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In this tie-in to their popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe' podcast, Steven Novella, along with 'Skeptical Rogues' Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella and Evan Bernstein explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies and conspiracy theories (anti-vaccines, homeopathy, UFO sightings, and many more.) They'll help us try to make sense of what seems like an increasingly crazy world using powerful tools like science and philosophy • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is your guide through this maze of modern life. It covers essential critical thinking skills, as well as giving insight into how your brain works and how to avoid common pitfalls in thinking. They discuss the difference between science and pseudoscience, how to recognize common science news tropes, how to discuss conspiracy theories with that crazy colleague of yours, and how to apply all of this to everyday life

Bob Fever has swept the globe, with A Street Cat Named Bob vaulting its way to #7 on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. With rights sold to 27 countries around the globe and a top spot on the British bestseller list for more than a year, this book has been a smashing success around the world. Now, James Bowen and Bob are back in The World According to Bob?a touching and true sequel about one man and the cat that changed his life • As James struggles to adjust to his transformation from street musician to international celebrity, Bob is at his side, providing moments of intelligence, bravery, and humor and opening his human friend's eyes to important truths about friendship, loyalty, trust - and the meaning of happiness

Дуглас, не желающий обниматься, очень рад, что пойдет в Маленькую Школу. Впереди так много дел и так много объятий, которые нужно дарить! • Присоединяйтесь к Дугласу и его друзьям, чтобы послушать новые упоительно интересные истории • На сегодняшний день книги Дэвид Меллинга разошлась тиражом более, чем в 1,6 млн экземпляров и переведены на 26 языков • Книга "Hugless Douglas and the Nature Walk" в подарок для ребенка — это оригинальная история и яркие иллюстрации • Прочитав ее, вы останетесь с очаровательным ощущением того, каково это — быть маленьким ребенком, познающим мир • Книга на английском языке • A board book edition of this bestselling story • Hugless Douglas is very excited to be going to Little School. There is so much to do - and lots of hugs to be given out! • This is the sixth adventure in the hugely popular series, which has sold over 1

А вы знали, что фильм «Побег из Шоушенка» был экранизацией повести Стивена Кинга? Если вы любите кино, не проходите мимо пяти историй короля ужасов, которые легли в основу пяти замечательных фильмов. Эта книга может превратить киноманов в заядлых книгочеев! • Впервые под одной обложкой собраны произведения «Рита Хейуорт, или Побез из Шоушенка», «Сердца в Атлантиде» (одноимённый фильм особенно сильно опирается на новеллу «Низкие люди в жёлтых плащах»), «1408», «Мясорубка» (рассказ, вдохновивший серию фильмов «Давилка») и «Дети кукурузы». Каждое из них предваряет небольшое вступление, написанное автором. Экранизации этих историй известны во всём мире; в них снялись актёры первой величины – от Моргана Фримена и Тима Роббинса в «Побеге из Шоушенка» до Энтони Хопкинса в «Сердцах Атлантиды» и Джона Кьюсака в «1408»

"The day is long, the world is wide, you're young and free." • One hot summer morning, Davie steps boldly out of his front door. The world he enters is very familiar - the little Tyneside town that has always been his home - but as the day passes, it becomes ever more mysterious • A boy has been killed, and Davie thinks he might know who is responsible. He turns away from the gossip and excitement and sets off roaming towards the sunlit hills above the town • As the day goes on, the real and the imaginary start to merge, and Davie knows that neither he nor his world will ever be the same again • This an outstanding novel full of warmth and light, from a multi-award-winning author. David Almond says: 'I guess it embodies my constant astonishment at being alive in this beautiful, weird, extraordinary world

The Bunker Is Designed To Keep Them All Safe • In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe is one of the lucky ones. She's safe and employed as the bunker's pharmacist, doling out medicine under the watchful eye of their increasingly erratic and paranoid leader • But Is It The Place Of Greatest Danger? • But when the leader starts to ask things of Wolfe, favours she can hardly say no to, it seems her luck is running out. Forming an unlikely alliance with the young Doctor Stirling, her troubled assistant Levitt, and Canavan - a tattooed giant of a man who's purpose in the bunker is a mystery - Wolfe must navigate the powder keg of life underground where one misstep will light the fuse

The Bunker is Designed to Keep them All Safe • In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe is one of the lucky ones. She's safe and employed as the bunker's pharmacist, doling out medicine under the watchful eye of their increasingly erratic and paranoid leader • But is it the Place of Greatest Danger? • But when the leader starts to ask things of Wolfe, favours she can hardly say no to, it seems her luck is running out. Forming an unlikely alliance with the young Doctor Stirling, her troubled assistant Levitt, and Canavan - a tattooed giant of a man who's purpose in the bunker is a mystery - Wolfe must navigate the powder keg of life underground where one misstep will light the fuse

The second novel in Jean M. Auel's magnificent epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth • Forced to leave the Clan and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro-Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub • But far to the west, two young Cro-Magnon brothers have begun a journey. One of them is Jondalar, whose destiny is bound inextricably with Ayla's • Jean Auel's imaginative reconstruction of pre-historic life, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual, has become a set text in schools and colleges around the world

The epic conclusion to the fantasy trilogy described as 'Harry Potter meets Lord of the Rings meets Pokemon'. After the thrilling cliffhanger at the end of book two, we rejoin Fletcher and his friends in the ether, where they must undertake a mortally dangerous quest all the while avoiding capture by enemies and facing foes more terrifying than anything they have yet encountered • But this is nothing compared to what truly lies ahead for Fletcher, as his nemesis, albino orc Khan, is on a mission to destroy Hominum and everything and everyone that Fletcher loves • Epic battles, dramatic revelations and breathtaking drama await in the third book in the New York Times bestselling Summoner series

The fourth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! A routine operation for James turns into a much more deadly mission • Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades. When he starts splashing big money around, the cops are desperate to know where it came from • They call in CHERUB, a secret organisation with one essential advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them • James' latest mission looks routine, but the plot he begins to unravel isn't what anyone expected. And the only person who might know the truth is a reclusive eighteen-year-old boy • There's just one problem. The boy fell to his death thirteen months earlier

Jim Carver - a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife dead • Archie Carver - Jim's eldest son, smart, ruthless, he has a quick eye for financial profits and beautiful women • Elaine Frith - seductive and ambitious, she uses her charms to snare the man she thinks will give her wealth • The First World War ends and the soldiers return to the peaceful Avenue. On the surface their homes look just the same but behind the carefully tended front gardens everything has changed and their families' lives in the next twenty years will be as turbulent as any they have known