The Hungry Empire. How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World Collingham Lizzie Random House, Inc.

A mouthwatering journey across the centuries and continents to discover how food drove the British Empire and shaped the world • 'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday Times WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018 • The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader. Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit. Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry • In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back • In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows. Across the twentieth century, water was dammed and drained in Holland so that a new province, Flevoland, rose up, unchartered and requiring new thinking. In 1850, California legislated the theft of land from Native Americans. An apology came in 2019 from the governor, but what of the call for reparations or return? What of government confiscation of land in India, or questions of fairness when it comes to New Zealand’s Maori population and the legacy of settlers? • The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside

A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we eat, The Way We Eat Now explains how modern food has transformed our lives and our world. To re-establish eating as something that gives us both joy and health, we need to find out where we are right now, how we got here and where we're going

Созданная Джеймсом А. Робинсоном и Дароном Аджемоглу книга "Узкий коридор. Как нации борются за свободу", основанная на десятилетиях исследований, отражает новую концепцию общей картины, объясняет, как некоторые страны развиваются в направлении свободы и обеспечивают ее, в то время как другие скатываются к деспотизму, анархии или жестким нормам - и объясняет, как свобода может процветать, несмотря на новые угрозы • Объясняя новую структуру мира с помощью захватывающих историй со всего света, из истории и сегодняшнего дня, с помощью единой диаграммы, на которой можно изобразить развитие любого государства, этоа книга помогает нам понять прошлое и настоящее и проанализировать будущее • Книга на английском языке • By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats

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A volume concerned with best practice in blended learning for language teaching • The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching makes the case that it is pedagogy, rather than technology, that should underpin the design of blended learning programmes. The book is organised into five sections: Connecting Theories and Blended Learning; Implications for Teaching; Rethinking Learner Interaction; Case Studies; The Future of Blended Learning. With its research-informed and practitioner-focused approach, this book is ideal for language teachers and language centre managers looking to broaden their understanding of pedagogy and blended learning. It will also be of interest to anyone working on blended learning course design or delivering teacher training courses

The new economics of culture and commerce • What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? • In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits - the high-volume end of a traditional demand curve - but in what used to be regarded as misses - the endlessly long tail of that same curve. As our world is transformed by the Internet and the near infinite choice it offers consumers, so traditional business models are being overturned and new truths revealed about what consumers want and how they want to get it

«Голодный прилив» — четвертый роман индийского писателя Амитава Гоша • Январь 2001: Небольшой корабль богатого шотландца Дэниела Гамильтона, прибывает в Сундарбанс, обширный архипелаг островов на мифической реке Ганг, полузатонувшую землю, где воды Гималаев сливаются с набегающими морскими приливами • В Сундарбане приливы достигают более 100 миль вглубь страны, и каждый день тысячи гектаров леса исчезают, чтобы через несколько часов появиться вновь. Какими бы густыми ни были мангровые леса, с точки зрения Гамильтона, они лишь немногим менее бесплодны, чем пустыня • Эксцентричный шотландец и ученые на борту корабля высаживаются на берег, чтобы изучить эту малоизвестную среду обитания • Книга на английском языке • A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author • 'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer… I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling to go so far, so fast' The Times • January 2001: A small ship, led by wealthy Scotsman Daniel Hamilton, arrives in the Sundarbans, a vast archipelago of islands in the mythical river Ganges, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea

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Capitalism has lost its way • Every week brings fresh news stories about businesses exploiting their staff, avoiding their taxes, and ripping off their customers. Every week, public anger at the system grows. Now, one of Britain's foremost entrepreneurs intervenes to make the case for putting business back firmly in the service of society, and setting out on a new path to a kinder, fairer form of capitalism • Drawing on four decades of hands-on management experience, the founder of Richer Sounds argues that ethically run businesses are invariably more efficient, more motivated and more innovative than those that care only about the bottom line. He uncovers the simple tools that the best leaders use to make their businesses fair, revealing how others can follow suit

Kate Reddy is counting down the days until she is fifty, but not in a good way • Fifty, in Kate’s mind, equals invisibility, and she’s caught between her traitorous hormones, unknowable teenage children and ailing parents • She’s back at work after a break, now that her husband Rich has dropped out of the rat race to master the art of mindfulness. But just as Kate is finding a few tricks to get by, her old client and flame Jack reappears – complicated doesn’t even begin to cover it…