Every Crooked Path: The Bowers Files, James Steven

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature
ISBN: 0141034645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141034645
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. In this title, the author shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare.

Автор: Erikson Steven
Название: Toll the hounds
ISBN: 0765348853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765348852
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted.  Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing.  A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, "Toll the Hounds" is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Stuff of Thought
ISBN: 0141015470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141015477
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children`s names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? This title looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are.

Автор: Levitt, Steven
Название: Freakonomics
ISBN: 0061956279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061956270
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner offer the long-awaited paperback edition of Freakonomics, the runaway bestseller, including six Freakonomics columns from the New York Times Magazine and a Q A with the authors.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents really matter?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask.

But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday lifefrom cheating and crime to parenting and sportsand reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head.

Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentiveshow people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature
ISBN: 0143122010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143122012
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read."
--Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now (February 2018)

Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history. Exploding myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly enlightened world.

Автор: Steven Erikson
Название: The Devil Delivered and Other Tales
ISBN: 0857500651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857500656
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In the breakaway Lakota Nation, in the heart of a land blistered beneath an ozone hole the size of the Great Plains of North America, a lone anthropologist wanders the deadlands, recording observations that threaten to bring the world`s powers to their knees.

Автор: Stephen J. Dubner,Steven D. Levitt
Название: Freakonomics
ISBN: 0141030089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030081
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. In Freakonomics Levitt turns conventional economics on its head, stripping away the jargon and calculations of the experts' to explore the riddles of everyday life and examine topics such as: how chips are more likely to kill you than murder or a terrorist attack; why sportsmen cheat and how fraud can be spotted; why violent crime can be linked not to gun laws, policing or poverty, but to abortion; why a road is more efficient when everyone travels at 20mph; how the name you give your child can give them an advantage in later life; and what really causes obesity epidemics. Ultimately, he shows us that economics is all about how people get what they want, and what makes them do it. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.

Автор: Collins, Steven Wayne
Название: Advanced Everyday English: Phrasal Verbs-Advanced Vocabulary-Idioms and Expressions
ISBN: 0952835843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780952835844
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Описание: Advanced Everyday English with audio CD is the second book in the Practical Everyday series. Like the first book, it is designed to improve the vocabulary of advanced students of English and contains advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Sense of Style
ISBN: 1846145503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846145506
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 12320.00 T
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Автор: Collins, Steven Wayne
Название: Practical everyday english
ISBN: 0952835827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780952835820
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Описание: Practical Everyday English is a self-study book with audio CD that focuses on advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms. It teaches students words and expressions which are often not learnt at schools or in other books. It is the first book in the Practical Everyday English series.

Автор: Pinker Steven
Название: Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
ISBN: 0061336467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061336461
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 12530.00 T
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The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind.

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

Автор: Collins, Steven
Название: High-level Everyday English with Free CD : A Self-study Method of Learning English Vocabulary for High-level Students
ISBN: 0952835851 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780952835851
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Описание: High-level Everyday English is book 3 in the Practical Everyday English series, and is designed for students who have reached a very advanced stage in their English studies...but still need a little help with difficult everyday vocabulary.