HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Curran John
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
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PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ
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Agatha Christie's life and career told through the decades, from the never-before-published original ending to her first book to the unused ideas for her last, complete with two unpublished Agatha Christie stories — including a lost Miss Marple. In this follow-up volume to the acclaimed Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christie's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. Starting his investigation in the 1920s, John Curran examines the conventions of detective novels as they existed then and how Agatha Christie's publisher talked her into changing the ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a move that almost certainly changed the fortunes of not only her career but the future of the whole crime writing genre. For the very first time, this book prints Agatha's original ending, painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. Every decade saw Agatha Christie's success grow to new heights. The emergence of the world-famous Collins Crime Club in 1930 brought with it the very first Miss Marple mystery, the austerity of the 1940s had Agatha Christie preparing to kill off Hercule Poirot, and the 1950s saw her experiment increasingly with formats influenced by more modern thrillers. Focusing on the detail of more than 20 Christie novels to illustrate this, John Curran shows the evolution of Agatha's writing through the decades, including the influence of the swinging sixties and seventies, concluding the book with a look at Agatha's last notebook, using his Christie knowledge to speculate about what she had in mind based on her brief notes for an unwritten final book. Also includes a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full, including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule Poirot, and an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the Caretaker's Wife.
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 neptun
16 марта 2015
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Projects Inspired by Myth, Magic and Fantasy
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Ashfield Julie
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
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PDF, 72 страницы, 2.16 МБ
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Projects Inspired by Myth, Magic and Fantasy provides ideas for exploring popular fiction texts with children through vibrant and exciting art and design projects with engaging starting points and cross-curricular links. The texts include a variety that will appeal to children from different age groups throughout primary school. Practical starting points to engage the whole class. Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays. Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays. Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.
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romabazhenov
20 октрября 2016
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Maya's Notebook
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Allende Isabel
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014
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PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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The author of 'The House of the Spirits' returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. The narrator and protagonist of 'Maya's Notebook' is a 19-year-old girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, so the two strands of the story unfold for the reader at more or less the same time. This new book is very different from Isabel's previous historical novels: a contemporary setting; an American (of Latino descent) teenage drug addict as the protagonist and narrating voice; a realistic style of writing rather than a magical realistic one (Chiloe exists, and one can visit it). Maya's voice is modeled on that of Isabel's teenage granddaughter, a native of the Bay area (San Francisco, Berkeley).
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admin
17 октрября 2017
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The One Minute Manager Builds High Performance Teams
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Kenneth H. Blanchard
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000
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PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ
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The alternative way towards better team-building, this is the bestselling management tool from the author of The One Minute Manager. Most managers spend over half their time working with a team, and the One Minute Manager's practical advice shows how any team can work better and more effectively. The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams explains the four stages on the way to building a high performing team: Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Resolution and Production and reveals how to tap the creativity and potential of people at all levels in order to become an effective group leader.
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liego55
20 октрября 2009
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Pretties
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Westerfeld Scott
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
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PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ
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Tally has finally become Pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are cool, her boyfriend is totally gorgeous, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun — the non-stop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom — is the nagging sense that something is very 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...
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yury-m
15 сентября 2017
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Extras
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Westerfeld Scott
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010
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DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ
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At the end of Specials, the conclusion to the Uglies trilogy, things in Tally's futuristic world had stabilised. The walls between the social classes — the uglies, pretties and specials — had been torn down. So Tally took off to live on her own in the wild. Fast forward... Tally discovers another brand new world. In Extras, it's all about who you know, and how much you have. It's just like LA. Only Paris and Nicole are way dead...
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vtormai
22 сентября 2015
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Project Bright Spark
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Pitcher Annabel
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
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PDF, 56 страниц, 1.68 МБ
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Briony had always suspected there was something wrong with her teacher. But after doing some further investigation with her friend Sergio, she uncovers a secret conspiracy so amazing that she could never have believed it was true. Find out how the adventure unfolds in this thrilling mystery novel by Carnegie-medal nominee Annabel Pitcher.
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bodrov
03 августа 2015
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The Black Dog
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Goodwin Harriet
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
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PDF, 56 страниц, 1.68 МБ
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Annie, George and Jed are on a school camping trip, and their team hasn't been doing very well in the activities they've been set. There is one final task — an orienteering exercise in the nearby woods — and they're determined to win. But will their differences in opinion hold them back, and what is the howl they've heard deep in the woods?
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203
bodrov
03 августа 2015
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Force of Will
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007
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PDF, 24 страницы, 0.72 МБ
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Arguably the most popular live-action series from Disney, readers everywhere will eagerly devour the amazing 8x8 retellings of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film. Each book will retell the story from a different point of view and will provide kids with full-color stills from the film. No pirate-in-training will want to miss out! 8x8 #3: The swash-buckling adventures and twisted intrigues of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film are retold from Will Turner's point of view.
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alibaba65
28 мая 2010
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Big Nate Super Scribbler
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Peirce Lincoln
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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Scribble for hours with Big Nate Super Scribbler, the awesome fifth Big Nate activity book! Chock-full of mazes, crossword puzzles, comics, quizzes, and sudokus, the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series gives kids the chance to have even more fun with Big Nate. Hang out with Dee Dee, Teddy, Gina, and the whole gang while solving the latest Big Nate mysteries and cracking codes right alongside your favorite characters. With more than 150 new games, this will provide hours of entertainment!
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allkonekt
13 августа 2017
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The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Dallek Robert
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
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PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ
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In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, and Truman, among others, the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe, to rely on traditional power politics in spite of the catastrophic violence they had endured. The decisions of these leaders, for better and often worse, had profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relations and conflicts with China, Korea, and in the Middle East. The Lost Peace is a penetrating look at the misjudgments that caused so much strife and suffering during this critical period, from the closing months of World War II through the early years of the Cold War. Dallek has written a cautionary tale that considers what might have been done differently to avoid the difficulties that strong and weak nations around the globe encountered in the mid-twentieth century. Provocative, illuminating, and based on a lifetime of research, The Lost Peace also offers extraordinary lessons for today's leaders, who might learn from the mistakes that were made in the years leading up to the cold war and engage in a more successful era of international cooperation.
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olen33
21 июня 2013
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The Iron King
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Druon Maurice
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
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DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work. Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation! The Iron King — Philip the Fair — is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty...
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lubacha
11 июля 2014
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Human Universe
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Cox Brian
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015
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PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ
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Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature somehow conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. In this spectacular new book, Professor Brian Cox will take readers out of this world and into a whole new dimension as he gives us a new perspective on human life. Following the spark of human curiosity from its ignition in the distant past to its journey into the future, the book will span the history of the Universe, as Brian attempts to understand the greatest wonder of them all — humankind. He will reveal how time, physics and chemistry came together to create a creature that can wonder at its own existence, blessed with an unquenchable thirst to discover not just where it came from, but how it can think, where it is going and if it is alone. Combining dramatic photography and innovative CGI with the magical storytelling that has become Brian's trademark, Brian will give us his personal take on the past, present and future of this unlikely and unfathomably precious phenomenon — the story of humanity from the birth of the Universe to the ultimate fate of our species.
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vitalysev
15 июня 2017
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Автор: Paul M. Kennedy
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989
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PDF, 928 страниц, 27.84 МБ
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Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might among the great powers of the world. Kennedy begins with Europe's dramatic return to the forefront of world domination at the expense of China and the Muslim world and brings us up to modern times, with both on the brink of remarkable recovery. Along the way he explores world wars and civil wars, destructive ideologies, the paranoia of superpowers and the inherent problems of a united Europe. He persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic and military power, showing how imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster. Erudite and brilliantly original, 'The Rise and Fall of Great Powers' is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of power.
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trium
25 июня 2009
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