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Life Is Not Useful
Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our entire existence, leaving us only very partially alive, and, in fact, almost dead. To awaken from the coma of modernity is, for Krenak, to awaken to the possibility of becoming attuned to "the cosmic sense of life." He points out that the COVID-19 pandemic affects all so-called "human" lives and that the time is ripe for us all to reflect on and undo the exclusivity and distinction that have characterized the concept of humanity throughout Western modernity.
A Compendium of Oriental Healing
Discover the timeless wisdom of Eastern healing traditions in this beautifully curated guide to holistic health practices that have stood the test of time. This illustrated volume explores the foundations of Chinese medicine, the philosophy of Yin and Yang, and the vital energy of Qi. Delve into ancient techniques such as acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and shiatsu; learn about the legendary Chinese herbal remedies and their profound benefits; and uncover the secrets of Ayurvedic medicine, T’ai Chi, yoga, and meditation. From the healing properties of herbs and honey to the role of astrology, diet, and sexual wellness in overall health, this book provides a fascinating blend of practical guidance, historical insight, and cultural heritage. Whether for inspiration, curiosity, or a desire to live in harmony with nature, this book offers a gateway into the art of balance, vitality, and well-being.?
Cycle Magic
Cycle Magic is a transformative guide for women who are ready to harness the power of natural energy cycles to create sustainable well-being and manifest their truest desires. Learn how to harness the power of your natural energy cycles using intuitive wellness coach Elle Serafina's Cycle Magic® system, a four-phase framework for manifesting based on your menstrual cycle or the moon cycle, offering women a practical and intuitive approach to achieving their goals, in harmony with their innate energy rhythms. Blending science and spirituality, Cycle Magic combines inner work practices, mindset tools, biohacking tips, and research-backed wellness strategies to help women avoid burnout, optimize health, and make consistent progress in realizing their highest dreams. At its core, Cycle Magic is about empowerment—helping women step away from hustle culture and reclaim the energy and intuition that lies within them. Through the Cycle Magic system, women learn to embrace rest, creativity, and self-care while making tangible strides in their personal and professional lives. The book includes over 70 actionable tools for manifesting, habit tracking, and lifestyle shifts, all designed to adapt to individual needs and desires. In today’s fast-paced world, many women feel overwhelmed and misaligned from their innate energies and true desires. Cycle Magic provides a clear and accessible roadmap to overcome these challenges and create a balanced, fulfilling life. Whether you’re focused on enhancing your career, health, relationships, or personal growth, Cycle Magic offers the tools and inspiration needed to manifest your heart and soul desires with more ease and flow.
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
“[An] extraordinary book.”—Brian Eno • “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”—Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.”—Slavoj Žižek • “Extraordinary and brilliant.”—Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisationA fascinating exploration of “hypernormalization” in a political system that seemed powerful and eternal—even when it was on the verge of collapseSoviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie—and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.
The Legend of Kamui: Volume Three
The greatest sword-and-samurai epic of all time continues! The body count continues to rise in this engrossing, swashbuckling third volume of The Legend of Kamui, set in feudal Japan. Our hero Kamui is fresh off his training and begins to infiltrate the delicate hierarchy oppressing the countryside in order to begin tearing it down, piece by piece. Shosuke faces off with a new assassin because of what he may or may not have witnessed. Ryunoshin s vendetta befuddles the chief headman as well as his lord. Meanwhile, Kamui s fellow outcast Saesa takes on a more prominent role. Revolution is in the air, and the sound of clashing swords rages on in Shirato Sanpei s landmark manga epic the first of its kind. The Legend of Kamui was originally serialized between 1964 and 1971 in the legendary alt-manga magazine GARO. Its literary and historical merit was recognized long before a complete translation was even available. Now available in full for the very first time, Shirato Sanpei s The Legend of Kamui is translated from the Japanese by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger.
Archívne viny
Básnická zbierka Archívne viny je návratom k ranému autorskému obdobiu básnika, ktorého debut bol literárnou udalosťou ešte pred jeho neskoršími kontroverznými prózami. Kniha obsahuje publikované a nepublikované básne a dopĺňa ju doslov, v ktorom autor približuje okolnosti svojho vstupu do literatúry i význam poézie v jeho osobnom živote.
How England Began
An engaging, wide-ranging exploration of the end of Roman Britain and the beginnings of England In 410 CE, Roman rule of Britain collapsed, bringing a centuries-long occupation to an end. A century later, Britain was dividing into two areas with contrasting cultures, an expansive “Anglo-Saxon” south and east, and a shrinking Celtic west and north. How did this transition happen? And why did the customs of the Germanic incomers prevail in England, unlike elsewhere in Europe? In this deeply researched account, Nicholas J. Higham addresses these difficult questions head on. Higham draws on archaeological evidence and contemporary literature, including the writings of Gildas, to reconsider the accepted narrative. We see anew the importance of culture, warfare, and language—as the arrival, spread, and dominance of incomers irrevocably changed the country. This period marked the beginnings of Englishness, and of such insular identities as Welsh and Cornish. Offering surprising new insights, Higham provides a penetrating account of how, as Roman Britain ended, Anglo-Saxon England emerged.
The War That Made the Middle East
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle EastThe Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of time, the story goes, before the so-called Sick Man of Europe succumbed to its ailments—incompetent management, nationalism, and ethnic and religious conflict. In The War That Made the Middle East, Mustafa Aksakal overturns this conventional narrative. He describes how European imperial ambitions and the Ottoman commitment to saving its empire at any cost—including the destruction of the Armenian community and the deaths of more than a million Ottoman troops and other civilians—led to the empire’s violent partition and created a politically unstable Middle East. The War That Made the Middle East shows that, until 1914, the Ottoman Empire was a viable multiethnic, multireligious state, and that relations between the Arabs, Jews, Muslims, and Christians of Palestine were relatively stable. When war broke out, the Ottoman government sought an alliance with the Entente but was rejected because of British and French designs on the Eastern Mediterranean. After the Ottomans entered the fight on the side of Germany and were defeated, Britain and France seized Ottoman lands, and new national elites in former Ottoman territories claimed their own states. The region was renamed “the Middle East,” erasing a robust and modernizing 600-year-old empire. A sweeping narrative of war, great power politics, and ordinary people caught up in the devastation, The War That Made the Middle East offers new insights about the Great War and its profound and lasting consequences.
When Worlds Quake
How earthquakes can reveal the subsurface secrets of our planet and other worldsWhen Worlds Quake is a fascinating account of how scientists around the globe seek to use quakes to answer tantalizing questions about the structure and inner dynamics of our planet and to discover the deepest secrets of our nearest neighbors in the solar system. Briefly traversing the history of seismology, Hrvoje Tkalcic describes the women and men who sought to understand major seismic events—from the catastrophic 1556 Shaanxi earthquake and the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 to more recent events such as the 2020 earthquakes in Tkalcic’s native Croatia—and thus shaped the field. Modern global seismologists now not only study the behavior of earthquakes but also use seismic waves as tools to image Earth’s deep interior. To do this work, they need seismographs positioned around the globe, including in remote, challenging regions. Tkalcic takes the reader along on his own daring expeditions to install seismographs and collect seismic wave data from the wilds of the Australian Outback to the rough depths of the Southern Ocean, and even farther afield—to the Moon and Mars, where quakes can be used to image the interiors of these worlds. A riveting and often personal narrative about the cutting-edge science of global and planetary seismology, When Worlds Quake reveals how quakes can help scientists to understand the mysterious inner architecture and ongoing evolution of our planet, as well as worlds beyond our own.
How to Write a Love Story
One writer, one editor, one hot summer... A romance for the books?
Ciara Sheridan's father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to finish - and writer's block.
Enter Sam Avery: Frank-Sheridan-fanboy and hotshot editor, sent from the New York publishing house direct to her doorstep - against Ciara's wishes and red pen at the ready.
With the deadline looming, Ciara and Sam have just a few weeks to stop bickering, write this novel and secure Frank's legacy.
But as the summer heats up, so too does the tension between them. Will their own love story be the plot twist neither of them sees coming?
