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"Томми. Британский солдат на Западном фронте" - это история Первой мировой войны, в которой центральное место занимает британский солдат, сражавшийся в окопах, эта превосходная и важная книга рассказывает историю эпической и ужасной войны через письма, дневники и воспоминания тех, кто в ней участвовал • Из шести миллионов человек, служивших в британской армии, почти миллион погиб и более двух миллионов были ранены. Это история этих мужчин, воплощенная в образе сержанта Томми Аткинса, и женщин, которых они оставили позади • Используя ранее не публиковавшиеся письма, дневники, мемуары и поэзию 1914-1918 годов, Ричард Холмс рисует трогательную картину поколения, которое сражалось и погибло в грязи Фландрии. Он следит за мужчинами, чье психическое здоровье было навсегда подорвано контузией, за женщинами, потерявшими мужей и братьев в один и тот же день, и за теми, кто писал в обеденный перерыв и умер до чая

Учиться считать не составит труда – особенно с книжкой Lowly Worm’s 123 от всемирно известного Ричарда Скарри и червячком Лоули! • Эта веселая книжка познакомит самых маленьких детей с основами счета. Красочные иллюстрации и интересные детали обязательно привлекут внимание малыша • Книга на английском языке • Learning your numbers is as easy as 1,2,3 with Richard Scarry and Lowly Worm! • Join Lowly Worm and count your way through this brand-new, fun-packed book! • Richard Scarry’s busy world is brimming with colour and detail, and has been loved by children all over the world for more than 50 years • These delightful board books are perfect for small hands learning to count for the first time

Изучайте азбуку вместе с червячком Лоули! • Lowly Worm’s ABC – это увлекательная азбука от всемирно известного детского писателя Ричарда Скарри, которая станет идеальным подарком для малышей, которые только приступили к изучению алфавита • Книга на английском языке • Learn your ABC from apple to car with Richard Scarry and Lowly Worm! • Join Lowly Worm and learn your ABC with this brand-new, fun-packed book! • Richard Scarry’s busy world is brimming with colour and detail, and has been loved by children all over the world for more than 50 years • These delightful board books are perfect for small hands learning their alphabet for the first time

Железный король – Филипп Красивый – холоден и молчалив, красив и немигающий, как статуя. Он управляет своим королевством железной рукой, но не может править собственной семьей: его сыновья слабы, а их жены прелюбодействуют; в то время как его чистокровная дочь Изабелла несчастливо замужем за английским королем, который предпочитает общество мужчин • Паутина скандалов, убийств и интриг сплетается вокруг Железного короля, но его падение произойдет с неожиданной стороны. Одержимый преследованием богатых и могущественных рыцарей-тамплиеров, Филипп приговаривает великого магистра Жака Моле к сожжению на костре, тем самым навлекая на себя проклятие, которое уничтожит всю его династию… • Книга на английском языке • “Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!” • The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue

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The record-holding two-time NBA champion and recently inducted hall-of-famer reflects on his work ethic, his on-the-court friendships and rivalries, the great teams he's played for, and what it takes to have a long and successful career in this thoughtful, in-depth memoir • Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and entered the record books as the original king of the three-point shot. Known as one of the hardest-working and highest-achieving players in NBA history, this most dedicated competitor was legendary for his sharp shooting. From the Outside, complete with a foreword by Spike Lee, is his story in his words: a no-holds-barred look at his life and career, filled with behind-the-scenes stories and surprising revelations about the game he has always cherished

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir—an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches • What drives a person to the edge of one of the most difficult and revered mountains in the world? How much is one willing to sacrifice and suffer to pursue an authentic and bold life? The most accomplished mountain runner of all time, Kilian Jornet ponders these questions as he contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest, exploring the mountain’s changing nature over four seasons and his own existence • As he recounts a life spent studying, tending, and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in nature—simplicity, freedom, and spiritual joy—and offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain

The classic story of everyone's favourite bear, Paddington • Now available in board book format - perfect for tiny paws! Paddington Bear first met the Brown family at a railway station - Paddington Station, in fact • He had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru with only a jar of marmalade, a suitcase and a label reading `Please look after this bear' • Without further ado, Mr and Mrs Brown welcomed the adventurous bear into their family, and in honour of their meeting place they named him Paddington. The Browns soon discover that Paddington is a most unusual bear, for ordinary things - like having a bath - become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is around!

The moving, funny, thrilling and adventured-filled new novel for readers of 10 and up from bestselling author Ross Welford • When twelve-year-olds Willa and Manny hear of a mysterious animal prowling their town, they are determined to prove it is real. Following the creature into a cave one full moon, they are swept into an alternate, ideal, world – one where pollution and conflict have been conquered decades ago and even their own families seem happier • But when they return, no one believes them. So, with a global war looming in their own world, their quest for proof of the Sideways World becomes ever-more urgent, in a nail-biting race against time • And Willa and Manny will have to make an impossible decision: because once you find a perfect world, can you ever leave it behind . . .?

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement • The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery – astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical – that together made up the ‘age of wonder’ • In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period’s celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner’s lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration

An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times • In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning science writer Richard Fortey chronicles life’s history not through the fossil record, but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, through geological time • Fortey takes us on a journey to ancient worlds: on a moonlit beach in Delaware where the horseshoe crab shuffles its way through a violent romance, we catch a glimpse of life 450 million years ago. Along a stretch of Australian coastline, we bear witness to the sights and sounds that would have greeted a Precambrian dawn. And, in the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the secretive velvet worm burrows into the rotting timber of the jungle floor, we marvel at a living fossil which has survived unchanged since before the break-up of Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent, over 150 million years ago

Кот в шляпе развлекается, прыгая по цифрам! Вокруг него – удивительные существа, непонятные предметы и… наклейки! С этой книгой читатель быстро увидит, как же легко на самом деле считать от 1 до 10, и дальше! • Серия «Learn With Dr. Seuss» издательства HarperCollins включает издания, которые в лучших традициях Доктора Сьюза объединяют познание с развлечениями. Яркие персонажи и забористая рифма знакомят юного читателя со счётом и языком, помогая развить в нём навыки, необходимые для обучения в школе • Книжка-активити «Oh, the Things You Can Count From 1-10» культового американского писателя Доктора Сьюза станет отличным подарком для детей • Книга на английском языке • Learn how to count with The Cat in the Hat in this fun-filled learning activity book, complete with stickers! • Come and join the Cat in the Hat and have lots of fun with counting! With numbers to draw and easy-to-follow counting - and loads of stickers - you'll soon be on your way to counting to 10, and beyond! • The Learn With Dr