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Audrey Niffenegger “The Time Traveller’s wife”
“This is an extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible, but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and Henry finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can not control, Henry and Clare’s struggle to lead normal life is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable”

Aldous Huxley “Brave New World” (first published in 1932)
“Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.”

Allen Paul, “Artist Management for the Music Business”
Allen prepares you for the realities of successfully directing the careers of talented performers in the high-risk, high-reward music business. You will learn to prepare yourself for a career in artist management - and then learn the tools to coach, lead, organize time, manage finances, market an artist, and carve out a successful career path for both yourself and your clients. Updated information including a directory of artist management companies is available at the book's companion website. It contains many unique insights and lots of valuable information. This is essential reading for managers, students, and artists in the music business.

Bill Bryson “Mother Tongue”
“In this hymn to the mother tongue Bill Bryson examines how a language ‘treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants’ has now become the undisputed global language. It is really interesting and easy to read book about this curious language.”

Deepak Chopra “Perfect Health”
“Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach lining every five days, for instance; our skin is new every five weeks; each year, ninety-eight per cent of the total number of atoms in our bodies are replaced. Ayurveda gives us tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are being created anew each day. It also reveals how freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness and bringing it into balance and then extending that balance to the body.”

Eckhart Tolle, “THE POWER OF NOW: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”
The Power of Now has been widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. ¬¬A #1 New York Times bestseller, it has been translated into over 30 languages. The book has helped countless people around the globe awaken to the spiritual dimension in their lives, find inner peace, increased joy and more harmonious relationships

George c. Williams “Adaptation and Natural Selection”
“Biological evolution is a fact – but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today”. Очень научная книжка, продолжающая теорию Дарвина.

J. D. Salinger “The Catcher in the Rye”
Это классика.

James Surowiecki “The Wisdom of Crowds”
“History tells us that when you want something done you turn to a leader: right? Wrong. If you want to make a correct decision or solve the problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts.”
In 1986 American shuttle crashed. There was no press releases or any information about causes of the crash in media. Shuttle had 4 contractors and each company provided parts of shuttle that could have caused the crash. On the next day stock of one of the contactors went down much more than stock of other 3. Thousands of stockholders across the US “guessed” whose fault it was. Six month later it was confirmed that they were right.

Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow “Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong” what makes french so french
“The book is a journey into the French heart, mind and soul. Deciphering French ideas about land, food, privacy and language. It weaves the threads of French society – from centralisation and the Napoleonic Code to elite education and even street protests – giving us, for the first time, a complete picture of the French.”

John Morgan “Guide to Etiquette & Modern Manners”
Похожая книга, но в отличие от книги Kate Fox – это сборник формальных правил в жизни английского общества. Как одеваться на свадьбу; в каких случаях используются business cards, а когда visiting cards; как вести себя на скачках и в гостях у английской королевы; когда используется рукопожатие и когда и сколько раз при встрече целуют в щеку… И сотни других важных правил, которые обязан знать каждый живущий в Англии.

John Reader «Africa – A Biography of the Continent”
«The roots of our ancestry lie in Africa. This book is a brilliant and panoramic survey that traces the development of this huge continent from its earliest geological formation and beginning of life, through to the civil wars and genocide that mark it today.”

Kate Fox “Watching the English”
Интересное исследование привычек и правил поведения англичан. В том числе многие из тех, о которых они сами не задумываются и о существовании которых не подозревают. Если вы живете в Англии или вам приходится общаться с англичанами, эта книга откроет вам глаза на этих островных чудиков.

Kim Edwards "The Memory Keepers Daughter"
Novel begins with Dr. Henry having to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lifes forever. Without telling his wife, he asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.

Malcolm Gladwell “The Tipping Point”
“In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm explains and analyses the ‘tipping point’, that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviours cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Malcolm explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.”

Marian Keyes “Under Täcket”
«Under täcket är en samling personliga och dråpiga betraktelser over livet, publicerade i olika engelska och irländeska tidskrifter de senaste åren.”

Matt Ridley “The Red Queen – Sex and the Evolution of the Human Nature”
“Is sex the defining factor of human survival? Referring to Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen from “Through the Looking-Glass”, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place. Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity’s best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture – including why man propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband.”

Nic Kelman «Girls”
“Poised, vastly literate, and sticky with sex…Kelman has clearly pondered our cultural fixation on youth, power, and money in a way that goes beyond the immediate reality-TV moment... a darkly lyrical, intensely cerebral novel... An honest and brutal look into the minds of men.”

Oscar Wilde «The picture of Dorian Gray”
Тоже классика.

P. G. Wodehouse “The Jeeves Omnibus”
Очень смешная и очень английская книга про очень умного дворецкого, работающего у ленивого и недалекого английского аристократа. Великолепный язык и искрометный юмор. Тоже одна из книг, которые помогают понять англичан.