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Learned By Heart
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last forever.
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. The question Eliza’s been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth, and all at once she’s not scared to let it out, not scared at all, not scared of anything . . .
In 1805 fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a schoolgirl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished from Madras to this unfamiliar country at the age of six. At the Manor School she keeps her head down and follows all the rules, until the arrival of a charismatic and fearless new student, Anne Lister. The two outsiders are thrown together and soon Eliza's life is turned upside down by this remarkable young woman.
Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking true story of two women whose unlikely relationship will change them for ever.
The Nicomachean Ethics
In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our flourishing as members of a community, and ones that allow us to engage in god-like contemplation. Contemporary ethical writings on the role and importance of the moral virtues such as courage and justice have drawn inspiration from this work, which also contains important discussions on responsibility for actions, on the nature of practical reasoning, and on friendship and its role in the best life.
This new edition retains and lightly revises David Ross's justly admired translation. It also includes a valuable introduction to this seminal work, and notes designed to elucidate Aristotle's arguments.
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What's Eating Us
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women.
Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to discover why her own full recovery from an eating disorder felt so impossible. Interviewing women across the country as well as the world’s most renowned researchers, she discovered that most people with eating disorders never receive treatment––the fact that she did made her one of the lucky ones.
Kazdin takes us to the doorstep of the diet industry and research community, exposing the flawed systems that claim to be helping us, and revealing disordered eating for the crisis that it is: a mental illness with the second highest mortality rate (after opioid-related deaths) that no one wants to talk about. Along the way, she identifies new treatments not yet available to the general public, grass roots movements to correct racial disparities in care, and strategies for navigating true health while still living in a dysfunctional world.
What would it feel like to be free? To feel gorgeous in your body, not ruminate about food, feel ease at meals, exercise with no regard for calories-burned? To never making a disparaging comment about your body again, even silently to yourself. Who can help us with this? We can.
What's Eating Us is an urgent battle cry coupled with stories and strategies about what works and how to finally heal?for real.
Our Biggest Experiment
It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and women's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention.
Our Biggest Experiment tells Foote's story, along with stories of the many other scientists who helped to build our modern understanding of climate change. It also chronicles our energy system, from whale oil to kerosene and beyond -- the first steamships, wind turbines, electric cars, oil tankers and fridges. Alice Bell takes us back to climate change science's earliest steps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the advancing realisation that global warming was a significant problem in the 1950s and right up to today, where we have seen the growth of the environmental movement, climate scepticism and political responses like the UN climate talks.
As citizens of the twenty-first century, it can feel like history has dealt us a rather bad hand in the climate crisis. In many ways, this is true. Our ancestors have left us an almighty mess. But they left us tools for survival too, and Our Biggest Experiment tells both sides of the story. The message of the book is ultimately hopeful; harnessing the ingenuity and intelligence that has long driven the history of climate change research can mean a more sustainable and bearable future for humanity.
Optimal
Bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman & Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of EI to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction, offering a roadmap to being at your best, every day.
There are moments when we achieve peak performance- an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often fleeting, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfillment doesn't come from isolated peak experiences, or elusive 'flow' states, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?
In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you've had a productive day - to consistently work at your 'optimal' level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.
Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity and more satisfying days. In this book, you'll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.
Duett
Egy németországi faluban a fiatal Ellie operaénekesi karrierről dédelget csillogó álmokat. Nagyravágyó ambíciói rengeteg csalódást, sóvárgást és bánatot hoznak majd számára. Londonban a tinédzser Angie megszökik otthonról és Penny Bright néven a popszínpadok ünnepelt kedvence lesz. De egy durva támadás után a félelem és a drog foglyává válik.
Az egyik nő elrabolja a másik életét, miközben elveszíti a legnagyobb szerelmét. A másik megpróbál elmenekülni a múltja elől, de nem tudja elkerülni, hogy szembenézzen a legsötétebb emlékeivel. És mindkettejük élete szorosan összefonódik egy zenei producer ambiciózus terveivel.
London ragyogó rockéletének díszleteitől Európa operaházainak színpadáig, egy kies görög szigettől isten háta mögötti ausztrál tengerparti vidékig követhetjük nyomon Ellie és Angie történetét. A duett utolsó hangjai azonban csak a szívszorító végkifejletkor hangozhatnak el, amikor visszatérnek a múlt követelő árnyai.
