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Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway Vol. 2
From the time his first story was published in 1969, Gerry Conway became one of the most prolific and highly regarded comics writers of the era. He wrote for nearly every character being published at the time, and his original creations--including Firestorm, Steel and Vixen--changed comics history forever. Conway's work had a profound effect on the legacy of Batman, with his creations Killer Croc and Jason Todd becoming mainstays in the legend of the Dark Knight.
Illustrated by artists including, Gene Colan, Don Newton, Klaus Janson and José Luis García-López and featuring guest appearances by Superman, Man-Bat, and the whole Bat-Family, these classic tales showcase one of the greatest talents ever to write for the Caped Crusader!
Collects Batman #337-346, #348, Detective Comics #505-513, World's Finest Comics #270.
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Out of Practice
'A wonderful setting, characters you care about, a page-turning plot, laugh-out-loud funny. I loved it' Katie Fforde 'Delightfully warm' Jo Thomas Out of Practice is based around a large country medical practice, which proves to be a hotbed of rivalry, resentment and romance - and that's just the doctors. Think James Herriot meets House. Meet married mum of two and successful GP Holly Graham as she relocates her family to join the team at The Practice at Beckerford, hoping to find the peaceful life she craves, despite the chaos that comes with her two year old twins and the troublesome state of her marriage. It will certainly be a challenge to keep her private and professional lives separate in such a tight-knit community. Her colleagues have their own issues to contend with. The gorgeous Dr Dan Carter is struggling with to focus on work and the last thing he needs is any more stress; having his ambitious ex-girlfriend Dr Julia Channing working alongside him isn't really helping. Thankfully, the rather delectable Dr Taffy Jones is on hand to distract Holly from the escalating situation at home. Feisty octogenarian and resident celebrity, Elsie Townsend, is Holly's favourite patient and saving grace. Elsie's inspirational Life Lessons come at the perfect moment, as The Practice is suddenly under threat of imminent closure and Holly rediscovers her voice and her priorities just in time ...
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The Invention of Nature
The acclaimed author of "Founding Gardeners "reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world and in the process created modern environmentalism. NATIONAL BEST SELLER One of the"New York Times "10Best Books of the Year A""Best Book of the Year: "The Economist," "Publishers Weekly," "Kirkus Reviews" Shortlist -- Costa Biography Award Finalist -- Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist -- Kirkus Reviews Prize for Nonfiction Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces four counties, thirteen towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infected Siberia or translating his research into bestselling publications that changed science and thinking. Among Humboldt s most revolutionary ideas was a radical vision of nature, that it is a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents. She also discusses his prediction of human-induced climate change, his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simon Bolivar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how Humboldt s writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt s influence that led John Muir to his ideas of natural preservation and that shaped Thoreau s "Walden." With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written book, Andrea Wulf shows the myriad fundamental ways in which Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world, and she champions a renewed interest in this vital and lost player in environmental history and science. "From the Hardcover edition.""
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The Diary of a Bookseller
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.
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Three Daughters of Eve
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past - and a love Peri had tried desperately to forget. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as nineteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. To the house she shares with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about identity, Islam and feminism. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart. Shirin, Peri and Mona, they were the most unlikely of friends. They were the Sinner, the Believer and the Confused.
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Queen of Spades
'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson
'The book is grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant ... It is full of poetical phrasing ... yet allows for the naughty spirit of childhood to remain true' Guardian
'Never before had Nils travelled around at such good speed, and he had always liked riding fast and wild ... Nor had he thought what it might be like to travel so high above the ground. But it was like flying away from worries and sorrows and annoyances of every imaginable kind'
Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who pulls the tails of cats and trips up his mother while she is carrying the milk pail. Then one day he discovers he has been magically turned into a tiny imp. He climbs on the back of a gander and takes off with a flock of wild geese as they fly over Sweden, soaring above patchwork fields, through storms, to castles and lakes and even to a city under the sea. As he learns about the world, he also learns what it means to care for living things, in Selma Lagerloef's timeless and beloved fable.
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Mysteries of the Quantum Universe
The bestselling French graphic novel about the mind-bending world of quantum physicsFamous explorer Bob and his dog Rick have been around the world and even to the Moon, but their travels through the quantum universe show them the greatest wonders they've ever seen. As they follow their tour guide, the giddy letter h (also known as the Planck constant), Bob and Rick have crepes with Max Planck, talk to Einstein about atoms, visit Louis de Broglie in his castle, and hang out with Heisenberg on Heligoland.On the way, we find out that a dog - much like a cat - can be both dead and alive, the gaze of a mouse can change the universe, and a comic book can actually make quantum physics fun, easy to understand and downright enchanting.
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Best of Vampirella Masters Series
The finest comic book creators of the modern era delve into the mystery and the macabre in The Best of Vampirella Masters Series! Revisit the greatest tales of horror comics' most iconic heroine with the following stories, each crafted by a legendary team of writers and artists!
* "Ascending Evil" by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, and Amanda Conner
* "Vampirella Lives" by Warren Ellis and Amanda Conner
* "Nowheresville" by Mark Millar and Mike Mayhew
* "The New European" by Alan Moore and Gary Frank
* "Looking for Mr. Goodwin" by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
* "Morning in America" by Kurt Busiek and Louis LaChance
* "Blood Lust" by James Robinson and Joe Jusko
* "Revelations" by Mike Carey, Mike Lilly, and Mark Texeira
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The Politics of Design
"The Politics of Print "shows the importance of visual literacy when communicating across borders and cultures. It explores the cultural meaning behind symbols, maps, photography, typography, and colors. It is a practical guide for design and communication professionals and students to create more effective and responsible visual communication. We all know the power of propaganda and how it s always strictly related to a memory of a specific symbol, typography and colour. It has a purpose and normally remains a classic design to be parodied years later by a new generation of designers. But visual literacy is still a strong weapon nowadays, it s all about context. This book can be used as a manual filled with realities alerts a designer should be aware so that he doesn t end up in misconceptions of cultural differences and actually make this asymmetries work in his favour. It will result in a stronger, fundamental response to the inevitability of being partial when dealing with images in the midst of globalization. Misinformation and the terrible consequences it may cause, may it be on purpose or not, is always a piece of vital information away. This is the right book to fill that void, to build bridges between different perspectives on the meaning behind some characters, images and even the order and position they are presented in."
A Short History of the World
Friends, Romans, citizens of the world - do you want to take a fast-paced trip through time? All of human history is here, from hunter-gatherers in the Ice Age to technological innovators in modern times. With bitesize narrative accounts, lively illustrations, timelines, maps and links to specially selected websites to bring history alive.
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Lacná kniha O zmysle života (-70%)
Múdrosť, toto slovo sa najčastejšie spája s vekom a veľmi často sa zamieňa so slovom inteligencia. Ak by sme chceli dôjsť k určitému zovšeobecneniu, potom môžeme povedať, že inteligencia veľmi úzko súvisí s vekom a poznaním, či už individuálnym alebo celospoločenským a to vyúsťuje do múdrosti človeka, či ľudskej múdrosti. I. Ruisel 1999 zdôrazňuje, že ľudská inteligencia je pozoruhodný fenomén a umožňuje rutinné vykonávanie veľkého počtu zmysluplných aktivít, a práve ten veľký počet a zmysluplnosť sa nedajú dosiahnúť za krátky čas a bez využívania rozumu. Vo svojich úvahách parafrázujúc Ananieva pridáva aj iný fenomén a to, že inteligencia je zároveň aj večným problémom ľudstva, či už s dôsledkami našich nesprávnych hodnotení a rozhodnutí (napr. Černobyl) alebo pokusmi o zjednodušenú interpretáciu inteligencie. Inteligencia vždy bude pôsobiť nezávisle, bez šablón, schém a vopred stanovených kritérii a to platí aj pre jej výsledok, ktorým je múdrosť. Je to dané kognitívnou podstatou človeka, o ktorom už starí Gréci vedeli, že sa riadi svojim rozumom. Nezabúdajúc že pre sokratikov bola múdrosť - sofia hlavnou cnosťou ... Avšak je pochopiteľné, že inteligencia pôsobí v celostnom kontexte ľudskej existencie, individuálnej i ľudskej skúsenosti. Je to schopnosť podmieňujúca efektívnosť človeka v každodenných životných situáciách, zvlášť v tých náročných. O to významnejšie sa nám problematika múdrosti, inteligencie spája so seniorom, ktorý je dennodenne postavený do náročných životných situácii, ktoré od neho vyžadujú stupeň inteligentných rozhodnutí. Ak ich nenachádza, častokrát je sklamaný, nešťastný a stráca zmysel života. Reflexia zmyslu života seniora je predmetom úvah autorov v spektre odborného pohľadu, ale je tu cítiť aj vlastnú zaineresovanosť, pretože seniori sú neomysliteľnou súčasťou nášho života, sú to naši rodičia, starí rodičia, susedia, učitelia, ale aj študenti... Senior, zmysel života, jeho každodenné napĺňanie a hľadanie toho autentického života k zmyslu rezonuje v nás už niekoľko rokov aj s výskumami, ktoré boli doteraz realizované. Toto vydanie monografie kolektívu autorov je rozšíreným vydaním publikácie Múdrosť veku - vek múdrosti 2OO9 a pokusom odpovedať na otázkyhľadania zmyslu života adresnejšie a komplexnejšie aj v kontexte multidisciplinárnosti. Ponúkajúc otvorený dialóg odborníkov, ktorí hľadajú, analyzujú, odpovedajú na túto základnú otázku z pohľadu filozofie, etiky, teológie, sociálnej práce, sociálnej pedagogiky, literárnej vedy, andragogiky a psychológie. Domievajúc sa, že každý si v nej nájde svoje vlastné odpovede na tak závažné otázky povedané slovami V.E. Frankla, že "zmysluplným sa život stane, keď v ňom ide o niečo, čo má zmysel, čo človeka prekračuje, ani nie ta, čo do dĺžky, ale skôr čo do výšky a hĺbky".
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Discovery of France
With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority ...France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively recent and - historically speaking - quite misleading. In order to discover the 'real' past of France, Graham Robb realised it was not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows. The Discovery of France, illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, is the result of Robb's 14,000 mile journey across France on a bicycle. Winner of both the Duff Cooper and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje prizes, The Discovery of France is a modern non-fiction classic, a literary exploration of a remarkable nation. From maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it reveals a France few will recognize. 'An extraordinary journey of discovery' Daily Telegraph 'Robb's concise and fast-paced writing pedals along with never a dull paragraph ...dazzling' Sunday Times
Weapons of Math Destruction
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated.
And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These "weapons of math destruction" score teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health.
O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.
The Mystery Of The Blue Train Special Edition
Agatha Christie's classic Hercule Poirot railway mystery, reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
`You could, perhaps, love a thief, mademoiselle, but not a murderer!'
When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing.
The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board...
The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology
Sophrology is a dynamic relaxation, stress-management and personal development technique, which is steadily growing in popularity in the UK. Sophrology is already extremely popular on the continent - especially in France, Switzerland, Spain and Belgium, where sports stars and popstars, among others, have used the techniques to overcome fear of failure, manage stress and anxiety, beat insomnia, prepare for big events and fulfil their true potential. It is also used as a tool to help women prepare positively for birth, and in the workplace to enhance employees' wellbeing.
This accessible book by a London-based expert in this field will open up the world of Sophrology to a worldwide audience and help readers feel equipped to cope with the ups and downs of life with a flexible and effective method. By learning to relax and connect with your inner resources you will discover strength and power you never knew you had, and feel happier and more balanced. Featuring practical tips, case studies, and a Sophrology practice audio, this is a must-have self-help resource.
'Sophrology looks set to be the...answer to all our problems' - The Guardian
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'I like Antiglio. She is calming.' - The Times
'Sophrology is set to be the next wellness trend... If it's used effectively by everyone from women in labour to Olympic athletes, it can only be a matter of time before sophrology enters our wellness lexicon.' - Refinery29
'While many people try and fail to reap the benefits of meditative practices, taking up Sophrology could be the key to unlocking your mind's potential.' - The Independent
'Sophrology is most definitely something you can practice day to day in your own time, with your own schedule and direction.' - Harper's Bazaar
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Art of Assassins Creed Origins
Having taken players all the way to the gateway to the modern world in Syndicate, Assassin's Creed once again takes fans on an adventure through history. The Art of Assassin's Creed Origins collates hundreds of concept arts, including sketches, final paintings, and 3D Renders, alongside in-depth commentary from the artists and developers, representing the ultimate insight into the design processes behind the game.
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The Best of Adam Sharp
A hilariously realistic romance, Graeme Simsion, the international BESTSELLING author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, introduces The Best of Adam Sharp . . . Will he risk it all for a second chance at first love?'After twenty-two years without any contact at all, Angelina Brown, my Great Lost Love, decides to change the world and emails Hi . . .'Adam Sharp met the love of his life on the other side of the world. He was playing in a bar in Australia when Angelina requested a song. It was the start of a relationship he's never forgotten - but not every duet ends on a high note.Two decades later and half a world away, Adam is stunned by Angelina's message. He thought he was happy. He thought he had everything. Now all he can think about is her.Adam has sung about second chances - but does he believe in them? And is he prepared to risk everything to find out if they ever come true?'A very enjoyable read. Highly recommended' Closer'With very real characters, an engaging plot and plenty of wit, this is a joy' Heat'We love The Rosie Project author Graeme Simsion's The Best of Adam Sharp' Sun on Sunday
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