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A fascinating expose of the country's most violent murderers and their horrifying crimes, based on years of original research • Pure Evil takes a close look at the country's deadliest criminals, from those who horrified the nation to those less famous but equally brutal, such as Jeremy Bamber, Joanna Dennehy and Ian Huntley • In this shocking, chilling and powerful book Geoffrey Wansell exposes killers' motivations and remorse, but also seeks out an answer to the vital question: should life always mean life? • Having observed lifers over more than twenty years, often up close and very personal, Geoffrey Wansell's Pure Evil reveals more of the criminal mind than has ever before been seen

Задумывались ли вы когда-нибудь, что на самом деле происходит днем, когда ваши драгоценные маленькие ангелы в школе? • В этой книге Ли Паркинсон и Адам Паркинсон отправят вас в невероятно забавное путешествие по странному и удивительному миру начальной школы. В нем также будет рассмотрено давление современного преподавания, и будет показано, что именно требуется, чтобы еженедельно бороться с хаотичным классом (или семью классами). От абсолютных персонажей, обнаруженных в учительской, до неудач в школьной поездке и всего остального, что связано с этим, "Положите на него влажное бумажное полотенце. Странный и удивительный мир начальной школы" - обязательное чтение как для учителей, так и для родителей • Книга на английском языке • A heart-warming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK education podcast, Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast)

Акулы - безжалостные хищники. Они старше деревьев, пережили пять случаев вымирания и необходимы для поддержания сбалансированных океанских экосистем, но много ли мы на самом деле знаем об их жизни? • Первая книга, раскрывающая скрытый мир акул, "Императоры морских глубин" опирается на новейшие научные исследования, позволяющие детально изучить четыре вида - мако, тигровую, молотоголовую и большую белую акулу - как никогда раньше. Ознакомительный тур по местам обитания акул простирается от коралловых рифов Центральной части Тихого океана, где каждую осень таинственным образом собираются большие белые акулы, до того, что исследователи называют фестивалем акул, от тропических мангровых лесов, где детеныши лимонных акул играют социальными группами, и до холодных вод Северной Атлантики, где обитают 400-летние старые гренландские акулы, самые долгоживущие позвоночные в мире

Every Saturday afternoon, 5.8 million people around the world settle down to see how their team will get on • But this isn’t the team they support. It’s THEIR team • They have spent hour after hour assessing injuries, swapping subs and tweaking formations. Because when the day is done and the scores are in, they want to be able to look in the mirror and say, ‘THAT TRIPLE CAPTAIN CALL WAS AN ACT OF GENIUS!’ • Welcome to the obsessive world of Fantasy Football, where managers will do anything to succeed. David Wardale – writer for the UK's number one Fantasy Football site, Fantasy Football Scout – meets previous winners to discover how they beat millions to the crown. He reveals the leagues where failure involves outright humiliation and discovers just how low some managers will go to claim a psychological advantage

Take charge of your menopause and feel great • Dr Louise Newson is the UK's leading menopause specialist, and she's determined to help women thrive during the menopause • Despite being something that almost every woman will experience at some point in their lives, misdiagnosis, misinformation and stigma are commonplace. In Preparing for the Perimenopause and Menopause, Dr Newson will demystify the menopause and show why every woman should be perimenopause aware, regardless of their age • Drawing on new research and empowering patient stories from a diverse range of women who have struggled to secure adequate treatment and correct diagnosis, Dr Newson will equip you with expert advice on • · Common and 'taboo' symptoms to look out for • · HRT treatment options • · Going through an early menopause • · Getting a good night sleep • · Optimising your nutrition in the menopause • · Exercising for a better menopause • · Your mental health during the menopause • Dr Newson empowers women to confidently take charge of their health and their changing bodies

This unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of New York life produced a scandal when it was published in 1893. Crane's novel tells the story of Maggie Johnson, a young woman who, seduced by her brother's friend and then disowned by her family, turns to prostitution. More than the tale of a young woman's tragic fall, this is a powerful exploration of the destructive forces underlying urban society and human nature. Also included here is 'George's Mother', along with eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896

In the small Californian town of Palomo Grove several children are born, the offspring of the Jaff, a man-spirit obsessed with darkness and depravity, and of the Fletcher, a force for light, who has fought the Jaff across America. Their prize is the Art, the greatest power known to mankind, a doorway to the dream-life of the species. To possess it, the two men intend to fight through their children. Until their children fall in love. Then all hell breaks loose. This time, they will fight to the death, gathering their armies from the souls of Palomo Grove. Nightmares will walk the streets. Dreams will be made real. At last, the Grove will see the Great and Secret Show

There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders • Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee’s evolutionary ancestors – flying 100 million years earlier – and today they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt • For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world • With endless surprises, this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig, about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make paper

For those fascinated by neurology and for fans of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a powerful exploration of the mind during night time. Here are the mysteries of sleep, explained – from known conditions to the extreme • World-renowned neurologist and sleep expert, Doctor Guy Leschziner, takes you through various sleep conditions and how they arise and affect people. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors and apnoea are just some of the conditions afflicting those struggling with sleep • Then there are the extreme cases • The people frighten into paralysis by hallucinations. The woman in a state of deep sleep who gets dressed and goes for a drive. The teenager with ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome’, stuck in a cycle of excessive unconsciousness

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy - the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States - leaving her two children behind

Did you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums? • That chickens are capable of complex communication? • That sheep know their own names? • That cows grieve when their calves are taken away from them? • Jeffrey Masson delves deep into the mysterious world of farm animals and reveals just how sophisticated these creatures truly are - capable of joy, sadness, love and friendship - just like us

Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar • The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era • Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall – has left a comet's tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists