A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth. When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a ... |
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1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy' ... |
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Edited by Ursula Doyle. Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, "Love Letters of Great Men" collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by publisher Ursula Doyle. For some of these great men, love is a "delicious poison& ... |
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Complete and unabridged. Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, unabridged, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features illustrations by A. Frederics and an afterword by David Stuart Davies. Join our young heroes J., George and Harris (not forgetting Montmorency, the mischievous, irascible fox terrier) as they take a boating holiday along the Thames. Their aim is to escape the ... |
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Какви са пътищата към богатството от древността до наши дни? По какво богатите днес приличат и се различават от тези от миналото? Съвместими ли са свръхбогатите и демокрацията днес? В История на богатите в Запада икономическият историк проф. Гуидо Алфани предлага мащабна и провокативна история на богатите и свръхбогатите на Запад - от Античността и Средновековието до съвремието, като изследва в детайли кои са били богатите, как са натрупвали своите състояния и каква роля са играли в обществото, политиката и икономиката. От благороднически династии като Медичите, през банкери като Ротшилдови, индустриални титани като ... |
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Retold by Alex Peet. ... Three Men in a Boat is a humorous book that will make you laugh while it gives you a view of Victorian England and the Thames. Three friends, George, Harris and J. decide they need a holiday and plan to go on a trip on the river. J. tells the story of that two-week trip. He includes funny stories from past trips and stories he has heard. He also gives us historical and geographical information about the places they pass or stay in. Verb tenses: Present Simple: states, processes (and verbs not used in the continuous form), Past Continuous: parallel past actions, continuous actions interrupted by ... |
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The definitive guide to relationships. Over 15 million copies sold worldwide. ... "Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets." Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they can be ... |
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Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their "Bummel" ("roaming or wandering& ... |
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"За мишките и хората" (1937) се радва на голям успех още с появата си. Това е невероятно затрогващ разказ за сложната спойка между двама мигриращи селскостопански работници - Джордж Милтън и Лени Смол. Те пътуват от ферма на ферма в търсене на временна работа и мечтаят един ден да си имат собствена ферма. Лени е едър и тромав, умствено изостанал мъж, който по детски се радва на всичко пухкаво и меко. Джордж бащински го закриля и внимава Лени да не направи някоя беля поради извънредно голямата си физическа сила, която не умее да контролира... Джон Стайнбек (1902 - 1968) е роден в калифорнийския град Салинас, ... |
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Пайпър Маклауд може да лети. Ей така. Фасулска работа. Вярно, тя не е овладяла обратната тяга и обръщанията й са малко непохватни, но е много добра в лупингите. Проблемът е там, че добрите хора от Низините се страхуват от Пайпър. А майка й се чуди какво да я прави. Ето защо изглежда съвсем уместно Пайпър да напусне фермата на родителите си и да отиде в свръх секретно училище с максимална охрана за деца с необикновени способности. Отначало училището е страхотно и Пайпър намира нови приятели, чиито дарби варират от свръх сила до супер гениалност (плюс ядене до насита на домашно приготвен ябълков пай). Пайпър обаче е особена, ... |
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Ще се бори ли за сърцето ѝ, дори това да излага на риск собствената му титла? Вероятният наследник на виконт Ратмур, Доминик Мантън можеше да сбъдне мечтата си - светло бъдеще като адвокат и годеж с любимата му Джейн Върнън, дъщеря на богат барон. Ала непростимото предателство на отмъстителния му брат Джордж отнема наследството на Дом и надеждите му да предложи на Джейн сигурно бъдеще. С разбито сърце, Дом решава да прекрати връзката им и заплита сложна интрига, за да злепостави себе си, но не и безукорната репутация на своята любима. След смъртта на Джордж титлата виконт получава Дом, но когато вдовицата на брат ... |
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Based on the story of Jerome K. Jerome. Retold by Diane Mowat. ... "I like work. I find it interesting... I can sit and look at it for hours." By the book With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up too early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years... and they are still laughing. Classics, modern fiction, non- ... |
