William Collins What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young. The Art and Science of Growing Up Sylvester Rachel, Thomson Alice

Создайте свою собственную удачу, возможности и везение с помощью книги "Образ мышления. Искусство и наука создания удачи" Кристиана Буша, ведущего академика Лондонской школы экономики • Жизнь полна неожиданностей: случайных встреч, изменения планов, отложенных поездок и других несчастий. Но что, если бы мы могли использовать непредсказуемость в своих интересах? • Доктор Кристиан Буш потратил десятилетие на изучение того, как неожиданные встречи могут улучшить наше мировоззрение, расширить круг общения и создать новые профессиональные возможности. В этой книге Кристиан раскрывает секреты скрытой силы, которая управляет нашей жизнью: прозорливости • Книга на английском языке • Create your own luck, opportunities and fortune with the help of a leading London School of Economics academic • Life is full of the unexpected: chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys and other mishaps

Физический мир невероятно сложен, но большинству из нас удаётся в нём ориентироваться. Мы можем двигаться по незнакомым улицам, сохраняя чувство направления, срезать углы на дорогах, которыми раньше никогда не пользовались, и на долгие годы запоминать места, в которых бывали лишь однажды. Эти умения поразительны • То, как мы воспринимаем физическое пространство, было ключевым фактором нашей эволюции: именно способность ориентироваться в географическом пространстве дало человеку разумному преимущество над остальными видами людей. Даже наши дети – инстинктивные первооткрыватели, у которых во время перемещения быстро развивается пространственное понимание. Сегодня, к сожалению, мало кто из нас пользуется навыками навигации, которые мы унаследовали от своих кочевых предков

The official behind-the-scenes companion to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, featuring cast and crew interviews, photos, and insights about making the film • For fans of Dungeons & Dragons and the upcoming fantasy adventure film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, this gorgeous tome showcases the storytelling, worldbuilding, and creativity behind the movie • Join in the adventures across Faerun with stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, Justice Smith, Rege-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, and the rest of the dedicated cast and crew on their journey to bring the world of Dungeons & Dragons to life. With sections that highlight fan-favorite characters, monsters, and settings, plus explorations of key scenes from the film, this book is packed with production photos, concept art, storyboards, interviews, and more

Picking up where Liar’s Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer’s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners • Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street’s brightest and best, Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions • It became the banks’ own favourite fund and from its inception achieved a run of dizzyingly spectacular returns

For fans of Charles Duhig, Malcolm Gladwell and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of hot streaks • For decades, psychologists and economists have studied the science of streaks to determine whether the ‘hot hand’ exists. Is there such a thing as being in the zone? Or it simply a case of seeing patterns in randomness? Genius scholars and Nobel Prize winners have dedicated years to answering this question. A substantial number of the decisions we make each day are rooted in two opposing beliefs: that if something happened before, it will happen again – or if it happened before, it probably won’t happen again • The Hot Hand is an incredibly entertaining and provocative investigation into the seductive idea that streaks not only exist but can be created

Морские птицы – настоящие мастера навигации, обитающие в самой неприветливой среде на Земле. Книга Адама Николсона основана на последних исследованиях. Вместе с ним мы отправимся в Шотландию, Ирландию, Исландию, Норвегию и Америку. The Seabird’s Cry с превосходными иллюстрациями Кейт Боксер отдает дань уважения единственным существам, которые проводят свою жизнь в воздухе, на суше и в море. Но эта книга также является и предостережением: с 1950-го года численность морских птиц сократилась на две трети. Вымирание продолжается, и есть вероятность, что величественные крики морских птиц могут остаться всего лишь воспоминанием… • The Seabird’s Cry. The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers – это полная история морских птиц от одного из величайших писателей о природе

Издание на английском языке. The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals by Peter J. Ucko and G.W. Dimbleby. This volume results from presentations at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, discussing the domestication and exploitation of plants and animals. Workers in the archaeological, anthropological, and biological fields attempted to bridge the gap between their respective disciplines through personal contact and discussion. Modern techniques and the result of their application to the classical problems of domestication, selection, and spread of cereals and of cattle were discussed, but so were comparable problems in plants and animals not previously considered in this context

В интернет-магазине shop.buka.ru вы можете купить цифровую версию игры The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante с активацией в сервисе Steam • The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante – это нарративная ролевая игра на страницах дневника главного героя. Вас ждет история о безжалостном мире, жестоко карающем за нарушение его законов, и о человеке, бросившем ему вызов

As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood's insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to the centre of political power in this country for more than 25 years • He directly served four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the first and only Permanent Secretary of 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Secretary and the Head of the Home Civil Service. He was at the centre of every crisis from the early 1990s until 2018 and most of the key meetings. Invariably, when faced with a new policy initiative a Prime Minister's first response would be: 'but what does Jeremy think?' • Jeremy worked up until his death, retiring just a few days before he died from lung cancer in October 2018. This book began as a joint effort between Jeremy and his wife Suzanne - working together in the last months of his life

An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no formal training in psychology - and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language - of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling - has inspired online dating platforms and Buzzfeed quizzes alike. And yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $500 million industry, struggle to account for its success - no less validate its results. How did the Myers-Briggs insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships, our internet, our lives? • First conceived in the 1920s by the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a pair of aspiring novelists and devoted homemakers, the Myers-Briggs was designed to bring the gospel of Carl Jung to the masses

An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea • An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England. Rhys's experiences of heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for her writing, forming an iconic 'Rhys woman' whose personality - vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry - was often mistaken, and still is, for a self-portrait • Many details of Rhys's life emerge from her memoir, Smile Please and the stories she wrote throughout her long and challenging career

In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world - shattering communities, shaking global business and propelling waves of cutting-edge innovation • Telling unforgettable human stories, meeting scientists and business tycoons, activists and political leaders, this is an account of disaster and survival, of frantic adaptation and groundbreaking innovation, of hope, and of the forces that will define our future