This book was initially planned as a record of a series of lectures to my first classes of Bulgarian Philology, English Philology and Applied Linguistics, and Public Relations undergraduate and graduate students at the South West University of Bulgaria where, back in the early 1990s, we were to lay the foundations of an academic tradition in a fast changing world. It was meant as a record of the fast restructuring of our minds and attitudes in time of economic and sociopolitical transition and cultural transcendence, seen from a changing Bulgarian perspective where the world came upon our horizon English-speaking. The ... |
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Looking for answers they found each other. ... Everyday Rev struggles with the memories and demons of the time before he was adopted. He's always managed just fine, until a letter from his birth father brings hellfire, fear and danger back into his life. Emma escapes her life in an online game she build herself. Virtual reality is so much easier than real life. but then another player joins the game and suddenly ultra-violent threats starts to stream in... When Rev and Emma meet, they are fighting a darkness they can't put into words. But somehow they hear each other and together they might be able to find a way ... |
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Modern companies face a number of challenges in performing their activities. The business environment in which they operate is characterized by dynamics, intense competition and a high degree of uncertainty and risk. Fluctuations in market demand are becoming larger and more unpredictable, and competition between goods and services offered in these markets is intensifying. All these factors require companies to take the necessary action to adapt to new conditions. The production of goods and the provision of services that customers want requires companies to pay increasing attention to their resource availability - in ... |
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There are infinite ways to do the wrong thing. A searing exploration of the world we live in - and the ones we don't. Ash is used to taking hits for his high school football team - but then those hits start pushing him through a succession of universes almost-but-not-really like his own. As small shifts in reality become significant shifts in Ash's own identity, he starts to question the world he thought he knew, as well as the ones he finds himself catapulted into. For better or worse, the one thing Ash knows is that he's got to find a way to put everything back. From the "New York Times" ... |
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How do you make little children fall in love with a book? How about giving them the chance to choose what will happen inside? The opportunity for a child and a parent to play together and make the decisions that will shape the fairy tale is something you will not find anywhere else. The book sparks the imagination of children with nearly a 100 ways to be read and helps them understand how their choices shape their reality with 20 different endings. In only four years, The Big Adventure of the Little Gremlin went through 8 reprints and received 7 nominations and awards. ... |
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He`s the one, she loves to hate. NEMESIS [n]: a long-standing rival; an arch-enemy; a person's undoing; Joshua Templeman. Lucy Hutton, baker-of-cakes, exemplary assistant and professional "nice girl", is waging war. She's got the whole office on her side - except for tall, dark and charmless Joshua Templeman. He's been nothing but hostile since the moment they met and now it feels like nothing matters as much as taking him down. Trapped together under the fluorescent lights, they become entrenched in an addictive rivalry. There's the Staring Game, The Mirror Game, The HR Game. Lucy can&# ... |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today's ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers-only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play ... |
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A former FBI hostage negotiator's fiel-tested tools for talking anyone into (or out of) just about anything. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - ... |
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If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin’s masterwork - the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time - warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with "The World of Ice & Fire". This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of "The Seven Kingdoms", providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead to the events of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and HBO’s "Game of Thrones". In a collaboration that’s been years in the making, George R. R. Martin has teamed with Elio ... |
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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. Some call it football, some call it soccer, and to others it's "the beautiful game". By any name, it's a sport with some fascinating stories. There is murder in Colombia, and a game that lasts for two days where many players never see the ball. There's the French writer who learnt ... |
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Седем билета. Остров сред океана. Шанс, който се пада един път в живота. Добре дошли в Най-великата игра, ослепителното, променящо животи състезание, организирано от Ейвъри Грамс и четиримата скандално известни братя Хоторн. Създадена, за да предложи шанс за слава и богатство, тазгодишната игра е ограничена до седем късметлии. Лийра е преследвана от смъртта на баща си и тайните, които е оставил след себе си. Тя си казва, че се е включила в състезанието заради наградата, а не, за да получи отговори относно участието на семейство Хоторн в трагичния край на баща ѝ и категорично не, за да се изправи срещу вбесяващия, ... |
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От автора на "Елегантната вселена" и "Тъканта на космоса". ... Паралелни вселени и фундаменталните закони на космоса. "Написах тази книга така, че да не изисква никакви познания в областта на физиката и математиката от страна на читателя. Вместо това, както и в предходните ми книги, използвах метафората и аналогията, като включих и множество исторически сведения, за да осигуря широкодостъпно описание на някои от най-странните и – в случай че се окажат верни – най-съществените прозрения на модерната физика. Много от разглежданите идеи изискват от читателя да изостави удобните си мисловни модели и ... |
