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Бобби Джонс ужасно играет в гольф. Когда его мяч улетает с обрыва, он слышит чей-то крик. Мяч потерялся, а на скалах внизу лежит умирающий человек. Перед самой смертью он успевает открыть глаза и произнести всего одну фразу: «Почему же они не попросили Эванса?» • Вместе со своей подругой Фрэнки Бобби решается разгадать тайну последних слов умершего. Это навлекает на них смертельную опасность… • «Почему не Эванс?» – это детективный роман Агаты Кристи. По его мотивам было снято несколько сериалов • Книга на английском языке • While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and, with his last breath, says, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' • Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will plunge them into mortal danger

Когда мужчина срывается со скалы, два предприимчивых молодых друга решают найти его убийцу… • Во время беспорядочной игры в гольф Бобби Джонс перебрасывает свой мяч через край обрыва. Его мяч потерян, но на камнях внизу он находит скрюченное тело умирающего человека. С последним вздохом мужчина открывает глаза и говорит: "Почему они не спросили Эванса?" • Преследуемые этими словами, Бобби и его жизнерадостный спутник Фрэнки отправляются разгадывать тайну, которая подвергнет их смертельной опасности… • Книга на английском языке • When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killer… • While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man

A charming and nostalgic read, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love stories set in wartime • They are digging for victory on the nation's favourite street • Vera Sharples longs for independence from her interfering mother, Coronation Street's tyrant in a hairnet, Ena Sharples • Vera's friend, Lily Longhurst, has found herself on the wrong side of a doomed romance and decides it's high time she and Vera took their lives into their own hands • The girls sign up for the Land Army and are sent to Kent, where life is very different from the familiar cobbles they know so well. Expected to work from daybreak until sunset, the routine and the constant air raids come as a shock • Even as the girls comes to grips with the country at war, back home Ena can't stop meddling

Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote • She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump's election was soundtracked by chants of "Build that wall" • She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdogan rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists • How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, identifies the early-warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South America, in order to define a global pattern, and arm the reader with the tools to root it out

Alex Ross’s sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution • The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the ‘New Yorker’, explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Bjork, pre-First World War Vienna to ‘Nixon in China’ • Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change

In this newly revised and updated edition, unlock the secrets of your dreamlife with the most comprehensive A-Z reference book on dream interpretation you'll ever find • Have you ever wondered what your dreams are trying to tell you? Now you can finally find out • Packed with fascinating information, The Dream Dictionary from A to Z is an extensive collection of the symbols that appear in your dreams and how to interpret what they mean for you • Dreams are universal, and every culture throughout history has tried to unlock the secrets of the unconscious mind through the interpretation of dreams. Understanding the unique meanings of dream symbols can help in the way you experience your waking everyday lives and even foretell the future • Designed to be kept right near your bed, The Dream Dictionary is organised from A to Z, so you can easily look up instant answers about the people, places, and ideas that you dreamed the night before

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics • From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers sought to cure humanity of greed and vice with their proposal of living simply. They guaranteed happiness to their adherents through freedom of speech, poverty, self-sufficiency and physical hardiness. In this fascinating and completely new collection of Cynic writing through the centuries, from Diogenes and Hipparchia, to Lucian and the Roman emperor Julian, the history and experiences of the Cynic philosophers are explored to the full

All matter in the universe - including our own bodies - is made of a relatively small number of basic ingredients known as elements. From the lead used in Ancient Roman plumbing to the hydrogen that powers the stars, elements make up everything there is and has ever been • The Periodic Table of the chemical elements is one of the iconic achievements of recent times. This book tells its story, revealing how humankind has struggled to understand the nature and composition of matter. It traces a journey of experiment and discovery, from the dawn of science to the space age, revealing the elements and the individuals who recognized, named, and classified them • Topics include • exploring the nature of matter • defining and discovering the elements • atomic structure and the elements • finding and understanding periodicity • building the PeriodicTable • the search for more elements • Beautifully Illustrated throughout

Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Less than forty years later, the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain’s standing in the Middle East and is often represented as the final throes of British imperialism. However, as this insightful and compelling new book reveals, successive prime ministers have all sought to extend British influence in the Middle East and their actions have often led to a disastrous outcome • While Anthony Eden and Tony Blair are the two most prominent examples of prime ministers whose reputations have been ruined by their interventions in the region, they were not alone in taking significant risks in deploying British forces to the Middle East

Роскошный «Голубой поезд» прибывает в Ниццу. Один из проводников пытается разбудить Рут Кеттеринг, но девушке больше никогда не суждено проснуться. Она была убита и изуродована, и из ее купе пропали драгоценные рубины • Одним из главных подозреваемых становится Дерек, ее муж. Но Эркюль Пуаро не соглашается с этой версией и решает воссоздать ее путешествие в мельчайших деталях… • «Тайна “Голубого поезда”» – это шестой роман Агаты Кристи из цикла произведений об Эркюле Пуаро • По мотивам романа был снят одноименный эпизод сериала «Пуаро Агаты Кристи» • Книга на английском языке • When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition