Danny and the Dinosaur. The Big Sneeze Hoff Syd HarperCollins Publishers

Откройте для себя все о футболе - от законов и тактики до науки и искусства "красивой игры" в книге Дэвида Голблатта и Джонни Актона "Футбольная книга. Команды. правила. Лиги. Тактика". С профилями более чем 65 лучших футбольных стран мира и громкими именами в клубном футболе и других ключевых соревнованиях, это идеальное наглядное руководство по величайшему виду спорта в мире. Книга на английском языке • Discover everything about football - from the laws and tactics to the science and art of the "beautiful game" • With profiles of more than 65 of the world's best footballing nations, and the biggest names in club football and other key competitions, this is the ultimate visual guide to the world's greatest sport • Inside the pages of this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to football, you'll find • - A fresh graphic style that illustrates everything from beach football to block tackles • - Stats and fact boxes that profile players, managers, fans, football trivia, national teams, and clubs • - Special features that highlight great football matches, stadiums, and football culture • - "Top 5" boxes that provide an alternative look at the best and worst of the game • It's a GOAL with The Football Book! From the history of football and the story behind the game to the football World Cup and the delayed Euro 2020 championships, this sports book reveals a fascinating story page after page

Everyone’s favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period • Hedgehog is waiting for his friend Tortoise to wake up. But where is he and when will he wake? • Hedgehog’s friends are all very lovely, but they just aren’t as much fun at the beach, or at hide and seek, or at holding hands, or at hugs • Tortoise begins to stir – the one boulder that Hedgehog didn’t think he could lift to turn • Tortoise has been dreaming of Hedgehog. And the hug that follows is their best yet! • A charming and touching new tale from the creators of the bestselling While We Can’t Hug!

“What’s your dream, son?” • A six year-old boy, head bowed, mumbles the eternal answer: “Be a footballer….” Steadman Scott, football’s most unlikely talent scout, smiles indulgently, and takes him in from the street. He knows the odds. Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro. That’s a success rate of 0.012 per cent • How and why do the favoured few make it? What separates the good from the great? Who should they trust – the coach, the agent or their parents? • Michael Calvin provides the answers on a journey from non-league grounds to hermetically sealed Premier League palaces, via gang-controlled sink estates and the England team’s inner sanctum. He interviews decision makers, behavioural specialists, football agents and leading coaches

When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish • He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more

66 миллионов лет назад динозавры были стерты с лица земли. Сегодня доктор Стив Брусатте, один из ведущих ученых нового поколения охотников на динозавров, вооруженный передовыми технологиями, собирает воедино полную историю о том, как динозавры правили землей в течение 150 миллионов лет • Мир динозавров завораживал в книгах и на экране на протяжении десятилетий - от ранних классиков научной фантастики, таких как "Затерянный мир", до Годзиллы, терроризирующего улицы Токио, и монстров из Парка Юрского периода. Но что, если мы все поняли неправильно? В книге "Взлет и падение динозавров" ведущий эксперт по динозаврам Брусатте рассказывает реальную историю о том, как динозавры стали доминировать на планете. Используя ископаемые останки, собранные с использованием самых современных технологий, Брусатте проследит за этими великолепными существами от их зарождения в раннем триасовом периоде, через юрский период до их последних дней в меловом периоде и за наследием

A timeless parody of Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse • Enter the world of me, Panda, plus my sometime-friends Cat and Teddy. You will find us living our best lives, trying (and occasionally succeeding) to be kind to each other. The cat is quite nice but can be a little bit selfish. Teddy can come across as very nice, with his squeaky voice and looking so tiny and helpless. But I must warn you, Teddy can be a vicious little backstabber, actually • This is a book of nice illustrations and some words from which you will likely gain some sort of inspiration. Like • ‘Just because you’re struggling, it doesn’t mean you’re failing… But it might do.’ • ‘Nothing beats kindness,’ said the cat. ‘Gin does’, said Panda • ‘If you don’t stop saying inspirational things to me, I’m going to punch you up the hooter