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There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home: Lanny.

The third installment in Craig Revel Horwood's frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of the Strictly Come Dancing star's 'fab-u-lous' life. Join Craig and a host of Strictly stars – including Ore Oduba, Judy Murray and the unforgettable Ed Balls – on the show and live tours and get the real stories from behind the scenes. The Aussie-born judge shares his famously forthright views on the changes in the show's line up, from Bruce Forsyth and Len Goodman's departures to the arrival of Claudia Winkleman and Shirley Ballas, as well as the dancers and stars. Away from Strictly, Craig reveals fresh heartache over failed romances, his pain at losing his dad and how his work kept him from flying to Australia for the funeral. He marks the milestones in his life, including turning fifty and moving from London to live in a 'gorgeous' country pile, as well as going under the knife for a second hip operation plus a few nips and tucks. The multi-talented dancer, director and choreographer also discusses his award-winning shows, including Sister Act and Son of a Preacher Man, and spending a year in drag as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Plus, he reveals all about his foray into movies, choreographing Hugh Grant for Paddington 2 and making his big screen debut in Nativity Rocks. With his famous wit and a wealth of backstage gossip, In Strictest Confidence is the perfect read for all his fans as well as those of Strictly Come Dancing.

'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' – DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of Ad Astra The Beginning and the End of Everything is the whole story as we currently understand it – from nothing, to the birth of our universe, to its ultimate fate. Authoritative and engaging, Paul Parsons takes us on a rollercoaster ride through billions of light years to tell the story of the Big Bang, from birth to death. 13.8 billion years ago, something incredible happened. Matter, energy, space and time all suddenly burst into existence in a cataclysmic event that's come to be known as the Big Bang. It was the birth of our universe. What started life smaller than the tiniest subatomic particle is now unimaginably vast and plays home to trillions of galaxies. The formulation of the Big Bang theory is a story that combines some of the most far-reaching concepts in fundamental physics with equally profound observations of the cosmos. From our realization that we are on a planet orbiting a star in one of many galaxies, to the discovery that our universe is expanding, to the groundbreaking theories of Einstein that laid the groundwork for the Big Bang cosmology of today – as each new discovery deepens our understanding of the origins of our universe, a clearer picture is forming of how it will all end. Will we ultimately burn out or fade away? Could the end simply signal a new beginning, as the universe rebounds into a fresh expanding phase? And was our Big Bang just one of many, making our cosmos only a small part of a sprawling multiverse of parallel universes?

Spory odsetek ludzi zadowala sie glownie jedzeniem i plodzeniem, nie przejmujac sie tym, ze takie postepowanie prowadzi do nieracjonalnych zachowan, ktore niszcza ludzkosc i wykanczaja planete. Tymczasem seks i pozywienie to tylko czubek gory lodowej. Zaden inny gatunek nie popadl tak dalece jak czlowiek w obsesje dominacji i podnoszenia statusu spolecznego. Permanentna rywalizacja spoleczna jest szalenie energochlonna i w znacznym stopniu przyczynia sie do degradacji srodowiska. Wydawalo ci sie, ze twoj mozg jest doskonaly? Niestety, mozesz byc w bledzie… Mozg, ktory wydaje sie ewolucyjnie najdoskonalszym narzadem, w rzeczywistosci jest destrukcyjny. Przez stulecia byl najlepszym sprzymierzencem ludzkosci, zapewniajac nam przewage nad innymi, dzis jest naszym najwiekszym problemem, poniewaz ma zasadnicza wade konstrukcyjna – jest nosnikiem nieposkromionej zadzy. Po raz pierwszy w dziejach 8 miliardow ludzi na Ziemi bedzie musialo stawic czola samym sobie. Przez swoja zachlannosc i zadze wladzy nasze mozgi zgotowaly nam kataklizm nadmiaru. Hiperkonsumpcja doprowadzila nas na rozdroze. Popadamy w skrajnosci, produkujac, jedzac, a nawet zadluzajac sie tylko dlatego, ze nie potrafimy powstrzymac naszych nienasyconych umyslow. Czy mozemy naprawic ten blad i stac sie panami naszego przeznaczenia?