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Norman Foster
With a career spanning across continents and over six decades, the work of the renowned architect Norman Foster is nothing short of extraordinary. His creative innovation and holistic approach have made him one of the world’s most influential and well-known architects. From the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, to the Reichstag in Berlin, the enclosed court of the British Museum in London to the Millau Viaduct in France, with his practice of Foster + Partners, he has created celebrated landmarks that stand out for their inventive modernity and for what he calls “a sustainable approach to the design of the built environment.”
This is the first time Foster’s complete body of work has been published in one edition on such a grand scale. Giving a rare insight into the inner workings of his creative practice. It details his personal approach to his work, his inspirations, the link between art and architecture, and the significance and correlation between his passions, such as being an avid aviator, and his work.The XXL monograph encompasses a lifetime of achievement and originality in two volumes.
The first presents his architectural oeuvre and is filled with numerous unpublished images and sketches handpicked by Foster from his archives. Paired with nearly 1000 illustrations, the second book contains eight essays he wrote explaining his sources of inspiration.Aside from the 1999 Pritzker Prize, he has won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, and the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. This is a magnificent visual journey not only through significant buildings of our time but also into the mind of a genius. Norman Foster sketched every page of this book and spent countless hours with the author and the graphic designer to make it one of the most remarkable architecture books ever published.
Also available as an Art Edition of 300 copies with a 1-meter-wide signed print of a drawing by Norman Foster, picturing the upcoming multifunctional community and business center InnHub in La Punt, Switzerland. The two volumes of this edition are collected in a custom-designed slipcase that folds into a book stand.
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332,50 €
350,00 €
My First Farm: Let's Get Working!
Hands-on fun for you and your toddler as you meet everyone on the farm!
Introducing 'My First Farm', a brand-new adorable board book for babies and toddlers, featuring a farmyard full of fun animals for them to explore and love. This engaging board book is packed with bright, colourful pictures and fun-filled activities to get your little ones thinking and talking, and your child will love learning about different farm animals and the noises they make along the way.
Celebrate your child's curiosity, as they uncover:
-Over 180 colourful photographs of farm animals, vehicles, crops and more for little ones to look at with corresponding word labels for them to learn
-Content divided into 13 distinct subject areas so children can easily turn to their favourite aspects of the farm
-Sturdy and chunky board book with safe rounded tabs, thoroughly-tested for babies and toddlers
-Easy to read text with names and descriptions to encourage language development in 0-3 year olds.
So, what noise does a cow make? What's that chugging noise coming from the field? What is a baby sheep called? Your child will be able to answer all of these questions and more with this vibrant board book, a must-have volume for babies and toddlers aged 0-3 to encourage early learning and help your child develop early speaking, listening, and observation skills.
XX
'Extraordinary imagination . . . As the book races towards a mindboggling climax it leads the reader to some remarkable ideas about the nature of life, the universe and everything. Simply stunning.' - Big Issue
At Jodrell Bank a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin has been detected. Artificial intelligence expert Jack Fenwick thinks he can decode it. But when he and his associates at Hoxton tech startup Intelligencia find a way to step into the alien realm the signal encodes, they discover that it's already occupied - by ghostly entities that may come from our own past.
Have these 'DMEn' (Digital Memetic Entities) been created by persons unknown for just such an eventuality? Are they our first line of defence in a coming war, not for territory, but for our minds?
XX presents a compelling vision of humanity's unique place in the universe, and of what might happen in the wake of the biggest scientific discovery in human history.
As compelling as it is visually striking, Rian Hughes' first novel incorporates NASA transcripts, newspaper and magazine articles, fictitious Wikipedia pages, undeciphered alphabets, and 'Ascension', a forgotten novelette by 1960s counterculture guru Herschel Teague that mysteriously foreshadows events.
Wrapping stories within stories, Rian Hughes' XX unleashes the full narrative potential of graphic design. Drawing on Dada, punk and the modernist movements of the twentieth century, it asks us who we think we are - and where we may be headed next.
The battle for your mind has already begun.
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17,58 €
18,50 €
Until Proven Safe
Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something hidden inside of us will be revealed.
Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the hallways of the CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt the widespread quarantine imposed by Covid-19 before the next pandemic hits through surveillance and algorithmic prediction.
Yet quarantine is more than just a medical tool: Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to nothing but protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet NASA's Planetary Protection Officer tasked with saving the Earth from extraterrestrial infections.
The result is part travelogue, part intellectual history - a book as compelling as it is definitive, and one that could not be more urgent or timely.
'Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offer answers that will make your jaw drop. Nothing about "quarantine" is as simple or straight-forward as you think.' - Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
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29,93 €
31,50 €
Assassin's Creed : The Complete Collection
Based on the popular game series, the Assassin's Creed books are a hit with lovers of the game, the upcoming big screen movie and those who like adventure.
