Учебники для школы и студентов вузов Black Swan

Final Cut | Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a g...

Fat Cow, Fat Chance. The science and psychology of size | At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to ma...

Widow for one year | 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.' This is the st...

Remember Me? | Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three yea...

The Authenticity Project | Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren't always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian Jessop is tired of ...

Blind Faith | A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb. Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy...

The Wild Life. A Year of Living on Wild Food | The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-...

High Society | The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whore...

Peaches for Monsieur le Cure | It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she allows the wind to blow her back to the village in sou...

Knowledge of Angels | A beautiful, magical novel. It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outside...

Can You Keep a Secret? | Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad we...

The House of Special Purpose | Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is in...

Being There | The classic story of an innocent who changes the world The hero of this astonishing novel is called Chance - he may be the man of tomorrow. Flung into the real world when his rich benefa...

A Ladder to the Sky | You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall. If you look hard enough, you will find stories pr...

Life and other Happy Endings | Three letters. Two mistakes. One Last chance. When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months to live she decides to write three letters sharing the desires, fears and f...

Parliament: The Biography. Volume II - Reform | Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament Over the last two hundred years Parliament has...

Wedding Night | It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it muct be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rek...

Life on the Edge. The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology | The startling discovery that the weirdness of quantum mechanics provides the vital spark that ignites life Life is the most extraordinary pheno...

A Son Of The Circus | 'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.' Born a Parsi in B...

A Fatal Inheritance | London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb. Out of the blue, she receives a solicitor's letter. A wealthy stranger has left...

Sleeping Arrangements | Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spa...

Gatecrasher | The latest installment in Rosamunde Pilcher's Bookshelf series presents Fleur Daxney, who preys on rich and newly widowed men, charming her way into their lives, their beds, and their ba...

Paradox. The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics | Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums... How does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have...

The Road to Little Dribbling. More Notes from a Small Island | Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country....

Nothing is Real. The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop | Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer? But what's fascinating...

Stark | Ben Elton's earth-shattering debut novel. Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying....

Marrying The Mistress | Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merr...

Daughters-in-Law | When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing ...

The Fourth Hand | 'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' While reporting a story from India, a New York tel...

The Music Shop | 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his c...

Shopaholic Ties The Knot | For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money - and getting paid for it). She's...

Passchendaele. The Bloody Battle That Nearly Lost The Allies The War | One hundred years on... On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched Germa...

Hotel New Hampshire | 'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.' So says...

A Passionate Man | One encounter and life is never the same again... The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed h...

Coastliners | On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities have fought for control of the island's only be...

Mutiny on the Bounty | Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal va...

The Weight of Love | London, 1996. Robin and Ruth meet in the staff room of an East London school. Robin, desperate for a real connection, instantly falls in love. Ruth, recently bereaved and fragile,...

The Night You Left | It only takes a moment to unravel a perfect life . . . When Grace's fiance vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked ...

A Leap of Faith | Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that she's on the slippery slope to the big four-oh! With th...

Icons of England | This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of ...

Nothing On Earth | It is the hottest August in living memory. A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again. She will tell...

The Congress of Rough Riders | William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his herita...

AIQ. How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world | What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? Two leading data scientists offer an u...

Work Like a Woman. A Manifesto For Change | Are you ready to be your best self at work? Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this is a book for every one of us...

The Magic of Reality. How we know what's really true | Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a ra...

Miss Benson's Beetle | It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to trave...

The Last Good Kiss | Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes – ...

A God in Ruins | The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn). "He had been reconciled to death during the w...

American Wife | The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of how an ordinary girl from an unremarkable town grows u...

Freedom Next Time | John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, ha...

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee | There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …? Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage what it seems? Chila - warm, loveable - has m...

Life After Life | This is the winner of the costa novel award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a ba...

The Sisters Grimm | There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of sisters Grimm on Earth. You may well be one of them, though you might never know it. This is the story of four sisters Grimm – daughters ...

The Girl on the Train | Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like sh...

Big Sky | Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion ...

All That Remains. A Life In Death | Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of vi...

The Stray Cats of Homs | I don't know how you've made it this far . . . Sami's childhood is much like any other - school with his friends, dinners with his family, playing with his pets (stray cats an...

Blue River, Black Sea | A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe. The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any o...

Friday Nights | They wouldn't let anything - or anyone - get in the way of their friendship, would they? Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they ...

Call of the Penguins | Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure . . . Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly ninety-year-old Veronica make an unlikely pair of friends. Fiercely independent and ...

The Disappearing Spoon and other true tales from the Periodic Table | Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books ...

The Remarkable Life of the Skin. An intimate journey across our surface | How does our diet affect our skin? What makes the skin age? And why can't we tickle ourselves? Providing a cover for our delic...

Uncommon People. The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 | As heard on BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keveny, BBC Radio 5 Live and Talk Radio with Eamonn Holmes The age of the rock star, like the age of...

Different Class | After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go - the clowns, the rebels, the underdogs, and those he ...