Vintage books Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Харари Юваль Ной

Бестселлер «Sapiens. Краткая история человечества» рассказывает об истоках нашего вида. Его логическое продолжение «Homo Deus. Краткая история будущего» объясняет, что ждёт нас дальше • Юваль Ной Харари рисует убедительную картину ближайшего будущего и вызовов, с которыми предстоит столкнуться нашей цивилизации. Книга «Homo Deus» посвящена проектам, мечтам и кошмарам, которые определят XXI век и последующую эпоху: от преодоления смерти до создания искусственной жизни • Она поднимает фундаментальные вопросы: как нам защитить нашу хрупкую планету от разрушительной мощи человечества? И какая судьба нам уготована? • «Homo Deus» потрясет вас. Развлечет вас. Заставит вас думать так, как вы не думали раньше», — Даниэль Канеман • Книга на английском языке

The story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia on a thrilling global tour of the key urban centres of history • Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis is at once the story of these extraordinary places and of the vital role they have played in making us who we are

Сто тысяч лет назад Homo sapiens был одним из как минимум шести видов человека, живших на этой планете, — ничем не примечательным животным, которое играло в экосистеме роль не большую, чем гориллы, светлячки или медузы. Но около семидесяти тысяч лет назад загадочное изменение когнитивных способностей Homo sapiens превратило его в хозяина планеты и кошмар экосистемы. Как человек разумный сумел покорить мир? Что стало с другими видами человека? Когда и почему появились деньги, государства и религия? Как возникали и рушились империи? Почему почти все общества ставили женщин ниже мужчин? Как наука и капитализм стали господствующими вероучениями современной эры? Становились ли люди с течением времени счастливее? Какое будущее нас ожидает? Юваль Харари показывает, как ход истории формировал человеческое общество и действительность вокруг него

Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in • Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism • 'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and tender letters, Varoufakis educates her to what economics and capitalism is and why it is so dangerous • Taking from memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis turns Talking To My Daughter into an enjoyable and engaging read, without ever shying from the harder truths. Greece's former finance minister explains everything you need to know to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad • A secret network of safe houses, committees and guides that stretched well below the Mason-Dixon Line into the brutal slave states of the American South, the Underground Railroad remains one of the most impressive and well-organised resistance movements in modern history. It facilitated the escape of over 30,000 slave 'passengers' through America and into Canada during its peak years of 1850-60, and, in total, an estimated 100,000 slaves found their freedom through the network • Abridged from William Still's The Underground Railroad Records - an epic historical document that chronicles the first-hand stories of American slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad - Passengers tells of the secret methods, risks and covert sacrifices that were made to liberate so many from slavery

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the eyes of ordinary people, Phillip Knightley describes Australia's journey, from federation and the trauma of the First World War, the desperate poverty of the Depression, with its attendant spectres of secret armies and near-civil war, the threat of invasion in the Second World War and the immigration that followed it, and the slow but steady decline in the relationship with Britain, the 'Mother Country', as Australia forged its own unique identity

Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries • What does it mean to be English? This dazzling book demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality can be discovered in all forms of English culture, not only in literature but also in painting, music, architecture, philosophy and science • Just as London: The Biography guided the reader through the capital city with a mixture of narrative and theme, so Albion, employing the same techniques, engages the reader with stories and surprises - From Beowulf to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, via Chaucer and Shakespeare, to the Bronte sisters, Alice through the Looking Glass and Lord of the Rings • Witty, provocative and anecdotal, this is Peter Ackroyd at his most brilliant and exuberant

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident • But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything • Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society

Знали ли вы, что деревья могут влиять на вращение Земли? • Или что волки могут изменять русла рек? • Или что дождевые черви контролируют популяции диких кабанов? • Мир природы - это паутина сложных связей, многие из которых остаются незамеченными человеком. Но именно эти связи поддерживают тонко сбалансированное равновесие природы • Опираясь на последние научные открытия и многолетний опыт лесовода, в книге "Тайная сеть природы" Питер Воллебен показывает нам, как взаимодействуют различные животные, растения, реки, скалы и погодные системы, и что поставлено на карту, когда эти хрупкие системы выходят из равновесия • Книга на английском языке • An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees • Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? • Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? • Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? • The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans

Могут ли лошади испытывать стыд? Горюют ли олени? Почему петухи обманывают кур? • Мы склонны считать, что мы единственные живые существа, способные испытывать чувства, но задумывались ли вы когда-нибудь, что происходит в голове животного? От покрытой листвой лесной подстилки до внутренностей пчелиного улья - внутренняя жизнь животных открывает царство животных так, как никогда раньше. Мы слышим истории о благодарном горбатом ките, о ежике, которому снятся кошмары, и о сороке, которая совершает прелюбодеяние; мы встречаем пчел, которые строят планы на будущее, свиней, которые учат свои собственные имена, и ворон, которые катаются на санках ради забавы. И наконец-то мы узнаем, почему существуют осы • Книга на английском языке • Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve? Why do roosters deceive hens? • We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before

The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize • On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home • The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird’s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace

How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man’s place in evolution? In the final decades of the nineteenth century, these questions began to occupy scientists. With Darwin’s theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began • Headhunters traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades – William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall. It follows their voyages of discovery, taking the reader from anthropological field studies in Melanesia and archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of the First World War. Their work ranged across fields that today carry a variety of labels – neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology – but which for these men formed part of the same enquiry: the search for a science of the mind