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Nurses have never been more important • We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all • In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' work • - A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering from severe depression • - A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team; his school nurse visits and he drops the bravado • - A pregnant woman loses frightening amounts of blood following a car accident; it is a military nurse who synchronises the emergency department into immaculate order and focus • Christie makes a further discovery: that, time and again, it is patients and their families - including her own - who show exceptional strength in the most challenging times

В книге "Самость и разум" всемирно известный нейробиолог Антонио Дамасио опровергает давнюю идею о том, что сознание отделено от тела, представляя убедительные новые научные доказательства того, что сознание - то, что мы считаем разумом с самостью, - на самом деле является биологическим процессом, созданным живым организмом. Его точка зрения влечет за собой радикальное изменение в том, как рассматривается и рассказывается история сознательного разума, предполагая, что развитие мозгом человеческого "я" является вызовом безразличию природы • Книга на английском языке • The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? • In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism

Из угла затемненной комнаты Джой Стоун наблюдает за собой. По мере того как непрошеные воспоминания о смерти ее возлюбленного и матери всплывают на поверхность, жизнь для Джой сужается – до обсуждения каждого дня, каждой встречи, каждой секунды; до поиска уловки, позволяющей продолжать жить. Рассказанная с потрясающей ясностью и ироничным остроумием, эта шотландская классика подходит для нашего времени • Книга на английском языке • From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows – to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time

В 1918 году Эрнест Хемингуэй отправился на войну. Он поступил добровольцем на службу скорой помощи в Италии, был ранен и дважды награжден. Результатом его опыта стало "Прощание с оружием". Незабываемая книга Хемингуэя с полной убедительностью воссоздает страх, мужество и товарищество на войне. Но "Прощание с оружием" - это не только роман о войне, это также история любви, полная огромного драматизма и бескомпромиссной страсти • Книга на английском языке • In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's unforgettable book recreates the fear, the courage and the comradeship of warfare with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world • Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap/ There are morality tales such as 'The Restaurant of Many Orders', where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa's best-known 'Night Train to the Stars', where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens • These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers

They care for their elderly, play with their kids, and always put family first. Can we all learn something from the wisdom of wolves? • In this unforgettable book, wolf expert and naturalist Elli Radinger draws on her 25 years of first-hand experience among the wolves of Yellowstone National Park to tell us their remarkable stories • Wolves are more human than we ever knew • In fact, they can teach us how to be better humans • They play, love, care for others, show compassion, die of broken hearts, pine for home, work in teams, are endlessly patient and leaders know when to defer to followers • In The Wisdom of Wolves naturalist Elli Radinger takes us on a journey into the heart of the wolf pack, revealing • what they can teach us about family, cooperation, survival, leadership, commitment and how to enjoy what life gives us

Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies • But he's set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in time? • Will he be able to say what he couldn't say before? He can't concentrate on what is happening now: his mind won't sit still. Should he try to solve his friend's marital crisis? Should he reconsider his separation from his own wife? And why does he need to pee again? • In Extremis is Tim Parks's masterwork: a darkly hilarious and deadly serious novel about infidelity, mortality and the frailties of the human body

Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves • From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world • Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches • Vesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us

В своей первой коллекции Джордж Сондерс представил наше ближайшее будущее настолько мрачным и забавным, насколько это возможно. Он берет нас с собой в путешествие по торговым центрам, тематическим паркам и опасностям для окружающей среды, которые находятся буквально за углом хронологии, знакомя нас с бандой неудачников, борющихся за выживание во все более запутанном мире. Причудливые, но знакомые, жестокие, но всегда человечные - это потрясающе оригинальные истории мастера формы • Книга на английском языке • In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, introducing us to a gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds. By night, he slept under hedges, in woodlands and on riverbanks. It was the beginning of a life in nature • Years later, now working as a gardener and mole-catcher in the Welsh countryside, Marc tells of the experiences that have shaped him and of the wonders that he encounters each day. He considers, too, the fascinating ways of the mole and the myths that surround this curious creature • This beautiful, meditative book explores what nature can teach us about ourselves and our search for contentment. It is a celebration of living peacefully and finding joy in the world around us

Tudor tells a family story like no other • The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious family. But beyond the well-worn headlines is a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew • The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family's obscure Welsh origins; it passes by the courage of the pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty; and the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their past - those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to forget • With this background, Leanda de Lisle enables us to see the Tudors in their own terms and presents new perspectives and revelations on key figures and events, from the princes in the Tower to the Tudor Queens