Book Lovers meets Leap Year in this dual-POV, forced-proximity, bookish romantic comedy with a VERY HOT twist - the brand-new book from bestselling Kindle chart sensation and Irish author, Catherine Walsh.
Černobyl - 26. dubna 1986
Stalo se to před čtyřiceti lety. Snad všichni, kteří žili v tehdejším socialistickém Československu, si ještě pamatují šeptandu a útržky informací, pronikající skrze hradbu komunistického zatloukání a lhaní. Nikdo nic nevěděl a jen málokomu docházelo, jak strašná, nedozírná a nevyzpytatelná katastrofa se tehdy stala. Když se po rozpadu Sovětského svazu objevily první fotografie ze zakázané zóny, spatřili lidé fascinující výjevy, které předčily leckterý postapokalyptický film. A když se lidé s uvolněním informačního embarga dozvěděli celou pravdu, obešla mnohé hrůza.
V této publikaci nenajdete jen podrobný popis tehdejších událostí, vysvětlení příčin katastrofy a příběhy neuvěřitelného hrdinství lidí, kteří následky havárie likvidovali. Přečtete si i zásadní zprávu o naději a o neuvěřitelné schopnosti lidí i přírody vypořádat se s pohromou, která se mohla zpočátku jevit jako konec světa. Unikátní historické i současné fotografie svědectví o této pro lidstvo zásadní události dokreslují.
Cesta ke zkáze Černobylu
Poznejte úskalí spjatá s jaderným programem Sovětského svazu
Výbuch čtvrtého reaktoru
Vraťte se s námi do okamžiku, kdy se rutinní test změnil v katastrofu
Závod s časem
Sledujte krok za krokem dramatický boj o zastavení neviditelné hrozby
Současnost a budoucnost
Zjistěte, jak dnes vypadá oblast, kde se zastavil čas, a co ji čeká
Russia from the American Embassy
David R. Francis held the post of the United States ambassador to Russia from April 1916 to November 1918, and represented his country before four Russian governments: the Imperial, Provisional, Soviet, and Northern. He was an eyewitness of the greatest events in the history of Russia: World War I, the February Revolution, the downfall of the empire, the October Revolution, and the Civil War. During the two and half years of his residence in Russia, Francis met prominent figures such as Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor, and Vladimir I. Lenin, the first Soviet leader. Francis s diplomatic experience was unique and had no parallel in the history of Russian-American relations which is why his memoirs are of special interest for historians and the general public alike.
Material Witness
Material Witness, Edward Ragg's sixth collection, bears witness to all manner of materials: from botany, bower birds, diving bell spiders, rock formations and coral reefs to a Nazi-stamped photo of the poet’s mother as well as Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Las Meninas paintings of Velázquez and Picasso. In three sections — ‘Scenes’, ‘Acts’, ‘Aftermaths’ — Material Witness reveals an interlinking architecture, constructing a poetry profoundly wedded to the physical universe and variously concerned with love, family history, the natural world, even the simple act of stirring a cup of tea. This is a poetry that conjures in all senses ‘the strange companionship of materials’.
The Shaman's Tarot
A richly illustrated tarot deck by Four Winds founder Alberto Villoldo, combining traditional tarot archetypes with the sacred symbols present in one of the world’s most ancient wisdom traditions—shamanism. Before the dawn of time, before space and galaxies were formed, there were the sacred symbols. Then, the sages read the signs of destiny in the sacred symbols and heard the voice of spirit in the wind. Now, those symbols have been lost to many of us—but not the sages from the Andes and the Amazon, cartographers of the invisible world. Here, those symbols are brought to life within the tarot. Each card is infused with rich imagery drawn from these ancient cultures and inspired by both the tarot of Marseilles and the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. By working with this deck, you can turn chaos into cosmos, find beauty and harmony in creation, and embrace your feelings and experiences, allowing them to flow through you rather than holding you captive. Through this journey, you will discover the teachings the Universe offers and transform them into wisdom-bliss, empowering you to become a co-creator with Spirit. As you learn the language of the sacred symbols, you will cultivate a deeper understanding of your potential and how to dance harmoniously with the unseen forces that shape your reality.
Flinch: The Complete Collection
Fear is universal and Flinch proves it in 16 unforgettable chapters. This acclaimed Vertigo anthology delivers a chilling mix of psychological horror, supernatural dread, and dark satire. Each story dares you to turn the page but you might wish you hadn t. Flinch: The Complete Collection gathers all 16 issues of the Eisner-nominated horror anthology series originally published from 1999 to 2001. Featuring a rotating cast of top-tier writers and artists including Brian Azzarello, Joe R. Lansdale, Jim Lee, Frank Quitely, and Bill Willingham Flinch explores the many faces of fear through standalone stories that range from the eerie to the grotesque. With its bold storytelling and haunting visuals, this collection is a must-have for fans of mature, thought-provoking horror.
How to Interpret the Constitution
From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpretedThe U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today—about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of constitutional interpretation are profoundly affecting the lives of all Americans. In this brief and urgent book, Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein provides a lively introduction to competing approaches to interpreting the Constitution—and argues that the only way to choose one is to ask whether it would change American life for the better or worse. If a method of interpretation would eliminate the right of privacy, allow racial segregation, or obliterate free speech, it would be unacceptable for that reason. But some Supreme Court justices are committed to “originalism,” arguing that the meaning of the Constitution is settled by how it was publicly understood when it was ratified. Originalists insist that their approach is dictated by the Constitution. That, Sunstein argues, is a big mistake. The Constitution doesn’t contain instructions for its own interpretation. Any approach to constitutional interpretation needs to be defended in terms of its broad effects—what it does to our rights and our institutions. It must respect those rights and institutions—and safeguard the conditions for democracy itself. Passionate and compelling, How to Interpret the Constitution is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about how the Supreme Court is changing the rights and lives of Americans today.
Solo Leveling 7
Společný raid korejských a japonských lovců na ostrov Čedžu je v plném proudu – a Činu ho sleduje zpovzdálí. Když se však ukáže, že evoluce mravenců pokročila mnohem dál, než všichni čekali, nezbyde Činuovi než zakročit osobně. Střet s králem mravenců se ale beze ztrát neobejde…
Cezanne
Form, color, and light – a pioneer of painterly abstractionPaul Cezanne is unquestionably one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century. He is regarded as a pioneer of modernism who deliberately broke with the laws of perspective in his works and constructed the world out of color and form. He thus gave decisive impetus to Cubist painting and the development of abstraction.
The catalogue accompanies a comprehensive exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, which is honoring this central artist in its collection with a solo show for the first time in its history. The exhibition and catalogue focus on the last and most significant phase of the French painter's career and highlight key themes from his later years, including still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and scenes of bathers. With around seventy oil paintings and watercolors, the exhibition and catalogue allow us to experience form, light, and color in Cezanne's groundbreaking works—qualities that have influenced artists across generations and continue to inspire them to this day.
365 povzbudení - Keď už nevládzeš
Kniha prináša 365 krátkych povzbudení – na každý deň v roku – pre chvíle, keď je život ťažký, myšlienky preťažené a duša vyčerpaná. Kniha je určená pre všetkých, ktorí prechádzajú náročným obdobím, cítia sa prepracovaní, stratení alebo jednoducho potrebujú slová povzbudenia do každodenného života. Je vhodná ako osobný sprievodca náročnými dňami aj ako hodnotný dar pre blízkeho človeka.
Táto kniha je pre ženy (a pokojne aj mužov), ktorí:
- sú vyčerpaní psychicky, nie len fyzicky
- prechádzajú ťažkým obdobím (vzťahy, zdravie, práca, starosti)
- večer zaspávajú unavení a ráno vstávajú bez energie
- potrebujú krátke, rýchle povzbudenie.
Je ideálna pre:
mamy na pokraji síl
ženy v strese a tlaku
ľudí po kríze, rozchode, vyhorení
každého, kto už má „dosť všetkého“ a potrebuje nádej.
Krátke zamyslenia na každý deň – otvoríš kdekoľvek a dostaneš presne to, čo práve potrebuješ počuť.
