Описание: Independent Septi is very much his own cat, established as lord of his domain within Moon Cottage. When Otto, a tiny delicate tortoiseshell kitten, joins the household, she must set out to win Septi over - in her own unique way.
Written with unending humour and warmth, Marilyn Edwards Moon Cottage cat memoirs perfectly capture the highs and lows of living with cats, and pay a touching tribute to the joyous and loving relationship we share with our feline companions. The books are also beautifully illustrated throughout by Peter Warner, the designer of the world-famous Whiskas cat.
Описание: Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter?
The answers are much more surprising and fascinating - than we've been led to believe. The key to health and weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet, nor even in the simple mantra of "eat less, exercise more", but in the microbes already inside us.
Drawing on the latest science and his own pioneering research, Professor Tim Spector demystifies the common misconceptions about fat, calories, vitamins and nutrients. Only by understanding what makes our own personal microbes tick can we overcome the confusion of modern nutrition, and achieve a healthy gut and a healthy body.
Описание: Наглядно-методическое пособие (ширмочка) для организации тематического уголка в дошкольном общеобразовательном учреждении. Информация для детей и родителей. - Разбор основных тем - Комплексный подход Материал: картон.
Описание: Из сборника А. Н. Афанасьева "Русские детские сказки". Иллюстрированная сказка для самых маленьких из серии "Круг чтения. Дошкольная программа". В качестве первых книжек малыша именно русские народные сказки, прошедшие проверку вкусом нескольких поколений наших соотечественников, т. е. сказки, которые могут стать первой ступенькой в воспитании истинного читателя, в возрождении национальной русской семейной традиции - совместного (взрослого и ребёнка) круга чтения. Чтения, которое дарит радость открытия мира детских сказок и их героев, понимание поступков героев, а значит, и понимание услышанного, даёт первые уроки любви, добра, нравственного поведения, учит сопереживать героям, радоваться их радостям и т. д. Надеемся, что малыш с удовольствием и интересом будет рассматривать красочные иллюстрации, слушая текст сказки, возвращаться к ним не раз, а потом - и пересказывать по картинкам-иллюстрациям содержание сказки, отвечать на ваши вопросы. Сказки серии "Круг чтения. Дошкольная программа" направлены на реализацию содержания программ воспитания и обучения детей в соответствии с требованиями ФГОС дошкольного образования. Входят в список произведений для обязательного чтения детям.
Описание: Почему мы смотрим новости? Что нас так в них привлекает и заставляет проводить столько времени у телевизора или монитора компьютера? Новости повсюду. Мы не можем игнорировать их, делать вид, что они не влияют на нашу жизнь. Но самостоятельно разобраться в потоке информации, научиться читать между строк то, что скрыто по цензурным соображениям, и понять, что действительно ценно, а что призвано отвлечь от важных проблем, практически невозможно. Ален де Боттон не просто делится своими наблюдениями, он помогает найти ответы на сложные вопросы. Именно поэтому "Новости" нельзя назвать просто книгой. Это удивительное исследование, помогающее лучше узнать окружающий мир.
Описание: With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in "art for art's sake", to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the "note of doom" which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose.
Описание: A mental health manual for the modern age. An honest guide to depression and anxiety, from rock bottom to recovery, from someone who has been through it and come out the other side. EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH ASKING FOR HELP is a frank, insightful and thought-provoking book on mental health, drawing on the author's own experience of a severe mental breakdown and sharing the recovery tools he has developed in partnership with various medical professionals and mental health experts. Kevin shares his own story to give the book a vital human element, explaining how his fast-paced life in Berlin as a successful magazine journalist was brought to a sudden halt by a major depressive episode. In this dark time, Kevin reached out to friends for help, and it was that act - asking for help - that set him on the long road to recovery. Building on this narrative, Kevin leads the reader through the stages of asking for help, learning to listen, the physical, emotional and mental elements of recovery, and how to maintain stable mental health at home and at work. Written with warmth, honesty and compassion, this is is a valuable resource for anyone who needs help and doesn't know where to begin.
Описание: Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes… it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur… and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. 'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When the five children befriend him they find that each wish granted often has a sting in its tail. Golden guineas are too difficult to spend, wings let them down in a most inconvenient way, and when they wish for Red Indians, the children forget that they can sometimes be a little warlike. Generations of children have come to love the fantasy and the whimsy of the stories in the classic book from the author of The Railway Children.
Описание: These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos. Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by the author, these delightful tales will hold the reader and listener spellbound.
Описание: Unusually tor Dickens. Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
Описание: Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger, and the preposterous Mr. Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame`s book was later dramatised by A.A.Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as `Toad of Toad Hall`. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection.
Описание: With an Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is the wild, passionate story of intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and, wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Описание: Number One for Fiendish Fun! This book contains HIDEOUS behavior, terrible dancing, disgusting glop and a trip to France! Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.
Описание: Lily isn't home ALONE - but she sort of wishes she was; looking after her three younger siblings is a lot of responsibility. When Mum goes off on holiday with her new boyfriend and her stepdad fails to show up, Lily is determined to keep the family together and show they can cope without any grown-ups. But taking care of 6-year-old twins, her 3-year-old sister and the family's flat feels overwhelming and Lily is worried that school or social services might discover their situation and break up the family. What could be better than to take all the little ones for a camping adventure in the park? Plenty of space to run about, no carpet to vacuum, and surely no chance anyone will guess they're there...
Описание: Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals. The other two stories in this book - Youth and The End of the Tether - concern the sea and those who sail upon it, a genre in which Conrad reigns supreme.
Описание: 'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him. ' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic, involving a bloodsucking vampire, crypts at midnight and strange bones in a furnace. The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases, including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with 'The Red Circle' and the insidious murders in 'The Devil's Foot'. The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War. These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all and his erstwhile companion, Dr Watson.
Описание: Мужчины - сущие дети, это вам подтвердит каждая женщина. И ни один мужчина, даже если он серьезный бизнесмен и почтенный отец семейства, не откажется от авантюры. Автопробег "Москва - Владивосток", организованный неутомимым главой рекламного агентства "Беор" Ефимом Береславским, иначе, как авантюрой, назвать было нельзя.
Впрочем, на старте никто, включая Ефима, не подозревал, что впереди их ждут не только кайф от преодоления препятствий, незабываемые встречи, но и нешуточные опасности. Впрочем, знай они обо всем заранее, вряд ли отказались бы от задуманного - мужчины любят совершать героические поступки и с удовольствием рассказывают о них женщинам.
Женщины любят героев - это вам подтвердит каждый мужчина.
Описание: A stunning new novel from one of the best-selling authors of all time! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, were going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book. Stephen King
