James Lovelock’s bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back — and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization.’Despite all our efforts to retreat sustainably, we may be unable to prevent a global decline into a chaotic world ruled by brutal warlords on a devastated Earth…’For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, and the only open to us may be a ‘sustainable retreat’. This is the one book you must read to find out what is happening, how bad it will get — and how we can survive.

Книга «Regarding the Pain of Others. S. Sontag.». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2025. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 116. Автор: Sontag Susan. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British RailBritish Rail wasn’t how we’re asked to remember it . . .From ancient rolling stock to patchy service, stale sandwiches to the wrong kind of snow, British Rail — our last great state-owned organisation to be privatised — has received a terrible press.But after its controversial 1948 creation, British Rail was actually an innovative powerhouse that over five decades transformed the UK, creating one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.Award-winning journalist Christian Wolmar takes us from promise to punchline, exploring British Rail’s birth into post-war austerity, the many battles and struggles to evolve what many considered to be a dinosaur, and how, at the height of its success, the service was misunderstood and unfairly maligned, ruthlessly broken up and privatised.

Книга «Ghosted». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 394. Автор: Barr Emily. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

This isn’t one love story. It’s two.Becca Calloway is calling it: she’s ready for Mr Right, and she’s ready now.She even goes as far as to hold a manifestation ceremony for him — and when she receives a text from her ex five minutes later, she knows it’s a sign.The problem is, she doesn’t know which way it’s pointing…Should Becca reply and reignite things with her old flame Mike? Or delete and block, moving forward with the new man in her life?Becca has one choice, with two ways this could go. And in Lovestruck, you’re about to see them both…

Книга «This Place is Still Beautiful». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 364. Автор: Tian Xixi. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady’s society . . .Full of pirates, thieves and ne’er-do-wells, these women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all before their afternoon tea.But when Cecilia meets Ned Lightbourne her world is set to change forever.Because he’s a paid assassin and she’s his next hit.Under the employment of the dastardly Captain Morvath — who wants to rid the world of these Lady Scoundrels — Ned knows he has one job to do.But when he lays eyes on the feisty, beautiful Cecilia he’s faced with a conundrum:Does he kill her . . . or fall in love with her?Bridgerton meets Peaky Blinders in this swashbuckling tale of scoundrels and society, crime and crumpets. As these enemies turn to allies and might just fall in love along the way . . .

Книга «This Summers Secrets’». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2023. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 426. Автор: Barr Emily. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Pericles stands in the shadow of his father: a man who once saved Athens.To make his own name he must prove himself in the liar’s den of Athenian politics: pitting wits against friends, sceptics, enemies.But words alone do not make a leader.A force of Persians threatens the city and Pericles must find courage on the battlefield.In its time of need, Athens’ warriors must be Lions…

Книга «The Ship of Shadows». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 328. Автор: Kuzniar Maria. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: 12+. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «The Plague». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2020. Серия: Penguin Modern Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 266. Автор: Camus Albert. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle’s country estate, in a ‘dream-bright’ America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Nabokov’s longest, richest novel is a love story, but also a fairy tale, a historical parody, an erotic satire, an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination.

Three great stories — The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance — the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books.Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he’s Nora’s work nemesis.Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she’s the one men date before finding their happy-ever-after. To prevent another dating dud, Nora’s sister has persuaded her to swap her city desk for a month’s holiday in Sunshine Falls.It’s a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into…Charlie.She’s no heroine. He’s no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?

It’s the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus?But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the recipes and into the stories behind them.Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about growing up in Westchester, New York, preparing for and filming the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create conversation-starting meals for their children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burnt dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.Written with Stanley’s signature wry humour and nostalgia, Taste is a heartwarming read that will be irresistible for anyone who knows the power of a home-cooked meal.

‘They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.’Everybody knows there’s no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her.Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld’s most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. With Granny’s help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon.But power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Let the battle of the sexes begin . . .Equal Rites is the first book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

‘There’s a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness . . .’The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork is home to music, theatrics and a harmless masked Ghost who lurks behind the scenes. But now a set of mysterious backstage murders may just stop the show.Agnes Nitt has left her rural home of Lancre in the hopes of launching a successful singing career in the big city. The only problem is, she doesn’t quite look the part. And there are two witches who would much rather she return home to join their coven.Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg have travelled to Ankh-Morpork to convince Agnes that life as a witch is much better than one on the stage. Only now they’re caught up in a murder mystery featuring masks and maniacal laughter.And the show MUST go on . . .Maskerade is the fifth book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

‘Holy Wood is a different sort of place . . . Here, the most important thing is to be important.’A new phenomenon is taking over the Discworld: Moving Pictures. Created by the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork, the growing ‘clicks’ industry moves to the sandy land of Holy Wood, attracted by the light of the sun and some strange calling no one can quite put their finger on…Also drawn to Holy Wood are aspiring young stars Victor Tugelbend, a wizarding student dropout, and Theda ‘Ginger’ Withel, a small-town girl with big dreams.But behind the glitz and glamour of the clicks, a sinister presence lurks. Because belief is powerful in the Discworld, and sometimes downright dangerous…The magic of movies might just unravel reality itself.The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Moving Pictures is a standalone.

‘Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That’s why they’re called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.’The twenty-fifth of May is an important, sombre day in Ankh-Morpork — the anniversary of one of the city’s bloodiest rebellions.But crime stops for nothing, as Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch knows. When a notorious serial killer emerges from hiding, the chase leads the Watch to the roofs of Unseen University where a magical storm is brewing. It’s a case of wrong place, very wrong time.For Vimes finds himself back in his own rough, tough past with only a killer for company and a city on the brink of revolution to contend with. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion.And get back to the future before his wife gives birth, of course.All in a day’s work …

‘This didn’t feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.’Being sixteen is always difficult, but it’s even more so when there’s a Death in the family. Susan hasn’t exactly had a normal upbringing, with a skeletal grandfather who rides a white horse and wields a scythe.When Death decides he needs a well-earned break, he leaves Susan to take over the family business. The only problem is, everyone mistakes her for the Tooth Fairy . . .Well, not the only problem. There’s a new, addictive music in Discworld. It’s lawless. It changes people. It’s got a beat and you can dance to it.It’s called Music With Rocks In. And it won’t fade away . . .Soul Music is the third book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.