Russian Win

Her father promised me life on the legal side if I saved his only daughter. I was her last hope. Something about this rich, spoiled princess captured me from the moment I laid my eyes on her. This green-eyed beauty made me want things I never had. She was untouchable. If I were decent, I’d keep my distance. But God knew I was the worst kind of sinner. She shouldn’t have wanted my touch. Now she was mine.

It is the late 15th century and a village healer in Russia called Laurus is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and desperate, he sets out on a journey in search of redemption. But this is no ordinary journey: it is one that spans ages and countries, and which brings him face-to-face with a host of unforgettable, eccentric characters and legendary creatures from the strangest medieval bestiaries.

From an early age, it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin....

Become a roulette pro and take charge of every wheel and table you play at! Have you ever wanted to learn to play roulette? Do you want to have a deep understanding of how the bets work? Are you prepared to go from a clueless amateur to a winning roulette player? This book is packed with useful information to help you learn the fundamentals of roulette so you can have fun and win some money while you’re at it. It will help you discover the rules that matter and the goal of the game so you can emerge on top in the long run. In this book, you will: Discover the fascinating origin of the ...

In Stalin’s Russia, when prison sentences stretched ten, fifteen, and twenty-five years, the future Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn found himself incarcerated in its genocidal “corrective” labor camps (the so-called Gulag of the Soviet Union). His crime: expressing anti-Stalinist opinions in a letter to a friend. A devout Communist at his arrest, condemned to be worked to death in the frozen wastelands of Russia, he underwent instead a profound psychological transformation, broke free of his Marxist ideology—and survived. This full biography of one of the most influential ...

Секреты лидерской мудрости от выдающегося японского полководца XVI века Тоётоми Хидэёси! «Самурай без меча» рассказывает о неподвластных времени способах достижения успеха, которыми пользовался сам Хидэёси, чтобы достичь вершины славы.

For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century!

Their wings were weak, their talons broken…yet they flew the Soviets into winning the war against the Nazis. They were ignored, laughed at, and forced to do chores beneath their ranks. Why? They were the "weaker" gender. Despite being capable, they were initially denied entry into combat. And when they did enlist, their treatment only worsened: They were assigned worn-out uniforms and left to the mercy of rusted equipment on the battlefield. These adversities didn’t stop the Soviet female fighters from going ahead and showing unprecedented excellence in warfare.

In the darkest hours of communist rule, Father Merhum fought to protect the sanctity of the Orthodox Church. Now the Soviet Union is gone, but the bureaucracy survives, and within it lurk men who would do anything to undermine the fragile new Russian democracy. Father Merhum is on his way to Moscow to denounce those traitors when he is struck with an ax and killed.

It's the mid-'90s, and capitalism and privatization have come to Russia. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia is on the rise. Newfound democracy has not reduced the crime rate, and Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a 40-year veteran of the Moscow police department, and his colleagues have their hands full.

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is finding spring in Yalta to be quite lovely. But his time off is destined to be short-lived. A former colleague with emphysema has come south to improve his health. Instead Georgi Vasilievich has dropped dead from what appears to be heart failure. The inspector is not so sure.

When forced to choose between the law and the party line, Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a disturbing tendency to fight for justice, and that has won him no friends at the Kremlin. Now his enemies in the KGB have arranged a transfer to the lowest rungs of Moscow law enforcement, a backwater department assigned to only the most hopeless cases, one of which is about to take Rostnikov deep into Siberia.

Porfiry Rostnikov was one of the top detectives in Moscow - until he crossed the KGB. On the orders of the secret service, this bulldog cop is busted down to the minor crimes unit, where his talents are utterly wasted. When a drunk climbs the statue of Nikolai Gogol in Arbat Square and threatens to kill himself, Rostnikov tries to talk the man down. But with a perfect somersault, acrobat Valerian Duznetzov leaps from the statue - the final jump of a storied career.

"Safari dlja pobeditelej" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, zhanr boevaja fantastika. Samaja krovoprolitnaja vojna v istorii zavershena. Chistaja pobeda - vrag poterjal vse, bez edinogo shansa na revansh. Pobediteli mogut otdohnut', naslazhdajas' plodami svoej pobedy. Pravda ne vse - nekotorym pridetsja eshhe nemnogo porabotat'. On pervyj sovetnik velikogo reja, i u nego pod nachalom bolee tysjachi soldat pri samom opasnom oruzhii v mire - bronirovannom drakone.

Вам сложно общаться с незнакомыми людьми? Не можете склонить собеседника на свою сторону? Вам кажется, что вас никто не слушает? Тогда скорее начинайте слушать эту книгу! Изложенные здесь практические советы помогут вам усовершенствовать навыки общения, вы сможете свободно изъясняться в любой ситуации, станете желанным собеседником в любой компании.

Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife, Sarah, have been in love for decades, since the end of World War II. Now the police inspector is by his wife's bedside as she recuperates from a brain operation, when a massive naked man staggers into her hospital room, scared out of his mind, and tries to jump out the window. Rostnikov restrains the bearlike man, trying to calm him. As orderlies arrive to return the escapee to the mental ward, he cries out: "The devil came to devour the factory."

Супербестселлер «Законы победителей» Бодо Шефера на русском языке - эксклюзивно от издательства AB Publishing! В родной Германии Бодо Шефера называют «финансовым Моцартом». Он по праву признан одним из лучших практиков управления финансами и тайм-менеджмента. Его книги всегда вызывают огромный интерес у читателей, стремящихся к успеху. «Законы победителей» - не исключение. Это книга для тех, кто хочет преуспеть и быть счастливым, для тех, кто хочет добиться большего! Бодо Шефер предлагает вам 30 законов, проверенных победителями. Они действительно работают, шаг за шагом улучшая Вашу жизнь! По…

Negotiations is the one of the main components of life and business. Anyone who knows how to negotiate wisely can make the results of their communication with other people much better. How to present yourself in a favorable light and get what you need? You will learn this by listening to the audiobook "How to win the negotiations."

Sometimes there are situations that require human skills to put a person in place. This problem is often not an easy task, given that people are different, and they leverage that reliable influence on some. Others simply do not understand and will not work on them. In cases when a contact becomes intrusive or tries to hurt you, you must be able to stop the aggressor. How to do it with dignity, avoiding faux pas and rudeness, is what we describe in this audiobook.

Действие романа, происходит в древнем Риме во времена распространения христианства, посвящено Битве у Мульвийского моста 28 октября 312 г. н. э.— сражению тогдашнего правителя Древнего Рима императора Максенция с будущим римским императором Константином I Великим.