Dyson has become a byword for great design, brilliant invention and global success. Now, James Dyson, the entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure. 'By continually challenging ourselves, investing in the future and experimenting, we can continue to make the future. We must never stop. Never, for one...

Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to...

Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series for children aged 3-11 learning English as a foreign or second language. The series includes traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction. Beautifully illustrated and carefully written by language learning experts, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help...

From the forageable to the bizarre, this book is an introduction to 50 of the fungi kingdom’s most interesting mushrooms. Mushrooms have existed for millennia, which can make it overwhelming to dip into mycology. Used throughout human history for food, medicine and expanding our consciousness, fungi have shaped the planet and the past, appearing everywhere from fairy tales and health-food...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in...

'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian 'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through everyday life' Daily Telegraph You wake up. You go to work. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you get so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up next to your colleague. The next day...

Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author, Crowley's stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in...

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford...

Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations. In Europe's 1oo Best Cathedrals, Simon Jenkins has travelled the continent - from Chartres to York,...

Kolejny tom kolekcji „Najwybitniejsi Naukowcy”, prezentującej postaci ludzi nauki, których badania przyczyniły się do rozwoju ludzkości w różnych dziedzinach – medycynie, przyrodzie, fizyce czy astronomii. Jego bohaterem jest Galileusz, astronom, eksperymentator, dociekliwy i uparty badacz, którego obserwacje potwierdziły to o czym ponad 100 lat wcześniej pisał Mikołaj Kopernik – że Ziemia...

From the  NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLING  author, Rebecca Yarros, comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to  TIKTOK SENSATION  and  RADIO TWO BOOK CLUB  pick  Fourth Wing . . . Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first...

Головні герої два друга Білчик і Ведмідь, які проводять дні разом без нудьги. Вони ходять на риболовлю, разом з кроликами навчаються хоровим співам, купаються в річці, кидають виклик бурі та багато іншого. Книга складається з 20 самостійних історій, які зручно читати з дитиною та поринати у неймовірні пригоди. Кожна розповідь здатна захопити уяву та подарувати світлі теплі емоції.

„Gigant Poleca” to największa seria komiksowa, jaka ukazała się w Polsce – wszystkie wydane historyjki liczą ponad 60 tysięcy stron! „Gigant Poleca” bawi polskich czytelników już od 1992 r., kiedy był wydawany jako „Komiks Gigant”. Każdy tom zawiera 256 stron prześmiesznych historii z przygodami znanych i lubianych postaci, takich jak Kaczor Donald wraz z siostrzeńcami,...

Resigned and defeated? It's time to unf*ck yourself. This is not the usual self-help book. It's time to unf*ck yourself and unleash your greatness! This is blunt force trauma to the way you think life has to be for you. Most importantly, it is designed to give you an authentic leg up - one that feels genuine and right for you, and can propel you to new levels of greatness. It will teach you...

Przenieś się w czasie na średniowieczne gościńce i pola bitewne. Wciel się w rolę kapitana oddziału najemników i sprawdź swój zmysł strategiczny. Czy poprowadzisz swoje wojska do zwycięstwa? Jedna fałszywa decyzja może oznaczać rozlew krwi Twoich towarzyszy. Zyskaj ich szacunek i poprowadź oddział w bój w imię króla, który będzie gotów najhojniej zapłacić za Wasze miecze i ostrogi....

A short gift book of festive hospital diaries from the author of million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the...

The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively guide, biologist Carl...

The magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin the largest programme of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and...

Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. 'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten;...