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Автор: Brooks Elbridge Streeter

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Автор: Группа авторов

Полный вариант заголовка: «Historical life of Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples : Vol. 1 : and countess of Provence : with relative details of the literature and manners of Italy and Provence in the 13 and 14 centuries : in 2 volumes».

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Автор: Johann Stephan P?tter

Полный вариант заголовка: «Historische Entwickelung der heutigen Staatsverfassung des Teutschen Reichs. T. 1 : Bis 1558 / vom geheimen Justitzrath P?tter».

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Автор: Томас Карлейль

History of Friedrich II of Prussia – Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle
libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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Автор: Томас Карлейль

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Автор: Томас Карлейль

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Автор: Томас Карлейль

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Автор: Abbott Jacob

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Автор: Napoleon III

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Автор: A. Wilson N

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an unsuccessful putsch to overthrow the German government. Within a decade, he was the most powerful man in Europe.As Germany’s leader, Hitler delivered full employment and what appeared to be a booming economy to the nation – while Britain was suffering punishing levels of unemployment with no real welfare benefits. His popularity seemed to know no bounds; the slow deprivation of civil freedoms and rights to Jews did not initially displease all Germans, and the full extent of Nazi anti-Semitic extermination plans were incredible to many even within their own movement – let alone to the outside world – when they began to be put into operation during the early 1940s.Internationally, too, Hitler’s triumphs were extraordinary, and soon the Rhineland, Sudetenland and Austria fell to the German army, who suffered barely a casualty. By 1940, there was no doubt that Hitler was Europe’s master.But there was another story – and in this utterly compelling short biography, acclaimed writer A.N. Wilson positions Hitler as a man who not only embodied the excesses of the Third Reich but one who also represented the mediocrity of what optimists called ‘the Century of the Common Man’. For all the limitations of his personal accomplishments – as the child of a poverty stricken family, with no great educational, military or moral qualifications for leadership – Hitler was able, by remarkable energy, superbly choreographed rallies and electrifying rhetoric, to become a second Napoleon.In a field populated with lengthy tomes, Wilson’s brief, insightful portrait offers a compelling introduction to a man who continues to fascinate and appal.

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Автор: Roman Sandgruber

Ein spektakul?rer Quellenfund ?nderte radikal das Bild, das wir uns bislang ?ber Adolf Hitlers Vater Alois und die Familie Hitler gemacht haben: ein dickes B?ndel vergilbter Briefe des Vaters in gestochener Kurrentschrift, das sich auf einem Dachboden ?ber den Kahlschlag der NS-Zeit hinwegrettete und das dem Historiker Roman Sandgruber in die H?nde fiel. Die 31 Briefe er?ffnen einen v?llig neuen und genaueren Blick auf die v?terliche Pers?nlichkeit, die den jungen Adolf Hitler ma?geblich pr?gte. Und bringen etwas Licht ins Dunkel des von Mythen, Erfindungen und Vermutungen gepr?gten Alltags der Familie Hitler. Denn immer noch, und immer wieder bewegt uns die Frage: Wie konnte ein Kind aus der ober?sterrreichischen Provinz, ein Versager und Autodidakt, einen derartigen Aufstieg schaffen?

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Автор: Roger Liggenstorfer

Bedeutende Momente im bewegten Leben des gro?en Schweizer Wissenschaftlers und Entdeckers des LSD, Albert Hofmann, werden in diesem H?rspiel nachempfunden und reflektiert. Hofmanns «?u?ere Reisen», wie die nach Mexiko, sowie seine «inneren Reisen», so im Kreise seiner Freunde und Co-Psychonauten, finden in szenischer Umsetzung ebenso Platz in dieser Produktion wie die Worte der Laudatoren Ralph Metzner, Mathias Broeckers, Dieter Hagenbach, Lucius Werthm?ller und Roger Liggenstorfer. Eine spannende und zugleich wissenschaftlich informative H?rspielproduktion.

Исполнители: Peter Eckermann Johann

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Автор: M.J. Ford

‘Superb, gritty and realistic’ MEL SHERRATT, million copy bestsellerHow long do you hunt for the missing?A horrible vanishing act…When a young Josie Masters sees a boy wearing a red football shirt, Dylan Jones, being taken by a clown at a carnival, she tries to alert the crowds. But it’s too late. Dylan has disappeared…Thirty years later, Josie is working as a police officer in Bath. The remains of the body of a child have been found – complete with tatters of a torn red football shirt. Is it the boy she saw vanish in the clutches of the clown? Or is it someone else altogether?And then another child disappears…

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Автор: Barbara Taylor Bradford

From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes the continuing story of indomitable heroine, Emma HarteEmma Harte is now eighty years old and ready to hand over the reins of the vast business empire she has created. To her favourite grandchild, Paula McGill Fairley, Emma bequeaths her mighty retailing empire with these heartfelt words: ‘I charge you to hold my dream.’A towering international success, this is the powerfully moving tale of one woman’s determination to ‘hold the dream’ which was entrusted to her, and in so doing find the happiness and passion which is her legacy.

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Автор: Edward Phillips

Now available as an ebook.A collection of jokes with a holiday theme from Edward Phillips:Office manager: ‘Will you ever forget that marvellous weekend we spent in Paris?’Secretary: ‘How much are you offering?’‘We are now passing one of the biggest breweries in Ireland,’ announced the guide on a coach trip.‘Why?’ protested a voice from the back

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Автор: Mark Lawrence

Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor.THEY CAME AGAINST HER AS A CHILD. NOW THEY FACE THE WOMAN.The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat.Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that Nona and her friends will have time to earn a nun’s habit before war is on their doorstep.Even a warrior like Nona cannot hope to turn the tide of war. The shiphearts offer strength that she might use to protect those she loves, but it’s a power that corrupts. A final battle is coming in which she will be torn between friends, unable to save them all. A battle in which her own demons will try to unmake her.A battle in which hearts will be broken, lovers lost, thrones burned.HOLY SISTER completes the Book of the Ancestor trilogy that began with RED SISTER and GREY SISTER. A ground-breaking series, it has established Mark Lawrence as one of the most exciting new voices in modern speculative fiction.

Серия: Book of the Ancestor

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Автор: Yormary Rinc?n Parra

Hombres sin rostro. En cada uno de los quince cuentos que conforman esta publicaci?n, la autora dibuja con sus palabras el diario vivir de seres an?nimos con sus conflictos, intereses, emociones, amores y desamores. Son cuentos que hablan por los que no tienen voz: el taxista que trabaja doble para que su hija sea profesional; el vendedor ambulante que se siente atropellado por la autoridad; el anciano que se niega a que su casa desaparezca ante la voracidad del desarrollo. Estos y otros personajes m?s, desfilan por las p?ginas de Hombres sin rostro, breves historias, breves cuentos del entorno cotidiano.

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Автор: Julie Myerson

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives.This is the biography of a house, the history of a home. It’s an ordinary house, an ordinary home, and ordinary people have lived there for over a century. But start to explore who they were, what they believed in, what they desired and they soon become as remarkable, as complicated and as fascinating as anyone.That is exactly what Julie Myerson set out to do. She lives in a typical Victorian terraced family house, of average size, in a typical Victorian suburb (Clapham) and she loves it. She wanted to find out how much those who preceded her loved living there, so she spent hours and hours in the archives at the Family Record Office, the Public Record Office at Kew, local council archives and libraries across the country. Like an archaeologist, she found herself blowing the dust off files that no-one had touched since the last sheet of paper in them was typed. As she scraped the years away, underneath she found herself embroiled in a detective hunt as, bit by bit, she started to piece together the story of her house, built in 1877, as told by its former occupants in their own words and deeds. And so she met the bigamist, the Tottenham Hotspur fanatic, the Royal servant, the Jamaican family and all the rest of the eccentric and entertaining former occupants of 34 Lillieshall Road. The book uncovers a lost 130-year history of happiness and grief, change and prudence, poverty and affluence, social upheaval and technological advance.Most of us are dimly aware that we are not the first person to turn a key in our front door lock, yet we rarely confront the shadows that inhabit our homes. But once you do – and Julie Myerson shows you how – you will never bear to part from their company again. This is your home's story too.

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Автор: Сергей Владимирович Кутузов

Главные герои – среднестатистическая городская семья, лишённые в кризис большей части своих доходов, которых консультирует от первого лица, автор и фин. консультант. «HomeBudget…» – краткая инструкция для рестарта семьи в новую финансовую реальность. Сюжетная линия присутствует, но прослеживается слабо. Супружеская пара получает регулярные консультации. В качестве консультанта выступает автор книги от первого лица, с информацией, выходящей за рамки конкретной ситуации. В последствии, круг героев расширяется. В него входят друзья, родственники, одноклассники, члены их семей. Однако, просто иметь полезную информацию, быть в курсе событий, сегодня недостаточно. Необходимо стремиться монетизировать свои знания на постоянной основе. Идея заключается в том, что основные «финансовые фишки» которые мы используем, мы узнаем в общении, из реального опыта людей, которым доверяем. Практика и система отбора полезных знаний оставляют в работе действительно лучшие из лучших. К данной аудиокниге прилагается PDF-файл, рекомендованный для скачивания. Файл важен для лучшего понимания и усвоения книги.

Исполнители: VENERSKAYA ELENA

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Автор: Валентин Иванов

Необыкновенные люди встречаются в нашей жизни достаточно часто. Одни называют их гениями, другие – чудаками. Впрочем одно не исключает другое. Важно то, что эти люди украшают нашу жизнь, хотя для близкого человека жизнь рядом с чудаком или гением представляется порой не совсем лёгким делом. Человек с жизненным опытом не станет завидовать жизни гения – она далеко не каждому по плечу. Об одном их таких людей, которых по жизни ведёт одна идея, наша книга.

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Автор: Коллектив авторов

Сборник посвящен Зиновию Паперному (1919–1996), известному литературоведу, автору популярных книг о В. Маяковском, А. Чехове, М. Светлове. Литературной Москве 1950-70-х годов он был известен скорее как автор пародий, сатирических стихов и песен, распространяемых в самиздате. Уникальное чувство юмора делало Паперного желанным гостем дружеских застолий, где его точные и язвительные остроты создавали атмосферу свободомыслия. Это же чувство юмора в конце концов привело к конфликту с властью, он был исключен из партии, и ему грозило увольнение с работы, к счастью, не состоявшееся – эта история подробно рассказана в комментариях его сына. В книгу включены воспоминания о Зиновии Паперном, его собственные мемуары и пародии, а также его послания и посвящения друзьям. Среди героев книги, друзей и знакомых З. Паперного, – И. Андроников, К. Чуковский, С. Маршак, Ю. Любимов, Л. Утесов, А. Райкин и многие другие.

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Автор: Владимир Андерсон

Безликий бог Памяти настолько скромный, что никто не знает его имени. Бог войны Уицилопочтли, настолько уставший от войны, что только и делает, что ищет мира. Богиня Кицунэ, получившая столько масок других людей, что забыла своё собственное лицо. Боги не идеальны, но они всё равно боги, и они правят людьми. И, разумеется, делят этот мир между собой.***В остросюжетном философском романе «Homo ludus» раскрыты сложные вопросы осознания человека в современном мире и отношения человека к себе самому как самостоятельной личности.***"Homo ludus" В.Андерсона – это наш ответ «Песни льда и пламени» Дж.Мартина и «Американским богам» Н.Геймана

Исполнители: Владимир Андерсон

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Автор: З. Х. Травило

В этой, с позволения сказать, книге, рассказанной нам З. Травило, нет ничего особенного. Это не книга, а, скорее всего, бездарная запись баек и случаев, имевших место быть. Безусловно, наглость З. Травило в настойчивом предложении себя на рынок современной работорг…ой, литературы, не может не возмущать цивилизованного читателя, привыкшего к дамским детективам, дающим великолепную пищу для ума. Или писал бы, как все, эротические рассказы, все интереснее. А так ни тебе сюжета, ни слезы, одно самолюбование. Чего только отзывы (наверняка купил) стоят! Впрочем, автор и не скрывает, что задействовал связи и беззастенчивый блат для издания своих пустых россказней. Увы, все нынче покупается и продаётся. Рекомендуем категорически не трогать руками эту пошлую книжонку, спрятать ее от детей, сжечь не читая, купить и выбросить в ближайшую урну. И плюнуть ей вслед. Краткие сведения об авторе: подозрительная и сомнительная личность. Книга содержит нецензурную лексику.

Серия: Морские истории и байки

Исполнители: Сергей Ларионов

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Михаил Наумович Эпштейн (р. 1950) – один из самых известных философов и  теоретиков культуры постсоветского времени, автор множества публикаций в  области филологии и  лингвистики, заслуженный профессор Университета Эмори (Атланта, США). Еще в  годы перестройки он сформулировал целый ряд новых философских принципов, поставил вопрос о  возможности целенаправленного обогащения языковых систем и  занялся разработкой проективного словаря гуманитарных наук. Всю свою карьеру Эпштейн методично нарушал границы и выходил за рамки существующих академических дисциплин и  моделей мышления. Сборник статей и  бесед «Homo Scriptor» посвящен семидесятилетнему юбилею философа. Задача этой книги – разносторонне осмыслить оригинальный метод Эпштейна, его новаторскую терминологию, изыскания в отдельных дисциплинах и общий вклад в современную гуманитарную мысль.

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Автор: Len Deighton

Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the second novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.Bernard is trying hard to readjust his life in the face of questions about his wife Fiona, and her defection to the East. Is she the brilliant high-flyer that her Department seems to think she is? Or is she a spent force, a wife and mother unwilling or unable to face her domestic responsibilities? Bernard doesn’t know but is determined to find out.Bernard’s boos Dicky Cruyer is certainly not anxious to reveal what he knows, as he jostles for power with Fiona herself in London Central, and takes to the road with Bernard on a mysterious mission to Poland.This reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story.

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Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

Серия: Horror bei Null Papier

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Автор: Abbott John Stevens Cabot

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Автор: Sebastian Hope

Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, ‘Hotel Tiberias’ is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family’s hotel in Palestine.In 1900,Thomas Cook, who had been running tours of the Holy Land since the 1890s, financed the building of a hotel in Tiberias, the largest town on the Sea of Galilee, which had long been a stopover point for Christian pilgrims. The hotel, built, run and eventually owned by Richard Grossmann, was situated in the Sanjak of Acre, part of the Ottoman Empire, and after the First World War found itself in the British mandated territory of Palestine, prospering under British rule until the Second World War, after which the hotel was eventually confiscated by the fledgling state of Israel in 1948.With the hotel as the pivotal point in the story, Sebastian Hope researches the story of his grandmother, Margaret Frena and her two husbands, Fritz Grossman (Richard Grossman's son), who shot himself dead in 1938, the year Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland, and John Winthrop Hackett (General Sir John Hackett) who served with the TransJordan Frontier Force.Journeying through Rhineland Germany, Turkey and the Middle East, his research takes him to some strange places as he weaves a wonderful, strong family story into a rich, sweeping backdrop of both time and place. Just as he unravels the tumultuous history of the area, Hope digs deep into the history and layers of his own family, and discovers how family histories have an archaeology too.

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Автор: Уильям Уортон

A charming memoir from one of America’s best-loved novelists, William Wharton, author of war-time classic ‘Birdy’.Before even penning his first novel, William Wharton had left his home in Los Angeles to live with his family in Paris. On a romantic whim, he makes an offer for houseboat that is, in reality, barely more than a broken wooden hulk. To his surprise, the bid is accepted. Thus begins the story of his family’s work to return the boat to its former glory and build a home for themselves from scratch.

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Автор: Александр Чичулин

This book follows the journey of a young girl who transforms her small business into a thriving corporation through hard work, perseverance, and creativity. Along the way, she learns valuable lessons about leadership, entrepreneurship, and the power of perseverance. This inspiring story is a guide for anyone facing challenges on their own path to success.

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Автор: Генри Мортон Стэнли

В книге представлено исследовательское произведение Генри Мортона Стэнли «Как я нашел Ливингстона», в котором рассказывается о поисках миссионера Дэвида Ливингстона в Африке, а также об открытиях и приключениях, ставших последствиями поисков. Произведение дано на языке оригинала и поделено нами на две части. Знакомство с оригиналами творений классиков зарубежной литературы, науки, искусства поможет сегодняшним студентам составить более точное представление о неповторимой стилистике каждого автора, а также расширит словарный запас, знания об истории языка, фразеологии. Неадаптированное издание.

Серия: Читаем в оригинале

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Автор: Michael Gill

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.Michael Gill had it made. He was educated, wealthy and well-connected. He had a creative and lucrative advertising job, which he loved and which he was good at, and a model family and home life. Then he loses it all. He is fired by a young exec whom he had mentored. He has an extramarital affair that destroys his family and results in a newborn son. Then he is diagnosed with brain cancer. He has no insurance, no income.One day he wanders into Starbucks and by chance signs up for a job interview. His would-be boss is a young black woman who gives him a job, and sets about training him and mentoring him. What follows is an inspirational eye-opener as Gill experiences a whole new world compared to his former life – with people from completely different ethnic and social backgrounds.‘How Starbucks Saved My Life’ follows Gill's journey of discovery as gradually he is forced to question his ingrained assumptions, prejudices and habits. Gill emerges from his fall from grace with humility and gratitude. His new-found empathy teaches him how anyone who has lost their way, or made a mistake, can start again.

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Автор: Leil Lowndes

Perfect your people skills with this mini ebook by the author of ‘How to Talk to Anyone’ and ‘How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You’Leil Lowndes is the acknowledged queen of intelligent, savvy, quick fix advice for your long term social success.Leil’s insights and strategies are based on real research into human psychology and behaviour. Her style is wickedly funny, full of sage advice and a pleasure to read.This mini edition focusses on they key areas of:• People skills• Confident conversation• Romance and seduction• Relationships – lovers and friends• Socialising – how to shine• Business – charm your colleagues and clients

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Автор: Jonathan Franzen

Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of ‘The Corrections’.Jonathan Franzen's ‘Freedom’ was the literary sensation of 2010, whilst ‘The Corrections’ was the best-loved and most written-about novel the previous decade. ‘How to be Alone’, is a collection of the personal essays and painstaking, often humorous reportage that have earned Franzen a wide and loyal readership, including what has come to be known as 'The Harper's Essay', Franzen's controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. From the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, from his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease to a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author, each piece wrestles with Franzen's familiar themes: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern imperial America.These collected essays record what Franzen calls 'a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance – even a celebration – of being a reader and a writer.' They voice a wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.

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Автор: Джонатан Франзен

Jonathan Franzen's ‘The Corrections’ was the best-loved and most written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as 'The Harper's Essay,' Franzen's controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in ‘How to be Alone’, alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of ‘The Corrections’. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls 'a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance – even a celebration – of being a reader and a writer.' At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.

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Автор: Bren MacDibble

Исполнители: Sheena May

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Автор: Gould John Mead

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Автор: Wheatley Henry Benjamin

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Автор: Peter Jones

Do you ever feel that you could be – well – just that little bit happier? This simple book reveals how you can be happy every day, through these surprisingly easy tips and advice.Whoever you are, whatever you do, and whatever is holding you back, you can do it AND be happy.How To Do Everything and Be Happy is a book for ordinary people, with ordinary lives. People who have been ambling along and wondering if things would be better if they were just a little different. It's a book for most people. It's a book for you.Peter Jones was once a normal guy. Sometimes frustrated, often dissatisfied, but always working hard towards a ‘happily every after’ he would share with his wife Kate.But when Kate died in Peter’s arms after just 2 years and 3 months of marriage, he realised his days had been spent working towards a fantasy, instead of making every hour count. Alone, at rock bottom, Peter discovered that the secret to happiness is simple: it’s about filling your time with the things that make you happy.If you've got a brain in your head, if you can pick up a pen, if you've got half an idea about what makes you smile, this book will show you how to do that.Peter’s ideas are born from hard-won experience. Like Boxing Day: originally a day Peter and Kate spent together, without plans or restrictions, as an antidote to the chaos of Christmas. When Kate passed away, Peter continued the tradition by himself, doing whatever came to mind: it turned out to be the most refreshing, relaxing and fulfilling few hours he’d ever had. And its effects could be felt throughout the month.Practical, amusing and mumbo-jumbo-free, How To Do Everything And Be Happy does exactly what it says on the tin.

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Автор: Nichola Smalley

A fresh, hilarious and compulsively readable love story with the most wonderful kernel of truth to it. An uplifting and clever read for fans of Graeme Simsion and Marian Keyes.Julia is looking for Mr Right, but Ben is more Mr Right-Now-He-Could-Do-With-a-Bath..You may think you know what kind of novel this is, but you’d be wrong.Yes, Julia is a single-girl clich?, living alone with her cat in Vienna and working in a language school. And yes, a series of disastrous dates has left her despairing of ever finding The One – until Ben sits next to her on a bench. He’s tall, dark, handsome……and also incredibly hairy, barefoot, a bit ripe-smelling and of no fixed abode.You guessed it – they fall in love, as couples in novels do. But can Julia overlook the differences between them, abandon logic and choose with her heart?Funny, filthy (literally) and fizzing with life – and based on a true story! – this is the perfect antidote to all those books promising you that Prince Charming lives in a castle.

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Автор: Judith Valente

The Rule of St. Benedict (the rule) arose in an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy, political leaders that lacked the trust of the public, and rampant xenophobia. The events that occurred in sixth-century Rome were much those like on the nightly news.Benedict was not a priest or religious official. He was just a young man disillusioned by a corrupt society that lacked compassion. He had a vision of a society in which human values reigned supreme; a vision of compassion, harmony, and hope.This is a book about living—not just surviving. It is a book about how to live a balanced, meaningful, and conscious life rooted in the ancient and time-tested wisdom of the rule.Valente's book reflects her training as a journalist. The narrative is engaging, conversational, and filled with anecdotes. It reflects the sensibility of someone who has struggled with balancing work and family with finding true meaning and happiness that is not dependent on externals. In 21 chapters, she explores the key elements of the rule and clearly demonstrates how incorporating this ancient wisdom can change the quality and texture of our lives. Included here are discussions of humility, waking up, silence, simplicity, trust, prayer, forgiveness, building consensus, listening, and living with awe. These fresh and profound explorations are inspiring, thoughtful, and motivational.This book is aimed at beginner and mature spiritual seekers alike. It should also appeal to non-traditionally spiritual people—the so-called “nones” (people who list “none of the above” as their formal religion), who are seeking a saner way to live in an increasingly violent, divided, and confusing world.

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Автор: Judith Valente

The Rule of St. Benedict (the rule) arose in an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy, political leaders that lacked the trust of the public, and rampant xenophobia. The events that occurred in sixth-century Rome were much those like on the nightly news.Benedict was not a priest or religious official. He was just a young man disillusioned by a corrupt society that lacked compassion. He had a vision of a society in which human values reigned supreme; a vision of compassion, harmony, and hope.This is a book about living—not just surviving. It is a book about how to live a balanced, meaningful, and conscious life rooted in the ancient and time-tested wisdom of the rule.Valente's book reflects her training as a journalist. The narrative is engaging, conversational, and filled with anecdotes. It reflects the sensibility of someone who has struggled with balancing work and family with finding true meaning and happiness that is not dependent on externals.In 21 chapters, she explores the key elements of the rule and clearly demonstrates how incorporating this ancient wisdom can change the quality and texture of our lives. Included here are discussions of humility, waking up, silence, simplicity, trust, prayer, forgiveness, building consensus, listening, and living with awe. These fresh and profound explorations are inspiring, thoughtful, and motivational.This book is aimed at beginner and mature spiritual seekers alike. It should also appeal to non-traditionally spiritual people—the so-called “nones” (people who list “none of the above” as their formal religion), who are seeking a saner way to live in an increasingly violent, divided, and confusing world.

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Автор: Ece Temelkuran

’This is essential’ Margaret Atwood on Twitter‘She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this’ Philip Pullman’Vibrates with outrage’ The Times‘It couldn’t happen here’Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote.She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump’s election was soundtracked by chants of ‘Build that wall.’She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdoğan rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists.How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early-warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world, in order to define a global pattern, and arm the reader with the tools to root it out.Proposing alternative, global answers to the pressing – and too often paralysing – political questions of our time, Temelkuran explores the insidious idea of ‘real people’, the infantilisation of language and debate, the way laughter can prove a false friend, and the dangers of underestimating one’s opponent. She weaves memoir, history and clear-sighted argument into an urgent and eloquent defence of democracy.No longer can the reasonable comfort themselves with ‘it couldn’t happen here.’ It is happening. And soon it may be too late.

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Автор: Chicara

This book is a type of biography of a writer who shares her experience in the fight against alcoholism. In this book you will find the experiences, thoughts and ideas of people suffering from alcohol addiction. For a long time, it was believed that alcoholism was not curable, but from her own experience she was convinced that this was not so.

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Автор: Владимир Дронов

Рассмотрены вопросы создания интерактивных Web-сайтов с помощью HTML, JavaScript, PHP и MySQL, форматирования Web-страниц при помощи CSS. Даны основы PHP и примеры написания типичных сценариев. Описаны приемы работы и администрирования баз данных MySQL при помощи PHP и программы phpMyAdmin. Особое внимание уделено созданию программной среды на компьютере разработчика и настройке Web-сервера Apache. Приведено описание текстового редактора Notepad++, шаблонизатора Smarty и прочих программ (Aptana Studio, NetBeans и HeidiSQL), необходимых Web-разработчику. В 4-м издании содержится описание возможностей, предлагаемых HTML 5 (средства семантической разметки и размещения аудио и видео) и CSS 3 (градиенты, создание тени, анимация и преобразования), технологии AJAX, формата JSON, новых инструментов JavaScript (включая средства геолокации и локальное хранилище данных) и всех нововведений, появившихся в актуальных на данный момент версиях Apache, PHP и MySQL. Электронный архив содержит листинги примеров, руководство по созданию динамического сайта, самоучитель языка Perl, руководство по публикации сайта, инструкции по установке дополнительных программ и видеоуроки. Для Web-разработчиков.

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Автор: Алексей Петюшкин

Книга представляет собой руководство по изучению основных правил языка гипертекстовой разметки HTML, необходимого практически каждому пользователю Всемирной сети, уже имеющему собственную Web-страницу в Интернете или только еще желающему ее создать. Дано общее представление о языке HTML, об интерактивных технологиях, реализующих электронные документы с динамически изменяющимся содержанием, раскрыта структура и описаны конструктивные элементы языка – теги и их параметры, приведены примеры различных способов форматирования текста электронных документов и соответствующие иллюстрации. Уделено внимание правилам использования графики и звука при создании Web-страниц, изложены принципы формирования карт-изображений, фреймов и пользовательских форм. Для широкого круга пользователей Интернета.

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Автор: Penelope Fitzgerald

From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’, ‘The Blue Flower’ and ‘Innocence’, this is a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC – as elsewhere – some had to fail and some had to die.It does not pretend to be an accurate history of Broadcasting House in those years, but ‘one is left with the sensation’, as William Boyd said, reviewing it in the ‘London Magazine’, ‘that this is what it was really like.’

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Автор: Алексей Комов

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Автор: Gordon Ramsay

Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn. But this is his real story…In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world’s most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother’s heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona – all the things that have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. Gordon talks frankly about:• his tough childhood: his father’s alcoholism and violence and the effects on his relationships with his mother and siblings• his first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to Scotland when he was signed by Glasgow Rangers at the age of fifteen, and how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years later• his brother’s heroin addiction.• Gordon’s early career: learning his trade in Paris and London; how his career developed from there: his time in Paris under Albert Roux and his seven Michelin-starred restaurants.• kitchen life: Gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen door, and how a restaurant kitchen is run in Anthony Bourdain-style.• and how he copes with the impact of fame on himself and his family: his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own drive for success.

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Автор: Devin Krukoff

Исполнители: Paul Duder

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Автор: Douglas Century

This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world’s most-wanted drug-lord.Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo Escobar. But for every one of these criminals, there’s a Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett or Slipper of the Yard. For Joaqu?n Archivaldo Guzm?n-Loera a.k.a. ‘El Chapo’ – the 21st century’s most notorious criminal – that man is D.E.A. Special Agent Andrew Hogan.This is the incredible story of Hogan’s seven-year-long chase to capture El Chapo, a multibillionaire drug-lord and escape-artist posing as a Mexican Robin Hood, who in reality was a brutal sociopath responsible for the murders of thousands. His greedy campaign to take over his rivals’ territories resulted in an unprecedented war with a body count of over 100,000.We follow Hogan on his quest to achieve the seemingly impossible: to cross the border into Mexico and arrest El Chapo, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a billionaire and Public Enemy No. 1, who had been evading capture for more than a decade and had earned a reputation for being utterly untouchable.This intimate thriller tells how Hogan single-mindedly and methodically climbed the ladder within the hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel – the world’s wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking organization – by creating one of the most sophisticated undercover operations in the history of the D.E.A. From infiltrating Chapo’s inner circle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of Mexican Marines, Hogan left no stone unturned in his hunt for the world’s most powerful drug kingpin.

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