Titles included:
•Renaissance
•Brotherhood
•The Secret Crusade
•Revelations
•Foresaken
•Black Flag
•Unity
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33,20 €
34,95 €
Awakening In The Dream: Contact with the Divine
New York Times bestselling author David Wilcock's latest captivating work of nonfiction, exploring new hidden truths about extraterrestrials, dreams, sacred science, channeling your Higher Self, and Ascension
What happens when a UFO researcher suddenly comes into telepathic contact with the very beings he has been so avidly studying, after years of increasingly provocative dreams? What happens when these telepathic readings begin predicting the future with astonishing precision--and speaking about an incredible upcoming event in which all life in our solar system will undergo a spontaneous transfiguration? David Wilcock is a master at weaving together cutting-edge alternative science, shocking insider information, and his own personal experiences to reveal stunning truths about humanity, positive and negative extraterrestrials, lost civilizations, and the universe we share. In Awakening in the Dream, David once again combines his extensive research, the Law of One series, new insider revelations, and his own connection with the divine to bring humanity closer to full disclosure than ever before--as well as to help us activate our full potential on the eve of Ascension. A New York Times bestselling author, TV personality, filmmaker, lecturer, and consciousness expert, David is the perfect person to guide us through the hidden realities of our world. With its myriad information, anecdotes, big picture comparative analysis with over six hundred references, and trustworthy messages channeled directly from the highest-level angelic sources, including a remarkable set of future prophecies built into the Great Pyramid itself, Awakening in the Dream promises to be his most astounding book yet.
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28,45 €
29,95 €
Naruto Box Set 3: Volumes 49-72 with Premium
The world’s most popular ninja comic!
Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He’s got a wild sense of humor, but Naruto is completely serious about his mission to be the world’s greatest ninja!
The third and final Naruto Box Set contains the thrilling conclusion to one of the most popular manga series of all time. This set features volumes 49~72 at a substantial savings over buying them individually, along with an exclusive premium.
As Konoha village rebuilds, the leaders of the ninja world convene for the Gokage Summit. Defeating the Akatsuki threat may require the rival villages to work together. Can they put their longtime differences aside long enough to defeat Madara's plans? War is coming to the ninja world, but what will Naruto's and Sasuke's role be in the coming conflict?
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185,25 €
195,00 €
Marvel Masterworks Daredevil 12
The Man Without Fear's life is about to change forever. Bullseye is coming. The countdown begins when Daredevil, Black Widow and Nick Fury unite to battle a renewed Hydra. In the aftermath, Black Widow leaves and a new love interest, Heather Glenn, enters, but Matt Murdock's growing obsession with his life as Daredevil puts their budding relationship at risk. The drama continues with Death-Stalker, the Torpedo, a destructive day in court for Man-Bull and the opening of Murdock and Nelson's storefront law practice. Last, but certainly not least: Marv Wolfman, Bob Brown and iconic Daredevil inker/finisher Klaus Janson unleash one of comics' most iconic adversaries. It's first appearance of Bullseye, the madman with perfect aim and no mercy.
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71,25 €
75,00 €
Muskoka Panoramas by Les Palenik
A mini coffee-table panoramic book about Muskoka, Ontario. Photography essay, consisting of 48 color photographs, most of them in panoramic format. A panoramic view is something everyone enjoys, whether it is of a row of mountain peaks, a sweeping seascape or a city skyline at night. Muskoka is a region that lends itself to panoramic views – lakeshores dotted with cottages, quiet bays at dusk, colorful rock cuts, and even pastoral pictures. Now these views have been captured in a book by photographer Les Palenik. Familiar Muskoka icons are included, such as the skyline of Windermere House, the steamship Segwun â€locking through’ at Port Carling, the cliffs along Lake Rosseau, and the boat-filled bay at the Muskoka Sands Resort. Other images in the book evoke a more reflective mood, such as boats stored for the coming winter, a quiet bay in the fall, a shoreline wedding, and a lake in winter.
