Corgi book Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial Сингх Саймон, Ernst Edzard

How do you tell someone what it's like to kill a man hand to hand, run a bayonet through his guts, or shoot a sniper in the face who turns out to be a woman? How do you explain the nine-year-old boy who throws a grenade and kills your best friend? How do you tell them what it's like? Or about the sunsets on the mountains or the green of Viet Nam, or the sounds and the smells, and the people, and the girl who can't even say your name, but you know you love her. There was nothing any of them could say. So most of them rode home in silence • For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column for Americans from the front, before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her, and for the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again

Саймон Майо: Итч • Познакомьтесь с Итчем - случайным героем, подверженным несчастным случаям. Наука - его оружие. Элементы - это его приспособления. Приключенческий боевик, идеально подходящий для поклонников Алекса Райдера и молодого Бонда • Итчингему Лофту, известному как Итч, четырнадцать лет, и он любит науку, особенно химию. Он также охотник за элементами: он собирает все элементы периодической таблицы Менделеева. Что приводит к некоторым интересным и довольно разрушительным результатам в его спальне • Затем Итч делает открытие. Новый элемент, невиданный ранее. Сначала никто ему не верит, но вскоре кто-то слышит о странном новом камне и хочет заполучить его для себя. И Итч со своей семьей отправляются в захватывающее дух приключение с ужасающе высокими ставками… • Дебютный роман радиоведущего Би-би-си Саймона Майо

On the eve of Sarah Whitfield's 75th birthday, she stands at the window of her chateau in France, waiting for her family to join her. Her memories take her back to the 1930s in New York, to her early marriage and subsequent shameful divorce. She is persuaded by her parents to join them on a trip abroad in the growing turmoil of pre-war Europe • There she meets Wiliam, Duke of Whitfield. Older than Sarah, and fourteenth in line to the British throne, he sparks her intellectual curiosity and makes her laugh. They make their home in a beautiful crumbling French chateau until they are parted by the war. Afterwards they are able to return to the chateau and establish the jewel collection which leads to the House of Whitfield, jewellers to the crowned heads of all Europe

On a freezing winter's night, a small craft skims the Thames towards London's most exclusive riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain's most powerful new politican • In a nation threatened by extremists, billionaire businessman Vernon Rolt's plans for a zero-tolerance crackdown have touched a popular nerve • MI5 operative Tom Buckingham is undercover inside Rolt's organisation, from where he must neutralise the rogue assassins out to kill his boss • All too soon, Tom gets caught up in a far more devastating plot which will change the political landscape of Europe, for ever

On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow, a star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend. But today Coop Winslow is in for a surprise - he's broke. With no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home • His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy O'Connor, have problems of their own. Mark's wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But then Mark's teenage son and daughter move in - and everything changes. Music blasts from every corner, young starlets stream in and out, a scandal erupts and, unexpectedly, three men who never met are becoming friends

For readers of War Doctor and Educated, a doctor's story of grit and resilience, from the war torn streets of Kabul to saving lives around the world • Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometimes ten to a room without basic sanitation or access to education. After he contracted tuberculosis, his first-hand experience of the power of medicine inspired Waheed to dedicate his life to healing others. But how does a boy with nothing hope to become a doctor? Waheed largely taught himself, from textbooks bought from street-sellers, and learned English from the BBC World Service. Smuggled to the UK at fifteen with just $100 in his pocket, he was advised to set his sights on becoming a taxi driver

Horrible histories for adults, these gruesome, bizarre and often hilarious medical case histories trace the evolution of modern medicine and the astonishing resilience of human life, both in body and spirit! • · A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions • · A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick • · A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from virtually every orifice • These are just a few of the anecdotal gems that have until now lain undiscovered in medical journals for centuries. This fascinating collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest cases that have perplexed doctors across the world • From seventeenth-century Holland to Tsarist Russia, from rural Canada to a whaler in the Pacific, many are monuments to human stupidity - such as the sailor who swallowed dozens of penknives to amuse his shipmates, or the chemistry student who in 1850 arrived at a hospital in New York with his penis trapped inside a bottle, having unwisely decided to relieve himself into a vessel containing highly reactive potassium

Взрывающиеся стрелы и захватывающие элементы - присоединяйтесь к Итчу, Джеку и Хлое в книге Саймона Майо "Итчкрафт" • Итчингему Лофту, подростку-охотнику за стихиями и маловероятному герою, впечатлений хватило бы на всю жизнь. Наткнуться на неизвестный радиоактивный элемент и попытаться уберечь его от попадания в руки тех, кто хочет использовать его в своих целях, было достаточно сложно. Но когда школьная поездка в Испанию заканчивается взрывом валюты и бунтами местных жителей, он понимает, что должен продолжать искать ответы • Зуд знает, что жизни самых близких ему людей находятся в опасности. Он должен выследить смертельного врага, который не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы отомстить • Книга на английском языке • Exploding euros and exciting elements - join Itch, Jack and Chloe on their latest adventure

Since his first book was published in 2012, The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able, or will ever be able, to do. Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars, and five years on, he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start, The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour. And it isn't going to stay on tour any more. From Marbella and Ibiza to Dubai and Las Vegas, The Secret Footballer lays bare the worst, most embarrassing and most hilarious excesses of these fit and mostly fickle young men whose million-pound salaries, to use his own words, 'open up a host of recreational opportunities'

Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband and two children. Around her people are disappearing but her own family is safe. But she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion and betrayal, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism - and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice

The spellbinding novel from the world's favourite storyteller • Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society. But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her world forever • Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle throws herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor and igniting a passion for medicine that will shape the course of her life. But a seemingly idyllic marriage brings more grief, and pursued by a scandal Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France. There she finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines • When the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris - now a doctor and mother, her past almost forgotten

I work alone • I may be the best thief in the world but no one will ever know a single thing about me. Well, almost no one • A lifetime ago I had a mentor, Angela. She taught me how to be a criminal, how to run a heist • And now, six years after she vanished and left me high and dry on a job in Kuala Lumpur, she’s sent me an SOS • Or at least I think it’s her. If it is, then I've got to go. I owe her that much • So soon I'll be on a plane to Macau, either to see a friend or walk into a trap. Or both • But that's the way I like it. Sometimes the only thing that makes me happy is risking my life • Time to go