Mudlark Under Pressure. Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine Humphreys Richard

Невероятные мемуары одного из самых выдающихся кардиохирургов мира, в которых он вспоминает некоторые из самых замечательных и острых случаев, над которыми он работал • Кардиохирургия - занятие не для слабонервных • Профессор Стивен Вестаби рискнул и раздвинул границы кардиохирургии. За свою тридцатипятилетнюю карьеру он спас сотни жизней, и теперь в своих поразительных мемуарах Уэстэби подробно описывает некоторые из своих самых замечательных и трогательных случаев - таких, как ребенок, перенесший множественные сердечные приступы в возрасте шести месяцев, женщина, пережившая кошмар синдрома замкнутости, и человек, чья жизнь в течение восьми лет питалась от батареи • Мощная, важная и невероятно трогательная книга "Хрупкие жизни" предлагает исключительное представление о волнующем, а иногда и трагическом мире кардиохирургии и о том, каково это - держать чью-то жизнь в своих руках

Истеричные, шокирующие и невероятно интимные мемуары одного из самых оригинальных и неповторимых комиков, живущих сегодня • Привет! Я Брайан Лаймонд, он же Лимми. Возможно, вы знаете меня по шоу Лимми. Или, возможно, вы меня вообще не знаете. Не волнуйтесь, если вы этого не сделаете • Они попросили меня написать книгу о психическом здоровье, потому что я иногда рассказываю о своем психическом здоровье в твитах и интервью, например, о мыслях о самоубийстве и тревоге, и о том, что я сделал, чтобы попытаться справиться с этим • Я сказал им: "О, я не знаю, смог бы я заполнить этим целую книгу". Но как насчет того, чтобы я написал что-то вроде общей автобиографии, и вся информация о психическом здоровье естественным образом появится по ходу дела? Я мог бы рассказать о том, как рос, и порезал себе запястье, и постоянно принимал кислоту, и сидел за угон машины, и чувствовал себя сумасшедшим уродом, который никогда ни к чему не приведет

Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war • Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece

The transformative mind-model for performing under stress and making pressure your advantage • Used by the planet's top performers • In Performance Under Pressure, forensic psychiatrist Dr Ceri Evans gives you the tools to take control of the moment • Beat doubt, worry, regret and burnout with simple mind techniques and discover the secret of how to be 'comfortable being uncomfortable' • No one is immune to pressure. We all fall victim to its effects in the same ways. But pressure is misunderstood. Pressure can be your greatest ally in leading a fulfilling and successful life. The more discomfort there is in a situation, the better it is for those who have prepared • In this, his very first book, Dr Ceri Evans shares the life-changing methods he uses with some of the planet's top performers

One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical • Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish

A collection of poetic reflections on life and death. Ranging from musings on youth and age, and elegies on bereavement and grief to meditations on the nature of mortality, these are poems that explore our precious time on this earth and perhaps even offer some comfort for those seeking consolation

For those hoping to improve their work/life balance, this book offers the perfect mix of clear advice and practical suggestions to help you work out your priorities, reduce your stress levels, and identify the positive steps that can make your life easier • If you feel overwhelmed by the constant juggling of different areas of your life, this book can help. There's so much pressure on many people today to succeed at work that sometimes 'real life' tends to take a backseat. With the rise in flexible working and increased options to work from home, the boundaries can become even more blurred, and your relationships with friends, family, partner, and children can all suffer as you try to cram everything into a normal day • Whether you want to reevaluate and improve your current situation, or opt for a complete change of scene with a career break, Balance Your Life and Work will help you to make all the right moves

In this award-winning collection of cycling tales, Wilfried de Jong uncovers the true soul of cycling – why we do it, why we watch it, why we hate it, why we love it – stripped bare • With his distinctly comic and melancholic charm Wilfried ponders life, love and death on his trusted bike, chasing the essence of our existence against the backdrop of major cycling events or while roaming alone in nature • Whether he is describing being ejected from Paris-Roubaix, a terminal incident with a bird while out riding, or explaining why he is standing stark naked on Belgian cobbles with a tyre in his hand, Wilfried unlocks a sport that involves so much pain, punishment, and a high probability of failure, but that will always liberate and inspire us

Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologies. Nazism and Communism are appallingly similar, ‘two poles of one magnet’, as a German camp commander tells a shocked old Bolshevik prisoner. At the height of the battle Russian soldiers and citizens alike are at last able to speak out as they choose, and without reprisal – an unexpected and short-lived moment of freedom. Grossman himself was on the front line as a war correspondent at Stalingrad – hence his gripping battle scenes, though these are more than matched by the drama of the individual conscience struggling against massive pressure to submit to the State

The United States asserts the right to use military force against ‘failed states’ around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours • Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, Chomsky shows how this lone superpower – which topples foreign governments, invades states that threaten its interests and imposes sanctions on regimes it opposes – has stretched its own democratic institutions to breaking point. And how an America in crisis places the world ever closer to the brink of nuclear and environmental disaster

Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life • In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and close to home • Journeys to Impossible Places continues the story Simon started in his phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Step by Step, which traced the first decades of his life from depressed and unemployed teenager through to his early TV programmes • Now Simon takes us on the epic and thrilling adventures that followed, in beautiful, tricky and downright dangerous corners of the world, as he travelled through the Tropics, to remote paradise islands, jungles dripping with heat and life, and on nerve-wracking secret missions

Delve into this impressive reference book on the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti - sculptor, painter, architect and poet • Including a fascinating exploration of the artist's life, his role in the Italian Renaissance and the influence he had on European art • Beautifully illustrated with 500 outstanding reproductions and photographs