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Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city – from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between – to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them

Археолог, разведчица, арабист, лингвист, писательница, поэтесса, фотограф, альпинистка и созидательница нации, Гертруда Белл родилась в 1868 году в мире привилегий и изобилия, но она отвернулась от всего этого из-за своей страсти к арабским народам, став архитектором независимого королевства Ирак и увидев, как оно меняется. его первый король Фейсал благополучно взошел на трон в 1921 году. "Королева пустыни. Необыкновенная жизнь Гертруды Белл", написанная Джорджиной Хауэлл - это ее история, живо рассказанная и безупречно исследованная, основанная на собственных трудах Гертруды, как опубликованных, так и неопубликованных • Книга на английском языке • Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921

From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of The Bells of Bournville Green, comes Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, another gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate • September 1940, Birmingham • While her husband and daughter work at the Cadbury's Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her hands full at home with her other daughter, Sheila, newly returned home with baby Elaine. With Sheila's husband away doing his bit in the RAF, Ann knows she should be grateful to have all her children safe under one roof. But she can't help but fear for their uncertain future as bombs fall ever closer to her Birmingham home. Part of her yearns for the carefree days of her youth when she also worked the line at Cadburys, filling trays of chocolate shells

Paths of the Dead is the thrilling ninth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod • When Amy MacKenzie agrees to attend a meeting at a local spiritualist church, the last person she expects to hear calling to her from beyond the grave is her son. The son whom she'd only spoken to an hour before • Then the body of a young man is found inside a Neolithic stone circle high above the city of Glasgow and forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is soon on the case. The hands have been severed and there is a stone in the victim's mouth with the number five scratched on it. DI Michael McNab is certain it's a gangland murder, but Rhona isn't convinced • When a second body is found in similar circumstances, a pattern begins to emerge, of a killer intent on masterminding a gruesome Druidic game that everyone will be forced to play

В книге “Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess” Аманда Оуэн рассказывает нам самые разнообразные истории из своей сельской жизни. Мы узнаем о том, как они с семьей отчаянно пытались найти пропавшего теленка; о том, как ее нижнее белье утащили городские ласточки, чтобы обустроить свое гнездо; а также о том, как одна суровая зима чуть не заставила ее сдаться. И вот во всей этой суматохе ее внимание привлекает один интересный проект… • Свою ферму они арендуют, и как только соседский дом выставляют на продажу, Аманда решает воспользоваться возможностью и купить его – все ради детей. Дом старый и требует ремонта, а денег у них мало, поэтому Аманда решает сама взяться за работу. В этом ей поможет путешествующий монах, сантехник и ее муж Клайв. Стоит сказать, что все идет не по плану! • Аманда Оуэн наслаждается жизнью на ферме со своим мужем Клайвом и девятью детьми

Глазго, 1932-й год. Когда зятя одного из богатейших кораблестроителей города находят в реке Клайд с перерезанным горлом, расследование его убийства поручают инспектору Джимми Дрегхорну. Даже несмотря на сложные отношения, связывающие его и Ислу Локхарт, вдову жертвы • Чтобы понять, кто и почему желал убитому смерти, Дрегхорну и его напарнику, Арчи МакДэйду по прозвищу Бонни, придётся погрузиться в мрачные тайны города, сталкиваясь и с его скорым на расправу преступным миром, и с вероломством высших эшелонов общества Глазго • А тем временем жестокий убийца оставляет за собой след из трупов. Дело становится всё запутаннее, и напрашивается вопрос: получится ли у Дрегхорна поймать преступника? Или же он даже не доживёт до конца расследования? • Откройте для себя мрачный криминальный роман Робби Моррисона, действие которого разворачивается в Глазго образца 1932-го года - городе, который так и не оправился после Первой мировой войны и который разрывают на части банды и религиозные разногласия

Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide, until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak... American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific... English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism... Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come

Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War • A Fight Against Injustice • 1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights movement, boards a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against segregation • A Rising Tide of Danger • In East Germany, teacher Rebecca Hoffmann finds her entire life has been a lie as she is targeted by the secret police, even as her younger brother, Walli, dreams of escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain

This updated edition contains the account of Alex's El Capitan climb, which is the subject of the Oscar and BAFTA winning documentary, Free Solo • Alex Honnold is one of the world's best 'free solo' climbers, he scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. Exhilarating, brilliant and dangerous, there is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but also impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed themselves as far, 'free soloing' to the absolute limit of human capabilities • Half of them are dead • From Yosemite's famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall explores Alex's seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far

The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women • A World in Chaos • 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger • A Terrible War • Billy’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret George, Emperor Nero: The Splendour Before The Dark is the stunning conclusion to Nero's story • With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus commands the Roman Empire, ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendour. Although he has yet to produce an heir, his power is absolute • But in the tenth year of his reign, a terrifying prophecy comes to pass and a fire engulfs Rome, reducing entire swaths of the city to rubble. Rumours of Nero's complicity in the blaze start to sow unrest among the populace - and the politicians • For better or worse, Nero knows that his fate is now tied to Rome's - and he vows to rebuild it as a city that will stun the world. But there are those who find his rampant quest for glory dangerous