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The Last Patriot
Автор: Brad Thor Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112012-10-20
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632 AD. Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat, the prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated. September, 1789. US minister to France, Thomas Jefferson, charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery: one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam. Present day. When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian cafe, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot or dropping another bomb. But, as desperate as the US government is to have the information brought to light, there are powerful forces just as determined that Mohammed's mysterious final revelation remain hidden forever.
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Child 44
Автор: Smith Tom Rob Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2009 Страниц: 484 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20122012-04-12
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This novel is an amazingly assured and exciting debut, set in Soviet Russia in 1953, with a wonderfully realised sense of all-pervading fear and the desperateness of a chilling race against time. How do you solve an impossible crime? MGB Officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime.But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife.Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
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The Winds of Dune
Автор: Kevin J. Anderson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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Between the end of Frank Herbert's DUNE and his next novel, DUNE MESSIAH, lies an intriguing mystery: how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. Paul Atreides is the man who overthrew a corrupt empire and then launched a terrible jihad across the galaxy, shedding the blood of trillions. The now-hated tyrant, the blind emperor Paul Muad'Dib, has walked off into the endless desert of the planet Arrakis, known as Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his mother Jessica, with her daughter Alia, the brave troubadour-warrior Gurney Halleck, the resurrected Duncan Idaho, the Fremen leader Stilgar, as well as Paul's wife-in-name and biographer, Princess Irulan, to try and hold an empire together even as it tears itself apart from within and without.
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The Big Questions
Автор: Steven E. Landsburg Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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What's wrong with stealing? What's the best way to blood test a pot-bellied pig? Should we tolerate intolerance? In the wake of his enormously popular books, The Armchair Economist and More Sex is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from maths, economics and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: Where does knowledge come from? What's the difference between right and wrong? Do our beliefs matter? Is it possible to know everything? Provocative, utterly entertaining and always surprising, The Big Questions challenges readers to re-evaluate their most fundamental beliefs and reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.
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The Playbook: Suit Up: Score Chicks. Be Awesome
Автор: Barney Stinson Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 141 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20122013-09-22
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It. Is. On. From the pen of the prolific (and bestselling) author Barney Stinson comes the indispensable guide for every Bro looking to score with The Ladies. Featuring the famous plays including: — The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn — Mrs. Stinsfire — The Ted Mosby — The Time Traveller — The 'SNASA' — The Scuba Diver — The 'He's Not Coming'... and other greatest hits from Barney Stinson's secret Playbook of legendary moves. So suit up and get ready to be schooled in awsomeness.
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The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World Order
Автор: Samuel P. Huntington Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20092005-02-19
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In this text, the author argues that as people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion, the West will find itself more and more at odds with non-western civilizations that reject its ideals of democracy, human rights, liberty, the rule of law, and the separation of the church and state. Picturing a future of accelerated conflict and increasingly de-Westernized international relations, this text further argues for greater understanding of non-western civilizations and offers strategies for maximizing Western influence.
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The Halo Effect: And the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Автор: Phil Rosenzweig Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions — errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a brilliant and unconventional book, Phil Rosenzweig unmasks the delusions that are commonly found in the corporate world. These delusions affect the business press and academic research, as well as many bestselling books that promise to reveal the secrets of success or the path to greatness. Such books claim to be based on rigorous thinking, but operate mainly at the level of storytelling. They provide comfort and inspiration, but deceive managers about the true nature of business success. The most pervasive delusion is the Halo Effect. When a company's sales and profits are up, people often conclude that it has a brilliant strategy, a visionary leader, capable employees, and a superb corporate culture. When performance falters, they conclude that the strategy was wrong, the leader became arrogant, the people were complacent, and the culture was stagnant. In fact, little may have changed — company performance creates a Halo that shapes the way we perceive strategy, leadership, people, culture, and more. Drawing on examples from leading companies including Cisco Systems, IBM, Nokia, and ABB, Rosenzweig shows how the Halo Effect is widespread, undermining the usefulness of business bestsellers from In Search of Excellence to Built to Last and Good to Great, Rosenzweig identifies nine popular business delusions. Among them: The Delusion of Absolute Performance: Company performance is relative to competition, not absolute, which is why following a formula can never guarantee results. Success comesfrom doing things better than rivals, which means that managers have to take risks. The Delusion of Rigorous Research: Many bestselling authors praise themselves for the vast amount of data they have gathered, but forget that if the data aren't valid, it doesn't matter how much was gathered or how sophisticated the research methods appear to be. They trick the reader by substituting sizzle for substance. The Delusion of Single Explanations: Many studies show that a particular factor, such as corporate culture or social responsibility or customer focus, leads to improved performance. But since many of these factors are highly correlated, the effect of each one is usually less than suggested. In what promises to be a landmark book, The Halo Effect replaces mistaken thinking with a sharper understanding of what drives business success and failure. The Halo Effect is a guide for the thinking manager, a way to detect errors in business research and to reach a clearer understanding of what drives business success and failure. Skeptical, brilliant, iconoclastic, and mercifully free of business jargon, Rosenzweig's book is nevertheless dead serious, making his arguments about important issues in an unsparing and direct way that will appeal to a broad business audience. For managers who want to separate fact from fiction in the world of business, The Halo Effect is essential reading — witty, often funny, and sharply argued, it's an antidote to so much of the conventional thinking that clutters business bookshelves.
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Executive Power
Автор: Vince Flynn Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092005-06-18
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Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandoes deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he has been publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the war against terrorism. After years of working covertly behind the scenes, Rapp is now in the glare of the public spotlight, marked by every terrorist from Jakarta to London, who now know his identity. Consequently, Rapp is resigned to leaving the front line. That is, until a platoon of Navy SEALs on a covert mission to the Philippines suffers a surprise attack. All evidence concludes that the source of the mission's leak lies in the US State Department and the Philippine embassy. But a greater threat still lurks — an unknown assassin working closely with the highest powers in the Middle East bent on igniting war. Now, with the world probing into his every move, will Rapp be able to overcome this anonymous foe and once again protect the world from the threat of international terrorism?
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Memorial Day
Автор: Vince Flynn Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops. Rapp heads for Afghanistan where he leads a secret Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Within a subterranean room, they discover a treasure trove of maps, computers, files and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports — all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency search team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and the danger averted. Or has it? To Mitch Rapp, the whole operation seemed just a bit too easy. Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth, Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery — and with Memorial Day closing fast, he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions...
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The Third Option
Автор: Vince Flynn Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092008-08-17
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With action that sizzles from the opening paragraph and insider details that bring the story to vivid life, The Third Option showcases a New York Times bestselling author who is just hitting the peak of his extraordinary storytelling powers. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission, to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors. But he doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself. Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over, and therefore need a disaster for the present regime, Mitch refuses to die... the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation. They have enraged one of the most lethal and efficient killers the CIA has ever produced. Now they will pay.
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Transfer of Power
Автор: Vince Flynn Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092004-06-21
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From a bestselling author of political fiction, a fast-paced, shattering thriller that carries us just beyond today's headlines. On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. Through the quick actions of the Secret Service, the president is evacuated to his underground bunker — but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken. While the politicians and the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists, one man is sent to break through the barrage of panicked responses and political agendas surrounding the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism agent, makes his way into the White House and soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. And, in a race against time, he makes a chilling discovery that could determine the fate of America — and realizes that the terrorist attack is only the beginning of a master scheme to undermine an entire nation.
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Little earthquakes
Автор: Jennifer Weiner Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 417 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20082008-04-12
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»Little Earthquakes» tells the story of three new mothers in Philadelphia. There's Becky, the chef, Kelly, the venture-capitalist, and Ayinde, who is married to Philadelphia's most beloved basketball star. The book tells the story of their friendship and the trials they face against the background of new motherhood.
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Separation of Power
Автор: Vince Flynn Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092006-09-24
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CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in this high-velocity thriller, from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE THIRD OPTION, TERM LIMITS and TRANSFER OF POWER CIA director Thomas Stansfield is dead — a fact many individuals in and around the nation's capital are pleased to hear. But their happiness proves to be short-lived once they learn that Stansfield's successor is the late director's close friend and protege, Dr. Irene Kennedy. Her plan of action is to pursue the very goals Stansfield established — something Stansfield's fiercest enemies don't want to hear. And something they refuse to accept. Meanwhile, Israel has discovered that Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race — and they've vowed to stop the Iraqi madman before he can get his hands on the ultimate weapon. With the Middle East teetering on the preciplce of chaos and devastation, the president of the United States is forced to act. The commander in chief's secret weapon? None other than the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, Mitch Rapp. With action that sizzles and true-to-life insider detail, SEPARATION OF POWER showcases NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Vince Flynn at his shell-shocking best.
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Uglies
Автор: Scott Westerfeld Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20082007-07-24
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Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world — and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
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Pretties
Автор: Scott Westerfeld Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092008-09-30
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Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun — the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom — is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life — because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive.
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Mind Hunter
Автор: John Douglas Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1996 Страниц: 397 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20091998-10-13
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During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life. As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves. Now, in chilling detail, the legendary Mind hunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases — and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.
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Ghost Story
Автор: Peter Straub Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1989 Страниц: 567 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20091993-03-26
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In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past — and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic bestseller is a work of superb horror (The Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time — and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.
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The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan
Автор: Carlos Castaneda Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1991 Страниц: 265 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20091994-02-19
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From the author of The Teachings of don Juan. The legendary Yaqui Indian sorcerer don Juan returns, and through his mesmerizing stories readers learn the vital secrets of belief and self-realization that are transcendental and valid for us all — that wisdom, strength and power lie within ourselves.
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A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
Автор: Carlos Castaneda Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1991 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20091992-12-30
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A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived. Don Juan In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of non-ordinary reality and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become a man of knowledge. Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.
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The Fire from Within
Автор: Carlos Castaneda Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1991 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20091992-12-30
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Back from the abyss and without don Juan, Carlos Castaneda is faced with the staggering effort of recovering, on his own, don Juan's teachings. In doing so, he understands what don Juan and his cohorts were really doing to him: «They were not teaching me sorcery, but how to master three aspects of an ancient knowledge they possessed: awareness, stalking, and intent. And they were not sorcerers; they were seers.» This work deals with the mastery of awareness and with the realization of a new cycle of seers, «warriors of total freedom... such masters of awareness, stalking, and intent that they are not caught by death, like the rest of mortal men, but choose the moment and the way of their departure from this world. At that moment they are consumed by a fire from within and vanish from the face of the earth, free, as if they had never existed.»
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