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David Wainwright A Sociology of Health ENA Sociology of Health offers an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the key issues, perspectives, and debates within the field of medical sociology. The book aids readers’ understanding of how sociological approaches are crucial to understanding the impact that health and illness have on the behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and practices, of an increasingly health-aware population. The book is topical and…
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Rachel Joyce A Snow Garden and Other Stories ENSeven stories to span the Christmas holidays: A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn't feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit. The Marriage Manual: Christmas Eve. Two parents endeavour to construct their son's Christmas present from a…
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Rachel Joyce A Snow Garden and Other Stories ENSeven stories to span the Christmas holidays: A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn't feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit.T he Marriage Manual: Christmas Eve. Two parents endeavour to construct their son’s Christmas present from a…
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Beryl McAlhone, David Stuart, Greg Quinton, Nick Asbury A Smile in the Mind ENForty years of witty thinking from over 500 designers, including hundreds of visual examples and interviews with the world's top practitioners. Packed with illustrations showcasing different examples of the use of wit in a variety of graphic design and products, from invitations to letterheads, digital platforms and even works of art. Features the work of the most prominent designers from across the globe. Includes…
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Marta Dobrotková A Slovak woman and America ENIn the first phase of emigration (1880s) men were migrating first and then they were followed by women. It is interesting that since the men crossed the Atlantic several times in a row they were given a wonderful nickname – ‘the birds of the sea’. Following these emigrants, young women who could not find a life partner at home and married women following their husbands were coming. Like men, women belonged to…
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Terry Pratchett A Slip of the Keyboard ENTerry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series - but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non fiction writing, both serious and surreal: from…
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Frances Hardinge A Skinful of ShadowsFrances Hardinge weaves a dark, otherworldly tale in A Skinful of Shadows, her first book since the Costa Award-winning The Lie Tree. When a creature dies, its spirit can go looking for somewhere to hide...
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Tracy Chevalier A Single ThreadIt is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiance and her brother and regarded by society as a `surplus woman' unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike...
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Darcey Bell A Simple FavourWhat happened to Emily? When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school she agrees happily. Their children are classmates and best friends...
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Ivo Toman A sikeres önmanipuláció HUEgy olyan ember története, aki sikerrel járt annak ellenére, hogy fogyatékkal született és önérzet mélkül nőtt föl. Fogyatékossága ellenére elvégezte a főiskolát és most egy prosperáló nemzetközi cég tulajdonosa, továbbá több képzőprogramok sikeres szerzője és oktató. Ismerje meg a siker útmutatóit, melyekről a szerző a személyes és szakmai életében is meggyőződött. Rengeteg olyan tanácsot és ajánlást talál, melyek…
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Steve Burrows A Siege of Bitterns ENA police procedural with a real point of difference: birder murders! Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. Indeed his success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesn't really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds. Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart of Britain…
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Kevin Powers A Shout in the RuinsFollowing his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring ...
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Lynne Truss A Shot in the DarkThe charming first novel in a new comic crime series, from one of Britain's most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss...
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Philippe J. Dubois, Elise Rousseau A Short Philosophy of BirdsThe greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creatures. There is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will help you spread your wings and soar...
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Kenneth Morgan A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery ENFrom 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders,…
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Marina Lewycká A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian EN´Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed - off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.´ Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their…
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Marina Lewycká A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian EN´Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed - off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.´ Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their…
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Marina Lewycká A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ENA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to…
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Ruth Brocklehurst, Henry Brook, Adam Larkum (ilustrácie) A Short History of the WorldFromhunter-gatherers in the Ice Age to technological innovators in modern times, this book provides a short introduction to the world's history. Lively textintroduces historical concepts such as civilization, empires, revolutions, religion and democracy,
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Geoffrey Swain A Short History of the Russian RevolutionIn 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union...
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Mark Woolmer A Short History of the PhoeniciansThe Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological...
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Trudi Tate A Short History of the Crimean WarThe Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war...
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Dionysios Stathakopoulos A Short History of the Byzantine Empire ENThe Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive imperial adventures in history. It ruled much of Europe and Anatolia for a remarkable eleven hundred years. From Constantine I’s establishment of Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) as his capital in 324 CE, until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in 1453, the Byzantine domain became a powerhouse of literature, art, theology, law and learning. Dionysios…
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