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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street
Автор: Andrew Ross Sorkin Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 618 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-30
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A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. We've got to get some foam down on the runway! a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world's financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were too big to fail, it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.
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Treachery in Death
Автор: J. D. Robb Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 372 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-14
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In the latest in the New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law-including the ones sworn to uphold it.
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The Diamond As Big As The Ritz And Other Stories
Автор: F.Scott Fitzgerald Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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Scott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status. «The Bowl» is a clear metaphor for this cold and brittle world, as a beautiful woman is made to suffer for the cruelty of her youth, her punishment ironically taking the shape of a cut-glass punch-bowl. The amusing «Bernice Bobs Her Hair» depicts a dull girl striving at all costs to enter society, where the competition and jealousy wrought between women leads to bitter vengeance and a quirky twist in the tale. However, the powerful and destructive influence of money is never more stunningly revealed than in Fitzgerald's most famous and unusual story, «The Diamond as Big as the Ritz».
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Автор: Thomas Hardy Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swiftpassion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
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Kidnapped
Автор: Robert L.Stevenson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.
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Moonstone
Автор: Wilkie Collins Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
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The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.
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Railway Children
Автор: Edith Nesbit Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
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Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lead an ordinary suburban life with Mother and Father and trips to the zoo and the pantomime. But when Father is mysteriously taken away one night, everything changes. What has happened to Father, and will he come back?
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The Turn Of The Screw
Автор: Henry James Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20122012-12-30
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A young governess is sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
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Women in Love
Автор: David H.Lawrence Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132014-07-11
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»Women in Love» is widely regarded as D.H.Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where: «The Rainbow» left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, though he gives that up, and Gudrun's with Gerald Crich, an industrialist, and later with a sculptor, Loerke.
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Essential Fitzgerald (количество томов: 4)
Автор: F.Scott Fitzgerald Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
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The author who most epitomises the decadent jazz age and 'the lost generation' of post-World War. One America, Fitzgerald remains a best-selling author worldwide. Collected here in this covetable and must-have boxed set are four of his major works, including «The Great Gatsby».
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The Essential John Steinbeck (количество томов: 4)
Автор: John Steinbeck Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
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Contains «Cannery Row, East Of Eden, The Grapes Of Wrath» and «Of Mice & Men».
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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Автор: Julius Lester Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 143 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092007-12-30
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Generations of children have been captivated by the hair-raising adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit. Come along as he sneaks into Mr. Man's garden, persuades Brer Wolf to be burned in a hollow log, and kicks Brer Fox's Tar Baby. Jerry Pinkney's lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Julius Lester's contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these forty-eight tales while paying homage to their roots as traditional American folklore.
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Salvation in Death
Автор: J.D.Robb Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 373 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20112011-05-15
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Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 «New York Times»-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.
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Top Gear: Official Annual 2012
Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20142014-09-27
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back in this official «Top Gear Annual 2012» — the perfect Christmas gift for young petrol-heads! Find out what the ten worst cars in a thunderstorm are, discover exactly how fast 257 mph really is and get ready to compete in catchphrase bingo! This title is presented with car facts and stats, puzzles and features on all your favourite bits of the show. Some say it's the most fun you can have with a book.
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The Little Sister
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable — though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out...
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The Lady in the Lake
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-14
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Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing — on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake...
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Everything is Illuminated
Автор: Jonathan Safran Foer Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 282 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20142013-05-15
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'An astonishing feat' — «The Times». A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and, an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive — a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.
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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Автор: Michael Lewis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in «The Big Short», Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? «Boomerang» is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack. The Irish wanted to stop being Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more German. Michael Lewis' investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on California, the epicentre of world consumption, where we see that a final reckoning awaits the most avaricious of nations too. This is the ultimate book of our times. It's time to brace ourselves for impact and, with Michael Lewis, to laugh out loud while we're doing it.
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Cook with Jamie
Автор: Jamie Oliver Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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'I can't tell you how long I've dreamt about writing this book. It's the biggest book I've ever done, and I've really tried to make it a timeless, modern-day classic. Whether you're a student, a young couple, an established cook or a novice, I'll take you through a whole load of simple and accessible recipes that will blow the socks off your family and any guests you might have round for dinner. There's information on the equipment that I think you should have in your kitchen, advice on how to recognize and cook loads of different cuts of meat, as well as on how to get the best value and quality when you're out shopping. 'You know what... if you're going to eat three times a day for the rest of your life, you might as well learn to cook properly and enjoy it! So, roll up your sleeves and let me help you. Now is the time for you to get stuck in and reclaim your fantastic cooking heritage'.
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down... let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fueled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes. He also takes on his dissolute youth in Louisville; his adventures in pornography; campaigning for local office in Aspen; and what it's like to accidentally be accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson. Alongside this 'depraved and terrifying adventure', Hunter S. Thompson exposes the darkness at the heart of America today: a time when the 'goofy child President' and the New Dumb have taken control, and the nation thralls to Bush's War on Terror, War on Evil, War on Iraq, and even War on Fat... a time when fear and loathing are greater than ever.
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