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A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer • In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a ‘good war’ in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. It has since turned into one of the longest and most expensive wars in recent history. The story of how this good war went so bad may well turn out to be a defining tragedy of the twenty-first century - yet, as acclaimed war correspondent Jack Fairweather explains, it should also give us reason to hope for an outcome grounded in Afghan reality • In The Good War, Fairweather provides the first full narrative history of the war in Afghanistan, from the 2001 invasion to the 2014 withdrawal

A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture – and what we can do to fight their influence • Four titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known • We shop with Amazon, socialise on Facebook, turn to Apple for entertainment, and rely on Google for information. They have conquered our culture and set us on a path to a world without private contemplation or autonomous thought: a world without mind • In this book, Franklin Foer makes a passionate, deeply informed case for the need to restore our inner lives and reclaim our intellectual culture before it is too late. At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. It is a message that could not be more timely

Мы живем в мире, полном игр • Более 31 миллиона человек в Великобритании являются геймерами • Среднестатистический молодой человек к двадцати одному году проведет за игрой 10 000 часов • Будущее принадлежит тем, кто играет в игры • В этой новаторской книге дальновидный геймдизайнер Джейн Макгонигай бросает вызов традиционному мышлению и показывает, что игры - далеко не просто эскапистское развлечение - обладают потенциалом не только радикально улучшить нашу собственную жизнь, но и изменить мир • Книга на английском языке • We are living in a world full of games • More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers • The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one • The future belongs to those who play games • In this ground-breaking book, visionary game designer Jane McGonigaI challenges conventional thinking and shows that games - far from being simply escapist entertainment - have the potential not only to radically improve our own lives but to change the world

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist • This might be the worst time in history to be an animal. But is there a happier way? • Factory farms, climate change, deforestation and pandemics have made our relationship with the other species unsustainable. In response, Henry Mance sets out on a personal quest to see if there is a fairer way to live alongside the animals we love. He goes to work in an abattoir and on a farm to investigate the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas around over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos and owning pets, and he meets the chefs, activists, scientists and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals

'An electric, warm, comforting and funny handbook on panic and how to cope and live alongside it' Laura Dockrill, author of What Have I Done? • Award-winning blogger and author Claire Eastham is an expert on panic. She's not a doctor or an academic, but over a seven-year period, she has experienced 371 panic attacks (and counting), and learnt a thing or two along the way • Part memoir, part guide, How I Learned to Live with Panic is an intimate, honest and ultimately uplifting exploration into panic attacks. In practical thematic chapters Claire covers the crisis points where panic can hit and interviews a host of people - scientists, professors, dieticians, psychologists and people who struggle with panic - to anatomise how it can be managed • Frank, funny and blazing, Claire's story will speak to all those seeking to reclaim their lives

Revisit and discover the sensational first cookbook from Nigella Lawson • When Nigella Lawson’s first book, How to Eat, was published in 1998, two things were immediately clear: that this fresh and fiercely intelligent voice would revolutionise cookery writing, and that How to Eat was an instant classic of the genre • Here was a versatile culinary bible, through which a generation discovered how to feel at home in the kitchen and found the confidence to experiment and adapt recipes to their own needs. This was the book to reach for when hastily organising a last-minute supper with friends, when planning a luxurious weekend lunch or contemplating a store-cupboard meal for one, or when trying to tempt a fussy toddler. This was a book about home cooking for busy lives

Sammy's had a bad week • Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared; and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure • Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May • 'After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time' Graham Greene • First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E. Bates’s stories of the heroic exploits of British bomber crews during the Second World War created a sensation when they appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the decades

Tara Fraser has a secret • Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no one • But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. And as hard as Tara tries to distance herself, she starts to drop her guard • Then a letter arrives. An old friend wants to meet up. Struggling to keep her old life at bay, Tara soon discovers the dangers of fighting the past

Двадцатилетие Шейлы шло по плану • Она вышла замуж • Она устраивала вечеринки • Один театр попросил ее написать пьесу • Потом она поняла, что не знает, как написать пьесу • Что ее любимой частью вечеринки была уборка после вечеринки • И что из-за своего брака она чувствовала себя так, словно врезалась в кирпичную стену • Итак, Шейла бросает свой брак и свою пьесу, заводит дружбу с Марго, свободной художницей, не подвергающейся пыткам, и начинает спать с доминирующим Израэлем, который гений в сексе, но не в искусстве. Она бросается записывать их и всех, кто ее окружает, исследуя, как они живут, отчаянно желая узнать, пока она блуждает, каким должен быть Человек? • Используя стенограммы, реальные электронные письма, а также изрядную долю художественной литературы, Шила Хети в своем романе "Каким должен быть человек?" проводит захватывающее, смелое и пронзительно смешное путешествие по сердцу и разуму одной женщины

Мы знаем, что Америка распространила свои деньги, язык и культуру по всему миру, но мы все еще думаем о ней как о замкнутой территории, окруженной Канадой сверху, Мексикой снизу и океанами по обе стороны. Но это огромное заблуждение • Книга Дэниела Иммервара "Как спрятать империю. Краткая история Великих Соединенных Штатов" - это история страны за пределами США – от завоеваний девятнадцатого века, таких как Аляска и Пуэрто-Рико, до каталога островов, архипелагов и военных баз, разбросанных по всему земному шару. Полная сюрпризов и ранее забытых эпизодов, эта увлекательная книга представляет прошлое и настоящее Америки в новом свете • Книга на английском языке • 'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times • The United States denies having dreams of empire

Ностальгическое и очень забавное празднование слегка небрежного места, которое мы называем домом: Великобритания • Вы бы обрадовались, если бы вас отправили в Ковентри? • Не могли бы вы заступиться за "Сток Сити" или большого Брэкнелла? • Сможете ли вы пережить трепет Рила, рай Халла или веселье Тидфила? • В фильме "Ты ужасен" Тим Мур объезжает на своем Austin Maestro все места на нашем любимом острове, куда никто не хочет ехать - наши самые убогие городки, самые убогие отели, самые страшные пабы и самые глупые морские зоопарки • Но по мере того, как разворачиваются сырые, дряхлые поиски, он обнаруживает, что странным образом поражен, и результатом становится зажигательное, ностальгическое празднование безумной, плохой, но ты мне нравишься Британии