Penguin Test Your Reading Dean Michael

This practical series includes a number of specialist titles which help students communicate more effectively. Each book contains over 60 tests and over 500 key words and expressions. They are ideal for class use or self-study • Test Your Professional English: Marketing is one in a series of ten useful Test Your Professional English books • This thoroughly revised and updated edition features 60 clear and simple tests for students and professionals. The book is organized into 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as product management, pricing, promotion, market research, planning and international marketing

Scientist Jackson Oz has discovered that all around the world, animals have started attacking humans. Jackson and fellow scientist Chloe set out to warn scientists and politicians about the attacks, before it is too late. 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. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills

Бестселлер Майкла Льюиса «Большая игра на понижение. Тайные пружины финансовой катастрофы» расскажет о обитателях сурового мира финансовых бирж и завсегдатаях казино Лас Вегаса. Если точнее – о тех изгоях, вольнодумцах и визионерах, которые, взглянув на надувшийся ипотечный пузырь, поставили против банковской системы и сорвали куш • Сюжет книги лёг в основу художественного фильма «Игра на понижение» с Кристианом Бейлом, Райаном Гослингом и Брэдом Питтом в главных ролях • Книга на английском языке • From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing

Пока Уолл-стрит была занята созданием крупнейшего кредитного пузыря всех времен, несколько инвесторов-ренегатов увидели, что он вот-вот лопнет, сделали ставку против банковской системы - и сколотили состояние. Книга Мэтью Грегори Льюиса "Большая короткометражка" рассказывает историю неудачников, индивидуалистов и гениев, которые, несмотря ни на что, совершили величайший финансовый переворот в истории • Книга на английском языке • While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. This book tells the story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history

Has something gone wrong with your parents? • There are hundreds of books for parents about how to deal with their teenagers. For the first time, neuroscientist and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on. From why parents are obsessed with tidiness, to why they won't let you get enough sleep and generally why they don't seem to get anything, this guide covers all the major parental dramas • imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room

When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of reality • Now, a New Yorker journalist offers the definitive portrait of the adventurers leading the way to the stars. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Virgin's lead test pilot, Mark Stucky, Test Gods describes the making of a modern astronaut: from starry-eyed youth to NASA, the Air Force, and Virgin Galactic; and through dozens of gruelling test flights to his first successful trip beyond the earth's atmosphere • The result is the most vivid exploration of an astronaut's inner life since Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff

A ground-breaking new framework for embracing middle age and beyond - from acclaimed psychologist and No 1 bestselling author of Flourishing • Middle-age is cross-roadsy - having arrived, you're looking back in wonder about how you got here, and also looking ahead, thinking: where to next? The realisation that neither time nor choices are limitless is both daunting and exciting - this is the moment to take stock and figure out how to make the best of every precious moment of your second act • Your One Wild and Precious Life is an eye-opening account of this vital and surprisingly liberating life-stage. Crucially, it sets out how you can transform your thinking to reclaim control over your life, connect with who you truly are and face the future with joy and a sense of purpose

From the world's first fashion psychologist, a pioneering guide to a calmer, happier and more confident you • What you wear affects your mood, how you feel about yourself and how others think about you. How you dress matters • As a qualified therapist, designer, fashion PR and former model, Dawnn Karen understands better than anyone the intimate relationship between what you wear and how you feel. Working with clients that are stuck in a rut, Karen shows people how to use clothes to express their identity, build their self-confidence and work through wardrobe hang-ups • In Dress Your Best Life, Karen draws on her research and client work, teaching you how to • - reduce anxiety through colour choices • - dress to match or lift your mood • - maintain cultural identity when dressing • - project power at home and work • This book will help you harness the power of clothes to change your life

An honest and empowering guide to every aspect of pregnancy and childbirth • Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power firmly in your hands. It won't tell you what fruit your baby resembles week-by-week, but it will cover the huge shifts happening in your relationships, body, work and emotional life right now, giving you practical tools, tips and real stories to help you make a plan that is uniquely yours yet flexible enough to accommodate whatever your pregnancy, birth and life throw at you • With so many decisions to make and so much conflicting advice from the internet, friends, healthcare professionals and in-laws, it's easy to feel overwhelmed during pregnancy. Throughout her career as CEO of Birthrights, the charity that promotes women's rights in childbirth, parenting journalist, and one of the UK's best known doulas, Rebecca Schiller has supported countless women through pregnancy, helping them to find the solutions that are right for them and their families

With a new chapter on Covid and the Brain, this is the definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing • The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience • Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work, or what we can do to optimise their performance. Whilst cognitive decline is the biggest long-term health worry for many of us, practical knowledge of how to look after our brain is thin on the ground • In this ground-breaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies concerning exercise, diet, social life and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how you can keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life

«Это семья, где молодых придерживают, а распоряжаются, по большей части, безответственные дядья и прикованные к постели тетки. И всё же это – семья» • «Англия, твоя Англия – один из самых ярких и исчерпывающих портретов в прозе. В этом эссе Джордж Оруэлл, автор романа «1984» и повести «Скотный двор», описывает не одного человека и даже не отдельный социальный слой, а целую нацию. Оно пронизано присущим автору патриотизмом, но при этом не замалчивает недостатки Британии: глубоко укоренившееся неравенство, нечестную прессу и устройство социума, обслуживающее лишь интересы правящей верхушки. Оруэлл написал его во время Второй мировой войны, когда на Англию падали бомбы, но оно сохраняет актуальность и в наши дни • Издание в мягкой обложке из серии Penguin Modern Classics

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy • Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological manifesto • This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing, we could be taking nature as a model for making things. With the right redesign, objects that have come to the end of their useful lives should provide the basis for something new. In designing and producing products we need to stop worrying about being 'less bad' and start finding ways of actually being good