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Built
Imagine you woke up one morning to find everything created by engineers had disappeared. What would you see?
No cars, no houses; no phones, bridges or roads. No tunnels under tidal rivers, no soaring skyscrapers. The impact that engineering has had on the human experience is undeniable, but it is also often invisible.
In BUILT, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky. She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious - and elusive - water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials in the Pantheon's record-holding concrete dome and the frame of the record-breaking Eiffel Tower. Through the lens of an engineer, Roma examines tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring people's safety they hold at every step.
With colourful stories of her life-long fascination with buildings - and her own hand-drawn illustrations - Roma reveals the extraordinary secret lives of structures.
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22,33 €
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The Longest Afternoon
The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy
Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and exhausted continent. At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe.
Unknown either to Napoleon or Wellington the battle would be decided by a small, ordinary group of British and German troops given the task of defending the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte. This book tells their extraordinary story, brilliantly recapturing the fear, chaos and chanciness of battle and using previously untapped eye-witness reports. Through determination, cunning and fighting spirit, some four hundred soldiers held off many thousands of French and changed the course of history.
Object-Oriented Ontology - A New Theory of Everything
What is reality, really?
Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?
How does this change the way we understand the world?
We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. At the heart of this philosophy is the idea that objects - whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human or non-human - are mutually autonomous. In this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out the history, ideas and impact of Object-Oriented Ontology, taking in everything from art and literature, politics and natural science along the way.
Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles. A key figure in the contemporary speculative realism movement in philosophy and for his development of the field of object-oriented ontology, he was named by Art Review magazine as one of the 100 most influential figures in international art.
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14,20 €
14,95 €
So Cute It Hurts!!, Vol. 1
The comedy starts when the cross-dressing begins! The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other? But Mego can't rely on just her book smarts in Mitsuru's all-boys, delinquents' paradise of a high school. And Mitsuru finds life as a high school girl to be much more complicated than he expected!
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9,98 €
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Waiting for Robert Capa
A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war and photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, and nonconformist. They had everything in life, and they put everything at risk. They created their own legend and remained faithful to it until the very end! A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle and a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, and photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, and so they become Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. With these new identities, they travel to Spain and begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them -- but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. Based on the true story of these legendary figures and set to be the next film by award-winning director Michael Mann, with Eva Green starring as Taro, WAITING FOR ROBERT CAPA is a moving tribute to all journalists and photographers who lose their lives to show us the world's daily transformations.
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Batman/The Shadow: The Murder Geniuses
As Gotham City's guardian, Batman has investigated nearly every kind of murder--but he's never seen a homicide as strange as this. The worlds of Batman and the legendary vigilante the Shadow collide in this crossover for the ages, co-written by New York Times best-selling author Scott Snyder and now available in paperback!
The death of Lamont Cranston, an Arkham Asylum employee, leads the Dark Knight Detective to an impossible conclusion: the crime was committed by a man also named Lamont Cranston, who died more than 50 years ago--a man better known as the Shadow.
The Shadow is definitely alive and kicking, however, and once Batman picks up his trail he will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. But it soon becomes clear that the hunter and his quarry are both entangled in a much larger web of evil--a conspiracy that threatens everything they have sworn to protect.
Now Batman and the Shadow must put aside their differences to stop a terrifying new foe called the Stag, who has set his sights first on Gotham and then the world. And this merciless monster has a partner of his own: the Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker.
Can the Shadow and the Bat stop this unholy alliance? Or will these two brilliant crime-fighters fall victim to the twisted genius of their archnemeses?
New York Times best-selling author Scott Snyder joins forces with acclaimed talents Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo for Batman/The Shadow: The Murder Geniuses--an action-packed thriller centuries in the making!
Collects Batman Annual #1 and Batman/The Shadow #1-6.
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16,10 €
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Lets Get Lost
Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named Leila. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truthsometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way."
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10,40 €
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Deadpool Classic Vol. 17 Headcanon
They may be alternate reality Deadpools, but they're still just as Mercy and just as Mouthy! Like the Wade Wilson who was part of an ultra-secret special ops team along with allies named Bullseye, Silver Sable and Domino! But a bloody Mexican massacre will leave agent Deadpool with a lot of explaining to do! And how about the Cold War Wade Wilson, codename: Deadpool? He's the CIA's most valuable asset -but also certifiably insane! It's lies, spies and shapely thighs as DP goes Pulp! Then, Wade is a dash of color in a black-and-white world ravaged by zombies. When the dead walk, Deadpool is mankind's only hope -but if he triumphs, who will save us from him? COLLECTING: DEADPOOL: WADE WILSON'S WAR 1-4, DEADPOOL PULP 1-4, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL 1-4, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL 1-4
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31,83 €
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Human Acts
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice. An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.
