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Remarkably Bright Creatures
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors - until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late...
Trénink paměti pro seniory: Jednoduchá cvičení
Kniha je zaměřena na procvičování různých kognitivních funkcí, a to zejména: • krátkodobé paměti • slovní zásoby • koncentrace pozornosti • zrakově-prostorových schopností Procvičování mozku různými způsoby je velmi důležitý faktor v prevenci poruch paměti a je přínosné v každém věku. Kniha obsahuje úkoly na nižší až střední úrovni obtížnosti, vždy je uvedeno 5 variant pro jeden typ cvičení. Samozřejmostí je adekvátní velikost písma i obrázků a barevné provedení. Své řešení si může čtenář sám zkontrolovat na konci knihy. Kniha je určena zejména pro seniorskou populaci, ale bude jistě přínosem i pro jiné zájemce o problematiku cvičení paměti a také pro pracovníky z oblasti sociální péče nebo zdravotnictví, zejména ty, kteří svým klientům připravují smysluplné denní aktivity. Mgr. Jitka Suchá vystudovala ergoterapii a fyzioterapii, je trenérkou paměti III. stupně. Od roku 1997 pracuje v denním stacionáři pro seniory. Pořádá kurzy a semináře, vede web pro aktivizační pracovníky www.napadnik-aktivizace.cz. Je autorkou několika knih zaměřených na cvičení paměti.
Obľúbený za každú cenu
Byť sebou je odvážne a slobodné. Mať sa na prvom mieste seba je sebavedomé. Zdravé hranice sú vyjadrením rešpektu k sebe a druhým.
Všetci to chceme, no ako deti sme si to nemohli dovoliť. Mnohí z nás vyrastali v prostredí, kde sa prirodzené prejavy potláčali a my sme sa museli prispôsobovať okoliu často až nezdravým a veľmi škodlivým spôsobom. Tieto naučené vzorce správania môžeme nazvať stratégiami prežitia. Naozaj nimi boli – od okolia sme boli existenčne závislí.
Ako dospelí však už nie sme – a napriek tomu vo vzťahoch často fungujeme ako malé zakríknuté deti s pocitom nízkej sebahodnoty, ktoré nevedia, ako sa za seba postaviť ani ako si sami naplniť vlastné potreby. Zotrvávame v toxických väzbách, tolerujeme nevhodné správanie – sme zúfalo závislí, pretože potrebujeme, aby nás ľudia mali radi, a nevieme, ako z toho von.
Táto kniha je sprievodcom a zároveň osobnou výpoveďou úspešnej psychoterapeutky; ženy, ktorá sa krok za krokom dokázala vymaniť z ťažkej traumy úslužnosti. Obsahuje osobné príbehy viacerých klientov, ktorí to takisto dokázali a postupne žijú čoraz krajšie životy. Je o odvahe oslobodiť sa a ponúka užitočné nástroje podložené dlhoročnou psychoterapeutickou praxou. Pretože ak chceme naozaj žiť a nájsť sa, potrebujeme sa v prvom rade pustiť všetkého, čo nám v tom bráni.
Planéty Zem obyvateľ – malý Leo cestovateľ
Stačí otvoriť knižku, svet stíchne a sny sa stanú skutočnosťou.
Malý Leo sa v ríši snov vydá na dobrodružné potulky po slovenských lúkach a lesoch so svojím verným kamarátom, červeným autíčkom Hitačim. Spoločne vás prevedú rozprávkovou krajinou, v ktorej sa detská fantázia snúbi s krásami Slovenska – od majestátneho Oravského hradu až po veselé folklórne slávnosti. Cestou sa skamarátia s usilovnými bobrami, nežnou labuťou aj s dobrákom macom Lacom. Počas putovania zistia, že dobro víťazí, priateľstvo nepozná hranice a pomocná labka je vždy pripravená. Je to príbeh, ktorý vaše dieťa niečo naučí, rozosmeje ho, ale aj príjemne upokojí pred spánkom.
Prečo si túto knihu zamilujete?
Sila dobra a súdržnosti: Leo pri záchrane malej rybky učí deti súcitu. Zistí, že každé dobro sa raz vráti, napríklad v podobe pomocnej labky bobrích bratov či divých kačíc.
Koniec strachu z neznámeho: Deti spoznajú, že aj veľký medveď môže byť priateľom a že odvaha rastie spolu s priateľstvom.
Pokojné zaspávanie v objatí rýmov: Veršovaný text s prirodzeným rytmom, ktorý pripomína upokojujúci tlkot mamičkinho srdca, premení večerné zaspávanie na radostné dobrodružstvo, ktoré dieťa bezpečne prenesie do ríše snov v objatí domova.
Putá, ktoré zostávajú: Spoločné čítanie nie je len o spoznávaní nových slov a objavovaní sveta, ale najmä o budovaní puta medzi rodičom a dieťaťom. Je to ten najmilší spôsob, ako si povedať: „Mám ťa rád.“
Vezmite do rúk knihu Planéty Zem obyvateľ – malý Leo cestovateľ a nechajte sa vtiahnuť do sveta plného rýmov, lásky a zázrakov, ktoré zostanú v srdci aj po prebudení.
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million copies around the world.
This new 4-book boxed gift set, published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first of Peter Jackson’s award-winning Lord of the Rings film trilogy, contains the complete work plus its prequel, The Hobbit, reissued with covers featuring iconic film images.
Brány vnímání. Nebe a peklo
Dvě eseje kultovního autora, jež ovlivnila celá 60. léta nejen v Americe. Brány vnímání se zabývají bez předsudků halucinogeny a jejich vlivem na lidské vědomí. Huxley se v ní snaží o docenění psychologického a spirituálního efektu, který pro člověka mohou drogy představovat. V práci se projevuje autorův zájem o biologii a přírodní vědy.V eseji Nebe a peklo se zabývá podílem půstu, sebetrýznění a dlouhodobé odloučenosti na získání stejné zkušenosti.
Apple
On April 1, 1976, two scruffy twentysomethings, both named Steve, founded a startup. Their goal: To bring the revolutionary power of computers to everyone.
Over the next five decades, Apple reshaped the technology and cultural landscapes, introducing the public to breakthroughs like the mouse, laser printing, CD-ROM, WiFi, digital video, home networking, touchscreen phones, and tablets. Jobs's obsessive eye for detail set the stage for products-Mac, iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, AirPods, Apple Watch-that married advanced technology with beauty, simplicity, and fine design.
Deeply researched and lavishly illustrated, Apple: The First 50 Years includes new interviews with 150 key people who made the journey, including Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and many current designers, engineers, and executives. The book busts long-held myths; goes backstage for both the titanic successes (450 million iPods, 700 million iPads, 2.2 billion iPhones) and the instructive failures (Lisa, Apple III, MobileMe); and assesses the forces that challenge Apple's dominance as it enters its second half century.
Bursting with tales of frenetic all-nighters, engineering genius, and creative rebellion, this book is a true testament to Apple's unique and innovative vision, and a must read for anyone whose life Apple has touched.
First to Finish
'Freaking phenomenal. The chemistry? Electric. The banter? Sharp, addictive, and completely off the charts.' ????? – The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom!
Absolutely Fine
Gorgeously illustrated in Emma Chichester Clark’s signature style, this gentle and comforting tale of friendship is the perfect bedtime story. There are good days and there are bad days. Everybody has them. And when Maudie has a bad day, she heads to her house in the woods to be alone. But when her friends keep coming over to see if she's alright, she realises that sometimes it's fine not to be absolutely fine. From the same world as A Good Night’s Sleep, this beautiful and moving new picture book will reassure children that good friends can help you through bad days.
Carnivore
In New York’s high-end restaurant scene one chef will do anything, and cook anything, to come out on top. Kash knows what hunger really means. He grew up with nothing. Built a restaurant from nothing. Now he's cooking for men who have everything – billionaires with appetites as twisted as their fortunes. They hunger for what money can't buy, what laws forbid, what no one else dares serve. Kash will give them exactly what they crave. And then some more. *** 'Deliciously dark' Observer ‘A wicked take on the underbelly of the immigrant dream' Vaseem Khan 'A daring and disturbing literary dish' Daily Star 'Fast-paced, deeply disturbing satire … dripping with tension' Hindustan Times 'A rather breathless thriller' CrimeTime 'Bold and satirical' Culturefly
Redemption River
Some mistakes you can’t outrun Others become your reason to stay Brodie Carter thought he’d left his small-town life behind when the band he formed with his brothers became one of the biggest in the world. Now, with fame fading and purpose lost, he’s back in Autumn Falls—only to bump into the girl he’d never quite forgotten. Maeve Dixon. The girl in the silver cowboy boots. But Maeve’s a doctor, wants nothing to do with him, and has a very big secret she’s been hiding from him for the past eight years… It’s time for Brodie to decide: keep running from the life he never planned, or fight for what he never knew he needed. 🌊🌊🌊 Don't miss out on discovering what happens to the Carter brothers in the next books in the series… Book 1: Autumn Falls Book 2: Silver Sky Book 3: Redemption River Book 4: Starlight Mountain Book 5: Midnight Promise
George Falls Through Time
GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . . "Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." —GARRARD CONLEY"Big-hearted and inspired." —STEVEN ROWLEY"Funny, surprising, profound." —GRANT GINDER"Unputdownable." —LUNA MCNAMARALess meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating and thoughtfully genre-defying literary novel about a man transported through time in a moment of extreme stress, whose modern anxieties are replaced by medieval brutalitiesNewly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300. When he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon. Despite the barbarity of a medieval world, a servant named Simon helps George acclimate to a simpler, easier existence—until a summons from the King threatens to send his life up in flames. George Falls Through Time is as much an inward journey as an outward one: an immersive exploration of identity and dislocation that pits present-day sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop, a strangely perfect canvas for the absurd anxieties of our modern lives. It's a profound meditation on the nature of desire perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and The Ministry of Time.
The Story of the Chanel Bag
The Chanel handbag is a global symbol of style, craftsmanship and status. Since the release of the 2.55 in 1955, Chanel has produced a series of iconic designs - from classic staples to rare, limited editions. This beautiful photographic guide explores the full spectrum, from wearable art pieces like the beaded lucite Cage Flap and the discontinued Diana, to cult favourites like the So Black and the Graffiti backpack.
Learn about the Chanel bag's enduring influence on celebrity style and popular culture, and explore the craftsmanship that goes into each piece, from signature quilting and leathers to hardware, logos, and interior construction. With expert guidance on authentication and navigating the resale market, this is a smart, practical resource for anyone looking to buy, collect, or invest in a true fashion icon.
A Drop of Corruption
In sequel to the Hugo award-winning The Tainted Cup, an eccentric detective matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant bio-punk fantasy mystery.
An impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air - vanishing from a building whose entrances and exits are all sealed. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, Ana Dolabra, and her bemused assistant Dinios Kol.
Ana soon discovers they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder - and one of surpassing cunning, carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost.
Din has seen his superior solve impossible cases before. But as the death toll grows and their quarry predicts each of their moves with uncanny foresight, he fears she has at last met an enemy she can't defeat ...
Raphael. Paintings, Frescoes, Tapestries. 45th Ed.
Raphael (1483–1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short lifetime he created around one hundred paintings and numerous frescoes, including nine fresco cycles, on an unsurpassed variety of themes – from sensual female beauties, antique myths and portraits of wealthy Romans and church dignitaries to history cycles and biblical scenes. He produced altarpieces, as well as designing tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. His Sistine Madonna is one of the most frequently reproduced religious paintings of all time.
Raphael was a tireless learner, for whom there could be no standing still, no repetition of tried and tested solutions, but only the constant forward thrust of an inexhaustible imagination. He transformed his central theme, the visionary experience of divine grace, into visible pictorial reality. It was his mature work in Rome, and above all the frescoes in the Vatican Palace, that secured him his place in art history. Admired even during his own lifetime as the most modern artist of his day, Raphael’s mastery would pave the way for Mannerism and the Baroque era.
Bullsh*t Comparisons
Bullshit Comparisons will challenge the way you think about rankings, charts and other marketing and political tools designed to create odious and dangerous comparisons.
Is Boris Johnson really like Winston Churchill? Are electric cars actually greener than petrol ones? Which is the world's most successful university? Is Lisbon the new Barcelona? Should we compare the achievements of younger and older siblings even when we know it damages their self-worth? We make comparisons every day, but how helpful are they?
Looking across a dazzling range of situations both familiar and unfamiliar, Bullshit Comparisons is a ground-breaking examination of the role of comparison in modern society, illuminated by examples spanning from the FIFA World Footballer of the year, to wine-tasting in London, hospital care in Sierra Leone and avocado farming in Colombia.
Challenging us to think critically about the use of comparison through accessible, personal, and often amusing research, Andrew Brooks reveals the uses and abuses of comparisons in a book that isn't like anything else you have read.
Doctor Who: The Time of Angels
An improbable call for help from River Song draws the Doctor and Amy to the wreck of the starship Byzantium on the world of Alfava Metraxis. The wreck contains a deadly cargo - a Weeping Angel, determined to escape. And the starship's crash site, infringing on a sprawling subterranean tomb, is no coincidence.
In uneasy alliance with a squad of military clerics, the Doctor's investigation becomes a desperate battle to survive as an army of implacable, quantum-locked killers grows ever stronger - and flesh becomes stone.
Zrození mistra
Zlodějíček Drápela má den blbec – ale když ve sklepě narazí na tajemného muže v prapodivných šatech, netuší, že právě spustil události, které převrátí celý svět. Cizinec si nepamatuje, kdo je, navíc mlčí. Jenže bohové už si ho vybrali. Muž vstoupí do cechu zlodějů, získá nové jméno, nové přátele – a osud, kterému neuteče. Čeká ho výprava plná magie, zrady i hrdinství, v níž se střetne s mocnou čarodějkou Lorein a starodávnou říší Bön. Dokáže v sobě najít sílu postavit se temnotě – a stát se Mistrem? Volné pokračování trilogie Tromby od Davida Jana Žáka.
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When the Gumdrops get a letter from a child in need of an imaginary friend, they have their work cut out! Can YOU help them search for the perfect companion?
Meet the Gumdrops - the guardians of a magical land, full of magical beings! You might meet Imaginary Friends, your favourite characters from a story, or creations from your dreams...
The Gumdrops are always up for a challenge - and when they get a letter from a child in need of an imaginary friend, they have their work cut out! Can YOU help them search for the ingredients to make the perfect companion? You'll have to keep an eye out for the mischievous, but adorable, Evilee along the way...
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