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Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' - why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? • If aliens ever contact us, it will be the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back • For fifty years the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post-Detection Task Group, with 'a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting' (Times Higher Education), explores what the mysterious silence it has encountered could mean • Here he looks at exciting new ways to make contact with extra-terrestrial life. He considers what form advanced alien intelligence is likely to take if it exists

Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, a realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly: she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny intense. There are questions about past lives, about capability and expectations • Asking big questions about identity and belonging, as well as about what makes a mother - and a home - this is a beautiful meditation on how the legacies of childhood might be overcome by a mother's determination to love

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language • In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? • Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics 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

The poems of Emily Jane Brontл are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic country of Gondal and its citizens that she imagined with Anne, and remain the only surviving record of their joint creation. Other visionary works, including 'Remembrance' and 'No coward soul is mine', boldly confront mortality and anticipate life after death. And poems such as 'Redbreast early in the morning' and 'The blue bell is the sweetest flower' evoke the wild beauties of nature she observed on the Yorkshire moors, while also examining the state of her psyche

Пробирающий до костей холод и полная тоски тишина крайнего Севера задают тон ярких, воодушевляющих и потрясающе реалистичных историй Джека Лондона о приключениях в дикой глуши, в которых проявляется несравненное знание и понимание автором культуры Юкона и поведения тех людей и животных, которым приходится сталкиваться с самой жестокой стороной матери-Земли. "Зов предков" - одна из таких историй • The Penguin English Library - серия коллекционных изданий лучшей англоязычной литературы, написанной за период с восемнадцатого века по конец Второй мировой войны • Книга на английском языке • 'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' • The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest

None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk coast • Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable • But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband Nick • And now, after years of silence, she sends Rosie a letter begging for help. A letter which exposes dark secrets • Daughter Daisy's fragile hold on reality begins to unravel • Teenage son Max blames himself for everything that happened that long hot summer • And Nick must confront his own version of events • There are four sides to this story. Who will you believe?

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of that place: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and, most importantly to Canetti, the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children's call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the hordes • In these immaculately crafted essays, Canetti examines the emotions Marrakesh stirred within him and the people who affected him for ever

Сенсационный дебютный роман Кларисы Лиспектор "Рядом с диким сердцем", удостоенный премии, был опубликован, когда ей было всего двадцать три, и принес ей прозвище "Ураган Клариса". В нем рассказывается история Джоаны, начиная с ее бурного, творческого детства, когда она писала стихи для своего отца, и заканчивая ее браком с неверным Отавио и решением проложить свой собственный путь в этом мире. Поскольку Джоана, бесконечно изменчивая, проходит через разные эмоциональные состояния, разные внутренние жизни и разные истины, этот импрессионистский, сказочный и очень умный роман задает вопрос, знает ли кто-нибудь из нас, кто мы такие на самом деле • Книга на английском языке • Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader torn apart by a conflict of loyalties

John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human • At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years, we turned to religion for our answers, but at the turn of the twentieth centuries ideas from evolution and politics seemed to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands • These ideas would have both trivial and terrible effects, from the nightmares of H. G. Wells's science fiction and the wild, sweeping craze of seances to the murder of millions in the Stalinist terror

Эперсип - девушка с диким сердцем. Она не хочет жить взаперти за стенами дома. Поэтому она убегает - сначала на Луг, потом к морю и, наконец, в Горы. Ее убитые горем родители следуют за своей дочерью, пытаясь вернуть ее домой в целости и сохранности, но у Эперсипа другие идеи • "Дом без окон" Барбары Фоллетт - это вечная сказка о дикости, свободе и спасительной силе мира природы • Книга на английском языке • For the adventurer in your life - young or old - discover a dazzling lost classic and escape to distant shores • Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house. So she runs away - first to the Meadow, then to the Sea, and finally to the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow their daughter, trying to bring her home safe, but Eepersip has other ideas

Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, The Snow Goose, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl. The Small Miracle is a contemporary fable about a young boy's love for his dangerously ill donkey