an unforgettable story, as wondrous as it is wise.

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr: Apricot Jam and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is a brilliant new collection of stories from the Nobel Prize-winning author, available for the first time in English. Written in the years between Solzhenitsyn's return from exile to Russia in 1994, and his death in 2008, they confirm the author's position as not only a visionary political commentator but also as a true literary giant. APRICOT JAM AND OTHER STORIES presents a series of…

Tofield Simon: Simon's Cat: Feed Me!

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Simon's Cat is now bite-sized! A pocket-sized collection of food-themed Simon's Cat cartoons, these adorable snapshots of life with a very demanding cat are selected from the first two Simon's Cat books, with 10 brand new cartoons. In full color for the very first time, the YouTube sensation is back on the page—only smaller and cuter. This cat will do anything to be fed.

Lilin Nicolai: Siberian Education

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder... Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas — a small and tight-knit community of 'honest criminals' in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe. It was a remarkable upbringing, defined by an elaborate set of rituals and…

Lilin Nicolai: Free Fall: A Sniper's Story from Chechnya

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Free Fall tells the brutal engrossing story of the Second Chechen War, through the eyes of a young Russian Soldier. Nicolai Lilin was trained as a sniper in an unorthodox Russian Special Forces regiment called the Saboteurs. This hardened and close-knit band of brothers, operating beyond the control of military code, faced mercenary fighters, anti-personnel mines and torture of the most extreme…

Thomas Scarlett: Going Out

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: He wants to go out. She wants to stay in. For some reason, they are best friends. Luke is twenty-five, allergic to the sun and housebound. He's stuck in his bedroom where the world comes to him through TV, the internet and Julie's visits. Julie meanwhile is brilliant, kind and could be changing the world. Unfortunately she is too terrified of aeroplane crashes, road accidents and potentially…

Duncan Glen: The Last Werewolf

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: For two centuries Jacob Marlowe has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he can't go on. But as Jake counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life.

Byatt A.S.: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Greedy, cruel and foolish, the Gods deserve to die... From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book comes a mesmerising tale of the end of the gods and the destruction of life on this planet. Into her version of Ragnarok, surely one of the most thrilling and apocalyptic of myths, A.S. Byatt weaves the story of a young girl evacuated to the British countryside during…