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From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now • When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked, and even gold was sold • In a matter of weeks, the world's economy was brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying to contain a spiralling public health catastrophe. Flights were grounded; supply chains broken; industries from tourism to oil to hospitality collapsed overnight, leaving hundreds of millions of people unemployed

Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails • With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred • As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway’s wanderlust; an affair with a Sami reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for the tiny town of Kautokeino, Norway. When her new boyfriend left her unexpectedly after six months, it would have been easy, and perhaps prudent, to return home. But she stayed for six years • Dalvi is the story of Laura’s time in a reindeer-herding village in the Arctic, forging a solitary existence as she struggled to learn the language and make her way in a remote community for which there were no guidebooks or manuals for how to fit in. Her time in the North opened her to a new world. And it brought something else as well: reconciliation and peace with the traumatic events that had previously defined her – the sudden death of her mother when she was three, a difficult childhood and her lifelong search for connection and a sense of home

В ближайшие десятилетия технологии, обеспечивающие виртуальную и дополненную реальность,улучшатся до неузнаваемости. По прогнозам всемирно известного философа Дэвида Дж. Чалмерса, в течение столетия у нас будут виртуальные миры,которые невозможно будет отличить от невиртуальных миров. Но является ли виртуальная реальность просто бегством от реальности? • В весьма оригинальной работе "технофилософия" Чалмерс категорически утверждает, что нет: виртуальная реальность - это подлинная реальность. Виртуальные миры - это не миры второго сорта. Мы можем жить полноценной жизнью в виртуальной реальности - и все чаще так и будет • И вообще, что такое реальность? Как мы можем вести хорошую жизнь? Есть ли бог? Откуда мы знаем, что существует внешний мир - и откуда нам знать,что мы не живем в компьютерной симуляции? В "Реальности+" Чалмерс проводит грандиозное философское путешествие,используя передовые технологии,чтобы дать новые вдохновляющие ответы на извечные вопросы

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement • The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise • Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world

The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abbey Road archive - from Edward Elgar to the Beatles, Kate Bush to Elbow the most famous artists in the world have recorded here • This gorgeous book includes material on the artists, the engineers, the technology and the history of Abbey Road. It's an incredible document of cultural history, for anyone who values music and how it's made

When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish • He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more

One day you're broke. The next, you have all the money in the world. What would you do? A gripping, timely story about cold, hard cash and little white lies for fans of Jenny Valentine, Siobhan Dowd and Lara Williamson • Fifteen-year-old Penny longs for something better. Better than a small, damp flat. Better than her bullying classmates and uninterested teachers. Better than misery and poverty day in day out • An unlikely friendship and a huge sum of money promise a whole lot of new chances for Penny, and she realises that not only can she change her life, she can change herself • But at what cost? • Perfect for readers 10+

A laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for fans of Horrid Henry • Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING and it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it • But best friends Stanley and Manjit didn't LITERALLY mean to get covered in newt pond water just before the Class Photo. And they really didn't LITERALLY mean to cause TOTAL MAYHEM by trying to get fake teeth to the very best tooth fairy. These things just happened, even though they had FOOLPROOF plans to get away with it all • Highly illustrated and featuring two hilarious madcap adventures in one book, these stories are just right for children ready for their first chapter books

"Харриет - самая сильная девушка в мире" • Бена Лервилла - это яркая, радостная и сильная история о маленькой девочке, обладающей большой силой и пытающейся найти свое место в мире • Харриет не просто сильная - она самая сильная девочка во всем мире! И хотя ее суперсила в основном замечательна, из-за нее такие вещи, как прыжки на батутах, замешивание теста для торта и надевание колпачка на зубную пасту, становятся немного, ну... сложными • Книга на английском языке • A vibrant, joyful, and powerful story about a little girl with a LOT of strength trying to find her place in the world • Harriet isn't just strong - she's the strongest girl in the whole world! And though her super-strength is mostly wonderful, it does make things like bouncing on trampolines, mixing cake batter, and putting the cap on the toothpaste a bit, well

This is the definitive story of the science behind the cars of our dreams, featuring inside information from the major players of the supercar world - including design legend Adrian Newey, McLaren F1 creator Gordon Murray, supercar mavericks Horacio Pagani and Christian von Koenigsegg, as well as contributions from manufacturers such as Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti and McLaren. What powers the greatest cars in the world? How did we get from the crude mechanics of yesteryear to the high-tech, computer aided designs we see today? Which cars broke the mould? Featuring bespoke technical drawings from F1 championship-winning engineer Neil Waterman, The Science of Supercars traces the evolution of the supercar through the technology that drives it

Why do • · Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well? • · Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own? • · The Dutch trust their children to bike to school? • · Dutch schools not set homework for the under-tens? • · Dutch teenagers not rebel? • · What is the secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world? • In a recent UNICEF study of child well-being, Dutch children came out on top as the happiest all-round. Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison, both married to Dutchmen and bringing up their kids in Holland, examine the unique environment that enables the Dutch to turn out such contented, well-adjusted and healthy babies, children and teens • Read this book if you want to find out what lessons you can learn from Dutch parents, to ensure your kids turn out happy!