The Expedition to Borneo of H. M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy Keppel Henry Книга по Требованию

A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows • Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere • The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain’s views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness

The ash tree has long been an integral part of the British landscape, its familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and chalky cliff faces • But tragically ash dieback, a disease from mainland Europe, now poses a serious threat to the trees’ survival. And their grave prognosis took on a personal resonance when, while writing this book, Lisa Samson was diagnosed with a brain tumour, forcing her to contemplate her own mortality while the trees’ likely fate emerged • Taking us from the lowlands of Norfolk to the northernmost reaches of the British Isles, Epitaph for the Ash offers up a rallying cry to treasure these remarkable woodlands while we can, before it is too late

From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world • For eighty-three blood-soaked days, the fighting on the island of Okinawa plumbed depths of savagery as bad as anything seen on the Eastern Front. When it was over, almost a quarter of a million people had lost their lives, making it by far the bloodiest US battle of the Pacific. In Okinawa, the death toll included thousands of civilians lost to mass suicide, convinced by Japanese propaganda that they would otherwise be raped and murdered by the enemy. On the US side, David argues that the horror of the battle ultimately determined President Truman's choice to use atomic bombs in August 1945

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

The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan’s lives is now updated in this reissued edition • Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom, the spectacularly beautiful but utterly bleak island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland, it is hard to believe that for over two thousand years, men and women lived here, cut off from the rest of the world • With a population never exceeding two hundred in its history, the St Kildans were fiercely self-sufficient. An intensely religious people, they climbed cliffs from childhood and caught birds for food. Their sense of community was unparalleled and isolation enveloped their day-to-day existence

A young slave girl accompanies her owner on an expedition into the African interior in search of a mythical city. In unfamiliar terrain, the party gets lost. One by one, our narrator's companions disappear, leaving her to take refuge in the hollow of a baobab tree. There, she finds the space and will to reflect upon her life's journey, telling her story to the boabab itself. This powerful fable, translated from Wilma Stockenstrom's original Afrikaans by Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee, is a remarkable portrait of dislocation and empowerment. It is also a brilliant insight into Cotezee's craft as a writer

Легко упустить из виду, что в большинстве случаев войны не происходит. По всему миру существуют миллионы враждебных соперничеств, но лишь незначительная их часть выливается в насилие. Используя нелогичный подход, в своей книге "Почему мы сражаемся. Корни войны и пути к миру" Блаттман напоминает нам, что большинство соперников спокойно ненавидят друг друга. Это потому, что война обходится слишком дорого. Враги почти всегда считают, что лучше разделить пирог пополам, чем портить его или бороться за тонкие ломтики. Итак, в тех редких случаях, когда завязывалась борьба, что удерживало соперников от компромисса? • Книга на английском языке • Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop them • It's easy to overlook that most of the time, war doesn't happen

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love • At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes' exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante’s crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy • This quartet of novels tell of Fante’s fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised

Новое подробное и доступное руководство Ричарда Бертине по приготовлению кондитерских изделий в домашних условиях • Кондитерское искусство является самым почитаемым стилем выпечки в мире и требует высочайшего уровня мастерства. В этой новой книге мастер-пекарь и автор бестселлеров Ричард Бертине делает кондитерскую доступной для домашних пекарей • Ричард без особых усилий проведет вас по сложным техникам с пошаговыми фотографиями и более чем 50 простыми рецептами приготовления самых почитаемых и знаменитых бисквитов, бисквитных коржей, меренг, тарталеток, эклеров и других классических десертов. С квалифицированной помощью Ричарда вы скоро будете готовить настоящие сладкие тарталетки, баваруа, галеты, макароны и муссы • Предлагая такие блюда, как лавандовые и апельсиновые эклеры, "гато Сент Оноре", "тарт тропизьен", "Пари Брест" и мусс "кассис кир ройял", кондитерский дом открывает мир божественных сладостей как новичкам, так и более опытным поварам

Истории о необъяснимом, о потерянных душах, о вещах, которые рушатся перед наступлением тишины. До того, как раздался крик • А некоторые истории просто исчезают. Истории, напечатанные в старых газетах, транслируемые в прямом эфире по радио, иногда даже вообще не публикуемые – это истории, которые вы не сможете найти даже на самых пыльных библиотечных полках • "Призраки из библиотеки" воскрешают забытые рассказы о сверхъестественном, написанные одними из самых известных авторов детективов всех времен. От Артура Конан Дойла и Джона Диксона Карра до Агаты Кристи и Дафны дю Морье - эта леденящая душу антология объединяет тринадцать неизданных рассказов о терроре, а также несколько дополнительных сюрпризов • Книга на английском языке • A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween

This book deals with the kinds of everyday questions working teachers face as they plan lessons and courses. Each chapter contains an analysis of the issue under discussion, as well as practical principles and sample activities