William Collins Farewell Kabul. From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World Lamb Christina

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Книга Кристины Лэмб "Прощай, Кабул. Из Афганистана в более опасный мир" рассказывает о том, как Запад превратил успех в поражение в самой продолжительной войне, которую вели Соединенные Штаты в своей истории и Великобритания со времен Столетней войны. Это история о мужчинах и женщинах с благими намерениями, отправляющихся в место, которого они совершенно не понимали. И как то, что когда-то было правильным поступком, превратилось в конфликт, из которого все хотели выйти. Это было фиаско, из-за которого Афганистан по-прежнему остается одной из беднейших и наиболее опасных стран на земле • Книга на английском языке • From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did the West’s war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East go so wrong? • Farewell Kabul tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War подробнее

In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the British press • Katharine’s decision would change her life forever, as she was arrested under the Official Secrets Act whilst becoming a cause celebre for political activists. The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War is the definitive account of a whistleblower case that reads like a thriller, and will ask you the same question that was asked of Katharine that cold January day – where do your true loyalties lie?

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William Collins Protestants. The Radicals Who Made the Modern World Ryrie Alec

Пятьсот лет назад протестантское христианство началось с одного упрямого монаха – сегодня оно охватывает миллиард человек по всему земному шару • Переворот, спровоцированный Мартином Лютером, вдохновил одно из самых созидательных и разрушительных движений в истории человечества. "Протестанты. Радикалы, создавшие Современный мир" - это история мужчин и женщин, которые создали и переделали эту воинственную веру, требуя пугающих новых свобод и экспериментируя с новыми системами правления. Вдохновленные своими новыми доступными Библиями, они преобразили свою внутреннюю жизнь, и эта трансформация вылилась в социальные потрясения и политические революции. Потрясающая история Алека Райри исследует, как его неугомонная энергия создала и продолжает создавать современный мир

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William Collins Exactly. How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Winchester Simon

Точность - ключ ко всему. Это неотъемлемый, неоспоримый и существенный компонент нашего современного социального, коммерческого, научного, механического и интеллектуального ландшафта. Предметы, которые мы ценим в повседневной жизни – фотоаппарат, телефон, компьютер, велосипед, автомобиль, возможно, посудомоечная машина, – все это спортивные компоненты, которые точно сочетаются друг с другом и работают практически идеально. Мы также предполагаем, что чем точнее устройство, тем оно лучше. И все же, хотя мы живем жизнью, насыщенной точностью, мы, когда задумываемся об этом, не совсем уверены в том, что такое точность и что она означает. Как и когда она начала строить современный мир? • Рассказывая об умах и методах, изменивших современный мир, Винчестер исследует фундаментальные вопросы

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William Collins Erdogan Rising. A Warning to Europe Smith Hannah Lucinda

Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into dictatorship? How has chaos in the Middle East blown back over Turkey's borders? And why doesn't the West just cut off Erdogan and his regime? • Offering extraordinary, eye-opening insight into a country that often hides its cards, Hannah Lucinda Smith combines a history of modern Turkey with close-up studies of its mercurial leader, its tumultuous politics and the broader political currents playing across Europe

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William Collins Gareth Malone's Guide to Classical Music Malone Gareth

Вас когда-нибудь увлекало какое-нибудь произведение классической музыки? Грустная песня одинокой скрипки может заставить нас плакать, но идея узнать больше о классической музыке часто может быть пугающей. Есть музыкальные термины, которые мы не узнаем, умершие композиторы, с которыми мы не можем установить связь, и ощущение, что нам никогда не давали нужных инструментов, чтобы ценить, понимать и, самое главное, наслаждаться классической музыкой • Итак, хотите ли вы узнать больше о великих композиторах, добавить почти бесконечное разнообразие в свой плейлист для iPod или просто интересуетесь, чего вам может не хватать, "Путеводитель Гарета Мэлоуна по классической музыке" развлечет вас, даст информацию и полностью вдохновит • Книга на английском языке

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William Collins Autonomy. The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How It Will Reshape Our World Burns Lawrence

From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes the definitive story of the race between Google, Tesla and Uber to create the driverless car • We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the time we spend in cars can be put to more productive use. We will prevent more than 90 percent of car crashes, provide freedom of mobility to the elderly and disabled and decrease our dependence on fossil fuels • Autonomy tells the story of the maverick engineers and computer experts who triggered the revolution

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William Collins It All Adds Up. The Story of People and Mathematic Launay Mickael

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet • From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life • In this international bestseller, Mickael Launay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Launay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects around us to explain what art can reveal about geometry, how Babylonian scholars developed one of the first complex written languages, and how ‘Arabic’ numbers were adopted from India

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William Collins A History of Water. Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History Wilson-Lee Edward

From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal • A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music – returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other – a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan – ends up as the national poet of Portugal • The stories of Damiao de Gois and Luis de Camoes capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life

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William Collins The Lost Rainforests of Britain Shrubsole Guy

From the bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests – and an inspiring intervention to help restore them to the places they once were • In 2020, writer and campaigner Guy Shrubsole moved from London to Devon. As he explored the wooded valleys, rivers and tors of Dartmoor, Guy discovered a spectacular habitat that he had never encountered before: temperate rainforest. Entranced, he would spend the coming months investigating the history, ecology and distribution of rainforests across England, Wales and Scotland • Britain, Guy discovered, was once a rainforest nation • This is the story of a unique habitat that has been so ravaged, most people today don’t realise it exists. Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain and played host to a dazzling variety of luminous life-forms, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s most loved creations

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William Collins A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Newby Eric

A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth • It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable – CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? – setting in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul • Inexperienced and ill prepared (their preparations involved nothing more than some tips from a Welsh waitress), the amateurish rogues embark on a month of adventure and hardship in one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth – a journey that adventurers with more experience and sense may never have undertaken

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William Collins The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless. A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic Lamb Christina

A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain • When Covid-19 hit the UK and lockdown was declared, Mike Matthews wondered how his four-star hotel would survive. Then the council called. The British government had launched a programme called ‘ Everyone In ’ and 33 rough sleepers – many of whom had spent decades on the street – needed beds.The Prince Rupert Hotel would go on to welcome well over 100 people from this community, offering them shelter, good food and a comfy bed during the pandemic • This is the story of how that luxury hotel spent months locked down with their new guests, many of them traumatised, addicts or suffering from mental illness. As a world-leading foreign correspondent turning her attention to her own country for the first time, Christina Lamb chronicles how extreme situations were handled and how shocking losses were suffered, how romances emerged between guests and how people grappled with their pasts together

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William Collins Silk. A History in Three Metamorphoses Prasad Aarathi

There is not just one story of silk • In silk is science, history and mythology • In silk is the future • Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia • Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia • For silk, prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired – from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to holograms – continue to be developed in laboratories around the world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed, sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet

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3 878 руб.

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