Vintage books The Beauty and the Terror. An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance Fletcher Catherine

Специальное подарочное издание в честь 20-летия серии книг «Место на метле»! В футляре вы найдете комплект из двух книг с любимыми классическими историями с картинками, созданными Джулией Дональдсон и Акселем Шеффлером, авторами «Груффало». В книге «Место на метле» присоединяйтесь к ведьме и ее друзьям-животным в приключениях верхом на метле и узнайте, что происходит, когда они сталкиваются с жадным драконом! Затем отправьтесь в плавание вокруг света, мимо вулканов и айсбергов, и спасите кита в «Улитке и ките». Эти два бестселлера современной классики, созданные содружеством Джулии Дональдсон и Акселя Шеффлера. Книги с картинками упакованы в красивый футляр, что делает их идеальным подарком для всей семьи. Книга на английском языке • Celebrate 20 years of Room on the Broom, with this special gift slipcase edition of two much-loved classic stories from the bestselling picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo

A raucous, rhyming tale that will have children (and adults) in fits of laughter! • Cat is sitting on his favourite mat, when who should come along but Rat with a very nice hat? Cat wants Rat’s hat and will stop at NOTHING to get it. But when Bat arrives wearing a fancy cravat, well, what could be better than that? Chaos ensues as both Cat and Rat decide they MUST have Bat’s fancy cravat for themselves! • From Em Lynas and Matt Hunt comes this hilarious, read-aloud picture book, bursting with comic capers and animal antics • With a hilarious, tongue-twister text, slapstick humour, bright neon artwork and colourful, comic characters • Perfect for fans of Oi Frog!

Однажды холодной ночью двое новичков выходят на улицы Нью-Йорка 1899 года, и все уже никогда не будет по-старому • Но эти двое больше, чем чужаки на этой земле, они чужаки в этом мире. Из глубин фольклорной истории появился голем Хава, существо, сделанное из глины, оживленное опальным раввином и Ахмадом, джинном, родившимся в древней сирийской пустыне и заключенным в старую медную колбу, случайно выпущенную жестянщиком в магазине Нижнего Манхэттена • Два товарища, которым никогда не суждено было освободиться и никогда не суждено было встретиться. И когда они это сделают, их противоположные натуры будут скреплены особой связью, но такой, которой угрожают наблюдающие глаза, бродячие владельцы и непонимающий мир • Книга на английском языке • For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in • Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism • 'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and tender letters, Varoufakis educates her to what economics and capitalism is and why it is so dangerous • Taking from memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis turns Talking To My Daughter into an enjoyable and engaging read, without ever shying from the harder truths. Greece's former finance minister explains everything you need to know to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify • Over that time, popular music has transformed the world in which we live. Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down the street, how we face ourselves in the mirror, and how we handle the outside world in our daily conversations and encounters. It has influenced our morals and social mores; it has transformed our attitudes towards race and gender, religion and politics • From the beginning of recording, when a musical performance could be preserved for the first time, to the digital age, when all of recorded music is only a mouse-click away; from the straitlaced ballads of the Victorian era and the ‘coon songs’ that shocked America in the early twentieth century to gangsta rap, death metal and the multiple strands of modern dance music: Peter Doggett takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the history of music

This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre • It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors; of opening the doors of the National Theatre to a broader audience than ever before, and changing the public’s perception of what theatre is for. It is about probing Shakespeare from every angle and reinventing the classics. About fostering new talent and directing some of the most celebrated actors of our times. Its cast includes the likes of Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, Mike Leigh, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren • Intimate, candid and insightful, Balancing Acts is a passionate exploration of the art and alchemy of making theatre

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you’ll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randal • 66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed. The impact annihilated the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. But what if this catastrophe was the sign of something greater: an opening vista onto the interconnectedness of the universe itself? • This is the story of the astounding forces that underpin our existence; a horizon-expanding tour of the cosmos that unifies what we know about the universe with new thinking. From the far-flung reaches of space, the makeup of the universe and our solar system's place within it, to the mysterious and elusive stuff of dark matter and how it affects life here on Earth

Издание полностью на английском языке • Jean Le Viste, a fifteenth-century nobleman close to the King, hires an ambitious artist to design six tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. A talented miniaturist, Nicolas des Innocents overcomes his surprise at being offered this commission when he catches sight of his patron's sumptuous daughter, Claude • In Brussels, renowned weaver Georges de la Chapelle takes on the biggest challenge of his career. Never before has he attempted a work that puts so much at stake. Sucked into a world of temptation and seduction, he and his family are consumed by the project and by their dealings with the rogue painter from Paris

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? • Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires • In Another Now world-famous economist, Yanis Varoufakis, shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? • Varoufakis's boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and confronts us with the greatest question: are we able to build a better society, despite our flaws

В книгу вошел незначительно сокращенный и упрощенный текст всемирно известной сказки "Красавица и чудовище". Предназначается для начинающих изучать английский язык (уровень 1 - Elementary)

The definitive account of the modern art made in St Ives between the 1930s and the 1960s, telling the story of this extraordinary artistic community and its legacy • For twenty-five years the small town of St Ives was one of the leading places in the world for the production of avant-garde art. The community there spanned three generations and included such international figures as Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, as well as a number of the foremost artists in post-war Britain, including Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Roger Hilton. They found themselves contributing to the international search for art in the post-war world and they established a modernist practice that continues to influence today • The story of St Ives and artists who lived and worked there has captured the imagination of art lovers since it began

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her pre-history of Britain in Ancestors, Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead