Allen Lane The Aristocracy of Talent. How Meritocracy Made the Modern World Wooldridge Adrian

Sincerity is the end and the beginning of all things; without sincerity there would be nothing. - Inazo Nitobe, The Way of the Samurai • This beautiful jacketed hardback collection brings together five iconic works of Eastern philosophy. Full of timeless wisdom and invaluable advice, these classic Chinese and Japanese texts condense the spiritual teachings from thousands of years of history • Includes • The Art of War • Tao Te Ching • The Analects of Confucius • The Way of the Samurai • Mencius • Drawing upon military strategy, leadership, honor and spiritual philosophy, this collection offers penetrating insights which are still pertinent in the modern world

In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way, the snail makes new friends and goes on a series of adventures, gaining wisdom from every new encounter. But when he finds out his friends are in danger, he decides to rush home to warn them. Will he get there in time to save them? • Luis Sepulveda's bestselling The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow is a wonderful ode to diversity and unity, celebrating the importance of being slow in a world obsessed with speed

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain • The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? • In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now

For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita has studied and practised the intricate rules of the famous Japanese Tea Ceremony, trying to master its complexities in order to find inner peace. In this vivid account of her experience of the universal trials and triumphs of adulthood, Morishita connects the core tenets of this ancient art with leading a fulfilling life, showing how we too may use mindfulness to achieve happiness

""Миллионы глаз внезапно устремились к нам, создавая картину, которую я не забуду до конца своих дней"" Пол Маккартни • Огромная коллекция непубликовавшихся реанее любительских фотографий Пола Маккартни в альбоме ""1964. Эпицентр шторма"" В 2020 г. в архиве Пола Маккартни была вновь обнаружена уникальная коллекция из почти тысячи фотографий, сделанных им на 35-мм фотоаппарат. На них запечатлены те месяцы конца 1963 - начала 1964 года, когда в Великобритании разразилась «битломания», а после первого визита группы в США Битлз стали самыми известными людьми на планете. Фотографии представляют собой личные свидетельства Маккартни об этом турбулентном времени, когда он, по его словам, находился в ""эпицентре бури"". 1964: Eyes of the Storm"" представляет 275 фотографий Маккартни, из шести городов (Ливерпуля, Лондона, Парижа, Нью-Йорка, Вашингтона и Майами) в те напряженные и легендарные месяцы, - а также множество никогда ранее не публиковавшихся портретов Джона, Джорджа и Ринго

‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.’ • From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation and the birth of bitcoin, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the ground up. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Matt Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our minds, and that even now is shaping our future • As compelling as it is controversial, as authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley’s deeply thought-provoking book will change the way we think about the world and how it works

Долгое время характеризовавшийся как вероломный убийца за убийство Ричарда II, достижения Генриха IV как короля преуменьшались на протяжении всей истории. Однако в увлекательном исследовании его правления "Страхи Генриха IV. Жизнь английского короля, ставшего самозванцем" Иэн Мортимер переоценивает то, чего Генриху удалось достичь, несмотря на все невзгоды, как королю. Спровоцировав социальную революцию, а также политическую, он привел плохо управляемую нацию к новой династии Ланкастеров, и, хотя, возможно, это не самый славный король, который когда-либо был в Англии, он, безусловно, оказался одним из самых храбрых • Книга на английском языке • From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years