Penguin Books (2781 kníh )
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Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics ENn Freakonomics Steven Levitt asks a series of provocative and profound questions about contemporary living and helps us to see the familiar world through a completely original lens. He examines everything from education to traffic jams, from food to guns, from sports to getting elected, from betting to parenting, pushing back the boundaries of economics along the way. Levitt turns conventional economics on its head,…
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Free To Be MeAn LGBTQ+ journal for anyone from 13 to 103 - by writer, illustrator and utterly fabulous merman, Dom&Ink. Every rainbow-coloured page is packed with LGBTQ+ activities, advice and attitude...
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Chris Barez-Brown Free! ENChris Barez-Brown, author of Shine, brings us a new book which inspires you to set your own rules at work, and make your job work for you. 'Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary. When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day…
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Chris Barez-Brown Free!Chris Barez-Brown, author of SHINE, brings us a new book which inspires you to set your own rules at work, and make your job work for you. Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one...
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Richard Coward French short stories: Nouvelles en FrancaisesThis is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including stories by Bolanger, Cotnoir, Le Clezio and Germain, ...
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Mo Yan Frog ENFrog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. After a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling, she throws…
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Daniel C. Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and BackWhat is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers...
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Michael McFaul From Cold War to Hot Peacen 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international...
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Sinead Moriarty From Here to MaternityJust as Emma Hamilton and her husband James become parents of an eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they find out that Emma is pregnant. Which is a bit of a shock since they had come to terms with not being able to have children...
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Malcolm Bradbury, Richard Ruland From Puritanism to Postmodernism ENFrom a Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American literature has…
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Pittacus Lore Fugitive SixIt's a year since John Smith and the Lorien Garde helped defeat the Mogadorian invasion of Earth. Now all over the planet teenagers are developing new powers - new Legacies. But this terrifies everyone else...
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Camryn Garrett Full DisclosureA smart, funny, sex-positive YA perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Rainbow Rowell, this is a heartwarming look at the particular challenges of adolescence, written as only a teen could...
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Nick Hornby Funny Girl ENNick Hornby's new novel is about popular culture, youth and old age, fame, class and teamwork. It offers a wonderfully captivating portrait of youthful exuberance and creativity, and of a period when both were suddenly allowed to flourish. Fans of Hornby will love this book, as will readers of David Nicholls, Mark Haddon and William Boyd.
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Marian Keyes Further Under the Duvet ENSlide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before. Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones. And of course, agony…
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David Goldblatt Futebol Nation ENFutebol Nation by David Goldblatt - a thriling history of Brazil through its sporting passion. From the genius of Pele to corruption and civil unrest, no nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil. Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art, entwined with its cultures of music and religion. This is true, but…
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Sylvain Reynard Gabriel's Inferno ENGabriel's Inferno is the first in this intoxicating trilogy featuring Gabriel and Julia, following their sensual journey of forbidden love - with all the obsessive yearning of Twilight with the intensity of Fifty Shades of Grey. One man's salvation, one woman's sensual awakening. Gabriel Emerson is a man tortured by his dark past. A highly respected university professor, Gabriel uses his notorious good looks and…
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Sylvain Reynard Gabriel's Rapture ENGabriel's Inferno is the first in this intoxicating trilogy featuring Gabriel and Julia, following their sensual journey of forbidden love - with all the obsessive yearning of Twilight with the intensity of Fifty Shades of Grey.Two lovers bound by their darkest desires... Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate but clandestine love affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell and is teaching her the…
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Richelle Mead Gameboard of the Gods ENIn a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA). Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member of the military’s most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier…
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Ramachandra Guha GandhiThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian. A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women...
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Francois Rabelais Gargantua and PantagruelThe dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world...
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Charles Spence GastrophysicsWhy do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? ...
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Pittacus Lore Generation OneIt has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted. Taylor Cook thought the invasion was just a bad dream. She'd heard about teens who were suddenly developing incredible abilities, ...
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Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the Quest for GodA landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he…
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Alison Hawthorne Deming Genius LociFrom a poet and essayist whose writing about nature has won her comparisons with Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams comes a new collection that offers further evidence of her ability to trace the intersections of the human and nonhuman worlds...