Bloomsbury Alex's Adventures in Numberland Беллос Алекс

Разглядывание математических узоров доставляло удовольствие людям еще во времена философов Древней Греции и живописцев эпохи Возрождения. Они используются и в мусульманских орнаментах, и в индуистских мандалах. А теперь и Алекс Беллос, автор бестселлера «Красота в квадрате», приглашает вас в умиротворяющее и яркое путешествие в волшебный мир математики. Книга «Снежинка. Ракушка. Звезда» полна сложных и божественно красивых иллюстраций, в которых используются узоры из петель, волн и спиралей, созданные Алексом Беллосом и его другом — художником и математиком Эдмундом Харрисом. Она дает вам возможность развить свой художественный талант и насладиться эстетическим и концептуальным совершенством математики. При помощи 80 замечательных иллюстраций Алекс научит вас передавать волшебство математики в цвете и форме

An irresistible bind-up edition of two fabulously fun, wonderfully witty adventure mysteries, from the bestselling author of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, and with amazing illustrations by Kate Hindley throughout • Popcorn Pirates • The greediest gang of grub-guzzling pirates ever to sail the high seas is after the Popcorn Islands' harvest. Can Lucy, Hermione and Sam stop them? • The Bubblegum Tree • The secret ingredient for Gopal's Best Pink Bubblegum has not been delivered for two months. Billy, Nicola and Mr Gopal are off to the jungle in a flying boat to solve the baffling mystery

What happens when the miller's son meets Puss in Boots? Find out with this exciting activity book, bursting with colourful stickers and scenes from the story. Bloomsbury Activity Books provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book includes enchanting, bright and beautiful illustrations which children and parents will find very hard to resist. Perfect for providing entertainment at home or on the move!

For centuries hummingbirds have captured our imaginations: revered by Native Americans, coveted by European collectors and admired worldwide for their jewel-like plumage, acrobatic flight and immense character • Though their renown extends throughout the world, hummingbirds are found exclusively in the Americas. Small in stature yet fiercely tenacious, they have conquered every habitat imaginable: from boreal woodlands to deserts, mangrove swamps to volcanic slopes, and on islands both tropical and sub-polar. The Glitter in the Green takes us on an unforgettable journey in search of the most remarkable examples of this wildly variable family. There's the Bee Hummingbird in Cuba, the smallest species of bird to have ever lived; the diminutive Rufous Hummingbird, whose annual migration exceeds 3,000 miles; and the critically endangered Juan Fernandez Firecrown, marooned on the remote Pacific island that inspired Robinson Crusoe

London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. And the Pirate Captain - his disguise proving something of a letdown - finds himself incarcerated in Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity. Discovering that his doppelganger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his crew are unwittingly caught up in a sinister plot to discredit the communists. From the gloomy streets of Soho to the leafy boulevards of Paris, The pirates! In an Adventure with Communists is a story of intellectual giants, enormous beards, volcanoes and valkyries, doubloons and dancing girls, and a quest to discover whether ham really might be the opium of the people

To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, lost in a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart, and where the Dean's own heart is hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice

Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again

The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read – a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce • It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock – the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives – is thrown out onto the street • Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak • But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother – long believed to be dead – may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East

W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile • The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work

Том всё ещё пуглив и тих, хотя со дня смерти отца прошло почти два года • У Зофии всё наоборот: внутри неё бушует шторм, вызывающий желание бороться со всем миром за то, чего она хочет • А сейчас она больше всего хочет, чтобы этот унылый Том убрался из её жизни. Том отвечает шумной, непредсказуемой Зофии такой же ненавистью, но вынужден переехать жить в её дом, потому что их родители встречаются… и ждут ребёнка • Оба – и Том, и Зофия, – хотели бы, чтобы этого ребёнка никогда не было. Но затем мать Тома заболевает, и начинает казаться, что их общее желание может исполниться • Катя Бейлен, обладательница Медали Карнеги, представляет жизнеутверждающую историю о соединяющихся семьях, о том, как научиться доверять, отпускать и отправляться навстречу неизвестности с надеждой в сердце

Том всё ещё пуглив и тих, хотя со дня смерти отца прошло почти два года • У Зофии всё наоборот: внутри неё бушует шторм, вызывающий желание бороться со всем миром за то, чего она хочет • А сейчас она больше всего хочет, чтобы этот унылый Том убрался из её жизни. Том отвечает шумной, непредсказуемой Зофии такой же ненавистью, но вынужден переехать жить в её дом, потому что их родители встречаются… и ждут ребёнка • Оба – и Том, и Зофия, – хотели бы, чтобы этого ребёнка никогда не было. Но затем мать Тома заболевает, и начинает казаться, что их общее желание может исполниться • Катя Бейлен, обладательница Медали Карнеги, представляет жизнеутверждающую историю о соединяющихся семьях, о том, как научиться доверять, отпускать и отправляться навстречу неизвестности с надеждой в сердце

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • Prepare to enter the most dramatic conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a spine-tingling, heart-stopping adventure. We witness the Second World War first-hand through the eyes of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, from the women who worked all night in factories to the chess players who cracked unbreakable codes. Because in total war, no life is left untouched • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened