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Apples
Growing up on a Middlesbrough council estate, Eve finds herself dealing increasingly with sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and now, her mother's cancer. Trying her best to distract herself from the difficulties unravelling at home, her eyes
are opened to a multicolour life of one night stands, drug fuelled discos, and endless varieties of cheap plonk. She barely has time to notice Adam.
Adam, however, notices Eve. Whilst contending with sexual frustration, a violent father and increasi
ngly compulsive behaviour resembling OCD, he begins to obsess over Eve. But is he too busy reading Razzle in his bedroom to make his move?
Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve, alongside a cast of teenage delinquents, perverts and butterflies, Apple
s is an exploration of the difficulties of growing up, the complications of friendship, and the consequences of getting 'fucked as quick as you can'. Funny, moving, tragic and wise, it's a breathtakingly impressive first novel from an author with a u
nique and sympathetic voice.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však ident
ické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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Hold Successful Meetings
Meetings allow us to bring people together to inspire each other, solve problems and make a difference.
Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achieved and even less is followed up on afterwards. In Hold Successful Meetings, executive coach and former Google leader Caterina Kostoula will change all this. Her unique framework will:
- Equip you to hold fewer, more purposeful meetings
- Create a creative and inclusive environment
- Leave participants inspired and ready to take action
Whether virtual or in-person, people will leave your meetings inspired by the value you created together and ready to make an impact.
'I bought this for my whole team at Google!' Reader review
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Případové konference
Cílem knihy je seznámit odborníky pracující s ohroženými rodinami s praktickými zkušenostmi z realizace případových konferencí (PK), které mohou používat ve své práci. Definice PK poslouží jako odrazový můstek pro to, jak definovat a ověřit cíl PK, aby ho bylo reálné v jejím průběhu naplnit a naplánovat takový individuální plán, který rodina s podporou odborníků může mezi jednotlivými PK naplňovat bez zbytečných pocitů frustrace. Popsány jsou praktické situace, ve kterých svolání PK rodinám pomáhá. Popis rolí odborníků, rodičů a dětí v průběhu PK napomůže zpřehlednění procesu i obsahu PK. Čtenáři se dozvědí, na co nezapomenout při přípravě PK, jak motivovat rodiče a ostatní odborníky, aby na PK přišli a angažovali se v jejím průběhu. Struktura a fáze PK budou obsahovat jednotlivé podněty, které pomáhají dodržet její formální i obsahovou stránku. Příklady z praxe ukazují, jak mohou odborníci hovořit reálně o obtížné situaci rodiny bez zbytečného obviňování a kritiky, důraz je kladen na dovednosti, jak hledat a pojmenovávat zdroje rodiny a jak rizika rodiny využívat coby příležitostí ke změně. V neposlední řadě se čtenáři budou moci inspirovat ze zkušeností, jak pracovat s rodiči, příp. dětmi, které se rozhodnou být přítomni u PK, aby se necítili frustrováni a byli schopni být aktivními partnery odborníkům v celém průběhu, popř. v části PK. Text bude prokládán příklady z praxe a doplněn vzory dokumentů, které jsou pro přípravu a průběh PK potřeba. Věra Bechyňová, DiS, je zakladatelkou a ředitelkou občanského sdružení STŘEP – České centrum pro sanaci rodiny (1995). Věnuje se zavádění nových programů do praxe i do legislativních úprav, které jsou zaměřené na prevenci nebo alternativu k odebírání ohrožených dětí z rodin do zařízení pro výkon ústavní výchovy, na návrat dětí zpět do kvalitativně lepšího rodinného prostředí.
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The Brethren
John Grisham's novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among the best plotters in the thriller business and he infuses his books with a moral valence and creative vision that set them apart from their peers. The Brethren is in many respects his most daring and accomplished book yet. The novel grows from two separate subplots. In the first, three imprisoned ex-judges (the brethren" of the title), frustrated by their loss of power and influence, concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme preying on wealthy closeted gay men. The second story traces the rise of presidential candidate Aaron Lake, a man essentially created by CIA directory Teddy Maynard to fulfil Maynard's plans for restoring the power of his beleaguered agency. Grisham's tight control of the two meandering threads leaves the reader guessing through most of the opening chapters how and when these two worlds will collide. Also impressive is Grisham's careful portraiture. Justice Hatlee Beech in particular is a fascinating, tragic anti-hero: a millionaire judge with an appointment for life who was rendered divorced, bankrupt and friendless after his conviction for drunk-driving homicide."
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Bartholomew and the Morning Monsters
Bartholomew struggles to get himself ready as the monsters from last night's dreams sabotage the most simple of morning routines. A vast purple monster sits on his chest, making it hard to get up. A slug monster slimes his clothes, so he can't get dressed.
Brushing teeth, eating breakfast, and even going to the toilet all present challenges as the monsters mess around at Bartholomew's expense. Will Bartholomew's dad ever manage to get him out the door?Hilarious illustrations bring Bartolomew's frustration and befuddlement alive in this deceptively simple story that anyone who is not a morning person is bound to relate to.
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How to Be the Love You Seek
A radical new path to revolutionise your relationships
Why are our closest relationships so often a source of more stress than solace? Whether the relationship is with a romantic partner, a parent, child, friend or colleague, the dynamic is frequently the same - you'd like the relationship to change for the better, yet nothing you try seems to work.
Author of international bestseller How to Do the Work, Dr Nicole LePera has heard these frustrating patterns of loneliness, disconnection, and resentment described time and again, both from patients in her clinical practice and from her global online community @the.holistic.psychologist. In this groundbreaking book she offers a new path to healing our relationships by tapping into the power of the heart.
How to Be the Love You Seek harnesses the latest scientific research to teach us how to recognise our dysfunctional patterns, identify their roots in our earliest relationships, break painful cycles, build security and share compassion with ourselves and others.
Through stories, exercises, journal prompts, and other practical tools, Dr LePera empowers us first to strengthen our foundation of self-love, paving the way for deeper, more harmonious connections with those around us.
When you become the love you seek, you have the power to transform every relationship, from your most intimate partnerships to the bonds that hold our communities together.
And Finally
As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of how I became a patient myself.
As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much a book about death, but a book about life and what matters in the end.
Alain Delon
Černá kštice, uhrančivý pohled ocelově modrých očí, tvář klasické sochy, v níž ostře řezané rysy kontrastně ladí s citlivými ústy, úsměv, při kterém vám tuhne krev v žilách, vysoká štíhlá postava. Krasavec, který vám bez mrknutí oka zlomí srdce, anebo vás bez hnutí brvou zastřelí. Francouzský James Dean, nepolepšitelný sukničkář, kariérista bez zábran, nezávislý bouřlivák. Závratná kariéra, desítky kvalitních filmů, množství milostných afér a nejeden skandál. Od začátku 60. let až do poloviny let osmdesátých minulého století nejlépe placená francouzská hvězda. Legenda evropského filmu, která společně s Louisem de Fun?sem a Jeanem-Paulem Belmondem přivedla do kin nejvíc diváků. Nositel dvou Césarů, Zlatého medvěda a dvou Zlatých palem. A také důstojník Čestné legie za osobní přínos světovému filmovému umění.
To všechno, a ještě mnohem víc je francouzský herec Alain Delon, který lámal srdce fanynek i hvězd filmového nebe po několik generací. V plném slunci, Rocco a jeho bratři, Gepard, Černý tulipán, Samuraj, Sicilský klan, Borsalino, Dva muži ve městě, Povídka o policajtovi, Smrt darebáka, Tři muži na zabití, Swannova láska, Poloviční šance, Asterix a Olympijské hry. To je jen stručný výčet jeho u nás asi nejznámějších filmů. Ve skutečnosti natočil kolem stovky snímků, z nichž třicet produkoval. Pracoval s takovými mistry režie, jakými jsou Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Paul Melville. Jeho hereckými partnery byly hvězdy 60. a 70. let jako Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Burt Lancaster, Romy Schneider, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale, Catherine Deneuve, Shirley MacLane, Charles Bronson a další.
Jeho ložnicí prošly desítky krásných, atraktivních a zajímavých žen, ale jen málo z nich ho dokázalo zaujmout natolik, aby s nimi prožil část svého života. Na začátku byla slavná "Sissi" Romy Schneiderová, později modelka s pochybnou minulostí Nathalie, matka prvního syna Anthonyho, kterou si vzal. Nejdéle však vydržel s Mireille Darcovou - celých patnáct let, což bylo u tak nestálého a krásy a radosti života vyhledávajícího člověka vzácné. Nebýt toho, že spolu nemohli mít potomky, možná by spolu zůstali až do konce... Třetí ženou života Alaina Delona byla nizozemská královna krásy Rosalie van Breemen, která mu dala děti Anouchku a Alaina-Fabiena. Vydrželi spolu čtrnáct let... Nakonec zůstal sám se svými čtrnácti psy a ve švýcarském sídle, svým rozsahem a vybavením hodným šlechtice, sám.
