Penguin On Beauty Смит Зэди

Два незадачливых ветерана Второй мировой войны становятся, несмотря на все различия между ними, лучшими друзьями на всю жизнь. Арчи Джонс, чистокровный британец, берет себе в жены молодую крупную девушку с Ямайки. Самад Икбал вступает в брак по договоренности и вынужден ждать, пока его жена появится на свет. И если бы обоих друзей ждало счастливое будущее! Дети приносят головную боль, прошлое наступает на пятки, и никому нет покоя в этом многослойном романе • Один из самых обсуждаемых первых романов Зэди Смит "Белые зубы" - забавный, щедрый, великодушный роман, обожаемый как критиками, так и читателями. Рассказывая - помимо многого другого - о дружбе, любви, войне, трех культурах и трех семьях на протяжении трех поколений, одной коричневой мыши и коварном способе прошлого возвращаться и кусать вас за лодыжку, эта жизнеутверждающая, буйная книга обязательна к прочтению

White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens are English, white and intellectual. The story looks at how people's pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, written for learners of English as a foreign language. The series is aligned to the Common European Framework and includes language activities that help develop key skills. White Teeth, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past

Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey the same twists, the same shakes and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art

Anna Sewell's moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written, this Penguin Threads edition of Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts

"Произведение-компаньон" - новая работа Али Смита, которую нельзя пропустить • Мы живем в экстраординарные времена • Это история? • Что происходит, когда мы перестаем доверять правительствам, средствам массовой информации, друг другу? • Что мы потеряли? • Что остается с нами? • Что нужно для того, чтобы открыть наше будущее? • После своего удивительного квартета сезонных романов Эли Смит снова освещает нам путь сквозь кошмарное настоящее, в жизненно важном праздновании товарищества во всех его формах • Книга на английском языке • The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet • 'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.' • Here we are in extraordinary times • Is this history? • What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? • What have we lost? • What stays with us? • What does it take to unlock our future? • Following her astonishing quartet of Seasonal novels, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its forms

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by William Bynum, and features a cover designed by Damien Hirst • Written for a general readership, On the Origin of Species sold out on the day of its publication and has remained in print ever since. Instantly and persistently controversial, the concept of natural selection transformed scientific analysis about all life on Earth. Before the Origin of Species, accepted thinking held that life was the static and perfect creation of God. By a single, systematic argument Darwin called this view into question. His ideas have affected public perception of everything from religion to economics

Однажды в Британии после "Брексита", в разгар пандемии, художнице Сэнди Грей неожиданно звонит университетская знакомая Мартина Пелф. Мартина звонит Сэнди, чтобы попросить помощи с загадочным вопросом, который остался у нее после того, как она провела полдня, запертая в комнате сотрудниками пограничного контроля без всякой причины, которую она не может понять • "Кроншнеп или кронштейн? Выбирай" • И какое отношение все это имеет к истории молодого и талантливого кузнеца, изгнанного из своего ремесла и родного дома более пятисот лет назад? • Роман Али Смит "Пьеса партнеров" взлетает и парит между нашим атомизированным настоящим и нашим средневековым прошлым в надежде, что мы сможем открыть наши запертые дома и самих себя для всех других времен, других видов, других историй, других возможностей

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are • Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on relationships, contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and attempts, by an exploration of himself, to understand the nature of humanity

'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg • For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next • Here is Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now', to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. One of the most important thinkers ever to write in English, the Empiricist David Hume liberated philosophy from the superstitious constraints of religion; here, he argues that all are free to choose between life and death, considers the nature of personal taste and succinctly criticises common philosophies of the time