Viking Rooted. Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution Langford Sarah

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? • How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? • How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong? • Do No Harm offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been lost among the soil • Why Women Grow is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. This book emerged from a deeply rooted desire to share the stories of women who are silenced and overlooked. In doing so, Alice fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women’s lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them, with conversations spanning creation and loss, celebration and grief, power, protest, identity and renaissance

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? • Told from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and hard-hitting tale of life behind bars by a prison doctor who has seen it all. Literally • Dr Shahed Yousaf spends his time running between emergencies - from overdoses to assaults, from cell fires to suicides - with one hand perpetually hovering over the panic button. Being a prison doctor is not for the faint-hearted • An outsider on the inside, in Stitched Up he introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters, including killers, con men and auto-cannibals. To Dr Yousaf, they are patients first and prisoners second - because any one of us could end up on the wrong side of the law • Dedicated to caring for people on the margins of society, he tells us honestly and compassionately what it's like to be their doctor in a system that's chronically overcrowded, drastically under-resourced and all too easy to ignore

A beautiful book of extinct and endangered creatures, and a hopeful look at the future • Shine a spotlight on animal species throughout history and the ones alive today in Animals Lost and Found, through beautiful illustrations and interesting facts. Children will learn about animals lost to extinction, animals we thought we'd lost but have found, and animals that are the focus of conservation efforts all over the world • This educational book for children aged 7+ is packed with intriguing information about extinction and the different possible causes of it. Children can learn about how natural and unnatural extinction relates to the world we live in today, in a clear and easy way • Animals Lost and Found features • - A very positive outlook on conservation efforts and success stories from around the world • - Focus pages on extinct and endangered animals - as well as one or two, who it turns out, never were! • - Beautiful illustrations by award-winning wildlife illustrator Jonathan Woodward • - Incredible conservation work that has been done around the world, like the reintroduction of Red Kites to Britain, and the effect the wolves had to the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park • - A global look at success stories and what it can do for the planet • Animals Lost and Found is not just about lost species, but also teaches children the incredible work that is happening around the world to prevent any further loss of species and looks at animals saved from extinction like the Blue Iguana! • Learn the incredible stories of uncovering species thought to have been gone, reintroduction of species, and what we as humans are doing and can continue to do to help

Originally published as Last Stories of Polly and the Wolf, the wolf is back again and determined to eat Polly. He set up all kinds of traps to try and get her into his clutches, but Polly is just too clever for him - until one day when things take a very unexpected turn - perhaps the stupid wolf is not quite so stupid after all...! • The timeless Clever Polly stories have delighted generations of children

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares. But the spectre of what might have been is one that has haunted us down the decades, finding expression in counterfactual history and outlandish fictions. What would a British occupation have looked like? • The answer lies closer to home than we think, in the experiences of the Channel Islanders – the only British people to bear the full brunt of German Occupation

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest (via Thomas Love Peacock's Maid Marian) to Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'. Here are forest-haunted fairy tales both classic (the Brothers Grimm) and inventively retold (Angela Carter). There is room in these woods for comedy as well as terror, in Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm, and Alexander McCall Smith's 'Head Tree'. Notable writers from around the world contribute arboreal fiction-from South Africa, Finland, France, Zimbabwe, Russia, Martinique, and India, as well as Britain, Ireland, Canada and America

Meet monsters, ogres and giants - plus a very grumpy troll - from all over the world. Ten entertaining stories include a female Jack climbing the beanstalk, a lonely ogre and a brave little tailor whose adventure begins with some annoying flies and a pot of jam

"Фантастически великие женщины. Правдивые истории об амбициях, приключениях и храбрости" - идеальный подарок для любознательных детей, которые хотят узнать все о самых фантастически великих женщинах в мире! • Полное собрание бестселлеров Кейт Панкхерст из серии "Фантастически великие женщины" собрано в потрясающем твердом переплете с золотой фольгой и обложкой, которая складывается в великолепный постер • Включает истории 56 женщин со всей истории и по всему миру с новым и оригинальным содержанием для этого специального издания • Книга на английском языке • The perfect gift for curious children who want to learn all about the world's most fantastically great women! • The complete collection of Kate Pankhurst's bestselling Fantastically Great Women series brought together in stunning hardback with gold foil and a cover that folds out into a fantastically great poster

Невероятные мемуары одного из самых выдающихся кардиохирургов мира, в которых он вспоминает некоторые из самых замечательных и острых случаев, над которыми он работал • Кардиохирургия - занятие не для слабонервных • Профессор Стивен Вестаби рискнул и раздвинул границы кардиохирургии. За свою тридцатипятилетнюю карьеру он спас сотни жизней, и теперь в своих поразительных мемуарах Уэстэби подробно описывает некоторые из своих самых замечательных и трогательных случаев - таких, как ребенок, перенесший множественные сердечные приступы в возрасте шести месяцев, женщина, пережившая кошмар синдрома замкнутости, и человек, чья жизнь в течение восьми лет питалась от батареи • Мощная, важная и невероятно трогательная книга "Хрупкие жизни" предлагает исключительное представление о волнующем, а иногда и трагическом мире кардиохирургии и о том, каково это - держать чью-то жизнь в своих руках

Книга о путешествии национального достояния на грань гибели и обратно • Однажды Майклу Розену начало нездоровиться. Затем последовали проблемы с дыханием, и он попал в стационар с коронавирусом, пока вся Британия находилась на грани эпидемии • На больничной койке он провёл несколько месяцев: шесть недель искусственной комы и ещё более долгий период восстановления и реабилитации. И на протяжении всего этого времени врачи сначала спасали жизнь Майкла, а потом поднимали его на ноги. Пока он находился в палате интенсивной терапии, ухаживавшие за ним медработники писали ему полные надежды и добрых пожеланий письма. А вскоре после того, как Майкл начал свой путь к полной поправке, он и сам был готов написать кое-что про свой опыт пребывания на грани между жизнью и смертью

Высокая ваза Leonardo, изготовленная в технике «маккия». В ходе производства небольшие кусочки стекла вплавляются в полотно материала, создавая уникальный рисунок из повторяющихся пятен. Для формирования рисунка требуется до пяти слоёв стекла • Изготовлен