Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression makes for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including the

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don’t have the key.

Many of the characters are well-known: Valjean, the criminal trying to escape his reputation, Javert, the police agent trailing him, the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter, Cosette, the rascally Thenardier, and, above all the splendid street urchin, Gavroche. Among the unforgettable descriptions are those of the Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barricades during the July

Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A thousand-storey tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible - if you want it enough.A hundred years in the future, New York\'s elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world. Everyone wants something... and everyone has something to lose.As the privileged inhabitants

With 20 million copies sold worldwide THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life\'s toughest questions through the gripping story of one man\'s struggle to find answers to his suffering. Mack\'s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years

Printmaking is a comprehensive and up to date introduction to fundamental printmaking techniques including relief, intaglio, collagraph, lithography, screen print and monoprint. It shows how some of the latest and most experimental prints have been made using these techniques. It also shows how to use the computer as an image-making tool and how to translate digital images into tangible works of art.

IQ tests, which measure our ability to retain information, are out-dated. In the digital era, the new IQ is not about retaining knowledge, but managing it. Working memory is the brain\'s Post-It note. It allows us to make mental scribbles of what we need to remember and process. The bigger the \'Post-It\' we have, the more proficient a multi-tasker we are. And in a modern world, where technology and

Lil Chance fell in love with Cooper Sullivan pretty much the first time she saw him, an awkward teenager staying with his grandparents on their cattle ranch in South Dakota while his parents went through a messy divorce. Each year, with Coop\'s annual summer visit, their friendship deepens - but then abruptly ends. Twelve years later and Cooper has returned to run the ranch after his grandfather is

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. The advent of the French Revolution confirmed the worst fears of the rulers of Europe. They saw their states as storm-tossed vessels

V knihe nájdete skrátenú verziu príbehu Winnetoua, jeho pokrvného bieleho brata Old Shatterhanda a statočného lovca Old Firehanda. Príbeh je spracovaný pre začiatočníkov a mierne pokročilých čitateľov, ktorí si chcú vyskúšať, ako si poradia so súvislým textom v nemčine. Slovenský zrkadlový preklad umožní záujemcom obratom skontrolovať, či cudzojazyčnému textu správne porozumeli. Audionahrávku vo formáte

Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with

Special edition slipcase edition of John Green\'s Paper Towns, with pop-up paper town. From the bestselling author of The Fault in our Stars. Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow.

A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that

Am 10. Dezember 1941 wurde Helga Weissovä, ein zwölfjähriges jüdisches Mädchen aus Prag, nach Theresienstadt deportiert. »Zeichne, was du siehst!« hatte ihr Vater gesagt, nachdem sie ein selbstgemaltes Bild in die Männerkaserne geschmuggelt hatte. Helga zeichnete und dokumentierte so den Alltag der Menschen im Ghetto. Sie malte Bilder von dieser in sich abgeschlossenen Welt, von alltäglichen Szenen

World-renowned photographer Michael Poliza\'s best seller re-released - now in a smaller format and as an inexpensive hardcover edition

A New York Times #1 Bestseller A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage\'s best books of the year Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning,

Eine verhängnisvolle Abenteuerlust treibt den englischen Kaufmannssohn Robinson Crusoe zur See. Bei einem Sturm erleidet sein Schiff vor der amerikanischen Küste Schiffbruch, er kann sich als Einziger auf eine unbewohnte Felseninsel retten. Mühsam richtet er sich das Leben ein mit dem, was er auf dem Schiffswrack und auf der Insel findet. Eines Tages entdeckt Robinson, der sich allein auf der Insel

Gaming: it\'s the greatest British invasion of them all. Lara Croft is an international icon and the British-born Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. The UK\'s games industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music. Yet the medium\'s birth in Thatcher\'s Britain was almost accidental. While politicians championed computers like the BBC Micro

All the Pretty Horses, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself the last bewildered survivor of generations of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he ever imagined. With two companions, he sets off

Director no more, Nick Fury is a plain ol\' Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - but that won\'t stop him from calling the shots! And there are plenty to be fired, because Baron Strucker has a new vision for Hydra...and S.H.I.E.L.D. As Strucker strikes and Nick Fury faces treachery and betrayal from within his own ranks, he reunites with the Howling Commandos and Captain America - as well as a few faces he never