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Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "animal style", this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "Other". In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.
DC Finest: Justice League of America: Starro the Conqueror
Six heroes. One star-shaped alien menace. This is how legends are made. When an alien being with cosmic powers attacks Earth, a new era of heroism is born. Starro the Conqueror forces the DC Universe s greatest champions to unite launching the first Justice League and sparking a legacy of team-based storytelling still going strong today. Packed with battles against villains like Despero, Felix Faust, and Kanjar Ro, this collection showcases the early years of the JLA: wild sci-fi plots, impossible odds, and the birth of super-team chemistry. It s the origin story for the world s greatest heroes, told with the imagination and excitement of comics most influential era. Brings together The Brave and the Bold #28 30, Justice League of America #1 19, and Mystery in Space #75.
Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! Vol. 10
Uchimura and company, who are visiting the Royal City of Old Sylvania, are astounded to discover the true identity and hidden power of their guide, the demihuman Kloos. But just as Kloos declares his intentions of preparing for battle with the Calamity, said Calamity emerges! Legion, the Queen of Autavia decides to meet it head on. “Come to me, my secret weapon, the strongest blade.”What Legion summons is none other than a giant ice statue that resembles her elder brother Rex from days long past—and a battle that surpasses all human comprehension now begins!! A fighting spirit blazes in a frozen world!
A LIFE APPRECIATED
A LIFE APPRECIATED choregraphs a solo unsupported cycling journey from the southernmost tip of Europe to the most northern point, taking in some classic cycling climbs en-route. The author travels through nine countries, providing an in-depth insight into cycle touring. This book will both inspire and enthral the reader. The author has combined his blog written at the time of the journey with further details of his experiences and personal anecdotes. With additional information about historic places, he visited. The book also provides details about the pros and cons of wild camping. With a sense of humour, the author refers to himself as an ’Old Git’. He carries many of life’s experiences with him, from summiting Everest to several brushes with death, such as being avalanched to being threatened with a rifle. He is, however, very much alive and continues to seek adventure.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword 12
The new, magical dungeon-adventure fantasy series from the author of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Seeking to fulfill a promise to a childhood friend, Will Serfort enters Regarden Magical Academy with the goal of making it to the top of the magical world. There’s just one problem: he can't use magic! Will his sword skills be the key to unlocking his true potential? Will Serfort dreams of keeping his promise to a childhood friend by becoming a Magia Vander, one of the mighty magicians who sit atop the Wizard's Tower. However, he is unable to cast even the simplest of spells, leaving him to fight dungeon monsters to earn credits at Regarden Magical Academy. As if that weren't enough, he finds himself putting his sword skills to the test against a bullying professor!
Pests & Other Friends
Celebrate the often maligned pests who populate our world in this cheerfully illustrated compendium of the world’s most misunderstood animals. Pests and so-called nuisance animals get a bad rap, but each and every one of them serves a purpose in our ecosystem. In Pests and Other Friends, you will learn how helpful, fascinating, and hilarious these creatures can be! This book explores regions across North America, highlighting specific ecosystems and the animals that draw the ire of the people who live there. From the armadillos in the American Southwest digging holes in backyards, to the sandhill cranes across the Great Plains dining on farmers’ crops, you’ll learn all about these creatures' troublemaking behaviors as well as their benefits to their ecosystems. By delving into the history and diet of each species and the reasons they are considered pests, you’ll never look at pigeons, skunks, or groundhogs in the same way. Mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and the only marsupial in North America, the Virginia opossum, can all be found within these pages. Hopefully, you will be able to appreciate them for what they do for us despite getting into our garbage cans, gardens, and attics.
Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spearheaded by Muslim leaders in Asia and the Middle East, the modernist project arose from a desire to reconcile Islamic beliefs and practices with European ideas of secularism, scientific progress, women’s rights, and democratic representation. Teena Purohit provides innovative readings of the foundational thinkers of Muslim modernism, showing how their calls for unity and reform led to the marginalization of Muslim minority communities that is still with us today. Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism offers fresh perspectives on figures such as Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Iqbal, and Abul A’la Mawdudi. It sheds light on the exclusionary impulses and Sunni normative biases of modernist Muslim writers and explores how their aim to unite the global Muslim community—which was stagnant and fragmented in their eyes—also created lasting divisions. While modernists claimed to represent all Muslims when they asserted the centrality and significance of unity, they questioned the status of groups such as Ahmadis, Bahais, and the Shia more broadly. Addressing timely questions about religious authority and reform in modern Islam, this incisive book reveals how modernist notions of Islam as a single homogeneous tradition gave rise to enduring debates about who belongs to the Muslim community and who should be excluded.
Beatrice the Sixteenth
A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world before the concept of gender. Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of transition I Heard Her Call My Name, this pioneering 1909 feminist utopia is productively discombobulating. When Mary Hatherley, an intrepid British explorer, is kicked in the head by the camel she was riding through the Arabian desert, she finds herself transported to what seems to be an alternate version of Earth. Arriving in Armeria, she discovers a society in which the very concept of gender is unknown. Like Mary, the reader will become disoriented, enjoyably so: By avoiding the use of gendered pronouns, the story s author (herself a gender-fluid activist) challenges our assumptions about gendered social paradigms.
