Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realize it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He's not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ... |
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Selection: Чавдар Атанасов . ... The fun continues! New and even funnier jokes with more amazing illustrations! More laughter and a new reason for your children to pick up and read a book! The jokes are approved by a child psychologist. Read more about the function of humor in the introduction. The first part of the booklet is in a larger font, suitable for beginners in reading. After the middle, the font gradually decreases after children have mastered the skill of independent reading. The book is part of the Jokes for Kids series by Vision Books . ... |
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Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and The Cruel Prince . Kiss the prince, break the curse. Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn't believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way. Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who's been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him. Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi, until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle ... |
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New York Times bestseller. ... A brilliant, penetrating examination of the roller-coaster life of silicon valley's most audacious businessman, sending shock waves throughout business and industry. "Musk is a visionary genius: the man most likely to solve our addiction to carbon, save the planet from global warming, and set us on course for our interplanetary destiny." London Review of Books "An essential read... a riveting portrait of Silicon Valley's most driven entrepreneur since Steve Jobs" Financial Times "An entertaining read for anybody who wants to get into the mind of this ... |
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Една държава, съюзник на Третия райх, отказва да депортира своите евреи и с това е изключение в Европа: ето такъв е образът на България от времето на Втората световна война, който преобладава до неотдавна. И в който се пропуска, че от териториите на Югославия и Гърция, окупирани от България между 1941 и 1944 г., почти всички евреи са вдигнати от българските власти, конвоирани към Полша и унищожени. В тази книга, резултат на обширно изследване на документи и архиви, Надеж Рагару възсъздава произхода на онова, което отдавна се смята за безспорни факти - верни само защото в тях повсеместно се вярва. Тя обяснява: защо ... |
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Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream. He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word. A tough career for anyone, but surely impossible for Billy, who has a stammer. How will he find his voice, if his voice won't let him speak? The idea for this story came from Helen Rutter's son, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him."Very funny, very touching, very truthful - a total delight to read." Jacqueline Wilson "Amazing." ... |
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One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming. Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her desk in the city for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute ... |
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From the award-winning author of "Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda". ... I don't entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. A perfect alignment of feeling and circumstances. Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly is always careful. Better to be careful than be hurt. But when Cassie gets a new girlfriend who comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick, everything changes. Will is funny, flirtatious and basically the perfect first boyfriend. There's ... |
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Contains 25 stories. ... Get ready for broomstick rides and bubbling cauldrons in these magical short stories from a much-loved storyteller. This bumper collection of 25 short stories is populated by every sort of magical and mysterious creature, from a grumpy wizard who is outwitted by an elf to pixie who rides on a rabbit. The stories are the perfect length for reading aloud in a classroom or at bedtime. With lots of humour and fantastic characters, these will appeal to newly confident readers to read alone as well as to younger children being read to. ... |
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Опазването на природата и биоразнообразието е глобален приоритет и предизвикателство от мащаба на изменението на климата (ЕЕА, 2019). Натискът от интензивните земеделски практики върху биоразнообразието в земеделските земи води до продължаваща загуба и деградация на полу-естествените местообитания и земеделските екосистеми в Европа (Bowers - Cheshire, 1983; Howarth, 1990; ЕЕА, 2019; Oppermann et al., 2012). Същевременно, устойчиво стопанисваните земеделски земи при ниски нива на интензивност създават и поддържат множество местообитания на растителни и животински видове с природозащитно значение, което води до формулиране ... |
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How Entrepreneurial Management Transforms Culture and Drives Growth. Author of the international Bestseller "The Lean Startup". ... Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds, ranging from established companies to early-stage startups, to grow revenues, drive innovation, and transform themselves into truly modern organizations, poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the twenty-first century. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of successful startups - building a minimal ... |
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101 въпроса, задавани на интервю за работа, от които никога вече няма да се боите. Предстои ви интервю за работа, но не можете да си подготвите отговор за всеки въпрос. От хилядите възможни, кои ще ви зададат всъщност? След подробно проучване на стотици интервюиращи и хиляди интервюирани тази книга най-накрая ще ви даде отговорите. "Защо точно ти?" е базирана на директна информация от топ интервюиращите в неповторимата мрежа за набор на персонал на REED. Книгата предлага отлични техники за подготовка, целта на които е да се научите как да отговаряте на най-популярните въпроси и, преди всичко, как да възприемете ... |
