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Eureka!
Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili
Could you surf down an erupting volcano?
Why do zebras have stripes?
Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?
Are there any green mammals?
Why do pineapples have spikes?
Why do songs get stuck in your head?
What happens when black holes collide?
Can you extract your DNA?
New Scientist has been a treasure trove of fascinating and surprising questions and answers for over a decade. From how to measure the speed of light using chocolate, to why dogs howl at sirens, Eureka! brings together 365 mindblowing questions, fascinating facts and exciting experiments.
If you've ever wondered how to escape quicksand, what would happen if the moon vanished, and why cats (nearly) always land on their feet, you've come to the right place.
His Dog (EN)
"His Dog" is a story about Link Ferris who finds an injured dog on his way home one evening. He knows nothing about dogs, but nurses it back to health and the two form a bond such as only can be formed between human and canine. Unable to locate the collie's owner, Link christens his dog 'Chum', the latter becoming invaluable in tending to the daily needs of his meager farm.
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Farsighted
Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the ones that affect our lives for years, or centuries, to come? Our most powerful stories revolve around these kinds of decisions: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war.
Full of the beautifully crafted storytelling and novel insights that Steven Johnson's fans know to expect, Farsighted draws lessons from cognitive science, social psychology, military strategy, environmental planning, and great works of literature. Everyone thinks we are living in an age of short attention spans, but we've actually learned a lot about making long-term decisions over the past few decades. Johnson makes a compelling case for a smarter and more deliberative decision-making approach. He argues that we choose better when we break out of the myopia of single-scale thinking and develop methods for considering all the factors involved.
There's no one-size-fits-all model for the important decisions that can alter the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. But Farsighted explains how we can approach these choices more effectively, and how we can appreciate the subtle intelligence of choices that shaped our broader social history.
Lacná kniha Jesenná ruža - Temná hrdinka 2 (-90%)
Autumn Rose je výnimočné dievča s nadprirodzenými schopnosťami. Pochádza z významného sagijského rodu, ktorý vládne najsilnejšou mágiou. Po smrti starej mamy ju osud zavial do ospalého mestečka na pobreží Anglicka, kde pod povrchom zdanlivo pokojného života driemu temné tajomstvá. Ako strážkyňa má jediné poslanie, a to chrániť ľudské bytosti pred skupinou krutých Sagijcov, zvaných Exterminovia. V škole však zažíva len pohŕdanie a výsmech. Keď sa v jej živote nečakane objaví príťažlivý mladý študent s rovnakými zvláštnymi jazvami na pokožke, ako má Autumn, jej svet sa obráti naruby. V noci však čelí strašidelným snom o dievčati z ľudského rodu, ktoré zvedie Temný princ. Autumn musí rýchlo vymyslieť spôsob, ako ju zachrániť. Inak bude neskoro...
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As Usual (EN)
Long-term couples can spice up their sex life with this hot little number whether bored at home or on a weekend away from work, home, and the kids. "His wife smelled of aftershave and had bite marks on her breasts. He circled her, taking her in. " - As Usual by Dante "She gets turned on by men in tuxes or dark suits.
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Tie Me Up - Erotic Short Story (EN)
She can see that he is struggling with his tie, and with every failed attempt he grows more and more frustrated. Finding it hard to keep herself from laughing, she offers him her help. But he’s got other plans. Because although he can't seem to tie a Windsor Knot to save his own life, he has no trouble tying her hands above her head and driving her absolutely crazy with desire.
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Milovanie
Román Milovanie je zmesou vášne, lásky, vysnívaného života na pozadí toho reálneho, nevery, ktorá dávno prerástla do nekonvenčného vzťahu, neschopnosti rozhodnúť sa rozumom, poníženia a znášania dôsledkov, za ktoré môže bezhlavo zaľúbené srdce.
Milenecký trojuholník Arianny Blakovej sa zmenil na začarovaný kruh. V spoločnosti newyorských mocných, ktorí sa snažia zachrániť mesto a vybudovať z neho biľagom násilností nepoškvrnené ihrisko pre slávnych a bohatých, sa odohráva jej osobná dráma. Flirt s Gavinom Silarom už dávno nie je nevinný, manželstvo so Samom vôbec nie je perfektné. Násilie ju, ako mnoho Newyorčanov, prekvapí tam, kde ho čakala najmenej, tak ako ju prekvapuje intenzita fyzického potešenia, uspokojenia a jednoduchosti lásky.
Vyvrcholenie tohto príbehu potvrdzuje, že v živote robíme rozhodnutia, s ktorými sa potom musíme naučiť žiť.
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Sustainable Buildings
Buildings from all over the world using the latest developments, innovations and achievements of eco-friendly architecture.
Climate change and environmental pollution, rising energy prices and dwindling resources pose major challenges for the world of construction today. If sustainability is to become a global reality, it must also be designed and expressed with trend-setting aesthetics: The carefully selected sample projects of contemporary architecture show how this can be implemented in compelling ways.
They offer an informative overview of current, very different concepts, approaches and techniques. Sustainable building also means that ecological parameters involve not only all aspects of the actual building, but also the construction process and the afterlife in the sense of deconstruction and conversion, all of which must be considered by the planner as early as the design process. It is becoming increasingly important not to focus on short-term goals, but above all, on long-term ones.
Changing World
Everything you wanted to know about climate change but were too afraid to ask!
The terrifying effects of a warming planet are impossible to ignore, but sometimes it's hard to pick through the facts and to understand exactly what’s happening and how. This book of bright, bold infographics illuminates the realities of climate change in hard numbers, digestible data and vivid visualizations.
How will rising sea levels affect us?
What is the impact of meat on the planet?
What industries create the most emissions? How do renewable energies compare to one another?
What are the most effective things we as individuals can do to help the planet?
Without sugar-coating or fear-mongering, this is a book that conveniently unpacks inconvenient truths in a way that is accessible to readers young and old.
Cabin Fever 6: Freyja's Lair (EN)
Bella has been a widow for such a long time, she can barely remember anything else. But now, she has accepted Ian’s proposal. She loves Ian, but as the wedding approaches, she realizes that he is much different than she thought. She goes to her North Sea cabin to sort out her feelings, but instead of peace and quiet, she finds the carpenter, Bill Raven.
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Yes You Can
This is what this book brings you: You support certified climate protection projects, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press comments in the book preview) as well as advice that has been tested in practice, which also leads to success step by step thanks to AddOn. Because the biggest motivation problem for many people is the lack of courage to start with something at all. This is where the power of positive thinking comes in: it can make a decisive contribution to managing your job and everyday life better, more relaxed and, in the end, more successfully. Positive thinking helps to consciously control negative thoughts and thus gradually get rid of them. If you change your perspective and your attitude towards something, you will quickly notice how your own perception and thus the thing itself change for the better. This book shows how you can develop resilience and become a strong personality with the help of positive psychology, mindfulness and the right beliefs. Good luck and have fun reading. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form. Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process. The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English. Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Use the Power of Desire & Win
This is what this book brings you: you support climate protection, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press comments in the book preview) as well as advice that has been tested in practice, which also leads to success step by step thanks to AddOn. Because many people have undreamt-of wishes and desires. Who knows these, can use this strategy specifically to achieve their own goals. But which strategies really help against unpleasant team members, employees and superiors? This book provides insights into the psychology not only of executives and reveals rhetoric tips for conflicts and disputes. It also shows how you can use suitable manipulation techniques to influence organizational cultures in your favor, convince other people with your arguments, and thus make your life easier, even without being an official superior. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form. Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content in German and English as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process and Deep Learning, AI systems that use neural networks in translation. The publishing company donates at least 5 percent of its reveniew from book sales to charitable organizations involved in reforestation projects and climate protection - more detailed information on request. Publisher Simone Janson is also chairwoman of the board of the Berufebilder Yourweb Foundation, bestselling author and was one of the 20 most important German bloggers as well as a columnist for renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Stopp Feeling Lonley - Make Friends in Professional & Private Life
This is what this book brings you: you support climate protection, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press comments in the book preview) as well as advice that has been tested in practice, which also leads to success step by step thanks to AddOn. Because unwanted loneliness and social isolation affect many people in all age groups from the single in the home office to the pensioner without a family. This sounds absurd in an age of unimagined leisure opportunities. Even the Internet can only be recommended as a tool to a limited extent, because lonely people in particular can very well lose themselves here. The problem is that those who feel lonely and isolated quickly get caught up in a never-ending downward spiral of lack of contact, social isolation and depression, from which it is difficult to find their way out again. This book shows how to succeed in spite of this. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form. Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content in German and English as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process and Deep Learning, AI systems that use neural networks in translation. The publishing company donates at least 5 percent of its reveniew from book sales to charitable organizations involved in reforestation projects and climate protection - more detailed information on request. Publisher Simone Janson is also chairwoman of the board of the Berufebilder Yourweb Foundation, bestselling author and was one of the 20 most important German bloggers as well as a columnist for renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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The Mysteries
From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.
With The Mysteries, Watterson and Kascht share the fascinating genesis of their extraordinary collaboration in a video that can be viewed on Andrews McMeel Publishing's YouTube page.
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore: The Andrew Sisters ~ Book1
After a cheating ex causes her to swear off men...the last thing Vanessa Andrew needs is to butt heads with a playboy like Isaiah Reed. Not to mention he just bought her building, putting her designer clothing boutique in jeopardy.Isaiah is just as headstrong and determined as Vanessa. He might have plans for the new building, but his plans for her in his bed take control of his every waking moment. If he can break though her tough exterior, maybe they can both get exactly what they want.Will the pair on opposite sides of a fight join forces in and out of the bedroom or will their head-to-head challenge lead to disaster?
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Rogue Wolf
He does what needs to be done. He’s cheated death a hundred times, and he has the scars to prove it.But Rodin’s put all that behind him. He’s no longer an assassin for hire, or a pawn in the fight against Authority.At least, that’s what he tells himself. But when a favour brings him close to the infamous Factory — a prison in all but name — and a chance encounter forces him to rethink, can he still do what needs to be done?Facing death is one thing, but can Rodin face a life of imprisonment in the Factory?
Rogue Wolf continues the dark Dystopian Dominions series, as Authority’s hold over the Dome and the districts grows ever-stronger.
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The Feast Of Virginity
While some of the poems deal with the loss of traditional African socio-cultural values to the colonial era, many of them also highlight the fact that in many ways, Africa’s problem are so unique that they can be effectively solved only by Africans themselves. There is also the issue of hypocrisy in the global community when it comes to tackling the problems of Africa - most times, these helps come with conditions that end up impoverishing Africa the more.
The collection also makes a statement on how the world would be a better place if Blacks and Whites can understand each other better and come under one umbrella of love and mutual respect.
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Lacná kniha Tajemství svaté krve (-70%)
Tři svitky, dvojí krev, jediná šance na záchranu světa. Izraelský archeolog Mizrachi narazí při vykopávkách v jeskyni v Judské poušti na tajnou místnost, kde nalezne mimo jiné hliněnou nádobu se záhadným hieroglyfem a třemi starověkými svitky. Vzápětí je
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Lacná kniha Voda pre slony 2. vydanie (-90%)
Do knižnice svetových bestsellerov sme zaradili román Sary Gruenovej Voda pre slony ktorý sa viac ako dva roky drží v rebríčku bestsellerov. Nielenže ho Združenie amerických kníhkupcov vyhlásilo za najlepší román roku 2006 ale ocitol sa na prvých miestach v rebríčkoch denníkov ako New York Times Los Angeles Times Wall Street Journal A USA Today Bestseller. Nevšedný a strhujúci príbeh zaujme historickým pozadím hlbokou ľudskosťou leskom biedou a špinou cirkusu na pozadí hospodárskej krízy v tridsiatych rokoch v USA. Tento veľkolepý príbeh pripomína plagáty z cirkusov dávnych čias: "Budete sa smiať budete plakať len pristúpte dámy a páni." Čaká vás čistý čitateľský zážitok. Aj keď o tých časoch nehovorí v mysli deväťdesiatnika Jacoba Jankowského stále žijú spomienky. Vybavuje si sám seba ako mladého muža ktorý sa hrou osudu ocitne v ošumelom vlaku patriacom Veľkolepému svetovému cirkusu bratov Benziniovcov. Vybavuje si v mysli svet plný čudákov a klaunov zázrakov bolesti a vášne: svet s vlastnými iracionálnymi pravidlami vlastným spôsobom života a jeho ukončenia. Svet cirkusu - pre Jacoba súčasne spasenie a skutočné peklo. Jacob sa v ňom ocitol pretože sa mu šťastena obrátila chrbtom: Ostal bez rodičov a haliera nevediac čo si počať keď zrazu pristál v železnej "lodi bláznov" na koľajniciach. V Amerike práve začala hospodárska kríza a každý jeden zamestnanec v treťotriednom cirkuse bratov Benziniovcov je rád že má vôbec nejakú prácu. Ocitla sa v ňom aj Marlena hviezda jazdeckého čísla po tom ako sa zaľúbila do nesprávneho muža príťažlivého cirkusového majstra s temnou stránkou povahy. Ocitla sa v ňom aj slonica Rosie obrovská sivá hora prísľubov: nové číslo s ňou malo zachrániť cirkus lenže háčik bol v tom že s Rosie sa nedalo nacvičiť žiadne číslo – ukázalo sa že nedokáže pochopiť úplne jednoduché pokyny. Nezvyčajný trojlístok v podobe Jacoba Marleny a Rosie spojí vzájomná láska a dôvera vďaka ktorej si udržia až do konca nádej na prežitie. Voda pre slony je prekvapujúcim dojímavým románom ktorý rozpráva taký strhujúci príbeh že čitateľ nie je schopný odpútať sa od neho. Vystupujú v ňom jedinečné postavy ktoré ostanú vo vás žiť ešte dlho po tom ako otočíte poslednú stranu. Prenesú vás do sveta zázrakov tak presvedčivo že takmer zacítite jeho vôňu.
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