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Moore Michael: Dude, Where's My Country?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: He's the man everyone's talking about. He's taken on gun freaks, stupid white men and corporate crooks. Now Michael Moore is on a new mission: to get us of our behinds and kicking out the corrupt political elites who rule our lives.

Figes Orlando: Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Orlando Figes’s enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people.

Townsend Sue: Number Ten

Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted in to Number Ten after a landslide election result. But things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. Leaving behind his superwoman wife Adele, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, a policeman on the door of Number Ten, and sets out to…

Bannock: The New Penguin Dictionary of Business

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This brand new dictionary is the ideal handbook for everyone with an interest in the world of business, whether you are studying or are already at work and need to get to grips with the mass of jargon being used. Up-to-the-minute, clearly written by experts in their fields, with practical and relevant examples, The New Penguin Dictionary of Business covers a host of both general and more…

King Stephen: Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Roland, the world’s last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic Man in Black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest.

King Stephen: Dark Tower III: Waste Lands

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own...

Gibson William: Neuromancer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot…

Hunter S. Thompson: Hell's Angels

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with…

Mark Roseman: The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: On 20 January 1942, the most murderous meeting in history took place. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Germany, it summoned top Nazi officials to a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee in order to clarify ‘the Final Solution of the Jewish question’. They ate good food, drank cognac and smoked cigars – and in less than two hours had effectively sentenced six…

Joseph Stiglitz: Globalization and Its Discontents

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Our world is changing. Globalization is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning … Explosive and shocking, «Globalization and Its Discontents» is the bestselling exposé of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives – from the man who has seen them at work first hand. As Chief Economist at the World Bank, Nobel Prize-winner Joseph…

Charlaine Harris: Club Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill — caught in an act of betrayal — she's not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.

Maeve Binchy: Quentins

Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if…

E. E. Knight: Way of the Wolf

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In 2065 Louisiana, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of human souls. The Wolves are an elite guerilla force sworn to win back Earth, and Lieutenant David Valentine leads his first command.

Charlie Chaplin: My Autobiography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. His extraordinary autobiography was first published in 1964 and was written almost entirely without reference to documentation — simply as an…

Clarence Brown: The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri…

Sue Grafton: Q Is for Quarry

Скачать книгу (размер 1 784 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 351) Аннотация: «The #1 «New York Times» bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.»

Jane Walmsley: Brit-think, Ameri-think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Jane Walmsley shares George Bernard Shaw's belief that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. In this title she looks beyond this shared facade to see the great gulfs that separate us in such areas as tastes in food, dress, home decoration, the way we conduct business, vacation, engage in sex and even die. Her prototype American is an eternal optimist who believes it is…

Macdonald Hector: The Mind Game

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Northing should be this good. Three weeks on the Keniyan coast with the gorgeous Cara and a part in a cutting-edge experiment on the human mind for Oxford's hottest researcher. But now Ben Ashurst has been humiliated, betrayed and abandoned to the brutal reality of Africa. Why? Is Ben being played for a fool, or is he in real danger& A nerve-stretching thriller of deceit and manipulation, this is…

Stevenson Robert Louis: The Black Arrow

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of the Roses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.