Penguin What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures Гладуэлл Малкольм

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What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? • In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period • Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand подробнее

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary

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Penguin Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings Rousseau Jean-Jacques

'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' • These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles

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Penguin The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases Дойл Артур Конан

The Penguin English Library edition • Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose - as if we did then there would be no doubt it should be The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

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Penguin The Garden Party and Other Stories Mansfield Katherine

Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story • Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'

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Penguin Talking to Strangers. What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Гладуэлл Малкольм

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? • Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences • No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times

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Penguin Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories Лесков Николай Семенович

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is now the basis for an acclaimed new film starring Florence Pugh • Nikolai Leskov is one of the most unique voices of nineteenth-century Russia, with a fascination for idiosyncratic characters, lurid crimes, comic absurdity, spirituality and the joy of pure story. This volume contains five of his greatest short tales, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Penguin The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories Уайльд Оскар

A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic

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Penguin The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Толстой Лев Николаевич

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that jis readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entagle us in his tragic stories

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Penguin My Father's Tears and Other Stories Апдайк Джон

John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation • 'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent that burnt brightly goes out in a blaze of brilliance' Sunday Times • 'A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; "domestic duplicity"; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks' Metro

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Penguin The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales По Эдгар Аллан

В доме на улице Морг обнаружены два женских трупа. У полиции нет ни мотивов, ни улик этого загадочного преступления. Ясно лишь одно: убийца не только обладает нечеловеческой силой, но и способен растворяться в тумане ночи... И тогда за дело берется один из лучших детективов Франции Огюст Дюпен. Он умело распутывает все узелки и собирает куски головоломки в единое целое • Опубликовав в апреле 1841 г. рассказ "Убийства на улице Морг" , американский писатель Эдгар По заложил основы детективного жанра и ввел в литературный обиход нового героя - благородного сыщика, наделенного выдающимися умственными способностями и "даром анализа", при помощи которых он виртуозно расследует самые трудные загадки и преступления • Также в сборнике представлены рассказы "Сердце-обличитель", "Маска Красной смерти" и "Падение дома Ашеров"

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Penguin The Big Sleep and Other Novels Chandler Raymond

Рэймонд Чандлер был выдающимся американским писателем детективной литературы, и в сборнике "Большой сон и другие романы" представлены три лучших романа о пьющем и философствующем детективе Филипе Марлоу • Рэймонд Чандлер создал ищущего неприятностей калифорнийского частного детектива Филипа Марлоу для своего первого великого романа "Большой сон" в 1939 году. Связь Марлоу с семьей Стернвуд и сопутствующими ей яркими фигурами преступного мира - это фон для истории, отражающей весь потускневший блеск великой американской мечты. Культовый образ крутого детектива горит так же ярко в "Прощай, моя милая", по следам пропавшего певца из ночного клуба. А неподражаемый Марлоу способен доказать, что неприятности действительно его дело, в блестящей эпитафии Рэймонда Чандлера "Долгое прощание"

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Penguin The Blazing World and Other Writings Cavendish Margaret

Биография колоритной, эпатажной и амбициозной Маргарет Кавендиш уготовила ей место в списке одной из самых ярких фигур семнадцатого века. Она была женщиной, преисполненной решимости сделать себе имя в традиционно мужских сферах жизни: политике, науке, философии и литературе. "Пылающий мир" - очень оригинальное произведение. Перед вами гибрид феминистического трактата и фантастической утопии, история дамы, потерпевшей кораблекрушение и угодившей в Пылающий мир, где она становится императрицей и использует свою власть, чтобы оградить свою новую вотчину от войны, религиозной розни и несправедливой дискриминации женщин. В эту книгу также вошли и другие сочинения писательницы - романтическая история о гармонии между законом и любовью и хроника женщины, которая смогла обрести свободу и влияние, лишь притворяясь мужчиной

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