The Art and Making of Rampage Wolff Ellen Simon & Schuster

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

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid • From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth of the age of the 'Caesars', the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion

In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? • In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan, The Game of Our Lives will appeal to readers of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

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

Физический мир бесконечно сложен, но большинство из нас способны ориентироваться в нем. Мы можем ходить по незнакомым улицам, сохраняя чувство направления, срезать путь по тропинкам, которыми мы никогда не пользовались, и на долгие годы запоминать места, которые посетили всего один раз. Это замечательные достижения • В книге "Поиск пути. Искусство и наука о том, как мы находим и теряем свой путь" Майкл Бонд исследует, как мы это делаем: как наш мозг создает "когнитивные карты", которые помогают нам ориентироваться даже в незнакомых местах. Он рассматривает, как мы относимся к местам, и спрашивает, как наше понимание окружающего мира влияет на нашу психологию и поведение • То, как мы думаем о физическом пространстве, сыграло решающую роль в нашей эволюции: способность перемещаться на большие расстояния в доисторические времена дала Homo sapiens преимущество перед остальными представителями человеческого рода

Что, если бы мы могли улучшить нашу способность предсказывать будущее? • Все, что мы делаем, включает прогнозы о том, как будет развиваться будущее. Независимо от того, покупаем ли мы новый дом или меняем работу, разрабатываем новый продукт или вступаем в брак, наши решения определяются неявными предсказаниями того, как все может обернуться. Проблема в том, что мы не очень хороши в этом • В книге "Суперпрогнозирование" Филип Тетлок и его соавтор Дэн Гарднер предлагают увлекательное представление о том, чему мы можем научиться. Они показывают методы реального, доказуемого предвидения, которые позволяют превзойти даже профессиональных аналитиков разведки. И они предлагают практические советы о том, как мы все можем использовать эти методы для собственной выгоды – будь то в бизнесе, в международных делах или в повседневной жизни

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation • In Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10, Gimson sets out to discover how a man dismissed as a liar, charlatan and tasteless joke was able, despite being written off more frequently than any other British politician of the twenty-first century, to become prime minister. During his ascent, Johnson benefited from being regarded as a clown, for this meant his opponents failed to take him seriously, while his supporters delighted in his ability to shock and enrage the Establishment

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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From one of America’s most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness • At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer—and the reason we make other people suffer—is that we don’t see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: We can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly and so gain a deep and morally valid happiness • In this “sublime” (The New Yorker), pathbreaking book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can change your life—how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of other people

Grace Atherton, a talented cellist, is in love with David. Together in their apartment in Paris, Grace and David are happy until an unexpected event changes everything • Nadia is seventeen and furious. She knows that love will only let her down: if she is going to succeed it will be on her own terms • At eighty-six Maurice Williams has discovered a lot about love in his long life, and even more about people. And yet he keeps secrets • When Grace’s life falls apart in the most shocking of ways Maurice and Nadia come to her rescue, helping her to find happiness and hope through the healing power of friendship