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Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth
A visually stunning and emotionally resonant exploration of Wonder Woman s mission in the modern world, from the Eisner Award-winning team of Paul Dini and Alex Ross. As she battles injustice across the globe, Diana finds that her message of peace is often met with fear and resistance. Can she bridge the gap between myth and humanity? Featuring breathtaking painted art and a timeless story, this oversized edition is a must-have for fans of Wonder Woman and graphic novel collectors alike.
The Fairy Courts
The Fairy Courts is an in-depth exploration of its subject, from the original Scottish to modern fiction, mapping out beliefs and how they have evolved. It covers the social structure of fairies, the history of the Scottish Seelie and Unseelie courts, the fairy courts outside Scotland, and it offers a look at how fairy courts are being adapted today in fiction and belief. The Seelie and Unseelie courts have become a staple in fiction and a common idea in pop culture, yet their origins and how they were and are understood in Scottish folklore have become obscure. The Fairy Courts discusses the history of belief as it is traced from the 1500s to today, concluding with a chapter about the ways that folk belief and anecdotes show us how a human might survive in a fairy court.
Rooted in Wonder
Trees are symbols of growth, strength and endurance. Most countries have chosen a national tree that represents their resources, history and culture . . . and this nature book for kids celebrates 12 of them! From the animals and birds that live among them, to their folklore, legends and history, discover:India's BANYAN: its thick aerial roots create a respite for multigenerational communities. Chile's PEHUEN: an ancient tree considered a bridge between this world and the spirit world. Canada's SUGAR MAPLE: a tree renowned for its brightly colored fall foliage (and the poems that have been written about it!). USA + England's OAK: a tree frequently struck by lightning, which is why it's associated with Zeus, hurler of thunderbolts. South Africa's Real YELLOWWOOD: a tree that became endangered when so much of its wood was used to make railroads and coffins. The Philippines' NARRA: a tree that shows resilience and strength, symbolizing the Filipino people's struggle for independence. Other featured trees include Australia's GOLDEN WATTLE, Angola's BAOBAB, Peru and Ecuador's QUINA, Albania's OLIVE, Cuba's ROYAL PALM and China's Ginkgo. With additional informative spreads at the back of the book and mapped endpapers showing the global reach of the trees, this book will teach young people and their families just how uniquely iconic, fabulous and beloved their national trees are to so many cultures around the world.
The Monkey on Frida's Shoulder
The Monkey on Frida’s Shoulder is an imaginative re-telling of the life of Frida Kahlo, seen through the eyes of her house pet Nat—a talking spider monkey with a taste for linguistics, haute couture, and detective novels. After fleeing the destruction of his native jungle, the orphaned monkey arrives in Mexico City in the early 20th century, where he forms an unlikely bond with spirited young Frida Kahlo. Together they roam the city streets, their mischief tinged with rebellion, as Nat pledges loyalty to Frida through devastating accidents, ideological battles, and her tempestuous marriage to Diego Rivera. But devotion has its limits. As Frida’s world grows darker and more insular, Nat is forced to confront the cost of loyalty and the need for moral clarity. His journey beyond the Casa Azul introduces readers to a pious Chihuahua, a shimmer of monarch butterflies, and the enigmatic guest Natalia Trotsky. Blending magical realism, absurdism, and Mexican history, Catherine Barrera’s debut novel reimagines one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century from an utterly original perspective. Both irreverent fable and love letter to Casa Azul, The Monkey on Frida’s Shoulder captures the blurred borders of magic, myth, and reality in a way that will resonate with fans of literary fiction, Latin American history, and Frida Kahlo’s enduring legacy.
The Wisdom of Birds
A gorgeously illustrated forty-card oracle deck, unlocking the power of birds for daily wisdom. Whether it's the patient heron, the hopeful bluebird, or the perceptive owl, birds are potent symbols for transformation, freedom, and spiritual connection. Each card pairs a stunning bird illustration with an empowering meaning drawn from global myths, folklore, and the natural behavior of the species itself. The accompanying guidebook suggests multiple ways to work with the cards whether you re new to oracle decks or have an existing practice and helps you connect each bird s message to your own life and the insight you seek. Perfect for everyday inspiration, meditation, or divination, The Wisdom of Birds invites you to reconnect with nature s ancient guidance. Features: High-quality card stock Vibrant, full-colour cards Illustrated companion guidebook Elegant storage box
The Weight of Glass
From the author of Into the Fall comes a chilling psychological thriller about family, forgiveness, and the fear of long-hidden truths, set amid the snowbound wilderness along Lake Superior’s North Shore. In this chilling thriller set deep in the winter wilderness of Lake Superior’s North Shore, a mother goes missing after receiving a mysterious gift—and a daughter risks everything to bring her back. Emma Meadows has a secret. One she’s been carrying for over twenty years, too terrified to tell even her devoted husband. The unassuming mother of one tries to blend in with life in her sleepy Canadian town on the shores of Lake Superior, but on Christmas Day, Emma’s boisterous in-laws make it nearly impossible. When a strange gift arrives bearing a sinister message, her nerves threaten to shatter. The next day, she disappears. Although the police and her husband think Emma just walked away, twenty-one-year-old Jaden believes there’s more to her mother’s disappearance. Searching for answers, she begins with the gift: a glass music box. But as Jaden’s questions open a window into her mother’s past, they spark unwanted attention from a stranger, forcing her on the run. Trapped by a brutal ice storm in the heart of a northern wilderness, Jaden is forced to confront her mother’s secrets and a stranger carrying a dangerous truth. Fighting to protect the people they love—no matter what—Jaden, Emma, and the stranger find themselves on a collision course from a deadly past.
Plane Food
This colorful guide gives plane food the spotlight it deserves, serving up sky-high in-flight meal critiques in a hilarious global travelogue with a side of wanderlust. Every year, Sadovnik, celebrated producer and electronic music DJ (Instagram 54.4K followers), logs tens of thousands of flight miles a year circling the globe on dozens of airlines to play DJ gigs and festivals and, in the process, has written a wry travelogue from the airline meals served to him, which he's obsessively chronicled. This humorous catalog captures the sky's most brilliant culinary creations and its near-misses. Ranging from bleak to inspired, photographs of the oft-inventive personal-tray tablescapes from around the world are paired with simple, wholly unscientific meal descriptions, airlines, and rankings from "Inedible" to "Gourmet" a gift book and illustrated memoir that truly captures the adventurous spirit of flight and the pleasures and perils of eating on the wing. With approximately five billion tickets sold annually and an estimated 700 million individual passengers, air travel is an experience shared by an ever-growing slice of humanity. No matter where you're from or where you're headed, the ritual of peeling back seals and lids to decipher mystery meals is a strangely universal one, uniting us all in midair moments of curiosity, delight, or dismay. Capturing this shared slice of sky-high culture, PLANE FOOD is a hilarious and oddly heartfelt tribute to the global quirks of in-flight dining proof that the real adventure begins with whatever s served at cruising altitude.
Creepshow Volume 4
The Eisner Award-nominated horror anthology is back with a vengeance with thrilling new tales on every page in CREEPSHOW VOL. 4. BACK FOR MORE HORRIFIC TALES? THE CREEP IS HERE TO DELIVER. A buffet of stomach-churning tales is served up on a platter in the fourth volume of the Eisner Award-nominated anthology based on the hit Shudder TV series. The most acclaimed talents across comics, film, and television – including Jeremy Adams, Philip Fracassi, Sina Grace, Ted Raimi, Eduardo Risso and more – don’t hold back as they unleash their horrific creations on the world. Collects Creepshow Vol. 4 #1-5.
A Fighter Pilot’s War
Richard Edgar Peter Brooker, always known as Peter to his family and friends, left school and joined the RAF in 1937. He was posted to 56 Squadron and in 1940 he served for several weeks as personal assistant to Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, before flying throughout the height of the Battle of Britain. In the spring of 1941, promoted to Acting Squadron Leader, Brooker commanded No.1 Squadron during the Blitz; for this he was awarded the D.F.C. After being posted to Singapore late in 1941, where he led Nos. 232 and 242 squadrons fighting the Japanese invasion, he was evacuated on the last flight out of Bandoeng, Java, to Australia in March 1942. For his gallantry, determination in the face of heavy odds during the fall of Singapore, Brooker was awarded a Bar to the D.F.C. In the spring of 1944, Brooker became Wing Commander Flying of 123 Wing of Hawker Typhoons at RAF Thorney Island, in preparation for the liberation of Europe. Exhausted after an intensive spell of operational flying during and after D-Day, Brooker was taken off flying in July and sent to complete the Senior Staff Officers’ course at the RAF Staff College. At this time, he was awarded the DSO. In January 1945 Brooker became Wing Commander Flying of 122 Wing operating Hawker Tempest Vs, initially in Holland and then in Germany. In this period he was awarded a Bar to his DSO – but it was an award that was made posthumously. It was from Rheine-Hopsten in Germany that Peter took off on the evening, of 16 April 1945, and failed to return, just twenty-two days from VE Day. His aircraft and his remains have never been accounted for. However, the answers to the mystery and controversy surrounding Brooker’s disappearance are finally revealed in this detailed biography.
He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid
A manga icon?s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horrorand surrealismBy the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance?something hiswork from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. After settling into married life with fellow artistFujiwara Maki (author of Eisner-winning My Picture Diary), Tsuge would return to thenarrative formulas that he knew best: tall tales exchanged between fellow travelers,macabre parables tinged with magical realism, and the enduring comedy of the domesticeveryday in a Japan rebuilding itself in the decades following the Second World War.And yet the confusion and mental illness simmering beneath the surface of his moresurreal works come to a rolling boil, reaching an unsettling and horrific crescendo in aseries of nightmarish delusions. He Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid captures a midcareerauthor taking stock of his anxieties and suspicions while connecting the dotsbetween his seemingly monotonous present and his complicated past. Confrontationsbetween both periods in his life are explored through the lens of his deteriorating mentalstate, expressed directly through experiments with different visual styles collected in thisvolume.Translated by prolific art and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, He Rolled Me Up Like AGrilled Squid is a veteranstoryteller?s most compelling observations about people at their most human.
Incidentals
A couple’s luxury vacation in the Maldives takes a sinister turn when they’re befriended by two strangers in a twisty and darkly comic novel by the author of Friends in Napa. Sarah and Sam have lost the very spark that brought them together. In an effort to save their marriage, they embark on an anniversary trip to the Maldives where a week at a luxury resort might remind them of why they fell in love. On the plane, they meet Krista and Kevin, a happy older, exceptionally generous couple headed to the same destination and eager to make vacation friends. They could be just the marriage mentors Sarah and Sam need. But when a dead body is pulled from the crystalline waters only days into the vacation, a dark pall is cast over the sunny coral isles. The official story is a tragic accident. But that doesn’t sit right with Sarah, who senses something off. What could these very wealthy, too-fast friends possibly want from a modest couple like the? he answers could destroy what’s left of her marriage. Then again, a murder in the Maldives might be the best thing that ever happened to it.
Jednoho dne princeznou 6
S Lukasovým překvapivým návratem z výpravy za Světovým stromem se princezně Athanasii konečně otevírá možnost pomoci svému otci. Ukazuje se však, že Claudeovu ztrátu paměti způsobila černá magie – a té se nelze zbavit tak snadno. Navíc netuší, že záhadný host vévody Alfeuse tahá za temné nitky a má s císařem své vlastní plány. Athanasie, která se zoufale upíná k naději na otcovo uzdravení, nakonec musí čelit nejhoršímu, když se císařův stav náhle a dramaticky zhorší.
Nerovně sjednoceni
Přestože od pádu Berlínské zdi uplynulo již víc než třicet pět let, zůstává Německo zemí, kterou stále prostupují rozdíly mezi bývalým Východem a Západem. Renomovaný německý sociolog ve své oceněné knize analyzuje, proč proces znovusjednocení nepřinesl očekávané vyrovnání životních podmínek, zkušeností ani identit. Na základě dat, výzkumů i osobních svědectví ukazuje, že rozdíly mezi bývalou NDR a západní částí země nejsou jen ekonomické, ale také kulturní, sociální a mentální.
Kniha je podnětná nejen pro pochopení německé reality, ale i složitého procesu společenské transformace po roce 1989 v dalších středoevropských postkomunistických zemích, tedy i v České republice. Osloví čtenáře se zájmem o sociologii, moderní dějiny i současné politické dění.
„Nejpronikavější analýza toho, proč Východ funguje jinak a zůstává jiný.“ (Peter Neumann, DIE ZEIT)
Steffen Mau (1968) je německý sociolog a profesor makrosociologie na Ústavu sociálních věd Humboldtovy univerzity v Berlíně. Od roku 2025 je ředitelem Institutu Maxe Plancka pro studium náboženské a etnické rozmanitosti. Je autorem řady knih a odborných studií. Jeho kniha Nerovně sjednoceni. Proč zůstává východ Německa jiný získala v roce 2024 Bavorskou knižní cenu za nejlepší titul v oblasti literatury faktu.
O co jde? - Proč Bohu záleží na sexu
Tato kniha pomůže vašim dětem porozumět přicházející pubertě. Citlivě, ale narovinu vysvětluje změny, které se brzy začnou odehrávat v jejich těle i mysli, a na rozdíl od běžné školní sexuální výchovy ukazuje všechny tyto proměny jako součást krásného Božího stvoření.
Tato kniha také dětem pomáhá lépe porozumět sexu. Možná o něm už něco slyšely – z internetu, televize nebo od spolužáků – ale tyto informace bývají často zkreslené a neúplné. Kniha ukazuje, že sex je Boží dar, který má prohlubovat lásku mezi manžely a upevňovat jejich rodinu.
A nakonec vám tato kniha pomůže otevřeně mluvit i o těžkých, ale důležitých tématech, jako je pornografie a sexuální zneužívání. Díky těmto rozhovorům se děti naučí, jak se chránit, a zároveň budou vědět, že se na vás mohou kdykoli obrátit o pomoc.
The Infinity Machine
A revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future – and what it means to win.
Even in a tech world crowded with visionary leaders, Demis Hassabis is recognized as a special case. Born to working class, immigrant parents in North London, a chess prodigy by five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a seven-figure job offer from a video-game studio to study science at Cambridge. Long before the current obsession with AI, he founded the path-breaking company DeepMind in order to pursue a single, audacious goal: the dream of artificial superintelligence, which would solve humanity’s hardest problems, change life and work as we know it, and perhaps even unlock the deepest mysteries of the Universe. For his scientific achievements, he won a Nobel Prize in 2024, and his company, now Google DeepMind, is considered the tech giant’s engine room.
For the past three years, Sebastian Mallaby has had unprecedented access to Hassabis and DeepMind, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with him and his inner circle as well as detractors and rivals at other companies. The result is a revelation-packed portrait of a singular mind and a historic reckoning with the AI revolution, a shift potentially more significant than any since the dawn of complex thought 70,000 years ago.
As Mallaby chronicles, DeepMind is locked in an arms race with Silicon Valley competitors to build artificial general intelligence, and thereby become the keeper of humanity’s future. Yet this is not a Silicon Valley story. Hassabis has remained in Britain, and unlike his rivals, his aims are not wealth and power but scientific enlightenment. Like them, however, he is haunted by the memory of Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of the atom bomb. He aims to control the technology, but the technology may ultimately control him – and humanity writ large.
Liars and Liaisons
Vengeance always comes with a price.
Kissing a masked stranger wasn't on Violet Artinos's list of things she thought would happen at her cousin's political fundraiser. In fact, her plan was simply to show support, win back the ex-boyfriend rumoured to be in attendance, and go on with her off-grid life.
She never would've made a move on the stranger if she'd known he wasn't who she thought, but her ex's younger brother had other plans.
Out in public for the first time in weeks, Professor Grayson James has his sights set on revenge. When he spots Violet, he immediately ropes her into his plot by kissing and blackmailing her to live at his haunted estate.
He claims it'll drive his brother mad, but the truth turns out to be more complicated than they ever imagined. Suddenly, Violet's life of secrets is unravelling at the hands of a dark, depraved man who seems to have no intentions of letting her go.
But his obsession might be exactly what puts her in danger...
Katalinka (Vintage)
A legkisebbeknek szól ez a dal- és játékgyűjtemény. Az Eszterlánc párjaként megjelenő kötetben sok-sok dalos játék található, a katicabogár-röptetőtől a párválasztós körjátékokig. Némelyeket egyedül is, másokat párban vagy nagyobb gyerekcsoporttal lehet játszani?
Ez a klasszikus gyűjtemény tehát nemcsak a szülőknek, hanem a pedagógusoknak is remek ötlettár. Forrai Katalin zenepedagógus számos kiadást megért kötete a Vintage könyvcsalád részeként jelenik meg, K. Lukáts Kató eredeti illusztrációival.
A kék pöttyök rejtélye
Ismeretlen járvány terjed Rágcsáliában: egy betegség kék pattanásokat okoz. Kutatók csapata kitartóan dolgozik az ellenszeren, de valaki gátolja a munkát. Mindenbebele Cincogó barátommal a gazegér nyomába eredtünk!
A Mulatságos történetek sorozat köteteiben Geronimo Stilton meséli el kalandjait. És ő aztán tényleg soha nem unatkozik! Családjának és barátainak köszönhetően gyakran keveredik igazán bajuszborzoló, ám mindig extraegeresen mulatságos események középpontjába.
Napnak és holdnak csillaga
Elora Forres a háború utáni Skócia egy elfeledett városában, Ravenmire-ban él, amíg egy naplóban talált latin mondat ki nem szakítja a saját idejéből, és 1677-be sodorja. Oda, ahol a klánok és nemesi házak közötti hatalmi harc mindennapos, a boszorkányokat üldözik, és szövetségek nélkül eltaposhatnak.
Elora hamar rájön, hogy nem bízhat senkiben, mégis kénytelen az őt védelmező klánvezér, Arden mellett maradni. A hazajutás lehetetlennek tűnik: nem emlékszik, hogyan került ide, és azt sem tudja, hogyan térhetne vissza. A beilleszkedés ígérete hamar szertefoszlik, amikor kiderül, hogy ő maga is boszorkány. Ám a mágia ebben a világban nem áldás, hanem átok. Minden varázsige fájdalomból születik, és az újabb képességek nyomot hagynak a testen vagy a lélekben. Elorának pedig muszáj túlélnie, és megtanulnia irányítani az erejét, amellyel megóvhatja azokat, akik ezen a helyen a családot jelentik számára.
Mindeközben a döntései nemcsak a saját sorsát alakítják, hanem Ardenét is, mikor megérti, hogy szeretni veszélyesebb, mint menekülni. Elora végül kénytelen szembenézni a félelmeivel, és eldönteni, hogy hajlandó-e lemondani mindarról, amit Ravenmire követel tőle – emlékekről, kapcsolatokról és akár a jövőjéről is.
