Книги жанра Hachette Book Group
Название: Notebook at Random By Irving Penn
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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From his very first photograph, made on assignment for Vogue in 1943, to startlingly fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age 87, Irving Penn again and again shows an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from a typical career retrospective, A NOTEBOOK AT RANDOM is a revelation. Included here are some of Penn's signature images, along with the rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. The book is populated with artists, writers, and models whose lives intersected with Penn's: Picasso looks out at us with that timeless intensity that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. Many of the photographs are alternate poses or torn test fragments, pages from his personal 'notebook'; some are newer-found discoveries, including a previously unpublished portrait of Truman Capote. Some of the most striking pages in this 'notebook' reproduce Penn's painted photographs and mixed-media works, images so layered and exquisitely constructed that they resemble Cubist assemblages. With brief text excerpts and notations from Penn throughout, this is the most intimate and arresting book yet from one of the most admired artists of our time.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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When «Life» published the first edition of this book in 2010, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of «Photoshop User» magazine (and a guru in the world of digital shooting), wrote, «Joe McNally has put together the «Life Guide to Digital Photography», which is packed full of tips, tricks, how-to, and beautiful pictures from Joe's thirty-plus-year photo career. If you've ever experienced one of Joe's workshops or seminars, you know he's a fantastic teacher, and this book is an extension of that. While he does write about the basics of photography, if you know Joe, you know that he's found a way to work his own sense of humour and familiarity in with all the nuts and bolts to make it an entertaining read». Thousands of photo fans agreed, and eagerly joined Joe on his happy journey through the pixelated world of modern-day photography. In so doing, they learned from one of Life's master shooters — in fact, the final in the long line of distinguished Life staff photographers — who encouraged them that, with a little preparation and care, with a dash of enthusiasm and daring, anyone can make a better photo: Anyone can turn a «keeper» into a treasure.
Название: TIME: Man-Made Wonders
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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An exploration of the history's greatest achievements in design, engineering, and architecture, detailing the art and science behind the world's greatest structure, from Greek temples and Roman aqueducts to iron bridges and skyscrapers of glass and steel.
Название: Wild Thing
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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Former mob hitman Dr. Brnwa is on the case — and on the run — in the electrifying sequel to the bestselling Beat the Reaper. It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes.
Название: Hate List
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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5 months ago Valerie Leftman's boyfriend opened fire on their school cafeteria, killing five students and one teacher before turning the gun on himself. Valerie, who was shot trying to stop him, is initially implicated in the shootings because of the hate list she helped create. The hate list her boyfriend used to pick his targets. As Valerie integrates back into school, more of an outsider than she ever thought she was before, she is forced to confront her feelings of guilt and loneliness. Exploring the gray area between hero and villain, she navigates the rocky relationships with her family, her former friends, with the memory of the boyfriend she still loves, and with the girl whose life she saved five months ago. As she moves toward graduation and the year anniversary of the shooting, Valerie must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it all in order to make amends and move on with her life.
Название: Beautiful Chaos
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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Beautiful Chaos is the third instalment of the spellbinding love story that began with Beautiful Creatures — a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere.
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Год: 2013
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Is falling in love the beginning... Or the end? In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets. There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes. There is a curse. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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Determined to find the treasure of notorious pirate Red Rackham, Tintin and Captain Haddock set sail aboard the Sirius to find the shipwreck of the Unicorn. Following the clues and making use of an ingenious shark-shaped submarine, Tintin is ready for an ocean adventure— but is he ready for the big twist the journey will take?
Название: Mortality
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment, enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing the ability to speak. Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.
Название: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has learned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches: The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself. The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself. The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow. The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be. The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others This third and final book in John Maxwell's Laws series (following 2-million-seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets 'used up'.
Название: So Good They Can't Ignore You
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's talent and skill — and not necessarily their passion — that determines their career path. Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) and recently earned a PhD. from MIT, contends that trying to find what drives us, instead of focusing on areas in which we naturally excel, is ultimately harmful and frustrating to job seekers. The title is a direct quote from comedian Steve Martin who, when once asked why he was successful in his career, immediately replied: «Be so good they can't ignore you» and that's the main basis for Newport's book. Skill and ability trump passion. Inspired by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' famous Stanford University commencement speech in which Jobs urges idealistic grads to chase their dreams, Newport takes issue with that advice, claiming that not only is this advice Pollyannish but that Jobs himself never followed his own advice. From there, Newport presents compelling scientific and contemporary case study evidence that the key to one's career success is to find out what you do well, where you have built up your «career capital» and then to put all of your efforts into that direction.
Название: Lucky in Love
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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Mallory Quinn has had enough of playing it safe. As a nurse and devoted daughter, she takes care of everyone but herself and as the local good girl, she's expected to date Mr. Right but for once, she'd like to take a risk on Mr. Wrong. And who could be more wrong than Ty Garrison? The mysterious new guy in town has made it clear that he's only passing through, which suits Mallory just fine. Besides, his lean, hard body and sexy smile will give her plenty to remember once he's gone . . . For the first time in his life, Ty can't bear to leave. Helping this sexy seductress-in-training walk on the wild side is making him desire things he shouldn't including leaving the military for good. As their just-for-fun fling becomes something more, Mallory and Ty wonder if they could really be this lucky in love. After all . . . anything can happen in a town called Lucky Harbor.
Название: Beautiful Creatures
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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Straight from Lima, Ohio, The Official William McKinley High School Yearbook is a full-color, completely up-to-date book that captures all the memories of seniors like Rachel Berry, Kurt Hummel, Finn Hudson and their fellow Gleeks. Featuring tons of glossy photos and exclusive images, the one and only OFFICIAL Glee yearbook will transport you to the halls of William McKinley High School. Just be sure to watch out for slushies!
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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This book uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Eight short fairy tales fit on one spread and feature the characters and stories that children love best. With clear, color-coded typography and amusing illustrations, this collection is sure to entertain while encouraging reading skills and interaction with others. The fractured fairy tales include: The Three Little Bears, The Princess and the Pea, Billy Goat's Gruff, Cinderella, and more!
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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Join the fun as 17 familiar nursery rhyme characters take starring roles in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling series You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Designed with budding readers in mind, each of the tales is set in three columns with color-coded type as a script for two voices to read separately and together. Whether it's Humpty Dumpty negotiating with a doctor to fix his cracked shell, Little Miss Muffet inviting the spider to share her curds and whey, or Old King Cole enjoying a feline fiddle recital, these tales with a twist will delight and amuse young readers.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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One of the most established authorities on leadership today, John C. Maxwell speaks to over 350,000 people each year. His most popular topic is THE FIVE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP, which he now shares with readers. The five levels include: 1. Position — People follow because they have to. 2. Permission — People follow because they want to. 3. Production — People follow because of what you have done for the organization. 4. People Development — People follow because of what you have done for them personally. 5. Personhood — People follow because of who you are and what you represent. Through in-depth explanations and examples, Maxwell describes each stage and shows readers how they can move to the next level to become more influential,respected, and successful leaders.
Название: Top Dog
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2013
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For a decade, it's been a constant drumbeat, from our nation to corporations to employees to our youngest students: we must all be more competitive. But no one's really given us an understanding of how to compete. Finally-that's about to change. As President Dwight Eisenhower said, «It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog». And in Top Dog, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman reveal the size of the fight in all of us. Top Dog exposes the hidden factors behind every sort of win and loss-from bringing home a Gold in Olympic swimming to bombing the SAT. Exploring the psychology of rankings, the neuroscience of mistakes, and the DNA of fearlessness, Top Dog's filled with cutting-edge science told through stories of pilot flight training, political try-outs, ballroom dancing, CIA spies, Wall Street, and so much more. You'll discover the forces that compel each one of us to compete.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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The Usual Gang of Idiots, as their writers and artists have long called themselves, brilliantly satirize politics, celebrities, movies, television, advertising, music and more. (They've never been above a cheap gag or a horrific pun, either.) Totally MAD is a celebration of this cultural touchstone and includes such classics as Spy vs. Spy, Al Jaffee's The MAD Fold-in, Sergio Aragones' A MAD Look At... Dave Berg's The Lighter Side of... Planet Tad, The MAD Strip Club, The Fundalini Pages, the spectacular movie and TV satires of Mort Drucker, Jack Davis and Tom Richmond plus the outrageous artwork of Don Martin and Drew Friedman. Specially complied by the staff of MAD, each page is lavishly illustrated by many of the world's greatest cartoonists and humorous illustrators. Whether you grew up with MAD in the 50s, 60s or 70s, reading it under the covers with a flashlight so your parents wouldn't catch you, or in the 80s, 90s and beyond, reading it while watching the MAD TV shows on Fox and Cartoon Network, this book will bring back great memories and create new ones.
Название: The Lincoln Lawyer
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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This №1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery — as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called today's Dostoevsky of crime literature. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal — this time to save his own life.
