It was Wall Street`s toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying `let`s make nothing but money` over the trading floor. Yet in March 2008 the 85-year-old firm Bear Stearns was brought to its knees - and global economic meltdown began. With unprecedented access to the people at the eye of the financial storm, William Cohan tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street`s entire house of cards came crashing down. ` , edge-of-the-seat reading` - Michio Kakutani, The New York Times.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103959-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Learn how to get the home you want, without going over budget or sacrificing the important elements. Everybody wants two things for their home: that it be beautiful and on budget. But achieving these goals often leads to frustration. The House You Build is the first book to break down the unspoken barrier between beautiful homes and their budgets. You`ll learn about actual costs, levels of architectural service, the home owners, and the builders. You`ll hear from those involved in the building projects, and how they found success, despite snags along the way. There are 18 homes featured here. Each was built with the past 8 years, its cost was competitive with spec-built homes in their region, general contractors were involved in each...
ISBN: 978-1-56158-923-4
Издательство:
Taunton Press Inc.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Paul realises he will never be able to marry Maria if he remains poor. When he wins the story competition, he believes his problems are over. Can he marry Maria now?
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7614-2
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Zoey needs a break after some serious excitement. Sadly, the House of Night school for vampyres doesn`t feature breaks on its curriculum - even for a High Priestess in training and her gang. Plus juggling three guys is no stress reliever, especially when one is a sexy Warrior so into protecting Zoey that he`s sensing her emotions. Wider stresses lurk too, and the dark force in Tulsa`s tunnels is spreading. Could Stevie Rae be responsible for more than a group of misfit fledglings? And Aphrodite`s visions warn Zoey to stay away from the immortal Kalona and his dark allure - but they also show that only Zoey can stop him. She`s not exactly keen to meet up, but if Zoey don`t go to Kalona he`ll exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to...
ISBN: 978-1-905654-58-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
A story of courage and loss, of the power of the family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. But one Christmas morning, in the midst of joy and children`s laughter, tragedy strikes - and Liz is left alone, facing painful questions in the face of unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? The months pass, and Liz finds the strength to return to work and tend to her children. Then a devastating accident sends her oldest son to hospital - and brings a doctor called Bill Webster into her life. As the long days...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15715-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean, she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. And she hadn`t tried to bite me, which was a plus. Of course, the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly "Zoey`s best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead - in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way, not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She`s struggling to retain her humanity and Zoey doesn`t have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night, where the line between friend and enemy is becoming dangerously blurred. - Not suitable for younger readers?
ISBN: 978-1-907410-13-0
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the Pentagon, the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more.
The unique and notable work being done by contemporary architects is generously presented in this illustrated volume. Their designs can be understood as homes intended to be interpretations of life and the environment. Each of the forty examples included.
Пол понимает, что пока он беден, он не сможет жениться на Марии. Но получив первый приз на литературном конкурсе, он становится уверенным в том, что скоро у него будет все, что он захочет.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03504-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated. A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each
ISBN: 978-0-14-103330-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A chaotically magical sequel to Howl`s Moving Castle. Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William`s tiny cottage while he`s ill should have been easy, but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland an his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places - the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, to name but a few. By opening that door, Charmain is now also looking after an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard and a box of the king`s most treasured documents, as well as irritating a clan of small blue creatures. Caught up in an intense royal search, she encounters an intimidating sorceress named Sophie. And where...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727568-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs’ No 1 bestselling career – now updated with brand new material.Michael Dobbs’ entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been a huge hit with the public. Its scheming hero, Chief Whip Francis Urquhart, who uses fair means and foul to become Prime Minister, is one of the best-known characters of the last decade – the politician we all love to hate.Acclaimed for its authenticity and insights into a secret world – the result of many years working behind the scenes for the Conservative Party – it became a highly popular, award-winning BBC TV series, with Francis Urquhart...
ISBN: 9780006176909
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as the past, the present and the future join together in a frightening story.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7962-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Two nineteenth-century ghost stories. "The House in the Picture": Mr Williams has an old picture of a house. It is not a very good picture. It is not a very interesting picture. Then the picture tells Mr Williams a terrible story. "Abbot Thomas` Treasure": An archeologist finds some gold in an old church. It has been hidden for three hundred years. But the guardian of the gold returns, and the guardian of the treasure is angry. Retold by
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7232-8
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Stephanie Calman moves on from bad motherhood, failed grown-upness to the ultimate in tricky relationships: that of mother and daughter. In typically candid Calman style she serves up a painfully acute examination of the human condition, softened by the bellylaugh of recognition that will seize all who read her. As a generation finds itself parenting its parents while still trying to haul up its children, she has – once again – hit the zeitgeist firmly over the head.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45717-0
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this provocative and entertaining book, Robert Shemin, a multimillionaire and successful entrepreneur and motivational speaker, has a secret for you: rich people are not that smart. In fact, they`re Idiots, and if you want the wealth and fulfilment you`ve always desired, you need to be an Idiot, too. In "How Come That Idiot`s Rich and I`m Not?", Shemin shows how the average `smart` person`s tendency to over-think can be financially crippling, and reveals simple principles for getting and keeping spectacular wealth. Follow the `Path of the Idiot` with Shemin and realise the mistakes that smart people invariably make: they take small steps, effectively paralysed by fear of failure, instead of acting decisively; their vanity prevents...
ISBN: 978-0-7499-2942-8
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dinosaur colors start with red: A red fire truck stuck under the bed, A purple towel left on the floor, A green sign taped to the closet door, The third board book by the bestselling, award-winning duo Jane Yolen and Mark Teague focuses on one of the most fun concepts learned in childhood: colors. Packed with vibrant illustrations of dinosaurs drawing, painting, and playing, this book will captivate and inspire children as they learn their colors.
Eight titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making this book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3330-6
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