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9,50 €
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Szökésben
"Én voltam a legautentikusabb rock and roll fej a nyolcvanas években" - állítja magáról Dénes József, ismertebb nevén Dönci, a pesti underground fenegyereke. Dolgozott nyomdai segédmunkásként, öltözőőrként és könyvárusként is, de elsősorban mégiscsak gitáros volt. Számára a zene jelentette az életet. Ám amikor érezte, hogy közeledik az utolsó dal, lecsavarta az erősítőt, és befelé kezdett fülelni. És írt egy könyvet. A hetvenes-nyolcvanas évek jassznyelvén, prédikátori éleslátással az igazán lényeges dolgokról. A gyógyszerezős korszakról, a Kassák klubos bandákról és a Hit Gyülekezetében eltöltött éveiről. A Sváb- és a Szabadság-hegyről, Amszterdamról, Nagy-Britanniáról, és arról, milyen jó volt mégis mindig visszatérni a golyóluggatta, málló ferencvárosi falak közé. Arról, milyen érzés volt bekerülni a "pasarétiek" zenekarába, és miképp ismerkedett meg a szakállas szürkeállománnyal. Arról, mi történik, ha egy férfi úgy istenigazából beleszeret egy nőbe, és micsoda, ha a nő már nem szereti többé. Legfőképpen pedig arról, képes-e beilleszkedni egy örök kívülálló bármilyen közösségbe, vagy kilökődik, mint a bőr alá fúródó szálka? Lehetünk-e egy életen át szökésben?
"Hogy mennyire ismerjük fel a köztünk élő zsenit, döntse el a hálás utókor." (Víg Mihály)
"Dönci, a zeneszerző, a gitárvirtuóz. Az echte ferencvárosi pestisrác. Az érző, intellektuális hajlamú kereső, a mosókonyhai levegőjű munkássorról. Dönci, az egyetlen, aki közülünk akkor igazán zenélni tudott, akitől magam is tanulgattam. Dönci, a barát. Az intézeti múlt mély sebei miatt néha másokon is sebeket ejtett, mégse lehetett rá hosszan haragudni. Végül tán ez a kihordhatatlan fájdalom rántotta vissza őt ugyanabba a spirálba, amiből a 80-as években már egyszer kiszabadult. Dönci, akinek a fél-háromnegyed árvaság szántotta át lelkét. Az éhező-szomjazó, aki meglepő értelmi képességeivel kitörni készült hátteréből. Dönci, akit a rácsok újra maguk mögé zártak. Megtudtam, hogy végül mégse menthetetlenül. Az utolsó pillanatban szíve még kifért a résen, hogy befogadja Magyarország fölött az ég. Mert megvan írva: Aki az Úr nevét segítségül hívja, az megmenekül." (Pajor Tamás)
"Dönci a barátom volt. Minden mondatából kihallom tudásszomjas, érzékeny, megszállott, esendő, karcos hangját. Mint amikor Bachot játszott konokul a gitárján, a Mester u. 46-ban, a gangra nyíló konyhában az intézetből frissen szabadult fiú. Pontos, tiszta, szép, őszinte, kíméletlen. Egy korszak lenyomata." (Forgách András)
X-Men Inferno Crossovers
As the X-Men's Inferno rages, the Marvel Universe feels the heat! The Avengers have disbanded, but when New York's inanimate objects come to horrific life, Jarvis assembles a surprising new line-up! While the Fantastic Four fight fires, Kang the Conqueror seizes his moment to strike! Spider-Man blames Mysterio for Inferno's weirdness, but soon finds himself battling demons, the Lizard...and his own possessed Thanksgiving parade balloon! Meanwhile, Hobgoblin faces a returned Green Goblin - and N'astirh will transform one of them into Demogoblin! And, as Hell's Kitchen looks more aptly named than ever, Typhoid Mary is in her element - and that's bad news for Daredevil! COLLECTING: AVENGERS (1963) 298-300; FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) 322-324; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) 311-313; SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) 146-148; WEB OF SPIDER-MAN (1985) 47-48; DAREDEVIL (1964) 262-263, 265
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34,15 €
35,95 €
Oneiros
n Leipzig an undertaker named Konstantin Korff harbours a cruel secret. In Minsk an unscrupulous scientist performs questionable experiments. And in Paris a plane that is about to take off crashes into an airport terminal with deadly consequences for its passengers. An investigation into the accident begins immediately, but the results are puzzling: all occupants were dead before the plane hit the building. What the police do not know is that there was one survivor. But even as they blunder into the investigation, Konstantin Korff and the mysterious scientist are already on his trail, all three bound together by the same curse. A curse that makes them a danger to everyone around them.
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11,35 €
11,95 €
Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes
If you like poisonings, betrayals, mutilations, murders and flesh-eating farmyard animals, keep reading...In this gripping follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods, demigod Percy Jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original Greek heroes in all their gory, bloodthirsty glory. Want to know who cut off Medusa's head? Which hero was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus, the winged horse? Percy has all the answers...Rick Riordan is an award-winning writer. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick's first novel featuring the heroic young demigod, was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2006 and is now a blockbuster film franchise, starring Logan Lerman.
The Great Gatsby
**The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition**
With a new foreword by Jesmyn Ward, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Sing, Unburied, Sing
`There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.'
Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century.
Praise for The Great Gatsby:
`A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' Sunday Times
`More than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream' Guardian
`F. Scott Fitzgerald was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation' New York Times
`An unquiet masterpiece whose mystery never fails to exert its power' Robert McCrum, Observer, `The 100 Best Novels in English'
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon
In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. While her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man in the Moon, Minli's mother chides him for filling her head with stories. But inspired by these stories, Minli spends one of her precious copper pennies on a beautiful goldfish, which is said to be able to change the fortune of the owner. Her mother reprimands her for the silly purchase, but, it pays off when the goldfish talks and offers to show her the path to fortune and wealth! Minli is eventually joined by a dragon who can't fly, and together they set out to find the Old Man of the Moon to ask him to fulfill their dreams.
Fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, with timeless elements of the classic The Wizard of Oz mixed in, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a wonderous story of adventure, devotion, and friendship. Grace Lin has once again written a charming, engaging book for young readers.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
The Telomere Effect
A ground breaking book on the history of Telomeres offering fresh advice on how to slow down aging and lengthen life. Nobel prize winning Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn and leading health psychologist Dr Elissa Epel have discovered biological markers called Telomeres which can help to understand how healthy our cells are and what we can do to improve them.
The book specifically looks ideas including; how biological age is not chronological age; a biological basis for the mind-body connection, how sleep and diet can affect telomeres and shockingly how mothers who are highly stressed during pregnancy have children with shorter telomeres. It also offers tools and advice on how to determine cellular age and telomere health.
Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for her discovery of telomeres and their role in the ageing process and has previously been named in TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People.
Dr. Elissa Epel is a leading health psychologist who has conducted pioneering research uncovering the psychobiological mechanisms related to how stress ages us and compromises our health-from emotional eating to unhealthy storage of abdominal fat to telomere shortening.
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12,30 €
12,95 €
Tell Me About Science
Science is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject and a key part of the school curriculum. This handy reference guide uses a question and answer format to explore a variety of topics - from what happens when lightning strikes to who named the planet Pluto, Tell Me About Science explores the all-important workings of the world around us and how it came to be. Children can indulge their curious sides with this easy to use book that covers biology, chemistry and physics as well as the environment, technology and space. Find out when the first telescope was built, why the Wright brothers are remembered and how nuclear weapons work; with a different question on each page, this book will keep children satisfied for hours at a time and help them stay ahead of the game at school.
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12,30 €
12,95 €
Sweet Tooth - Book Two
A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Sweet Tooth tells the story of Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children, who has been raised in isolation following an inexplicable pandemic that struck a decade earlier. Now, with the death of his father he's left to fend for himself...until he meets a hulking drifter named Jepperd who promises to help him. Jepperd and Gus set out on a post-apocalyptic journey into the devastated American landscape to find "The Preserve," a refuge for hybrids. Written by critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-nominated scribe Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth Deluxe Edition Book Two is a new hardcover cut of the best-selling series. It collects issues numbered 14-27.
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24,23 €
25,50 €
The Fault in Our Stars
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Winner of the 2013 Children's Choice Teen Book of the Year Award
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9,98 €
10,50 €