Penguin Physics of the Future. The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives Каку Митио

Everyone’s favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period • Hedgehog is waiting for his friend Tortoise to wake up. But where is he and when will he wake? • Hedgehog’s friends are all very lovely, but they just aren’t as much fun at the beach, or at hide and seek, or at holding hands, or at hugs • Tortoise begins to stir – the one boulder that Hedgehog didn’t think he could lift to turn • Tortoise has been dreaming of Hedgehog. And the hug that follows is their best yet! • A charming and touching new tale from the creators of the bestselling While We Can’t Hug!

Откройте для себя все о футболе - от законов и тактики до науки и искусства "красивой игры" в книге Дэвида Голблатта и Джонни Актона "Футбольная книга. Команды. правила. Лиги. Тактика". С профилями более чем 65 лучших футбольных стран мира и громкими именами в клубном футболе и других ключевых соревнованиях, это идеальное наглядное руководство по величайшему виду спорта в мире. Книга на английском языке • Discover everything about football - from the laws and tactics to the science and art of the "beautiful game" • With profiles of more than 65 of the world's best footballing nations, and the biggest names in club football and other key competitions, this is the ultimate visual guide to the world's greatest sport • Inside the pages of this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to football, you'll find • - A fresh graphic style that illustrates everything from beach football to block tackles • - Stats and fact boxes that profile players, managers, fans, football trivia, national teams, and clubs • - Special features that highlight great football matches, stadiums, and football culture • - "Top 5" boxes that provide an alternative look at the best and worst of the game • It's a GOAL with The Football Book! From the history of football and the story behind the game to the football World Cup and the delayed Euro 2020 championships, this sports book reveals a fascinating story page after page

From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact • Albert Einstein said, 'If at first an idea does not sound absurd, there is no hope for it.' Physics of the Impossible shows how our most far-fetched ideas today - from Star Trek's phasers and teleportation to time travel as envisioned by Back to the Future - are destined to become tomorrow's reality • Michio Kaku, bestselling science author and one of the world's most acclaimed physicists, looks at the technologies of the future and explains what's just around the corner, what we might have to wait a few millennia to get our hands on and how surprisingly little of it is truly impossible

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system • James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin' (Independent) and 'the most profound scientific thinker of our time' (Literary Review) continues, in his 95th year, to be the great scientific visionary of our age. This book introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what Lovelock calls 'accelerated evolution', a process which is bringing about change on our planet roughly a million times faster than Darwinian evolution

Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by Robert A. Maguire • This volume includes a selection of Gogol's most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A hilarious and biting political satire, 'The Government Inspector' has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play ever written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers

Robert Penn's It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is a paean to the humble bike; it's the story of why we ride, and why this simple machine holds the power to transport us all • Robert Penn has ridden a bike most days of his life. He rides to get to work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to stay sane and to feel free. This is the story of his love affair with cycling and the journey to build his dream bike; a freewheeling pilgrimage taking him from Californian mountain bike inventors to British artisan frame builders, and from perfect components to the path of true happiness

Как строятся границы в современном мире? Что означает выход Великобритании из Европейского союза для границы Ирландии? А что произошло бы, если бы Илон Маск объявил себя президентом Луны? • В книге "Пограничные войны. Конфликты, которые определят наше будущее" профессор Клаус Доддс отправляет нас в путешествие в геополитический конфликт завтрашнего дня, знакомя с самыми известными, опасными и неожиданными конфликтами в мире - от сектора Газа до космической гонки • Попутно мы узнаем, что на самом деле означают границы в современном мире: как они строятся; что они значат для граждан и правительств; как они помогают понять наше политическое прошлое и, самое главное, наше дипломатическое будущее? • Книга на английском языке • How are borders built in the modern world? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon? • In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into the geopolitical conflict of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of the world's best-known, most dangerous and most unexpected border conflicts from the Gaza Strip to the space race

The extraordinary story of how China became the powerful country it is today • Even at the high noon of Europe's empire-building China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonizing process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, the determination to assert China's standing in the world, to stake its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack

A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And why? Why does one liquid make us drunk, and another power a jumbo jet? • From the bestselling author of Stuff Matters comes a fascinating tour of these surprising or sinister substances - the droplets, heartbeats and ocean waves we all encounter every day • Structured around a plane journey, encountering water, wine, oil and more, Miodownik shows that liquids are agents of death and destruction as well as substances of wonder and fascination. His unique brand of scientific storytelling brings them and their mysterious properties alive in a captivating new way

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

Откройте для себя революционное движение, стоящее за взрывным ростом Intel, Google, Amazon и Uber с книгой "Измеряйте то, что имеет значение. OKRs - Простая идея, которая обеспечивает 10-кратный рост" • В 1999 году легендарный венчурный капиталист Джон Доэрр инвестировал почти 12 миллионов долларов в небольшой стартап из 40 человек, который обладал потрясающими технологиями, предпринимательской энергией и заоблачными амбициями, но не имел реального бизнес-плана. Доэрр познакомил основателей со своей системой целей и ключевых результатов (OKRS), и благодаря этим принципам, положенным в основу их управления, стартап рос экспоненциальными темпами. Сегодня в том же стартапе - Google - работает более 70 000 сотрудников, а рыночная капитализация превышает 600 миллиардов долларов