Alain Delon byl talent od pánaboha. Herectví nikdy nestudoval, byl vyučený řezník, a jeho dětství nebylo šťastné. Jeho rodiče se rozvedli, když mu byly čtyři roky. Matka se znovu vdala za řeznického mistra, neměla čas se o něj starat. Od čtyř do jedenácti let ho proto vychovávali pěstouni a díky jejich práci strávil dětství v prostředí věznice, protože pěstoun v ní pracoval jako dozorce. Také otec se znovu oženil, takže Alain pendloval mezi dvěma rodinami, z nichž ani jedna už nebyla jeho... Citová frustrace se projevila ve školních letech, kdy jako problémové dítě v žádném internátu kvůli výtržnostem dlouho nevydržel. V každém tak tři měsíce.
Nelze se divit, že se raději v sedmnácti nechal naverbovat jako námořník do války v Indočíně. I tam měl s disciplínou problémy, takže ho vysvobodilo předčasné propuštění bez náhrady. Chytl se až o pár let později, když se v jednadvaceti objevil na festivalu v Cannes. Zcela neznámý, naprosto nepoučený o tom, co je herectví a film - a přesto ho jeho dokonalá krása za všechna příkoří dětství a dospívání odměnila...
Ponořme se do nelehkého života slavné hvězdy, která to kvůli svým vlastnostem a minulosti neměla jednoduché ani v době, kdy byla slavná. Autorka jako zkušená publicistka zmapovala život Alaina Delona a přináší výjimečnou ucelenou biografii, která nemá na českém ani zahraničním trhu obdoby.
End Times
A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time
What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power?
For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no-one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works.
The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War - and it is happening now.
But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin's models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past.
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What Do You Want Out of Life?
A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value-and what to do when your goals conflict
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money-or work for justice? To run marathons-or sing in a choir? To have children-or travel the world? The things we care about in life-family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals-often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don't always know what we really want, or how to define success. Blending personal stories, philosophy, and psychology, this insightful and entertaining book offers invaluable advice about living well by understanding your values and resolving the conflicts that frustrate their fulfillment.
Valerie Tiberius introduces you to a way of thinking about your goals that enables you to reflect on them effectively throughout your life. She illustrates her approach with vivid examples, many of which are drawn from her own life, ranging from the silly to the serious, from shopping to navigating prejudice. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of interconnectedness, reminding us of the profound influence other people have on our lives, our goals, and how we should pursue them. At the same time, the book offers strategies for coping with obstacles to realizing your goals, including gender bias and other kinds of discrimination.
Whether you are changing jobs, rethinking your priorities, or reconsidering your whole life path, What Do You Want Out of Life? is an essential guide to helping you understand what really matters to you and how you can thoughtfully pursue it.
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Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Korean.
"Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers
Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-mid intermediate (ACTFL) level of Korean. Mapped to B1 and approaching B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading, and most importantly - enjoyment!
What does this book give you?
- Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary
- Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently
- Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
- Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way
- Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding
- Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'
With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners will take your grasp of Korean to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress, including:
-A glossary for bolded words in each text
-Full plot summary
-A bilingual word list
-Comprehension questions after each chapter.
As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners uses reading as the perfect tool to not only delight in learning Korean, but to accelerate your journey towards fluency.
Use the codes inside the book and ebook to access a bonus story for free and the discounted audiobook on our Language Readers Library site or in the Language Readers app.
Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
In Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the great blues diva Ma Rainey is due to arrive at a run-down Chicago recording studio with her entourage to cut new sides of old favourites. Waiting for her are the black musicians in her band - and the white owners of the record company. A tense, searing account of racism in jazz-era America that the New Yorker called 'a genuine work of art'.
Fences centres on Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father, in 1950s Pittsburgh. When college athletic recruiters scout his teenage son, Troy struggles against his young son's ambition, his wife, who he understands less and less, and his own frustrated dreams.
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The Tyranny of Merit
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump.
Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
Ways to Be Me
From the bestselling author duo behind Can You See Me? comes this exceptional portrayal of autism diagnosis, with diary entries by 12-year-old autistic author Libby Scott.
Taking place before Can You See Me? and Do You Know Me? this standout prequel follows Tally through her autism diagnosis in her final year of primary school.
Ten-year-old Tally had high hopes for Year 6. Being in the top class at school means a whole host of privileges, but even better than that is the school production - and Tally is convinced she'll win the lead role.
But at home, things aren't going so well. Mum and Dad have been making Tally feel pressured and upset, and Tally wishes things didn't bother her so much - but they do, and sometimes she feels so misunderstood and frustrated, she could explode.
Then Tally's mum and dad tell her about something she's never heard about before. Something called autism. And everything changes.
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John Lenon: The Life
The final word on music's greatest legend, in which Philip Norman reveals a John Lennon the world has never seen. With ground-breaking insight into the pain, beauty and frustration that shaped the genius of modern music, John Lennon: The Definitive Biography redefines a legend. John Lennon -- the iconic songwriter, composer and one quarter of The Beatles -- was a giant of the twentieth century. As the founding member of the world's most successful group ever, he changed lives. The popularity and significance of The Beatles is beyond comparison in our age -- in the UK alone, they released more than 40 number one singles and albums. But their impact extended well beyond their music. Their clothes, hairstyles, statements, and even their choice of instruments made them trend-setters from the 1960s to this day, while their growing social awareness -- reflected in the development of their music -- saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. Following the painful collapse of The Beatles, John came out a wiser but angrier person. Together with his wife Yoko Ono, he attempted to transform the world through non-musical means. Their bed-in in Amsterdam and Montreal, their black bag appearances on stage, their innocent flirting with political activists and radicals, all received massive media attention. These events were in search of world peace. John Lennon was shot dead by a mentally disturbed fan outside his New York apartment building on December 8, 1980. Featuring previously unseen photographs, this truly is the definitive John Lennon.
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What If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending.
'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world's inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.'
The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen's writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world's failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?
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Iron Man 1
Tony Stark is looking to restart his engine. He's going back to basics, putting away his high-tech toys and high-profile image so he can get his hands dirty again. It's time to put on some old-fashioned metal - and fly! But can Tony really lay that Stark-sized ego down? Life just isn't that simple, something that old friends and frustrating foes are quick to point out. So Iron Man takes the fight back to basics, and back to the streets - facing down old-school villains like Arcade and the Absorbing Man. But what's really going on in Tony Stark's head? As old friends like Hellcat try to help him find peace of mind, lurking on the horizon is a threat that Tony - and the entire cosmos - hasn't seen in years. Prepare for the new saga of Korvac!
Iron Man (2020) 1-5
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Tacita Dean
Although she emerged in the 1990s, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean has in her work a quiet depth not usually associated with the Pop and hype of the 'cool Britannia' scene. Her film installations explore how chance and coincidence influence daily life, constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events. In "Disappearance at Sea" (1996) a three-part installation and artist's book, Dean documents the tragic account of Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to fake a solo voyage around the globe, his eventual loss of sanity and his death at sea. The work tells the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produces a mysterious 'missing narrative' (as the artist calls it) reminiscent of 19th century atmospheric sea- and landscape painters. "FLOH" (2002) is a collection of photographs discovered by the artist in flea markets across Europe and America - holiday snaps or banal occurrences and events retrieved by the artist. Other works include a jukebox filled with ambient sound recordings from around the world, an endlessly turning Berlin seen from the revolving restaurant of the Fersehturm television tower and a frustrated attempt to follow directions (as misleading as they are meticulous) to find Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Her work has been presented at museums and galleries throughout the world (including the DePont Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Tate Britain, London, Fundacao la Caixa, Barcelona, the Hirsshorn Museum, Washington D.C., Musee d'Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, and Museu Serralves, Portugal) and her films have also been screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Draw Amazing Manga Characters
Set your manga characters in motion!
Draw Amazing Manga Characters combines the strengths, talents, and perspectives of five different manga artists over 81 lessons that increase in detail and complexity. Key building blocks allow you to progress as you move through the book and "Take a Closer Look" sidebars offer tips so developing artists can avoid frustrating obstacles and roadblocks.
This essential handbook shows you how to:
Draw action characters from every possible angle, perspective, and viewpoint
Progress logically from concept to character and from sketch to finished drawing
Create well-balanced and proportioned characters to tell your story
Create scenes with real depth and three-dimensional appeal
The illustrators guide you through an easy four-step figure drawing process:
1. Block-in the basic shapes, using the techniques of figure drawing to set down the rough outline of your character.
2. Sketch in the formal details, as your creation starts to take on form and shape
3. Now it's time to lay down the next layers of features and tweaks that will make your character come to life and stand apart.
4. Finally the finishing touches, the shading and nuances that add depth, complexity and three-dimensional appeal. Now look what's sprung to life on the page--your very own manga character!