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За железным занавесом группа бывших агентов Смерша хочет использовать британского шпиона в операции, которая изменит баланс мировых сил. Бонда тайно доставляют в логово льва - но чьим приказам он следует, и подчинится ли он им, когда настанет момент истины? • В миссии, где повсюду предательство и одно неверное движение означает смерть, Джеймсу Бонду приходится отвечать на самые мрачные вопросы о самом себе. Но даже он не знает, что случилось с тем человеком, которым он был раньше • Откройте для себя последнюю главу в мире агента 007, захватывающе воплощенную в жизнь автором бестселлеров Энтони Горовицем • Книга на английском языке • M's funeral • One man missing from the graveside • The traitor accused of his murder • Bond • Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power

By the global bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, the third novel in his acclaimed Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The Russian mafia, a strange religious order and not one but two murders - stand by for a hugely enjoyable, twisty turny read • Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and the writer Anthony Horowitz have been invited to a literary festival on the island of Alderney to talk about their new book • Very soon they discover that dark forces are at work • Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour • And the visiting authors seem to be harbouring any number of unpleasant secrets • When the festival's wealthy sponsor is found brutally murdered, Alderney goes into lockdown and Hawthorne knows he doesn't have to look too far for suspects

London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight • Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country • He soon receives a promising lead in Amy Strallen, whose life is a world away from the machinations of Nazi sympathisers. But when Hoste pays a visit to Amy’s office, the dangerous game he is playing becomes even more lethal

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? • Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Private detective Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career • As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion

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

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

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

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

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world • Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap/ There are morality tales such as 'The Restaurant of Many Orders', where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa's best-known 'Night Train to the Stars', where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens • These stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers

A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral • Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer? • Enter Daniel Hawthorne, a detective with a genius for solving crimes and an ability to hold secrets very close • With him is his writing partner, Anthony Horowitz. Together they will set out to solve his most puzzling of mysteries • What neither of them know is that they are about to embark on a dark and dangerous journey whether the twists and turns are as unexpected as they are bloody