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Berger Jonah: Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in Digital Age

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Why are some products and ideas talked about more than others? Why do some articles make the most emailed list? Why do some YouTube videos go viral? Word-of-mouth. Whether through face-to-face conversations, emails from friends, or online product reviews, the information and opinions we get from others have a strong impact on our own behaviour. Indeed, word-of-mouth generates more than two times…

La Plante Lynda: The Escape

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Is a change of identity all it takes to leave prison? Colin Burrows is desperate. Recently sent to prison for burglary, he knows that his four year sentence means that he will miss the birth of his first child. With his wife's due date fast approaching, he had hoped that the prison authorities would allow him to be present for the birth, but they have said no. Sharing a cell with Colin is Barry…

Lynda La Plante: Wrongful Death

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Duty to the job or personal ambition? Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie... Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. His death was quickly determined to be a suicide, the investigation was closed... a case done and dusted. Until now. A young man, awaiting trial for armed robbery has…

Gregory Philippa: The White Princess

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville — the White Queen — the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and…

Martin Cruz Smith: Tatiana

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko…

Sandford John: Silken Prey

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Murder, scandal, political espionage and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport's going to be lucky to get out of this one alive. A Minnesota political fixer has hit the jackpot — or so he thinks. Hired to take down the incumbent U.S. senator with a vicious smear, to open the way for an ambitious, take-no-prisoners heiress who sees the Senate as merely a stepping-stone, he decides his…

Carter Chris: One by One

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address — a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option.…

Rosenzweig Phil: The Halo Effect: How Managers Let Themselves be Deceived

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Too many of the most prominent management gurus today make steel-clad guarantees, based on claims of irrefutable research, promising to reveal the secrets of why one company fails and another succeeds, and how you can become the latter. Combining equal measures of solemn-faced hype and a whole body of delusions, statistical and otherwise, these self-styled experts cloud our ability to think…

Duns Jeremy: Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West. His first attempt was to approach two American students in Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to deliver it to the American embassy. Inside was an offer to work as a 'soldier-warrior' for the free world. MI6 and the CIA ran Penkovsky jointly, in an operation that ran through the…

Mary Higgins Clark: Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Hannah Connelly, a twenty-eight-year old designer and rising star in the fashion world, is plunged into a web of horror and grief when she learns that Connelly Fine Reproductions, the family-owned furniture business founded by her grandfather, has been levelled by an explosion in the middle of the night. Everything has been destroyed — the warehouse, the showrooms, and the mansion where priceless…

Collins Jackie: Confessions of a Wild Child

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Who is Lucky Saint? She's a fifteen year old wild child who discovered her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. In Confessions of a Wild Child you will follow Lucky as she navigates her teen years — boys, drugs, family dramas, and many adventures from Greek islands to Vegas penthouses. You will meet the Santangelo family. Gino Santangelo,…

Strachan Hew: The First World War: A New History

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His on-going three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference…

Evans Cordelia: Dragon Race!

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Take to the skies in this storybook based on the DreamWorks movie How to Train Your Dragon 2 that includes 3-D glasses and illustrations and a 3-D poster! How to Train Your Dragon 2 flies into theaters on June 20, 2014! In this deluxe 8x8 storybook with 3-D interiors, 3-D glasses, and a 3-D poster, young Dragons fans can fly alongside Hiccup and Toothless as they race their friends through the…

A Tale of Dragons

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Journey back to Berk in this storybook retelling of the DreamWorks movie How to Train Your Dragon 2! How to Train Your Dragon 2 flies into theaters on June 20, 2014! Hiccup and Toothless are back for more adventures in Berk! Fans of the original How to Train Your Dragon film will love this exciting retelling of the magical sequel, presented as an 8x8 storybook. (c) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (c)…

Two to Kung Fu

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Join Po for two bodacious adventures in one illustrated chapter book! This chapter book based on two episodes of the popular and Emmy Award-winning television show Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness includes black-and-white illustrations throughout — and plenty of action! In Chain Reaction, Po and Tigress are chained together by bandits, who then escape with a rare treasure! What happens when…

The Furry and the Furious

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Enjoy two stories of two kung fu foes — one furry, one furious — in this illustrated chapter book based on popular episodes of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. This chapter book contains two stories with black-and-white illustrations throughout, one starring Shifu and the other starring Viper, and both based on episodes of the popular and Emmy Award-winning television show Kung Fu Panda:…

Good Po, Bad Po

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Is Po doomed to be a bad guy? Find out in this storybook retelling of a popular episode of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness! After Po masters one of the Seven Impossible Moves, Master Shifu reveals that the strongest warrior of the Furious Five almost always turns evil. Are Po's days as a good guy numbered? (c) 2014 Viacom International Inc. NICKELODEON and all related logos are trademarks…

Kung Fu to the Rescue!

Скачать книгу (размер 427 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 85) Аннотация: Get two kickin' tales in one book with this illustrated chapter book based on popular episodes of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. This chapter book contains two stories, both based on episodes of the popular and Emmy Award-winning television show Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. This book includes black-and-white illustrations throughout — and plenty of action! In the first story,…

Montgomery L.M.: Anne of Avonlea

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Five years after Anne Shirley came to the town of Avonlea, she feels (a little) more grown up, but she's still the same skinny, red-headed orphan Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert took in. After putting her dream of attending Redmond College on hold so she can help Marilla with the farm, Anne doubts she has many adventures ahead of her. But even in plain old Avonlea, her life proves to be anything but…

Montgomery L.M.: Anne of Green Gables

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables, she surprises everyone: first of all, she's a girl, even though Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew specifically asked for an orphan boy to help around the farm. And second of all, she's not just any girl: she has bright red hair, a wild imagination, and can talk a mile a minute. But she also has a sweet disposition and quick wit, and Anne (with an…