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How Not To Be a Boy
RULES FOR BEING A MANDon't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.
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Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls
Once known, now largely forgotten, these empowering fairy tales have been brought together to inspire a new generation of readers. Discover heroines who outwit giants, fight evil, awaken sleeping princes and, of course, live happily ever after. With a foreword by Kate Pankhurst, author of Fantastically Great Women who Changed the World.
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Goblin Slayer 6
A grudge match kicks off between Goblin
Slayer and the Goblin Champion, hungry for revenge. But without the aid of fire, water, or poison, what kind of secret weapon will Goblin Slayer use against his mortal foes this time? Will the great mystery of the ruins beneath Water Town be
solved once and for all...?
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Minecraft Animal Sticker Fact File
Discover everything there is to know about the animals of Minecraft! Like the Minecraft world, this exciting sticker activity book is bursting with creatures great and small. You'll help llamas form orderly caravans, help Monty transport chickens and foxes across the river, and even learn how to make colourful sheep! With over 500 stickers and facts on every page, there are hours of fun to be had.
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Traditionalism
The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, present and future
Traditionalism is founded on ancient teachings that, its followers argue, have been handed down from time immemorial, forming a basis of the sacred order that must be defended from modernity and the disorder it brings. It has been used to encourage respect for the environment, compose great music and reduce hostility between followers of different religions.
But Traditionalism has applied to darker causes: from the election of Donald Trump to fascist movements and even terrorism. How has Traditionalism been so influential for so long, yet so little acknowledged and understood? Its followers have never aimed to reach the masses and have sought to affect the world quietly. In this book, the first of its kind for a wide audience, Traditionalism's history, ideas and profound impact are laid out, shining a light onto this shadowy world and the thought of its three founders, René Guénon, Julius Evola and Frithjof Schuon.
Once you understand Traditionalism, you will see its influence everywhere.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cat
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cat is a book of more than 20 influential artists reimagined as artistic felines.
From Frida Catlo to Yayoi Catsama, Wassily Catdinski to Henri Catisse,
each portrait of the artist as a young cat is accompanied by a clever
tongue-in-cheek biography revealing the thrilling feline lives (all
nine) behind their famed artwork.
Loaded with clever cat puns, this playful romp through art history will twist the whiskers of any cat-loving creative,
whether you're discovering the inspiration for Frida Catlo's renowned
self-pawtraits to reflecting on the catmosphere that gave rise to
Georgia O'Kitty's landscapes.
* Features fantastic feline artists such as Mary Catsatt and Meow Weiwei
* A cute and clever little book that cat and art lovers alike will love
* Packed with tons of real biographical info about each artist and plentiful cat puns
For cat lovers with an artistic purr-suasion, this is the ultimate celebration of their favorite artists.
* A purrfectly smart and sweet gift book for cat lovers, art lovers, pun enthusiasts, and those who love them
* Great for those who loved Fat Cat Art by Svetlana Petrova, Cats Galore by Susan Herbert, Of Cats and Men: Profiles of History's Great Cat-Loving Artists, Writers, Thinkers and Statesmen by Sam Kalda
Babylon Revisited
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was the most celebrated chronicler of the Jazz Age. At the time of his death, he believed he was an alcoholic failure; but he received posthumous acclaim as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This collection brings together some of his finest stories, including 'The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button'; 'Winter Dreams', a melancholy thwarted love story that anticipated The Great Gatsby, and 'Babylon Revisited', set the year after the 1929 stock market crash, when the Jazz Age sounded its last.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
Lacná kniha Luxury Houses Holiday Escapes (-90%)
We all need to create a space to escape from contemporary life. This selection of luxury dwellings is sure to inspire youeven if only to dream. Dotted around the globe, these select retreats use a variety of materials and styles to set just the righ
t mood. These high-end hideaways offer a respite from modern life, but with all the style and conveniences. With ample illustrations of breathtaking dwellings, this volume is a treat for all who love fine architecture and décor.
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LEGO® Harry Potter™ Hogwarts At Christmas
Explore the magic of Christmas at Hogwarts! Features Harry Potter minifigure in Yule Ball robes.
Enter the festive world of LEGO (R) Harry Potter (TM) and visit Hogwarts for a spellbinding Christmas. Celebrate the season with your favourite LEGO Harry Potter minifigures and join them for a feast in the Great Hall. Admire the castle's Christmas decorations and get ready to hit the dance floor at the Yule Ball. Head to the Gryffindor common room to play a game of wizard chess, warm up in front of a roaring log fire, and join Harry as he exchanges gifts with friends.
Sprinkled with festive scenes and the latest LEGO Advent Calendars, sets, and minifigures, this is the perfect gift for young LEGO Harry Potter fans.
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Captain Cook
On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of fifty-one.
When James Cook was hacked to death by Hawaiian islanders on 14 February 1779, he was already considered the greatest explorer of his age. Born in obscurity but gripped by a boundless passion for new horizons, he became the greatest combination of seaman, explorer, navigator, and cartographer that the world had ever known. He still is. He had driven himself mercilessly, and his men likewise, and yet the surgeon's mate on the Resolution was able to write: 'In every situation he stood unrivalled and alone; on him all eyes were turned; he was our leading star, which at its setting left us involved in darkness and despair'.
Between 1768 and 1779, Captain Cook circumnavigated the globe three times in voyages of discovery that broke record after record of exploration, endurance, and personal achievement. He explored and charted the coasts of New Zealand, landed in Botany Bay, explored the Pacific, mapped its islands, and travelled further south than any man before him; he explored the Great Barrier Reef and travelled thousands of miles north to tackle the North-West Passage. He excelled in all aspects of his craft and inspired in his men an affection for him and an enthusiasm for his undertakings that provoked constant loyalty and unfailing endeavour in frequently savage conditions.
Alistair MacLean presents a graphic and lively account of this great explorer, his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown. Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go'.
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Veggie Hotels
Travelling made sustainable and tasty! If you want to discover stunning new destinations along with creative vegetarian or vegan cuisine, these over 50 veggie and vegan hotels and guest houses are for you. Of the several hundred hotels that have joined the VeggieHotels labels, these outstanding vegetarian and plant based-accommodations are at the top of the list, ensuring you can stay mindful in your nutrition whenever you chosse to travel, from a Tuscan country estate to the wellness resort in Bali, a vegan surf camp to an urban design hotel or Ayurveda retreats. Each featured hotel is presented with practical information and great photos to get your taste buds excited.
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Remina
Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star.
An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body "Remina" after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction... Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale.
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Max Einstein: World Champions!
Max finally meets her hero, Albert Einstein, as she dashes across glaciers, visits the Great Barrier Reef, and flies a solar-powered jet in a race to stop global warming - before it's too late for planet earth.
So far, Max and her team of genius friends have solved problems that no one else could, including: bringing solar energy to remote locations, producing clean drinking water across the globe, and ending world hunger. No easy task, even for a genius! But now Max and her friends must take on their biggest challenge yet, something that affects every living creature on the planet.
Max must figure out how to prevent climate change from destroying the earth.
But sinister forces want to keep Max from succeeding, and this time, even the very foundation of the Change Makers Institute is threatened. Now Max must not only save herself and her friends, but the entire planet, too.
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Provence
Stříbřitě zelené olivové háje, vesničky připomínající orlí hnízda a starobylá města zalitá nepopsatelně působivým světlem - a nad tím vším se vznáší omamná vůně levandule a zeleného koření a možná i výtečného vína, která v každém labužníkovi zburcuje neodolatelnou touhu ochutnat alespoň jedinkou lahůdku z místní vyhlášené kuchyně. Avšak Provence vyburcuje nejen chuťové buňky, ale zaplaví i ostatní smysly přílivem dojmů… Průvodce MERIAN live! vám nabízí pomoc při putování po tomto skutečně po mnoha stránkách jedinečném koutu Francie. Upozorní vás nejen na proslulé, ale i na doposud neprávem opomíjené přírodní a kulturní památky, které byste si zcela určitě měli prohlédnout: navštívíte Abbaye de Sénanque, klášter ne nepodobný nebeskému hradu, v osamělém údolí poblíž Gordes; sjedete na kajaku řeku protékající Grand Canyon du Verdon (ti méně odvážní se ovšem tudy pustí pěšky), který náleží k nejpůsobivějším divům přírody v Evropě, a užijete si na přepestrém trhu ve Forcalquieru, jenž bude útočit zejména na vaše čichové buňky. Milovníci památek zase se zájmem nalistují stránky, které je nasměrují do ticha kostela Saint-Trophime v Arles, s meditativní křížovou chodbou vyzdobenou výjevy ze života Ježíše Krista. A bez výjimky každého potěší odpočinková procházka po Cours Mirabeau v Aix-en-Provence, která patří k nejkrásnějším ulicím tohoto nejmalebnějšího města Francie. Zájemcům o tajemné rituály a dávnověké kultury se splní sen, když si budou moci prohlédnout virtuální jeskynní svět v Les Docks de la Joliette. A jak bude potom asi příjemné nechat se omývat smaragdově zeleným mořem na plážičkách mezi bělostnými vápencovými skalami, kterými je pověstné letovisko Les Calanques u Marseille…!
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Religion - Vintage Minis
'Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word'
What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is 'God' and do we need 'Him' in our modern world? Karen Armstrong looks again at these questions in a refreshing and startling way. God is not to be 'believed in' as a child believes in Santa Claus; religion is not a story to be proven true or false, but a discipline akin to music or art that answers a deeply human need, and can teach us to discover new capacities of mind and heart.
Selected from A Case for God, Fields of Blood and The Lost Art of Scripture
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Also in the Vintage Minis 'Great Ideas' series:
Art by Simon Schama
Science by Ian McEwan
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Provence a Azurové pobřeží + DVD
Provence je rozlehlý a rozmanitý region, jehož kontrastní krajina zahrnuje venkovská pole a vesnice ve vnitrozemí, nepřístupné horské oblasti Alp na severu a východě a rychle se rozvíjející Riviéru na jihu. Hlavním městem Azurového pobřeží je Nice, v
elmi zajímavá a pulsující směs italského vlivu, zašlé zlaté éry, lesku a prvotřídního umění. Na hustě zalesněných alpských úbočích severně od města jsou posazené nádherné a nenarušené horské vesnice, zatímco na východě spojuje horská cesta malebná po
břežní městečka: v některých místech nabízejí pobřežní silnice corniches řidičům jedny z nejvelkolepějších zážitků při jízdě podél pobřeží. Dále na západ, minete-li oblasti vyhlášené znamenitým vínem, leží živá metropole Marseille. Je největším m
ěstem regionu a významným přístavem. Severně od Marseille se nachází elegantní město Aix-en-Provence s pohlednými kamennými domy, bulváry lemovanými kavárnami a nejlepšími trhy v Provence, kde žil a tvořil Cézanne. Nelze opomenout ani papežské město
Avignon či unikátní biotop Camargue, rozkládající se v široké deltě Rhôny. Při cestování po tomto provoněném regionu se všude setkáte se stopami původních obyvatel Féničanů, Řeků a Římanů. Rozhodně nesmíte minout římský akvadukt v Pont-du-Gard nebo
amfiteátr v Orange či v Arles. Provence je slavná i pro svou vynikající středomořskou kuchyni, založenou na místních produktech olivovém oleji, česneku, bylinkách a samozřejmě mořských plodech. Průvodce je doplněn údaji o místních dějinách, mapkam
i jednotlivých oblastí i podrobnými plány měst. Obsahuje praktické informace o cenách ubytovacích a stravovacích zařízení nebo kulturních událostech a je doplněn barevnými přílohami o gastronomických zážitcích a sportovním vyžití v regionu.
Slouching Towards Utopia
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied.
Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would use such powers to build utopia, but it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming, economic depression, uncertainty, inequality, and broad rejection of the status quo.
Slouching Towards Utopia tells the sweeping story of how this unprecedented explosion?of material wealth?occurred,?how it transformed the globe, and?why?it?failed to deliver us to utopia.?Of remarkable breadth and ambition,?it?reveals how the last century was much less?a march of progress?than?a slouch?in the right direction.
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After Birth: How to Recover Body and Mind
While there is a wealth of advice for new mums on caring for their babies the same is not true for postpartum health. Fulfilling this vital need, After Birth is the ultimate postnatal primer for women facing changes to their bodies after having a baby.
Addressing issues great and small - from hair loss and stretch marks, to bladder and bowel leaks, painful sex, diastasis recti and mental health - researcher and writer Jessica Hatcher-Moore brings together straight-talking advice on preparation for childbirth, healing, and recovery in the weeks, months and even years that follow. She also offers insights for partners, whose role is often overlooked at this critical time.
Blending knowledge from the full spectrum of modern and traditional therapies with honest experiences from mothers, here is balanced advice with no agenda. Taking a broad look at what we can do for ourselves at home, and also when to seek expert help, After Birth will reassure, inform and empower women to reclaim their post-birth bodies.