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How We Break
An expert, empathetic guide to the science, psychology and physiology of breaking, from the acclaimed author of How We Are
What happens when our minds and bodies are pushed beyond their limits? Vincent Deary is a health psychologist who has spent years helping his patients cope with whatever life has thrown at them. In How We Break, he has written a book for all of us who sometimes feel we have reached our breaking point.
Drawing on clinical case studies, cutting-edge scientific research, intimate personal stories and references from philosophy, literature and film, How We Break offers a consoling new vision of everyday human struggle. The big traumas in life, Deary points out, are relatively rare. More common is when too many things go wrong at once, or we are exposed to prolonged periods of difficulty or precarity. When the world shrinks to nothing but our daily coping, we become unhappy, worried, hopeless, exhausted. In other words, we break. Breaking, he shows us, happens when the same systems that enable us to navigate through life become dysregulated. But if we understand how the wear and tear of life affects us, then we have a better chance of navigating through times of burnout, stress, fatigue and despair.
By equipping us with a better understanding of what happens to us when we're struggling to cope, and making a bold case for the power of rest and recuperation, How We Break helps chart a path through difficult times.
A Merry Christmas
Louisa May Alcott's enchanting Christmas stories, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.
A Merry Christmas collects the best holiday stories of Louisa May Alcott, from the yuletide festivities of Marmee and her 'little women' to the moving 'What Love Can Do'. Deeply influenced by real-life events, including characters based on Alcott's family members and drawing from her experiences participating in the suffrage and abolitionist movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America.
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Her family later moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where Alcott was influenced by their neighbours Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. At a young age, Louisa took on some of the family's financial burdens, working as a domestic, a teacher, and a writer. In 1868 and 1869, fame and fortune came with the publication of Little Women. The author of many novels and an active campaigner for temperance and women's suffrage, Alcott died in 1888.
Filosofie živé přírody
Z. Kratochvíl svůj text označuje jako „pokus o sestup na nejistou a bohatou půdu zkušenosti přírody - na půdu přirozené zkušenosti“. V úvodu autor podává etymologický výklad pojmu příroda, respektive přirozenost, a zabývá se jejími jednotlivými aspekty (co vše k celku přirozenosti patří, jakým způsobem ji uchopujeme…). Z. Kratochvíl upozorňuje, že zasutí smyslu pro přirozenost se projevuje poškozením světa - proto je nutné zabývat se světem a jeho pluralitou - jako pozadím jevů a kontextem věcí, jako sounáležitostí horizontů, jako paradigmatem uchopování přirozeností. Avšak existuje i svět přirozený, ne jen jako problém filosofický, ale také jako problém životní. Kratochvíl dále podává výklad kategorií, pomocí kterých svět vnímáme: hmoty, prostoru a času. Další kapitoly Kratochvíl věnuje živé přírodě (ptá se po identitě živého organismu, vztahu života a bytí), evoluci (pokouší se o „zkušenostní popis evolučního dění, rozebírá Darwina a neodarwinistický evolucionismus) a noetické problematice (poznatelnost živého). Hovoří o paradigmatech skutečnosti, přičemž se zaměřuje na novověké paradigma.
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The Talk
A pressing graphic memoir on 'the talk' in which parents must break it to Black children that the world hates them, from the only winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Darrin Bell was six years old when he had The Talk: his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are.
Through evocative illustrations and sharp humour, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles - and finding a voice through cartooning - Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbours and police officers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans, and showcasing revealing insights and cartoons along the way, he brings us up to the moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
And now Bell must decide whether he and his own six-year-old son are ready to have The Talk.
Peter Pan + CD-ROM
The Darling children’s amazing adventure begins when Peter Pan flies into their nursery and whisks them off to his enchanted island, Neverland. There they meet Peter’s friends, the Lost Boys. But James Hook, the cruel captain of the pirates, soon captures them. Can Peter Pan save them before Captain Hook makes them walk the plank?
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Mindörökké evolúció
Az evolúció elmélete alapjaiban változtatta meg az emberi gondolkodást, és a legkülönbözőbb szakterületek tudósai, kutatói alkalmazták vagy szálltak vele vitába. A kettős jubileum alkalmából 2009-ben a legnevesebb magyar tudósok álltak össze, hogy egy előadás-sorozat keretében emlékezzenek meg a Darwin-évről. Mindannyian az evolúciós gondolat egy-egy új és jelentős alkalmazását mutatják be. Előadásaikat követően Mihancsik Zsófia beszélgetett a szerzőkkel. A könyvben ezeknek a beszélgetéseknek a szerkesztett változata is megtalálható.
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Season Two, Part One
What secrets does the child hold? The Mandalorian continues his long journey with the child called Grogu, trying to return the foundling to the Jedi — but the galaxy is a dangerous place in the wake of the Galactic Empire’s collapse, and new enemies lurk on every planet. Thankfully, allies both familiar and unexpected will aid them on their travels! But is there another Mandalorian operating on Tatooine? Can Din Djarin grant safe passage for a Frog Lady and her precious eggs with an ever-hungry Grogu on board? Can they both survive encounters with remnants of Imperial forces, spider-like creatures and a krayt dragon?
Collecting STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 2 #1-4.
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A vérszipoly
A Rémségek cirkusza és A vámpír inasának gyomorszorító folytatása. Darren Shan, a vámpír inasa belekóstol a városi életbe, amikor Evrával és mr. Crepsley-vel együtt elhagyják a Rémségek Cirkuszának világát - ám a jelek szerint így van ezzel valaki más is. Amikor felfedezik a holttesteket - amelyekből utolsó cseppig kiszívták a vért -, Darren és Evra kénytelen szembeszállni az éjszaka gyalázatos teremtményével, aki könnyen mindannyiuk végzetévé válhat... Vajon megmenekülnek? Vagy ott kell elveszniük a város alagútrendszerében?
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Peppa Pig: Peppas Magical Dress-Up Sticker Book
Dress Peppa in amazing outfits in this new magical adventure sticker book!
Peppa is wishing for magical adventures. Stick on Peppa's outfits and make her wishes come true!
From fluttery fairy wings to daring knight outfits, join Peppa and friends and dress them for their quests.
Discover monsters, unicorns, dragons and more in this magical sticker adventure!
Don't miss these other brilliant Peppa books:
Peppa Pig: Search and Find at the Zoo: A Search and Find Book
Peppa Pig: Nursery Rhymes: Tabbed Board Book
Peppa Pig: Hide-and-Seek: A Search and Find Book
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Batman: The Audio Adventures
Don’t touch that dial!
Picking up after the season finale of the award-winning podcast, Batman: The Audio Adventures continues in this exciting collection!
A string of attacks has plagued Gotham’s seedy underbelly, sending criminals into a panic. But it’s not Batman who is striking at the heart of the city, it’s a group of mysterious assailants on the hunt for an ancient artifact.
As Batman hunts down these assassins, he finds clues that keep drawing him to their true goal: the sword of King Scimitar!
Collects Batman: The Audio Adventures #1-7, Batman: The Audio Adventures Special #1.
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DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War Part 2
With Baron Cinder and his lieutenants kept occupied by the mother of all diversions, the team attempts a daring raid on the Blood Farm to retrieve the one person who can bring sunlight back to the world.
However, they have not reckoned on the terrifying presence of the Baron’s vampire knights-familiar faces whose blades are every bit as bloodthirsty as they are. And that's just the beginning of the team's troubles!
Follow along in DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War Part 2, collecting DC vs. Vampires: All Out War #4-6, and DC vs. Vampires: Killers #1!
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Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca Vol. 2 - The Crystal Run Part Two
Chewbacca behind bars!
Chewie is held captive on the prison planet of Gulhadar, and his cellmate is none other than Maz Kanata! But where is Han Solo, and what happened to the Millennium Falcon? Outnumbered and outgunned, Chewie makes a daring escape! Elsewhere, Greedo is on the run ? and you won’t believe who’s after him! Now, these two wanted men are on a collision course, and together they just might have a chance to get their hands on Jabba’s urn. But it’s in some dangerous clutches, so how will an angry Wookiee pull off the greatest heist in history? And what does this urn hold that will unlock the future of the Star Wars galaxy?
Collecting STAR WARS: HAN SOLO & CHEWBACCA #6-10.
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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.
Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you.
The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes misery. But by naming ourselves feminist killjoys, we recover a feminist history, turning it into a source of strength as well as an inspiration.
Drawing on her own stories and those of others, especially Black and brown feminists and queer thinkers, Sara Ahmed combines depth of thought with honesty and intimacy. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook unpicks the lies our culture tells us and provides a form of solidarity and companionship that can be returned to over a lifetime.
The Language Puzzle
The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.
The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words.
Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age.
While this radical new work is not shy to reject outdated ideas about language, it builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language that will find widespread acceptance as a new standard account for how humanity began.
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Queens of the Wild
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day.
In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries.
Looking closely at four main figures—Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the Night, and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition—Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses. He makes the compelling case that these goddess figures found in the European imagination did not descend from the pre-Christian ancient world, yet have nothing Christian about them. It was in fact nineteenth-century scholars who attempted to establish the narrative of pagan survival that persists today.
A tíz herceg története
A tíz herceg története a klasszikus szanszkrit regényirodalom legkitűnőbb darabja. Főszereplői Rádzsaváhana, egy trónfosztott király fia, és előkelő barátai, akik a sors szeszélyéből egy időre elszakadnak egymástól, majd egy sor változatos kaland után egymásra találnak, és beszámolnak élményeikről. Az egyes történetek a kora középkori India sokszínű valóságába repítenek bennünket, sőt azon túlra, abba a világba, amelyet a kiváló író, Dandin mesés fantáziája teremtett. A VII. század végén - VIII . század elején élt író, a déli indiai Kánycsipuram szülötte. Szórakoztató, szellemes regénye a korabeli indiai irodalmi ínyenceket is lenyűgözte, és később méltán aratott sikert fordításokban is.
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Warm Worlds and Otherwise
This landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.
'Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood' Vox
Plot
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen
In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the classic plot: boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. The couple's journey is charted through dreams, conversations and reflections, in a text like no other, deftly moulding language and crossing genres to arrive at new life: baby Ersatz.
Plot is an inventive and engrossing meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. Each fear compounds Liv's reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. A profoundly daring collection, it explodes the emotive capabilities of language and form to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence
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Pierre Frey: Textiles, Wallpapers, Carpets, and Furniture
Pierre Frey, the leading French producer of furniture, textiles and wallcoverings, seamlessly combines artisanal craftsmanship with modernity.
Enchanting brocades and damasks, luminous hand-woven silken velvets, traditional woodblock printed fabrics, striking contemporary patterns made into works of art: Pierre Frey, a family business founded in 1935, is famous for the variety and boldness of its inspired designs, and has asserted itself in the luxury market as the uncontested global leader in soft furnishing textiles and wallpapers. Having acquired the venerable houses Braquenié and Le Manach, Pierre Frey possesses one of the most important private textile heritages in the world. Pierre Frey has worked with the Louvre and the château de Versailles, decorated castle interiors, and provides the fabrics and wallpapers of elegant private homes around the world—from Paris to Hong Kong to New York. Drawing from their archives of more than 25,000 documents, which date from the sixteenth century to the present, this indispensable volume will serve as a reference and a basis for contemporary inspiration to professional and amateur designers.
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83,95 €