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The Double X Economy
Modern slavery is 71% female.
80% of the earth's farmable surface is owned by men.
UK women lose GBP140 billion a year in wages to the gender pay gap - the equivalent of GBP10,000 each.
WHEN WE FAIL WOMEN, WE ALL LOSE
Allowing women farmers the same resources as men would reduce the number of chronically hungry by up to 150 million.
Giving female entrepreneurs in Britain equal access to capital would add GBP250 billion to the economy.
The global economy's wealth would be GBP160 trillion higher if the gender pay gap were closed.
WHEN WE EMPOWER WOMEN, WE ALL WIN
IT'S TIME TO UNLOCK THE POWER OF THE DOUBLE X ECONOMY
The Double X Economy describes both the shocking gender inequalities built into the global economy, and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to turn these around and combat humankind's most pressing problems. Promoting women's economic empowerment will dramatically boost social, financial and environmental conditions for everybody around the world. Provocative, accessible and game-changing, The Double X Economy is at once an expert analysis and an urgent call to action.
ARE YOU READY?
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Love is Blind
Love is Blindis William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life.
When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life.
In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth.
Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away.
At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.
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Blind Spot
The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography. Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.
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Sherlock: The Blind Banker
Manga adaptation of the second Sherlock BBC episode starring worldwide superstars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit).
A mysterious break-in at a bank… Some enigmatic symbols… Hidden dangers… Could the case of the ‘Blind Banker’ be too dangerous even for Holmes and Watson to handle?
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The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1941-1966
'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' Observer
The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million. As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and 'perhaps the world's authority on all things Dylan' (Rolling Stone) - to assess the material they had been given. What he found in Tulsa - as well as what he gleaned from other papers he had recently been given access to by Sony and the Dylan office - so changed his understanding of the artist, especially of his creative process, that he became convinced that a whole new biography was needed. It turns out that much of what previous biographers - Dylan himself included - have said is wrong; often as not, a case of, Print the Legend.
With fresh and revealing information on every page A Restless, Hungry Feeling tells the story of Dylan's meteoric rise to fame: his arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman of a generation whose protest songs provide the soundtrack for the burgeoning Civil Rights movement; his alleged betrayal when he 'goes electric' at Newport in 1965; his subsequent controversial world tour with a rock 'n' roll band; and the recording of his three undisputed electric masterpieces: Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. At the peak of his fame in July 1966 he reportedly crashes his motorbike in Woodstock, upstate New York, and disappears from public view. When he re-emerges, he looks different, his voice sounds different, his songs are different. That other story will be told in Volume 2, to be published in autumn 2022.
Clinton Heylin's meticulously researched, all-encompassing and consistently revelatory account of these fascinating early years is the closest we will ever get to a definitive life of an artist who has been the lodestar of popular culture for six decades.
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Unravelling the Double Helix
Unravelling the Double Helixcovers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the late 1860s to the landmark publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the advent of the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, X-ray crystallography and the atom bomb as well as two devastating world wars - events which are strung along the narrative thread of DNA like beads on a necklace.
The story of DNA is a saga packed with awful mistakes as well as brilliant science, with a wonderful cast of heroes and villains. Surprisingly, much of it is unfamiliar.
The elucidation of the double helix was one of the most brilliant gems of twentieth-century science, but some of the scientists who played crucial roles have been airbrushed out of history. Others were plunged into darkness when the spotlight fell on James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. Watson and Crick solved a magnificent mystery, but Gareth Williams shows that their contribution was to click into place the last few pieces of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle assembled over several decades.
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Blind Watchmaker
From the author of "The God Delusion", Richard Dawkins' "The Blind Watchmaker" has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paleys argued in "Natural Theology" that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Dawkins, and in this brilliant and controversial book, the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 'I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence'. To Dawkins, "The Blind Watchmaker" is nature itself, gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA. "This might just be the most important evolution book since Darwin". (John Gribbin). "Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ...his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life". ("The Times"). "Enchantingly witty and persusive ...pleasurably intelligible to the scientifically illiterate". ("Observer"). Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books: "The Extended Phenotype", "The Blind Watchmaker", "River Out of Eden", "Unweaving the Rainbow", and an impassioned defence of atheism, "The God Delusion".
Blind Assassin
From the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Handmaid's Tale
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious deatha possible suicideof a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura's sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family's history.
Intertwined with Iris's account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet. These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that
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Blind Giant
The digital age. An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community. Where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly into our lives, destroying what it means to be human. Or an age of marvels. Where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips. Where we can communicate across the globe, learn in the blink of an eye, pull down the barriers that divide us and move forward together. Whatever your reaction to technological culture, the speed with which our world is changing is both mesmerising and challenging. In The Blind Giant, novelist and tech blogger Nick Harkaway draws together fascinating and disparate ideas to challenge the notion that digital culture is the source of all our modern ills, while at the same time showing where the dangers are real and suggesting how they can be combated. Ultimately, the choice is ours: engage with the machines that we have created, or risk creating a world which is designed for corporations and computers rather than people. This is an essential handbook for everyone trying to be human in a digital age.
