Black Swan Life and other Happy Endings Cantor Melanie

Sometimes it takes a chance encounter to discover what happiness really is • Meet Dan: Dan needs peace and order. He likes perfectly triangular sandwiches, the way coffee smells of sunshine and harvest, and the sound of birdsong that drifts into his harp-making workshop on Exmoor. His life is quiet, predictable, and safe from any danger of surprises • Meet Ellie: Ellie is a dreamer. But recently Ellie has stopped dreaming and her world has become very small. Her days are spent keeping a perfect home for her husband, Clive, and trying to keep him happy • When Ellie stumbles across Dan's workshop, they cannot imagine that their lives are about to change forever

There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …? • Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage what it seems? • Chila - warm, loveable - has married with great fanfare the entrepreneur Deepak. But are they really in love? • Tania - beautiful, rebellious - has rejected her traditional upbringing for a top television career. But is she really as tough as she says? • As Tania uncovers a devastating truth, are the three friends about to learn the hardest life lesson of all …? • Meera Syal, CBE, is one of our most acclaimed actors and writers. She starred in the hit series The Kumars at No. 42 and recently in the BBC film of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress. She is currently in the latest series of Broadchurch Meera Syal is also known for her sharp, provocative fiction

The startling discovery that the weirdness of quantum mechanics provides the vital spark that ignites life • Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? • Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on evolution, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics as Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics. Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments around the world, they show how photosynthesis relies on subatomic particles existing in many places at once, while inside enzymes, those workhorses of life that make every molecule within our cells, particles vanish from one point in space and instantly materialize in another

Becky's life is blooming. She's working at London's newest fashion store, The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery... to the latest, coolest pram... to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble

Роман, удостоенный премии Коста. Что если мы могли бы проживать нашу жизнь снова и снова, добиваясь удовлетворительного результата? Англия, 1910-й год. Во время вьюги рождается маленькая девочка, которая умирает, не успев вздохнуть. Англия, 1901-й год. Та же самая девочка рождается снова, но на этот раз выживает. Она получила второй шанс. И третий шанс. И бесконечное множество шансов. "Жизнь после жизни" - история Урсулы Тодд, которая раз за разом переживает события двадцатого века. В своём полном остроумия и сострадания романе Кейт Аткинсон пишет с теплотой даже о самых мрачных моментах и рисует картину прошлого с несравненным мастерством. Перед вами одно из самых глубоких и изобретательных её произведений, посвящённое как лучшим, так и худшим сторонам человеческой природы

In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the world has ever known • Each of these ancient philosophers teaches a technique we can use to transform ourselves and live better lives. These practical techniques are illustrated by the extraordinary stories of real people who are using them today - from marines to magicians, from astronauts to anarchists and from CBT psychologists to soldiers. Jules also explores how ancient philosophy is inspiring modern communities - Socratic cafes, Stoic armies, Platonic sects, Sceptic summer camps - and even whole nations in their quest for the good life

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history • 'This is empirical poetry. A fascinating tale of human curiosity beautifully told, and with black holes and lasers too' Robin Ince • In 1916 Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves: miniscule ripples in the very fabric of spacetime generated by unfathomably powerful events. If such vibrations could somehow be recorded, we could observe our universe for the first time through sound: the hissing of the Big Bang, the low tones of merging galaxies, the drumbeat of two black holes collapsing into one… • In 2016 a team of hundreds of scientists at work on a billion-dollar experiment made history when they announced the first ever detection of a gravitational wave, confirming Einstein’s prediction a century ago

"Молли любит слушать на ночь папины сказки. - Давным-давно, говорит он, - все были зелеными, белки пели в хорах, крошечные человечки жили в горшке тети Элси и, конечно, кролики умели летать... Но может ли все это быть правдой на самом деле? Молли думает, что ее папа, как обычно, просто дурачится, но ни у кого сказки на ночь не получаются лучше, чем у него • Так что устраивайтесь поудобнее на диване и выбирайте одну из этих четырнадцати фантастически забавных историй, чтобы вместе почитать перед сном. Какая из них станет вашей любимой? • Блестящий сборник сказок Мелани фон Бисмарк "Летающие кролики, поющие белки и другие сказки на ночь" искусно переведен с немецкого Дэвидом Генри Уилсоном, автором серии "Джереми Джеймс", и оживлен теплыми, остроумными, со множеством деталей изображениями Акселя Шеффлера, иллюстратора "Груффало"

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her • He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? • Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all. For Richie had still been married to his first wife, the one with a son that he had abandoned in Newcastle • And now, with Richie gone and the practicalities of wills and money to be sorted out, it is finally time for the two families to face each other

A beautiful, magical novel • It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment • But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death