Stříbro & jed 2: Esence vzpomínek
Travička, která pracuje pro nejhorší a nejnebezpečnější gang v New Yorku, a zvláštní policista, který honí zločince z magické společnosti.
Avery se nešťastnou shodou okolností stává podezřelou z vraždy příslušnice rodiny Nejvyšších newyorských mágů a ocitá se na útěku. Po celou dobu si bolestně a zoufale uvědomuje svoje city k detektivu Hayesovi a zároveň bezvýchodnost svojí situace.
Musí tak důvěřovat svému tajemnému a mlčenlivému průvodci Rykerovi, jehož poslání a úmysly nedokáže odhadnout. S jeho pomocí se bude snažit zjistit víc o svojí neobvyklé magii a zvláštní síle a dokázat svoji nevinu.
Avery však tuší, že nepředvídatelný Adam Hayes je jí na stopě a svoje hledání nevzdá…
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Knihovna vypůjčených srdcí
Chloe Sampsonová to nemá lehké: stará se o tři mladší sourozence, hledá své pravé já a snaží se vydělat dost na to, aby měli z čeho žít. Už se zdá, že se ocitla v koncích, když ve sklepení knihovny, kde pracuje, najde velmi vzácnou starou knihu. K jejímu úžasu se vzápětí na prahu jejího domu objeví věčně nabručený samotářský soused a nabídne jí za ni doslova majlant. Když si ji Chloe prohlédne podrobněji, zjistí, že si na okrajích stránek dva mladí milenci kdysi nechávali vzkazy.
Chloe nedokáže záhadě odolat a rozhodne se jí přijít na kloub. S nadšením zjišťuje, že to nebyla jediná kniha plná romantických vzkazů. Čím hlouběji se však do dechberoucí honby za pokladem noří, tím víc otázek vyvstává. Co se s těmi nešťastnými milenci stalo? A co to má společného se smutným sousedem, který Chloe a jejím sourozencům teprve nedávno začal otevírat svůj domov i srdce?
Prostřednictvím romantického příběhu, který překonal celá desetiletí, Chloe zjišťuje, že na mrzoutském sousedovi toho bude víc, než je na první pohled zřejmé. A tím, že přijme nečekanou nabídku přátelství, které jí nabídl, dostane zásadní životní lekci: Nejzajímavější příběhy obvykle začínají na těch nejméně pravděpodobných místech.
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Berserk 24
Po Griffithově návratu se svět začíná měnit a Gutsova parta obohacená o Isidra, Farnese a Serpica se v horském lese shledává s „čarodějkou“. Flóra z čarodějného sídla ve stromě duší tvrdí, že už na Gutse dávno čeká, jenže co má ve skutečnosti za lubem? A co se od ní Guts dozví?! Čeká vás pravá fantasy v celé své kráse!
The Perfect Girl
How do you stop a killer no one believes exist? S Kat Ballantyne wants to know why a perfect girl like Rosie Duggan would jump to her death from a multistorey car park. Everyone is saying she took her own life. But Kat is unconvinced. Girls like Rosie—bright, popular, well adjusted, and with her whole life ahead of her—don’t fall from tall buildings. Unless someone pushes them. When a second student dies the same way, Kat is the only one asking the hard questions. As she digs deeper, a disturbing pattern begins to emerge. With loyalties fracturing and powerful enemies circling, shocking DNA evidence leads to a surprising suspect. But has Kat really found the killer? Or has she just been played?
When a Clueless First-Person Shooter Player Falls into Another World (Manga) Vol. 1
Schwarz, a die-hard FPS gamer, was in the middle of a Virtual Reality Multiple Battlefield match when one wrong step sent him tumbling off the map. He expected “Game Over” — instead, he woke up in a world of swords and sorcery. With no way home and no magic to his name, Schwarz is quickly branded a “dud” by the locals… until his modern rifle proves more than a match for spellcraft. But in a land where magic reigns supreme, what happens when the man with the gun runs out of ammo?
Looting Hummingbirds
In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France’s most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominica. His illustrious reputation crumbled when radicals in the emerging anti-colonial Negritude movement criticised his work. From then on he wrote little. Here for the first time in English (and French) we can read a selection of his lyrical and passionate poems - many about Dominica - alongside an introduction that pieces together what little is known of his life.
Sympathy for Yahweh
In Kenya, underneath a hot tin roof in tropical heat, a voice in a dream literally tempted author Alan Wildsmith to interpret the Book of Job. In Sympathy for Yahweh, you join Alan - a practicing psychotherapist, writer, creative cookie, and complete biblical novice - on a dynamic journey of discovery.? Many feel alienated by biblical religious doctrines and dogma, especially if their spiritual experiences have been disregarded by others, by frameworks, or by interpretations of holy texts. Oddly enough, though, Alan discovered that when you seriously engage the Book of Job, the very foundations of organised religion shudder. With humour and self-reflection, and from unique perspectives, Ala? book will bring you into a fresh, vital, and most importantly, unshackled relationship with our Western God. I? not just the dogmatic side of religion that this book shakes up but also dogmatic scientism, which pervades the Western psyche, casting away intuitions, dreams, synchronicities, visions, and other felt senses as superfluous - the more feminine aspects of our psyche - and while on the journey he had with this biblical book, Alan found femininity a subtle yet strong theme. Sympathy for Yahweh is for anyone interested in philosophy, religion, spirituality, and psychology. If an atheist can find faith in this book, so can a religious zealot! Everyone is welcome.
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.
A Fate Forged in Fire
Born to rule. Blessed by fire. Broken by desire.Aemyra has always known she is destined for more than the life she leads as a blacksmith: gifted with fire magic from the Goddess Brigid, she is the first female heir born to the throne of Tir Teine in two hundred years. But her father has kept her identity secret while he has been in exile, waiting for the right time to put his plan in motion and see his daughter ascend the throne. Once a territory built on matriarchal rule and values, Tir Teine has been without a female heir for two centuries and recent kings have allowed an oppressive and corrupt religion - the True Religion - to infect the land and its people, slowly poisoning their minds with anti-magic teachings.Raised among the people, Aemyra has felt their struggles and has seen Tir Teine fall into decline as the True Religion has gained power. She has waited in anticipation for the king to die, biding her time until she can bond to his dragon - one of the last in existence - and claim her throne. When her true identity is revealed, Aemyra is thrust into a game of vicious politics and plots, one she finds herself woefully unprepared for.Her biggest adversary is Prince Fiorean, a dragon-rider and the most powerful fire wielder born in decades. Cold, arrogant and without remorse, he is everything Aemyra despises. When he commits an unthinkable act against her, she seeks her vengeance but is captured and forced to become his bride to keep her father and his allies in check. Held captive by her enemies, her life hangs in the balance. When members of the royal family are poisoned, all eyes point to Aemyra and only her marriage to Fiorean keeps her from the executioner''s block. Forced to appear as the dutiful wife, Aemyra begins to see that there is perhaps more to Fiorean than she first believed - his façade as a cruel and heartless prince starts to crack and something wild, raw and unexpected sparks between them - a desire and want they can''t fully accept, but neither can deny. As she begins to unravel the plot behind the poisonings, she uncovers just how far the rot of corruption has spread and her loyalties to her family, her people and herself come into stark contrast with the reckless and uncontrolled feelings that she has developed for Fiorean. Under the heavy gaze of the royal court, Aemyra begins to understand the true weight of the crown and she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to claim her throne.
The Geomagician
'Mary.' Her eyes went wide, lashes fluttering. 'What is that?'
'Well. If I am not mistaken - and I don't think I am - this is a pterodactyl.'
Mary Anning wants to be a geomagician a paleontologist who uses fossils to wield magic but since the Geomagical Society of London refuses to admit women, she s stuck selling her discoveries to tourists instead. Then an ancient egg hatches in her hands, revealing a loveable baby pterodactyl Mary names Ajax, and she knows that this is the kind of scientific find that could make her career if she s strategic.
But when Mary contacts the Society about her discovery, they demand to take possession of Ajax.
Their emissary is none other than Henry Stanton, a distinguished (and infuriatingly handsome) scholar... and the man who once broke Mary s heart. She knows she can't trust her fellow scholars, who want to discredit her and claim Ajax for their own, but Henry insists he believes in the brilliant Mary, and only wants to help her obtain the respect she deserves.
Now Mary has a new mystery to solve that's buried deeper than any dinosaur skeleton: She must uncover the secrets behind the Society and the truth about Henry.
As her conscience begins to chafe against her ambition, Mary must decide what lengths she s willing to go to finally belong and what her heart really wants.
Egyenes út az iskolába
Az iskolakezdés meghatározó mérföldkő egy gyermek és a családja életében. Mindannyian azt szeretnénk, hogy gyermekünk már az első naptól magabiztosan mozogjon a számok világában, és ne kudarcokkal, hanem sikerélményekkel találkozzon.
Ez a fejlesztőfüzet abban segít, hogy az iskolába lépés ne feszültséget, inkább izgalmas felfedezést jelentsen. A kiadvány játékos, életkorhoz igazított feladatai fejlesztik a matematikai gondolkodást, a megfigyelőképességet és a logikus összefüggések felismerését, miközben erősítik a gyermek önbizalmát is. Az Egyenes út az iskolába azért született meg, hogy biztos hidat képezzen az óvoda és az iskola között: nem a tananyag előre tanítására törekszik, ugyanakkor azokra az alapvető készségekre épít, amelyek elengedhetetlenek az első osztályban. Ideális választás azoknak a szülőknek, akik nyugodt, támogató módon szeretnék felkészíteni gyermeküket az iskolára, és hosszú távon is stabil alapokat kívánnak adni neki a tanuláshoz.
Ne bízza a kezdetet a véletlenre - segítsen gyermekének abban, hogy a tanulás öröm, az iskola pedig már az első naptól valódi sikerélmény legyen! Hiszünk abban, hogy a biztos alapokra épülő tudás örömteli tanuláshoz vezet.
