This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other sufferers. In her droll and incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness, Ehrenreich ranges across contemporary religion, business and the economy, arguing, for example, that undue optimism and a fear of giving bad news sowed the seeds for the current banking crisis. She argues...
In these three masterly novels, John le Carre brings to thrilling life the shadowy battlegrounds of the Cold War - a war of ambiguous victories and hidden defeats orchestrated from the corridors of the Circus and Moscow Centre, and staffed by an army of moles and lamplighters, scalphunters and pavement artists. Stalking each other through this twilight landscape are the incomparable George Smiley and his ruthless opposite number, codenamed Karla, the Soviet case officer who has been slowly masterminding the Circus`s ruin. Their extraordinary duel not only raised the spy novel to new heights of realism and complexity, it also constitutes one of the major triumphs of contemporary fiction, confirming John le Carre as a profound chronicler...
Книга полностью на английском языке. An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unwary adoptive family from unimaginable evil. A young couple receives a wedding gift that reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage. These tales and much more await in this extraordinary book, revealing one of our most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers. Includes extra material exclusive to Headline Review's edition.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-2283-1
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: январь 2013
In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers another The Smoke Jumper. His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and fellow smoke jumper, Ed Tully. Julia loves them both - until a fiery tragedy on Montana`s Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them, and burns a brand on all their hearts. In the wake of the fire, Connor embarks on a harrowing journey to the edge of human experience, traveling the world`s worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him...
ISBN: 978-0-440-23516-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them A modest preacher`s wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument - but there`s more to her shattering story than meets the eye. These and other true cases are analyzed with stunning clarity in a page-turning collection you won`t be able to put down. Included in this volume are stories of a victim burned beyond recognition - spontaneous human combustion? - impossible - and yet no one else seemed to enter or exit; a man who was a woman who was a man, whose con games in a small community...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4160-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Smoke Bellew is a set of stories that tells the tale of Christopher Bellew who, When Klondike fever emerges, starts a journey over mountains and rivers to seek fortune. Taking the name "Smoke," he learns how to survive and thrive in the wild lands of the frontier.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08159-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Smoke Bellew" is a set of stories that tell the tale of Christopher Bellew who, When Klondike fever emerges, starts a journey over mountains and rivers to seek fortune. Taking the name "Smoke", he learns how to survive and thrive in the wild lands of the frontier.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07503-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman`s first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders - a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality - obscured by smoke and darkness, yet brilliantly tangible - in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.
ISBN: 0-380-78902-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
