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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch. 'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside.' As the citizens of an unnamed…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in on one of the most magical reading experiences on earth. 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.'…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we survive, and other human species fail? Robin Dunbar is an evolutionary psychologist and former director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University. His acclaimed books include How Many Friends Does One Person Need? and Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, described by…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: «The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a «punk prayer» beseeching the «Mother of God» to «get rid of Putin.» They were quickly shut down by security, and in the weeks and months that…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the CIA's transformation after 9/11 and the new American way of war. The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place in the corners of the world where large armies can't go. The CIA, originally created as a Cold War espionage service, is now more than ever a paramilitary agency ordered by the White House…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Wade, a longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle class social traits-thrift, docility, nonviolence, have been slowly but…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water... Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for, especially Roarke's big Irish family, which is a joyful improvement on her own dark childhood. Other couples aren't as lucky. The Reinholds, for example, are lying in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 304 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 453) Аннотация: Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways. It's the explosive new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor can't believe it — the senator's way too smart for that, even…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 305) Аннотация: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers — Beckett, Ryder, and Owen — as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out — with a tough-as-nails exterior and possibly nothing too soft underneath. He's surly and unsociable, but when he straps on a tool belt, no woman can…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers — Beckett, Ryder, and Owen — as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. The historic hotel in Boonsboro has endured war and peace, the changing of hands, and even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major face-lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: «#1 «New York Times» bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers — Beckett, Ryder, and Owen — as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family's construction business with an iron fist — and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his brothers bust on his compulsive…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 206 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 630) Аннотация: The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm. Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order — a caste devoted to battle. Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of a warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order. Vaelin's father was Battle…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It may be taboo to say, but some groups in America do better than others. Mormons have recently risen to astonishing business success. Cubans in Miami climbed from poverty to prosperity in a generation. Nigerians earn doctorates at stunningly high rates. Indian and Chinese Americans have much higher incomes than other Americans; Jews may have the highest of all. Why do some groups rise? Drawing…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Theodore Boone, young lawyer, has had a lot to deal with in his thirteen years, everything from kidnapping to murder. But he's come through it all and, with the law on his side, justice has always prevailed. Sometimes, though, the law doesn't seem so just. His friend Hardie Quinn is about to have his family home bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Hardie is not the only one affected: other homes,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah, Pari — as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named — is everything. More…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: A moving portrait of Esther Earl, the young woman whose friendship and life with cancer were an inspiration to many, including author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars). Told through Esther's own journals, letters, and fiction, supplemented with essays from her family and friends.

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder, and different — thinking, that is, like a Freak. Think Like a Freak offers rules like 'Put Your Moral Compass in Your Pocket,' 'The Upside of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without…