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Rough Guides Slow Travel in Europe
Explore Europe the Slow Way - Thoughtful Adventures by Rail, Road and Sea. Rough Guides Slow Travel in Europe is a beautifully designed, photo-rich travel book featuring 28 no-fly journeys across the continent. From remote road trips and epic hikes to scenic rail rides and ferry-hopping escapes, it invites readers to discover Europe at a gentler pace - with more care, curiosity and intention. - Let the Journey Lead - Slow travel is about making the most of the ride. Each route is carefully chosen to immerse travellers in landscapes, cultures and rhythms - from wild camping in Sweden to a multi-stop train trip from Berlin to Istanbul. - Curated by Rough Guides Experts - All itineraries are handpicked by Rough Guides' experienced authors and editors, combining honest recommendations with practical insight and a love of local discovery. - Inspiration Meets Practicality - Each trip includes a map, travel tips, and concise destination guides, along with where to stay, eat and explore - with a focus on independent places and low-impact travel. - Visually Rich, Travel-Minded - With full-colour photography and a modern layout, this is a travel guide that's as inspiring on your coffee table as it is useful on the road. - Ideal for Conscious Travellers - A perfect gift for those seeking deeper, slower, more sustainable ways to see the world. Discover Europe differently - one mindful journey at a time. Add Rough Guides Slow Travel in Europe to your shelf, suitcase or gift list - and take the scenic route.
Rough Guides Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Travel Guide with eBook
Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), written by Chile experts, goes beyond the basics. It blends must-see sights with hidden gems and offers unmatched practical guidance for seamless planning and on-the-go exploration. Packed with in-depth advice often missing from other guides, it helps you navigate with ease. From using public transport to discovering the best dining, accommodations, and local experiences, this guide covers it all. Every detail you need for a smooth and enriching journey. Inside this Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) travel book, you'll find:- Regional deep dive - in-depth coverage of key areas with curated experiences and honest reviews- Itinerary samples - tailored plans for different trip lengths and travel styles- Practical information - essential tips on getting there, using public transport, avoiding crowds, saving time and money, and traveling responsibly- Expert recommendations - insider advice on the best places to eat, drink, stay, and enjoy nightlife or outdoor activities- Seasonal tips - when to go to Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), climate details, and festival highlights to plan your perfect trip- Must-see pick - unmissable sights handpicked by our authors - Colchagua Valley, Parque Nacional Lauca, Valparaíso, Laguna Verde, hiking Volcán Villarrica, Curanto, Bahía Inglesa, Termas de Puyuhuapi, Tapati, Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Valle de la Luna, Churches of Chiloé, Puerto Williams, San Rafael glacier, Pisco Elqui- Easy-to-use maps - colour-coded maps highlighting essential spots for dining, accommodation, shopping and entertainment- Cultural insights - engaging stories on local history, arts, and traditions for a deeper understanding of Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island)- Language essentials - Chilean Spanish phrases and vocabulary to help you connect with locals- Inspiring travel photography - stunning full-color images capturing the essence of Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and fueling your wanderlust- Designed for comfort and sustainability - a velvet soft-touch cover for a secure grip and premium uncoated paper from responsibly sourced materials- Bonus eBook - free download with purchase for added convenience- Coverage includes: Valparaíso, Vina del Mar, El Norte Chico, El Norte Grande, Central Valley, Lake District, Chiloé, Northern Patagonia, Southern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Easter Island, Juan Fernández ArchipelagoTravel smart and experience Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with confidence. Let this guide to Chile and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) be your trusted companion to must-see sights, hidden gems, and local secrets for an unforgettable adventure.
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Rhodes pocítila na vlastnej koži, aké rany dokáže človeku uštedriť život. Zažila stratu, ktorá je nočnou morou každého z nás. Napriek všetkému sa z nej pozviechala a snaží sa pomáhať ľuďom s podobným osudom. Jej svetlo a súcit sú ako balzam pre dušu.
Až kým nestretne Ansona Hunta. Najlepšieho priateľa jej brata, o ktorom síce počula veľa dobrého, ale z ktorého sa stal nevrlý samotár. Rhodes sa snaží dostať so svojou láskavosťou k nemu bližšie. Lenže Anson skrýva jazvy, ktoré sú oveľa temnejšie než čokoľvek, čo doposiaľ videla. A pýtajú si svoju daň. Ak sa ich skutočne dotkne, je možné, že ani jeden z nich neunikne ich ničivej sile...
Ako stvorené pre fanúšikov Elsie Silver a Colleen Hoover.
Mini potterovky: Profesor Dumbledore
Vstúp do magického sveta čarodejníkov a objav všetky jeho tajomstvá
Prečo je profesor Dumbledore taký obľúbený riaditeľ? Čo sa o ňom píše na kartičke z čokoládových žabiek? Ktorý metlobalový tím má najradšej?
Nová zberateľská séria ilustrovaných knižiek, ktoré začínajúcim čitateľom predstavia svet mágie a obľúbené postavy z populárnej série o Harrym Potterovi. Všetky dôležité informácie sú podané s humorom a fantáziou, pričom život im vdýchli svetovo uznávaní ilustrátori.
Séria knižiek s názvom Mini potterovky bola navrhnutá tak, aby priviedla k čítaniu novú generáciu mladých čitateľov a zoznámila ich s jedinečným svetom čarodejníkov. Verných fanúšikov populárneho čarodejníka s jazvou v tvare blesku na čele zas poteší a rozšíri ich knižnú zbierku.
Pred čitateľov od 6 rokov
Z anglického originálu preložila Oľga Kralovičová
Mini potterovky: Luna Lovegoodová
Vstúp do magického sveta čarodejníkov a objav všetky jeho tajomstvá
Ako sa Luna zoznámila s Harrym Potterom a jeho priateľmi? Prečo nosí prízrakohľady a čo sú krčorohé chrapogoty? Akú podobu má jej patronus?
Nová zberateľská séria ilustrovaných knižiek, ktoré začínajúcim čitateľom predstavia svet mágie a obľúbené postavy z populárnej série o Harrym Potterovi. Všetky dôležité informácie sú podané s humorom a fantáziou, pričom život im vdýchli svetovo uznávaní ilustrátori.
Séria knižiek s názvom Mini potterovky bola navrhnutá tak, aby priviedla k čítaniu novú generáciu mladých čitateľov a zoznámila ich s jedinečným svetom čarodejníkov. Verných fanúšikov populárneho čarodejníka s jazvou v tvare blesku na čele zas poteší a rozšíri ich knižnú zbierku.
Pre čitateľov od 6 rokov
Z anglického originálu preložila Oľga Kralovičová
Ancient British and Irish Celts in Greek and Roman Sources (500 BC–AD 60)
Ancient Ireland and Britain were large Celtic territories on the northwest edge of Europe. They were subject to myth and speculation by the early Greeks and Romans, but they later became the focus for trade, exploration and partial conquest. Dr Raoul McLaughlin presents the ancient sources for the Atlantic Celts in chapters covering the resources, commerce, warfare and beliefs of the oceanic Celts. This book contains updated translations of ancient sources concerning the lands known as Ivernia and Britannia. These accounts reveal what the Greeks and Romans knew about the origins, culture, and social practices of the insular Celts. The evidence begins in 600 BC when Carthaginian merchant ships explored the Atlantic coasts of western Europe searching for metal alloys. Then, in 325 BC, a Greek mariner named Pytheas explored the northern limits of the Atlantic territories and returned with accounts of Bretannike, Ierne and Thule. But it was Rome that led armies across the northern seas to conquer Britain. This book includes the campaign reports of Julius Caesar, along with accounts of conquests by the Emperor Claudius. These ancient texts reveal the ambitions, conflict and compromises involved in establishing the Roman province of Britannia, which by AD 60 encompassed most of southern Britain. This book therefore provides a unique resource for future scholarship and a fascinating insight for anyone interested in the distant Celtic past.
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance in Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on a wide array of sources—including canonical texts, apocryphal writings, hagiographies, and ritual documents—this book unveils zhai as a ritual complex encompassing temporary observances, communal feasts, and modes of interaction between the seen and unseen realms. These practices, rooted in both lay and monastic traditions, illustrate the intricate interplay between food, community, and ritual in Indian and Chinese Buddhism. Part I traces how Indian Buddhist temporary observances were adapted, debated, and reimagined in the Chinese context. Part II explains the sponsored feast as a mechanism for lay-monastic interaction and merit-making. It also examines how Buddhists engaged with deities and spirit saints through remote invitations and ritual offerings. Part III focuses on "scripts" used for receiving the Eightfold Observance and conducting sponsored feasts, thus revealing their evolution from simple master-disciple interactions to complex communal events. Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is an essential resource for scholars interested in food-related religious practices and the history of Buddhism. Through its meticulous examination of Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan materials, the book offers a fresh perspective on Chinese Buddhism as an intercultural endeavor. It sheds light on relevant scholastic debates, the creation of apocrypha, translation strategies, and ritual innovations in medieval China. By moving beyond teleological frameworks such as Sinicization, it emphasizes the agency of cultural, doctrinal, and social factors in shaping these practices. Additionally, it engages with the cognitive dimensions of ritual and highlights ritual logic as a cross-cultural analytical lens.
