May You Live in Interesting Times, O`Clery Conor

Автор: Conor O`Clery
Название: Moscow, December 25, 1991
ISBN: 184827114X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848271142
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. This title focuses on the fall of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.

Автор: Woodman Conor
Название: Around the World in 80 Trades
ISBN: 0330467883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330467889
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Offers an insight into the human story behind the money in our pockets, and reminds us that making a living is about exactly that - living. This title helps to discover the dark arts of haggling from the carpet merchants of Marrakech and learn what the ancient camel markets of Sudan can teach us about the current banking crisis.

Автор: Conor O`Clery
Название: Moscow, december 25, 1991
ISBN: 1848271131 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848271135
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: OClery Conor
Название: Billionaire Who Wasn`t
ISBN: 1610393341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610393348
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: This substantially updated edition of the Business Week bestseller and an Economist Best Book of the year" tells the story of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, who is determined to give away his fortune before he dies.Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world`s largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. After going underground" again, he emerged in 2005 to cooperate on a biography promoting giving while living. Now in his mid-seventies, Feeney is determined his foundation should spend down the remaining 4 billion in his lifetime.

Автор: O`Clery Conor
Название: Shoemaker and his Daughter
ISBN: 1784163112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784163112
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin.

Автор: Jameson, Conor Mark
Название: Silent spring revisited
ISBN: 1408194074 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408194072
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded?Fifty years on, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on the growth of environmentalism since Silent Spring was published.

His revealing and engaging tale plots milestone events in conservation, popular culture and political history in the British Isles and beyond, tracing a path through the half century since 'zero hour', 1962. Around this he weaves his own observations and touching personal experiences, seeking to answer the question: what happened to the birds, and birdsong, and why does it matter?