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The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of three superstar daughters, shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children • 'Esther Wojcicki is leading a revolution . . . [She] shows us how to be our best so our children can be their best.' ARIANNA HUFFINGTON'A brilliant book. It should be on the bookshelf of every parent.' FROST MAGAZINEBeing a parent is complicated - but the trick to succeed is simpler than you think Known as the Godmother of Silicon Valley, Esther Wojcicki's three daughters are all hugely successful in both their professional and personal lives. What's her parenting secret?

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion

During 1975 and 1976, Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn embarked on a series of speeches across America and Britain that would shock and scandalise both countries. His message: the West was veering towards moral and spiritual bankruptcy, and with it the world's one hope against tyranny and totalitarianism • From Solzhenitsyn's warnings about the allure of communism, to his rebuke that the West should not abandon it's age-old concepts of "good" and "evil", the speeches collected in Warning to the West provide insight into Solzhenitsyn's uncompromising moral vision. Read today, their message remains as powerfully urgent as when Solzhenitsyn first delivered them

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: they are first exposed to the magical worlds of jazz, women, and literature by their eccentric fellow travelers, and together they spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. By turns poignant and electrifying, The Cat’s Table is a spellbinding story about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood, and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage

Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now a minute's delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider's chances over a three week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. The intricacies and complexities of cycling are what makes it so appealing: an eye for opportunity and a quick mind are just as crucial to success as a "big engine" or good form • How do you cope with crosswinds, cobbles, elbows-out sprints, weaving your way through a teeming peloton? Why are steady nerves one of the best weapons in a rider's arsenal and breakaway artists to be revered? Where do you see the finest showcase of tactical brilliance? Peter Cossins takes us on to the team buses to hear pro cyclists and directeurs sportifs explain their tactics: when it went right, when they got it wrong - from sprinting to summits, from breakaways to bluffing

Перед вами лишь чудом не утерянный шедевр от автора бестселлера "Человек в поисках смысла", чьи книги разошлись тиражом, превысившим 16 миллионов экземпляров • Через каких-то несколько месяцев после освобождения от Освенцима известный психиатр Виктор Эмиль Франкл выступил с серией лекций, посвящённых основам его жизнеутверждающей философии. Исследователь, которому было суждено прославиться на весь мир, изложил свои мысли о природе смысла и человеческой стойкости. Также он поделился со слушателями своей убеждённостью в том, что любой кризис сопряжён с возможностями • Эти слова Франкла, впервые публикуемые на английском в настоящем издании, находят такой же отклик среди аудитории, как и в 1946 году. Несмотря на все ужасы концентрационного лагеря, благодаря другим заключённым Франкл понял, что жизни всегда можно сказать "да", и этот глубокий урок никогда не утратит свою ценность

Спустя почти полвека после публикации его первой книги, Терри Пратчетт остаётся одним из самых успешных и любимых писателей в мире. Это издание расчерчивает перед читателем писательский путь длиною в жизнь, включая как более ранние рассказы, так и наиболее поздние. Начиная с его школьных работ, продолжая статьями из газеты Bucks Free Press, рассказом, лежащим в основе его дебютного романа «Ковровый народ», и заканчивая рассказами из овеянного головокружительным успехом «Плоского Мира» • Здесь можно встретить новых и хорошо знакомых персонажей, брошенные миры, которые так и не будут завершены, приключения, Смерть, диско и вызывающие некоторый дискомфорт размышления о Рождестве – и всё это подано через призму фирменного пратчеттовского юмора • «Мерцание экрана», сборник рассказов Терри Пратчетта, дополненный введением от писательницы Антонии Байетт, иллюстрациями Джоша Кирби и рисунками самого автора, станет великолепным подарком для преданных фанатов книжного цикла «Плоский Мир»

В книге «21 урок для XXI века» Юваль Ной Харари, автор бестселлеров «Sapiens. Краткая история человечества» и «Homo Deus. Краткая история будущего», обращается к проблемам настоящего • Как нам быть с угрозой ядерной войны, экологическими бедствиями и техногенными катастрофами? • Почему либеральная демократия переживает кризис? Существует ли вакцина от эпидемии фейковых новостей? Удастся ли нам победить терроризм? Поработят ли нас алгоритмы? • Один из самых ярких мыслителей нашего времени уверен: главное – не расслабляться и не терять наши ориентиры перед лицом постоянных перемен, даже если они сбивают нас с толку • Можем ли мы утратить способность понимать созданный нами мир? • «Короче говоря, «21 урок» – крайне важная книга», – Адам Кей • Книга на английском языке

The book by Nikolay Starikov, the author of bestselling "Rouble Nationalization - the Way to Russia's Freedom", "Who set Hitler against Stalin?" and many others, follows the events of the Civil War. The Russian statesmanship, its territorial integrity, and the economy of the country perished in the vortex of the Civil War. The Romanovs, the Russian Navy, the Russian Army, and millions of Russians were destroyed. The consequences of this horrible civil strife have not been overcome until today. In this book, you will find a lot of little-known facts, as well as answers to many questions • - Who staged and directed the liquidation of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century? • - Who needed the Russian strife and who could gain from it? • - Who forced Lenin to liquidate the Tsar's family? • - Who is guilty of the murder of Nicholas II's children? • - Why did the leaders of the revolution repeatedly try to drown their own navy? • - Why did Vladimir Lenin order to execute the Tsar's family and at the same time ensured safety of other members of the Tsar dynasty? • - Why didn't the Entente help the White movement? • - Why was Admiral Kolchak murdered and why did the White Guard soldiers have to fight? • - Who made the soldiers of General Yudenich die in Estonian extermination camps? • - Who needed to have the troops of Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenich, and Wrangel liquidated? • The burnt Russian villages and mass graves tell us the truth about the Russian strife, the truth about the outcome of the Civil War

In 1982, East Germany’s fearsome secret police – convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work – decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. Once a month, a group of soldiers and border guards gathered in a heavily guarded military compound in East Berlin for meetings to learn how to write lyrical verse • Journalist Philip Oltermann spent five years rifling through Stasi files, digging out lost volumes of poetry and tracking down surviving members of this Red poet’s society, to illustrate the little known story in which spies turned poets and poets spies