Автор: Oates Joyce Carol Название: My Heart Laid Bare ISBN: 0062269259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062269256 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1566.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability
The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate.
As Abraham involves his family in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. While his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers."
Автор: Branson, Sir Richard Название: Business stripped bare ISBN: 0753515032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753515037 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Features an entrepreneur`s inside track on his life in business. This book lets you discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world`s biggest superbrands, and how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as one of the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars.
Описание: The first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons
Автор: Sylvia Day Название: Bared to You ISBN: 1405910232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405910231 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Our journey began in fire... Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness - beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I`d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...
Описание: The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships' official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources--medicines, spices, timber, food--that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire. Jeanne Baret, Commerson's young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as "Jean" rather than "Jeanne," the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class. When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembarked to explore, Baret carried heavy wooden field presses and bulky optical instruments over beaches and hills, impressing observers on the ships' decks with her obvious strength and stamina. Less obvious were the strips of linen wound tight around her upper body and the months she had spent perfecting her masculine disguise in the streets and marketplaces of Paris. Expedition commander Louis-Antoine de Bougainville recorded in his journal that curious Tahitian natives exposed Baret as a woman, eighteen months into the voyage. But the true story, it turns out, is more complicated. In The Discovery of Jeanne Baret, Glynis Ridley unravels the conflicting accounts recorded by Baret's crewmates to piece together the real story: how Baret's identity was in fact widely suspected within just a couple of weeks of embarking, and the painful consequences of those suspicions; the newly discovered notebook, written in Baret's own hand, that proves her scientific acumen; and the thousands of specimens she collected, most famously the showy vine bougainvillea. Ridley also richly explores Baret's awkward, sometimes dangerous interactions with the men on the ship, including Baret's lover, the obsessive and sometimes prickly naturalist; a fashion-plate prince who, with his elaborate wigs and velvet garments, was often mistaken for a woman himself; the sour ship's surgeon, who despised Baret and Commerson; even a Tahitian islander who joined the expedition and asked Baret to show him how to behave like a Frenchman. But the central character of this true story is Jeanne Baret herself, a working-class woman whose scientific contributions were quietly dismissed and written out of history--until now. Anchored in impeccable original research and bursting with unforgettable characters and exotic settings, The Discovery of Jeanne Baret offers this forgotten heroine a chance to bloom at long last. From the Hardcover edition.
Автор: Bronte & Sinclair Название: Jane Eyre Laid Bare ISBN: 1447229282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447229285 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Цена: 923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jane Eyre Laid Bare is Eve Sinclair's rendition of the classic story.
Автор: Branson, Sir Richard Название: Business stripped bare ISBN: 0753519690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753519691 Издательство: Transworld Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From its creation as a mail-order record company to the literal launch of Virgin Galactic, Virgin is one of the premier brands in the world, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. Combining advice with the inside stories of Virgin`s achievements, this title offers a guide to success in business and in life.
Автор: Miller Russell Название: Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard ISBN: 1909269360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909269361 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3669.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published: Great Britain, Penguin Books, 1987.
This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding pair of homonyms and homophones is printed in color for easy identification. At the end, readers are challenged to apply what they've learned--and they'll have fun doing so.
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