Copy Machine Manifestos
The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice.
Copy Machine Manifestos captures the rich history of artists' zines as never before, placing them in the lineage of the visual arts and exploring their vibrant growth over the past five decades. Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Bruce LaBruce, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this expansive book, bound as a paperback with a separate jacket, focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970.
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Last Stop Tokyo
The funny thing with suffering is just when you think you’ve suffered enough, you realize it’s only the beginning.
Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he’s made and the people he’s hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex.
The bright lights and dark corners of this alien and fascinating city intoxicate him, and he finds himself transfixed by this country, which feels like a puzzle that no one can quite explain. And when Alex meets the enigmatic and alluring Naoko, the peace he sought slips ever further from his grasp.
After all, trust is just betrayal waiting to happen and Alex is about to find out that there’s no such thing as rock bottom. There’s always the chance it’ll get worse . . .
Egy év története naplójegyzetekben
Zimándi Pius premontrei szerzetestanár 1944-45-ös naplója hetven év után is izgalmas olvasmány. Pontos képet ad a korabeli politikai csatározásokról, az egy éven belül lezajló háromszori hatalomváltásról, frontok jövés-menéséről, sajtóhírekről és mindenütt terjedő rémhírekről, Budapest ostromának hétköznapjairól, a gödöllői rendház lakóinak háborús hányattatásairól, a korabeli egyházi értelmiség előítéleteiről és félelmeiről – keresztmetszet egy eddig elfeledett, precíziós optikával. Zimándi Pius az általam ismert naplóírók között teljesen egyedi kategóriát képez. Nem társadalmi helyzete miatt: a legtöbb szerző középosztálybeli. Az eddig ismertté vált naplók és visszaemlékezések alapvetően két csoportra bonthatók. Szerzőik egy része baloldali indíttatású, vagy a keresztény középosztály kultúrájával szemben komoly kritikát megfogalmazó személy, mint például Gyarmati Fanni vagy Márai Sándor; vagy viszonylag apolitikus, elsősorban a konkrét események leírására szorítkozó, sokszor fiatalkorú szemtanú. Olyan szerző naplója azonban, aki a keresztény középosztály 1944-45-ös hangulatát különösebb távolságtartás nélkül visszaadta volna, még nem jelent meg nyomtatásban. Ez a körülmény adja Zimándi Pius írásának legnagyobb feszültségét [] A naplóíró számos, másutt eddig nem tárgyalt részletről is ír; [] munkája gazdag történelmi forrás. (Ungváry Krisztián)
Baby's First Zodiac
A bright and colorful introduction to astrology for little ones!
Inspire babies and toddlers with the wonder of the zodiac! Baby's First Zodiac introduces readers to each of the twelve signs and their very best qualities, from spirited Aries to gentle Pisces. Sweet rhymes and gorgeous art will encourage little ones to explore their own unique traits, interests, and talents, and to learn about the star signs of family members and friends. No matter your sign, Baby's First Zodiac is a delightful reminder all the wonderful things that make you YOU!
Because perhaps part of who you are
is written in the stars,
see what your birth sign has to say about you...
Does any of it ring true?
A perfect gift for new parents and aspiring astrologers of all ages!
My First Farm: Let's Get Working!
Hands-on fun for you and your toddler as you meet everyone on the farm!
Introducing 'My First Farm', a brand-new adorable board book for babies and toddlers, featuring a farmyard full of fun animals for them to explore and love. This engaging board book is packed with bright, colourful pictures and fun-filled activities to get your little ones thinking and talking, and your child will love learning about different farm animals and the noises they make along the way.
Celebrate your child's curiosity, as they uncover:
-Over 180 colourful photographs of farm animals, vehicles, crops and more for little ones to look at with corresponding word labels for them to learn
-Content divided into 13 distinct subject areas so children can easily turn to their favourite aspects of the farm
-Sturdy and chunky board book with safe rounded tabs, thoroughly-tested for babies and toddlers
-Easy to read text with names and descriptions to encourage language development in 0-3 year olds.
So, what noise does a cow make? What's that chugging noise coming from the field? What is a baby sheep called? Your child will be able to answer all of these questions and more with this vibrant board book, a must-have volume for babies and toddlers aged 0-3 to encourage early learning and help your child develop early speaking, listening, and observation skills.
Szerepjátszók
Egy hajóval utazik Haitira a hencegő Mr. Jones, a jóhiszemű, vegetáriánus missziójú Smith házaspár, és Mr. Brown, az elbeszélő. A gyönyörű nők és a gondtalan szórakozás letűnt világába, a 20. század közepén tomboló Doki Papa (Duvalier) diktatúrájába érkeznek. Komédiások valamennyien, maguk választották vagy belekényszerültek, de mindig a túlélésért. A valóság és az ezt alig-alig tudomásul vevő szereplők összeütközéseiből egyre fokozódik a drámai feszültség...
Az események szemtanúja a hűvös, cinikus Mr. Brown, aki megpróbálja fenntartani szállodáját, miközben viszonyt folytat a nagykövet feleségével. Az izgalmas légkörben az író művészien bontja ki a féltékenységgel terhes szerelem és a botcsinálta hőssé váló Jones "őrnagy" történetét.
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We Dug Up the World
You can find AMAZING things when you DIG. Shells, bottle tops and slimy snails. But can you imagine what would happen if one day you dug up something extra special, something that had an amazing story to tell about what life was like a long time ago...
People have found some INCREDIBLE things by digging deep underground. Magnificent mummies from long, long ago. Dinosaur bones washed up on the beach. Beautiful cities buried by volcano ash. Mighty meteors from beyond the Milky Way. And even an ancient poo.
Team up with archaeologists from around the world and travel through time to learn about fantastic historical artefacts. From Tutankhamun's tomb to the Titanic, and dinosaur bones on the beach to Pompeii, children will discover something new on every page and delight in learning about how the world used to be.
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Fremde Bräute
Eine junge Israelin aus Tel Aviv verliebt sich in einen jüdischen Geschäftsmann aus London. Sie heiraten, doch ihr Eheleben im fernen England hat sich Noa anders vorgestellt. Mit kleinen Sünden bringt sie Abwechslung in ihr fades Hausfrauendasein ... Zwöl
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Noragami Stray God 25
The hilarious, thrilling, sometimes tragic supernatural hit manga that inspired two seasons of beautiful anime from Studio Bones!
Ages 16 and up.
A catastrophic battle that will embroil both the heavens and humanity looms as the mighty hunt down Yato, his father, and Yukiné. The icy origins of the blessed vessel begin to unravel, and now, Yukiné struggles to pick a master. Even deeper in the past, however, lies the father’s entanglements with Izanami...
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What I Thought Was True
Addictive, dreamy and contemporary YA romance at its very best! Perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Carley Fortune and Emily Henry
Gwen Castle's Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her idyllic island this summer. He's a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of local fishermen and cleaners. But then Gwen learns something new.
Something unexpected. Sparks fly and secret histories unravel in a gorgeous, restless summer where suddenly the possibilities are endless ...
What I Thought Was True is the perfect holiday read - and one of three addictive contemporary romances by Huntley Fitzpatrick Huntley.
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Boho Style
Bohemian chic is considered the epitome of an unconventional and free-spirited lifestyle: a colourful, playful mix-and-match look meets reduced earth tones, not infrequently combined with unique flea market finds or exotic travel souvenirs. Far removed from any staging, Boho Style exudes real character - and thus casts a spell over interior enthusiasts all over the world. The new coffee table book Boho Style is now dedicated to the cosy statement look and is aimed at all those who want to bring their inner hippie to life.
Text in English and German.
Noragami Stray God 24
The hilarious, thrilling, sometimes tragic supernatural hit manga that inspired two seasons of beautiful anime from Studio Bones!
Ages 16 and up.
THE BATTLE ENSUES
Yato goes head-to-head with his father, but the Yukiné he once knew is nowhere in sight. With his own life on the line, Yato must race against time to save his shinki before Amaterasu and the gods close in on them all. Meanwhile, Ebisu comes upon a discovery that has eluded him for generations…
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The Psychopath Test
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . .
Combining Jon's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges.