William Collins First Steps. How Walking Upright Made Us Human DeSilva Jeremy

Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in tears. She could barely find the strength to get off the sofa, let alone piece her life back together. Until one day she did something she had never done of her own free will – she pulled on a pair of trainers and went for a run • That first attempt didn’t last very long. But to her surprise, she was back out there the next day. And the day after that. She began to set herself achievable goals – to run 5k in under 30 minutes, to walk to work every day for a week, to attempt 10 push-ups in a row. Before she knew it, her mood was lifting for the first time in years • In Jog On, Bella explains with hilarious and unfiltered honesty how she used running to battle crippling anxiety and depression, without having to sacrifice her main loves: booze, cigarettes and ice cream

The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done • In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change • Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do

Это книга о заброшенных местах: городах–призраках и зонах отчуждения, ничейных землях и островах-крепостях - и о том, что происходит, когда природе позволено вернуть себе прежнее место • В Чернобыле,после ядерной катастрофы,лишь горстка людей вернулась в свои опасно облученные дома. На необитаемом шотландском острове одичавший крупный рогатый скот живет совершенно дико. В Детройте,некогда четвертом по величине городе Америки,целые улицы домов обрушиваются сами по себе,мародеры проскальзывают по тихим в остальном кварталам • Эта книга исследует необычные места,где люди больше не живут – или выживают в крошечных,ненадежных количествах, – чтобы дать нам представление о том, что происходит,когда воздействие человечества на природу вынуждено прекратиться

In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible stories of three women who raised three world-changing men • Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open police vitriol • It was a society that would deny their sons' humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons

В этой захватывающей книге Ричард Холмс, автор бестселлера "Эпоха чудес",рассказывает о смелых и загадочных мужчинах и женщинах,которые рисковали своей жизнью,чтобы подняться в воздух. Почему они это сделали, что думали о них современники и как их полеты раскрыли тайны нашей планеты - это захватывающее приключение,о котором мог рассказать только Холмс • Это не обычная история полетов на воздушном шаре. В каком-то смысле на самом деле речь идет вовсе не о воздушных шарах. Речь идет о том,что породили воздушные шары. Речь идет о самом духе открытий и о той необычайной человеческой драме, которую он порождает • От драматического и волнующего раннего англо-французского соперничества на воздушных шарах,сумасшедших полетов красавицы Софи Бланшар с фейерверками,дальних перелетов американского предпринимателя Джона Уайза и французского фотографа Феликса Надара до воздушных шаров,используемых для наблюдения за ужасами современных сражений во время Гражданской войны

Эта блестящая новая книга исследует жизни восьми поколений величайших королей и королев, которых когда-либо видела эта страна, и худших из них. Плантагенеты - их история - это история Британии • Величайшая королевская династия Англии, Плантагенеты, правила Англией на протяжении восьми поколений королей. Их замечательное правление привело к тому, что Англия вышла из Средневековья и превратилась в высокоорганизованное королевство, раскинувшееся на обширных просторах Европы. Правление Плантагенетов ознаменовалось установлением законов и созданием произведений искусства, памятников и гробниц, которые сохранились до наших дней и продолжают говорить об их утонченности, жестокости и тайнах • Дэн Джонс предлагает вам новое видение этой изуродованной битвами истории

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city – from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between – to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them

Collins First English Words is the perfect first dictionary for kindergarten-aged learners of English. Packed full of fun and useful everyday vocabulary, this beautifully illustrated dictionary will capture the imagination of young children and encourage a love for learning English • The dictionary contains 36 themes, each fully illustrated with fun and engaging scenarios. Three characters, Ben, Daisy and Keekee the monkey, guide the children through their daily lives and introduce them to the 300 English words young children need to learn • There are songs and games for every theme for children to engage with. Collins First English Words aims to make learning English fun

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world • How did the descendants of small arboreal primates manage to stand on our own two feet, become top predators and take over the world? • In The Wood Age, Roland Ennos shows that the key to humanity’s success has been our relationship with wood. He takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year journey from great apes who built their nests among the trees to early humans who depended on wood for fire, shelter, tools and weapons; from the structural design of wheels and woodwinds, to the invention of paper and the printing press • Drawing together recent research and reinterpreting existing evidence from fields as far-ranging as primatology, anthropology, archaeology, history, architecture, engineering and carpentry, Ennos charts for the first time how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has shaped our bodies and minds, societies and lives

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading • After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness. Delving into humanity's deep evolutionary past to look at how complex creatures like us emerged from single-celled life, he offers a new perspective on how humans think about ourselves • In an age when we are increasingly encouraged to regard the 'self' as an abstract sequence of genetic information, or as a pattern of neural activity that might be 'downloaded' to a computer, he return us to the body – to flesh and blood – and anchors a conception of personhood in this unique and ephemeral mortal coil

The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild • What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? • Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place? • How can the isolation of the South Pole highlight what’s most important? And how can we tap into the same reflective state in our daily lives? • Writing during the unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic and drawing on a wealth of personal stories, Ben reflects on the significance of nature to all our lives and shows us how we can benefit from living a little more wild • Drawing on his greatest adventures, he shares what his time spent in the wilderness has taught him about life

Where can a walk take you? • It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking • In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated walking,’ Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. ‘It isn’t a walking city,’ Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Island, Will Self hopes to avoid landmines. In a forest north of Berlin, Jessica J. Lee gets soaked, then lost. And pacing around Delhi, Keshava Guha is interrupted by a husky