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Біловолосий відьмак Ґеральт із Рівії, один з небагатьох представників колись численного цеху захисників людської раси від породжень нелюдського зла, мандрує невеликими королівствами, які можна охопити поглядом з вежі замку, та великими містами, отримуючи платню за те, чого навчений, – знищення віїв і з’ядарок, стриґ та віпперів. Але є у відьмака і власний кодекс, у якому вбивство – це лише крайня міра, а життя розумне, чим би воно не було, – це все-таки життя. Саме цим він наживає собі нових...

С этой книги стоит начать знакомство с психиатрией и психологией. Во «Введении» Эрик Берн простым и предельно ясным языком рассказывает: как устроена человеческая психика, что влияет на ее формирование, какие этапы развития проходит младенец и как они впоследствии отражаются на его жизни, что есть сны и неврозы, каковы скрытые причины алкоголизма, склонности к беспорядочным связям, затяжным депрессиям – и многое другое. Произведение Берна до сих пор по праву считается одним из самых полных и...

Найвідоміший твір засновника психоаналізу! Запропонований твір – це популярний, та аж ніяк не спрощений виклад психоаналітичної теорії вустами її автора. Ця книжка справила величезний вплив на сучасників і нащадків і вважається однією з найважливіших праць автора.

The only resource available to help calculate investment value versus fair market value Whether buying or selling, the question of «what's it worth?» is multifaceted. In an M&A setting, it is necessary to compute fair market value, but it is far more important to compute investment value-the value of the target company to a strategic buyer. This calculation varies with each prospective buyer, depending on synergies, benefits, and other competitive analyses that are seldom involved in business...

Discover the tools necessary to determine what your company's value is, what drives its value, and how to enhance that value during an M&A transaction. The only book to focus on valuation specifically for mergers and acquisitions, Valuation For M&A: Building Value in Private Companies, Second Edition lays out the steps for measuring and managing value creation in privately held businesses. This groundbreaking work led directly to authors Chris M. Mellen and Franck C. Evans being named the joint...

В книге, написанной известными британскими учеными; содержится подборка оригинальных тестов для детей 5–11 лет, включающая тесты на понимание значений слов, наблюдательность, логическое мышление и другие. С помощью этих тестов родители могут самостоятельно определить коэффициент интеллекта своих детей и дать им возможность потренироваться в решении занимательных задач. С помощью этой книги вы сможете в занимательной форме, но вместе с тем вполне научно протестировать вашего ребенка и получить...

В своей работе «Трансформация демократии» выдающийся итальянский политический социолог Вильфредо Парето (1848–1923) показывает, как происходит эрозия власти центрального правительства и почему демократия может превращаться в плутократию, в которой заинтересованные группы используют правительство в качестве инструмента для получения собственной выгоды. В книгу также включен ряд поздних публицистических статей Парето.

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars – goes mad about them in face… The story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad has been loved by young...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night… In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens – and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden… which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret – a secret that could...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. 'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children – they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘…when the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel, all three children stood on the railing and waved their pocket-handkerchiefs without stopping to think whether they were clean handkerchiefs or the reverse.’When their father is mysteriously sent away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis have to leave London with their mother to live in a cottage in the countryside. Finding...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. 'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia?

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set in the fictional country of Ruritania, The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, identical cousin to King Rudolf of Ruritania, who must stand in for the king at his coronation when a plot to steal the crown leaves the king drugged and unable to attend. Rudolf must foil the plans of the king’s brother, Prince Michael, and when the king is kidnapped and taken to a castle in Zenda, Rudolf...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jill Nevile. ‘When we are happy, we are always good’, says Lord Henry, ‘but when we are good, we are not always happy.’ Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven – even murder – if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to belief in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment,...

Raising funds to fulfill a nonprofit organization's goals is critical to its success, but fundraising regulations are an increasingly complex maze. The Law of Fundraising, Fifth Edition is the definitive guide to demystifying federal and state fundraising regulations. With new discussion on Internet fundraising, political fundraising laws, and international fundraising, this book details federal and state laws, with an emphasis on administrative, tax, and constitutional laws. This guide...

Raising funds to fulfill a nonprofit organization's goals is critical to its success, but fundraising regulations are an increasingly complex maze. The Law of Fundraising, Fifth Edition is the definitive guide to demystifying federal and state fundraising regulations. With new discussion on Internet fundraising, political fundraising laws, and international fundraising, this book details federal and state laws, with an emphasis on administrative, tax, and constitutional laws. This guide is...

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse. Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts. Includes a varied range of...