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Dope
'Absolutely loved it' - Damian Hughes, High Performance podcastInside the murky world of doping in sport, uncovering how the cheats keep one step ahead of the authorities and what drives them to do so. Some of the most iconic and revered athletes in history have been handed bans when at the pinnacle of their sports - from Lance Armstrong, Ben Johnson, and Marion Jones to Diego Maradona, Shane Warne and Jannick Sinner. And now with the emergence of the Enhanced Games, where steroids and peptides are not only allowed but encouraged, an athlete's performance is questioned more than ever. Dope examines the landscape of sport and doping in the modern era, from micro-dosing blood boosters to the rise of drug taking in amateur sport and AI's ability to create undetectable - and potentially dangerous - performance-enhancers. Author James Witts immerses himself in the underbelly of sport, interviewing doping athletes, anti-doping experts, scientists, ethicists, psychiatrists and psychologists to answer:- What products do the dopers use to boost performance?- What methods do the authorities use to catch the cheats?- How does WADA determine what's legal and illegal?- How does politics impact WADA's work?- What's the evidence these illegal performance-enhancers actually work?- Why are football's indiscretions glossed over while cycling and athletics are lambasted?- What products are used to mask their illegal actions? - Can we really trust that peak sporting performance is down to determination and talen? his is an eye-opening and enthralling account of modern-day sport - one which will change the way you view it forever.
Mind vs Machines
Welcome to the intelligence revolution! This exciting book introduces young readers to the world of artificial intelligence (AI) - from its fascinating history to its groundbreaking impact today. Discover how AI is used in everything from space exploration to video games, medicine, and robotics. Learn about machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning, and find out how AI is helping solve some of the world's biggest challenges. Cool, graphic-style, fun illustrations intermix with jaw-dropping facts, Tomorrow's World showcases science like never before - as something that can change the world!
Funniest Storybook Ever
This classic collection of Richard Scarry's most amusing tales will keep kids giggling right up until bedtime. lllustrated in Scarry’s signature style, each story is packed full of brilliant details and fun mysteries to solve. All your favourite Busytown characters are back and getting up to no good, from sneaky mice pirates hijacking Uncle Willie's ship, to a talking loaf of bread that baffles Humperdink the Baker and Lowly Worm! Young readers will be rolling on the floor with laughter thanks to the countless silly situations in this hilarious story collection. Hop aboard and join the fun in this beloved children’s classic from the magical world of Richard Scarry.
Karuna
Never before has our world been so wealthy, well-informed and technologically advanced. Yet we are facing an unprecedented crisis: humanity is plagued by conflict, inequality and indifference. It is imperative, therefore, that we rethink our approach to life and society, and that we do so now. The answer lies in karuna, compassion. Compassion is not a soft emotion but a powerful force for transformation.
A Surprise for Snail
A charming story about friendship and optimism from internationally bestselling author-illustrator Petr Horácek. It's Snail's birthday, and he wants to do something special. He's always dreamed of seeing the sunset over the sea - but it's a long way to go. Can his friends help make his dreams come true? A charming and vibrantly illustrated picture book perfect for sharing with young children, from the internationally acclaimed author-illustrator Petr Horácek.
The American Revolution, 2nd edition
This revised and updated edition of The American Revolution offers an accessible and authoritative account of the war that forged a nation.
From the first sparks of rebellion to the final treaty, this comprehensive visual history charts the key battles, political tensions, and personal stories that shaped the United States. Discover how events like the Boston Massacre, the Declaration of Independence, and the surrender at Yorktown unfolded with vivid artworks, first-hand accounts, and timelines that bring clarity to every phase of the conflict.
Fully revised and updated, and produced in association with the Smithsonian Institute, The American Revolution is packed with information on the course of the battle and locations of particular importance, with detailed coverage of related topics such as the treatment of wounded soldiers and the experience of Native Americans, providing a rich and detailed account of one of the most controversial conflicts ever fought.
