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A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist • This might be the worst time in history to be an animal. But is there a happier way? • Factory farms, climate change, deforestation and pandemics have made our relationship with the other species unsustainable. In response, Henry Mance sets out on a personal quest to see if there is a fairer way to live alongside the animals we love. He goes to work in an abattoir and on a farm to investigate the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas around over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos and owning pets, and he meets the chefs, activists, scientists and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our relationships, minds and bodies? What can the simple act of sitting still teach us about ourselves? • When Tim Parks fails to find a cause for his crippling chronic pain, he turns to meditation. This is, however, not your average self-help book or conversion story; instead, it is a refreshingly honest and profoundly moving introspection of one writer and his quest to overcome the inner battle between mind and body. A revelatory read with delightful cultural and literary references, Teach us to Sit Still by Booker-shortlisted author Tim Parks examines how the philosophy of 'sit still, relax and stop worrying' can be profoundly life-altering

Revisit and discover the sensational first cookbook from Nigella Lawson • When Nigella Lawson’s first book, How to Eat, was published in 1998, two things were immediately clear: that this fresh and fiercely intelligent voice would revolutionise cookery writing, and that How to Eat was an instant classic of the genre • Here was a versatile culinary bible, through which a generation discovered how to feel at home in the kitchen and found the confidence to experiment and adapt recipes to their own needs. This was the book to reach for when hastily organising a last-minute supper with friends, when planning a luxurious weekend lunch or contemplating a store-cupboard meal for one, or when trying to tempt a fussy toddler. This was a book about home cooking for busy lives

Sammy's had a bad week • Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared; and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure • Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun

В книге "Самость и разум" всемирно известный нейробиолог Антонио Дамасио опровергает давнюю идею о том, что сознание отделено от тела, представляя убедительные новые научные доказательства того, что сознание - то, что мы считаем разумом с самостью, - на самом деле является биологическим процессом, созданным живым организмом. Его точка зрения влечет за собой радикальное изменение в том, как рассматривается и рассказывается история сознательного разума, предполагая, что развитие мозгом человеческого "я" является вызовом безразличию природы • Книга на английском языке • The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? • In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism

Pleasure is one of the most fascinating aspects of being human. But what is it? • Exploring child development, philosophy, neuroscience and behavioural economics, Paul Bloom uncovers how universal habits explain what we like and why we like it • The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents and go to sentimental movies that make them cry. Some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes • In this revealing and witty account, Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions and tastes, exploring one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human behaviour

Tara Fraser has a secret • Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no one • But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. And as hard as Tara tries to distance herself, she starts to drop her guard • Then a letter arrives. An old friend wants to meet up. Struggling to keep her old life at bay, Tara soon discovers the dangers of fighting the past

Из угла затемненной комнаты Джой Стоун наблюдает за собой. По мере того как непрошеные воспоминания о смерти ее возлюбленного и матери всплывают на поверхность, жизнь для Джой сужается – до обсуждения каждого дня, каждой встречи, каждой секунды; до поиска уловки, позволяющей продолжать жить. Рассказанная с потрясающей ясностью и ироничным остроумием, эта шотландская классика подходит для нашего времени • Книга на английском языке • From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows – to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time

В 1918 году Эрнест Хемингуэй отправился на войну. Он поступил добровольцем на службу скорой помощи в Италии, был ранен и дважды награжден. Результатом его опыта стало "Прощание с оружием". Незабываемая книга Хемингуэя с полной убедительностью воссоздает страх, мужество и товарищество на войне. Но "Прощание с оружием" - это не только роман о войне, это также история любви, полная огромного драматизма и бескомпромиссной страсти • Книга на английском языке • 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 unforgettable book recreates the fear, the courage and the comradeship of warfare with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May • 'After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time' Graham Greene • First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E. Bates’s stories of the heroic exploits of British bomber crews during the Second World War created a sensation when they appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the decades

Nurses have never been more important • We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all • In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' work • - A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering from severe depression • - A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team; his school nurse visits and he drops the bravado • - A pregnant woman loses frightening amounts of blood following a car accident; it is a military nurse who synchronises the emergency department into immaculate order and focus • Christie makes a further discovery: that, time and again, it is patients and their families - including her own - who show exceptional strength in the most challenging times

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety