Книги жанра Hachette Book Group
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful — and seemingly impenetrable — agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could. The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappears on a three-year run from the FBI. He creates fake identities, finds jobs at a law firm and hospital, and keeps tabs on his myriad pursuers — all while continuing to hack into computer systems and phone company switches that were considered flawless. A modern, technology-driven adventure story, GHOST IN THE WIRES is a dramatic account of the joy of outsmarting security programs, the satisfaction of code-cracking, and the thrill of unbelievable escape.
Название: Inside apple
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products. If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the «DRI» (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs). Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.
Название: The Pale King
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions — questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society — through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2012
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What if a beautiful vintage dress could take you back in time? Louise Lambert has always dreamed of movie starlets and exquisite gowns and longs for the day when she can fill the closet of her normal suburban home with stylish treasures. But when she receives a mysterious invitation to a vintage fashion sale in the mail, her once painfully average life is magically transformed into a time-travel adventure. Suddenly on board a luxurious cruise ship a hundred years ago, Louise relishes the glamorous life of this opulent era and slips into a life of secrets, drama, and decadence... Dreamy and imaginative, The Time-Traveling Fashionista features thirty full-color fashion illustrations to show gorgeous dresses and styles throughout history.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2008
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Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume. It includes some 200 images.
Название: Life
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2010
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With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock-and-roll life. With his trademark disarming honesty, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones Richards tells the story of a life fans have all longed to know more of — unfettered, fearless, and true.
Название: The Collector
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2009
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The Collector (1963) is disturbing, engrossing, unforgettable — the story of an obsessive young man and the girl he kidnaps and holds prisoner in his cellar.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2010
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Fashion lovers rejoice! These swank little books showcase Andy' Warhol's inimitable pictures and pronouncements on shoes and style — and make ideal gifts for serious shoppers everywhere. Shoes, Shoes, Shoes collects a closetful of high heels, loafers, mules, boots, and sandals, including iconic images from Warhol's Pop heyday as well as rarely seen early advertising illustrations. Accompanied throughout by witty quotes — «I decided that being a shoe salesman is a really sexy job», for example — these forty drawings, watercolors, and prints demonstrate Warhol's special talent for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Style, Style, Style offers a cavalcade of forty striking fashion images — slinky dresses, whimsical period costumes, sprightly scarves, ultrachic bijoux, and more, all drawn from Warhol's archives. Sprinkled throughout with the artist's droll quips and playful epigrams, this stylish minibook conjures up all the decadent pleasures of a shopping spree — at only a fraction of the cost.
Название: The Magus
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2010
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The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.
Название: Игра окончена (на английском языке)
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2009
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In THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE he predicted that the price of oil would soar past $100 a barrel when it was only $65 a barrel at the time. He also predicted that the dollar would weaken and you should buy gold. Gold is now at an all-time high. 2 examples of how the economic stakes have accelerated. Leeb's vision is bleak. We're reaching a point in which all the key financial issues are about to collapse. He warns that if you don't address yourfinancial situation soon, you could see half of your wealth disappear. Think he's kidding? What guarantee do you have that the erosion is going to stop? Are you worried about the falling value of your home. Now, in his most dramatic book yet, he shows how the combination of several key factors will make for a very rocky road in the next few years. Many experts agree and say the recession is NOT temporary but will persist for years. The good news is that Leeb provides some key and valuable information as to how the smart investors can survive. Is gold still the answer? What stocks will actually thrive in a down market? What happens to the real estate market? All of these issues and more, are covered in this book.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska, purchase coffee beans from Timor-Leste, and visit Dubai. But what do we really know about these lands?
Название: Автобиография (на английском языке)
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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This lavish volume reproduces 138 tempera, drybrush, and watercolor paintings and pencil studies by Andrew Wyeth. It is the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work ever produced and is now available in paperback. What makes this book truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting — an autobiography, told through interviews with Thomas Hoving, that offers fascinating, sometimes unexpected, facts about Wyeth's life and art. As Hoving writes in his introduction, Wyeth, in essence, has always painted for himself. This beautifully printed, elegantly designed book reveals that self as never before — and will make a resplendent gift for Wyeth's many admirers.
Название: Life Remembering Liz
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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With the passing of this great movie star, philanthropist, and-bona fide, in her day-living legend, it is our pleasure as much as our duty to celebrate her glorious life. Our cameras were trained on Liz since National Velvet, and our splendid archive of photography needs to be seen-by you, her fans, right now, in this moment. Elizabeth first appeared on LIFE's cover when she was barely a teenager, and last graced the cover when she trusted LIFE to tell the story of her late-in-life brain surgery with taste and accuracy. In between there was all the rest: the child-star days, the early marriages, the sensational movies, the incredible drama that was Liz and Dick, the later success on the Broadway stage, the transition to regal presence: benefactor, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, American icon. It is all in the pages of this special commemorative book.
