Hľadanie: Redemptoris missio
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One of the Good Guys
Cole is the perfect husband; a romantic, supportive of his wife's career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.
So when his wife leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.
Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life. Then he meets reclusive artist Lennie. And though she is quite different from the woman he'd expected, he believes he has finally found a soulmate.
But as their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, Cole soon realises they don't know each other very well at all . . .
If most men say they're one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night?
Independence Square
ARKADY RENKO IS BACK . . .
Confined to a desk job by his superiors to keep him out of the way, Arkady Renko is more disillusioned with the general state of Russia than ever. But, despite everything, he has hope. People want change, and politician Leonid Lebedev could be the man to do it.
Tasked by a father with finding his missing daughter, a staunch Lebedev supporter and member of the Forum, Renko is thrown into the heart of a dangerous conspiracy when another member of the Forum is found murdered – Alex, a close friend of his own son.
The night before his murder, Alex sent Arkady a cryptic message, simply containing three pictures of Russian writers. The link between the pictures is there, if only he could see it.
But Arkady has just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and the disease is taking its toll. This time, he must fight more than the impenetrable Russian regime to get answers – he will also need to fight himself.
Nature Is A Human Right
Having access to natural, green spaces is vital to our physical and mental wellbeing. But, as urban development spreads, grey has become the new green.
Already, concrete outweighs every tree, bush and shrub on Earth. Nature deprivation is a fast-growing epidemic, harming the health and happiness of hundreds of millions of people worldwide - especially vulnerable and marginalized groups. To combat this, Nature is a Human Right, founded by Ellen Miles in 2020, is working to make access to green space a recognized right for all, not a privilege.
This book has taken root from the mission and vision of the campaign, bringing together a collection of engaging essays, interviews and exercises, curated by Ellen, from a selection of its expert ambassadors and supporters (including authors, artists, scientists, human rights experts, television presenters, TED speakers, and climate activists). Through each contributor, we discover a new perspective on why contact with nature should be a protected human right, journeying through personal narratives on mental health, disability, racism, environmental inequality, creativity, innovation and activism.
This is a captivating and enlightening collection of original writing and ideas that highlights the importance of nature, the threats of nature deprivation, and the work that needs to be done to make our global future happier, healthier and more equal.
Fly Away Paul
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI's biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK.
Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones has met McCartney many times and knew his late wife Linda. Here she shows how crucial Linda was to the evolution of Wings - at great cost to herself given the ridicule she was to encounter. But Linda saw that McCartney needed the band in the wake of the break up of the Beatles.
Drawing on extensive interviews and her trademark meticulous research, the author shows how this period in Paul McCartney's career was to become crucial not only to his development as an artist, but to his very survival.
Breathe
To win the climate war, you first need to win the climate argument.
For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers posed by air pollution, nor its connection with climate change. Then, aged 43, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma - brought on by the polluted London air he had been breathing for decades.
Scandalised, Sadiq underwent a political transformation that would see him become one of the most prominent global politicians fighting (and winning) elections on green issues. Since becoming Mayor of London in 2016, he has declared a climate emergency, introduced the world's first Ultra-Low Emission Zone, and turned London into the first-ever 'National Park City'.
Now, Sadiq draws on his experiences to reveal the seven ways environmental action gets blown off course - and how to get it back on track. Whether by building coalitions across the political spectrum, putting social justice at the heart of green politics, or showing that the climate crisis is a health crisis too, he offers a playbook for anyone - voter, activist or politician - who wants to win the argument on the environment.
It will help create a world where we can all breathe again.
The Vanquishers
The first book in a bitingly brilliant and fangtastically feisty debut middle-grade series by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron. Fans of The Breakfast Club Adventures, Goosebumps and Stranger Things will devour this fun, thrilling and heartfelt vampire adventure.
In the world of the Vanquishers, vampires were history ... until now.
