Picador Wayfinding. The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way Бонд Майкл

Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come • This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life – children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereavement – become the most successful adults? And is there something to learn from those people, who perhaps have the strongest sense of what matters most? • Of Britain’s fifty-five prime ministers, twenty-five lost one or both of their parents as a child and 69 per cent suffered some form of serious childhood trauma. For their acclaimed podcast Past Imperfect, Thomson and Sylvester spoke to some such prime ministers, as well as pioneers and poets, CEOs and chefs, actors and archbishops, sports stars and Nobel prize-winning scientists

Создайте свою собственную удачу, возможности и везение с помощью книги "Образ мышления. Искусство и наука создания удачи" Кристиана Буша, ведущего академика Лондонской школы экономики • Жизнь полна неожиданностей: случайных встреч, изменения планов, отложенных поездок и других несчастий. Но что, если бы мы могли использовать непредсказуемость в своих интересах? • Доктор Кристиан Буш потратил десятилетие на изучение того, как неожиданные встречи могут улучшить наше мировоззрение, расширить круг общения и создать новые профессиональные возможности. В этой книге Кристиан раскрывает секреты скрытой силы, которая управляет нашей жизнью: прозорливости • Книга на английском языке • Create your own luck, opportunities and fortune with the help of a leading London School of Economics academic • Life is full of the unexpected: chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys and other mishaps

Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charming and original new book, Consider the Fork, explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live • This is the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding ourselves. Bee Wilson takes us on an enchanting culinary journey through the incredible creations, inventions and obsessions that have shaped how and what we cook. From huge Tudor open fires to sous-vide machines, the birth of the fork to Roman gadgets, Consider the Fork is the previously unsung history of our kitchens • Bee Wilson writes a weekly food column, 'The Kitchen Thinker' in The Sunday Telegraph, for which she has three times been named the Guild of Food Writers Food Journalist of the Year

The official behind-the-scenes companion to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, featuring cast and crew interviews, photos, and insights about making the film • For fans of Dungeons & Dragons and the upcoming fantasy adventure film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, this gorgeous tome showcases the storytelling, worldbuilding, and creativity behind the movie • Join in the adventures across Faerun with stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, Justice Smith, Rege-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, and the rest of the dedicated cast and crew on their journey to bring the world of Dungeons & Dragons to life. With sections that highlight fan-favorite characters, monsters, and settings, plus explorations of key scenes from the film, this book is packed with production photos, concept art, storyboards, interviews, and more

Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species • It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. It freed our hands and freed our minds. We put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us? In this hymn to walking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and minds, and urges us to appreciate - and exercise - our miraculous ability

For fans of Charles Duhig, Malcolm Gladwell and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of hot streaks • For decades, psychologists and economists have studied the science of streaks to determine whether the ‘hot hand’ exists. Is there such a thing as being in the zone? Or it simply a case of seeing patterns in randomness? Genius scholars and Nobel Prize winners have dedicated years to answering this question. A substantial number of the decisions we make each day are rooted in two opposing beliefs: that if something happened before, it will happen again – or if it happened before, it probably won’t happen again • The Hot Hand is an incredibly entertaining and provocative investigation into the seductive idea that streaks not only exist but can be created

Издание на английском языке. The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals by Peter J. Ucko and G.W. Dimbleby. This volume results from presentations at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, discussing the domestication and exploitation of plants and animals. Workers in the archaeological, anthropological, and biological fields attempted to bridge the gap between their respective disciplines through personal contact and discussion. Modern techniques and the result of their application to the classical problems of domestication, selection, and spread of cereals and of cattle were discussed, but so were comparable problems in plants and animals not previously considered in this context

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Millions of Americans have lost confidence in their political and economic system. After years of stagnant wages, volatile job markets, and an unwillingness by those in power to deal with profound threats such as climate change, there is a mounting sense that the system is fixed, serving only those select few with enough money to secure a controlling stake • In The System Robert B. Reich shows how wealth and power have interacted to install an elite oligarchy, eviscerate the middle class, and undermine democracy. Addressing himself Jamie Dimon, the powerful banker and chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Reich exposes how those at the top, be they Democrats or Republicans, propagate myths about meritocracy, national competitiveness, corporate social responsibility, and the 'free market' to distract most Americans from their own accumulation of extraordinary wealth, and their power over the system

Dear Reader is a moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another • For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kept her afloat. Eventually they lit the way to a new path, first as a bookseller and then as a writer. No matter what the future holds, reading will always help • From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love

Признание в любви к чтению и силе печатного слова от автора бестселлера Sunday Times • В детстве Кэти Ренценбринк было не оторвать от книг до поздней ночи. Когда в её жизнь пришла беда, именно чтение помогло ей не потерять себя. И найти своё призвание - сначала в книготорговле, а затем в писательстве. Что бы ни случилось, книги никогда не подведут • Это трогательный, смешной и светлый рассказ о том, как чтение может изменить жизнь человека, дополненный рекомендациями для других книголюбов • Книга на английском языке • From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories • Growing up, Cathy Rentzenbrink was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out

66 миллионов лет назад динозавры были стерты с лица земли. Сегодня доктор Стив Брусатте, один из ведущих ученых нового поколения охотников на динозавров, вооруженный передовыми технологиями, собирает воедино полную историю о том, как динозавры правили землей в течение 150 миллионов лет • Мир динозавров завораживал в книгах и на экране на протяжении десятилетий - от ранних классиков научной фантастики, таких как "Затерянный мир", до Годзиллы, терроризирующего улицы Токио, и монстров из Парка Юрского периода. Но что, если мы все поняли неправильно? В книге "Взлет и падение динозавров" ведущий эксперт по динозаврам Брусатте рассказывает реальную историю о том, как динозавры стали доминировать на планете. Используя ископаемые останки, собранные с использованием самых современных технологий, Брусатте проследит за этими великолепными существами от их зарождения в раннем триасовом периоде, через юрский период до их последних дней в меловом периоде и за наследием