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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives resultsIn «Quick and Nimble,» Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: At the end of «Shadow of the Giant», Bean flees to the stars with three of his children — who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film «Exit Through the Gift Shop.» Once viewed as vandalism, his work is now venerated; fans have gone so far as to dismantle the walls that he has painted on for…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sins of the Father Jeffrey ArcherIt is only days before Britain declares war on Germany. Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of a familyscandal, and realizinghe can never marry Emma Barrington, has joined the Merchant Navy. Whena German U-boat sinks his ship, Harry and a handful of sailors are rescued by the SS Kansas Star, among them an American named Tom Bradshaw. That night, when…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: »Only Time Will Tell» is the first novel in the Clifton Chronicles, an ambitious new series that tells the story of a family across generations and oceans, from heartbreak to triumph, from #1 «New York Times»-bestselling author Archer. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Martin's Press.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: From the National Book Award-winning author of «The Corrections» comes a darkly comedic novel about family. Franzen's intensely realized characters struggle to learn how to live in an ever-confusing world — one with the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Robert Heinlein is generally considered one of the greatest American science fiction writers of the 20th century. This is the first of two volumes that covers Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the midlife crisis that changed him forever.

Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Southwest Arizona, a century ago. An uneasy true exists between the remote frontier community of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is shredded when the bodies of two white men are found hideously mutilated. The angry townspeople are certain the savages have broken the treaty, but Billjohn Finley, the local Indian agent, fears that darker, more unholy forces may be at…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab named Ned, Devon has no idea that she's about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destruction... Jude Marrock is out for revenge — and he has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: The celebrated and controversial Roman Polanski has long been the object of worldwide fascination. Here, acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford weaves together the rich and complex life of the film director, Holocaust survivor, and exile, based on 200 firsthand accounts. This unique access includes interviews with actors and writers who worked with Polanski, previously sealed transcripts of…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 305) Аннотация: On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Grace Kelly's death, «New York Times» bestselling author Wendy Leigh has written a haunting celebration of a life that ended far too soon, starring a heroine whose dramatic, star-crossed story is both tragic and inspiring. Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco, the legendary Hollywood screen siren Grace Kelly, is an American icon whose beauty is…