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Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain Part I
She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites. In the seventy years that followed everything changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation with which she became synonymous.
While the Queen is the motif for this book, the story Engel tells is not about her - it is primarily about the British. Through original research, interviews with people who were there and his own memories of the time, Matthew Engel traces the transformation of life in Britain as never before.
Beginning with the death of King George VI and ending on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election, Engel not only covers all the major historical events but also explores everyday life - from the food we ate and where we shopped, to what we watched on television and the newspapers we read. In doing so, he brings these three decades to life with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea.
From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you've never seen it before.
Life teems through Henry Gee's words - colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from 'gregarious' bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life's evolutionary steps - from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.
Life as We Made It
A Times Best Book of 2021
From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature.
Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But the idea that humans have only recently begun to tinker with the natural world is false. We've been meddling with nature since the last ice age, and we're getting a lot better at it. Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution - for good and for ill - and looks ahead to the future, casting aside scaremongering myths about the dangers of interference. New biotechnologies can present us with the chance to improve our own lives, and increase the likelihood that we will continue to live in a rich and biologically diverse world.
This Book Could Fix Your Life
We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works?
From building confidence and boosting creativity to forming better relationships and getting smarter (and healthier), This Book Could Fix Your Life explores the real science behind self-help.
HOW TO BOOST YOUR IQ
THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESSFUL DATING
HOW TO BREAK BAD HABITS
HOW TO ACE EXAMS
WHAT TO EAT TO FEEL HAPPIER
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
HOW TO LIVE HEALTHIER LONGER
Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson has zero desire to become a lifestyle guru, she just wants to help us understand the often surprising truths behind meditation, resilience, addiction, willpower, love, good sleep, CBT, success, dieting, antidepressants, intelligence and much, much more.
Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth (EN)
Audiobook Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth written by Nigel Jones. A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary icon Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27.
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Ikigai: Simple Secrets to a Long and Happy Life
We all have an ikigai.
It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live' or 'a reason to jump out of bed in the morning'. The place where your needs, ambitions, skills and satisfaction meet. A place of balance.
This book will help you unlock what your ikigai is and equip you to change your life. There is a passion inside you - a unique talent that gives you purpose and makes you the perfect candidate for something. All you have to do is discover and live it.
Do that, and you can make every single day of your life joyful and meaningful.
More Than I Love My Life
An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar
On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.
Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.
More Than I Love My Life is a sweeping story about the power of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself and to her children.
Too Much of Life - The Complete Cronicas
The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too. The cronica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector's pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio's leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love. This new, large, and beautifully translated volume, Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas presents a new aspect of the great writer-at once off the cuff and spot on.
A Good and Dignified Life
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) were critical Jewish mavericks who both suffered under violent political regimes and sought to reform systems of power. Although temporally separated by the Second World War and the rise of totalitarianism, they held in common strikingly similar convictions about freedom, human dignity, capitalism, democracy, and political commitment.
In this powerful book, Joke J. Hermsen explores the lives and works of these two remarkable thinkers and the essential hope that emboldened them in the political struggle. Luxemburg and Arendt were spurred on by a restless love for the world and an unwavering belief in the possibility of new beginnings; for them, hope was an absolute prerequisite of resistance and a counterpoint to melancholy-a defense against despair that kept them attuned to what could be.
Exploring the intertwined nature of philosophy and the active pursuit of justice, this is an urgent, courageous reminder to remain alert to the glimmers of hope in dark times.
Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet
A magnificent look at the science of plants from the internationally bestselling and multi award-winning team behind Tiny, Lots and Grow.
This tree doesn't look like it's doing very much: it just stands there in the sunlight, big and GREEN. But this tree is busy... Starting with the secret workings of a tree, this book transports readers billions of years into the past; back to the moment when plant life first appeared on our planet. Covering its evolution, the steady emergence of fossil fuels and the extraordinary communities of plants around the world today, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton combine essential biology with a powerful message - a call to protect the most precious colour on Earth ... GREEN.
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon.
In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman dictated his own version. Now, this long-lost memoir will be published. Full of wonderful stories and recollections by his family, friends, and such luminaries as Elia Kazan, Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill and Martin Ritt, this book will surprise and shock readers as it reveals Newman's previously unknown sides.
In this extraordinary memoir, Newman details his fascinating story: from troubled beginnings, marked by fraught relationships with both his mother and father, to the iconic film roles (both good and bad) that cemented his status as a Hollywood icon and heartthrob, and the complicated relationships that were formed along the way.
The Life-Changing Power of Intuition
'Emma's book is a masterclass in helping us to tune into all the empowering signals coming from within us.' - You Magazine, Mail on Sunday
Tune into yourself and transform your life - your healing journey of self-discovery starts HERE!
When there is so much going on in our modern lives how do we filter out what feels right from what feels wrong? How do we become more in tune with who we really are and what we really need?
With this ultimate spiritual life-coach - full of practical advice, exercises and meditations - learn how to develop your intuition and deepen your connection to your authentic self. Create positive change in all areas of your life, from improving your relationships and healing your stresses and anxieties, to nailing that big work presentation, achieving your fitness goals or breaking bad habits.
Discover the secret to changing your life is already inside you.
Rogers Kenny - Life Is Like A Song CD
Kenneth Ray „Kenny“ Rogers bol americký spevák, skladateľ, fotograf, hudobný producent, herec, interpret, autor a jeden z významných členov Siene slávy umelcov country. "Life Is Like A Song" je zbierka nevydaných piesní z Kennyho archívu, ktorá rozpráva príbeh o láske, živote, strate a viere medzi Kennym a jeho ženou, Wandou a ich dvoma deťmi.
Tracklist:
01. Love Is A Drug
22. I Wish It Would Rain
03. Am I Too Late (With Kim Keyes)
04. Tell Me That You Love Me (With Dolly Parton)
05. Straight Into Love (With Jamie O'Neal)
06. Wonderful Tonight
07. Catchin’ Grasshoppers
08. That's Love To Me
09. I Will Wait For You
10. Goodbye
Quality of Life in Cross-Modal Perspectives of Inclusive Education
The problems of people with disabilities are determined by the dynamics of interactions between them and the social environment in which they live. Therefore, the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model of health is linked to the civilian model, accentuating the active participation in the social life of a particular community. The convergence of these models
is present in the transdisciplinary content of the publication, which examines the quality of life of pupils in inclusive education in the Central European region. The authors identified specific limits and possibilities of the educational environment and its impact on the quality of life of children with disabilities. They explained the evidence-based practice and enhanced the competency-based approach to the persons involved in education, their relatives and transdisciplinary school teams.
Ali: A Life
The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career.
When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see. In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century.
We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit. An epic tale of a fighter who became the world's most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man.
Sebeláska (46 karet + výkladová kniha)
Milé dámy,
tato sada vám pomůže prohloubit lásku k vlastnímu já, neboť abychom byly šťastné a spokojené, je nesmírně důležité milovat vlastní já. Žena je zdrojem emocionální pohody, a pokud je spokojená a má se ráda, je spokojená celá rodina.
Sebeláska má nejvyšší frekvenci, která přitahuje vše, po čem toužíme. Témata každé karty utvářejí božskou symfonii rovnováhy, jež vám pomůže pustit lásku tam, kde to váš život aktuálně potřebuje. Kde je lásky dostatek, dostanete potvrzení, že vše je v naprostém pořádku.
No F*cks Given: Life-Changing Words to Live By
A beautifully packaged collection of inspirational quotes with a hilariously explicit twist from Sarah Knight's beloved No F*cks Given Guides series
In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*ck Sarah liberated you from people and things that don't make you happy; with Get Your Sh*t Together she provided a tough-love push towards getting organized to achieve your goals; You Do You offered a roadmap to embracing your individuality; Calm the F*ck Down delivered practical solutions for managing ever-more stressful times; and F*ck No! taught you to set boundaries and stick to them with confidence and flair.
No F*cks Given: Life-Changing Words to Live By gathers the very best of this no-bullsh*t, life-changing advice into one must-have gift book that enlightens and entertains on every page.
Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream... 2LP
Avenged Sevenfold (skrátene A7X) je americká heavymetalová skupina z Huntington Beach v Kalifornii, založená v roku 1999. Súčasnú zostavu kapely tvoria hlavný spevák a klavirista M. Shadows, rytmický gitarista a sprievodný spevák Zacky Vengeance, hlavný gitarista, klavirista, a sprievodný spevák Synyster Gates, basgitarista a sprievodný spevák Johnny Christ a bubeník Brooks Wackerman.Avenged Sevenfold sú známi svojim rôznorodým rockovým zvukom a dramatickými obrazmi v obaloch albumov. Skupina začínala s metalcorovým zvukom na svojom debutovom albume „Sounding the Seventh Trumpet“ a v tomto zvuku pokračovala aj cez druhý album „Waking the Fallen“. Štýl kapely sa však vyvinul s tretím albumom skupiny a prvým vydaním veľkého vydavateľstva „City of Evil“ do štýlu heavy metalu, hard rocku a progresívneho metalu. Kapela pokračovala v objavovaní nových zvukov vďaka svojmu rovnomennému vydaniu a tešila sa pokračujúcemu mainstreamovému úspechu predtým, ako ich bubeník James „The Rev“ Sullivan v roku 2009 zomrel. Napriek jeho smrti Avenged Sevenfold pokračoval s pomocou bubeníka Mikea Portnoya (ex -Dream Theater) a vydali a vydali sa na turné na podporu svojho piateho albumu „Nightmare“ v roku 2010, ktorý debutoval na vrchole rebríčka Billboard 200, bol ich prvým debutom číslo jedna. "Life Is but a Dream..." je pripravovaný ôsmy štúdiový album, ktorého vydanie je naplánované na 2. júna 2023 prostredníctvom Warner Records. Jeho vydanie je naplánované na takmer sedem rokov po jeho predchodcovi The Stage (2016), čo znamená doteraz najdlhšiu medzeru medzi štúdiovými albumami kapely. Podobne ako The Stage, Life Is but a Dream... produkovala kapela s Joeom Barresim.
Tracklist 2LP
A1. Game Over
A2. Mattel
A3. Nobody
B1. We Love You
B2. Cosmic
C1. Beautiful Morning
C2. Easier
D1. G
D2. (O)rdinary
D3. (D)eath
D4. Life Is But a Dream...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane produced an avalanche of sublime literature before he succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. Yet his short life was an eventful one: from crushing poverty as a newcomer to Manhattan and his near-drowning in a shipwreck, to his stint as a war correspondent in Cuba and international fame at twenty-five, to his final years in England and friendships with Joseph Conrad and Henry James. In Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster delves deeply into the story of Crane's tumultuous and dramatic life.