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Thanks A Thousand - A Gratitude Journey
Bestselling author A.J. Jacobs has undergone a life-changing and entertaining journey. The idea is deceptively simple: he takes one of our greatest pleasures- our morning cup of coffee - and tries to thank every single person involved in making it, from the barista to the coffee farmer and all those in between. This turns out to be a stunningly large number, including artists, chemists, presidents, mechanics, biologists, miners, smugglers and goatherds. Hundreds of people. Thousands. Maybe more.
Through this seemingly straightforward quest, Jacobs reveals inspiring truths. The book is a reminder of the amazing interconnectedness of our world. It shows us how much we take for granted. It teaches us how gratitude can make our lives happier, kinder and more impactful. And it will inspire readers to follow their own "Gratitude Trails."
Gratitude was not an emotion that came easily to Jacobs. His innate disposition is more Larry David than Tom Hanks. But he knew that gratitude is perhaps the most important key to human happiness, the chief of all virtues, as Cicero said. Science has shown gratitude's benefits are legion: it helps you sleep, improves your diet, and makes you more likely to recover from illnesses.
Jacobs wanted to inspire his kids to embrace gratitude, so he decided to commit himself to a radical experiment. Over the course of several months, Jacobs went on a journey that took him across continents and up and down the social ladder. He experienced joy, wonder, guilt and depression. He met great characters. He learned just how far-flung are those involved - from the Minnesota miners who get the iron that makes the steel that makes the coffee roasters, to the Madison Avenue marketers who captured his wandering attention for a moment. His adventures include:
A trip to a remote farm in Colombia, where he experienced first-hand how challenging it is to pick the coffee fruits.
Several days with a coffee taster who taught Jacobs the secrets of the trade, and schooled him in the vocabulary that rivals wine sommeliers. (The taster doesn't just detect notes of apple in his coffee. He says what kind of apple -- Gala? Honeycrisp?)
Because coffee is 98.4 percent water, Jacobs visited the vast upstate reservoirs that supply New York City, and thanked the folks whose homes were destroyed to make way for the lakes.
Jacobs devotes a chapter on the cup-makers, including the rags-to-riches inventor of the "Java Jacket," that underappreciated cardboard ring you slip over your cup. It has saved millions of fingers and thumbs from burning discomfort, but we never give it a second thought.
The food safety inspectors, who keep our coffee free from an alarming number of diseases and creatures.
Along with entertaining tales, the book is filled with wonderful insights and useful tips. Readers learn how to focus on the hundreds of things that go right every day instead of the handful that go wrong. They read about our culture's dangerous overemphasis on individuals instead of teams. They learn the art of "savouring meditation". They learn the pros and cons of globalism. They learn to appreciate the astounding work it takes to create even the most simple items in our lives. There's even
a gratitude hack to help them fall asleep.
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The Story of Kullervo
The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. 'Hapless Kullervo', as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the magical powers of the black dog, Musti. When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician, but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruellest of fates. Tolkien wrote that The Story of Kullervo was 'the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own', and was 'a major matter in the legends of the First Age'; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Turin Turambar, tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. In addition to being a powerful story in its own right, The Story of Kullervo - published here for the first time with the author's drafts, notes and lecture-essays on its source-work, The Kalevala, is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien's invented world.
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Hatching Twitter
THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORY Ev told Jack he had to 'chill out' with the deluge of media he was doing. 'It's bad for the company,' Ev said. 'It's sending the wrong message.' Biz sat between them, watching like a spectator at a tennis match. 'But I invented Twitter,' Jack said. 'No, you didn't invent Twitter,' Ev replied. 'I didn't invent Twitter either. Neither did Biz. People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exsists.' Since 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before. In his revelatory new book, New York Times journalist Nick Bilton takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds, and inside the heads of the four hackers who created it: ambitious millionaire Evan Williams; tattooed mastermind Jack Dorsey; joker and diplomat Biz Stone; and Noah Glass, the shy but energetic geek who invested his whole life in Twitter, only to be kicked out and expunged from the company's official history. Combing unprecedented access with exhaustible investigative reporting, and drawing on hundreds of sources, documents and internal e-mails, HATCHING TWITTER is a blistering drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles. A business story like no other, it will shock, expose and inspire.
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Marina
The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...'
In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...
