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: 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: 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: 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: Steven Gerrard
Название: Gerrard: My Autobiography
ISBN: 0553817337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553817331
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Steven Gerrard is a hero to millions, not only as the inspirational captain of Liverpool FC, but as a key member of the England team.

Автор: Adler, Steven
Название: My appetite for destruction: sex & drugs & guns ‘n` roses
ISBN: 0007368488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007368488
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From original Guns N` Roses drummer Steven Adler comes a tale of sex, drugs, excess, hairspray and and intense 20-year struggle with addiction.

Автор: Faerm Steven
Название: Design Your Fashion Portfolio
ISBN: 1408146495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408146491
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: It's now harder than ever to break into the exclusive fashion industry but this is the guide to tell you how to do it. Discover how to develop a first-rate portfolio, and learn everything you need to know to become a professional designer and entrepreneur. Learn how to showcase your talent and make your portfolio stand out in the crowd. Master the art of selling yourself and your work at job interviews, while pitching for freelance work, and promoting your own business. Design Your Fashion Portfolio provides clear advice and instruction on how to present your work based around key fashion genres including lingerie, athletic wear, designer and evening wear and discover how layouts, art direction, and merchandising for each can vary. From developing your graduate thesis, to building your first collection, perfecting your portfolio to interview techniques and career options to establish yourself as a professional, this book is the key to launching your career in fashion.

Автор: Erikson, Steven
Название: Forge of Darkness
ISBN: 0857501356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857501356
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Now is the time to tell the story of an ancient realm, a tragic tale that sets the stage for all the tales yet to come and all those already told... The impending clash sends fissures throughout the realm, and as the rumors of civil war burn through the masses, an ancient power emerges from the long dead seas.

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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