Black Swan An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist Докинз Ричард

Our world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. The same pattern is found elsewhere too. Look down on the Earth from space, and you'll find similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air and cold air waltz • In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski links the little things we see every day with the big world we live in. Each chapter begins with something small - popcorn, coffee stains and refrigerator magnets - and uses it to explain some of the most important science and technology of our time • This is physics as the toolbox of science - a toolbox we need in order to make sense of what is around us and arrive at decisions about the future, from medical advances to solving our future energy needs

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to make connections between her weight and health issues and told herself that she was fat and happy. She was certainly fat. But the happy part was an Oscar-worthy performance. In private she lived with a growing sense of fear and misery that her weight would probably kill her before she made it to seventy • Interwoven with the science, social history and psychology of weight management, Fat Cow, Fat Chance is a refreshingly honest account of what it's like to be fat when society dictates that skinny is the norm. It asks why we overeat and why, when the weight is finally lost through dieting, do we simply pile the pounds back on again? How do we help young people become comfortable with the way they look? What are the consequences of the obesity epidemic for an already overstretched NHS? And, whilst fat shaming is so often called out, why is it that shouting 'fat cow' at a woman in the street hasn't been included in the list of hate crimes? • Fusing politics, science and personal pain, this is a powerful exploration of our battle with obesity

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live • Taking inspiration from a remarkable true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' • Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When Owen hits a foul ball which kills John's mother, their lives are changed in an instant • It is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees. He believes that he is God's instrument, put on Earth for a higher purpose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam War, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan was not imagined after all • Discover the funny yet poignant classic by the bestselling author of The World According to Garp

Like Water For Chocolate tells the captivating story of the De la Garza family. As the youngest daughter, Tita is forbidden by Mexican tradition to marry. Instead, she pours all of her emotions into her delicious recipes, which she shares with readers along the way.When Tita falls in love with Pedro, he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. Unfortunately, he's married to her sister • Filled with recipes, longing and bittersweet humour, this charming story of one family's life in turn-of-the-century Mexico has captivated readers all over the world and was made into an award-winning film

At Christmas, Anything Can Happen • Thea's parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea... even though they are, in fact, about to split up. And while her sister and brother are both settled, Thea herself is newly single - her boyfriend has ditched her in favour of his pedigree dogs, and Thea can't decide whether or not she minds • There will be copious food and drink, holly and mistletoe, lots of bracing walks and a wintry barbecue on the beach. If it seems an odd way to celebrate the final break-up of a marriage and the Moving On to new partners, no-one is saying so. But then no-one had anticipated that the new partners might actually turn up to complicate the sleeping arrangements • As Cornwall experiences the biggest snowstorm in living memory, the festive atmosphere comes under some strain

Эра долгоиграющих пластинок началась в 1967 году, когда The Beatles выпустили альбом Sgt Pepper. Они не просто собрали вместе несколько песен. Они выпустили Альбом. И теперь все хотели выпускать Альбомы • Конец этой эпохи наступил лишь пятнадцать лет спустя, когда Майкл Джексон выпустил свой Thriller. К тому моменту благодаря компании Walkman музыку можно было слушать не только дома, но и на улицах. Производителям пластинок пришлось искать новые способы зарабатывать деньги. Музыку начали слушать по-новому. Хоть этот период и был недолгим, за него произошло много больших изменений. Музыканты становились артистами, а мы, люди, их меценатами. Пластинки стали знаком отличия, показателем богатство, инструментом образования, постером со словами, которые никто не осмеливался произносить вслух, способом привлечения противоположного пола и самым желанным на свете предметом

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey’ XL — издание, в мельчайших подробностях рассматривающее культовую ленту Стэнли Кубрика «Космическая Одиссея 2001 года». Истории создания, фотографии, раскадровки, концепты и другие документы с голово

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared

A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time • Over three decades after its release, Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' remains one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. Its sales total around 30 million copies worldwide. In its first run, it took up residence in the US charts for a mind-boggling 724 weeks. According to recent estimates, one in five British households owns a copy • This, however, is only a fraction of the story. 'Dark Side' is rock's most fully realised and elegant concept album, based on themes of madness, anxiety and alienation that were rooted in the band's history - and particularly in the tragic tale of their one - time leader Syd Barrett

Это был самый необыкновенный год. В своей книге The Making of Poetry. Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels Адам Николсон вслед за Кольриджем, Вордсвортом и его сестрой Дороти отправляется в Кванток-Хиллз • За те месяцы, что они провели там в 1790 году, появились такие стихотворения, как The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Tintern Abbey, лирические баллады и непревзойденные поэмы Кольриджа о дружбе и отцовстве; революционные стихи Вордсворта, воспевающие единство души и вселенной, любви и взаимопониманию. Эта поэзия, которая стремилась изменить мир • Книга на английском языке • It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam Nicolson walks in the footsteps of Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy during the months in the late 1790s they spent together in the Quantock Hills

Книга Тома Хэнкса The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece охватывает 80 лет истории меняющейся Америки и заканчивается первой сценой фильма. Мы знакомимся с колоритными персонажами: с проблемным солдатом, возвращающимся с войны, молодым парнем с художественным даром, вдохновленным и эксцентричным режиссером, восходящей помпезной звездой, неутомимым ассистентом режиссера и бесчисленным количеством кинопродюсеров, которые совместными усилиями создают голливудскую магию • The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece – это забавная, трогательная книга, которая заставляет нас задуматься о киноискусстве и предлагает взглянуть изнутри на процесс создания фильма. Это размышление о прошлом и настоящем Америки, о мире шоу-бизнеса и реальном мире, в котором мы живем