Penguin It Can't Happen Here Льюис Синклер

In the twenty-first century, we increasingly push our daily routines into the night, carrying out work, exercise and our social lives long after dark. But we have forgotten that our bodies are governed by a 24-hour biological clock which guides us towards the best time to sleep, eat and think. New science has proven that living out of sync with this clock is not only disrupting our sleep, but leaving us more vulnerable to infection, cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and mental illness • In Life Time, Professor Russell Foster shares his life's work, taking us on a fascinating and surprising journey through the science of our body clocks. Using his own studies, as well as insights from an international community of sleep scientists and biologists studying circadian rhythms, he illustrates the surprising effects the time of day can have on our health • - how a walk outside at dawn can ensure a better night's sleep • - how eating after sundown can affect our weight • - the extraordinary effects the time we take our medication can have on our risk of life-threatening conditions, such as strokes • In the modern world, we have neglected an essential part of our biology

From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more • 'Persuasive, absorbing and refreshingly sane... [A] bracing and important intervention in the debate... Leader points the way to a richer and more humane understanding of our problems with sleep' Guardian • One in four adults sleeps badly • Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the incidence of sleep clinics • Sleep used to be a natural state, easy as breathing, but increasingly it is an insecure commodity • Isn't it? • Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces throughout human history, each time telling us something new about our indivudual and collective psychology

Everyone has a mental health. So we asked • What does yours mean to you? • THE RESULT IS EXTRAORDINARY • Over 60 people have shared their stories. Powerful, funny, moving, this book is here to tell you • It's OK

Роберт Стивенсон: Остров сокровищ • История выросла из карты, которая вела к воображаемому сокровищу, придуманной Стивенсоном и его племянником во время отпуска в Шотландии. Эту историю рассказывает предприимчивый мальчик Джим Хокинс, который раздобыл карту сокровищ и отправляется со взрослой командой на поиски зарытого клада. Однако среди экипажа есть коварный долговязый Джон Сильвер, который полон решимости сохранить сокровище для себя. Первое полнометражное художественное произведение Стивенсона принесло ему немедленную известность и продолжает очаровывать читателей всех возрастов • Книга на английском языке • Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design

Settle down with the stunning wartime story of a family trying to survive, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The New Mrs Clifton • When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her husband of twenty-five years - collaborates with the enemy to save his family home • Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, her life in the hands of London's code breakers, Kay's betrayal of her husband is complete as she risks her home and children to protect an SOE agent who won't even tell her his name • As her family - especially her headstrong daughter - is drawn further into danger, Kay is faced with a wrenching moral dilemma • Who will be sacrificed next for the cause? • Can she and Bror ever find their way back to one another? • I Can't Begin to Tell You is a beautiful story of bravery, broken loyalties, lies and how the power of love can bring redemption even to the darkest of places

Get ready to fall for this year's most poignant and romantic love story • Fourteen days together. Fifteen years apart • Their love story isn't over yet • When Abbie met Oz they were young, idealistic students from different backgrounds, but their connection was unmistakable. Then Oz went home to Istanbul and life moved on • Years later, Abbie and Oz meet again - a chance encounter that could change everything • Despite leading very different lives, they find themselves drawn to eachother once more. But they have commitments, jobs and families that take priority - and too much time has passed... Hasn't it? • From London to Istanbul, Paris to Beirut, It Must Be Love is a heart-wrenching story that will leave you believing in the power of fate and destiny

Robert Penn's It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is a paean to the humble bike; it's the story of why we ride, and why this simple machine holds the power to transport us all • Robert Penn has ridden a bike most days of his life. He rides to get to work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to stay sane and to feel free. This is the story of his love affair with cycling and the journey to build his dream bike; a freewheeling pilgrimage taking him from Californian mountain bike inventors to British artisan frame builders, and from perfect components to the path of true happiness

«Лето без тебя — не лето» - роман Дженни Хан. Когда что-то идеально, ты надеешься, что это никогда не закончится. Долгое жаркое лето, проведенное Белли в пляжном домике мальчиков Фишер, закончилось. Конрад, единственный парень, которого она когда-либо любила, уехал в колледж, забрав с собой ее сердце. А Джереми, его младший брат, по-прежнему лучший друг Белли, но, возможно, дружбы ему больше недостаточно. Но когда звонит Джереми и говорит, что Конрад исчез, все дороги, кажется, ведут обратно к летнему домику. Проведет ли Белли еще одно лето, гоняясь за Конрадом, или она наконец отпустит его? Книга на английском языке • When something is perfect, you hope it never ends • Belly's long hot summers at the Fisher boys' beach house are over • Conrad, the only boy she's ever loved, has left for college, taking her heart with him

A house in the south of France. A holiday of a lifetime. What could be nicer? What could possibly go wrong? • When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of Clapham, the weight of the mortgage and anxieties over their future for a blissful break • But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming too • With James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' • When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. This enchanting collection of his 'first loves and obsessions' brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie; reflections on life, love and death, such as a moving report from the tragic Welsh village of Aberfan; and evocative travel writings on Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies, amongst others, before they were transformed by mass tourism. Together they capture a world that is lost forever

Идеальный город скрывает секреты. Секреты, ради сохранения которых кто-то готов убить • Эллери никогда не была в Эхо-Ридж, но она все о нем слышала • Это место, где ее тетя пропала без вести в возрасте шестнадцати лет и никогда не вернулась. Где убийство королевы бала пять лет назад стало национальной новостью • И теперь она вынуждена жить там со своей бывшей бабушкой, после того как ее мать попала в реабилитационный центр • Малкольм вырос в тени смерти королевы бала выпускников • Его старший брат был главным подозреваемым и с позором покинул Эхо-Ридж • Но теперь он вернулся - как раз в тот момент, когда по городу появляются таинственные угрозы, намекающие на то, что убийца нанесет новый удар • Затем исчезает еще одна девушка • Когда Эллери и Малкольм наперегонки пытаются разгадать, что произошло, они понимают, что в Эхо-Ридже у каждой тайны есть слои

Льюис Синклер (1885-1951) - известный американский писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии (1930). Роман "У нас это невозможно" - политическая антиутопия. В основе сюжета - вымышленная ситуация, но она близка к реальной жизни США в 1930-е годы: время Великой депрессии, когда страна почти не обращала внимания на гитлеровскую агрессию. Удивительно проницательный текст, который остается таким же актуальным, как и сегодняшние новости