The global icon shares his secrets of success and exciting plans for the future. Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In Screw It, Let`s Do It, I will share with you my ideas and the secrets of my success, but not simply because I hope they`ll help you achieve your individual goals. Today we are increasingly aware of the effects of our actions on the environment, and I strongly believe that we each have a responsibility, as individuals and organisations, to do no harm. I will draw on Gaia Capitalism to explain why we need to take stock of how we may be damaging the environment, and why it is up to big companies like Virgin to lead the way in a more holistic approach to business. In Screw It, Let`s Do It I`ll be...
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1167-1
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-2343-4
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch`s novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and dwell in seclusion in a house by the sea. Whilst there, by an extraordinary coincidence he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and...
ISBN: 978-0-09-928409-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In The Sea-Wolf, London`s most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Through this story London recalls his own adventures on a sealing vessel at the age of seventeen. John Sutherland`s notes include a history of pelagic seal hunting and an account of the many cinematic versions of this novel.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955494-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Sea-Wolf includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by the Publisher. Shipwrecked during a weekend pleasure cruise, gentleman scholar Humphrey Van Weyden thinks his mysterious rescuers have saved his life. He`s wrong. Van Weyden`s trapped abroad the Ghost - a seal-hunting schooner crewed by the most desperate, brutal outcasts of the Pacific....
ISBN: 978-0-8125-2276-1
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
`Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live ` London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a seance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the grave. But that seance has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest will blight her life. So begins "The Seance", John Harwood`s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951642-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, is now legendary - but it could have been otherwise. As Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the persistence of Poldek, one of "Schindler`s Jews", were vital in the process that led to his Booker Prize-winning novel, "Schindler`s Ark", and the film "Schindler`s List". Entertaining, inspiring and filled with anecdotes about the many people involved, from the survivors Keneally met to Steven Spielberg, "Searching for Schindler" traces the creation of a modern classic as it sheds renewed light on an intriguingly flawed, heroic man. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-340-96326-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s been a few years since Fiona Bristow has moved to Orcas Island. Within the small, tight-knit island community she`s built up her business, a canine rescue centre that trains dogs to track missing persons. Whether they are lonely travellers on a hiking trip gone wrong or disappearances of a more sinister nature, more than once Fiona has been the last hope for those lost in Washington`s vast wilderness. Other than her work, Fiona doesn`t ask for much: the peace of the landscape, the companionship of her dogs, the safe haven of friends and family. Romantic entanglements are very far down on her list - and certainly not with Simon Doyle, an artist newly arrived from the mainland. Impossible rude, and impossibly handsome, he suddenly...
Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with cold-blooded terror. And risks everything only to discover that he alone suspects the hideous truth about...
ISBN: 0-446-60047-4
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
