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Man
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she''s unprepared to hear his astonished praise. ''Stunning,'' he calls her photos. ''Extraordinary.'' She has an uncanny eye, he says, and should consider publication. He could help. Except Judith has no interest in sharing her work; in fact, the mere idea of it frightens her. Still, emboldened by Paul''s encouragement, Judith ventures out beyond her quiet neighbourhood to the city in search of increasingly striking images. When she starts to notice the dark shape of a man in the corner of her self-portraits, Judith is certain he''s an attacker from her past. She doesn''t know why he has returned, but she''s sure of his presence: the hoarse sound of his breathing, his hard grip on her elbow. Perhaps it would appease the man if she were to put her camera down and give up her private passion. But she can''t; she refuses. Until one night when the man finally emerges from the shadows, and Judith''s story suddenly and irrevocably becomes his own. Chilling and heart-poundingly propulsive, The Man is a phenomenal and timely novel exploring the inescapable fear of living as a woman, the tantalizing seduction of artistic freedom and the very real dangers that lurk both inside and outside the confines of the mind.
Volvelle
An impassioned new collection from the Forward Prize-winning poetVolvelle, Rachael Boast’s fifth poetry collection, highlights the need to remember old forms of connection in an era of fragmentation and technological acceleration. Her title embodies something of this in its elegant, recurring consonants – conjuring love, revolve, evolve, the volvelle a circular paper chart of rotating parts for calculating the cycles of the sun and the moon.There are poems here in conversation with Akhmatova, Cocteau, Lorca, Mirabai, Tennyson and Sufi poetry, while others move in the atmospheres of French, Polish and Spanish arthouse cinema. Boast’s coolly passionate collection also explores the need for a sense of place and belonging, and enquires into the overlap between disability and ‘the body politic’ with a fusing of poetry and reportage on global conflicts and ecocide.With a keen sense of roots and interrelatedness, Volvelle circles the question of what it means to stay human in our age of anxiety, unrest and hyper-materialism.
Harry Potter: Crookshanks Plush Lock & Key Diary
With his unique ability to recognize untrustworthy people, Crookshanks will help to guard your secrets from prying eyes. 192 RULED PAGES: With wide ruled lined pages throughout, there is ample room for all your private thoughts and secrets. PLUSH COVER: The velvety soft plush cover encourages sensory engagement and helps you to relieve stress and anxiety. UNDER LOCK & KEY: Keep your thoughts and secrets protected from muggles, witches, and wizards with the lock and two keys provided. CONVENIENT SIZE: This 5.25 x 6.625–inch diary is a compact size for travel and fits easily in a bag or backpack to take with you on the go as you set off on your next magical adventure. ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION: Add more fun Harry Potter™–themed lock and key diaries from Insight Editions to your collection with Harry Potter: Hedwig Squishy Lock & Key Diary, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Invisible Ink Lock & Key Diary, Harry Potter: Gryffindor Plush Lock & Key Diary, Harry Potter: Marauder’s Map Lock & Key Diary, and more!
Pokřivené duše
Světci se sice vypořádali s nepřátelským gangem, avšak po bitvě u loděnice jsou oslabení, zůstaly jim šrámy, a navíc někam zmizela Ava Jade, proto jsou teď pro každého snadnou kořistí.
Corvus, Rook i Grey se propadají do temnoty a jejich duše se bez Avy Jade nablízku tříští. Jejich dívka musí naopak v zajetí ukázat velkou odvahu a vnitřní sílu. Vrány po ní rozjedou pátrání a konečně odhalí, kdo za všemi problémy stojí a tahá celou dobu za nitky. Musí zúčtovat s nepřítelem, co je to však bude stát?
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Super spermie
Uznávaný odborník na reprodukční medicínu boří tabu a dokazuje, že mužská plodnost není jen otázkou osudu, ale i životního stylu. Zjistěte, jak během tří měsíců zlepšit kvalitu i množství svých spermií.
Jakých chyb ve stravě se vyvarovat? Které živiny jsou klíčové a jaký vliv má stres či spánek?
Ať už se o dítě snažíte přirozeně, nebo vás čeká umělé oplodnění, kniha vám nabídne vědecky podložená fakta a akční plán, jak převzít kontrolu nad svým reprodukčním zdravím a získat náskok.
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PORTAL
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape. PORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language—and even intelligence—is no longer produced only by humans. The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad’s frank, honest poetry, PORTAL vibrates with pleasure and dread.
The Franchise
A land filled with magic and dragons and wizards and warriors. Thousands of people live and work within its borders, fearful of their enemies and loyal to their king. The classic fantasy world of The Malicarn has been brought to life on the big screen in a series of phenomenally successful blockbuster movies, almost entirely populated by characters in total belief that their sham fantasy lives are real. A fan-favorite actor finds himself doubting the studio's work, but this franchise has an almost unstoppable momentum, and bringing freedom to a population that already believes itself to be free won’t be as easy as he thinks.
Opening Doors
'Whatever ideas, plans and dreams you have, you've got to go for them! Be your biggest supporter, learn to eradicate the doubts in your mind, embrace the rejections and start opening doors...'
Reggie Nelson had a tough childhood growing up on a council estate in east London. His father suddenly died and his mother had to work multiple jobs just to get by. But when she had to collect Reggie from a cell where he, at only 12, was being held for troublemaking, he knew he needed to change. After catching an episode of How'd You Get So Rich?, Reggie was inspired to get any advice he could to help him turn his life around. So, he got on a train to London's most affluent areas and started knocking on doors. What he found was more powerful than he thought possible - and changed the course of his life.
Inspiring, moving and empowering, Opening Doors is a story of how the power of guidance, visibility and mentoring can give anyone the platform to learn and succeed. Because when one door closes, another door will always open...
A rangidős bölcsessége
William McRaven négycsillagos tengernagy, az Egyesült Államok Haditengerészetének nyugállományú tagja közel négy évtizedes katonai pályát tudhat maga mögött. Utolsó aktív éveiben ő volt a Bullfrog, vagyis az Ökörbéka, azaz a leghosszabb ideje aktív szolgálatban lévő, rangidős SEAL.
A vezetés szinte minden elképzelhető kihívásával szembesült: harci műveleteket irányított – többek között Szaddám Huszein elfogását, Phillips kapitány kiszabadítását, valamint az Oszáma bin Láden elleni rajtaütést. Ebben az inspiráló kötetben rendkívüli életútja és más elismert vezetők tapasztalatai alapján válsághelyzetekről, vezetői és etikai dilemmákról, valamint átfogó szervezeti átalakításokról szóló történeteken keresztül megismerhetjük a csúcsteljesítményre képes vezető jellemzőit.
Mindscape
The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to end the internal wars. When the treaty's architect is assassinated, her protegee, Elleni, a talented renegade and one of the few able to negotiate the Barrier, is forced to take up her mantle. Now Elleni and a motley crew of allies risk their lives to make the treaty work. Can they repair their fractured world before the Barrier devours them completely?
Fishbone Cinderella
A bracelet. A curse. And golden fishbones to be returned to the sea ...
Guangdong, 1940. When Ha Yut Ying narrowly escapes Japanese soldiers by turning invisible, she knows her new-found magic must be kept a secret. But her mother, whose dreams foretell the future, suspects her daughter has changed, and warns her of a curse upon their family. For her protection, she gives her a gold bracelet whose links are shaped like fishbones.?
After the war, Ha Yut Ying is sent to live with her father and his second wife, who have become wealthy factory owners in Hong Kong. Her stepmother, jealous of her beauty, forces her to work in the family's shoe factory.
But when Yut Ying collides with a boy on a bicycle on her way to work, she loses her bracelet. The boy is Tommy Yeung, scion of a local soymilk tycoon. And their encounter will change both of their destinies forever...
Five Nights at Freddy's - Fazbear Frights 6: Přízrak Blackbird
Nole se stává obětí děsivého monstra, které nemilosrdně trestá hříchy minulosti. Jake, který bojuje s nemocí, si stále častěji představuje, že je znovu zdravý. A Toby? Ten zoufale touží získat uznání, a proto se upne k vítězství v arkádové hře. Ve světě Five Nights at Freddy's ovšem mívá zábava děsivé následky!
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Fotbaloví hrdinové - Velká kniha omalovánek
Tato velká kniha omalovánek přináší desítky dynamických ilustrací slavných hráčů v akci, při střelbě, kličkách i oslavách gólů, které čekají jen na to, až je oživíš podle své fantazie. Nabízí skvělou kombinaci zábavy a inspirace: procvičíš si kreativitu, ponoříš se do světa fotbalu a zároveň poznáš své oblíbené hráče zase o něco víc.
Procházky Znojmem
Moderní průvodce pro ty, kdo Znojmo milují, i pro ty, kteří ho objevují poprvé a chtějí ho poznat jinak než z rychlé návštěvy centra. Krok za krokem vás provede po konkrétních trasách: od historických ulic a vyhlídek nad Dyjí přes slavné podzemí až po klidná zákoutí stranou hlavního ruchu. Dozvíte se, kde se psaly dějiny, kam zajít za atmosférou, vínem i výhledy a jak číst město v souvislostech. Nechybí mapky, fotografie a příběhy míst, která dávají Znojmu jeho jedinečný charakter.
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Profit First
Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that:
· Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances.
· A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line.
· Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth.
The entrepreneur behind three multi-million dollar companies offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.
Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows.
With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humour, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.
Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing
Anna has never met anybody like Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar in the Japanese city of Osaka. With her blonde wigs and shimmering dresses, Loll cuts a mesmerising figure. But Anna is troubled by the secrets Loll hides; the identity of her best client with shadowy links to the city's crime underworld; and the sight Anna witnesses one afternoon: Loll teetering on the edge of a railway track, caught in the deafening rush as a train hurtles by.
Whereas Anna has come to Osaka to learn more about her half-Japanese heritage, Loll has no clear reason for being there and no easily discernible past. And so when she disappears, there are only the barest clues as to where she might have gone. Soon Anna is thrown onto a trail that will take her into the darkest corners of the neon-choked metropolis - hidden, forbidden places from which those who know the city best warn her to stay away.
Fierceland
After many years abroad, Harun and Roz return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their palm-oil baron father, Yusuf - and to reckon with their inheritance. Yusuf might be a hero to many, but his children know that not only has he built the family's immense wealth by destroying huge tracts of rainforest, but also that he was involved in the violent disappearance of a man who stood in his way.
Harun is a successful tech entrepreneur in Los Angeles while Roz is an artist struggling to stay afloat in Sydney, and both are determined to return something their father stole from the forests of their homeland. In their quest for redemption they grapple with the legacy of power and corruption and are haunted - by the ghosts of colonialism, the ghosts of family, the ghosts of language, and the ghosts of the forest itself.
A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland is a language-bending story that weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.
Agáta na stopě 1: Tajný klíč
Třináctiletá Agáta je rozený detektiv. Pokoj má plný detektivních románů a vždycky si všímala věcí, které jiní přehlíželi. Její první případ je konečně tady a nebude to nic menšího než záchrana Londýna! Nevinně vypadající srážka motorkáře s postarší dámou je začátkem série podivných událostí, které Agátu dovedou až k tajnému klíči od labyrintu podzemních chodeb. Starý Londýn skrývá mnoho tajemství a Agáta se nezastaví, dokud záhadě nepřijde na kloub. Jaké stopy odhalí a kdo je doopravdy ta nebohá dáma?
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The AI Con
A smart, incisive take-down of so-called 'artificial intelligence', exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.
Have tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our jobs? Will they take over the world?
The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are 'no', 'they wish' and 'LOL, definitely not'. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism and devalue human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines.
Packed with real-world examples of the injustices and harms already being done in the name of 'AI', The AI Con arms you to spot the hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation it aims to hide and push back against it at work and in your daily life.
