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The Age of Innocence
Enjoy Edith Wharton’s signature grace and insight in this sumptuous edition of the timeless Gilded Age story The Age of Innocence. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the most celebrated novels of the twentieth century, The Age of Innocence explores the intricate social world of Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to the beautiful and proper May Welland, finds his carefully ordered life upended by the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman whose independence and defiance of convention challenge every rule of the society he knows. Torn between duty and desire, Archer must choose between the expectations of his world and the yearning of his heart in this timeless story of love, loss, and the cost of conformity. This stunning heirloom edition features:A foil-embossed coverUnabridged textGorgeous designAn ideal gift for any bibliophile, this exquisite edition will be treasured for generations. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, Chartwell Deluxe Editions offer beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Moby Dick, Emma, Dracula, The Odyssey, Inferno, and The Republic.
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Zoo Quest to Guyana
Zoo Quest to Guyana tells the story of the ground-breaking BBC-London Zoo expedition to then-British Guiana. David Attenborough describes the a country of broad, flat savannahs, swift creeks, marshy coastal districts as well as the swamps remote indigenous forest reserve of the Rupununi. During his visit Attenborough encounters sloths, manatees, macaws, hummingbirds, reptiles such as snakes and spiders, as well as capybara and caiman. tells the story of the ground-breaking BBC-London Zoo expedition to then-British Guiana. David Attenborough describes the a country of broad, flat savannahs, swift creeks, marshy coastal districts as well as the swamps remote indigenous forest reserve of the Rupununi. During his visit Attenborough encounters sloths, manatees, macaws, hummingbirds, reptiles such as snakes and spiders, as well as capybara and caiman. "The Zoo Quest series details David Attenborough's early expeditions of, setting him on his path as the world's most widely viewed documentarian of natural history and a much-loved British national treasure. As part of the ground-breaking 1954 BBC television series developed in association with London Zoo, which would form the basis for the documentary work that would later propel him to global acclaim, the Zoo Quest books presents Attenborough's earliest accounts of expeditions to far-flung regions in Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. In this collection, you will read a young Attenborough as he traverses distant lands, meets local peoples, and of course as he comes into contact with all manner of wildlife. To read Zoo Quest is to catch a glimpse of how the world's foremost conservationist began his career. The books display his characteristic charm and concern for all things natural, offering the reader not only a greater appreciation for and understanding of Attenborough, but also of nature and the world.
The Intrepid List Outdoors
The Intrepid List Outdoors is a collection of 50 unique outdoor experiences from around the globe. But this isn’t a bucket list book. This is for the intrepid travellers – explorers, thrill seekers, sports enthusiasts and nature lovers – those who long to escape the tourist traps and unleash their inner explorer. Lace up your running shoes and leap into action – from adrenaline-pumping activities to unparalleled natural wonders and wildlife experiences. Hear from travel writers who share their tales of awe and adventure, all done with an eye to preserving the peace of both locals and the planet. Forget the overcommercialised guidebooks and manufactured experiences. Embrace the unexpected. Discover the unforgettable.
Flip-Flap Feelings: Dinosaurs
Happy or sad.Quiet or loud.How are you feeling today?Meet a host of new pet friends! This chunky board book allows little ones to transform the emotion of each animal with the simple flip of a flap, and provides a fun way to talk about feelings together. Curious readers will love learning new words for their emotions and copying the animal''s expressions!With bright, bold artwork from Lo Cole (Ten on a Twig, Doris) and a bouncy rhyme to share aloud, this book is perfect for keeping little hands and little minds busy. Flip-flap fun for everyone!
Life On Us
Life On Us is a first-of-its-kind exploration of everything that lives ON and IN us, but is NOT us, from one of the world’s greatest living explorers and scientists! Get ready to learn all about our amazing microbiome and the trouble-making germs and parasites you won't like to host. Scientist-extraordinaire Tim Flannery and his daughter Emma Flannery come together in this incredible exploration of a rapidly growing and enormously exciting area of science. Together, they've assembled possibly the weirdest collection of knowledge about the human body, from poo transfusions to research into how parasites can help us. Find out what's living on you! Did you know: - that your gut microbiome makes up three-quarters of the weight of your poo? - that COVID-19 can enter your body through your eyeballs? Perfect for: Kids who love knowing everything about anything! Fans of books such as Guinness Book of World Records and 100 Things To Know About the Human Body Educators and literacy specialists seeking hybrid texts to use in the classroom
Mini sada na modelovanie - mušľový svietnik a miska s viečkom
Obsah: samotvrdnúca hlina, svietnik, forma, modelovací nástroj, vykrajovač. Táto kreatívna sada vám umožní vytvoriť jedinečné bytové dekorácie inšpirované vlnami a mušľami. Súprava obsahuje materiál na výrobu jednej dózy s viečkom a jedného svietnika, ako aj všetky potrebné pokyny. Vymodelujte si vlastnú dózu a svietnik zo samotvrdnúcej hliny a ozdobte ich detailnými mušľami vytvorenými pomocou silikónovej formy.
Kreatívna sada Gvaš
Obsah: gvašové farby, štetce, akvarelový papier, pipeta, maskovacia páska, paleta. Táto kreatívna sada vám umožní vytvoriť krásne grafické obrazy pomocou úžasných gvašových farieb. Obsahuje materiál na vytvorenie 4 obrázkov a všetky potrebné pokyny. Objavte fascinujúci svet gvašových farieb, ktoré predstavujú univerzálne riešenie medzi farbami. Majú hĺbku olejových farieb, flexibilitu akrylu a ľahkosť akvarelu. Naučíte sa meniť odtiene pomocou čiernej a bielej, vytvárať krásne prechody farieb a grafické obrazy, ktoré vyzerajú tak profesionálne, že si zaslúžia zarámovať.
Štartovacia kreatívna sada Olejový pastel
Obsah: olejové pastely, maskovacia páska, šrafovacie pero, nožík, akvarelový papier. Táto kreatívna sada vás zoznámi s 12 inšpiratívnymi technikami, ktoré odhaľujú množstvo kreatívnych možností olejových pastelov. Nájdete v nej dostatok materiálu na vytvorenie 22 ilustrácií a podrobné návody. Naskenujte QR kód na krabici a získajte priamy prístup do nášho vzdelávacieho sveta. Nájdete tam videá, ktoré vás prevedú 12 technikami – vrátane miešania farieb, tieňovania a vrstvenia. Tieto techniky vám pomôžu vytvoriť hĺbku a osobitý umelecký výraz.
Mini sada na modelovanie pre deti - robot
Obsah: zmes Stone Clay, Foam Clay®, Silk Clay®, koráliky, ženilkový drôt, polystyrénové gule, pohyblivé očká. Táto kreatívna sada vám a vaším deťom umožní vytvoriť najštýlovejšieho malého robota plného zábavných detailov. Súprava obsahuje všetok potrebný materiál aj návod. S touto súpravou si vytvoríte vlastného robota zo Stone Clay – jedinečného modelovacieho materiálu, ktorý vytvára pôsobivý kamenný efekt. Je úplne samotvrdnúci a po približne 24 hodinách stvrdne a spevnie. Ak počas práce začne vysychať, stačí ho jednoducho premiešať s trochou vody. Môžete tiež vytvárať zábavné drobnosti a ozdoby. Použite ženilkový drôt, koráliky, Silk Clay® a Foam Clay® a ozdobte robota v ľubovoľnom štýle.
Mini sada na maľovanie pre deti - pretekárske auto
Obsah: drevené diely, farba, štetec, lepidlo a nálepky. Táto kreatívna sada vám a vašim deťom umožní maľovať, zostavovať a zdobiť vlastné hračky. Obsahuje všetko potrebné pre zábavný a kreatívny stavebný projekt. Získate všetko, čo potrebujete na vytvorenie vlastných domácich hračiek. Najprv namaľujte diely obľúbenými farbami, nechajte ich zaschnúť a potom ich zložte pomocou priloženého univerzálneho lepidla. Nakoniec pridajte zábavné nálepky a hračky sú pripravené.
