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‘A brilliant book about singing… I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices] you have the opportunity to hear what I have heard. I hope you take it’ Nick Hornby in The Believer • What happens when we fall in love with a voice; the siren call of someone singing? • The history of post-war popular music is traditionally told sociologically or in terms of musicological influence and innovation in style. Voices takes a different tack. In ten discrete but cohering essays Coleman tackles the arc of that history as if it were an emotional experience with real psychological consequences – as chaotic, random, challenging and unpredictable as life itself • Voices is the story of what it is to listen and learn

A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message • The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already • Scientists are only just beginning to understand the astonishing significance of these northern forests for all life on Earth. At the treeline, Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the forest; we have always evolved with trees and The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might take us next

Роман Эриха Ремарка "Возвращение" - это история о тех, кому посчастливилось выжить • Старая, старая песня: "Когда ты вернешься домой, солдат…" И что тогда? А тогда - страна в развалинах. А тогда - нищета, кризис, отчаяние одних - и исступленное, истерическое веселье других. И деньги, деньги. Где взять денег? Любовь? Вы издеваетесь! Порядочность? Устаревшее слово! Каждый сам за себя. Каждый выживает в одиночку… • Книга на английском языке • The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic • After four gruelling years the survivors of the Great War finally make their way home. Young, spirited Ernst is one. Finding himself inexplicably returned to his childhood bedroom, restless, chafing, confused, he knows he must somehow resurrect his life

Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice • Alice is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian emigre. Lewis is there to make his first acquaintance with one of the greatest cities in the world; neither can foresee the momentous events that lie in wait for them • Valentina slowly casts a spell over Lewis, but when her past begins to encroach on all their lives and, as this enchanted world is gradually lost, Lewis is driven on a terrifying quest

Великолепная и опережающая время сатира Энтония Троллопа о нечестном финансисте, который покупает свой путь в коррумпированное общество и погружает его в смятение • Когда Мелмотты приезжают в Лондон, все соглашаются с тем, что им не хватает манер, а их вкусы раздражают, их происхождение и прошлое довольно призрачны. Но их деньги далеко не отвратительны и городское общество быстро делает надбавки таинственному финансисту и его семье. Сердца, умы и семейные сбережения быстро попали в водоворот щедрых вечеринок и завораживающих инвестиционных планов Августа Мелмотта. Но является ли все это продуманным мошенничеством? • Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life much like her mother's. Instead - after three divorces and with a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval - she ran away to follow her own path in Edo, the city we now call Tokyo • Stranger in the Shogun's City is a rare, captivating portrait of one woman as she endeavours to recreate herself and her life, and provides a window into the drama and excitement of Japan at a pivotal moment in history

Discover the mindset that made Lawrence Okolie a champion • 'Whatever your situation, I want to help you. I'm proud of the changes I've made to my life. While flipping burgers in McDonald's, I found my ambition and now I'm a boxing champion. I've changed how I look at myself. how I look at the world. and I've improved my lifestyle • If I can do this. I know you can too • Perhaps you're feeling scared. a bit hopeless or unsure about where you're heading in life and what to do next? Maybe you feel stuck and you can't see a way out? I want to help you to change your life.' Lawrence Okolie • Discover • How anything is possible • Why you don't need luck but you do need purpose and faith • When fear and risks are good things • Why positive energy and kindness are essential • How curiosity is power • That you are not defined by your past • Why you shouldn't fear failure • That you can control your future • And much more

James Smith has already changed thousands of lives with his international phenomenon Not A Diet Book. Are you ready to change yours? • Are you sick of always wearing black and getting undressed in the dark? • Are you fixated with a number on the scales? • Are you afraid to step into the gym and commit to a routine? • Is your confidence at an all-time low? • Is all of this having a negative impact on your life, relationships and happiness? • With every tool you'll ever need to learn to reset your current mindset and attitude towards your diet and training, chapters include • - Fat loss versus muscle gain • - Metabolism and 'body types' • - Protein targets and calorie tracking • - Common fitness fallacies • - Female fat loss • - Supplements • - Training versus exercising • - The importance of sleep • - Forming habits • This book will put you back in control

Allen Carr’s Easy way is the most effective stop-smoking method of all time and has also been successfully applied to a wide range of other issues, including drinking, overeating, and overspending. In this book the method addresses the fastest-growing social problem of modern times: gambling. Allen Carr explains how gamblers fall into the trap and why they keep gambling despite knowing that it’s ruining their lives. By explaining the nature of the trap, he removes the desire to gamble and the fears that keep you hooked. Most important of all, you will not feel that you’ve made a sacrifice, you will not miss gambling, and you will be free to regain control of your life and enjoy it to the fullest

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery. They fear drinking less will be boring, difficult and involve deprivation, and significant lifestyle changes • This Naked Mind offers a new solution. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, it will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture. Annie Grace brilliantly weaves psychological, neurological, cultural, social and industry factors with her extraordinarily candid journey resulting in a must read for anyone who drinks • This book, without scare tactics, pain or rules, gives you freedom from alcohol. By addressing causes rather than symptoms it is a permanent solution rather than lifetime struggle

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great • But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? • Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history • Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity – and explains how they made us who we are today

Lockdown has been hard on relationships. Put your relationship first in 2021 with this powerful and nuanced guide to new ways of learning to live - and love - together • Living together can be a struggle. Children grow up, jobs change and the things that used to make us happy don't necessarily work anymore. Relationships can lose their shine • In The Rough Patch Daphne de Marneffe shows us a way through these potentially difficult years to a life lived with integrity, vitality and love. She offers us seasoned wisdom on the psychological, emotional and relational capacities we need in order to overcome our problems as individuals and as couples. Every reader will find himself or herself in these pages • Blending research, interviews and clinical experience, de Marneffe covers the key problems that challenge us in midlife with wit and warmth