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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
'"I thought it might be fun for people to be able to a read a neuroscience book on the beach," Barrett explains. But be warned: you may find your world turned upside down before it is time for cocktails.' - Guardian
'Each lesson will enlighten and unsettle you. It's like lifting up the hood of a car to see an engine, except that the car is you and you find an engine that doesn't work at all like you thought it did.' - GQ
In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you'll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.
Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human - a gift of a book about our mot complex and crucial organ that you will want to savour again and again.
Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales
It's Franklin's birthday! Luna and all the villagers are planning a surprise party, and Franklin's family are visiting from the moon. While the party is being set up, Luna takes Franklin book shopping. They find a padlocked book of fairy tales, which the bookseller tells them is full of dangerous magic. Luna's tortoise, Neil, can't help picking the lock... but when he peers inside, the book swallows him whole. Franklin and Luna dive into the book to rescue Neil. They tumble into cobwebbed forests and meet dusty fairy-tale characters who have been trapped inside these pages for hundreds of years.
After several encounters and some narrow escapes, they finally find Neil - who has won a gold medal after racing a hare - and, all together, they break out of the book and into the real world. Exhausted but victorious, all the fairy-tale characters, Franklin, Luna and Neil arrive at Franklin's birthday party. They're not sure it's a happily ever after, but they're certainly very full of cake... and that will more than do for now.
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The Trial (EN)
Josef K is thirty years old. He lives in rented accommodation in a large town and works for a bank. One day, although he has done nothing wrong, he is arrested.
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Vzhůru, tesaři, do výše střechu zvedněte!/Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters!
Dvě psychologicky laděné novely s filozofickým podtextem o sourozencích Glassových. O Seymourovi, nejstarším ze sourozenců, vypráví Buddy, který přijíždí na bratrovu svatbu, jež se nekoná. Druhá novela je improvizovaný esej o smyslu poezie, o psaní a osobnosti spisovatele, který je prokládán a ilustrován historkami a názory rodiny Glassových.
The Art of Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Pronikněte do propracovaného světa úspěšné hry Kingdom Come: Deliverance v knize The Art of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Kniha přináší exkluzivní pohled do zákulisí vývoje největšího českého herního projektu všech dob. Skrze nespočet náčrtků, vývojových konceptů a krásných screenshotů se čtenář dozví, jak vznikal autentický herní svět roku 1403. Vše doplňují zasvěcené komentáře tvůrců hry.
Pokud vás zajímá, jak vznikaly jednotlivé lokace ve hře, navrhoval se systém oblečení či kreslily mapy, kniha The Art of Kingdom Come: Deliverance vám na vše odpoví. Součástí jsou i exkluzivní rozhovory se samotnými tvůrci, kteří poodhalí procesy, jenž vedly k vydání oceňované hry českého studia Warhorse.
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The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (EN)
Audiobook The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using ‘the language of men’. They pointed the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets. Coleridge’s addiction to opium affected his poetic output, and yet the handful of poems he did produce were innovative.
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The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch
'She is the best-kept Christmas secret of all,' whispered Santa Claus. 'Which is surprising, because Christmas itself would not exist without her. She is older than time itself, yet still as young as tomorrow.
She is known only as the Winter Witch.'
One year has passed since William Trundle's incredible adventure with the most extraordinary dinosaur: the Christmasaurus. Now, William is swept back to the magical North Pole, where he meets the mysterious, icy Winter Witch - whose power to control time allows Santa Claus to make the long journey all around the world every Christmas Eve. And when they learn that the fate of Christmas itself hangs in the balance, William and the Christmasaurus must work with the Winter Witch to protect it...
Full of magic and music, humour and heart, and a friendship like no other, The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witchis the most enchanting Christmas read for the whole family.
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Usborne Book and Jigsaw Cities of the World
With bright illustrations and snappy introductions to each city, this charming book and jigsaw set is an ideal way for children to have fun learning the names and locations of famous cities all over the world, and to find out about their landmarks, culture and heritage. Completed size of jigsaw: 59cm x 40cm
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The Card - Oxford Bookworms Library 3 - MP3 Pack
Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
The Waters of Love (Barbara Cartland’s Pink Collection 42) (EN)
Francis, the Marquis of Wimborton needed an heiress. Lexia had money and her father wanted her to marry a Lord. But she was a spirited girl, raised in America and she wanted to choose her own husband. The Marquis was too proud to court her, especially as he believed her heart was given to Wayne Freeman, an American that her father had brought her to England to avoid.
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The Illustrated Brief History Of Time
A beautiful fully illustrated new edition of Professor Stephen Hawking's masterpiece. Includes updates and new livery and endpapers.
The illustrated edition of Stephen Hawking's classic work - this edition includes an appendix with updates made by Professor Hawking in 2016.
In this edition, Professor Hawking explains his complex theories through a fresh visual dimension. Over one hundred and fifty stunning colour illustrations have been specially commissioned for this purpose to help the reader understand what have become popular mythic images of our century, but which nonetheless remain difficult, abstract ideas to grasp.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.
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A gyalog - The Pawn
Gabriel Miller tornádóként söpört végig az életemen. Váratlanul, mindent elpusztított. Kíméletlen megtorlással állt bosszút az apámon, aki egy kórházi ágyon végezte, nincstelenül. Miatta a főiskolát is abbahagytam, hogy gondoskodjak róla, hiszen már csak ő maradt nekem. A családi házat is csak egy módon menthettem meg. Csupán egyetlen értékem maradt, a szüzességem, amit egy titkos aukción megvásároltak. Gabriel Miller mindenhol ott van. Mélyebb játszmát űz, mint gondolnám. Minden lépéssel közelebb kerülök hozzá, az érzékisége rabul ejt, miközben minden újabb titokkal darabokra tépi a lelkem. A végső játszma után biztos, hogy csak egyikőnk marad talpon.
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The Red Room (EN)
The Red Room (Swedish: Röda rummet) is a satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, it was acclaimed in Denmark, where Strindberg was hailed as a genius. As a result of The Red Room, Strindberg became famous throughout Scandinavia.
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Lost on the Moon
After learning of a diamond field on the Moon, our crew heads for the satellite, where they discover a petrified city populated by petrified people.
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A Kiss From the Heart (Barbara Cartland’s Pink Collection 48) (EN)
"I do not wish to be the Earl! I would much rather go back to London. " On his return from India, Lord Robert Templeton is distraught to find his family home, Ledbury Hall, plunged into mourning. His father, the Earl, has just died and he is the new Earl. He is reluctant to take up his new duties and instead flees to London, leaving his younger brother, Alec, in charge.
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Reflecting the voices of poets, soldiers, the families they left behind and their comrades who would never return, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, previously published as In Flanders Fields, is edited with an introduction by George Walter in Penguin Classics.
Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This anthology reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets, soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict. Including famous verses from Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; pieces by less well-known writers such as Gilbert Frankau and Osbert Sitwell; works by women describing the emotions of those at home; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers' songs, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry offers a blend of voices that is both unique and profoundly moving.
This collection has been arranged thematically, moving through the war's different stages from conscription through to its aftermath, to offer the reader a variety of perspectives on the same common experiences. George Walter's introduction discusses the role and scope of First World War poetry anthologies, and how the canon has changed over the years. This edition also contains notes and biographies.
George Walter is Lecturer in English at Sussex University. His research interests are 20th-century literature; madness and creativity; constructions of Englishness; the cultural impact of the First World War. He has edited editions of the poet Ivor Gurney's work for Everyman and Fyfield Books.
If you enjoyed The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, you might also like Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, available in Penguin Modern Classics.
The Castle of Love (Barbara Cartland’s Pink Collection 4) (EN)
Hugo, Earl of Ruven, is sailing home after ten years in India, where he served with his regiment. His grandfather, the old Earl, has died and Hugo has inherited the title and estate of Castle Ruven. He has also inherited his late brother's fiancee, Felice de Lisle. No one who sees the handsome man standing at the rail with his face turned toward the approaching coast suspects the truth.
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Beauty And The Feast 1
A boy with a bottomless stomach and a lonely widow with room at her dinner table serve up a heaping helping of secret happiness in this delightful foodie rom-com!
When her husband passed away, Shuko Yakumo lost her appetite for life, and with it, her love of cooking. But her neighbor Shohei Yamato brings an end to Shuko’s solitary existence. A high school baseball player living on his own, Shohei has a seemingly bottomless stomach…and this presents a challenge that Shuko is only too happy to accept! As her days begin to revolve around her secret hobby of feeding Shohei, will Shuko rediscover the happiness life has to offer?
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