Рожденный от отца-немца и матери-русской, Рихард Зорге жил в мире меняющихся союзов и бесконечных возможностей. В годы, предшествовавшие Второй мировой войне, и во время нее он стал фанатичным коммунистом – и самым грозным шпионом Советского Союза • Сочетая обаяние с безжалостным манипулированием, он проник в высшие эшелоны немецкого, китайского и японского общества и оказал на них влияние. Его разведданные сыграли ключевую роль в советском контрнаступлении в битве за Москву, которое, в свою очередь, определило исход самой войны • Опираясь на множество рассекреченных советских архивов, это большая биография одного из величайших шпионов, когда-либо живших на свете • Книга на английском языке • Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility
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Какая самая лучшая книга из всех когда-либо написанных? • Что произошло бы, если бы мы все перестали есть мясо? • Как прожить больше 110 лет? • В книге Роберта Охарда и Маркуса Уэбба "Ответ на все вопросы. 200 инфографик, объясняющих мир" самые интригующие вопросы в мире решены с помощью красивой и блестящей инфографики. Результаты не оставят вас равнодушными! • Книга на английском языке • What's the best book ever written? • What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? • What's the secret to living past 110? • And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread? • In An Answer For Everything, 200 of the world's most intriguing questions are settled once and for all through beautiful and brilliant infographics. The results will leave you shocked, informed and thoroughly entertained
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Germany, 1944 • The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one of Hitler’s last spies in Britain – Catherine Blake, a sleeper planted before the war and awaiting orders • British intelligence also has its orders, and academic Alfred Vicary has been recruited by Churchill himself to carry them out. It is his job to find Catherine and stop her before it is too late • But whose side are his own people on?
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One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea • Staying with Dulcie, Robert's life opens into one of rich food, sea-swimming, sunburn and poetry. The two come from different worlds, yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that will profoundly alter their futures
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England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men – traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone – set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project • Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation – and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold
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The third book in the hilarious Witch Wars series for kids aged 7+, perfect for fans of The Worst Witch • Tiga Whicabim loves her new life in the witchy, glitzy, black and white world of Sinkville. Now, suddenly, colour has started seeping back into Ritzy City – first there was a green apple in the middle of the road, and then Miss Heks reappeared in a garish orange dress. Tiga is very suspicious. But Miss Heks is only the tip of a very witchy iceberg. As Tiga, Peggy and Fluffanora soon discover, all the Big Exit witches are back! And they want to destroy Sinkville once and for all • As Aggie Hoof hides in a cupboard, Tiga, Fluffanora and Peggy race to save Sinkville and end up finding an unlikely ally in Felicity Bat, whose irritatingly excellent witchcraft is exactly what they need
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In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives • Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy • From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs
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Тиллер и Сэйри живут тихой жизнью в Руби Холлер; их дети давно покинули дом, и все спокойно • Но когда они решают усыновить двух детей из местного детского дома, чтобы отправиться в грандиозное приключение, они образуют необычную четверку. А Тиллеру и Сэйри приходится сталкиваться с довольно нетрадиционным поведением со стороны детей, которые не верят, что они когда-нибудь могут быть "желанными" • Книга Шерон Крич "Руби Холлер" - чудесная, волшебная история, которая сочетает в себе причудливый экшн и приключения с семьей, верностью и умением принадлежать • Книга на английском языке • Tiller and Sairy live a quiet life in Ruby Holler; their children have long since left home and things are peaceful • But when they decide to adopt two children from the local orphanage to take on a giant adventure, they form an unlikely foursome
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An elephant firefighter? A traffic cop sloth? • A paramedic chimpanzee? What a catastrophe! • In case of emergency, you'd do best to avoid ALL of these creatures. Find out why in this hilarious picture book filled with the most unlikely rescue attempts • The brilliant new book from the creators of the bestselling You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus and You Can't Let an Elephant Drive a Digger • It's bursting with all sorts of emergency vehicles and crazy creatures. Nee-nar! Nee-nar!
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An eerie, magical thriller from the author of The Wren Hunt, perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and Emily Bain Murphy's The Disappearances • Zara's family moved to Kilshamble for a new beginning. But everything changed the night her sister was found dead on the village green • Two months later, Laila's death is a riddle that nobody wants solved. Where were her injuries? Why was she so obsessed with local folklore? And what does all this have to do with David, the boy who lives at the big house? • As Zara delves deeper into her sister's secret life, she becomes entangled in an ancient magical feud. All too unwittingly she is treading the same dangerous path that led Laila to the village green …
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An unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows Pole • John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family name is mud. When he attempts to trade prejudice and parole officers for the solace of the rural landscape, Mac's bloody downfall threatens John-John's very survival
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An updated edition of this outstanding historical novel, in a stunning new package to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication • When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hanged for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days – paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity, and once more she faces important choices to ensure her survival • With a vividly evoked environment and characters skilfully and patiently drawn, this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees that is utterly engrossing from start to finish
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