The Mysterious Death of Aunt Jane
Could there really be a murderer in Shadey Cove? Fern Cassidy owns the local bookstore in a sleepy coastal village where nothing ever happens. So when the local bank manager is found dead after being investigated for embezzlement, everyone is shocked. When his lady friend and village confidant Aunt Jane is found dead at the bottom of her stairs a few months later, people start talking. When a third death occurs just a few weeks later, Fern decides to investigate. With her local knowledge, Fern is more than willing to assist when a fatherly police inspector and a rather handsome young detective are sent to investigate the latest body. But no one expects their investigations to lead them into the dark and dangerous world of gangland London. Romantic attractions aside, can our trio uncover what exactly is going on in Shadey Cove, before anyone else winds up dead?
Stranger in the Churchyard
It’s an idyllic Christmas Eve, snow is lying all around, and there’s a calm around the village of Belvedere St Anne. Or is there…..“Here I want you to uncover the secret.Hide away the sacred jewels.They are to be stolen by the Church.Thieves I cannot conceal them anymore.Go to the general grave……”The mysterious message on the vestry wall - what can it mean? The sacred jewels – to be stolen by the Church - surely that could not happen? And Separately, Dougie and Ruby spot him. A spooky stranger in the village - what was he doing there? And are these events all connected..? Far from calm, something mysterious is going on. Dougie calls together the Cheery Gang and they find themselves in a race both against the clock and also against the scary and mysterious Stranger in the Churchyard…Follow the Cheery Gang in this latest adventure – unexpected twists lie inside..
Choice, Choose, Chosen
In the summer of 2022, a judgement reverberates across the world, shaking generations of women. Roe v. Wade – the 1973 Supreme Court case that ruled a woman’s right to abortion was protected by the constitutional right to privacy – is overturned. Fourteen women’s lives intertwine – writers and artists, mothers and daughters, friends and strangers – crossing time and reality, drawn together by abortion, choices, biscuits, and knitting. Their voices need to be heard in a world where a woman’s right to choose is never certain, and where the lines of the argument blur. This is their story.
? / Return
Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem, ? / Return is engaged in the act of looking back—toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?
The (end)
An anthology of poems which explore poetry as storytelling, and the power of words to transmit meaning across millennia, transcending cultures and identities. This vibrant collection takes the reader on a journey from ancient poetic texts, through modernity, to an exploration of the new digital age. It explores themes of sexuality, objectification, loss, technology, religion, authoritarianism, censorship and language change. The breadth of this collection, celebrating diversity of poetic form, offers something for all levels of readers.
Allied Weapons That Made the Difference in World War Two
In 1943, US bomber crews based in the UK were tasked with a 25-mission tour of duty. Most crews never made it past their fifth. The Luftwaffe owned the skies over Europe and the men of the Eighth Air Force were paying the price and strategic bombing was being called into question. Until, that is, the arrival of the Rolls Royce powered long-range P-51 Mustang. The tale of the P-51 began with a request from a wartime British procurement commission in April 1940. In response, Dutch Kindelberger and Edgar Schmued of North American Aviation set the gears in motion that would give birth to the groundbreaking fighter aircraft—the P-51 Mustang. The aircraft was an unqualified success and swept the Luftwaffe from the skies over German, facilitating devasting raids on German industry and paving the way for D-Day in 1944. This book goes on to tell the stories behind ten other weapons and weapons systems, from the drawing board to successful field deployment and their strategic impact beyond the battlefield. They were inspired by outstanding designers such as Sir Sydney Camm, scientists such as Alan Turing, and industrial visionaries such as Andrew Jackson Higgin. Their stories are interlinked with many of the most famous events and people in the history of World War II. Some of the weapons are well-known, others less so, and some are not usually regarded as weapons at all, such as SPAM and the Royal Navy’s “game” used to defeat the U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. The Allies found that these weapons meant their forces could be better led given that they had faith in the means given to them to gain victory. The author explores the development, the challenges, and the deployment of these “weapons” and analyses their operational and strategic impact on the allied war effort and their collective contribution to eventual victory. This very readable account is a different perspective on the weapons that won the war.
200 Years of Locomotive Development
Since Richard Trevithick’s first forays into the development of the steam locomotive, Britain’s engineers have been at the forefront of railway technology. Often innovative, and sometimes unfairly maligned, the country’s locomotive engineers continually broke new barriers in traction technology although not everything was successful. From the earliest simple steam locomotives to the latest diesel and electric engines, Britain had led the way in railway locomotion, although competition from European, Japanese and American manufacturers sometimes exceeded what British engineers had achieved. In this new book, industrial and railway historian Dr Richard Marks provides fresh insights into Britain’s role in railway locomotive design and technology, and examines the highlights of British developments from Trevithick’s Coalbrookdale locomotive to the Brush Class 60 diesel locomotive. Based upon new research this useful primer aims to start the reader on a journey of discovery, unravelling some of the myths which have arisen around Britain’s railway history and explaining in an easy to follow narrative why some potentially advantageous developments failed to live up to expectations. In this new survey of 200 years of British locomotive history to accompany the Railway 200 celebrations, the reader is presented with a compelling and easy to read introduction to a complex, but intriguing subject.
The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group
The Origins of the Christ Movement in Corinth: Paul’s Chord of Gods argues that Paul’s language about his god (father, lord Jesus Christ and pneuma) would have been familiar to Corinthian gentiles as a small group of gods – a chord of gods. Worship of Paul’s chord of gods matches the common religious practice (in Theodore Schatzki’s sense) around the ancient Mediterranean and in Corinth and would have been familiar to the Corinthians. This religious practice could have formed the basis of attraction for the Corinthians to join Paul’s Christ group, served as a social engine for its growth among gentiles in Corinth and been a source of conflict with Paul that he tries to address in his letters to the Corinthians.
The White City
Trapped in a prematurely middle-aged life in rural Norfolk, Edward finds his precariously constructed world is crumbling around him. Determined to unravel his own unresolved mystery and inspired by the fire of romantic connection, he heads for the bright white city of Arequipa, high in the Peruvian Andes, on a quest to find his absent father. A quarter of a century earlier, Judith’s footsteps walk the same streets, as her own life takes an unexpected turn. Pushing past setbacks, she allows herself finally to live in the moment, only to realise, much too late, that choices always have consequences. Back in the present, having thought his goal to be a simple missing person search, Edward discovers much more than he could have anticipated. As he absorbs the magic of Peru and its people, the pieces of his life at last come together. Will he come home at all, and even if he does, can the new Edward be sure of the path he should take?
Democratic Drain
Democratic Drain links two of the most compelling topics of our time: immigration and democracy. With a blend of in-depth interviews and data analysis across 149 countries, Justin Gest explores how global migration filters people with liberal democratic values out of authoritarian spaces, enabling democratic backsliding around the world. At a global scale, the correlation between migratory choices and political values introduces a new reason why authoritarian countries may have struggled to democratize in the decades since the end of the Cold War – a period when flows of international migrants have grown so significantly, populism has spread, and authoritarians' resolve has steadily hardened. At a time when the world is increasingly sorting into democratic and undemocratic spaces, Gest's timely and innovative analysis raises important political and policy questions about how democracies might compensate for the inadvertent effects of global human mobility.
Smútiace dieťa v škole
Aj keď by sme si priali, aby sa zomieranie a strata blízkych detí a dospievajúcich netýkali, realita je iná. Takéto situácie zasahujú aj do života školy. Žiaci v týchto ťažkých chvíľach potrebujú oporu a často ju hľadajú práve v školskom prostredí – u svojich učiteľov a spolužiakov. Je preto dôležité vedieť, ako v škole citlivo a primerane reagovať, čo povedať a ako žiakov v takýchto momentoch sprevádzať. Škola by mala byť pre nich bezpečným priestorom, kde nájdu podporu, a zároveň miestom, kde sa môžu učiť, ako zvládať záťažové situácie či byť oporou druhým.
The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary
In an era of climate emergency, The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary equips clergy, church leaders, and activists with a powerful tool to integrate ecological justice into the heart of worship and spiritual practice. Drawing from the rich traditions of scripture and creation, this ground-breaking volume provides a year-long Sunday lectionary and commentary that aligns the liturgical calendar with the rhythms of the Earth. Lectionary resources are also provided for celebrations like World Wetlands Day, Earth Day Sunday, National Bird Day and for innovative liturgical seasons such as the Season of Creation. A major and innovative new resource for the creative parish and preacher, The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary will offer a deeply transformative approach to worship, preaching, and action—empowering churches to become prophetic voices for climate justice and caretakers of the Earth.
