Are you ready to stay up all night? Rebecca meets Gone Girl in this shocking, unpredictable thriller with a twist that will leave you reeling... The TikTok sensation from the author of "It Ends With Us". Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough ... |
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Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation between Lucian Freud's ... |
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The year is 1984. The country is impoverished and permanently at war, people are watched day and night by Big Brother and their every action and thought is controlled by the Thought Police. Winston Smith works in the department of propaganda, where his job is to rewrite the past. Spurred by his longing to escape, Winston rebels. He breaks the law by falling in love with Julia and, as part of the clandestine organization the Brotherhood, they attempt the unimaginable - to bring down the Party. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying ... |
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От лекторите на TED до легендарните имена в шоубизнеса. Защо някои идеи успяват, а други не. ... Научете тайните на разказването на истории и как да създадете неповторима презентация от лекторите на TED до легендарните имена в бизнеса. От лекторите на TED до легендарните имена в бизнеса - защо някои идеи успяват, а други не. Във времена, в които машините заемат мястото на човека в почти всяка дейност, едно умение си остава незаменимо - разказването на истории. Утвърденият автор и експерт по комуникация Кармайн Гало обяснява защо разказването на истории, които изграждат емоционални връзки, е изключително важно днес за ... |
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Уолтър Айзаксън е бивш главен редактор на списание Time, автор на биографиите на Бенджамин Франклин, Кисинджър и Стив Джобс . Последната пълна биография на Айнщайн е основана върху наскоро отворена лична кореспонденция на великия учен. Тази книга разказва как един находчив и дързък патентен чиновник - едва справящ се с живота баща с труден брак, неспособен да си намери преподавателска работа или докторантско място - започва да разгадава замисъла на твореца на Космоса, ковача на тайнствата на атома и на вселената. Неговият успех се дължи на съмненията му в общоприетите знания и на удивлението му от велики мистерии, които ... |
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Книгата за учителя подготвя за изпита "First Certificate in English". ... "Complete First for Schools" is the most thorough preparation for B2 "First for Schools". This Teacher's Book contains detailed teacher's notes, answer key and extra teaching ideas. The Downloadable Resource pack includes Class Audio, access to B2 First for Schools Speaking Test Videos, and worksheets containing extra skills practice for the exam and extension skills work to stretch students further. Учебната система по английски език "Complete First for Schools Second Edition - ниво B2" се състои от: ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. Who will speak for the poor? Who will listen to slaves, and those who have no rights? Who will work for a future where everyone is equal? Who will give up his house, job, and money to fight for people who are shut out by everyone else? 'I will,' said Mohandas Gandhi. And he began to fight in a ... |
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From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn ... |
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What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. The problem is, we're not very good at it. In a landmark, twenty-year study, Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed that the average expert was only slightly better at predicting the future than a layperson using random guesswork. Tetlock's latest project - an unprecedented, government-funded forecasting ... |
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A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this electrifying romance from the author of "The Ex Talk". Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station's news director, to give Ari the mentorship she wants. Ari, who runs on sunshine and optimism, is at her wits' end. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet ... |
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GCSE Revision without the boring bits, from Newton's Laws to levitating frogs. Illustrated by James Davies. ... Get Ahead in Physics covers the essentials for GCSE science in a book you can start and finish - without falling asleep in the middle! Each chapter is tied to a key topic for studying Physics. Learn about: the particle model of matter; energy; radiation; electricity; newton's laws; waves; electromagnetism; cosmology. Along the way, hear fascinating TRUE stories of the Philosopher's Stone, radioactive energy drinks and a couple of levitating frogs... Each chapter ends with an "at ... |
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Как вманиачените лидери постигат необичайното. ... От добро през великолепно... към необикновено. Какво е общото между навремето непознатите предприемачи като Джеф Безос и Илон Мъск, което подхранва незадоволимия им апетит да станат необикновени лидери? "Готови на всичко" показва на лидерите и стремящите се към лидерство как вманиачаването може да подхрани най-невероятния успех, като при това осветява и как същите тези личностни черти - когато са оставени неконтролирани и небалансирани - могат да наложат разрушаваща цена върху самия лидер, върху неговото, и върху колегите им по работа. В тези страници ще ... |
