Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A Long Way Down — Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan. 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all... but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved...Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.' In his first non-fiction work since «Fever Pitch», Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life — or are just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A LONG WAY DOWN is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon — it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate. You…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with Scarcity. Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This is a gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history — from Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…