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Скачать книгу (размер 1 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 284) Аннотация: Cheating is reaching epidemic heights. The world is full of cheaters. We hear about them every day on the news from Washington to Wall Street. We see it all around us and we do it ourselves, whether its the white lie to keep us out of trouble or that extra cookie that breaks our diet. In this book, award-winning and bestselling author Dan Ariely explores why we just cant stop cheating. He…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 181 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 429) Аннотация: In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company — only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Once again, internationally acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow Of The Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them. Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The first bestsellers ever published were medieval bestiaries, encyclopedias that collected all of human knowledge and myths about animals. Eagles and lions lived in these pages next to imaginary beasts like griffins and sea monsters. For hundreds of years bestiaries rivaled only the bible as the most read books in the western world. Taking these original bestiaries as his inspiration, Michael…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Angela, Daphne and Jeanne Du Maurier — three sisters in a family who longed for sons; beautiful, successful, rebellious or mad, the sisters lives were bound in a family drama that inspired Angela and Daphne's best novels. Much has been written about Daphne but here the three sisters hidden lives are revealed in this riveting joint biography. Born in the first decade of the twentieth century, all…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding #1 New York Times bestselling novel Bruised and war-weary following his secret war to bring down a terrorist mastermind, Gabriel Allon returns to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece. But early one morning Gabriel is summoned by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 33 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in the field for the year 2011. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This Collins Map of London is clear and easy to read yet contains a lot of detail, presented in a handy compact format. This attractive map, ideal for both tourists and residents and updated for 2013, has an extensive area of coverage and displays a wealth of detail — all for only GBP 2.99 a copy. It is fully indexed and has a fully updated London underground map conveniently located on the back…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon loyal to the Norman king Richard I. Because of this loyalty, and his love for Lady Rowena, Ivanhoe is cast out by his father, a Saxon loyalist determined to liberate the Saxon people from Norman rule. He plans to marry Rowena, his ward and a descendant of the Saxon king Alfred,…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set in the fictional country of Ruritania, The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, identical cousin to King Rudolf of Ruritania, who must stand in for the king at his coronation when a plot to steal the crown leaves the king drugged and unable to attend. Rudolf must foil the plans of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Thomas Hughes' novel about the mischievous but kind-hearted schoolboy Tom Brown inspired other school novels, including Frank Richards' Billy Bunter stories and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The novel begins at Tom's childhood home in the Vale of the White Horse, where he spends his days out in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Likened to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, What Katy Did Next is a timeless classic for both children and adults to enjoy. The story of Katy Carr, the lanky, good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle and patient, is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge's popular Katy series. When Mrs…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Kate Croy is a beautiful but impoverished young woman forced to live with her successful but astringent Aunt, Maude Lower. Lower intends Kate to marry the aristocratic Lord Mark, but she is already in love with a journalist, Merton Densher. Though their lack of money prevents the two from marrying, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power — this is the remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. The Hundred Years War rages on and the bloodiest battles are yet to be fought. Across France, towns are closing their gates, the crops are burning and the country stands alert…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: For Ben Hope, the battle is only just beginning...When the ship Santa Teresa was sunk during the Spanish Armada's attack on England, it took to a watery grave a cask of documents that held explosive secrets of espionage and treason. Now, more than 400 years later, those documents have been recovered and a major drugs baron from South America wants them at any cost. Ex-SAS officer Ben Hope gets…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Big Nate is back the fifth instalment of his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID. BIG NATE IS FLIPPING OUT! Everyone knows N-A-T-E does NOT equal N-E-A-T! And when Nate's sloppiness gets out of hand, his best friend Francis gets in serious trouble. Can Nate clean up his act? Or will he FLIP OUT first?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry's actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur recounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur who, even as he stands at the threshold of Mirkwood is summoned back to Britain by news of the treachery of Mordred. Already weakened in spirit by…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also…