His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month. At 10 a.m. precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman dressed in black, her face shrouded, wearing gloves, holding a single rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings.
When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her they begin a journey that will take them to the heights of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona, a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.
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Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N mäkký link. čierny S
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s mäkkou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 9 x 14 cm, 72 listov.
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Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N mäkký čistý čierny XL
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s mäkkou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 19 x 25 cm, 72 listov.
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Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N mäkký link. čierny XL
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s mäkkou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 19 x 25 cm, 72 listov.
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Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N tvrdý link. čierny S
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s pevnou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 9 x 14 cm, 72 listov.
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19,99 €
Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N mäkký link. čierny L
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s mäkkou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 13 x 21 cm, 88 listov.
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Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N mäkký čistý čierny L
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s mäkkou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 13 x 21 cm, 88 listov.
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Zápisník + MOLESKINE SMART N tvrdý čistý čierny L
Náhradný papierový tablet k systému Moleskine Smart Writing s pevnou, v chrbte šitou väzbou v kartónových doskách, obopnutý pružnou gumičkou proti samovoľnému otváraniu. Papier je špeciálne dizajnovo upravený na prácu s inteligentným perom, gramáž 100 g/m?, neobsahuje kyseliny. Spolu s inteligentným perom môžete svoje poznámky zachytávať písomne ??aj digitálne zároveň. V digitálnej podobe je možné text editovať, farebne zvýrazňovať alebo zdieľať s ostatnými. Vďaka neviditeľným N-kódom, ktoré sa nachádzajú na každej stránke, vaše pero dokáže určiť presné umiestnenie vašich poznámok v zápisníku. Rozmery: 13 x 21 cm, 88 listov.
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Collect contemporary - jewelry
How does one identify the antiques of tomorrow in the contemporary jewelry market those pieces that appeal to modern taste but also have the stamp of timeless collectible? Joanna Hardys selection of truly imaginative makers and pieces includes works to suit all tastes, from the more traditional to the adventurous, providing authoritative answers and expert direction in this hugely exciting and fast-developing market. In-depth profiles of 40 established and emerging contemporary artists from across Europe and the United States is complimented by useful background information about materials and techniques and a guide on how to take care of precious pieces. This title features: a concise reference section with biographical information for the artists; contact info for important galleries, museums and art dealers; fairs, events and schools; and, a price guide to cover all collecting budgets will help the reader decide in which pieces to invest when confronted with such vast choice. This book is part of the "Collect Contemporary" series which offers expert advice by leading specialists in the field who have many years experience in the auction market and a vast knowledge of the subject.
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Mysterious World Of The Human Genome
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From the basic structure of DNA through to the complete sequence of the code, what first appeared to be simple is actually a complex and beautiful three-dimensional world that makes each of us who we are. In The Mysterious World of the Human Genome acclaimed science writer Frank Ryan leads us through the most exciting scientific discoveries of the last 50 years, revealing how this science has unlocked the cure of some genetic diseases, developed the use of DNA in forensic science and paternity testing, helped us trace our ancestors and provided a definitive map for the movement of humans out of Africa. This scientific journey has had a profound impact on our understanding of the evolution of life itself, through the role of the most ancient of organisms in our basic biology all the way to the revelation that our most recent ancestor, Homo neanderthalensis, lives on in many of us. In the ever more complicated world of the human genome, this is the first book to explain how the human genome actually works as a whole and how that knowledge will have a profound effect on our understanding of where we have come from and where we are likely to be going in the future.
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Hatching Twitter
THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORY Ev told Jack he had to 'chill out' with the deluge of media he was doing. 'It's bad for the company,' Ev said. 'It's sending the wrong message.' Biz sat between them, watching like a spectator at a tennis match. 'But I invented Twitter,' Jack said. 'No, you didn't invent Twitter,' Ev replied. 'I didn't invent Twitter either. Neither did Biz. People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exsists.' Since 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before. In his revelatory new book, New York Times journalist Nick Bilton takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds, and inside the heads of the four hackers who created it: ambitious millionaire Evan Williams; tattooed mastermind Jack Dorsey; joker and diplomat Biz Stone; and Noah Glass, the shy but energetic geek who invested his whole life in Twitter, only to be kicked out and expunged from the company's official history.Combing unprecedented access with exhaustible investigative reporting, and drawing on hundreds of sources, documents and internal e-mails, HATCHING TWITTER is a blistering drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles. A business story like no other, it will shock, expose and inspire.
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Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain?
Remember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite, master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner?
For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s.
This book charts the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the family of futuristic and quirky machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology. It is a tale of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up giving birth to the video games industry, and of unrealised ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first put the British home online but failed to change the world.
Ultimately, it's the story of the people who made the boom happen, the inventors and entrepreneurs like Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking new markets, bedroom programmers and computer hackers, and the millions of everyday folk who bought in to the electronic dream and let the computer into their lives.
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Marina
The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...'
In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...
His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month. At 10 a.m. precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman dressed in black, her face shrouded, wearing gloves, holding a single rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings.
When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her they begin a journey that will take them to the heights of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona, a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.
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14,73 €
15,50 €
Art of the Start 2.0
Fully revised and expanded for the first time in a decade, The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's classic bestselling guide to launching and making your new product, service or idea a success. This new edition has been expanded to reflect the seismic changes in business over the last decade, in which once-invulnerable market leaders have struggled and many of the basics of getting established have become easier, cheaper and more democratic. Today, business plans are no longer necessary. Social media has replaced PR and advertising as the key method of promotion. Crowdfunding is now a viable alternative to investors. Cloud computing makes basic infrastructure affordable for almost any new venture. The Art of the Start 2.0 will show you how to effectively deploy all these new tools. And it will help you master the fundamental challenges that have not changed: building a strong team, creating an awesome product or service, and facing down your competition. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, own a business, or want to get more entrepreneurial within any organisation, this book will help you make your crazy ideas stick. It's an adventure that's more art than science - the art of the start. "The Art of the Start 2.0 is the ultimate entrepreneurship handbook. Kawasaki's generous wisdom, tips, and humour reflect his successes and failures. We can all benefit from his insights." (Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief, Huffington Post). "A successful entrepreneur requires three things: a garage, an idea, and this book - Guy's irrepressible guide to the raw essentials of life in a young company." (Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capita). Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva (an online design service) and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple and special adviser to the CEO of the Motorola business unit of Google. His many acclaimed books include The Art of Social Media and Enchantment.
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The Medium is the Massage - An Inventory of Effects
In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, published in Penguin Modern Classics
Marshall McLuhan is the man who predicted the all-pervasive rise of modern mass media. Blending text, image and photography, his 1960 classic The Medium is the Massage illustrates how the growth of technology utterly reshapes society, personal lives and sensory perceptions, so that we are effectively transformed by the means we use to communicate. His theories, many of which are illustrated in this astonishing 'inventory of effects', force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society. This concept, and his ideas such as rolling, up-to-the-minute news broadcasts and the media 'Global Village' have proved decades ahead of their time.
How do we see the world around us? The 'Penguin on Design' series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar - a professor of English Literature, a literary critic and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Among his other works are The Mechanical Bride (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964).
Quentin Fiore (b. 1920) is a graphic designer renowned for his collaborations with writers including the academic Marshall McLuhan and the futurist and engineer Buckminster Fuller.
If you enjoyed The Medium is the Massage, you might like Bruno Munari's Design as Art, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'The media prophet of the 1960s'
The New York Times
'In the tumult of the digital revolution, McLuhan is relevant anew'
Wired
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11,35 €
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The 46 Rules of Genius - An Innovator's Guide to Creativity
Not since Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE has a book compressed so many insights into so few pages. With his trademark simplicity and wit, Marty Neumeier has written and illustrated a concise guide that can be read quickly over a lunch break or savored slowly over a lifetime. Part 1, "How can I innovate?" offers insightful guidance such as "Feel before you think," "See what's not there," and "Ask a bigger question." Rule #1 gives the paradoxical advice: "Break the rules." Part 2, "How should I work?" offers down-to-earth tips on craft: "Use a linear process for static elements," and "Express related elements in a similar manner." The reader is also reminded: "Don't be boring!" In Part 3, "How can I learn?" contains practical advice including "Do your own projects," "Invest in your originality," and "Develop an authentic style." Finally, Part 4, "How can I matter?" deals with the deeper questions of a career in creativity, such as "Overcommit to a mission," "Build support methodically," and "Become who you are." THE 46 RULES OF GENIUS is a reassuring lighthouse against the swirling tides of innovation. Geniuses from every discipline will want to keep it in sight. (Educators: Those who recom...
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