In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? • In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan, The Game of Our Lives will appeal to readers of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson
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Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama • The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for • Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control
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3 576 руб.
Опытный агент Бернард Сэмсон привык к тому, что его не продвигают по службе, в то время как его более молодые и амбициозные коллеги, включая его собственную жену Фиону, поднимаются по служебной лестнице МИ-6. Когда ценный агент в Восточном Берлине предупреждает британцев о "кроте" в сердце службы, Самсон должен вернуться на поле боя и в город, который он любит, чтобы раскрыть личность предателя • "Берлинская игра" - это первый роман из знаменитой трилогии Лена Дейтона "Игра, декорации и матч" • Книга на английском языке • Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in East Berlin warns the British of a mole at the heart of the Service, Samson must return to the field and the city he loves to uncover the traitor's identity
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2 384 руб.
Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama • The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for • Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control
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2 349 руб.
A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers • Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood • Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind
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2 144 руб.
We went trick or treating and we saw • When a brother and sister go trick or treating, they compete to see who find the most bizarre and brilliant things. As they try to count all the hair-raising creatures, everything escalates until • It's time for the Halloween feast! HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! • A new take on an old favourite, children will love learning to count with this funny rhyming story - packed with ghosts, skeletons, dancing monsters, spooky bats and much, much more! From the illustrator of the bestselling The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, this is a brilliant and accessible board-book version of Paul Howard's laugh out loud Halloween picture book, I Went Trick or Treating
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Aldrin Addis has the world's most unusual and secret SUPER-POWER: By eating very stinky cheese before bedtime, Aldrin can enter people's dreams and nightmares, and help them with their problems • The trouble is, Aldrin has problems of his own. Dad's not been himself since Mum died, their cheese shop (C'est Cheese!) is under threat of closure, and Aldrin's struggling at school • But things go from bad to worse when Aldrin realises something - or someone - is trying to steal his cheesy super power for their own evil plan for world domination! • And this time, Aldrin might need more than the stinkiest of Bries to save the day!
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Пол Ховард: Я пошел за конфетами • Я пошла за конфетами и испугалась... непослушная бородавчатая жаба, скользящий призрак, воющий, рычащий волк и несколько супер глупых скелетов • Когда брат и сестра отправляются за конфетами, они соревнуются, кто сможет напугать самых жутких существ. По мере того как они пытаются запомнить каждую волнующую встречу, все обостряется - пока они не пугаются больше всего на свете! • Новый взгляд на старую любимую историю, детям понравится эта веселая история, проверяющая вашу память, с привидениями, скелетами, жутким пиратским кораблем и многим, многим другим! • От иллюстратора бестселлера "Сова, которая боялась темноты" это веселое продолжение книги "Я сходил в супермаркет и встретился с Сантой" • Книга на английском языке
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Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' - why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? • If aliens ever contact us, it will be the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back • For fifty years the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post-Detection Task Group, with 'a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting' (Times Higher Education), explores what the mysterious silence it has encountered could mean • Here he looks at exciting new ways to make contact with extra-terrestrial life. He considers what form advanced alien intelligence is likely to take if it exists
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Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperback • Benjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. Paul Kildea's biography has been acclaimed as the definitive account of Britten's extraordinary life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. Above all, however, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into its unique alchemy as we are ever likely to go
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Paul Shanahan - part-time surveyor, erstwhile IRA arms dealer and sometime suspected CIA agent - is a full-time scoundrel. But he's the perfect man if you need an illicit operation done - and done well • So when five million dollars' worth of gold smuggled out of occupied Kuwait needs to get from Morocco to Miami by boat with no questions asked, Paul Shanahan is the name on everyone's lips • Except this time, Paul has other, more personal plans for the money. But first he must outwit the IRA, the CIA, British Intelligence and Palestinian terrorist Il Hayaween in order to prove how big a scoundrel he really is
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2 349 руб.
