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"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. In an extensive new foreword for this edition, Professor Wilson addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and takes a clear-eyed look at the work still to be done

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism • Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough. A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble cause: to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means - or otherwise

В книге "Что такое история?" Э.Х. Карр, автор монументальной книги "История Советской России", доказывает, что он не только один из наших самых выдающихся историков, но и один из самых ценных вкладчиков в историческую теорию • Формулируя ответ на вопрос "Что такое история", Карр утверждает, что "факты" истории - это просто те, на которых историки решили сосредоточиться. Все исторические факты доходят до нас в результате интерпретационного выбора историков под влиянием стандартов их эпохи • Книга на английском языке • 'E.H. Carr, author of the monumental History of Soviet Russia, now proves himself to be not only one of our most distinguished historians but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory' Spectator • In formulating an answer to the question of 'What is History', Carr argues that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have chosen to focus on

'I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend' • Twenty-six year old Lucy Sullivan is living it up (and occasionally down) in London • Hers is a life of quiet, undisciplined desperation. But when she and three friends visit a psychic for a bit of fun and the woman's predictions start coming true, Lucy is horrified • For the fortune teller insisted she'd soon be married - within the year, in fact • Not only does Lucy not have a boyfriend, but the chances of getting one are looking slim. Between the bottles of wine, antidepressants and her addiction to self-help books, she's not quite ready to walk, or even stumble, down the aisle sober • Is Lucy's fate really written in the stars? • Or will she finally take control of her own destiny?

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818-1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист • В сборнике "Ночь вокруг меня" представлены некоторые из ее самых необычных стихотворений • Книга на английском языке • '... ever-present, phantom thing • My slave, my comrade, and my king' • Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe

Your words matter more than you think • Most of us use the language we inherited from a time when workers worked with their hands and managers worked with their heads. Today, your people do much more than simply follow orders. They contribute to performance and solve problems, and it's time we updated our language to reflect that • In Leadership Is Language, former US Navy captain L. David Marquet offers a radical playbook to empower your people and put your team on a path to continuous improvement. The framework will help you achieve the right balance between deliberation and action, and take bold risks without endangering your mission. Among other things, you'll learn • · How to avoid the seven common sins of questioning, from binary questions (should we do A or B?) to self-affirming questions (B is the better option, right?) • · Why you should vote first, then discuss, when deciding on a plan with your team, rather than voting after discussion • · Why it's better to give your people information instead of instructions • As a submarine captain, Marquet used his counterintuitive model of leadership to turn the worst-performing submarine crew into the best-performing one in the fleet, a story he recounted in his bestselling book Turn the Ship Around! Now, in Leadership Is Language, he draws on a wide range of examples, from the 2017 Oscars Best Picture mishap to the tragic sinking of the SS El Faro, to show you exactly how the words you use (and don't use) impact how your people contribute

"Море - мой брат" - самый первый роман Джека Керуака, написанный вскоре после его службы моряком торгового флота в 1942 году. Утраченная при его жизни, она представляет собой яркий портрет дружбы и братства и размышление о желании сбежать от общества, следуя за судьбами двух мужчин, которые импульсивно решают отрабатывать свой проезд на пароходе "Вестминстер": пьют, спорят, играют в карты, уворачиваются от торпед и созерцают необъятную, ужасную красоту о море. Опубликованное вместе с фрагментами ранних рассказов и писем, это интуитивное произведение дает уникальное представление о молодом Керуаке и становлении его гения • Книга на английском языке • The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942

Yip Tolroy and his fiery Mama run the general store in Heron's Creek, Georgia. An uneventful life, until gold is discovered nearby and Yip is caught up in a bloody, grievous crime forcing him to flee. On the run, friendless and alone, he meets Dud Carter a savvy but unlikely companion. Together, they embark on a journey that thrusts them unwittingly into a world of menace and violence, of lust and revenge. And, as Yip and Dud's odyssey takes them further into the unknown - via travelling shows, escaped slaves and the greed of gold-hungry men - the pull of home only gets stronger. But what will they find there if they ever return?

An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge • Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city, got married and had children. But this unexpected visit leaves her doubting the life she's made: wondering what is lost and what has yet to be found

It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one home, but have they found another? • Maureen feeds and looks after them. She has wild red hair and mutters swearwords under her breath when she thinks they can't hear. She claims everything will be okay. But will they ever see their mother again? Who are the couple who secretly visit Jake? Between the street violence and the street parties, Leon must find a way to reunite his family

Секреты могут убивать • Кто-то забивает острого на язык юриста Ричарда Прайса насмерть. На стене за трупом выцарапано число 182 • Что оно означает? И кто появился у его порога за несколько минут до смерти мужчины? • Полиция никак не может раскрыть это дело и обращается за помощью к частному детективу Даниэлю Готорну • The Sentence is Death – это вторая книга из цикла Энтони Горовица «Готорн» • Книга на английском языке • Secrets can kill • Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home • Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182 • What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone? • Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne

It was the kind of story that barely made the news • When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system • But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs Hoffman was once a government security expert, even though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed • Mrs Hoffman wasn't the only one at risk. Bryant is convinced that other forgotten women with hidden talents are also in danger. And, curiously, they all own models of London Bridge