Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — (Stockholm Noir 4). A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus. When a house alarm goes off in Värmdö, an island in Stockholm’s archipelago, a security guard shows up expecting a break-in. But what he finds is far from...
Published October 15th 2013 by Kolenda Entertainment, LLC. Using principles from cognitive psychology, Nick Kolenda developed a unique way to subconsciously influence people's thoughts. He developed a "mind reading" stage show depicting that phenomenon, and his demonstrations have been seen by over a million people across the globe. Methods of Persuasion reveals that secret for...
Level 3: Pre-Intermediate Language: American English Published by Pearson Education Limited in association with Penguin Books Ltd, both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson Plc., 2008 Silvia Broome is an interpreter at the United Nations. One night she hears a plan to kill the President of the African state of Matobo. Agent Tobin Keller of the US Secret Service must stop the...
2014. The Magic of Public Speaking is a comprehensive step-by-step system for creating highly effective speeches. It is based on research from the top 1000 speakers in the modern world. The techniques you will learn have been tested on hundreds of professional speakers and work! You will receive the exact steps needed to create a speech that will keep your audience on the edge of...
The Princeton Language Institute. — Grand Central Publishing, 2001. Written by an expert in the field, this book has the tools you need to become a relaxed, effective, and commanding public speaker. A clear, concise, step-by-step approach with dozens of inside tips, "10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking" will help you: Overcome nervousness and discover your own natural...
Sphinx Publishing, An Imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006. — 284 p. Cooking is your passion. Making a living with your cuisine is your dream. Organizing your restaurant is the key to your success. The Law (In Plain English) for Restaurants is your comprehensive guide to working in the food industry. It looks at the business of running a restaurant and clarifies the laws...
Scribe Publications, 2007. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-670-03830-5. An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve...
Ponte alle Grazie, 2013. — 376 p. "Nel corso dei miei viaggi ho incontrato uno scienziato che permetteva a persone non vedenti dalla nascita di iniziare a vedere; ho parlato con pazienti, dichiarati incurabili dopo aver subito un ictus decine di anni prima, che sono stati aiutati a guarire con trattamenti neuroplastici; ho conosciuto persone che hanno superato disturbi...
Pocket, 2010. — 625 p. Préface. Dans ce livre plein d’espoir, vous allez découvrir l’incroyable univers du cerveau et ses surprenantes capacités ! Chercheur en psychiatrie et en psychologie aux États-Unis, Norman Doidge s’est d’abord penché sur les « cas difficiles », les malades qui ne progressaient pas ou plus, ceux que la médecine classait comme des « échecs ». En...
Scribe Publications, 2007. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-670-03830-5. An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed -...
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His...
Дело женщины за колючей проволокой Архитектор-любитель оказался в незавидном положении. В любовно построенный им дом по странному решению суда въехала молодая фотомодель и перегородила дом и участок колючей проволокой. Если архитектор предпримет какие-то шаги или хотя бы заговорит с женщиной, то может начаться судебный процесс… Перри Мейсон берется помочь несчастному… Edition...
Перевод: Гришечкин Владимир Издание 2005 г. Издано в серии Лекарство от скуки. Билл Уайет, преуспевающий адвокат и счастливый семьянин, в один миг лишается семьи, работы и положения в обществе. В полном одиночестве он бродит по улицам Нью-Йорка и случайно попадает в уютный манхэттенский ресторан, где знакомится с привлекательной управляющей Элисон Спаркс. Только с ее позволения...
(first published 2004) Edition Language: English Literary Awards: Hammett Prize Nominee (2004) Bill Wyeth is a rising real estate attorney living the lofty heights of success. Then a tragic accident claims everything he has: his family, his fortune, his career. But this is Manhattan, and Bill has much further to fall. His downward spiral lands him at the table of Allison Sparks,...
First published 1973. — (Perry Mason #82). Perry Mason is hired to protect Mae Farr from a presumed stalker, wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth. When Mason learns that Wentworth wants Mae for forging his name on a cheque, things get complicated. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman and Perry Mason in trouble.
Дело об отложенном убийстве» – последний, посмертный роман Гарднера про известного адвоката, обнаруженный в сейфе писателя и опубликованный его наследниками. (first published 1973) Edition Language: English Series: Perry Mason #82 When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry for help. Wentworth say he merely wants her for...
Дело женщины за колючей проволокой Архитектор-любитель оказался в незавидном положении. В любовно построенный им дом по странному решению суда въехала молодая фотомодель и перегородила дом и участок колючей проволокой. Если архитектор предпримет какие-то шаги или хотя бы заговорит с женщиной, то может начаться судебный процесс… Перри Мейсон берется помочь несчастному… First...
Дело о тонущем утенке Главные черты адвоката Перри Мейсона – эрудиция, глубокие аналитические способности, воля к победе, умение держать удар, бульдожья хватка, преданность клиенту… Эти качества ему не отказывают никогда – ни на отдыхе в отеле «Палм-Спринг», ни на судебном процессе по делу его верной помощницы Деллы Стрит, ни во время расследования преступления, совершенного...
First published 1957. — (Perry Mason #54). Jerry Conway fights dishonest ex-employee Gifford Farrell for his Texas oil company. "Call me Rosalind" offers him a proxy list, but at the hotel a beauty clad in underwear and a face mud pack frames Jerry with a freshly fired gun. On the hotel bed, lawyer Perry Mason and PI Paul Drake find a woman shot dead by the same gun. Who does...
First published 1941. — (Perry Mason #19). A spanking-new tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Mrs. Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck of food — but it does carry one very damning clue to a murder that took place right next door. Such an unsavory discovery in such an unlikely place can't help but pique the curiosity of a dedicated mystery hunter like Perry...
Did Wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That’s the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the deal man’s angry son or headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin’s will –and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring to whom the affable eccentric intended to leave his fortune, Perry...
First published 1938. — (Perry Mason #13). After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds--left in Sarah's care--has suddenly vanished into thin air. Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem...
First published 1938. — (Perry Mason #12). While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della Street, Perry Mason is approached by a passenger who is worried about the well-being of her husband. Not long afterward, her husband is seen jumping off the ship, an apparent suicide-but when the body is recovered, it turns out that he was shot. Accused of murder,...
Дело о хромой канарейке Величайший адвокат литературы XX века Перри Мейсон всегда на страже клиента! Каким бы загадочным ни казался клиент, какими бы странными ни выглядели свидетели, какими бы невероятными ни выглядели обстоятельства дела – Перри Мейсон решит любые проблемы! А поможет ему в этом очаровательная секретарша Делла Стрит! First published 1937 Edition Language: English...
Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge... all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not soon forget... people whose lives become irrevocably trapped in a world of no comebacks, beyond the point of no return--from the manipulators and the manipulated to the ultra-rich capable...
W. Somerset Maugham led many lives, including that of a doctor in London's slums, a successful playwright and novelist, an agent for British Intelligence during World War I, and a world traveler. In 1917, he took the first of many voyages to the Pacific Islands and the Far East, where his keen sense of observation found inspiration for some of his finest writing. Rain and Other...
The Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who become orphans following a fire and are sent to live with Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance. The book was published on September 30, 1999, by Scholastic Inc. and...
First published 1929. The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay on to punish the guilty. and that meant taking on the entire town... Dashiell Hammett's...
First published 1931. Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the...
"Just Before the War with the Eskimos" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the June 5, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. It was anthologized in Salinger's 1953 collection Nine Stories, and reprinted for Bantam in Manhattan: Stories from the Heart of a Great City in 1954. It is a tale of adolescent alienation and redemption in a post-World War II setting. It...
Pride and Prejudice, 1813 Перевод с английского И. Маршака Комментарии Е. Гениевой, Н. Демуровой Текст печатается по изданию: Джейн Остен. Собрание сочинений в трех томах. М., "Художественная литература", 1988, 1989 “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s...
First published 1927. Original Title: Двенадцать стульев Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities....
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the bejeweled chairs takes these unlikely...
Dodo Press, 2008. Justice was a 1910 crime play by the British writer John Galsworthy. The play opens in the office of James How & Sons, solicitors. The senior clerk, Robert Cokeson, discovers that a check he had issued for nine pounds has been forged to ninety. By elimination, suspicion falls upon William Falder, the junior office clerk. The latter is in love with a married...
First published 1871. There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street. As soon as you enter, you are struck by a minute, extreme neatness, which reminds you of Holland, and almost sets you a-laughing. The neighbors might use the brass plate on the door as a mirror to shave in; the stone floor is polished till it shines; and...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 32 p. It's a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday afternoon about four o'clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an uproar. Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued fruitless. The strange event was...
Wildside Press, 2003. — 372 p. The traveller who wishes to go from Poitiers to London by the shortest route will find that the simplest way is to take a seat in the stage-coach which runs to Saumur; and when you book your place, the polite clerk tells you that you must take your seat punctually at six o'clock. The next morning, therefore, the traveller has to rise from his bed...
Dodo Press, 2007. Work form 19th Century French author considered a pioneer of modern detective fiction. The death of the Count de Chalusse, the theft of his will and two million francs, the false accusation of Marguerite de Chalusse, make up a mystery which is solved only after some extraordinary adventures. Followed by Baron Trigault s Vengeance... Émile Gaboriau (1832 - 1873),...
The Seagull is a drama by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the...
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and...
Bartley Alexander, a construction engineer, is a middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his demanding American wife, and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring British mistress. Alexander's relationship with Hilda erodes his sense of honor and eventually proves disastrous when a bridge he is constructing begins to collapse. Alexander's Bridge is an instructive, thought-provoking study of a...
Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her attending a fashionable ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists and suffragettes — a place where, as a student in biology at Imperial College, she...
Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of ""Treasure Island"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae."" On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A note On Realism, My First Book: ""Treasure Island,"" The Genesis of...
After the edition of Longmans, Green and Co, 1918 (1898). The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898) Selected and Edited by Andrew Lang; generously Illustrated By Rene Bull and H. J. Ford. Andrew Lang is best known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales. The twelve fairy tale books he edited contain stories from around the world, collected from various...
Edited by John Hersey Library of America This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe...
A fierce battle rages to take control away from the rightful Prince of Mansoul. Who will be the conquering prince? Diabolus or Emmanuel? And what can the inhabitants do to resist the attacks of the evil one? Your soul is under attack from the forces of evil. Through this powerful allegory, you will learn how to build up your defenses and prepare for war. Bunyan will illuminate...
A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) (after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879) Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona,...
The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, she gave him her husband's name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her...
"... the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls 'cabin fever.'... Bud Moore, ex-cow-puncher and now owner of an auto stage that did not run in the winter, was touched with cabin fever and did not know what ailed him. His stage line ran from San Jose, California, up through Los Gatos and over the Bear Creek road across the...