Mini sada na výrobu náhrdelníkov priateľstva
Obsah: zmršťovacia fólia, farebné ceruzky, šablóny, retiazky a O krúžky. Vyrobte si vlastné šperky s touto mini súpravou. Obsahuje všetok potrebný materiál aj návod.
Mini sada na výrobu náramkov priateľstva
Obsah: Kumihimo tkacia doska, šnúrka, tvarované koráliky, písmenkové koráliky, prívesky a návod na viazanie. Táto súprava vám umožní vytvoriť vlastné jedinečné korálikové šperky. Obsahuje všetok potrebný materiál aj návod. Každá súprava obsahuje zábavný šperkársky projekt, ktorý je jednoduchý na dokončenie. Starostlivo sme vybrali farebný mix korálikov, písmeniek a smajlíkov, ktoré môžete kombinovať a vytvoriť si vlastný originálny šperk.
80,000 Hours
A ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI.
You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is the most important decision you'll ever make.
Choose well, and you can have a more rewarding, interesting life, and also help solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Choose poorly, and you could waste decades.
So what should you do? Most advice is based on no research, instead offering (misleading) platitudes like 'follow your passion'. It's surprisingly out of date, focusing on traditional paths rather than those most likely to thrive in an age of AI.
And if you want to help others, the advice is even more simplistic: telling you to choose careers like nurse or doctor, when there are paths in which almost anyone can save more lives. In fact, some careers have hundreds of times more impact than others, but most of us have no idea which ones.
Benjamin Todd is the founder of 80,000 Hours, a non-profit that's spent over ten years researching how to have a meaningful and impactful career. Here he introduces a tried-and-tested framework that has already led thousands of people to change their path. It covers:
What really makes for a dream job, and why finding it probably doesn't involve 'following your passion'.
How to identify which global problems are most pressing, and why they might involve AI as much as climate change.
Which roles are likely to be automated, and how to ensure yours isn't among them.
It's also full of practical tips and tools. You'll come away with a plan to use your 80,000 hours in a way that's rewarding and fulfils your potential to make a difference.
Tehran Diaries : Dispatches from Iran under Siege
Over Iran, the sky is falling in. The US-Israeli bombardment has begun: there are bodies beneath the rubble. The Ayatollah is dead. The guards have abandoned the prisons. The rain is black with fuel; it burns the skin and the streets.
In this searing and contemplative work, writer, academic and Tehran resident Raha Nik-Andish documents life in the Islamic Republic in the days and months leading up to "Operation Epic Fury." In a rarely-seen portrait of a regime in freefall, this is Tehran on the brink; the crushed protests over the collapse of the currency; the taxicabs circling the city for work; the burned out garbage cans and the taped-up windows.
What does it mean to exist under siege? Or repression, blackout and total fear? How do you get the message out? Piercing, poignant and delicately observed, this is the vital story of a city at the end of the world - and an act of witness against darkness.
Bearsuit Turtle Plays a Game
Two friends invent an imaginative new game in this laugh-out-loud story that captures the silliness of playtime, from award-winning author-illustrator Bob SheaWhen a bear suit–wearing turtle and his best friend are left to their own devices, the fun and games begin! Pass the ball, but be careful—the grass is hot lava! As “bearsketball” gets increasingly off-the-wall, the two friends compete to see who can find the biggest stick in the forest, roll down the hill without dropping the ball, and guess the number each one is thinking. Who will be the winner? And what are the rules to this game, anyway? From Bob Shea, author-illustrator of the popular Dinosaur vs. series and Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great, this charming and hilarious tale is an ode to the joy and freedom of childhood. With true-to-life kid dynamics, offbeat humor, and memorable characters, this picture book companion to Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend proves that everyone wins when you’re having fun.
The Secrets from the Deep
1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it's not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal car accident, recovering two bodies from the cold waters of the sea.
