Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book, of course.) Economists might not be the first people you would think of to give you advice on such diverse areas as parenting, the intricacies of etiquette or the dark arts of seduction. But for years bestselling author Tim Harford has been doing just that: answering the most challenging questions in his brilliant column, where he uses the tools of economics to give practical advice about everyday dilemmas, conundrums and concerns. From family rows and the stock market to buying socks or speed dating,...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12154-3
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Homicidal maniac Dexter Morgan, narrator of the bestselling "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and the inspiration for the Showtime series "Dexter," returns and must slip further into his foolproof domestic disguise to avoid the suspicions of Miami Police Sergeant Doakes.
ISBN: 9780307473714
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2010
Знаменитая пьеса "Смерть коммивояжера" (1949, Пулитцеровская премия), написанная в жанре "домашней трагедии", посвящена конфликту главного героя, стареющего коммивояжера Вилли Ломана, со старшим сыном, не оправдавшим ожиданий отца. Считается, что в этом произведении А.Миллер выступает с критикой американского образа жизни, стремления преуспеть любой ценой.
ISBN: 978-5-94962-162-2
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2010
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes...
Издание полностью на английском языке. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger". Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it
ISBN: 978-0-00-711932-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2010
Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death - but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in the company of two suspects - one, the victim`s fiancee, who is too young to be true, the other his daughter who may be no kin and even less
ISBN: 978-0-345-34198-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated film adaptation.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems…
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. When Dr Leighton is murdered Inspector Frank Williams and Sergeant Kate Miller set out to track down her killer. Was it her husband, her son or her colleague? All had reasons to hate her Level 1.
ISBN: 978-0-521-70464-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