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Old Man Hawkeye 2 The Whole World Blind
Witness the fall of the super heroes! An aging Clint Barton has been on a mission to hunt down the Thunderbolts who betrayed him...now see exactly what happened on that fateful date 45 years ago, in all of its bloody detail! Then, Hawkeye and Hawkeye are together again! But as Clint and Kate Bishop make their way across the Wastelands, what will their confrontation with Songbird reveal? Meanwhile, the Red Skull's secret weapon is revealed - and it's none other than the Winter Soldier! And the moment you've been waiting for: Hawkeye vs. Bullseye! But with Clint's deteriorated sight, what chance does he have against the marksman who never misses? COLLECTING: OLD MAN HAWKEYE 7-12
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Ako to s ním zvládnuť
Čo sa v našich životoch stane, že nám vzťahy prestávajú fungovať podľa našich predstáv? Stretneme skvelého človeka a úplne očarení s ním nadviažeme vzťah. No po čase býva mnohé inak.
Prichádzajú prvé nedorozumenia. Rozdielne názory, iné priority, či iné vnímanie reality. Často to otrasie prvotným nadšením, ktoré sa niekedy úplne vytratí.
Poviete si, to je normálne, zamilovanosť po čase pominie. Ale čo ak je niekedy iba potlačená tým, že odrazu vnímame toho druhého inak? Začíname sa totiž upriamovať na iné veci.
Predstavte si, že by ste si so svojim partnerom rozumeli úplne vo všetkom. Dá sa také niečo vôbec dosiahnuť? Pravdepodobne nie, dá sa však tomu priblížiť.
Váš partner má inú kombináciu hormónov ako vy. Má inú povahu, iné vlastnosti, iné túžby a iné životné skúsenosti. Keď to všetko spočítame, je takmer iným biologickým druhom. Je vlastne divné, že vám to vôbec spolu funguje.
Ešte stále si myslíte, že by ste si teda mali tak ľahko rozumieť?
Aj keď som vás práve schladil, tajne dúfam, že áno. Ale zadarmo to nebude. Bude to stáť množstvo snaženia a energie, ktorú do toho budete musieť obaja dať.
Vzťah nie je len o harmónii a romantike na lúke s jarnými kvetmi, šampanským a jahodami. Občas teda áno. V skutočnosti je ale často o zvládaní rozdielov medzi vami a hľadaní spoločnej reči.
Ako to však zvládnuť, keď on vám nie vždy rozumie? A vám sa jeho správanie zdá ako nepochopiteľné?
Je to preto, že hovoríte každý iným jazykom.
Máte iné myšlienkové pochody, inú logiku, iné vnímanie sveta.
A tou pointou je, pochopiť toho druhého. Nechce sa vám? Chápem, je to niekedy náročné. Pokojne to môžete celé zavrhnúť, alebo sa môžete rozhodnúť byť sama. Alebo môžete tvrdohlavo povedať, nech sa snaží on, veď je predsa muž a mal by vás dobýjať.
Sklamem vás. On je muž a on to až tak neanalyzuje. Nie je to totiž naša silná stránka.
Ak teda chcete zažiť lásku, celoživotný uragán citov, vezmite to do rúk vy. Zariaďte to a zmanažujte. Naučte to vás oboch zvládnuť, pretože on to nebude chcieť urobiť. Bude mu to trápne, je predsa muž .
Viem, ako myslí väčšina z nás a viem, aké sú naše silné stránky aj slabiny. A starať sa o to, aby vzťah fungoval, medzi naše hajlajty nepatrí.
Ak na to kývnete, potrebujete mu po prvé porozumieť. Po ďalšie, potrebujete byť porozumená vy sama a potrebujte vedieť zaobchádzať s tvorom, ktorý je úplne iný ako vy. A volá sa muž, pre istotu pripomínam...
Ak máte pocit, že to komplikujem, sama si odpovedzte, či existuje niečo komplikovanejšie, ako medziľudské vzťahy. No buď ich zvládnete, alebo zatrpknete.
V knihe Ako to s ním zvládnuť sa dozviete, ako to všetko vlastne je. Bez servítky, bez obhajovania, na rovinu. Ako to funguje, aj prečo to niekedy nefunguje. Dozviete sa, na čom najčastejšie padajú partnerské vzťahy a ako to zvrátiť.
Zistíte, ako ľahko sa dajú robiť vo vzťahu chyby a aké majú následky. Ale taktiež, ako to celé napraviť , zvrátiť a dostať to opäť do skvelej kondície.
Táto kniha vám pomôže porozumieť mužom. Tiež vám pomôže, aby oni lepšie rozumeli vám. Aby ste boli pochopená, rešpektovaná, tiež aj milovaná a hlavne šťastná.
S láskou, Marek Zajac, autor.
Blind Eye
The new Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Flesh House. Aberdeen´s growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites --
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Blind Faith
Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith. Imagine it. Or just wait until After The Flood. On a hot Sagittarian morning in the year 56 ATF, Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of near-naked commuters. He is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide? Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?
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Blind spot
Bernadette Saint Clare is an FBI agent with a difference: she has an unerring but uncanny knack for apprehending killers. Her ability makes her a dangerous maverick in the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Her reward is a backwater posting to Minnesota, but on her very first day a mutilated body is found: the killing is the work of a vigilante killer intent on settling old scores. Soon more bodies appear up and down the Mississippi. All are evildoers who have preyed on the innocent. Forensic investigation is too slow for the dizzying sequence of events that now take place. Bernadette is catapulted from the heart-stopping sequence of slayings into a chase where stalker and prey swap places and where she will be taken to the very brink of sanity.
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Blind eye
Frank Corso and Meg Dougherty, caught in a near-fatal blizzard, take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse, where they find a family of corpses under the floorboards in the barn. The search for the killer leads them on a cross-country quest to find a serial killer unlike any they've ever encountered before.
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Double
This is an official tie-in edition to accompany Richard Ayoade's brilliant new film based on Dostoyevsky's deliciously dark and slyly funny novel. The Double stars Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre) with support from Chris O'Dowd, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Tim Key and Chris Morris. A lonely government clerk - shy, awkward, blundering - finds himself pursued by a mysterious stranger. Somehow he looks familiar. In fact, he realizes, he looks exactly like him. He even has the same name. But, unlike him, he is charming and confident. Soon the stranger starts insinuating himself into his life. He works at his office, stays at his apartment, ingratiates himself with his colleagues. No one seems surprised. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a double, or something darker altogether? Moscow-born Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) served time in a convict prison in Siberia for his political alliances, and in his later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His many brilliant novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronald Wilks has translated numerous Russian volumes for Penguin Classics, including works by Chekhov, Sologub, Tolstoy and Gogol. If you enjoy this novel, you may want to read more by Dostoyevsky - his major novels and stories are all available in Penguin Classics, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler and Other Stories, The Idiot, Demons, Netochka Nezvanova, The Brothers Karamazov, Poor Folk and Other Stories, The House of the Dead and The Village of Stepanchikovo.
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Art of Baking Blind
'Clever and compelling. I loved this!' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina There are many reasons to bake: to feed; to create; to impress; to nourish; to define ourselves; and, sometimes, it has to be said, to perfect. But often we bake to fill a hunger that would be better filled by a simple gesture from a dear one. We bake to love and be loved. In 1966, Kathleen Eaden, cookery writer and wife of a supermarket magnate, published The Art of Baking, her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries, biscuits and cakes. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs Eaden. There's Jenny, facing an empty nest now her family has flown; Claire, who has sacrificed her dreams for her daughter; Mike, trying to parent his two kids after his wife's death; Vicki, who has dropped everything to be at home with her baby boy; and Karen, perfect Karen, who knows what it's like to have nothing and is determined her facade shouldn't slip. As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, making the choicest choux bun seems the least of the contestants' problems. For they will learn - as Mrs Eaden did before them - that while perfection is possible in the kitchen, it's very much harder in life.
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Double Dexter
A witness. Such a simple concept - and yet for Dexter Morgan, a perfectly well-disguised serial killer, the possibility of a witness is terrifying. As an upstanding blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police, Dexter has always managed to keep the darker side of his life out of the spotlight. An expert at finding truly bad people - murderers who've long escaped justice - and giving them his own special attention. But now someone has seen him in the act. Dexter is being followed, manipulated and mimicked, leading him to realise that no one likes to have a double - especially when his double's goal is to kill him. Like the five previously bestselling novels in the Dexter series, Jeff Lindsay demonstrates the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Dexter to international success.
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Double Act
Eve Karpf reads Jacqueline Wilson's Double Act in this unabridged three-cassette audio book. Identical twins Ruby and Garnet are inseparable. They do everything together and go everywhere together. They love being twins, and since the death of their
mother they have been closer than ever, safe in their little world. But when Dad finds a new girlfriend everything in the twins' lives is turned upside down--new home, new school, new everything. And gradually, being twins isn't quite the same anymor
e. In Double Act, Wilson brilliantly captures the pain and uncertainty that change can bring. This story of two little girls gradually realising that they have no control over what is happening is both funny and poignant. Wilson shines as the twins b
egin to accept that things will never be quite the same, allowing her characters to grow and develop as individuals without ever losing sight of the bond that holds them together. Running time is three hours and 40 minutes. --Susan Harrison--This tex
t refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.