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16,08 €
16,93 €
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Volunteer 4
Are you looking for a more meaningful travel experience? Do you want to give back to the communities you visit, make a genuine connection with locals, meet like-minded travellers and build your skills? International volunteering opens up all these opportunities and this book has all the advice you need to get there. Much more than just a resource directory, Volunteer is packed with invaluable information and full-colour inspiration to get you planning your perfect short- or long-term volunteer experience anywhere in the world. Whether it's monitoring sea turtles in Greece, helping set up handicraft businesses in Ghana or building community centres in Guatemala, you'll find amazing opportunities in this fully updated, comprehensive new edition. Written by passionate, well-travelled Lonely Planet writers advised by a team of experts in the field, this user-friendly guide promises to make your plans a reality. Chapters include: 1. International volunteering: an overview 2. Choosing your volunteer experience 3. The practicalities 4. Tying up loose ends 5. Organised volunteer programmes 6. Structured and self-funding volunteer programmes 7. Religious organisations 8. Do-it-yourself volunteer placements 9. Coming home 10. Starting your own charitable project About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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17,05 €
17,95 €
Sons of the Blood
'Sons of the Blood is a first-rate reimagining of the struggle for the English throne between Richard III and Henry Tudor, with its vicious, ever-twisting political wheels and personal tragedies - the helpless Princes in the Tower are portrayed with particular poignancy, while the London of the 1480s is drawn with great vividness.' C. J. Sansom In the dying days of the Wars of the Roses a secret war is born. The battle for a crown is about to become a fight for the world. Bastard son, mercenary soldier, protector of the rightful king, seeker of a secret more treacherous than any in Christendom: Jack Wynter is destined to live in dangerous times. In England, the Wars of the Roses ended a decade ago with the fall of the House of Lancaster and the victory of King Edward of York. But peace sleeps uneasy in this divided realm and when the king dies unexpectedly it isn't long before old blood feuds and ambitions are awoken. In the sun-baked city of Seville, unaware of the clouds of war rising over England, Jack Wynter is cursing his fortune. Sent here by his secretive father, king's man, Sir Thomas Vaughan - with a locked chest he has been ordered to guard with his life - Jack wonders if this mission was simply a ruse to get an illegitimate, inconvenient son out of the country. But when a stranger arrives with news that his father has been arrested for treason, Jack finds himself thrust into the heart of a deadly conspiracy. What is the secret Jack has been guarding? Is it the reason for his father's fall? The only place he is going to find answers is back in England, where young Prince Edward is due to become king...unless his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, decides to make a move for the throne. It is also where Jack's half-brother, Harry, broods bitterly over their father's apparent preference for a bastard son. Jack Wynter is coming home, to a realm of intrigue and corruption, mystery and war. Somehow, he is connected to a secret that can kill him - or make him. Its influence spans Europe and will draw him towards the very edge of the known world, and beyond, in Robyn Young's dazzling new epic. The old world is turning. A new world is rising.
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17,58 €
18,50 €
Make Me
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE • Stephen King calls Jack Reacher “the coolest continuing series character”—and now he’s back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child. “Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he’s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me. Praise for Make Me “Child’s Reacher series has hit Book No. 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee. Everything about it, starting with Reacher’s nose for bad news, is as strong as ever. . . . The big guy’s definitely on the upswing. The guy who writes about him is too.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Another winner . . . There’s a reason why Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre: He can take all these strange elements and clichés and make them compelling and original.”—Associated Press “A superb thriller.”—New York Daily News “Child’s complete command of the story makes this thriller work brilliantly.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “I’ve read all twenty of Lee Child’s novels. Maybe there’s something wrong with me. But I can’t wait for the twenty-first.”—Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker “[The Reacher series] is the current gold standard in the genre. . . . In Make Me Lee Child delivers another Jack Reacher specialty; the total knockout.”—Dayton Daily News “Child serves up wingding plots, pithy dialogue, extraordinary background on intriguing topics, and cunningly constructed suspense. But what keeps us coming back—by the millions—is the chance to walk around in the skin of that big guy in the middle of everything.”—The Oregonian “A dark thriller . . . Lee Child’s Make Me, the twentieth in his wildly popular Jack Reacher series, delivers exactly what readers have come to expect from the perennial bestselling author: interesting characters, tight plots and page-turning action. . . . Readers won’t be disappointed.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Jack Reacher is back. . . . Readers new to this series will find this book a good starting point, and fans will be pleased to see Jack again.”—LibraryReads (Top Ten Pick) “The reigning champ ups the ante.”—Booklist (starred review) From the Hardcover edition.
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7,55 €
7,95 €
Inkognitó
Mi van akkor, amikor az ember legszívesebben kibújna a saját neméből? Milyen érzés lehet, amikor egy futballbolond kamasz felismeri, hogy női ruhában, kisminkelve érzi jól magát? Mi történik ilyenkor? Mi történik benne, és mi történik vele? Mi történik, amikor rájön, hogy ez nem múló szeszély, hanem maradandó állapot? Mire számíthat, amikor először végigbukdácsol az utcán magas sarkú cipőben? Az Inkognitó olyan tapasztalatokról szól, amelyekről a mai magyar társadalom nagyon keveset tud. A transzneműség egész kérdéskörét a tömegmédia felületes képei uralják: a gay-pride parádék groteszk alakjai vagy a bulvársajtó által időnként felkapott figurák. Kiss Tibor Noé könyvét egy világ választja el mindettől. A könyv egy olyan fiatal története az ezredforduló Magyarországán, aki a felnőtté válás során szembesül alakulóban lévő identitásának nem szabályos vonásaival. Nem véletlen, hogy az Inkognitó alapképlete klasszikus nevelődési regényekre emlékeztet, persze nem éppen klasszikus dilemmákkal. Az olvasó mégis hasonló szorongással aggódik ifjú hőséért, aki talán nem is sejti, mennyire kiszolgáltatott és sebezhető abban a világban, amelybe éppen belepottyant. Az Inkognitó minden ízében kortárs próza, érzékeny tollal megírt elsőkönyv és kockázatos coming out.
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7,91 €
8,33 €