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A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult
Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title.A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often controversial subjects in the world, covering everything from ancient animal worship and shamanism, through alchemy and divination to modern Wicca and the resurgence of the occult in 21st-century literature, cinema, and television.Providing readers with a balanced, and unbiased account of everything from Japanese folklore and Indian witchcraft to the differences between black and white magic, and dispelling myths such as those surrounding the voodoo doll and Ouija, the book explores the common human fear of, and fascination with spells, superstition, and the supernatural.The perfect introduction to magic and the occult, this wide-ranging volume explores forms of divination from astrology and palmistry to the Tarot and runestones, mystical plants and potions such as mandrake, the presence of witchcraft in literature from Shakespeare's Macbeth to the Harry Potter series, and the ways in which magic has interacted with religion.The most comprehensive illustrated history of witchcraft available, A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult will enthral and fascinate you with its lavish illustrated, accessible entries, whether you are a believer or sceptic.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight into Poe's work as a whole.The only complete novel by infamous gothic horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, `The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' has inspired other classic tales of maritime adventure, such as Herman Melville's `Moby-Dick' and Jules Verne's `Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'.
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The Unsettling of Europe
Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to escape danger, to find a better life or as a result of deliberate policy, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, or from outside the continent altogether.
Peter Gatrell's powerful new book is the first to bring these stories together into one place. He creates a compelling narrative bracketed by two nightmarish periods: the great convulsions following the fall of the Third Reich and the mass attempts in the 2010s by migrants to cross the Mediterranean into Europe.
The Unsettling of Europe is a new history of the continent, charting the ever-changing arguments about the desirability or otherwise of migrants and their central role in Europe's post-1945 prosperity. Gatrell is as fascinating on the giant movements of millions (such as the epic waves of German migration) to that of much smaller groups, such as the Karelians, Armenians, Moluccans or Ugandan Asians. Above all he has written a book that makes the reader deeply aware of the many extraordinary journeys taken by countless individuals in pursuit of work, safety and dignity, all the time.
This is a landmark book on a subject that, decade by decade, will always haunt Europe.
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The 10 Rules of Successful Nations
This short primer distils Ruchir Sharma's decades of global analytic experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash.
A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, 10 Rules is full of insights on signs of political, economic, and social change. Sharma explains, for example, why autocrats are bad for the economy; robots are a blessing, not a curse; and consumer prices don't tell you all you need to know about inflation. He shows how currency crises begin with the flight of knowledgeable locals, not evil foreigners; how debt crises start in private companies, not government; and why the best news for any country is none at all.
Rethinking economics as a practical art, 10 Rules is a must-read for business, political and academic leaders who want to understand the most important forces that shape a nation's future.
5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone
It's time to put down the phone and: visit a botanical garden create a palindrome solve a brainteaser Phone addiction is a modern epidemic. With social media, texting, games, and other apps, it's far too easy to get sucked into an endless spiral of scrolling, wasting hours while missing out on life. So why not: play a board game
try a breakfast burrito
focus a day on hearing every sound you can
Barbara Ann Kipfer, author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Self-Meditation, and other books with more than 2 million copies in print, has a great gift for inspiring us to appreciate the little things in life, especially through her obsessive, mesmerizing lists of ideas that surprise and inspire. Bringing that sensibility to an issue we all struggle with--our phones and how they co-opt one of our greatest assets, our attention--5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone is a quirky compilation that encourages you to put down your phone and do this richer, more interesting, more meaningful and fulfilling thing instead:
make shadow puppets
paint a watercolor at dawn
notice a beautiful sky
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Vnútorné politiky a činnosti Európskej únie
Vedecká monografia je zameraná na problematiku niektorých vnútorných politík Európskej únie. Uvádza širšie teoretické východiská týkajúce sa hospodárskych, menových, fiškálnych sociálnych, environmentálnych a energetických vzťahov, ako aj politiky hospodárskej súťaže a štátnej pomoci. Monografia obsahuje nové aktuálne poznatky súvisiace s únijnými politikami v nadväznosti na zmeny, ktoré priniesla Lisabonská zmluva. Okrem iného poskytuje analýzu primárnej právnej úpravy Európskej únie a sekundárnych právnych predpisov Európskej únie uplatňovaných na Slovensku v uvedených oblastiach. Obsah monografie tvorí trinásť kapitol, ktoré sú členené do tematických celkov. Každá kapitola obsahuje únijný právny rámec, slovenský právny rámec, základnú teóriu, objektívne a subjektívne prístupy i kritické názory autoriek. Prínosom monografie pre hospodársku prax je, že obsahuje analytické a syntetické zhodnotenie súčasného stavu niektorých politík Európskej únie.
