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The original and bestselling leadership book! Sun Tzu's ideas on survival and success have been read across the world for centuries. Today they can still be applied to business, politics and life. The Art of War demonstrates how to win without conflict.

`We were perfect together. Until we met.` I can`t help but smile at the lyrics in her letter. She misses me. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn`t take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. And...

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growin...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Emotional and enlightening' WOMAN & HOME'The twist halfway through is a jaw-to-the-floor moment' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A perfect choice for your book clubs' PRIMAOlivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfr...

A Book of the Year 2022 in The Economist and Daily Mail'One of the most important non-fiction books of the year' - Sunday TimesBoys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: maths, reading and scienceIn the US, the wages of most men are lower today than they were in 1979, while women's wages have risen across the boardIn the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45Boys are falling behind at school and college because the educ...

Друга книга циклу «"Делфі" та чарівники». Завдяки портолану, детальній навігаційній морській мапі, поштар Макґі та годинникар Ленар отримали змогу подорожувати в часі. Потрапивши до Одеси за три дні до початку потужного шторму, вони попереджають Ореста та решту чарівників про жахливу небезпеку, що насувається з Чорного моря. Макґі та Орестові треба поквапитися, щоб дізнатися всі таємниці міста, танкера «Делфі» та Одеської кіностудії. Але найголовніша мета — подолати Чорного д...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the c...

СХВАЛЕНО МОН УКРАЇНИ.«Мій друг Питайко» — універсальна збірка, яка містить найкращі твори, запропоновані програмою для позакласного читання в початковій школі. Жанрове різноманіття поданих текстів допоможе виховати літературний смак у дитини й заохотити її до читання. Але головна особливість цієї книги — наявність інтерактивного героя, який навчає аналізувати прочитане, пояснювати матеріал іншим, тобто перетворює учня на вчителя, виводить із пасивної позиції навчання в активн...

It is definitely a book for people who are aware of their being and meaning. We really hope, that most of the readers will be young people, up to 30 years of age. People who fit into that demographic tend to be interested in the truth and are not afraid of walking along completly new paths, being aware of their existence and the biological life that is attached to it. It is a book for people who are not afraid of the unknown. Because only people lite those are not afraid of t...

Does happiness have a colour and how does it taste? Why is waiting for someone not the same as missing someone? Can curiosity cause rumbling in your head? How bad can fear make things look, and what happens if they are really bad? Why is revenge always the worst counsellor? Can one weep with gratitude? A sensitive boy in various stages of his life experiences the twelve most important human emotions. He tries to express his feelings in his childish manner and most of al...

Hat Glück eine Farbe und wie schmeckt es? Warum ist Warten nicht das Gleiche wie Vermissen? Kann es vor Neugier im Kopf rumoren? Wie groß können die Augen der Angst sein und was passiert, wenn sie zu groß werden? Warum ist Rache immer der schlechteste Ratgeber? Kann man vor Dankbarkeit weinen? Ein sensibler Junge erlebt in verschiedenen Augenblicken seines Lebens die 12 wichtigsten Emotionen und versucht, auf seine kindliche Weise davon zu erzählen. Und vor allem: zu v...

Szósty tom BIBLIOTEKI PRZEKŁADÓW ROSYJSKICH XVII–XVIII WIEKU Z LITERATURY STAROPOLSKIEJ został poświęcony nie zachowanemu do naszych czasów staropolskiemu romansowi o Henryku i Melendzie. Tłumaczenie rosyjskie z przełomu XVII i XVIII stulecia pozwoliło zrekonstruować fabułę zabytku. Interesująca okazała się również recepcja romansu na gruncie rosyjskim: doczekał się on kilku redakcji, a w latach 1720-tych, podobnie jak Historyja o Meluzynie i inne romanse tłumaczone z języka ...

Gli strani ospiti (A2, A2+) Ogni anno Paolo va a Ronchi, un piccolo paesino di montagna, per trascorrere le vacanze estive e ritrovarsi con i suoi amici. Quest'anno, pero, le loro vacanze saranno turbate da una scoperta che rischia di metterli in serio pericolo... Primiracconti per ragazzi e la collana di Edilingua di letture semplificate e didattizzate per studenti adolescenti. Gli strani ospiti, che tiene conto della progressione grammaticale e lessicale del secondo volume ...

Tickle Teddy's tummy and stroke Peppa's glittery golden boots in this gorgeous touch-and-feel book. The perfect gift for little piggies who love Peppa! Based on the hit preschool animation Peppa Pig, shown daily on Five's Milkshake and Nick Jnr.

Packed with 150 things to make and do with Peppa Pig and her little brother, George, this book will keep your little piggies busy for days! With fancy dress costumes, recipes, seasonal crafts, indoor and outdoor games and much more, this book will become your essential go-to guide for fun days with Peppa.

This book is about worms. I can only draw worms. You might think worms are boring - but you'd be wrong. These worms have INCREDIBLE adventures! I can't draw those bits, though, so you'll have to imagine them. A hilarious and superbly silly book that will have children in stitches and begging for more.

"I was wowed and moved." (Tracy Chevalier). Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte. Or that's what Samantha Ellis, a life-long Emily and Wuthering Heights devotee, had always thought. Until, that is, she started questioning that devotion and, in looking more closely at E...

It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and a...

Why do: Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well? Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own? The Dutch trust their children to bike to school? Dutch schools not set homework for the under-tens? Dutch teenagers not rebel? What is the secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world? The secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world. In a recent UNICEF study of child well-being, Dutch children came out on top as the happiest all-round. In Growing ...

10 wybranych krakowskich legend, od najstarszej o wawelskim smoku, przez Boże miłosierdzie, Lajkonika, i pozostałe, aż do najnowszej o czakramie wawelskim. Opowiedziane na nowo - dla odwiedzających miasto turystów - mogą stać się interesującą lekturą nie tylko dla dzieci i młodzieży. Koncepcja książki umożliwia korzystanie z niej jako nietypowego przewodnika po Krakowie ubarwiającego poznanie miasta. Interesująca szata graficzna oraz załączone plany stanowią o dodatkowej wart...

Lets you count 1,2,3 with Peppa Pig. With simple text and colourful pictures, this chunky board book is suitable for little hand.

This book is intended for everybody fascinated by Egyptian pyramids or excited by stories about Atlantis. It takes you on a fantastic journey through the Solar System and back in time, o­ffering a brand-new glance at the history of people and the Earth. This is the first book in a series planned by Filip Ambria. Nurtured since the age of 17, the idea has now reached maturity with the author and has been put on paper – to carry readers away into the depths of the Universe....