Название: Adored
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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Brett Messerchmidt is planning Waverly Academy's annual holiday ball and gift exchange. But when some enterprising students decide that playing Secret Satan is infinitely more fun, the entire school starts acting naughty. Now all Brett wants for Christmas is a quiet holiday-and a kiss from a certain someone under the mistletoe. Too bad Callie Vernon has the same idea. Everybody at Waverly is getting into the giving spirit. The only present Tinsley Carmichael wants to unwrap this holiday is her new boyfriend, Julian McCafferty. But what happens when she uncovers a shady secret from his past instead? Santa knows when you've been bad or good... but what's the point of being good when being bad is so much fun?
Название: Witch and Wizard
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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Everything is about to change. The government has seized control of every aspect of society, and this is the astonishing testimonial of Wisty and Whit Allgood, a sister and brother who were torn from their family in the middle of the night, slammed into prison, and accused of being a witch and a wizard. Thousands of young people have been kidnapped; some have been accused; many others remain missing. Their fate is unknown, and the worst is feared — for the ruling regime will stop at nothing to suppress life and liberty, music and books, art and magic... and the pursuit of being a normal teenager.
Название: Classic
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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It's almost Valentine's Day at Waverly Academy, and love is in the air... and in everyone's inboxes. Each year, The Waverly Computer Society runs Perfect Match, an online personality survey that pairs up Waverly Owls with their supposed soul mates. Now the campus is overrun with peculiar pairings, odd couples, and mischief makers hoping to play Cupid for a day. Jenny Humphrey is convinced she'll be paired with her adorable new boyfriend, Isaac Dresden. But when he starts acting skittish, she begins to wonder if he's her Perfect Match after all. Brett Messerschmidt and Tinsley Carmichael definitely aren't feeling the love this Valentine's Day: when Isla Dresden, Isaac's sister, steals Tinsley's thunder-and Brett's boyfriend-the two girls vow to plot their revenge. Callie Vernon is starting to wonder if a girl can have two soulmates. She's in love with both Easy Walsh and Brandon Buchanan, but on February 14th, she can only give one of them her heart. In this final dramatic It Girl novel, the Waverly Owls ponder an age-old question: is all really fair in love and war?
Название: Devious
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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The ninth engrossing novel in the #1 bestselling It Girl series. Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey never goes looking for trouble; but trouble always seems to find her. What Waverly Academy mischief will Jenny, Tinsley, and Callie stir up now? It's January, and a new semester at Waverly Academy means one thing: new students. Make that hot new students. A gorgeous brother-sister pair is taking Waverly by storm, and the campus is abuzz with fresh gossip and even fresher crushes. But while all the girls are busy drooling over the new it-guy, they'd better watch their backs-because his sister is going to give them all a run for their money. After all, there can only be one It Girl...
Название: Reckless
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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For years, Jacob Reckless has been secretly disappearing to another world, a world behind a mirror, a world for which his father abandoned his family. The mirror world is Jacob's escape from reality. It's a place for treasure hunts and magnificent quests. A world where witches haunt the forests and giants and dwarfs roam. A world locked in a deadly war. Jacob's secret seems safe, until one day his younger brother Will follows him, with disastrous consequence. Faced with a curse that is quickly turning Will to stone, the Reckless brothers are thrust into a race against time to find a cure before Will is lost forever. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, master storyteller Cornelia Funke introduces a lush, enchanting world where fantasy meets reality. Reckless is a thrilling adventure, a tale of heroism and loyalty, filled with danger, mystery, and magic — with fairy tales and legends re-imagined as never before.
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2010
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Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before. Filled with page-turning action and mind-bending brain teasers, this wildly inventive journey is sure to delight.
Название: Fanny
Жанр: Hachette Book Group
Год: 2011
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All Fanny wants in the world is a Connie doll, but Mom says NO But no one ever said she couldn't make one instead With some scissors, glue, and her craft box in hand, Fanny sets out to replicate Connie, but it's Annabelle who is the result of her efforts. A little lopsided and a little unkempt, Annabelle turns out to be the companion Fanny has always wanted. Though at first her friends turn up their noses, in the end everyone learns that using your imagination and working with your own two hands can result in the best toy of all.
