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Chomsky Noam: Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U. S. Empire

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Power Systems is the latest collection of searing insights from intellectual superstar Noam Chomsky. In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by U.S. business interests against working…

Chomsky Noam: On Anarchism

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short, accessible introduction to his distinctively optimistic brand of anarchism. Refuting the notion…

Kahney Leander: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple with the unenviable task of turning around the company he had founded. One night Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away in a studio at Apple and instantly realized he had found a talent who could reverse the company's long decline. That young designer was Jony Ive. Ive's collaboration with Jobs would produce some of the world's most iconic…

Moriarty Liane: The Last Anniversary

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From Liane Moriarty, million copy selling author of The Husband's Secret, comes The Last Anniversary, a captivating story laced with mystery. 'This is your last chance to change your mind, Rose. After today we can't go back. Ever.' Seventy-three years have passed since sisters Rose and Connie found an abandoned baby in the only other house on their little island, Scribbly Gum. With both parents…

Dunlop Kerryann: Jamie Oliver's Food Tube: The Family Cookbook

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Family Cookbook is a simple guide to creating hearty dishes, presented in a clear, friendly style that has made Kerryann Dunlop a hit with families across the UK. Kerryann is a big character with a tone and style that's warm, motherly and gentle — with these recipes and her thrifty family tips and tricks, you'll have a bunch of recipes that'll serve you well for years to come. (Jamie Oliver).…

Dj Bbq: Jamie Oliver's Food Tube: The BBQ Book

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: DJ BBQ, the king of the coals, shares dishes from classical to radical in his new collection, The BBQ Book. With the recipes in this book, DJ BBQ's super-fun videos on Food Tube and a little bit of his heart and soul, your barbecue will never be the same again. (Jamie Oliver). American DJ and barbecue cook DJ BBQ is all about cooking over wood and coal, from huge hunks of meat cooked slow and low…

Cupcake Jemma: Jamie Oliver's Food Tube: The Cake Book

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Cake Book is bursting with original, lip-smacking recipes from baking sensation Jemma Wilson. Split up seasonally, you'll have a wonderfully naughty treat to choose from, whatever the time of year — this book might be small in size, but it's crammed full of brilliant recipes. (Jamie Oliver). Jemma Wilson makes her cakes with quality ingredients, exciting flavour combinations, a large spoonful…

Hamid Mohsin: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world. This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And to do that it has to find you, huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold, dewy morning. Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has…

Lore Pittacus: Lost Files: The Hidden Enemy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy is a collection of three action-packed novellas by bestselling author Pittacus Lore. Five's Legacy tells the story of Five's early years on Earth when he was just a young teen on the run, discovering his abilities and making the wrong kind of friends. Return to Paradise picks up in the aftermath of the Mog attack on Ohio, and follows Mark James as he…

Bonfiglioli Kyril: The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery: The Fourth Charlie Mortdecai Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Kyril Bonfiglioli's final novel follows the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai from adventure to misadventure via Jersey and Moscow to a final showdown in a Buckinghamshire bungalow of unparalleled hideousness. Tackling en route an unhealthy sprinkling of well-seasoned academics, a cryptic monk, an aristocratic Chief Constable, and more spies than you could shoehorn into a black stretch limo, Mordecai finds…

Steinbeck John: The Grapes of Wrath

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out…

Ferguson Niall: The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions — the intricate frameworks within…

Bostridge Mark: The Fateful Year: England 1914

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of their teachers, and celebrity aviators thrilling spectators…

Bonfiglioli Kyril: Don't Point That Thing at Me

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Portly art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possesion of a stolen Goya, the disappearance of which is causing a diplomatic ruction between Spain and its allies. Not that that matters to Charlie... until compromising pictures of some British diplomats also come into his possession and start to muddy the waters. All he's trying to do is make a dishonest living, but various…

Kennedy Paul: Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In January 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt met in Casablanca to review the Allies' war aims. To achieve unconditional surrender they had to overcome some formidable hurdles, from winning air command to 'hopping' across the Pacific islands. Eighteen months later, they had done what seemed impossible. Here Paul Kennedy reveals the role of the problem-solvers and middle-men who made it happen — like…

Gibson William: The Peripheral

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Some time around the year 2020, in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child. At precisely the same moment, one hundred years in the future, a boy is remotely killed on the streets of London's great skyscrapers. The perpetrator remains anonymous. Interweaving two strange futures, from a…

Hoffmann E.T.A.: The Nutcracker

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A delightful new holiday series featuring five classic Christmas tales in luxurious hardcover editions Truly stunning book design has become a Penguin Classics tradition. We now introduce a new must-have, collectible series featuring beautiful hardcover editions of some of the best-loved and bestselling Christmas titles of all time. Available in lovely holiday-themed packages, the series includes…

Gogol Nikolai: The Night Before Christmas

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A delightful new holiday series featuring five classic Christmas tales in luxurious hardcover editions Truly stunning book design has become a Penguin Classics tradition. We now introduce a new must-have, collectible series featuring beautiful hardcover editions of some of the best-loved and bestselling Christmas titles of all time. Available in lovely holiday-themed packages, the series includes…

Liberts Lauris: Get Shit Done

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Get Shit Done. Less Meetings, More Doing. Passion Never Fails. These mantras have bred the likes of Twitter and Instagram. Now the essence of the startup world has been captured in book form. There's rocket-fuelled insight from the pioneers of the Lean revolution, alongside timeless wisdom from Zuckerberg, Bezos and Jobs. Whenever you're in search of inspiration and motivation, pick up this book.…

Tesson Sylvain: Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience.