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Schlender Brent: Becoming Steve Jobs: How a Reckless Upstart Became a Visionary Leader

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: STEVE JOBS: THE WILDERNESS YEARS will be the first comprehensive look at Jobs' years following his dismissal from Apple. During this time a combination of exile, failure and family saw him mature from the childish genius who left in disgrace in the mid-80s, to the man who returned just over a decade later to create a world changing, visionary company. Based on recently rediscovered, personal…

Cole Martina: Revenge

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT. Michael Flynn is untouchable in a world of power, money and violence. He fights for what he wants and he takes it, whatever the cost. He learns the rules of the Life from the best and when his mentor, legendary Face Patrick Costello, is taken out, no one questions that Michael Flynn is his natural successor. For Michael, loyalty — and crime — pay. Michael…

Widdowson John: Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography + Key Stage 3

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Prepare pupils for success in the ISEB Common Entrance Geography examination with this concise but authoritative Map Skills course. Endorsed by ISEB, this resource covers all essential skills required in using Ordnance Survey maps. It also provides teaching and practice in the use and interpretation of aerial photos alongside Ordnance Survey maps. — Provides a short introductory course covering…

Sue Monk Kidd: The Invention of Wings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and…

Ferguson Alex: Leading

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: What does it take to lead a team to world-class success over a sustained period of time? Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the few leaders who truly knows. In his 38 years in management, Sir Alex won an astonishing 49 trophies and helped grow Manchester United into one of the biggest commercial brands in the world. In this inspirational and straight-talking new book, Sir Alex reveals the secrets behind…

Ritchie Harry: English for the Natives

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It…

Colfer Chris: A Grimm Warning

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him — until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother... but her attempts at granting wishes never…

Octavia E. Butler: Kindred

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: On her 26th birthday, Dana and her husband are moving into their apartment when she starts to feel dizzy. She falls to her knees, nauseous. Then the world falls away. She finds herself at the edge of a green wood by a vast river. A child is screaming. Wading into the water, she pulls him to safety, only to find herself face to face with a very old looking rifle, in the hands of the boy's father.…

Kent Kathleen: The Outcasts

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Greed. Desire. Death. Love. It's the nineteenth century on the Gulf Coast of Texas, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. Lucinda: intelligent, passionate, wily and courageous — a woman who braves her affliction and risks her own life to pursue her lover, a man as charismatic as he is ruthless. Nate: pure of heart, and with a strong sense of justice — a Texas policeman who belies his gentle…

Williams Tad: Happy Hour in Hell

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Bobby Dollar has a problem or four of epic proportions. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather that also happens to be evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants to get his claws on the feather at all costs, but particularly at all cost to Bobby. Problem three: Bobby has…

Gaiman Neil: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A special Christmas edition of the Sunday Times bestseller. WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR Dive into a magical novel of memory and the adventure of childhood, from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient…

Cole Courtney: Before We Fall

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The third book in the Beautifully Broken series. BEFORE WE FALL will feature Dominic Kinkaide, Courtney Cole's baddest bad boy yet. And Jacey Vincent, the bad girl who will save him...

King Stephen: End of Watch

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: END OF WATCH is a compelling and chilling suspense novel which sees retired detective Bill Hodges back on the trail of his nemesis Brady Hartsfield, the criminal the press called The Mercedes Killer. Foiled in his attempt to commit a second mass murder, Hartsfield is confined to a hospital brain injury unit in a seemingly unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: Brady is able to…

Gaiman Neil: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-fiction

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Literature does not…

Clive Gifford: So You Think You Know London?

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «Tourists and Londoners alike will love this superb new quiz book. Full of fascinating facts about people, places and events from London past and present, «So You Think You Know London» will challenge even the most cocky London cab driver. Jam-packed with over 1000 questions on everything from royalty to fashion and sport to celebrities, this quiz book is the ultimate test in finding out whether…

Polly Bird: Teach Yourself Business Plans

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Businesses involved in preparing a business plan need guidance on what to present, and how to present it. This book is primarily aimed at new businesses and the self-employed, but it will also be useful to any business that has to raise a financial case during the course of their trading. Straightforward advice is given about what to consider and include in the plan, and how to present it.

Patrick Moon: Virgile's Vineyard: A Year in the Languedoc Wine Country

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: During his year of exploration, Patrick meets a rich cast of characters. Among them is a young local wine-maker called Virgile, who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season's work in the fields and in the cellar. Virgile is passionately committed to perfection, though he operates on a shoestring. At the other extreme is Manu, Patrick's dipsomaniac neighbour, a die-hard…

Virginia Ironside: The Huge Bag of Worries

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The usually happy Jenny has started to have lots of worries until they grow into a huge bag of worries that follow her everywhere. They are there when she goes swimming, when she is watching TV, and even when she is in the lavatory. Jenny decides they will have to go. But who can help her?

David Nicholls: Starter for Ten

Скачать книгу (размер 2 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 473) Аннотация: It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition — to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a…

Robert Muchamore: The Recruit

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that a kid has bugged every room in her house, cloned the hard drive on her PC, and copied all the numbers in her phone book. The kid works for CHERUB. CHERUB is not James Bond. There are…