Psst! It's true! This is the best book on SLEEP you'll ever read!
Did you know that astronauts don't snore? And that lack of sleep can kill you faster than starvation?
Dive under the doona and find out the facts on sleep. Horses do it standing up, ducks with one eye open. Pop stars invent catchy tunes while they are snoozing. A nightmare about cannibals leads to the invention of the sewing needle. From snoring to ejector beds, bedbugs to why we dream, it's all here, between the sheets.

Who do you think are the most influential Americans ever? Walt Disney or Benjamin Franklin? Rosa Parks or Oprah Winfrey? This book is an in-depth look at the men and women who changed the world's most powerful nation. Heroes and villains, film stars and physicists, generals and peaceniks. Each entry comes with a full biography of the individual and why they had such a powerful impact on America.

This new paperback edition of the 20-million-copy bestselling thesaurus has been fully revised, expanded, and updated for the modern home, school, or office.

С помощью этого великолепно иллюстрированного словаря даже совсем маленькие дети смогут научиться читать и говорить по-английски. В книге около 500 слов и столько же фраз, которые ребенок может активно использовать в повседневной жизни.
With this beautifully illustrated dictionary, even very young children can learn to read and speak in English. In about 500 words and the same phrases that the child can actively use in everyday life. Material books are carefully selected by teachers from the University of Oxford. Game scenes on various topics, will help children easily learn many words.
Bilingual version, suitable also for Non-Russian speakers!

The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes.