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The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it. It turns out that, over the last 12,000 years, we have become more and more altruistic.
This is despite the fact that, the majority of the time, our minds are still breathtakingly indifferent to the welfare of others. In solving the enigma of generosity in a world of strangers, McCullough takes us on a sweeping history of society and science to warn that, if we are not careful, our instincts and sympathies have as much potential for harm as for good. The bad news is that we are not designed to be kind.
The good news is that we can push ourselves to be kind anyway, together.
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Sapiens: (Patterns of Life)
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us.
We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history - from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age - and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.
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Penguin Reader Level 2: The Extraordinary Life of Malala Yousafzai
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
Visit the Penguin Readers website
Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.
Malala Yousafzai lived in Pakistan where she was one of the best students in her class. But then a group of Islamist extremists called the Taliban came and a war began. Then, one day, two men from the Taliban shot Malala on the bus home from school.
Myths and Legends of the World 1
Bold reader - open your mystical map and get ready to travel through time with 21 dazzling stories of daring and deceit, reward and punishment. Meet gods, goddesses and demigods, serpents, coyotes, talking fish and clever spiders, and cavort with sea nymphs, mystical women, terrifying beasts and volcano people - as you discover different tales of how the world began.
These powerful, fascinating myths and legends will transport you to every corner of the globe. You'll journey from ancient to modern times, from hot climates to freezing temperatures, from mountaintops to seafloors.
The stories in this book link you to past generations; these tales have been passed down through a long line of oral traditions. The souls of ancestors, the lives of heroes and the fates of mortals are waiting to be discovered.
Myths and legends are retold by Alli Brydon and beautifully illustrated by Julia Iredale.
Myths from Africa include:
'The Creation of the World' from the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo
'The Tale of the Ghosts and the Flutes' from the Beba people of Cameroon
'Anansi and the Box of Stories' from the Ashanti people of present-day Ghana
Myths from Europe include:
The Selkies from Scottish mythology
'Athena, Arachne and the Duelling Looms' from Greek mythology
Myths from Asia include:
Lord Ganesh from the Hindu pantheon
'Nyai Loro Kidul, Queen of the Sea' from Indonesian mythology
Myths of Oceania include:
'The Legend of Maui' from Polynesian mythology
Uluru from the Anangu people of Australia
The Rainbow Serpent from the Aboriginal people of Australia
Myths of the Americas include:
'Coyote Steals Fire for the People' from the Native American people of the United States
'The Hero Twins Visit the Underworld' from the Mayan People of Mesoamerica
The Mapinguary from Brazilian mythology
Myths from the Arctic include:
Sedna, the Mother of the Sea from Inuit mythology
Niekija and the Northern Lights from Sami Shamanism
About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!
The Big Sticker Book of Birds
This book is jam-packed with more stickers than a peacock can shake its feathers at. You'll discover birds that soar, hunt, waddle and show off and have all sorts of fun sticking them throughout the book.
But wait, there's more! You can also:
* Design a hoopoe's crown
* Stick the right egg in the nest
* Play a game of Blackbird Bingo
Mauricius, Réunion a Seychely - Lonely Planet, 5. vydání
Mauricius, Réunion a Seychely jsou ostrovy obdarované fantastickou krajinou a idylickými plážemi, a proto jsou tím nejúčinnějším lékem na zimní splín.
S tímto průvodcem z proslulé edice Lonely Planet se dostanete přímo k srdci ostrovů!
Úžasné zážitky inspirativní fotografie, informace o aktivitách a přehled nejzajímavějších míst
Naplánujte si cestu užitečné tipy a nejlepší doporučené trasy vám dávají možnost sestavit si cestu podle svých představ
Mimo známé trasy naši autoři pro vás odhalují skrytá místa, čímž vám pomáhají zažít něco jedinečného
Zvláštní kapitoly
Nejlepší potápěčská místa
Pěší turistika na Réunionu
Malebné vyjížďky a výlety lodí
Doporučené trasy po ostrovech
Říkáme to tak, jak to je
Našim informacím můžete věřit, protože autoři Lonely Planet osobně navštěvují místa, o nichž píšou. Nepřijímáme žádné protislužby za pozitivní hodnocení, a můžete se proto spolehnout na to, že jsme absolutně objektivní.
The Monk of Mokha
From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war
Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the U.S. embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.
The Monk of Mokha is the story of this courageous and visionary young man following the most American of dreams.
'Extraordinary... No story is more urgent' Observer
'Dramatic, aspirational smartly and engagingly written... Exactly what I want to read right now' The Times
'The antidote to Trumpism... This is a book that celebrates [the] exuberance of the human spirit' Mail on Sunday
'This book... is about the American dream, and the threat that it is under' Spectator
'Remarkable... full of derring-do, tenacity and exceptional luck' Metro
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Českem cestou necestou
Vydejte se společně s autorem na cestu nejkrásnějšími místy České republiky, těmi známými i těmi, které zatím unikají pozornosti cestovatelů. Nechte se inspirovat knihou plnou fotografií, doplněnou o osobní prožitky zkušeného cestovatele. Výběr jednotlivých kapitol knihy nabízí pestrou mozaiku krajinných a přírodních krás, ročních období a pozoruhodných cílů. V knize se vydáme po stopách Jakuba Skláře, navštívíme Šumavu, Brdy, Slavkovský les a mnoho dalších úchvatných míst. Kniha je doplněna o mapu každé trasy a informace o zajímavostech v dané oblasti.
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn's hedge fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing why the $6 billion hedge fund decided to short shares of Allied Capital and how Allied responded with a Washington, D.C. - style spin-job-attacking Einhorn and disseminating half-truths and outright lies.
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Flight Of Cornelia Blackwood
What has happened to Cornelia Blackwood?
She has a loving marriage. But she has no friends.
Everyone knows her name. But no one will speak to her now.
Cornelia Blackwood has unravelled once before. Can she stop it from happening again?
From a supremely talented storyteller, The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood is a powerful novel of motherhood, loss and loneliness and how we can make damaging choices when pushed to our emotional edge. A paperback bestseller with her debut novel, The Things We Never Said, and nominated for an RNA Award in 2014, Susan Elliot Wright has written a truly important novel that explores the dark depths of psychosis with honesty and sensitivity.
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Mapa Star Map of the Sky
Dizajnová mapa nočnej oblohy so žiariacimi hviezdami posunie vaše myšlienky do nových rozmerov. Prevedie vás nekonečným hviezdnym nebom, pomôže vám nájsť vaše znamenie zverokruhu a umožní vám preskúmať galaxiu v celej jej vznešenosti. V noci vďaka fosforeskujúcej vrstve zažijete naozajstný blikot súhvezdí. Mapa Star Map of the Sky sa hodí ako perfektný darček pre romantické ženy, zvedavých mužov a všetkých, ktorých fascinuje s ničím neporovnateľná krása vesmíru.
Dominantou magickej mapy Star Map of the Sky je nekonečná a dych berúca nočná vesmírna obloha. Súhvezdia, Mliečna dráha a slnečná sústava sa vám v celej svojej kráse objavia predovšetkým v noci, keď všetky hviezdy žiaria do tmy vďaka fosforeskujúcej vrstve. Mapa Star Map of the Sky bude vašim osobným sprievodcom vesmírom a učiteľom všeobecnej astronómie. Vďaka nej sa dozviete viac o slnečnej sústave a populárnych súhvezdiach.
Vďaka netradičnému a luxusnému dizajnu je mapa skvelou dekoráciou do domova i kancelárie. Je vyhotovená v príjemnej tmavomodrej farbe s využitím žiarivého fosforu, vďaka ktorému hviezdy svietia v tme. Mapa je vyrobená z laminovaného papiera, ktorý pomáha udržať sýte farby a formu po celé roky. Súčasťou balenia je i súprava veselých tematických samolepiek, ktorými si môžete zaujímavo ozvláštniť svoj mobil, notebook, diár a ďalšie osobné predmety.
Mapa Star Map of the Sky vnesie do vášho domova kúsok mágie a vesmírnych záhad. Len čo Slnko zájde za obzor, hviezdy sa prebudia. Nádherný dekór navodzuje relaxáciu mysle a podporuje pokojné zaspávanie.
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The Glorious Life of the Oak
AS FEATURED ON 'BBC RADIO 4 'GOOD READS'.
Woodlands Awards 2019: Woodland Books of the Year
'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'
The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain.
Many of our ancestors - the Angles, the Saxons, the Norse - came to the British Isles in longships made of oak. For centuries the oak touched every part of a Briton's life - from cradle to coffin It was oak that made the 'wooden walls' of Nelson's navy, and the navy that allowed Britain to rule the world. Even in the digital Apple age, the real oak has resonance - the word speaks of fortitude, antiquity, pastoralism.
The Glorious Life of the Oak explores our long relationship with this iconic tree; it considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories from folklore, myth and legend.
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The Hobbit: The Prelude To The Lord Of The Rings
This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected...
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day, to whisk him away on a journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
The prelude to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HOBBIT has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
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The Language of Kindness
`It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt
Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness.
We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient's agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive.
In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is with us. She is a guide, mentor and friend. And in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand.
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The Science of Storytelling
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book’ Sunday Times
‘The best book on the craft of storytelling I’ve ever read’ Matt Haig
‘Rarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything I’ve ever read, seen or written. A masterpiece’ Adam Rutherford
Who would we be without stories?
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human.
There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story – from Joseph Campbell’s well-worn theories about myth and archetype to recent attempts to crack the ‘Bestseller Code’. But few have used a scientific approach. This is curious, for if we are to truly understand storytelling in its grandest sense, we must first come to understand the ultimate storyteller – the human brain.
In this scalpel-sharp, thought-provoking book, Will Storr demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, leading us on a journey from the Hebrew scriptures to Mr Men, from Booker Prize-winning literature to box set TV. Applying dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to the foundations of our myths and archetypes, he shows how we can use these tools to tell better stories – and make sense of our chaotic modern world.
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A Return of Devotion
Daphne Blakemoor was perfectly happy living in her own secluded world for twelve years. She had everything she needed--loved ones, a true home, and time to indulge her imagination. But when ownership of the estate where she works as a housekeeper passes on, and the new marquis has an undeniable connection to her past, everything she's come to rely upon is threatened.
William, Marquis of Chemsford's main goal in life is to be the exact opposite of his father. Starting a new life in the peace and quiet of the country sounds perfect until his housekeeper turns his life upside down.
They've spent their lives hiding from the past. Can they find the courage to face their deepest wounds and, perhaps, find a new path for the future together?
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Nejkrásnější staré mapy
Kniha obsahuje nejkrásnější staré mapy celého světa – Evropy, Asie a Afriky, Ameriky, a také mapy hvězdné oblohy a kartografické kuriozity včetně smyšlených map.
Kniha má nezvykle velký formát A3 a je sešitá sponkami, které lze lehce odstranit. Díky tomu si můžete libovolnou mapu zvlášť vyjmout a dát jako obrázek na zeď nebo pod sklo na stůl.
Nechte se přitáhnout starými časy.
Airhead - The Imperfect Art of Making News
'[Emily] is so absolutely of the moment. Airhead is a compilation of her greatest hits . . . hilarious' Evening Standard
News Presenter of the Year Emily Maitlis gives you a behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest news stories and interviews of recent years.
INCLUDING A NEW CHAPTER ON HER NEWSNIGHT INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ANDREW
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'Deliciously funny . . . Irresistible' The Times
In this no holds barred account of life in the seconds before, during and after going on air, Newsnight presenter, leading journalist, and queen of the side eye Emily Maitlis gives us the insider info on what we don't get to see on-screen.
Giving us the inside scoop on her interviews with everyone from Emma Thompson to Russell Brand, and Donald Trump to Tony Blair, as well as covering news stories such as President Clinton's affairs, Boris Johnson's race to PM, Grenfell, #MeToo, and the Paris terror attacks.
Airhead is a brilliant expose of the moments that never make the news.
'Anyone who has spent this election campaign shouting at the TV needs a copy in their Christmas stocking. It's funny and subtly smart' GUARDIAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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The Crap Hound Big Book Of Unhappiness
Are you unhappy? You're not alone. Unhappiness stalks us all, from that first painful slap in the delivery room to the final sorrow of a graveside service. Rather than attempt to alleviate or rise above life's trauma, the Crap Hound Big Book of Unhappiness instead enthusiastically catalogs popular culture's attempts to illustrate, channel, and finally exploit our anxieties. Editor Sean Tejaratchi arranges this monumental tome with an artful eye, documenting and teasing out the patterns in popular depictions of human suffering. Between a brief introduction and the end credits, The CrapHound Big Book of Unhappiness is pure vintage 20th Century imagery, carefully collected from old catalogs, advertising, obscure books, and found ephemera. Its emotionally painful mixture of social commentary and somewhat overindulgent graphic design is intended for education and reference only.
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