How not to get confused when you see a wine list in a restaurant, skillfully choose the wine that tastes good to a particular dish, and distinguish between expensive drinks and cheap counterfeits - for wine lovers such skills are a must. But how to learn this, when sommelier - the greatest connoisseurs of all wine wisdom - operate with incomprehensible words, and some questions seem awkward to ask them: for example, how to make sparkling and what is rose wine? This book will be useful for gourmets , the wine from which region they may like and why people mostly store it incorrectly. And you will no longer get lost in the store, choosing between Shenen blanc and Montepulciano.
The standards that modern society dictates to the younger generation are sometimes simply absurd: girls from an early age tend to be slimmer, suffer from addictions, try to seem "cool", suffer from violence. All this can lead to dire consequences that need to be prevented. This book provides helpful tips for girls and parents who want their children to feel safe. Here are the brave and painfully honest voices of the girls themselves, who suffer from the chaos of adolescence. "Resurrection of Ophelia" calls for striving to find one's own identity, which can be facilitated by important tactics of behavior, empathy, inner strength and thirst for change. Thanks to this book, you will be able to save the family from many dramatic experiences and give your daughter the opportunity to confidently enter adulthood.
In this warm and at the same time sharp story, the events of the past and the present are skillfully intertwined. The main character Kaylee Crane can not believe in her own happiness: she is a successful journalist and the bride of the perfect guy. However, one meeting with Cade McAllister, the love of her life, suddenly changes everything. Now he is homeless and does not recognize Kaylee, but the woman decides to find out what happened to him, the former head of the record company, and wants to help him settle his life.
Narrow specialization is now the exception rather than the rule, so to be successful you need to have knowledge of several different areas, instead of delving into one. David Epstein researched the stories of the world's best athletes, artists, inventors and scientists and concluded that flexibility and diverse experience are the key to real achievement. Such observations are confirmed by numerous scientific and statistical data. In this book you will learn why long hard training does not always give the desired result, while constant defeats will help build the perfect career. Get rid of the stereotypes imposed by the education system for years and learn to acquire universal knowledge and implement it in any field.
This book will help find answers to the most common questions that responsible parents face: how to spend time with the child as useful as possible, how to hear and understand its problems, help at school, care for health and safety, how to ""put"" children on books, as well as how to remain calm in the whirlpool of constant experiences and fears, parental chats, teenage riots and aspirations to be ultra-modern parents.
No one is perfect by nature. The neuroplasticity of the brain allows a person to develop, so there are no limits to improvement. If we fail to do something, the reason is that from childhood to adulthood we are guided by a series of prejudices and ideas about what we seem to be able to do "better" and what we are "incapable" of. With this book you will understand that a simple change of perception will help to look at everything in a new way and arouse interest in learning. Success is the result of a long process, not a quantity. Science, creativity, leadership - all the doors are open, you just need to make an effort and restructure your ideas to become successful in what interests you.
Discover the enchanting diversity of the wine world with a 20-chapter training course from renowned wine connoisseur Andrew Jeffford. This course will provide important guidelines for traveling around the world in search of not only the pleasure of taste, but also an understanding of the geographically and culturally determined characteristics of different wines. From now on you will buy and taste wine like a true connoisseur.
There are games that cannot be won or lost, they last forever and do not have clear rules. They are more difficult than chess or football, because you are constantly in the dynamics, with no chance of rest or stability. Such games are business, politics and even life itself, and this book is for real players. For those who want to have a global vision, think by the standards of generations and consider themselves a visionary.Are you ready to change and change the rules of the game while your competitors are tired of following a stereotyped strategy? Together with Simon Sinek you will become a flexible leader who will be able to act in spite of all troubles and lead allies forward. Economic crisis, sudden change of circumstances, loss of everything - you will know what to do with it.
Detective Max Gedz has a new case: in a car accident, returning from a client, lawyer Marina, the wife of an influential businessman, dies. Police blame everything on the accident, but the man believes it was a murder and hires a former classmate to investigate.But will Max be able to forget the school insults and unravel this story, which features a murderous psychopath, witnesses who cannot be trusted, a girl he already feels sympathy for, and dogs. Lots of dogs.
Do you want to develop your own business more effectively? Make more money by spending less time on work? Don't be afraid that without your constant presence everything will just fall apart? Mega-cool entrepreneur and startup Mike Michalowitz argues that responsibilities can and should be delegated, and business can be optimized by making all processes as accurate as clockwork. A number of powerful strategies will help reformat business management into the most autonomous mode - without daily work until night, endless communication with customers and mountains of deadlines.
As everyone who follows Maye Musk on social media knows, she generously gives sincere and very practical advice on making decisions at a certain age, which can later pay off in a strange and unpredictable way. In this edition, the author shares the experience and wisdom gained during the difficult, full of adventures and trials of life. These are tips on health, beauty, family and career. You can't control everything around you, but you can live the way you want at any age. All you need is a plan. So start thinking about it right now.
The heroes of this book are people who went through the Gulag. Some ofthem were convicted under Article 58 of the Political Act (""Anti-SovietAgitation""), the rest were guarded in the camps. Under this cover, these peopleare together for the first time - a generation separated by barbed wire, whichstill does not feel each other.All our heroes are from eighty to one hundredyears old, but they tell about their youth. That is why this book is not aboutthe suffering and horrors of the camps. It is about the generations of ourgrandparents, about their values, ideals and relations with the authorities.About love, friendship and mutual assistance where everything is aimed atdestruction. About the abnormal, often unbearable, but still reallife.
Arthur Moses visits her grave daily for six months after his wife's death. He usually has a silent lunch at the cemetery and returns home, but one spring day he is met with an unexpected meeting. Maddie Harris is alone everywhere, but not in the cemetery - it's quiet here and you can forget about your own problems, and the girl has a lot of them. Maddie grows up without a mother, she has a difficult relationship with her father, she has almost no friends, and here the guy left her at a difficult time. She calls her new acquaintance Trulav "true love", and he calls her Sunshine like a father. And Maddie has no idea what role Arthur plays in her life and in the fate of his lonely old neighbor Lucille, who loves to make homemade cakes. It is from the meeting of these heroes that the story of true devotional friendship and mutual support will begin, which can sometimes be obtained from the average stranger.
At home and at work, we struggle every day in the powerful flow of information flowing from social networks, sites, news portals. It is extremely rare to question the facts we consume in the infospace. And it is becoming more and more toxic: fakes, propaganda, words taken out of context poison. It's time to filter the information we absorb. This book will be for a gas mask. To all who will have the courage to admit: our minds are ruled by distorting the facts with falsified evidence. Anyone who is interested in how the mechanisms of creating fakes work, where we have a fondness for fabricated sensations and what are the benefits for those in power. Modern man has almost no choice but to live or not live in three spaces at once: physical, informational and virtual. And so far someone uncontrollably reproduces fakes, and someone rakes up the consequences in the real world, we are able to maintain clarity of thought and freedom of action!At home and at work, we struggle every day in the powerful flow of information flowing from social networks, sites, news portals. It is extremely rare to question the facts we consume in the infospace. And it is becoming more and more toxic: fakes, propaganda, words taken out of context poison. It's time to filter the information we absorb. This book will be for a gas mask. To all who will have the courage to admit: our minds are ruled by distorting the facts with falsified evidence. Anyone who is interested in how the mechanisms of creating fakes work, where we have a fondness for fabricated sensations and what are the benefits for those in power. Modern man has almost no choice but to live or not live in three spaces at once: physical, informational and virtual. And so far someone uncontrollably reproduces fakes, and someone rakes up the consequences in the real world, we are able to maintain clarity of thought and freedom of action!
