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Write to the Top: Writing for Corporate Success
Автор: Deborah Dumaine Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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Now reorganized into an easy-to-follow, six step approach to effective writing for every business communication format.
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The Jeeves Omnibus — Vol 1
Автор: P.G. Wodehouse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1989 Страниц: 581 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20091992-02-13
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‘It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not’, says Bertie. ‘If I had Jeeves’s brain, I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something.’ Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves’s services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policemen’s helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus of Jeeves novels and stories: «Thank You, Jeeves», «The Code of the Woosters» and «The Inimitable Jeeves».
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The Jeeves Omnibus — Vol 5
Автор: P.G. Wodehouse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1993 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20091995-10-23
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Poor Bertie is in the soup again, and throughout this latest omnibus it is only Jeeves who keeps him from being the fish and the main course as well. In these delightful pages you will encounter all the stalwarts who have made the Jeeves novels and stories the pinnacle of English humour, from Aunts Agatha and Dahlia to Roderick Spode, Tuppy Glossop, Madeline Bassett, Oofy Prosser and Anatole the Chef. At the end even Augustus the cat has come to be much obliged to Jeeves. This volume contains «Much Obliged, Jeeves», «Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen» and the short stories ‘Extricating Young Gussie’, ‘Jeeves Makes An Omelette’ and ‘Jeeves and the Greasy Bird’.
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Husbands and Lies
Автор: Susy McPhee Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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There are some people you’d do anything for… For Fran that list would include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison. Only Alison is now desperately ill and she needs Fran’s help. She wants to find her husband a new wife, and leave her young daughter with a new mother. Fran finds the whole idea deeply uncomfortable, but it’s hard to refuse your closest friend at the best of times, let alone ignore her dying wishes. So Fran reluctantly logs on to an internet dating site, where she stumbles across a startlingly familiar profile. ‘Footloose’ describes himself as divorced, but his photo looks exactly like Fran’s husband, Max. What’s a wife to do when she suspects her husband’s cheating and can’t bear to confront him outright? Posing as ‘Sassy’, Fran sends a reply to ‘Footloose’ and sets out to date her own husband… But this increasingly crazy plan leads Max to start to have doubts of his own. Torn between suspicion and love, life for Fran just got very complicated – can her marriage survive?
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Deterring Democracy
Автор: Noam Chomsky Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20092001-04-12
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A devastating analysis of America's political actions (as opposed to its rhetoric) before, during and after the Cold War. Using secret National Security Council planning documents and taking post-war Europe and Central America as paradigms, the author examines America's aggressive colonialist policy.It draws alarming connections between its repression of information inside the U.S. and its aggressive empire-building abroad.
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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
Автор: Richard P. Feynmann Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20091994-10-13
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.
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From Doon with Death
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20091996-10-13
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'Love and death', said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons, love and death. The thing is they both happened in my district.'The police knew all about Margaret Parsons' life, and by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a 'good woman'. Religious, old-fashioned and respectable, her life had been as spotless and ordinary as her home, as unexciting and dependable as her marriage. But it was not Margaret Parsons' life that interested Wexford. It was her death. She had been a predictable, ordinary woman — but now she had met a death of passion and violence for which there seemed no motive or clue.
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Travels With My Aunt
Автор: Graham Greene Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20082009-02-24
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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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Cakes and Ale
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092002-07-14
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With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare «Cakes and Ale» is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature, Maugham's sardonic wit and lyrical warmth expertly combine in this accomplished and unforgettable novel.
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The Cry of The Owl
Автор: Patricia Highsmith Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092001-07-24
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Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had even fired a gun at her. Maybe he was psychopathic murderer...
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Spring Snow
Автор: Yukio Mishima Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092002-04-19
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The first book of Mishima's landmark «The Sea of Fertility» sequence, this novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders.
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The Decay of the Angel
Автор: Yukio Mishima Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, The Decay of the Angel brings together the dominant themes of the three previous novels: the meaning and decay of Japan's courtly tradition and samurai ideal; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima's apocalyptic vision of the modern era, which saw the dissolution of the moral and cultural forces that throughout the ages nourished a people and a world.The time is the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.
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The Razor's Edge
Автор: W.Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters — his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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A Gun for Sale
Автор: Graham Greene Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20082007-05-16
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Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killingof the Minister of War is an act of violence with chillingrepercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as awhole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is madeup of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a manon the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossinghim and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter andhunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice.
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The Confidential Agent
Автор: Graham Greene Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and the love of others.
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Poe: A Life Cut Short
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-04-25
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Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' — often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the Literary Messenger he was influential among critics and writers of the American South. His versatile writings — including, for example, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Raven — continue to resonate down the centuries. Peter Ackroyd's biography of Poe opens with his end, his final days – no one knows what happened between the time when friends saw him off on the steam-boat to Baltimore and his discovery six days later dying in a tavern. This mystery sets the scene for a short life packed with drama and tragedy (drink and poverty) combined with extraordinary brilliance. Poe has been claimed as the forerunner of modern fantasy, and credited with the invention of psychological dramas (long before Freud), science fiction (before H.G. Wells and Jules Verne) and the detective story (before Arthur Conan Doyle). Tennyson described him as 'the most original genius that America has produced'. He influenced European romanticism and was the harbinger of both Symbolism and Surrealism. Peter Ackroyd, who places significance on Poe's childhood (his travelling actor parents were miserably poor, his mother had TB and he was orphaned), claims that Poe found his family among writers — writers not only of his time but of the future generations who were influenced by the power of his imagination.
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Dragonfly in Amber
Автор: Diana Gabaldon Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 976 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20091997-04-25
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'A TRIUMPH! A POWERFUL TALE LAYERED IN HISTORY AND MYTH, AT ITS CORE IS A LOVE SO VIVID AND FIERCE...' Nora Roberts For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones, about a love that transcends the boundaries of time, and about James Fraser, a warrior whose gallantry once drew the young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his. Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful daughter as Claire's spellbinding journey continues in the intrigue-ridden court of Charles Edward Stuart, in a race to thwart a doomed uprising, and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.
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Difficult Loves
Автор: Italo Calvino Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1993 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091995-10-21
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This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the eleven tales from his «Difficult Loves» collection this volume also includes «Smog» and «A Plunge into Real Estate».
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Time's Arrow or Nature of Offence
Автор: Martin Amis Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092005-07-24
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Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home-Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.
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The Rachel Papers
Автор: Martin Amis Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092005-05-28
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Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care — but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.
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