Книги издательства Penguin Group
Название: How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Why are English train seats so narrow? It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. This intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics — our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex — are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains. To Steve Jobs, Simplicity wasn't just a design principle. It was a religion and a weapon. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It's what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011, and guides the way Apple is organized, how it designs products, and how it connects with customers. It's by crushing the forces of Complexity that the company remains on its stellar trajectory. As creative director, Ken Segall played a key role in Apple's resurrection, helping to create such critical campaigns as 'Think Different' and naming the iMac. Insanely Simple is his insider's view of Jobs' world. It reveals the ten elements of Simplicity that have driven Apple's success — which you can use to propel your own organisation. Reading Insanely Simple, you'll be a fly on the wall inside a conference room with Steve Jobs, and on the receiving end of his midnight phone calls. You'll understand how his obsession with Simplicity helped Apple perform better and faster.
Название: Watermark: An Essay on Venice
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2012
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Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor. This collection of forty-eight short pieces on Venice showcase Joseph Brodsky at his very best: witty, intelligent, moving and elegant. Looking at every aspect of Venice, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, Brodsky captures the magnificence and beauty of the city, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, lovers and enemies he has encountered. Watermark is an unforgettable piece of writing, and a wonderful portrait of a remarkable, unique city. This title is winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Название: The Accidental Husband
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Jane Green's «The Accidental Husband» is a powerful story about two women connected by an earth-shattering secret. Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women have beautiful children on the verge of flying the nest, the home they worked hard to build and always longed for, and a handsome and devoted husband they can't believe belongs to them. Both women think their lives are seamlessly secure, but they couldn't be more wrong...For each is about to discover a secret that will shake their world to the very core, throwing into doubt everything they ever thought they knew, and bringing Maggie and Sylvie together in the most unexpected way. Praise for Jane Green: «A heartbreaking tale of love and family, truly compelling». («Closer»). «Compulsively readable. I raced through it». («Daily Mail»). «Green is women's fiction royalty ...a compelling family drama». («Glamour»). Jane Green's internationally best-selling novels, including «The Other Woman», «Jemima J.» , «Babyville», «Girl Friday» (published as Dune Road in the USA), «Life Swap» («Swapping Lives»), «Spellbound» («To Have and to Hold»), «The Beach House», «Second Chance», «Straight Talking», «Mr. Maybe», «Bookends», «The Love Verb» and «The Patchwork Marriage» («Another Piece of My Heart») are incredibly moving and extremely relatable. «The Accidental Husband» is Jane's fourteenth novel. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and their blended family of six children.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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From Head of Emerging Markets at Morgan Stanley — a provocative account of why the next economic stars won't be those we think.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2014
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From Oliver Bullough, the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted, Let Our Fame Be Great, a study — part travelogue, part political analysis — of a nation in crisis. In the 1960s, two things happened in Russia. Not the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev, though that may have been part of it, nor the invasion of Czechoslovakia, though that may have been part of it too. What happened is that around that time, women started to have fewer children than the country needed to sustain its population, and life expectancy began to fall. The two statistics taken together added up to what has become known as the demographic crisis , which accelerated in the chaos that followed 1991, and has not yet been reversed. Tracing the lives of the generation that grew to maturity in the 1960s, and the struggles of one in particular who tried to create a better future, Oliver Bullough shows in The Last Man in Russia how this population collapse is a psychological catastrophe, a protest against rulers who offer their people such limited dreams. And as protests finally begin, fifty years after the nation began to die, he traces the flickers of hope that have survived and are beginning to burn. Oliver Bullough studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia after graduating in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, travelling widely as a reporter for Reuters news agency. He is now the Caucasus Editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting. His first book, Let Our Fame Be Great, Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, received the Cornelius Ryan award in the United States and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in Britain. Oliver Bullough received the Oxfam Emerging Writer award in 2011.
Название: Mystery of Mercy Export Jacket
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Utterly compelling, moving and very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike and novel your have ever read and Helen Walsh is the perfect heroine for our times.
Название: The Price of Inequality
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true, dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy, our democracy, and our system of justice. Stiglitz explains how inequality affects and is affected by every aspect of national policy, and with characteristic insight he offers a vision for a more just and prosperous future, supported by a concrete program to achieve that vision.
Название: Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum is... Utterly engrossing. The year's most original and stimulating 'travel' book. Even the most geek-wary of readers will enjoy. (Independent). Entertaining and illuminating. Excels at rooting the Internet in real-world locations. Full of memorable images that make its complex architecture easier to comprehend. (Observer). The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of them are out there — online. So... where is that exactly? And who's in charge again? And what if it breaks? In Tubes , Andrew Blum takes us on a gripping backstage tour of the real but hidden world of the Internet, introducing us to the remarkable clan of insiders and eccentrics who own, design and run it everyday. He uncovers the secret data warehouses where our online selves are stored, peels back the wires that transport us across the globe, reveals its mammoth hubs and surprising alley-ways, explaining what the Internet actually is, where it is, how it got there — and, yes, what happens when it breaks. An engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the Internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory. An excellent introduction to the nuts and bolts of how exactly it all works and a timely antidote to oft-repeated abstractions about cyberspace or cloud computing. (Economist). Makes hard-to-grasp concepts easy to understand, even obvious. The history, in particular, is one of the best and most memorable I have ever read. (New Scientist). A Quixotic and winning book with a knack for bundling packets of data into memorable observations. This valuable book leaves you with its share of unsettling visions, but there are comic ones too. (The New York Times). For a full understanding of the Internet on every level, this book is a must-read. (Techzone). A great, playful, wondrous read . (ArsTechnica). Blum is perhaps the millennial generation's John McPhee, chronicling an arcane journey of deep relevance to everyday life. For non-techies, the book is a very accessible revelation. (Forbes). All too awesome to behold. Andrew Blum's fascinating book demystifies the earthly geography of this most ethereal terra incognita. (Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein ). Compelling and profound. You will never open an e-mail in quite the same way again. (Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic). One of our best writers. A compelling story of an altogether new realm where the virtual world meets the physical. (Paul Goldberger, New Yorker ). The Internet really IS a series of tubes! Who knew? (David Pogue, The New York Times). Andrew Blum writes about architecture, infrastructure and technology for many publications, including the New Yorker, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Slate and Popular Science. He is a correspondent for Wired, a contributing editor to Metropolis and lives in his hometown of New York City.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Expresses an infectious sense of wonder at the uniqueness of our species; it is hard not to be affected by his enthusiasm. What explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small areas? Why do we rejoice in rituals and wrap ourselves in flags? In Wired for Culture Mark Pagel, the world's leading expert on human development, reveals how our facility for culture is the key to what makes us who we are. Shedding light on everything from art, morality and affection to jealousy, self-interest and prejudice, Pagel shows that we developed culture — cooperating together and passing on knowledge — in order to survive. Our minds are hardwired for culture, and it still determines how we speak, who we love, why we kill and what we think today. Human evolution may be the hottest area in popular science writing. Within this field, Wired for Culture stands out for both its sweeping erudition and its accessibility... richly rewarding . Impressive for its detail, accuracy and vivacity. Pioneering, vivid... the best popular science book on culture so far.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supercedes all earlier books written about her. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the first time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the first author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. This volume ends with the Falklands Dinner in Downing Street in November 1982. Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher's papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable, fully rounded portrait of a towering figure of our times.
Название: The Accidental Husband
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women think their lives are seamlessly secure, but they couldn't be more wrong...
