Penguin The Blacker the Berry Thurman Wallace

Откройте для себя все о футболе - от законов и тактики до науки и искусства "красивой игры" в книге Дэвида Голблатта и Джонни Актона "Футбольная книга. Команды. правила. Лиги. Тактика". С профилями более чем 65 лучших футбольных стран мира и громкими именами в клубном футболе и других ключевых соревнованиях, это идеальное наглядное руководство по величайшему виду спорта в мире. Книга на английском языке • Discover everything about football - from the laws and tactics to the science and art of the "beautiful game" • With profiles of more than 65 of the world's best footballing nations, and the biggest names in club football and other key competitions, this is the ultimate visual guide to the world's greatest sport • Inside the pages of this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to football, you'll find • - A fresh graphic style that illustrates everything from beach football to block tackles • - Stats and fact boxes that profile players, managers, fans, football trivia, national teams, and clubs • - Special features that highlight great football matches, stadiums, and football culture • - "Top 5" boxes that provide an alternative look at the best and worst of the game • It's a GOAL with The Football Book! From the history of football and the story behind the game to the football World Cup and the delayed Euro 2020 championships, this sports book reveals a fascinating story page after page

Everyone’s favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period • Hedgehog is waiting for his friend Tortoise to wake up. But where is he and when will he wake? • Hedgehog’s friends are all very lovely, but they just aren’t as much fun at the beach, or at hide and seek, or at holding hands, or at hugs • Tortoise begins to stir – the one boulder that Hedgehog didn’t think he could lift to turn • Tortoise has been dreaming of Hedgehog. And the hug that follows is their best yet! • A charming and touching new tale from the creators of the bestselling While We Can’t Hug!

When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish • He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more

Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversation, especially with women: the power of women in Louis's life and reign is a particular theme of this book. Louis was obsessed by the details of government but the cost of building palaces and waging continuous wars devastated the country's finances and helped set it on the path to revolution. Nevertheless, by his death, he had helped make his grandson king of Spain, where his descendants still reign, and France had taken essentially the shape it has today

"Времена года под солнцем. Битва за Британию, 1974-1979" - это великолепный рассказ Доминика Сэндбрука о конце 1970-х годов в Великобритании • Конец 1970-х годов был для Британии временем раздоров и хорошей жизни. Они видели инфляцию, бунты, пик могущества профсоюзов, а также рождение домашних компьютеров, расцвет готовой еды и триумф дочери бакалейщика из Грэнтема, которая изменит все. Доминик Сэндбрук воссоздает этот экстраординарный период во всем его хаосе и противоречиях, раскрывая его как поворотный момент в нашей недавней истории, когда во всем, от семей и школ до панков и "Доктора Кто", решалось будущее нации • Книга на английском языке • Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain • The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life

Книга Мичио Каку "Физика будущего: изобретения, которые изменят нашу жизнь" - это гипотетическое путешествие в следующие 100 лет научных инноваций, рассказанное учеными, которые воплощают это в жизнь • Мы все хотели бы уметь предсказывать будущее, но большинство из нас недостаточно знают о науке, которая делает это возможным. Вот почему Мичио Каку решил поговорить с людьми, которые действительно знают - провидцами, которые уже изобретают будущее в своих лабораториях • Основываясь на интервью с более чем тремя сотнями ведущих ученых мира, Каку дает нам представление о революционных достижениях, которые означают, что скоро мы сможем летать в космос на лифте, выходить в Интернет с помощью контактных линз, сканировать нашу ДНК на наличие признаков болезней и даже изменять форму глаз

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history • 'Why not? She's just as a good as the rest, and you know what they say, "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice"' • Growing up, Emma Lou Morgan stuck out - her skin was the darkest in every room, even within her own home. With the encouragement of her uncle, Emma flees smalltown Idaho firstly to study in Los Angeles before travelling to Harlem. Though she enjoys the glamour of attending the theatre and the buzz of cabaret, every excursion is tinged with the fear of discrimination. Even in big cities, Emma cannot escape the bigotry of colourism, but can she change how it makes her feel about herself? • The Blacker the Berry is an arrestingly vivid portrayal of how very deeply every facet of prejudice runs

“What’s your dream, son?” • A six year-old boy, head bowed, mumbles the eternal answer: “Be a footballer….” Steadman Scott, football’s most unlikely talent scout, smiles indulgently, and takes him in from the street. He knows the odds. Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro. That’s a success rate of 0.012 per cent • How and why do the favoured few make it? What separates the good from the great? Who should they trust – the coach, the agent or their parents? • Michael Calvin provides the answers on a journey from non-league grounds to hermetically sealed Premier League palaces, via gang-controlled sink estates and the England team’s inner sanctum. He interviews decision makers, behavioural specialists, football agents and leading coaches