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Pants on Fire
Автор: Alderson Maggie Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092004-02-19
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When Georgia Abbot`s fiance cheats on her she leaves her humdrum life in London for a job at «Glow» magazine in Sydney, Australia. At first things seem promising, as she`s swept up in a whirl of parties, dancing and debauchery. But Australian men are — oh dear — starting to look all too familiar.
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Автор: Diarmaid MacCulloch Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 1216 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20122012-10-23
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Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid Mac Culloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.
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The Young Hornblower
Автор: C S Forester Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20142013-04-27
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The Young Hornblower — a truly formidable force in His Majesty's Service. The seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as soon as he stepped on board ship — as the midshipman who was seasick in Spithead. But he was soon to gain his sea legs. Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again — courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble. The reader stands right beside him as he prepares to fight his first duel, feels the heat as he battles to control a blazing ship and shares his horror as he experiences for the first time the panic of the Plague. This omnibus edition contains: Mr Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower and the Hotspur.
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The History of England
Автор: Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20122008-12-13
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One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated into most European languages. Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concluding at the end of the reign of William III in 1702, it illuminates a time of deep struggle throughout Britain and Ireland in vivid and compelling prose. But while Macaulay offers a gripping narrative, and draws on a wide range of sources including historical accounts and creative literature, his enduring success also owes a great deal to his astonishing ability to grasp, and explain, the political reality that has always underpinned social change.
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The Scarpetta Factor
Автор: Patricia Cornwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package — possibly a bomb — waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past...
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Dead and Gone
Автор: Charlaine Harris Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course — her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local Were pack and Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shifter. At first the great Were revelation seems to go well — then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's. Though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. But what Sookie doesn't realise is that there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves is preparing for war...
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Level 26: Dark Origins
Автор: Anthony E. Zuiker Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 418 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20122012-05-15
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A perfect treat for all fans of Thomas Harris. Sqweegel and Steve Dark are set to become the Hannibal and Clarice Starling of the 21st century in Zuiker's first book of the Level 26 series.
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Tales of the Pacific
Автор: Jack London Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1989 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20091992-02-16
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If you know London primarily through novels like White Fang, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.
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Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained
Автор: Richard P. Feynman Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20142013-04-25
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An outstanding communicator, Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, Six Easy Pieces reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the general reader. The topics explored include atoms, the fundamentals of physics and its relation to other sciences, the theory of gravitation and quantum behaviour. 'If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces' — John Gribbin, New Scientist.
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Cops and Robbers
Автор: Allan Ahlberg Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122012-10-13
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The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve — to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave Officer Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains — all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.
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Common Errors and Problems in English
Автор: Robert Allen Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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The Penguin Writers' Guides series provide authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable guides will help you find the best way to get your message across clearly and effectively. Common Errors in English is a thorough A-Z checklist of the mistakes that often crop up in all aspects of written English. It gives ready and authoritative guidance on today's usage difficulties, being up-to-date with all the latest controversies, pitfalls and oddities of our language. Written in a lively style, with plenty of interest and humour, Common Errors shouldn't be far from the fingertips of anyone who does any kind of writing.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Автор: Richard P. Feynman Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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Richard Feynman — Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius — possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life. In this collection of short pieces and reminiscences he describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment. And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene, and their brief time together before her death. Sometimes intensely moving, sometimes funny, these writings are infused with Feynman's curiosity and passion for life.
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Автор: Michael Lewis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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'We fed the monster until it blew up... ' While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system — and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.
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Selected Short Stories
Автор: Virginia Woolf Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112010-05-06
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Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of Solid Objects through the fragile impressionism of Kew Gardens to the abstract exploration of consciousness in The Mark on the Wall.
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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Commissioned by the Left Book club in 1936, George Orwell set out to report on working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The experience profoundly changed him, and in Wigan Pier he unleased a brilliant and bitter polemic that has not lost its force with the passage of time. The first edition of The Road to Wigan Pier' included 32 plates. These illustrations of slum conditions, which give added resonance to Orwell's indictment, are restored in this new edition.
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Burmese Days
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives — interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of 'solitary hell', romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the 'lie' of the 'pukka sahib pose'.
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Coming Up for Air
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.
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Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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This collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a selection of shorter pieces that include Shooting an Elephant, My Country Right or Left, Decline of an English Murder and A Hanging. Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to a defence of English cooking, displaying a mastery of English plain prose style and continuing to challenge, move and entertain.
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Diamonds are Forever
Автор: Ian Fleming Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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Tiffany Case is the sort of beautiful, devil-may-care blonde who could get a man into deep trouble — if he wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter.
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