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Leonardo da Vinci meséi
Leonardo da Vinci Meséi most először kerülnek a magyar olvasók elé, Rofusz Ferenc Oscar-díjas rajzfilm rendező művészi összeállításában, és Szálinger Balázs József Attila-díjas fiatal magyar költő egyedi átiratában, műfordításában. A reneszánsz polihisztora hol vidáman, hol keserűen, de többnyire jó adag humorral fűszerezve kalauzol el bennünket a létezés legmélyebb, soha el nem évülő kérdéseihez. Közel fél évezred telt el a mesék keletkezése óta, mégis éppúgy aktuálisak a modern kor társadalmában, mint abban az időszakban, amelyben íródtak. A mesék hangulatát és mondanivalóját erősítő, és azokat értékében is emelő grafikákat a mai magyar grafikusművészet legkiválóbb képviselői álmodták papírra.
Mozgó cél
Lew Archert felbérelik, hogy kutassa fel az öreg olajmilliomost, Ralph Sampsont, akinek egy magánrepülőút után nyoma veszett. Vajon szenilisen kóborol valahol, vagy elrabolták? S ha elrabolták, vajon ki a megbízó: az őrült szektavezér, akire nemrég egy egész hegyet testált? A mexikói idénymunkásokat csempésző rafinált bűnöző? A kiöregedőben levő, egyre rosszabb társaságba keveredő filmcsillag? A nyomorék, lelki problémákkal küszködő feleség? A fiatal és zabolátlan leánygyermek, vagy valamelyik udvarlója: a magánpilóta vagy a családi ügyvéd? A legnagyobb kérdés pedig az a bizonyos "és aztán?". Tényleg érdekel bárkit is, hogy Sampson előkerül-e vagy sem? És persze a krimik örök kérdése: mindenki az-e, aminek mutatja magát?
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Broken Code
Facebook had a problem. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world, extolling its products for connecting people. But as a succession of scandals rocked Facebook from 2016, some began to question whether the company could control, or even understood, its own platforms.
As Facebook employees searched for answers, what they uncovered was worse than they could've imagined. The problems ran far deeper than politics. Facebook was peddling and amplifying anger, looking the other way at human trafficking, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians and allowing VIP users to break the platform's supposedly inviolable rules.
It turned out to be eminently possible to isolate many of Facebook's worst problems, but whenever employees offered solutions their work was consistently delayed, watered down or stifled by a company that valued user engagement above all else. The only option left was to blow the whistle.
In Broken Code, award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz tells the riveting inside story of these employees and their explosive discoveries, uncovering the shocking cost of Facebook's blind ambition in the process.
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
An original and darkly funny debut novel about work, debt and how we live now, from a thrilling new voice in fiction.
Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.
When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?
As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away…
Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that’s like nothing else you've read before.
Sri Lanka
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka is your in-depth guide to the very best of this beautiful and diverse country.
Explore Sri Lanka region-by-region, from Colombo and the beaches on its idyllic west coast to Kandy and the Hill Country to Jaffna and the north. Visit Yala National Park to see wildlife, play a game of cricket, and take a pilgrimage to Adam's Peak.
Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka.
- Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance.
- Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
- Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums.
- Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area.
- Area maps marked with sights.
- Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation.
- Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights.
- Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations.
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka truly shows you this country as no one else can.
The Young Man
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.
“A sublime book.” —Elle
“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.” —Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir
The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards.
Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.
Your Blood, My Bones
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited - to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement - Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.
Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't really live, either. Not while he's bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There's only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line.
He needs to kill Wyatt.
With Wyatt's parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter - the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who's sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.
The Summer I Saved You
An angsty, single-parent romance from the author of TikTok favourite A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Mia Sheridan.
CALEB
I came to the lake to be left alone, to lick my wounds. I wasn't counting on neighbors and I especially wasn't counting on her.
Lucie was a little kid the last time I was here. Now she's grown-and God, did she ever grow up-with two little kids of her own.
She's everywhere I look, no matter how hard I try to avoid her. I'd forgotten all the things I used to want, used to dream about. She's reminding me...and making me want every last one of them again.
LUCIE
From the moment I first saw Caleb when I was six, I knew he belonged to me. And I knew I'd have to save him-because how else does the girl nobody wants win over the boy beloved by all?
Nothing about his life or mine has gone to plan. He's isolated and miserable. I've got a vindictive ex and more problems than I can count.
But what hasn't changed is this: it still feels like he's mine.
And I still think I may need to save him.
Time is a Mother
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold.The page so it points to the good part.
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit. Vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicentre of the break.
The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment.These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.
Our Accidental Universe
Our view of the Universe is changing. The timeless heavens, turning ceaselessly above us, have been revealed to be dynamic and ever-changing, requiring a new kind of astronomy. On mountaintops and in deserts around the world, new telescopes are being built to show us this changing sky. But amongst all this technological development, the major astronomical events of the past century have largely come about by accident - found not by careful experiment but as surprises when we were looking for something else entirely.
- The most promising habitat for life beyond Earth turns out to be Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus, whose oceans were revealed as NASA's Cassini probe happened to swing by.
- Pulsars, the remnants of long-dead massive stars, were originally just 'scruff' in the data of radio astronomers looking at distant galaxies.
- Telescopes around the world sprung into action to follow the visit of our first, unexpected, interstellar visitor, an asteroid from another system.
- And we get the most from the Hubble Space Telescope by pointing it at nothing ...
Chris Lintott takes us on an astonishing tour of accidents and human error in pursuit of asteroids, pulsars, radio waves, new stars and alien life. On the threshold of opening a new window on the cosmos through new surveys and instruments, his book is an urgent argument for how keeping an open mind can benefit us all - whatever might still be out there for us to find.
Godly Heathens
Embark on a wild ride of reincarnated gods, past lives and intoxicating villains, where magic is real and all too dangerous, perfect for fans of Aiden Thomas.
Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation.
Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Known for being their peers’ queer awakening, Gem leans hard on charm to disguise the anxious mess they are beneath. The only person privy to their authentic self is another trans kid, Enzo, who’s a thousand long, painful miles away in Brooklyn.
But even Enzo doesn’t know about Gem’s dreams, haunting visions of magic and violence that have always felt too real. So how the hell does Willa Mae Hardy? The strange new girl in town acts like she and Gem are old companions, and seems to know things about them they’ve never told anyone else.
When Gem is attacked by a stranger claiming to be the Goddess of Death, Willa Mae saves their life and finally offers some answers. She and Gem are reincarnated gods who’ve known and loved each other across lifetimes. But Gem – or at least who Gem used to be - hasn’t always been the most benevolent deity. They’ve made a lot of enemies in the pantheon?enemies who, like the Goddess of Death, will keep coming.
It’s a good thing they’ve still got Enzo. But as worlds collide and the past catches up with the present, Gem will discover that everyone has something to hide.
Every Time You Hear That Song
Told in alternating perspectives, Every Time You Hear That Song is a swoonworthy queer coming-of-age story celebrating country music, complicated women, and living authentically. Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins-Reid and Casey McQuiston.
A swoonworthy summer road-trip romance, perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins-Reid and Casey McQuiston.
They say to never meet your idols. But should you upend your life for a quest designed by one?
Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The same Mickenlee who mysteriously backed out of the limelight at the height of their careers, never to be heard from again.
Now, Decklee's televised funeral marks the unveiling of her long-awaited time capsule. But when it's revealed to be empty, a long trail of scavenger hunt clues unfolds, leading to a whopping cash prize for whoever finds the real thing. Darren knows there's a story there-and she's going to be the one to break it. Even if it means a spontaneous road trip with her annoying co-worker, Kendall.
Flashback to 1963, where a young, runaway Decklee has her sights set on fame and glory. She claws her way to the top over the years that follow, but it's Mickenlee's lyrics that help rocket her to stardom. But as their relationship evolves beyond the professional, it threatens everything Decklee has worked for. What else will she sacrifice to hold on to her dreams?
Unshrinking
Size discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it.
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.
Blending intimate stories with trenchant analysis, Manne shows why fatphobia matters, now more than ever. Over the last decades, bias has waned in every category except one: body size. Here she examines how anti-fatness operates – how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person's attractiveness, fortitude and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect and poor educational outcomes. It is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential. Fatphobia is a social justice issue.
In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of ‘body reflexivity’ — a radical re-evaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size.
Szerelmem, Sanghaj
A könyv írója egy kis bükki faluban élte zárkózott, de boldog életét, amikor hirtelen minden megváltozott. Családjával a világ egyik legnagyobb és legnépesebb városába, Sanghajba kellett költöznie, egy teljesen idegen kultúra ölelésébe. A szerző izgalmas önéletrajzi művéből megismerhetjük a kínai emberek és egy közel 20 milliós kínai nagyváros mindennapi életét. A könyv kedves világa, humoros hangvétele és hitelessége miatt nagyszerű olvasmány az ázsiai kultúra iránt érdeklődők számára
CSI: Vízözön
Az évszázad legnagyobb zápora zúdul New Yorkra. Manhattanben már szinte térdig ér a víz az utcákon. Mit lehet tenni ilyenkor? Otthon maradni a lakás biztonságában. Néhányan a kocsmába menekülnek az eső elől. Csak pár nagyon elszánt és öntudatos egyén megy be a munkahelyére vagy az iskolába ilyen időben. Alvin Havel középiskolai tanár például határozottan jobban tette volna, ha otthon marad. De honnan is sejthette, hogy élve már nem jön ki az osztályteremből? Akad olyan őrült, aki még a háztetőre is felmegy... de csak azért, hogy ott végezzen előre kiszemelt áldozatával. Ezen az egy napon összesen néggyel. És mindegyiket megjelöli nevének egy betűjével. A kocsmában békésen sörözőknek sincs szerencséjük... legalábbis nem a Doohan's bárban, mely egy váratlan pillanatban a levegőbe repül. A CSI nyomozóinak bőven akad dolga ebben az ítéletidőben is. Mac Taylor és Don Flack a sorozatgyilkos nyomába ered, és miután megtalálják az összefüggést az első három gyilkosság között, már tudják, hogy lesz egy negyedik áldozat is. Vajon meg tudják-e menteni? Lindsay Monroe és Danny Messer a meggyilkolt tanár ügyében nyomoz. Mint kiderül, a tanárt mindenki szerette... kivéve egy valakit. Stella Bonasera és Sheldon Hawkes a gyanús robbanás helyszínén nyomoz. Ez alkalomból Hawkes alatt megnyílik a föld, és bezuhan a leomlott épület pincéjébe... egyenesen a robbantást elkövető mellé, aki szintén ott rekedt. A CSI jól ismert sztárcsapata ezúttal is gondoskodik arról, hogy az olvasó izgalmában le se tegye kezéből a könyvet, míg az utolsó oldalra nem ér.
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Kalauz a sikeres jövőtervezéshez és az eredményesebb élethez
Yvonne Dederick gazdasági igazgatóként évekig irányított cégeket, sőt a TV2 tulajdonosa is volt. Amikor szerepet vállalt a Feleségek luxuskivitelben című tévés realityben, elképesztő méretű rajongótábora lett. Meglepő módon leginkább a fiatalok körében. Azóta úton-útfélen faggatják őt életéről, és arról, hogyan látja a minket körülvevő világot.
Yvonne Dederick kötete rendhagyó és hiánypótló kalauzt ad a fiatalok kezébe, amely segítséget nyújt a sikeres jövőtervezéshez és az eredményesebb élethez.
Hogyan építsd fel a karriered? Mit csinál egy influenszer? Milyen a mai lányok, fiúk hozzáállása a szexhez? Mit adhat nekünk a sport, a kultúra? Miért fontosak a személyes képességek? Számos kérdés és tanács olvasható a könyvben, miközben a magánemberhez is közelebb kerülünk.
Kiderül, miért kellett Yvonne Dedericknek már tizenöt évesen férjhez mennie egy idegen országban, hogyan birkózott meg a zsarnoki férjjel, miként élte meg a nélkülözés éveit.
Mesél arról, milyen stációk vezették a multinacionális cégek sűrűjébe, s milyen lépésekkel került igazgatói pozíciókba.
Elkalauzol a nagyvállalatok ismeretlen világában, miközben az újrakezdések nehézségeit sem hallgatja el, és arra is kitér, hogyan lehet ép ésszel túlélni a COVID 19 járványhoz hasonló kataklizmatikus változásokat.
Zöld zóna
Széles körű elismerést aratott amerikai bestseller, amely a Zöld Zóna című film készítőjét is megihlette.
Zöld Zóna, Bagdad, 2003: Egy fallal körülkerített, úszómedencékkel és egyéb luxuscikkekkel felszerelt zónában élve Paul Bremer és az irányítása alá tartozó Koalíciós Átmeneti Hatóság megpróbál egy új, demokratikus Irakot felépíteni. A Hatóság, amelynek tagjai olyan idealisták, akiket az abortuszról vagy a halálbüntetésről alkotott véleményük alapján választottak ki a munkára, a háború utáni döntő első évben olyan célokat próbálnak megvalósítani, amelyeknek a háború sújtotta ország valódi szükségleteihez nem sok köze van.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, aki korábban a Washington Post bagdadi irodájának vezetője volt, betekintést ad számunkra, milyen volt az élet ebben az Óz-féle, világtól elzárt zónában
Helyünk és sorsunk Európában
"Azt akarom itt éreztetni és megértetni mindenekfölött, hogy a magyar célokon egyszerûen nem lehet változtatni. Ezért minden magyar korszak és nemzedék annyit ér, amennyire hû marad az árpádi és Szent István-i örökséghez." A mû végsõ soron három történetpolitikai tanulmány: Az eltévedt lovas maga a magyar nemzet, amely letévedt az õsi útról, az Európa ellenünk és önmaga ellen címû rész Trianon szörnyû igazságtalanságát jelöli meg az új világomlás közeledõ okaként, míg a harmadik, a Dunai kibontakozás elé az ésszerû, tartós, eszmei, elvi alapokat vázolja föl a magyar jövõ számára."
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