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Designs of our Time
This book brings together all the nominations and winners for the Design Museum's annual Designs of the Year Award over the last decade. It is a unique worldwide survey of contemporary design, reflecting a period of enormous social and technological change that began with the launch of the iPhone in 2007. In politics we have gone from Shepard Fairey's `Hope' poster for Barack Obama, to the Pussyhat protest against Donald Trump. Selected by 205 expert nominators, a total of 840 innovative and thought-provoking designs from across the world are featured, ranging from the scale of Zaha Hadid's architecture to Harvard's human organs-on-chips project. The designs that have defined this moment in history include Herzog & de Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium, the Plumen light bulb, Google's self-driving car and many more.
This book is divided per the categories for the Designs of the Year award: architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. Introduced by acclaimed writer, editor and director of the Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic, the book features all of the Designs of the Year winners over the past decade.
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World of Warcraft - Chronicles of War
Now in one epic volume, the four original novels that Chronicle the Wars of the World of Warcraft. The Last Guardian:In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, there stood the peaceful, magical world of Azeroth. But since the arrival of Lord Sargeras, dark god of chaotic magic, Dragons, Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, Humans, and Orcs all vie for supremacy across the scattered kingdoms-part of a grand, malevolent scheme that will determine the fate of the World of Warcraft. Rise of the Horde:Though the young Warchief Thrall ended Kil'jaeden's demon curse, which had plagued his people for generations, the orcs still wrestle with the sins of their bloody past. As the rampaging Horde, the rage and bloodlust that drove the orcs to destroy everything in their path has nearly consumed them as well. Tides of Darkness:After killing the corrupt Warchief Blackhand, Orgrim Doomhammer was quick to seize control over the Orcish Horde, and now he is determined to conquer the rest of Azeroth. When Anduin Lothar forges a mighty Alliance with the other human nations, will they prevail against the Horde's merciless onslaught, or will the tide of darkness consume the last vestiges of freedom on Azeroth? Beyond the Dark Portal:The aging orc shaman Ner'zhul has seized control of the Horde and reopened the Dark Portal. His brutal warriors once again encroach upon Azeroth, laying siege to the newly constructed stronghold of Nethergarde Keep. Can the nefarious shaman be stopped in time to stave off the destruction of two worlds?
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Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
A tour of clocks throughout the centuries-from the sandglass to the telomere-to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time
What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles?
Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Readers learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a forty-eight-hour journey on the space shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule, that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages, and that time speeds up with fever and slows down when we feel in danger.
With a narrative punctuated by personal stories of time's effects on truck drivers, Olympic racers, prisoners, and clockmakers, Mazur's journey is filled with fascinating insights into how our technologies, our bodies, and our attitudes can change our perceptions. Ultimately, time reveals itself as something that rides on the rhythms of our minds. The Clock Mirage presents an innovative perspective that will force us to rethink our relationship with time, and how best to use it.
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Chromatopia - An Illustrated History of Colour
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artist pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects.
From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and pure luck, Chromatopia reveals the origin stories behind over fifty of history's most vivid colour pigments. Spanning the ancient world to modern leaps in technology, this is the book for the artist, the history buff, the science lover and the design fanatic.
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A Szent Johanna gimi 2.
" Felfelé baktattunk a dombon, amikor Virág kérdőn körbefordult, és a tekintete megállapodott rajtam.
- Green Day szól a zsebedben - mondta.
- Zavartan előkerestem a mobilom, és közben azon tanakodtam, hogy ki állíthatta be a telóm a Basket Case-re, és egyáltalán ki csörög arra, mert csak egy embert ismerek, aki szereti...
- A kijelzőn Cortez neve villogott, alatta egy menő deszkás képpel.
- Cortez - suttogtam, és megtorpantam az úton.
- Vedd fel! És lélegezz. De előbb vedd fel. Vagy ne! Előbb lélegezz - ugrált körülöttem Virág.
- Mit mondjak? - kapkodtam a levegőt.
- Elsősorban ne mondj semmit, várd meg, hogy mit akar. De ha beszélni akarsz vele, javaslom, hogy vedd fel - tanácsolta Arnold." (részlet a könyvből)
Truth - A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg Jenner
This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.
We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more.
But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?
PRAISE FOR HUMANS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F*CKED IT ALL UP:
'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
'Very funny' Mark Watson
'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits' Stuart Heritage, Don't Be a Dick, Pete
'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' Telegraph
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House Of Salt And Sorrows
Get swept away in Erin A. Craig's mesmerizing House of Salt and Sorrows. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Be careful who you dance with. . . .
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with?
When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Get ready to be swept away.
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Blood Communion
FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE
The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world
From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community.
Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires.
After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made?
Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?
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Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog (Updated Fourth Edition)
From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright's designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years ago, researchers and enthusiasts are still uncovering structures that should be attributed to him. William Allin Storrer is one of the experts leading this charge, and his definitive guide, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has long been the resource of choice for anyone interested in Wright. Thanks to the work of Storrer and his colleagues at the Rediscovering Wright Project, thirty-seven new sites have recently been identified as the work of Wright. Together with more photos, updated and expanded entries, and a new essay on the evolution of Wright's unparalleled architectural style, this new edition is the most comprehensive and authoritative catalog available.
Organized chronologically, the catalog includes full-color photos, location information, and historical and architectural background for all of Wright's extant structures in the United States and abroad, as well as entries for works that have been demolished over the years. A geographic listing makes it easy for traveling Wright fans to find nearby structures and a new key indicates whether a site is open to the public. Publishing for Wright's sesquicentennial, this new edition will be a trusted companion for anyone embarking on their own journeys through the wonder and genius of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The Twelve Birds of Christmas
Naturalist Stephen Moss digs beneath the surface of some of our most popular Christmas carols in an ornithological celebration of the Festive Season.
Using the structure of the carol as a jumping off point, he explores the place of twelve fascinating British birds in our history, culture and landscape. Some of the birds are obvious, there's the swan and of course the partridge. Other chapters are loose interpretations of a verse: for drummers drumming he delves into the woodpecker's distinctive drumming tap. Woodpeckers, he explains, have special padded skulls to mitigate against using its head like hammer drills. They carefully select dead trees for the most hollow, sonorous sound.
With brilliant anecdotes and insights, Stephen Moss weaves history, culture, bird behaviour and folklore into a compelling narrative for each species, tracing its fortunes over the past two centuries.
PRAISE FOR STEPHEN MOSS:
'A superb naturalist and writer' Chris Packham
'Moss has carved out an enviable niche as a chronicler of the natural world' Daily Mail
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Blood of the Celts: The New Ancestral Story
The heritage of the Celts turns up from Portugal to Romania, from Scotland to Spain. Yet debate continues about who exactly were the Celts, where ultimately they came from, and whether the modern Celtic-speakers of the British Isles and Brittany are related to the Continental Celts we know from ancient history. So a fresh approach is needed. Blood of the Celts meets this challenge, pulling together evidence from genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics in an accessible and illuminating way, taking the reader on a voyage of discovery from the origins of the ancient Celts to the modern Celtic Revival, with some startling results.
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Anna v Summerside (4.diel)
Anna Shirleyová, hrdinka románov kanadskej spisovateľky Lucy Maud Montgomery, je už celé desaťročia obľúbená po celom svete.
Štvrtý diel tejto série románov Anna v Summerside napísala autorka dodatočne až tridsať rokov po prvom diele. Dozvedáme sa v ňom, kam sa podeli tri roky Anninho života po tom, čo sa zasnúbila s Gilbertom Blythom.
Anna prijala miesto riaditeľky strednej školy v meste Summerside a našla si ubytovanie u dvoch starších vdov a ich gazdinej. Spočiatku musela bojovať s nepriazňou mesta a klanom rodiny Pringlovcov, a keďže deti Pringlovcov tvorili väčšinu Anniných žiakov, nedarilo sa jej prekonať ich odpor a protivenstvá ani zvyčajnou láskavosťou a ústretovosťou. Po prvom polroku sa však zhodou okolností situácia vyvinula tak, že museli chtiac-nechtiac zmeniť postoj a Annu si obľúbili.
Rozprávanie o tomto období Anninho života sa líši od všetkých ostatných dielov. Sčasti má formu Anniných listov Gilbertovi, sčasti ho podáva rozprávač. Autorka doň povkladala množstvo kratších individuálnych príbehov a zaujímavých osudov nových hrdinov, do ktorých Anna spôsobom sebe vlastným priamo či nepriamo zasahuje. Ako a koľkým z nich pomôže úplne zmeniť život?
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Territory of Light
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time.
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