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#1 New York Times Bestseller • - "A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction."-Stephen King • You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. As the bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale, Justin Cronin's band of hardened survivors await the second coming of unspeakable darkness • The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? • The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew-and daring to dream of a hopeful future • But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero

DYING • Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet • NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE • More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots battle elections, coders write policy, and algorithms shape our lives in more ways than we can imagine • The Death of the Gods is an exploration of power in the digital age, and a journey in search of the new centres of control. From a cyber-crime raid in British suburbia to the engine rooms of Silicon Valley, pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller traces how power is being transformed, fought over, lost and won

В книге "Сила привычки. Почему мы делаем то, что делаем, и как это изменить" журналист Чарльз Дахигг, удостоенный множества наград, вводит нас в захватывающий и удивительный мир научного изучения привычек • Он исследует, почему некоторые люди и компании изо всех сил пытаются измениться, несмотря на годы попыток, в то время как другие переделывают себя за одну ночь. Он посещает лаборатории, где нейробиологи исследуют, как работают привычки и какая часть мозга отвечает за них. И он рассказывает, как правильные привычки сыграли решающую роль в успехе олимпийского чемпиона по плаванию Майкла Фелпса, генерального директора Starbucks Говарда Шульца и борца за гражданские права Мартина Лютера Кинга-младшего • Книга на английском языке • An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change • There's never been a better time to set new habits

The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a terrible crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to uncover the truth

Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap is also after him and he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won't stand too much of this, and after a daring escape, he takes off down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river - will they survive and win their freedom?

В романе П. Г. Вудхауса «Везет же этим Бодкинам!» читателей ждёт возможность отправиться в трансатлантический круиз! Один из пассажиров парахода – молодой человек по имени Монти Бодкин. Он влюблён в свою невесту Гертруду Баттервик, но их счастью мешают актриса Фуксия Флокс и её ручной крокодил. Звезда Голливуда положила на Монти глаз, ведь она считает, что отношения с ним помогут сблизиться с её кумиром, писателем Амброзом Теннисоном. Реджи, брату Амброза, срочно нужны деньги. Самого писателя перепутали с покойным поэтом-однофамильцем и предложили ему кругленькую сумму за сценарий для кинофильма. Ну а Айки Лльюэлин угодил в переплёт, из которого и более умный и сообразительный человек с трудом выбрался бы. Что же получится, если смешать, как в коктейле, большую шишку из Голливуда, разговорчивого стюарда, именитую хоккеистку, куклу, в которой можно много чего спрятать, и целый ворох недоразумений? Классический фарс в духе автора историй о Бландингском замке, Псмите, Берти Вустере и его дворецком Дживсе, вот что! • Книга на английском языке

Эксперимент волшебников Незримого Университета (ожидаемо) идёт не по плану, и они обнаруживают, что случайно создали карманную вселенную – Круглый мир, на котором безраздельно властвует логика, и нет места ни магии, ни здравому смыслу • Очевидно, что эта вселенная и этот мир – наши с вами. Вместе с волшебниками, наблюдающими за развитием своего случайного творения, читатель может проследить историю нашей Вселенной, начиная с исходной сингулярности Большого Взрыва и заканчивая эволюцией жизни на Земле и за ее пределами • Из этой книги можно узнать, насколько ничтожны и малы жизни отдельных существ на фоне космического созидания и разрушения. И в то же время она показывает, как структурированная и упорядоченная вселенная стала домом для биологического вида, который посвятил себя познанию её законов

The Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick's riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire - the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, they dare to ask just how far the US has drifted from its founding democratic ideals • Beginning with the bloody suppression of the Filipino struggle for independence and spanning the two World Wars, it documents how US administrations have repeatedly intervened in conflicts on foreign soil, taking part in covert operations and wars in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East. At various times it has overthrown elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, for both economic and political gain

The first book of the blockbuster trilogy is the basis for the buzzed about Fox TV series, The Passage, set to premiere in January 2019. An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape but he can't stop civilization's collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world

- Have you ever forgotten the name of someone you’ve met dozens of times? • - Or discovered that your memory of an important event was completely different from everyone else’s? • - Or vividly recalled being in a particular place at a particular time, only to discover later that you couldn’t possibly have been? • We rely on our memories every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is, they are far from being the accurate record of the past we like to think they are. In The Memory Illusion, forensic psychologist and memory expert Dr Julia Shaw draws on the latest research to show why our memories so often play tricks on us – and how, if we understand their fallibility, we can actually improve their accuracy. The result is an exploration of our minds that both fascinating and unnerving, and that will make you question how much you can ever truly know about yourself

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East, including taking part in covert operations and interfering to overthrow elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, they ask whether US involvement around the globe is about democratic ideals, or political and economic gain • From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Watergate scandal and the transformation of America into a national security state, The Concise Untold History lays bare how US presidents have ignored the constitution and international law to influence the course of world events for the interest of the few

From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to create some of the greatest masterpieces of our time. Epic in scope and intimate in detail, The Magical Chorus is the definitive account of a remarkable era in Russia's complex cultural life