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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Legendary auto executive Lee Iacocca has a question for every American: Where have all the leaders gone? The most widely recognized business executive of all time asks the tough questions that America's leaders must address: • What is each of us giving back to our country? • Do we truly love democracy? • Are we too fat and satisfied for our own good? • Why is America addicted to oil? • Do we…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk — a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II — the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million troops were engaged in this titanic struggle. The combined losses of both sides — those killed, taken…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of «The Caged Virgin», Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The author of «The Know-It-All» follows up his bestselling account of reading the entire «Encyclopedia Britannica» with another improbable adventure — a year spent living, as literally as possible, by the rules of the Bible.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the future, a heroic captain and his crew explore the Galaxy in a really fast spacecraft. The crew's standing orders are: «...to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.»™ Simple, straightforward — that's «Star Trek».® So what's all the fuss? Why do news crews always seem to find someone, somewhere dressed up in a «Star…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries. Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. A young artist's model has been murdered,…

Скачать книгу (размер 7 378 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1448) Аннотация: Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as «Gone With the Wind» does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 582) Аннотация: Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate's desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth's sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »21 Nights» — a first book by Prince and celebrated photographer Randee St. Nicholas is a stunning multimedia volume offering a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics and mystique of one of the most notable and prolific musicians of our time. This beautifully designed photographic essay flows from Prince's sensational, unprecedented, record-breaking, sold-out 21 concerts in 21 Nights at London's 02…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What it was like to seek out friends, families, online forums, fan fiction, and podcasts to get a fix between novels.…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Rome, 1635, and Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more. Sharon doesn't mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time. Cardinal Borja is gathering votes to bring the Church's reformers…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume: «Komarr»— Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shatteredby a ship hurtling off course, and Miles Vorkossigan has been sent to find out if it was an…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: The Baltic War which began in the novel «1633» is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville--the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident — are caught in the middle of it. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Emperor of the United States of Europe, prepares a counter-attack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button», a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of «Fatherland» and «Imperium» comes «The Ghost», an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving — and most controversial — prime minister of the last half century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping…