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Nowak Martin: Supercooperators

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated…

Eagleman David: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

Burkeman Oliver: Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It's a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna — but how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past five years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest outposts of the 'happiness industry' in an attempt to find out. In Help!, Oliver presents his…

Pullman Philip: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is the story of two brothers — one impassioned and one reserved. One is destined to go down in history and the other to be forgotten. In Philip Pullman's hands, the story of Jesus is reborn as one of the most enchanting, thrilling and thought-provoking stories of recent years, asking the reader questions that will continue to resonate long after they've finished reading it.

Miller Rebecca: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. It brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life — and all the…

Booth Stanley: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'Sounding like one instrument, a wild whirling bagpipe, the Stones chugged to a halt. But the crowd didn't stop, we could see Hells Angels spinning like madmen, swinging at people. By stage right a tall white boy with a black cloud of electric hair was dancing, shaking, infuriating the Angels by having too good a time.' The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is not just the greatest book about…

Bondurant Matt: Lawless

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgut? Whatever you called it, Franklin County was awash in moonshine in the 1920s. During Prohibition, the Bondurant Boys were moonshiners and notorious roughnecks who ran liquor though Franklin County, Virginia. The Wettest County in the World is their story, a white-knuckle fable of bootlegging, revenge and remorse.…

Martel Yann: Life of Pi

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This title is now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee. One boy, one boat, one tiger... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is…

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr: Apricot Jam and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'No matter what, you cannot change human nature', exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism'. Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and after Soviet rule. In 'The New Generation', a professor promotes a student purely out of good will. Years later, the same professor finds himself arrested and,…

White Matthew: Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: In this wholly original and remarkably ambitious work, 'Atrocitologist' Matthew White considers man's inhumanity to man across several thousand years of history. From the First Punic War and the collapse of Mayan rule to the reign of Peter the Great and the cataclysmic events of the Second World War, White's epic book spans centuries and civilisations as it measures the hundred most violent…

Faber Michel: The Crimson Petal and the White

Скачать книгу (размер 4 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 824) Аннотация: Step into Victorian London and meet our heroine, Sugar — a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can — and the host of unforgettable characters that make up her world.

Pullman Philip: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader questions that will continue to resonate long after the final page is turned. For, above all, this…

Pilkington Karl: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot. Karl Pilkington isn't keen on travelling. Given the choice, he'll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn't exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened when he was convinced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to go on an epic adventure to see…

Thomas Scarlett: Our Tragic Universe

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. For Meg — locked in a hopeless relationship and creatively uninspired — this thought fills her with dread. But could there be an important connection to be made between a wild beast living on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time, a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe and the…

Grenville Kate: The Secret River

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: London, 1806 — William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most…

Tofield Simon: Simon's Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: With over 25 million hits on YouTube in little over a year, Simon's Cat, is a genuine word-of-mouth phenomenon. Fans from all over the world have fallen for this adorable but anarchic feline who will do just about anything to be fed. This autumn, Simon Tofield's beautiful drawings and warm humour come alive on the page in the first of a series of irresistible stocking-filler humour books.

Strauss Neil: The Rules of the Game

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This book is not a story. It is a how-to book. This Stylelife Challenge is not meant to be read. It is meant to be performed. Whatever experience level you have, whatever strengths and weaknesses you may have, whether you're a virgin or a Don Juan, the stage has been set for you to perform at your highest capacity. The Stylelife Challenge is a simple, easy-to-follow guide to the basics of…

Grossman David: Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In Lion's Honey, award-winning writer David Grossman takes on one of the most vivid and controversial characters in the Bible. Revisiting Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal by them all — including the only one he ever loved — Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story and its climax, Samson's final act of death, bringing down a temple on himself and…

Tofield Simon: Simon's Cat 3

Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: Like all great cartoon creations, from Peanuts to Asterix, from Garfield to Tintin, Simon's Cat has continued to evolve by introducing new characters and developing new storylines. After the runaway success of the orignial book, Simon Tofield returned last year with the further adventures of his feline beyond the fence. Now we welcome a cuddly new addition to the family in the form of Simon's…

Baricco Alessandro: Ocean Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress — and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its…