2022: Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir returns from a surfing holiday in Hawaii to a good life. The renovation of her childhood home is progressing, and her colleague and friend Jakob Johanson has permanently joined her in Iceland. But when Hildur visits her family friend, Helga, in a nursing home, she is presented with surprising new details about her mother, Rakel. Then a cruise ship carrying a large group of tourists arrives in +safjör-ur, bringing a world of trouble with them.
As the bodies pile up, Hildur and Jakob must look to the past to figure out what lies in front of them.
Swimming the Seasons
To swim is an act of attention: to the self, and to everything beyond it. Follow poet and nature writer Polly Atkin as she swims through the turning year in the rivers, lakes and tarns of the English Lake District, in this lyrical ode to the uplifting power of water. This is a love story between a person and a place. It is a story of acceptance, persistence and finding joy in the everyday, as eight years of outdoor swimming through every season deepen Atkin’s knowledge and understanding of both the landscape she calls home and her disabled body. Each month in the water reveals how a life lived with pain can be as rich, rewarding and full of delight as any other. Atkin swims for the sheer pleasure of it, showing how that pleasure may be found in every season, even by those who find the cold neither thrilling nor soothing. She reminds us of the quiet power of noticing the lives alongside ours — birds, plants and people. And through paying attention to herself and to the living world around her, she finds swimming becomes a transformative force, a kind of natural magic through which the extraordinary is revealed day after day, year after year.
This Dark Night
'Seamless and compelling' -- Spectator'This biography is a wonderful book' -- GuardianThe author of Wuthering Heights and strangest of the Brontë sisters is brought back to life in this stormy biography set amongst the wild moors of Yorkshire. Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, there's much that we don't know about her — most of her papers were destroyed after her death. But as Deborah Lutz explores in this, one of the first biographies of Emily in 20 years, the writing that has survived seethes with storm and strife and with the beautifully desolate landscape of Yorkshire. Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art. This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much. Also threaded through with the contemporary politics and events of the era (from the early labour movements of the Chartists and reformists, to the slave uprisings in the colonies), and authors and locals that Emily read about or knew (from proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to the masculine lesbian Anne Lister). Featuring illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination.
Octagon
Discover the whiplash-inducing spy thriller, for fans of Scott Mariani and Black Doves. 'A pacey, punchy read' THE TIMES‘A freight train of a novel. Exhilarating, raw, unmissable’ DAVID McCLOSKEY'Espionage, action, mystery and mayhem … [A] cracking new novel’ IRISH INDEPENDENT‘Crackles with tension. Brilliant, exciting and worryingly believable’ CHARLES BEAUMONT'Octagon bleeds authenticity from the first page to the last. Read it today!' JACK CARR, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRY HAVOC'An espionage novel that moves fast and hits hard' M.W. CRAVEN'A blistering thrill ride' VASEEM KHAN, author of the Q Mysteries'A smart, slick, adrenaline-fuelled adventure for fans of Ludlum and Fleming' CHARLES CUMMINGA DYING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTconfesses to his children what he did as a young man. A MURDERED SPYshares vital intelligence before he’s ruthlessly assassinated in the English countryside. A RITUAL KILLINGhidden in a forest clearing in Sweden hints at something much worse. FORMER MI6 AGENT RUNNERStella McRae is the only person who can be trusted to investigate now her former employer has been compromised. EX-SAS OPERATORTommy Kane has always had Stella’s back, but as the threats against them escalate, will his formidable skills be enough this tim? CTAGONA devastating plot against the West is already in train. Only Stella and Tommy stand in its way. And time is running out... 'Octagon barrels along at blistering pace, with suspense a-plenty … it's very hard to put the book down from one chapter to the next…' ASPECTS OF CRIME'A gritty, well-paced page-turner' THE CRITICPraise for C.J. Merritt:‘A writer to put on your reading list!’ – David Baldacci‘A first-class blend of intrigue, suspense, and action… as propulsive as a Bourne movie.’ – Charles Cumming, CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner‘Very well done’ – Anthony Horowitz‘A tight, compelling thriller that never misses a beat.’ – Lou Berney, CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner‘Gripping’ – Peter James