Veronica had a hard time. Experiencing her tenth miscarriage and almost shortening her life, the woman suddenly plunges into strange dreams, where the souls of unborn children beg for salvation. Only the Midwife, the ghost that exists between the two worlds, can give them eternal peace, but only in exchange for the sacrifices from the world of the living, which she must take in the afternoon...Is all this vision of a sick woman, or are the deaths witnessed by Veronica really the work of Poludnitsa? Meanwhile, more and more eerie secrets are being revealed: both about the deceased friend, who is considered by all to be a barefoot woman, and about a native person who will turn out to be completely unknown. Is Veronica getting out of the trap she fell into? This story, full of Hutsul legends and mysticism, makes one wonder: perhaps it is not evil spirits that are to blame for human troubles?
Kaya has been watching endless meadows on the coast all her life - marches. She is alone in the middle of this wildlife, she has to rely only on herself. Among her relatives, she has only one father left, but he does not care about his daughter. Fearing that she will be abandoned again, Kaya does not let anyone in and hides from the problems, as do the cancers she likes to watch. But for all her time, and one day the girl realizes that she is ready to share with someone her closed world. This is a novel about getting out of the comfort zone, finding like-minded people and growing up without losing one's identity, no matter what one's opinion may be.
Olivia Smith is a biologist who dreams not of a romantic relationship, but of a doctorate. But what to do when the best friend does not give you peace with that love neither day nor night? Of course, to find a guy who will pretend to be a lover. Not everyone is suitable for this role, but the young and hot Professor Carlsen: hmm, biology, Stanford, kisses... Not a bad start, you must agree! Olivia has a clear plan and is not waiting for understanding or support from the famous Adam "Gedzy" Carlsen. But after an incident at a major science conference, Adam takes her side. And suddenly the girl notices that her chosen one is not only smart, but also a sensitive and balanced guy... with abs (oh my God!). As soon as a small experiment gets out of control, and the theory of romance is shattered, Olivia realizes that examining her own heart under a microscope will be more difficult than the hypothesis of love!
1942. Anne Calloway's fate is already clear - she is engaged to Gerard Godfrey and is confident that she will be happy. But a few weeks before the wedding, Anne decides to go to the front as a nurse with her childhood friend Kitty. There, on Bora Bora, she meets the soldier Westry Green, and their friendship grows into true love. In an abandoned bungalow, where a famous artist once worked and which the natives considered a cursed place, lovers create their own little world in the midst of bloody battles. The war will end, and the two will have to return to their former lives and make a choice - if nothing prevents them from being together. Many years later, grandmother Anne receives a letter from a stranger, which brings her back to those times. But will this story have a happy ending?
2000 рік. Яскрава й амбітна Ванесса заплутується в романі з Джейкобом Стрейном, сорокадворічним викладачем англійської літератури. 2017 рік. Стрейна звинувачують у сексуальних домаганнях. Переосмислюючи події сімнадцятирічної давнини, Ванесса розривається між минулим і теперішнім. У її свідомості тісно переплітаються спогади і травми дорослої жінки із хвилюваннями дівчини-підлітка. Вона має вирішити: то було кохання чи її просто використали? Еротичний захват чи нездоровий потяг? Чи була вона готова до таких стосунків, коли їй було всього-на-всього п’ятнадцять?
The lands of humans and the land of the magical fairies of Pryphia have never crossed, separated by a high wall and hostility. This continued for centuries. Until one day a young huntress Feyre killed a wolf. Behind his guise was actually one of the fairies. Now the immortal Tamlin demands revenge. He takes Feyre from the human world to her estate in Pryphia. Imprisonment for life with an immortal is not a happy prospect. But gradually Feyra realizes that she and Temlin have much in common, despite their age, ancestry and centuries of hatred. And when Temlin's world is enveloped in the shadow of evil, only a girl from the human world will be able to save the fairyland... Or doom it to a terrible death.
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