In this book, you will find:
More than 500 images, including dramatic paintings of battles and galleries of weapons, equipment, and other artefacts
First-hand accounts of the conflict from soldiers and civilians alike
Fascinating biographies of important figures - from George Washington to Alexander Hamilton
Detailed coverage of broader subjects, such as contemporary political ideas and the impact of the war on the home front
Publishing in 2026, ahead of America 250 - the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA -alongside DK's The American Civil War and The History of the USA Year by Year, this is the ultimate guide to a pivotal period in world history.
In Natures Slipstream
Welcome to a new approach to gardening that gives equal weight to beauty and sustainability, creating a charming haven filled with flowers where the gardener and nature work in harmony.
Carol Bruce has spent over 20 years considering how we relate to nature and the implications this has for gardening. Driven to find a balance between a wild and cultivated environment, she developed a method that combines both in a holistic system, resulting in a garden of otherworldly beauty.
With lessons from the countryside and her own garden, Carol takes you on a journey where you will learn:
Sustainable Design and Maintenance Methods: How to incorporate natural processes within your garden without sacrificing its beauty.
Adapting Existing Spaces: How to modify your existing flowerbeds to future-proof your garden and welcome wildlife.
Personal Style and Colour Schemes: How to combine layout and colour scheming techniques to express your own personal style.
A self-taught gardener, Carol designed her own award-winning garden from scratch, which harnesses self-sowing and natural selection for resilience, is free from irrigation, pesticides, and fertilisers, and acts as a haven for wildlife. Having worked through all the trial and error herself, she now shares her knowledge, proven techniques, and planting schemes to give others a shortcut to transforming their own space - whether starting from scratch or with a garden to adapt.
In Nature's Slipstream acts as a personal gardening tutor, helping you to achieve a beautiful, manageable garden that is completely in harmony with the natural world.
Squirrel and Duck: Quack to the Future
Hilarious illustrated story in the series about unlikely friends Squirrel and Duck. Join them on a mind-blowing adventure to discover why they're the only two talking animals in the world. Perfect for 7+ fans of Grimwood, Dog Man and Murray and Bun. 'Hilarious… addictive' Guardian'Zanily entertaining' LoveReading4KidsSquirrel and Duck can't remember where they first met, but Duck is having some strange flashbacks to a secret underground science lab. Trying to find it again, they meet a friendly ferret, a distinctly UNfriendly scientist and uncover some shocking secrets behind their own existence! Packed full of pictures and laugh-out-loud scenes, this is a zanily entertaining story from a bestselling author/illustrator. Don't miss the rest of the series: Squirrel and Duck: Mission Improbable and Squirrel and Duck: Invasion of the Doggy-Snatchers. From the bestselling author of the Big Bright Feelings picture book series.
Gokurakugai, Vol. 5
For the right price, these professional troubleshooters can solve any problem, whether they’re taking out the scum of the earth or destroying human-eating monsters!The troubleshooters of Gokurakugai are open for business! In a run-down town without law and order, Alma and Tao accept work from clientele of all creeds and cultures, and they’re always ready to dole out justice against human-devouring monsters that lurk in the shadows. They’ll take on any case—as long as the price is right!After Alma’s ferocious battle with Utsuro, the lovesick blood-loss maga, Alma and Tao head to an old, abandoned mansion to investigate a series of unnatural deaths. They run into Nei, but she wasn’t part of the mission briefing. Why is she here—and how does she know the culprit behind those deaths?
Only a Little While Here
Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize • Winner of Colombia’s National Novel Award This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds. In Only a Little While Here, award-winning author María Ospina evokes the gratification to be found through close, humble observation of nature. With characteristic precision and intensity, Ospina trains our attention on the lives of five creatures: a migratory songbird dazzled by city lights, an orphaned porcupine saved by kindness, two dogs grieving the loss of their human companions, and a determined beetle transported to a vast, unimaginable world. The surprising drama of their lives reveals the fragility and power of belonging, and what it means to create—or lose—a home. Along the way, our narrator models the attentiveness needed to mend the rift between humans and non-human creatures and celebrates animals’ often-overlooked status as witnesses of our shared world. Alive with eagle-eyed curiosity, Only a Little While Here is ecological fiction at its most soul stirring.
Hry, sítě, porno 2.0
Digitální džungle už nikdy nebude méně divoká. Vaše děti se v ní ale nemusejí ztratit.
Rodičovství je těžké – a to digitální obzvlášť. Virtuální svět se mění rychleji než kdy dřív a zahlcují jej krátká videa, čím dál návykovější hry, sofistikovanější algoritmy i online formy vztahů. Jak přesně to ovlivňuje život našich dětí? A můžeme to změnit?
Michaela Slussareff vás seznámí s aktuálními vědeckými poznatky o vlivu digitálních technologií na děti i dospívající a pomůže vám je převést do každodenní rodičovské praxe. Jak společně komunikovat, nastavovat férová pravidla i rozpoznat, kdy se z běžného používání stává problém.
V knize se mimo jiné dozvíte
- Výzkumy z celého světa se shodují v tom, že děti do dvou let by vůbec neměly sledovat obrazovky.
- Krátká videa zásadně mění nejen schopnost udržet pozornost a učit se, ale ovlivňují samotné myšlení.
- Děti musíme připravit na to, že je mnohem obtížnější se pornografii na internetu vyhnout než ji vyhledat.
- Vztahy s umělou inteligencí a virtuálními společníky už nejsou sci-fi a některým dětem nahrazují ty skutečné.
- Pouhé zákazy a kontrola nefungují a nikdy nebudou – klíčem je přístup založený na otevřenosti, důvěře a dialogu.
Staňte se spolehlivým průvodcem svých dětí a pomozte jim na cestě k digitální odolnosti.
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Governing the Future
A logistics manager in Dubai reroutes ships through an AI-powered trade platform. A policymaker in Riyadh uses an AI-powered model of the national economy to test how fiscal choices affect growth, spending, and debt. A graduate in Astana is turning to an algorithmic jobs accelerator to find her path in global markets. Across economies and institutions, artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of decision-making, governance, and value creation. It marks the dawn of a new economic era that is powered by intelligence, driven by insight, and grounded in inclusion. AI Economics is where this transformation takes shape. It represents the fusion of data, technology, and policy into a living system of governance that anticipates shocks, adapts in real time, and empowers people through knowledge and inclusion. This timely book explores how nations can navigate this transformation through ten defining policy questions that range from redesigning labour markets to rethinking trade, fiscal policy, and institutional trust. Each question translates the promise of artificial intelligence into a practical pathway toward a more resilient, adaptive, and participatory governance, where data becomes foresight and foresight becomes action. AI Economics is not about replacing human judgment. It is about reimagining how intelligence, in all its forms, can serve society with precision and purpose. Provocative, precise and visionary, Governing the Future challenges policymakers, economists and citizens alike to rethink how nations govern in the new age of artificial intelligence.
What's Going Right
In a world where it’s easy to feel like everything is going wrong, world-renowned psychiatrist Paul Conti asks – what’s going right? Despite the increasing availability of mental health resources and freedom of people talking about it, the data around mental health shows a steady decline in happiness. Why are all the metrics heading the wrong way? With his characteristic warmth, optimism and expertise however, Dr Paul Conti wants you to flip the narrative and ask yourself the empowering question: how can we go righ? ased on his Generative Drive framework, and as seen on the wildly popular podcast series on Andrew Huberman’s Huberman Lab, What’s Going Right will guide readers to understanding and assessing their mental health. Also informed by Paul’s own journey and his decades of experience helping patients, this book will provide you with a simple, science-based framework for improving mental health, fortified with practical tools that you can tailor to yourself in the real world. With all Dr. Conti's straightforwardness and sincerity, What’s Going Right is an accessible and inspiring mental health protocol that will empower you to reach your fullest potential – starting with what’s going right.
Luna Loves Sport
By award-winning Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, the sixth book in the Luna Loves... series celebrates the wonderful world of sport. With her lucky trainers, headband, and water bottle, Luna is ready for her school sports day. Luna doesn’t think she’s very good at sports, but she decides to give everything a go. From football and basketball to swimming and hurdles, Luna and her friend Abiola discover that you don’t need to be the best to enjoy trying new sports . . . can they overcome their doubts together, and even have fun along the wa? ther books in the Luna Loves... series:Luna Loves Library DayLuna Loves ArtLuna Loves DanceLuna Loves ChristmasLuna Loves GardeningLuna Loves Books board book
A Cornish Legacy
Escape to Cornwall this summer with the new emotional and uplifting novel from Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Fern Britton Set by the wild Atlantic coast of Cornwall comes a story about finding home in the most unlikely places. When Cordelia Jago learns she’s been left the crumbling manor house Wilder Hoo, perched high on the Cornish coast, she wonders if it’s one last cruel joke from beyond the grave. Having already lost her marriage, her best friend and her career, she’s at rock-bottom. Now she’s inherited a house she hates, full of unhappy memories. But as she fights with its echoing rooms and whispering shadows, the house begins to exert a pull on her. The wild Cornish landscape, the stark beauty of seagrass and yellow gorse against the deep blue sea, begin to awaken a connection she thought she’d buried forever. Could she turn around this monstrous wreck of a house – and, along the way, let go of the secrets of the past and heal her heart too?
Ben Nuttall's Footy Factory
Want to learn new freestyle skills or tricks for your next game? Impress your mates in the playground with your unbelievable tekkers? Or just have a laugh trying a new sport? This is the book for you!Join football’s freestyle phenomenon and record-breaking social media superstar BEN NUTTALL for step-by-step guides to skills of all levels, plus jaw-dropping stories of the famous players who have showed them off on match day. Illustrated by Nigel Baines.
The Boy With Two Mums
There’s a new boy at Pearl’s school – his mum is an artist and he’s invited the class to her exhibition. And when they arrive, they meet someone very special – Rufus’ other mum! Join Rufus and Pearl on an adventure at school, where the class is talking about what they love about their families. Rufus loves that his mum is an artist, and the whole class goes to her exhibition! Pearl and Rufus have fun looking at the paintings – and discover that Rufus’ two mums are really similar to Pearl’s parents. A funny and heart-warming friendship story featuring a same-sex parent family – encouraging children to be open-minded and see similarities rather than differences.
One Year
‘But we can’t possibly pack up our lives and just run away in a van for a whole year. Can we?’Susan Bennett and her husband Chris are living normal, busy lives until their mid-thirties when a shock diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is delivered to both of them – in the same week, in the same hospital. This is one in a series of final straws that nudges them to follow their dream, simplify their lives, and take to the road for a year in their trusty camper van, Hans. One Year charts their journey around western Europe and Scandinavia. Engine breakdowns, Spanish flu, French doctors and many hours spent getting lost – freedom does not come without its challenges. But slowly the fog of bereavement and burnout begins to lift as they determine to carry on regardless; the unknown road reveals unexpected life lessons such as how to recover a sense of awe and look up at big skies, how to stop and breathe, and how to find courage to live life to the beat of your own drum. One Year is a life-affirming true story of stopping in order to start again and an inspirational memoir about rediscovering a capacity for joy and hope in the most difficult of circumstances.
Heathrow in Photographs
London’s Heathrow Airport has seen dramatic changes since it opened in 1946, from canvas tents being used as terminal buildings serving converted military piston-engined airliners to the latest Airbus and Boeing jet airliners operating out of five modern, sophisticated terminals. As air travel became more affordable, Heathrow expanded to accommodate the increase in airline traffic. This pictorial timeline records these changes in air transport and infrastructure to capture the interest of aviation enthusiasts, casual visitors or anyone fascinated by nostalgia in an ever-changing world.






