Malika “Boog” Wilson and her best friends have grown up idolising the Vanquishers, a group of heroic vampire hunters who wiped out the last horde of the undead decades ago. Nowadays, most people don't take even the most basic vampire precautions - the days of garlic wreaths and early curfews are long gone - but Boog's parents still follow the old rules, much to her embarrassment.
When a friend goes missing, Boog isn't sure what to think. Could it be the school counsellor, Mr Rupert, who definitely seems to be hiding something? Or could it be something more dangerous? Boog is determined to save her friend, but is she ready to admit vampires might not be vanquished after all?
No one ever expected the Vanquishers to return, but if their town needs protection from the undead, Boog knows who to call ...
Personality: A Users Guide
We are each born with a particular genetic makeup and traits that are further shaped by our individual environments and life experiences, creating a personality unique to us. But at no point are we given a manual for how to use that personality in our relationships or at work, for how to make sense of the facets that create our sense of self, or for how to troubleshoot our personality if there are things we are unhappy with.
Personality: A User's Guide is that missing manual. An authoritative and comprehensive guide to personality psychology, this book outlines the different building blocks of our personality, presents the many theories and models that have been argued over the years, and helps you identify where you stand on the spectrum of key traits that define us.
Using this knowledge about yourself, the book also suggests ways you can better empathise with those around you who may have very different approaches to the world, and how we can all leverage our different strengths. The authors also consider the constantly developing nature of the self, and ways we can turn that to our advantage and make changes for greater success and wellbeing.
Finally, the book looks at some specific questions: Can our pets be said to have their own personalities? What happens when the 'dark triad' of negative traits are dominant? And is there a future in store where we can say that an AI has a genuine personality?
Dinoszauruszok bolygója
A dinoszauruszok 150 millió évig uralták a Földet. E könyv bemutatja ezeknek a különleges teremtményeknek a történetét, és az is kiderül belőle, hogy mi vetett véget uralmuknak. A könyvhöz ajándék poszter jár!
Nyugi
Szorongással küszködsz? Nem vagy egyedül. Több millió embertársadhoz hasonlóan valószínűleg te is tudod, hogy a tünetek bárhol és bármikor lecsaphatnak. De itt a megoldás. Ez a könyv forradalmi módszerekkel segít azonnal enyhíteni a szorongás tüneteit, amint felbukkannak.
A Nyugi! nemcsak hasznos útmutató a stresszkezeléshez, de betekintést nyújt a szorongás okai mögé is. Dr. Weber útmutatásainak köszönhetően elsajátíthatod azokat a technikákat, amelyekkel kezelésbe veheted a legzavaróbb tüneteket, így nem számít majd épp hol vagy és mit csinálsz, mindig felkészült leszel, és gyorsan enyhítheted a szorongást.
- Egyedi és hatékony módszerekkel, bizonyított stratégiákkal segít a szorongás legzavaróbb tüneteinek azonnali kezelésében. Az interaktív részek pedig elmélyítik a tudásod.
- A tudomány legjavát tárja eléd, forradalmi stratégiái a legújabb pszichológiai kutatásokat tükrözik, a kognitív viselkedésterápia (CBT), az elfogadás- és elköteleződésterápia (ACT), valamint a tudatos jelenlét (mindfulness) gyakorlatain nyugszanak.
- Olvasóbarát megoldásokat nyújt; a könyvben igazán egyszerű eligazodni, így könnyedén megtalálhatod a számodra legaktuálisabb részt.
Higgy a folyamatban! Az erőfeszítéseid egy fényesebb jövő formájában fognak megtérülni. Ne feledd, már most is mindened megvan ahhoz, hogy kordában tartsd a szorongásod tüneteit, és egy teljesebb, boldogabb életet élj!
Women
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The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
“Women can be heroes, too.”
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Women whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has all too often been forgotten. A novel of searing insight and lyric beauty, The Women is a profoundly emotional, richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose extraordinary idealism and courage under fire define a generation.
Hunting the Falcon
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever.
The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending just short of three years later when a husband's passion turned to such hatred that he simply wanted his wife gone. In Hunting the Falcon, John Guy and Julia Fox examine the most recent archival discoveries and peel back layers of historical myth to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways. They show how Anne and Henry's relationship was tied almost completely to the major events of international politics at one of the great turning points of European history, and dispel any assumptions that a sixteenth-century woman, even a queen, could exert little influence on the politics and beliefs of a patriarchal society. Anne was in fact a shrewd and ruthless politician in her own right, a woman who steered Henry and his policies - and whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign.
Hunting the Falcon sets the facts and some completely new finds into a wide frame, unearthing the truth about these two extraordinary lives and their tumultuous times. It pays particular attention to the seven 'missing' years that Anne spent in France, and explores how she organised her side of the royal court in novel ways that ultimately sowed the seeds of her own downfall. In this feat of historical research and analysis, Guy and Fox offer a sumptuous retelling of one of the most consequential marriages in history and an exhilarating portrait of love, lust, politics and power.
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Táto kniha začala vznikať takmer pred 60 rokmi. Oči chlapca sa spojili s hľadáčikom fotoaparátu a obrazy ľudí, na ktorých pozeral cez objektív svojráznym okom umelca, ho priviedli medzi popredných európskych fotografov. Videl a fotil ľudí vari na vše
tkých obývaných kontinentoch. A celý život pozoroval, osobne spoznával a zaznamenával na film predovšetkým svojich rodákov. Tých, ktorí vôjdu alebo už majú miesto v histórii nášho národa, ale aj človeka neznámeho - anonymné bytosti, často komplikovan
ého súkolia.
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A gyémántos Medzsidje-rend
"A marseillei rendorkapitány eloszobájába udvariasan nyitott be egy középkorú, eroteljes férfi, akinek egyenes, büszke tartása az elegáns polgári ruhában is elárulta katona-voltát. Barna arcáról a zuáv-csapatok valamelyik tisztjének lehetett volna tartani, ha a piros fez, melyet félrecsapva viselt, nem mutatta volna, hogy török. A szolgával beküldte névjegyét a rendorkapitánynak, aki ezt olvasta róla:
YERBA EZREDES a párisi török nagykövetség katonai attaséja.
Természetes, hogy az elokelo látogatót azonnal bevezették a rendorkapitányhoz, aki udvariasan megkínálta ot hellyel és elozékenyen kérdezte:
? Miben lehetek szolgálatára, ezredes úr?
? Nagyon bizalmas és kényes dolog hozott ide, ? kezdte a török, ? de az ön kipróbált zsenialitása, melyrol már annyit hallottam, reményt nyújt arra, hogy a látogatásom teljes eredménnyel fog végzodni?
A marseillei rendorkapitány hízott ettol a dicsérettol és nagyképuen fölfújta magát, miközben a ravasz és hízelgo török így folytatta:
? Nagyszabású, körmönfont lopásról van szó, amely azonban: és ez a különös! lehet, hogy nem is lopás?
? Ezt nem értem! ? vágott közbe a rendorkapitány hüledezve. ? Lopás, és mégse lopás?
? Azonnal megmagyarázom, ? mosolygott a török. ? Íme, az elozmények. Két fiatal francia bejutott valahogy a Yildiz-kioszkba s a fölséges Abdul Hamid megajándékozta az egyiket a gyémántos Medzsidje-rend csillagkeresztjével, melynek három-négy millió frank az értéke?"
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Girlfriend on Mars
Kevin is a thirtysomething homebody, happily committed to his hydroponics-expert girlfriend, Amber, as they grow weed in their basement in Vancouver.
Out of the blue, Amber announces that she has been selected for a reality show where she will compete for one of two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars. If selected, she must stay on Mars for good, because the technology to come home doesn't exist yet. Is this a suicide mission or a bold new frontier?
Girlfriend on Mars is the story of love unravelling in a world where truth is dictated by Facebook ads and 'reality TV' is as scripted as any politician's speech. With rapt viewers voting for Amber to stay on the show and crates of Mars-mission branded protein shakes arriving at his door, is it any wonder Kevin wants to stay in the basement forever?
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