What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? How can your name affect how well you do in life? The answer: Freakonomics. It`s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily, from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it`s all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what`s really happening under the surface of everyday life. Now updated with the authors` "New York Times" columns and blog entries, this cult bestseller will show you how, by unraveling your life`s secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world. "A you`ll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103008-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"Freaky Peaks" takes the intrepid young explorer on a thrilling tour of the tallest mountains - from Everest to Kilimanjaro - encountering many dangers along the way, including glaciers, yetis, and avalanches. With a brand-new cover design, text updates and added extra-horrible index, it`s geography with even more gritty bits left in!
ISBN: 978-0-439-94459-5
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The long-awaited paperback edition of FREAKONOMICS, with a new preface, additional material, and an exclusive Q &A with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner."9780061956270 KurztextIn the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday lifeùfrom cheating to crime to child-rearingùand his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head. For instance, he argued that one of the main causes of the crime drop of the 1990s was the legalization of abortion twenty years...
ISBN: 978-0-06-195627-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
He used to be on the bomb squad, but it`s not until he transfers out that Chris Mankowski really begins juggling with dynamite. Rape and revenge are just the tip of the iceberg in a twisty tale that brings Detroit`s denizens to life - and occasional death - in all their seedy glory. Electrifying, explosive, and unexpected, this is Elmore Leonard at his suspenseful best.
ISBN: 978-0-06-008955-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Susie has freckles, and she hates them. Her best friend, Donna, has pretty hair, nice teeth and blue eyes. Donna never has problems with boys. Now there is a new boy at school, and Donna is interested. But Susie likes him
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7838-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Original / British English Susie has freckles, and she hates them. Her best friend, Donna, has pretty hair, nice teeth and blue eyes. Donna never has problems with boys. Now there is a new boy at school, and Donna is interested. But Susie likes him This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8501-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Original / British English Susie has freckles, and she hates them. Her best friend, Donna, has pretty hair, nice teeth and blue eyes. Donna never has problems with boys. Now there is a new boy at school, and Donna is interested. But Susie likes him
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8160-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language.With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Freddie Mercury, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations,...
The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. It is 1936 and Europe is on the road to war. Freddie is a working-class English boy who is desperate for more excitement in his life. When he reads about foreign volunteers heading to the war in Spain, he knows what he must do. This paperback is in American English. Audio recordings of the text are available on our website at:
ISBN: 978-0-521-18160-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Freddie found a fairy, tangled in a tree. Freddie is desperate for a pet, so when he rescues Bessie-Belle and she offers to grant his wishes he knows just what to ask for. The only problem is that Bessie-Belle can`t hear very well, and Freddie tends to mumble. Whatever can they do? Luckily the Fairy Queen is on hand to A delightful tale full of Julia Donaldson`s trademark rhyme and wit, with a subtle message about hearing impairments.
ISBN: 978-0-330-51118-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Painter and sculptor Frederic, Lord Leighton is one of the foremost artists of the Victorian classical school. His masterpieces featuring mythological subjects are thought to be the inspiration behind the nineteenth-century craze for all things greek. This monograph includes more than one hundred beautiful reproductions of Leighton`s work along with an exploration of the role that classicism played in his paintings. In addition to his art, the book examines the architectural wonders of Leighton House, the artist`s opulent Victorian residence in London.
ISBN: 978-3-7913-4383-9
Издательство:
Prestel
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Теодор Драйзер - знаменитый американский писатель XX века, чьи произведения оказали большое влияние на современную культуру, а кандидатура Драйзера была выдвинута на получение Нобелевской премии по литературе. В сборник "Освобождение" вошли известные рассказы Драйзера, лучшим образом отражающих его творчество: "Репортаж о репортаже", "Освобождение", "Негр Джек" и другие. Читателя ждут невероятные истории,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05789-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in FREE LOVE are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith examine show things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices-some trivial, and others so consequential that they may change the course of our life. But are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And if our choices are not free, is it legitimate to hold people morally responsible for their actions? This Very Short Introduction looks at a range of issues surrounding this fundamental philosophical question. Exploring free will through the ideas of the Greek and medieval philosophers up to present-day thinkers, Thomas Pink provides an original and incisive introduction to this perennially fascinating...
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. FREEDOM comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises
The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear civilization apart and build it anew. As the global economy begins to fail, the world`s most powerful organizations - monolithic corporations, complete with armies of their own - prepare to fight their unseen enemy. When a brutal civil war breaks out in the United States, former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon`s most powerful though reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans to protect the new world order. Amid conflicting loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power and the possibility that anyone can be a daemon operative or a corporate spy, Sebeck knows that he...
ISBN: 978-0-85738-122-4
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: май 2011
Издание полностью на английском языке. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray those closest to us; and why things almost never work out as they 'should'. It is a story about the human heart, and what it leads us to do to ourselves and each other.
ISBN: 978-0-00-742332-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
