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James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization • 'Despite all our efforts to retreat sustainably, we may be unable to prevent a global decline into a chaotic world ruled by brutal warlords on a devastated Earth...' • For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, and the only open to us may be a 'sustainable retreat'. This is the one book you must read to find out what is happening, how bad it will get - and how we can survive

'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?' • On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to enter the war. The men know they face their baptism of fire. But none know if they will be one of 'the lucky ones' to make it safely off the island. From Captain Stein, who feels like a father to his troops, and 'Mad' Sergeant Welsh, condemning all nations while swigging gin from his canteen, to Private Bell, who just wants to get home to his wife, they will discover the line that divides sanity from madness, and life from death • A scathing critique of heroism, The Thin Red Line is among the greatest masterpieces of war writing

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer . . .' • Some moments you want to last forever. Some moments shape a life • For Mona, it's the joy of playing on a Wexford beach as a young girl, next to her family's cottage overlooking the Irish sea. The thrill of moving to Birmingham with a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding-house. Meeting the love of her life; a whirlwind marriage; a sudden, tragic loss • But now, decades later, Mona is determined to find happiness before it's too late. She knows that every moment is precious. But can we ever let go of the past that shaped us?

With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, art and philosophy, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time. Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe

Джеймс Паттерсон совместно с Джеймсом О. Борном представляют захватывающий детектив "Русский" • Приближается день свадьбы Майкла Беннетта, и убийца должен выполнить свою собственную клятву в тринадцатом триллере с участием лучшего детектива полиции Нью-Йорка • За несколько недель до того, как детектив полиции Нью-Йорка Майкл Беннетт женится на своей давней возлюбленной Мэри Кэтрин, наемный убийца объявляет о своем присутствии в городе чередой убийств • Работая бок о бок с ФБР, Беннетт раскрывает множество нераскрытых убийств по всей стране, которые соответствуют одной и той же характерной схеме • Он обещает Мэри Кэтрин, что это дело не повлияет на их предстоящую свадьбу, но, пока он пытается связать убийства, Беннетт, возможно, попадает в смертельную ловушку

Психология отношений, несовершенность человеческой натуры, драма, любовь и предательство, убийства и напряжённое повествование - в романе Шери Лапеньи есть все • На первый взгляд может показаться, что семья Конти живет обычной счастливой жизнью. Энн и Марко любят друг друга, у них красивый дом и очаровательный ребенок, вдобавок им хватает времени на веселые вечеринки с соседями. Однако они совершают непростительную ошибку: отправляются в гости, оставив полугодовалую Кору спать в кроватке. Казалось бы, что может случиться, если они находятся в соседнем доме, каждые полчаса проверяют дочь, да к тому же установили видеоняню? Тем не менее, вернувшись домой, они обнаруживают, что Кору похитили. Эта трагедия обнажает язвы внешне благополучной семьи - депрессию Энн, финансовые проблемы Марко, двоякую роль Ричарда, отца Энн… Только узнав все до конца, мы поймем, кто смог решиться на такое чудовищное преступление

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works • Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today • Here, James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel • 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' • Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind

A modern marriage, or a big mistake? • Ella was nineteen and madly in love when she married dashing young artist Sebastian Montclair. But that was a long time ago. Now Ella and the kids live in a ramshackle farmhouse while Sebastian and his paintings inhabit the outhouse next door - a family separated in every way but distance. Is it a marvellously modern relationship - or a disaster waiting to happen? • When charming gardener Ludo arrives on the scene and Sebastian makes a sudden and surprising decision, Ella sees a chance at a fresh start. Yet with two teenagers and her parents on the verge of their own late-life crisis, will Ella be allowed to choose her own path? And how long can she hide from the truth which haunts her broken marriage?

Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics • 'We lose everything because everything remains except us', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marias recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories and a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time

And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson • And the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense • The winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010, And the Land Lay Still is a masterful insight into Scotland's history in the twentieth century and a moving, beautifully written novel of intertwined stories

In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws • On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself • "Until the End of Time" is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in story, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless, or eternal