While Mortals Sleep Vonnegut K Random House, Inc

"Пока смертные спят" - это сборник рассказов одного из самых оригинальных писателей американской фантастики. Действие происходит в трейлерах, барах и на фабриках, Воннегут рисует мир, где люди и машины, искусство и выдумка, слава и богатство причудливо переплетаются, а персонажи противопоставляют свои мечты и страхи жестокому и комично безразличному миру. Написанные в начале его карьеры и никогда ранее не публиковавшиеся, эти истории пронизаны характерной для Воннегута смесью наблюдательности, воображения и грубого юмора • Книга на английском языке • Издание полностью на английском языке • While Mortals Sleep is a Smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. Set in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice fame and fortune become curiously twisted, and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and comically indifferent world

From the creator of hit podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat comes a revolutionary re-envisioning of how to enjoy your job • Do you want to get more done, feel less stressed and love your job again? • Sometimes having a job can feel like hard work. But between Monk Mode mornings, silent meetings and crisp Thursdays, the solutions are at your fingertips • Bruce Daisley knows a thing or two about the workplace. In the course of a career that has taken him from some of the world's biggest media companies to Twitter, via Google and YouTube, he has become a leading expert on how we work now. And in his hugely popular podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has explored ways to fix it. Now he shares 30 brilliant - and refreshingly simple - tips on how to make your job more productive, more rewarding - and much, much more enjoyable

"Тетки – не джентльмены" роман П.Г. Вудхауса о приключениях Дживса и Вустера • По предписанию врача Берти Вустер отправляется в деревню восстанавливать здоровье. Но вскоре отдых нарушен чередой событий с участием эксцентричной девушки, ее маниакально ревнивого жениха и грубияна папаши, соседа-полковника, имеющего все основания подозревать, что под личиной Вустера скрывается знаменитый вор экстра-класса, и тетушки Далии, придумавшей поистине дьявольский план, как выиграть на местных скачках • Книга на английском языке • Wooster withdraws to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor's orders, to "sleep the sleep of the just." Only the presence of the irrepressible Aunt Dahlia shatters the rustic peace

In sport, money is everything • Behind every victory lap, every goal celebration, every triumph against the odds and every dropped relay baton is a story of money • Why would someone pull the plug on a Premier League match? • What prompts an athlete to search for sponsorship on eBay? • How can the decision of a drinks brand CEO make or break an entire sport? • Why would a sprinter think they can’t afford not to dope? • Sport Inc. reveals the behind-the-scenes finances that drive sport - who gets rich and who gets left on the bench • Through investigations into a wide range of sports, including how football agents really work, the betting industry and corruption, esports, the NFL’s efforts to take over the world and the real cost of hosting events like the World Cup and the Olympics, the financial realities of our obsession with sport are exposed

"The Last Watch" is the stunning sequel to the Night Watch trilogy, following the fortunes of the Others. Indistinguishable from normal people but possessed of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark, or to the Light...While on holiday in Scotland, visiting 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapple with the fact that the cause of the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton - the hero of the Night Watch trilogy - is detailed to this seemingly mundane investigation, but begins to realise that there is much more to the story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder, and discovers that a team of unlicensed Others are hunting for a fabled magical treasure, hidden in the sixth level of the Twilight by Merlin himself

GIGGED goes inside the Silicon Valley companies leading the way to this emerging ‘gig economy’. It tells the stories of the workers – from computer programmers to online comment moderators – who are getting by in a new wave of precarious, short-term employment. And it sketches out what tomorrow’s economy might look like: one where the fortunate get to work when they want, how they want, while the rest live lives of extraordinary hardship • It might just be the future of work for all of us

A Jeeves and Wooster novel Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop. With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after that, the fun really starts

Сегодня Рождество, и Люси с Томом готовятся к нему! • Нужно сделать открытки, украсить елку и спрятать подарки • И как ты можешь заснуть, когда, возможно, приближается Дед Мороз? • Сегодня Рождество, и Люси с Томом готовятся к нему! • Нужно сделать открытки, украсить елку и спрятать подарки • И как ты можешь заснуть, когда, возможно, приближается Дед Мороз? • Книга на английском языке • It’s Christmas, and Lucy and Tom are getting ready! • There are cards to make, a tree to decorate and presents to hide • And how can you get to sleep when Father Christmas may be coming? • This classic picture book from the creator of Dogger is the perfect book for Christmas excitement

THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Express • WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? • 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if it's possible.' STEPHEN KING • 'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES • 'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH • Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land • It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination - a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor - before night falls and curfew is imposed • He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm

Moscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words life has become better, life has become merrier. Moscow Chestnova bears her captial's name, and seeks the happiness it promises. She flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world around her. In an age of spin and soundbites, this anarchic satire retains its bite

Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances and nervous advances, meddling parents and self-important cousins, society whisperings and the fluttering hearts of young lovers. All of them have their own views and expectations of marriage, and Austen's are the wisest of all

The first book of the blockbuster trilogy is the basis for the buzzed about Fox TV series, The Passage, set to premiere in January 2019. An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape but he can't stop civilization's collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world