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On Our Best Behaviour
Why do women equate self-denial with being 'good'?
We congratulate ourselves when we resist the donut in the office breakroom. We celebrate our restraint when we hold back from sending an email in anger. We put others' needs ahead of our own and believe this makes us exemplary. Journalist and podcast host Elise Loehnen explains that these impulses – often lauded as distinctly feminine instincts – are actually ingrained in us by a culture that reaps the benefits, via an extraordinarily effective collection of social mores:
Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride.
These so-called 'deadly sins' have been used by the patriarchy to control women throughout our history. For instance, a fear of gluttony drives us to ignore our appetites and an aversion to greed prevents us from negotiating a better salary at work.
So, what would happen if we stopped trying to be 'good'?
Provocative and bold, On Our Best Behaviour is a probing analysis of history and contemporary culture that explains how women have internalised the patriarchy, and how they unwittingly reinforce it. By sharing her own story and the spiritual wisdom of other traditions, Elise Loehnen shows how we can break free and discover a path toward a more balanced, fulfilled way to live.
The Guest
Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.
A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.
With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways and sun-blasted dunes of a rarified world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to the end of the holidays moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
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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.
Its Mine
‘Crypto’, a loose term that means many things to different people, only entered the public consciousness within the last five years or so, now evident by the volume of public discussion, commentary and analysis spread across every conceivable media outlet.
Cryptography has been around for millennia, but Bitcoin only arose in 2009, and it was the spark that has taken crypto from a small group of enthusiasts into a many-tentacled creature, now attaching itself to an astonishing number of projects across all manner of applications, challenging both public and private power centres and long-established norms as it spreads. Starting with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, a whole new host of life-forms have emerged – NFTs, the metaverse, Defi, Web3 and DAOs – all of them changing the very notion of ownership.
It’s Mine digs into the history and concept of ‘ownership’, which ecosystems nurture it, and where we are now. Filled with anecdotes, observations and interviews, the book takes an entertaining and accessible look at how Bitcoin made its mark, how its technology is being re-purposed to enable a revolution, and (in non-technical terms) how it all works. It explores how these new crypto ‘life-forms’ will interact with the rest of the virtual and physical world, while making some very rich and some very poor.
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment, formidable infrastructure, a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family, a shared written script of characters, a cuisine founded on rice and millet, a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk and jade, and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements, and their diverse and unexpected expressions, often lie not in written history, but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs, and the treasures within them, are almost the only artefacts to survive from Ancient China; their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.
Jessica Rawson, one of the most eminent Western scholars of China, explores twelve grand tombs - each from a specific historical moment and place - showing how they reveal wider political, dynastic and cultural developments, culminating in the lavish ambition of the First Emperor's monument, guarded by his army of terracotta warriors. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China illuminates a constellation of beliefs about life and death very different from our own and provides a remarkable new perspective on one of the oldest civilisations in the world.
Suttogó angyal
A Kelly Group International (KGI): szupertitkos elit csapat, a Kelly-fivérek családi vállalkozása.
Adottságok: Magas szintű intelligencia, kőkemény test, katonai előképzettség.
Tevékenységi kör: válaszlépés emberrablás vagy túszejtés esetén. A KGI megoldja azokat az ügyeket, amelyekkel az amerikai állami szervek elakadnak…
Akkor jött el hozzá, amikor a legnagyobb szüksége volt rá.
Nathan Kelly csak azért bírta ki a fogságot, a rettegésben töltött végtelen időt, a kínzásokat, mert ő ott volt, és segített. Abban is ő segített, hogy Nathan kiszabadulhasson.
Csak képzelte volna?
Vagy ott van valahol a lány, és meg kell keresnie, mert most neki van szüksége Nathan segítségére…
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Anime Through the Looking Glass
The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than 150 full-color frames.
ANIME GOES TO WAR: A powerful narrative engine, such as Kaneda’s red motorcycle in Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira, war is thebeating heart of anime, its shadow hovering over various genres.
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN?: Man versus machine. Exploring new dialectics of body and mind through films like Rintaro’s Galaxy Express 999 andMamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: On the other side of the mirror, we discover wonderful worlds in dreamlike colors populated with protective spirits, fantastic creatures and humans that save the world like the messianic girl in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä to the Space Pirate Captain Harlock
LIFE NOW: Exhibiting the metamorphosis of society and lifestyles, with scenes from family life to the schoolyard to the company, anime also sketches the human tragic-comedy with great acuity like Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name.
