Random House Solitude. In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World Harris Michael

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The Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick's riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire - the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, they dare to ask just how far the US has drifted from its founding democratic ideals • Beginning with the bloody suppression of the Filipino struggle for independence and spanning the two World Wars, it documents how US administrations have repeatedly intervened in conflicts on foreign soil, taking part in covert operations and wars in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East. At various times it has overthrown elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, for both economic and political gain

In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time • On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew in the wastes of the Canadian Arctic • Her fate remained a mystery for over 160 years • Then, in 2014, she was found

Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeere Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past

From the creator of hit podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat comes a revolutionary re-envisioning of how to enjoy your job • Do you want to get more done, feel less stressed and love your job again? • Sometimes having a job can feel like hard work. But between Monk Mode mornings, silent meetings and crisp Thursdays, the solutions are at your fingertips • Bruce Daisley knows a thing or two about the workplace. In the course of a career that has taken him from some of the world's biggest media companies to Twitter, via Google and YouTube, he has become a leading expert on how we work now. And in his hugely popular podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has explored ways to fix it. Now he shares 30 brilliant - and refreshingly simple - tips on how to make your job more productive, more rewarding - and much, much more enjoyable

Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores, Harold intends a quick walk to the corner mailbox to post his reply but instead, inspired by a chance encounter, he becomes convinced he must deliver his message in person to Queenie-who is 600 miles away--because as long as he keeps walking, Harold believes that Queenie will not die. So without hiking boots, rain gear, map or cell phone, one of the most endearing characters in current fiction begins his unlikely pilgrimage across the English countryside

Перед вами лишь чудом не утерянный шедевр от автора бестселлера "Человек в поисках смысла", чьи книги разошлись тиражом, превысившим 16 миллионов экземпляров • Через каких-то несколько месяцев после освобождения от Освенцима известный психиатр Виктор Эмиль Франкл выступил с серией лекций, посвящённых основам его жизнеутверждающей философии. Исследователь, которому было суждено прославиться на весь мир, изложил свои мысли о природе смысла и человеческой стойкости. Также он поделился со слушателями своей убеждённостью в том, что любой кризис сопряжён с возможностями • Эти слова Франкла, впервые публикуемые на английском в настоящем издании, находят такой же отклик среди аудитории, как и в 1946 году. Несмотря на все ужасы концентрационного лагеря, благодаря другим заключённым Франкл понял, что жизни всегда можно сказать "да", и этот глубокий урок никогда не утратит свою ценность

Elements: In Pursuit of the Wind — захватывающее визуальное путешествие по величественным природным достопримечательностям, таким как Фарерские острова, северо-западное побережье Тихого океана, Скандинавия и Шотландия. Эти места воплощают собой спокойстви

Deserted In Pursuit of Drylands — путешествие по самым засушливым местам планеты от издателей Rucksack Magazine. Узнайте о завораживающих пустынях Моав, Атакама, Мохаве и Намиб. Исследуйте хрупкость этих древних ландшафтов, мест, которые каким-то образом

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far and homing in on the key individuals, institutions and ideas that inspired and motivated him. He paints a vivid picture, coloured with wit, anecdote and digression, of the twenty-five postgraduate years he spent teaching at Oxford. He pays affectionate tribute to past colleagues and students, recalling the idiosyncrasies of an establishment steeped in ancient tradition and arcane ritual while also recording his respect for the profound commitment to learning and discovery that lies at its core

Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy. The psychologist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience and his conviction that every crisis contains opportunity • Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl's words resonate as strongly today as they did in 1946. Despite the unspeakable horrors in the camp, Frankl learnt from his fellow inmates that it is always possible to say ‘yes to life’ – a profound and timeless lesson for us all