Название: Vogue: 100 Covers in a Box
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2012
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It is a collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a striking Vogue cover. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography, this is a stunning selection of Vogue's most dazzling images. Since its launch in 1892, Vogue has brought sophistication to its readers around the world. Early illustrations from artists including George Wolfe Plank, Olive Tilton, Pierre Brissaud, and Eduardo Garcia Benito saw ethereal figures of fantasy develop into red-lipped flappers, and as colour photographs began to appear, the women transformed again: from Surrealist images by Horst P. Horst to women in the life of the moment, captured by Irving Penn. From the fifties onwards, Vogue women became more accessible still, as models and stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Cindy Crawford, and Cher, with their own distinct personalities, appeared through the lenses of Richard Avedon and Snowdon. Vogue covers now are the epitome of style and beauty, with such illustrious photographers as Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, and Patrick Demarchelier photographing stars like Lady Gaga, Kirsten Dunst, and Kate Moss, celebrating female icons across modern culture.
Название: The Dirty Girls Book Club
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2013
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When Georgia Malone is widowed at the age of 25, her world falls apart. Three years on, and she has thrown herself completely into her job, leaving no time for love. But this suits her just fine — she'd prefer to read about fictional romances than face the real thing.
Название: Carry the One
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2012
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In the early hours of the morning, following a wedding reception, a car filled with stoned, drunk and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. This title explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over years.
Название: The Importance of Being Myrtle
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2011
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Is a death in the family the chance for a new start? When Myrtle's husband, Austin, dies on the bus one morning, everything seems to freeze. But in reality Myrtle has been frozen for nearly forty years, locked into an emotionless marriage. So if the barriers have been lifted, why does she still feel trapped? Her daughters are a mystery to her — one prickly and defensive, the other with a closely guarded secret. And thanks to Austin's cold presence, friends are a rarity. How is a widow supposed to find herself when she's alone and unconfident of her place in the world? But hope might rest with Gianni, the kind stranger in whose arms Austin died. And when nosy neighbour Dorothy discovers Myrtle's sad news, she also refuses to let her wallow. But Myrtle will never move on until she's dealt with her past and the reason for her devotion to Austin. The truth must out, even though the consequences might prove devastating for Myrtle and her daughters...
Название: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2011
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The sweet scents of rural life infuse this collection of Roald Dahl's country stories, but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth... Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humour and adding a sprinkling of the sinister, Dahl ensures that this collection is brimful of the sweet mysteries of life.
Название: The Girl on the Cliff
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2011
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Could a secret from 1914 end a century of heartache? A tiny figure stands at the cliff edge — hair flying in the breeze. Grania Ryan is hypnotised by the enchanting vision, unaware this young girl, Aurora Lisle, will change her life in countless ways. For Grania is suffering and has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family, in the hope her wounds might heal. As their paths begin to entwine, Grania's mother becomes deeply troubled... because almost a century of entanglement has brought nothing but terrible tragedy to their two families. The past is set to repeat its sorrows. A suitcase hidden in the attic of a magnificent house in London during the First World War is where it all began, but could it now hold the key to ending the heartbreak that has beset the Lisles and the Ryans for so long?
Название: The Ugly Truth (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2012
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The Ugly Truth book & CD is a gorgeous gift edition of the bestselling fifth title in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Perfect for holidays and long car journeys! Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it's cracked up to be? Suddenly Greg is dealing with the increased pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older. And after a big fight with his best friend Rowley, it looks like Greg is going to have to face the ugly truth all by himself. Praise for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. (Sun ). Kinney is right up there with JK Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet. (Independent). Hilarious. (Telegraph). The Diary of A Wimpy Kid series is an international bestseller, having sold over 50 million copies worldwide, and has now been made into three blockbuster films. The original Diary of a Wimpy Kid book has recently won the Blue Peter Award for the Best Children's Book of the Last 10 Years. As well as being a bestselling author, Jeff is also an online developer and designer. He lives with his family in Massachusetts, USA.
Название: Teatime Baby
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2012
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One little baby, just like you. When it's teatime, what does she do? «Teatime Baby» is a delightful book for parents and babies to look at together. The beautiful illustrations show one little baby at each stage of her teatime: getting in the highchair, being fed by Mum and having a few spills and splashes. «Ladybird Happy Baby Books» are peep-through books showing babies in their daily routines, such as bedtime and bathtime. The rhyming text describes what is happening in each picture, as baby looks through the hole in the page to find out what the baby in the book is doing next.
