Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. With a new foreword and previously unseen images, this new edition delves even deeper into the life and legacy of this eternally alluring woman • Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor - she conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, best-selling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time - but she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture • While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker
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Задумывались ли вы когда-нибудь, что на самом деле происходит днем, когда ваши драгоценные маленькие ангелы в школе? • В этой книге Ли Паркинсон и Адам Паркинсон отправят вас в невероятно забавное путешествие по странному и удивительному миру начальной школы. В нем также будет рассмотрено давление современного преподавания, и будет показано, что именно требуется, чтобы еженедельно бороться с хаотичным классом (или семью классами). От абсолютных персонажей, обнаруженных в учительской, до неудач в школьной поездке и всего остального, что связано с этим, "Положите на него влажное бумажное полотенце. Странный и удивительный мир начальной школы" - обязательное чтение как для учителей, так и для родителей • Книга на английском языке • A heart-warming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK education podcast, Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast)
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Самая сложная позиция в футболе? Быть вратарем. Это то, что они говорят, верно? Вы, должно быть, сумасшедший, если стоите между этими стойками и отбиваете удары и кроссы на протяжении всей игры • Невилл Саутхолл должен знать. Он был вратарем одной из лучших команд 1980-х годов и стал иконой игры за свою 20-летнюю карьеру в "Стикс". Какие шрамы остались в конце его долгой карьеры – пребывания на этом посту, которое сопровождалось как завоеванием трофеев, так и поражениями в матчах, совершением ошибок и ощущением всей тяжести клуба и страны на своих плечах • В этой уникальной книге один из величайших культовых игроков футбола размышляет о трудностях современной игры, о том, как в ней отражаются некоторые проблемы общества, и опирается на опыт, чтобы преодолеть одно из последних оставшихся табу: психическое здоровье
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Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive religion and learning in his kingdom, this life is among the earliest surviving royal biographies. It is an admiring account of King Alfred's life, written in absorbing detail - chronicling his battles against Viking invaders and his struggle to increase the strength and knowledge of his people, and to unite his people at a time of conflict, uncertainty and war
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This unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of New York life produced a scandal when it was published in 1893. Crane's novel tells the story of Maggie Johnson, a young woman who, seduced by her brother's friend and then disowned by her family, turns to prostitution. More than the tale of a young woman's tragic fall, this is a powerful exploration of the destructive forces underlying urban society and human nature. Also included here is 'George's Mother', along with eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896
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Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar • The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era • Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall – has left a comet's tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists
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For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year – once in August and again in January. These are the months when the transfer window dominates thoughts, when the prospect of a new signing or two reinvigorates the hopes and dreams of the hopelessly devoted • Nige Tassell goes behind the scenes to observe the workings of the transfer window and to examine why it continues to hold such fascination for a nation of football lovers. He speaks to players, managers, chairmen, agents, scouts, analysts, fans, journalists, broadcasters and even bookmakers to hear how they survive – and possibly prosper from – these red-letter months in the football calendar. Completely up to date to include key action from the 2018/19 transfer window
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Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. But when Inner Horner suddenly shrinks, forcing three-quarters of the citizen in residence over the border into Outer Horner territory, the Outer Hornerites declare an Invasion in Progress, having fallen under the spell of the power-hungry and demagogic Phil. So begins his brief and very frightening reign • A surreal and incisive satire by the Booker Prize-winning author whose work illuminates the strangest and most darkly funny corners of our reality
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‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’ • John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age • In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence • Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries
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Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park on a diamond collar • In early twentieth century society, where women were expected to be demure and obedient, Enid Lindeman gallivanted through life accumulating four husbands and numerous lovers, her high-jinks dominating British gossip columns during the inter-war years • She drove an ambulance in World War I and hid escaped Allied airmen behind enemy lines in World War II, played bridge with Somerset Maugham and entertained Hollywood royalty in the world’s most expensive private home on the Riviera, allegedly won in a game of cards. Enid bedazzled men with her beauty, outlived four husbands-two shipping magnates, a war hero and a larger-than-life Irish Earl-spent two great fortunes and earned the nickname ‘Lady Killmore’
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Это был самый необыкновенный год. В книге "Создание поэзии. Кольридж, Вордсворты и их Год чудес", наполненной поэзией и описанием природы, биографией и приключениями, Адам Николсон идет по стопам Кольриджа, Вордсворта и его сестры Дороти в те месяцы конца 1790-х годов, которые они провели вместе в Куанток-Хиллз • Из него вышли "Древний мореход", "Кубла Хан", лирические баллады и "Аббатство Тинтерн"; непревзойденные гимны Кольриджа дружбе и отцовству; революционные стихи Вордсворта и гимны единству души и космоса, любви и взаимопониманию. Это поэзия, которая стремилась переделать 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
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According to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? The Growth Delusion explores how we prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. So much of what is important to our well-being, from safe streets to sound minds, lies outside the purview of statistics. In a book that is both thought provoking and entertaining, David Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies, and proposes different criteria for measuring our success
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