This uniquely powerful form of artistic expression has embraced complex and provocative ideas since its inception in the mid twentieth century.
This dynamic and wide-ranging book explores eighty key themes of the genre, from wars to natural disasters, nature to ecology, childhood to magic, dystopias to fables. It looks at more than one hundred masterpieces of Japanese animation, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell, One Piece, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies and Howl’s Moving Castle, to show how practitioners consistently balance tradition with modernity and how anime’s distinct style has influenced other forms of media such as video games, comic books and live-action films.
Covering an enormous range of talent—from Isao Takahata, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, and Makoto Shinkai to Studio Ghibli and Mamoru Oshii—it demonstrates how anime makes room for limitless creativity. Unfettered by the physical constraints of nature’s laws, these artists realize our deepest emotions and our wildest dreams.
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Christendom
In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance.
In exploring how the Christian religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a small sect of isolated congregations was transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both so-called 'heresies' and other forms of belief. From the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention and willingness to mobilize well-directed force.
Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.
Lacná kniha Túlélők (-90%)
"A régi nemesség pozitívan reagált a bírálatokra - régi és új, kard és talár közötti különbség elhalványult. Aix-en-Provence egyetlen egységes elit uralma alá került, amely kifinomult volt, művelt és modern... Az egyes magyar társadalmi rétegek addig és annyiban befolyásolták a kormánypolitikát, ameddig és amennyiben "feudálisak" maradtak. A nemesi elit hatalmának alternatívája nem a polgárság uralma, hanem a tekintélyelvű hivatalállam volt..." Elitek túlélési stratégái a XVI-XX. század viharaiban.
A(z) Túlélők (Könyv) szerzője Volker Press, Donna Bohanan, Brendan Dooley, Lawrence Stone, William D. Rubinstein, Péter László.
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Nomad Century
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat of drought, heat, wildfires and flooding will utterly reshape Earth's human geography in the coming decades.
In this rousing call to arms, Royal Society Science Book Prize-winning author Gaia Vince describes how we can plan for and manage this unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state. The vital message of this book is that migration is not the problem - it's the solution. Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening data and original reporting, Vince shows how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves, but to host countries, many of which face demographic crises and labour shortages. As Vince describes, we will need to move northwards as a species, into the habitable fringes of Europe, Asia and Canada and the greening Arctic circle.
While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity.
A láthatatlanok
A sziget dióhéjba zárt kozmosz, ahol a csillagok a hó alatt, a fűben szunnyadnak. A szigetet nem lehet elhagyni. Időről időre mégis mindig megpróbálja valaki…
Ingrid Barroy egész családja – az állatok, a legelők, a remények és az álmok – egy sziget foglya. Apja arról álmodozik, hogy rakpartot épít, ahol majd kiköthetnek a hajók, de a világhoz való közeledésnek ára van. Ingrid anyjának más tervei vannak – még több gyerek egy még kisebb szigeten…
A szigetlakók élete kemény: a szemétben turkálva vagy a víz fenekére leengedett hálóból szerzik mindennapi betevőjüket. Így amikor Ingrid elég idős hozzá, elküldik a szárazföldre, hogy egy gazdag családnál szolgáljon. Norvégia is éppen nagy változásokon megy keresztül: az Ingridet fogadó modern világ szeszélyes, és sokszor kegyetlen.
Váratlanul tragédia történik, és Ingridnek vissza kell mennie, hogy megvédje azt az otthont, amiről azt hitte, már maga mögött hagyta...
Under the Whispering Door
Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home.
From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through.
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she's right, and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth.
Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life - even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees. He'd had no time for frivolities like fun and friends. But as Wallace drinks tea with Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing something.
The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. So when he's given one week to pass through the door to the other side, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in just seven days.
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A kanadai sarkvidék egy lakatlan szigetén egy tudományos expedíció tagjai egy bombázó roncsaira bukkannak. A világ szemében a fél évszázados repülőgép csupán hidegháborús ereklye. Alig néhányan tudják, hogy még mindig fenyegetést jelent az emberiségre - a repülő ugyanis a szovjet légierő biológiai fegyver-hordozója, fedélzetén két tonna bevetésre váró antraxszal. Az Egyesült Államok elnökének közvetlen felügyelete alá tartozó elit ügynökség, a COVERT-ONE megbízásából Jon Smith ezredes, Randi Russell CIA-ügynök és a csinos, de kegyetlen fegyverszakértő, Valentina Metrace professzor elindul, hogy biztosítsa a helyszínt. A szigeten azonban áruló lapul, így Smithnek és csapatának nemcsak vele kell szembenézni, hanem a kegyetlen sarkvidéki időjárással is. Lassan rájönnek, hogy valami mást is rejt az ősrégi bombázó: egy olyan titkot, amely sokkal nagyobb pusztításra képes, mint az antrax, és amely nemcsak az egész világtörténelmet írhatja át, de a harmadik világháború kitörését is okozhatja.
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Food Colour Red
The series Food Colour has been created to explore the chromatic aspects of fruit and vegetables, and is structured in order to highlight the visual aspect of the theme, with the titles divided by colour. Each book focuses on one colour and features an introduction and a series of fantastic recipes, combining the visual pleasure of photography with the pleasures of the palate.
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Disney Twisted-Wonderland, Vol. 2
Manga based on the hit mobile video game from Disney, Twisted Wonderland!
Stranded in the world of Twisted Wonderland, Yu must brave a magical school filled with ghosts, monsters, and uncooperative students!
Yu is formally enrolled in Night Raven College. He’s even a prefect…of Ramshackle Dorm. But that doesn’t mean things are getting any easier for him. When his classmate Ace shows up on his doorstep after getting in trouble, Yu faces his biggest challenge yet!
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Shaman King: Flowers 2
The ghosts, spirits, zombies, and gods return in this brand-new sequel to the classic shonen adventure manga SHAMAN KING!
Hana Asakura finds that being the son of Yoh & Anna Asakura isn't all it's cracked up to be, and his boredom has him itching for any kind of excitement. But when a fight comes straight to his doorstep, it's from a place he least expects—his own family? The battle for Asakura supremacy begins!
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Shaman King Flowers 5
The ghosts, spirits, zombies, and gods return in this brand-new sequel to the classic shonen adventure manga SHAMAN KING!
REACHING BOILING POINT
After bringing out his demons and dying by the riverbank, Hana Asakura lands in the Great Spirit, and comes face-to-face with his uncle Hao, the reigning Shaman King. Generations collide as Hana battles his father, Yoh, at the same age as himself. Meanwhile on Earth, trouble's brewing at Funbari Hot Springs. As Alumi prepares an all-star team to fight in the Flower of Maize, a girl who calls herself Black Maiden appears. How will Tao Men, Gakko Ibuki, and gang handle this crisis?
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Lacná kniha Több mint szerelem
Halálukban mítosszá váltak. Pedig kapcsolatuk, lángoló szerelmük mindössze januártól októberig tartott. 1972 karácsonyán a tüneményes és gyönyörű színésznő öngyilkos lett. A sármos, vonzó fiatalember még egy ideig megpróbált új életet kezdeni, de ezzel a tragédiával nem tudott szembenézni, s végül 1974 tavaszán ő is véget vetett az életének. Domján Edit és Szécsi Pál tragikus szerelme közel negyven éve foglalkoztatja a közvéleményt. Mi történt valójában kettejük között? Mi igaz és mi nem a szóbeszédekből, a bulvárlapok pletykáiból? A felejthetetlen énekes nővérének személyes emlékekre és hiteles dokumentumokra épülő regénye nem botránykönyv, hanem művészi eszközökkel, líraian megformált történet és mese a halhatatlan szerelem hónapjairól.
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Studio Culture Now
Studio Culture Now features in-depth interviews with a host of leading design studios. The interviewees share their experiences, insights, fears and joys, and reveal how they deal with the fundamentals and aspirations of studio life.
Candid and generous, these extensive Q&As form a blueprint for anyone planning a studio practice, or anyone struggling with maintaining one.
Topics covered include: getting jobs, working with clients, balancing creativity with profitability, accounting, hiring, promotion, wellbeing, and much more. The interviews, mostly conducted in the past few months, also reveal how studios are adapting to the changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
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