Penguin Talking to Strangers. What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Гладуэлл Малкольм

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? • Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society bullshit jobs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th century Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how we value work, and how, rather than being productive, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it

Фредрик Бакман определяет жанр книги "Что мой сын должен знать об устройстве этого мира" как "расширенный блог" - она действительно напоминает онлайн-дневник или серию постов в ЖЖ. Обращаясь к своему маленькому сыну, автор рассуждает о самых разных предметах - от футбола до "Икеи", от компьютерных игр до категорий добра и зла. И попутно делится первым, порой комичным, опытом отцовства - с той уникальной чисто бакмановской смесью иронии и нежности, которая принесла ему любовь миллионов читателей. Это не только разговор на равных с крохотным существом, которому еще предстоит вырасти в личность, но и честный разговор с самим собой, попытка осмыслить свою ответственность за происходящее в мире • Книга на английском языке • In between the sleep-obsessed lows and oxytocin-fuelled highs, Backman takes a step back to share his own experience of fatherhood and how he navigates such unchartered territory

Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know • Is the universe infinite? • Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? • Where is human consciousness located in the brain? • And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond the Higgs boson? • In the modern world, science is king: weekly headlines proclaim the latest scientific breakthroughs and numerous mathematical problems, once indecipherable, have now been solved. But are there limits to what we can discover about our physical universe? • In this very personal journey to the edges of knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy investigates how leading experts in fields from quantum physics and cosmology, to sensory perception and neuroscience, have articulated the current lie of the land

A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them • A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn't understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer make sense to each other away from home • Set across the blossoming English countryside, the stifling Mediterranean and the bustling cities of London and Lahore, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love illuminates the parts of ourselves we rarely reveal

I wanted to change the world, but the world I was born into changed me first • My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I'm twenty one years old. I'm an activist, an entrepreneur, a former deputy young mayor of Lambeth and member of the UK Youth Parliament • Raised in south London, I lived in an area where crime and poverty were everywhere and opportunities to escape were rare. Violence was accepted, prison was expected. That was the world I knew; the only one I thought was possible for people like me • Then I discovered another world, one with opportunities round every corner. As I grew my network, I realised that the system actively works against certain members of society, silently preventing people from succeeding. I made it my mission to change this, and to teach people like me about the secret rules of society that empower some to get ahead and keep others down

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual, political and literary achievements • First published twenty years ago, this fully updated and revised edition is a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the classics – and where they came from

Did you know you cry two types of tears? And up to 30 trillion red blood cells pass through your heart in a minute? With colourful, infographic-style illustrations this informative book is packed with surprising facts and useful information on exactly 100 topics about the human body. A useful reference book for home, school and general knowledge quizzes

Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader alike • If you’ve always felt a bit embarrassed at your precarious grasp on the plot of Othello, or you haven’t a clue what a petard (as in ‘hoist with his own petard’) actually is, then fear not, because this, at last, is the perfect guide to the Bard • From the authors of the number-one bestselling Homework for Grown-ups, Shakespeare for Grown-ups is the essential book for anyone keen to deepen their knowledge of they plays and sonnets • For parents helping with their children’s homework, casual theatre-goers who want to enhance their enjoyment of the most popular plays and the general reader who feels they should probably know more about Britain’s most splendid scribe, Shakespeare for Grown-ups covers Shakespeare's time; his personal life; his language; his key themes; his less familiar works and characters; his most famous speeches and quotations; phrases and words that have entered general usage, and much more

Do fish wear pyjamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster - a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these and many more questions in a book that explores the history, science, environment and art of our planet's seas and oceans. Richly illustrated and perfect for broadening children's knowledge of an essential subject, away from the classroom

Действие романа Беатрис Колин "То, что мы не можем удержать" разворачивается на фоне строительства Эйфелевой башни и описывает отношения между молодой шотландской вдовой и французским инженером, которые, несмотря на классовые ограничения и богатство, влюбляются друг в друга • В феврале 1887 года Катриона Уоллес и Эмиль Нугье встречаются на воздушном шаре, парящем высоко над Парижем - невероятное совпадение. Но, вернувшись на твердую почву, становятся очевидны их совершенно разные социальные слои. Кейт - вдова, которая из-за своего шаткого финансового положения вынуждена опекать двух богатых шотландских подопечных. Эмиль должен взять на себя буржуазную стабильность семейного бизнеса и выбрать подходящую жену. И по мере того как поднимается Эйфелева башня, чудо из стали, воздуха и света, предмет ожесточенных споров и символ будущего, Кейт и Эмиль должны решить, чего стоит их любовь

Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling and provocative exploration of why everything we think we know about power is wrong • What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage? This thought sets Malcolm Gladwell on an extraordinary journey that takes him from art to basketball, the brain to revolutions, along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits, outsiders, tricksters and underdogs who have faced outsized challenges and won. With his trademark warmth, humour and gift for showing us the world through new eyes, Gladwell lets us see why the powerful aren't always what we think they are - and that some of us have more strength and purpose than we could ever imagine