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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.
The Common Reader
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
In her second volume of essays, Virginia Woolf delves deeper into the delights of reading. Here, she explores the novels of Thomas Hardy and Daniel Defoe, and recounts the fascinating lives of Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft. In ‘ How Should One Read a Book?’ she offers sage advice for the common reader, and sheds light on the lessons and pleasures literature can provide.
Published in 1932, The Common Reader: Second Series is a wise and illuminating companion collection to her 1925 First Series. Woolf’s enduring appeal and ideas continue to resonate with readers in the twenty-first century.
Kameň na dne mora/A Stone on the Seabed
Zbierka básní poézie držiteľa Nobelovej ceny, básnika, spisovateľa a umelca Dereka Walcotta. Ilustroval Daniel Brunovský. Derek Walcott sa narodil vo West Indies, bol dlhé roky profesorom na Bostonskej univerzite a pre jeho zbierku esejí, poézie a hier bol náležite považovaný za giganta americkej literatúry.
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Cerith Wyn Evans
A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans is one of today's most respected and acclaimed sculptors. Born in Wales and educated through his first language of Welsgh, his work reflects his fascination with literature, film, music, and philosophy. Evans is an artist interested in language and how this can be perceived in spatial terms.
Originally an experimental filmmaker, in the 1990s Evans started creating sculptures and installations defined by poetic conceptualism and elegant aesthetic forms. Often made of neon light, his pieces subtly disrupt existing systems of communication, either through the subversion and alteration of given spatial forms or by adopting a communal rather than a singular, authoritarian voice.
In 2003 Evans represented Wales at the country’s inaugural pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale. This book, the first comprehensive study dedicated to his work, includes contributions by luminaries such as the former Guggenheim Chief, Nancy Spector and the 2011 Venice Biennale director, Daniel Birnbaum, together with a previously unpublished text by Evans himself.
Berlin
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.
In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.
How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before.
Aby univerzita mala dušu
Esej vysokoškolského pedagóga sa venuje naliehavému problému našej spoločnosti – kvalite univerzít. V eseji vyzýva k výchove všestranných, tvorivých osobností, ktoré sú najväčším bohatstvom univerzít. Kniha je aj návodom, ako „odomykať“ talenty a víziou, ako vdýchnuť „dušu“ univezitám. Kniha je ilustrovaná reprodukciami obrazov Daniela Fischera.
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What You Need to Be Warm
Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.
In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in aid of the UNHCR's winter appeal. It revealed our shared desire to feel safe, welcome and warm in a world that can often feel frightening and lonely.
Now publishing in hardback and illustrated by a group of artists from around the world, What You Need to Be Warm is an exploration of displacement and flight from conflict through the objects and memories that represent warmth. It is about our right to feel safe, whoever we are and wherever we are from. It is about holding out a hand to welcome those who find themselves far from home.
Featuring new, original illustrations from Chris Riddell, Benji Davies, Yuliya Gwilym, Nadine Kaadan, Daniel Egnéus, Pam Smy, Petr Horácek, Beth Suzanna, Bagram Ibatoulline, Marie-Alice Harel, Majid Adin and Richard Jones, with a thought-provoking cover from Oliver Jeffers.
Sales of every copy of this book will help support the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, which helps forcibly displaced communities and stateless people across the world.
The Collector
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society’s annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon?a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions of the world’s most valuable missing painting. General Ferrari asks Gabriel to quietly track down the artwork before the trail goes cold.
“Isn’t that your job?”
“Finding stolen paintings? Technically speaking, yes. But you’re much better at it than we are.”
The painting in question is The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, one of thirteen works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. With the help of a most unlikely ally, a beautiful Danish computer hacker and professional thief, Gabriel soon discovers that the painting has changed hands as part of an illicit billion-dollar business deal involving a man code-named the Collector, an energy executive with close ties to the highest levels of Russian power.
The missing masterpiece is the lynchpin of a conspiracy that if successful, could plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. To foil the plot, Gabriel must carry out a daring heist of his own, with millions of lives hanging in the balance.
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane
The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and its origins in modern law lie with the 'M'Naghten Rules' of 1843, formulated by British judges as a jury instruction in cases where a plea of insanity had been entered. Daniel M'Naghten shot and killed one Edward Drummond, believing him to be the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and was acquitted on the grounds of insanity, and the M'Naghten Rules still exert considerable influence over defences today.
Clearly a plea of insanity in murder cases is of critical importance when the death penalty is still applied, and even today it may still be the difference between a life sentence in a high-security prison, or an indeterminate one in a secure psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, 27 of the USA's 50 states have retained or readopted the death penalty, and at least 54 other countries, including China, Russia, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, also retain it.
Naturally, a criminal who was liable to swing for murder could, and sometimes did, make every attempt to appear insane, and this book examines some of these cases, as well as trials in which the accused was indeed judged to be insane. The failure rate is high; of seven American serial killers who deployed the defence in their trials, only two were successful, ending their days in secure psychiatric facilities; two were executed, and the other three either died or were killed while serving full-life sentences, or are still in gaol.
Superman: Son of Kal-El Vol. 1: The Truth
A new Man of Steel for a new era! Jonathan Kent dons his father’s cape as the 21st century Superman, from the bestselling writer of DCeased and Injustice!
Jonathan Kent has experienced a lot in his young life. He’s fought evil with Robin, traveled across galaxies with his Kryptonian grandfather, and lived in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, who were intent on training him for the day his father could no longer be Superman.
There is a hole in the Legion’s history that prevents Jon from knowing exactly when that will happen, but all signs point to it being very soon. It’s time for the son to wear his father's cape and continue the never-ending battle as a symbol of hope for his home planet.
But can Jon be Superman and still have a normal life? The son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane will learn the hard way as he heads to college and combats the dangers of the modern world.
Superstar writer Tom Taylor (DCeased, Injustice) teams with visionary artist John Timms (Future State: Superman of Metropolis) to tell the saga of the 21st century Superman!
This volume collects Superman: Son of Kal-El #1-6.
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Lacná kniha Vo svojich stupajach
Vo svojich stupajach - Básnické dielo Ivana Štrpku a hodnotové kritériá
Zborník štúdií zo seminára o diele Ivana Štrpku, ktorý pripravila Literárna nadácia STUDŇA v spolupráci s Poľským inštitútom v Bratislave 3. 12. 2004. Autormi jednotlivých príspevkov sú Andrea Bokníková, Juraj Briškár, Mária Deďová, Ján Gavura, Daniel Hevier, Milan Hamada, Mila Haugová, Ivan Laučík, Erik Markovič, Vlado Pisár, Peter Repka, Lucyna Spyrka, Ladislav Šimon, Anna Šimonová, Ivan Štrpka, Zvonko Taneski, Dušan Teplan, Jiří Trávníček.
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before.
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed.
Until age 11, Herzog did not even know of the existence of cinema. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. He started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. The wildly productive working life that followed—spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction—was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
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Vápence Slovenska 1. časť
Vápence sú takou bohatou a rozmanitou skupinou, že ich bolo potrebné rozdeliť. Tento zväzok "Vápence Slovenska - I. časť" obsahuje biohermné, krinoidové, sladkovodné, ooidové a onkoidové vápence. Zväzok "Vápence Slovenska - II. časť" bude zahrňova
ť plytkovodné mikritové vápence, pelagické mikritové vápence a červené hľuznaté vápence.
Milan Mišík, Daniela Reháková
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Street Art by Women
A recognition of graffiti and street art by women from around the world
This book showcases the work of more than 50 female graffiti artists, street artists and muralists from all over the world who are dedicated to reclaiming public space and enriching our urban environments with work that explores personal experience and cultural identity, alongside dreams and aspirations of a better world for all. Alongside stunning imagery, readers are offered interviews with each artist, which tell of their personal experience and offer insight into how these women have fought to find their place in a male-dominated art form and continue to fight to break free of the inequalities that linger in our society today, which continue to affect women’s rights in all aspects of life. Inspiring and thought-provoking, this thoroughly illustrated book will motivate the reader to seek out diverse street art in our cities, pointing towards a fairer world.
PARTICIPANTS. Argentina: Agus Rucula, Hola Pum Pum, K2man, Milu Correch. Australia: Danielle Weber, Vexta. Belarus: Julia Yu Baba. Brazil: Magrela. Canada: Emily Read, Priscilla Yu. Chile: Anis88. Colombia: Ledania, Mugre Diamante. Equador: Mo Vasquez. France: Claire Prouvost, Emyart, Mademoiselle Kat, Wuna (+Canada), Zabou (+UK), Zoia. Finland: Camilla Siren, Anetta Lukjanova (+Spain). Germany: Minas. Italy: Alice Pasquini, Rame13, Vera Bugatti. Mexico: Lourdes Villagómez, Paola Delfín, Tahnee Flor, Triana Parera, Adry del Rocío, Alina Kiliwa, Alegría del Prado (+Spain:). Norway: Missprinted. Peru: Niz (+USA). Poland: Natalia Rak, Nespoon. Portugal: Tamara Alves. Spain: Btoy, Didi Leona, Elisa Capdevila, Julieta xlf, Lily Brik. The Netherlands: JDL. UK: Helen Bur, Rosie Woods (+Australia). USA: Emily Eldridge (+Germany), Kaz Williams/KAZILLA (Miami, FL), Kee Romano, Nico Cathcart (Richmond, VA), Toofly (+Equador). Venezuela: Sandra Betancort.
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Vo svojich stupajach
Vo svojich stupajach - Básnické dielo Ivana Štrpku a hodnotové kritériá
Zborník štúdií zo seminára o diele Ivana Štrpku, ktorý pripravila Literárna nadácia STUDŇA v spolupráci s Poľským inštitútom v Bratislave 3. 12. 2004. Autormi jednotlivých príspevkov sú Andrea Bokníková, Juraj Briškár, Mária Deďová, Ján Gavura, Daniel Hevier, Milan Hamada, Mila Haugová, Ivan Laučík, Erik Markovič, Vlado Pisár, Peter Repka, Lucyna Spyrka, Ladislav Šimon, Anna Šimonová, Ivan Štrpka, Zvonko Taneski, Dušan Teplan, Jiří Trávníček.
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Život udeří, kam se mu zachce
Párty, zábava a volnost – to je pro Marii nejdůležitější na světě a ona svůj bezstarostný život miluje. Vše se ale rázem změní ve chvíli, kdy sestra Christine těžce onemocní a požádá ji, aby se během její léčby postarala o malá dvojčata, na které je sama. A nejen to, musí převzít i sestřino místo v rodinné loděnici. Marii začne brzy všechno přerůstat přes hlavu: nemocná sestra, turbulentní rodinný život, firma, jejíž budoucnost je ve hvězdách. A jako by toho nebylo dost, uvědomí si podivné šimrání v břiše pokaždé, když zahlédne svého šéfa Daniela. A ve chvíli vrcholného chaosu přijde další životní zkouška...
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Loki: God Of Stories Omnibus
God of mischief, lies...and stories!
Loki, adopted brother of Thor, is constantly reinventing himself - and this volumes shows the 21st-century trickster in all his glorious forms! Whether he's thirsting for power, scheming to claim Asgard's throne or acting as its devious agent - and greatest hope for survival - you just can't take your eyes off Loki! As a one-man secret service, Loki Laufeyson is ready to lie, cheat and steal his way through treacherous missions - including a heart-stopping heist at Avengers Tower and locking horns with Doctor Doom! But will the American people vote Loki for president? And when death claims him in the War of the Realms, what will be his next trick?
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The House of Doors
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write.
His friend Robert Hamlyn offers an escape in the Straits Settlements of Penang, where Robert's steely wife Lesley learns to see Willie as he is - a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.
As Willie prepares to leave, Lesley confides in him secrets of her own, including how she came to know the charismatic revolutionary Dr Sun Yat Sen. And more scandalous still, her connection to an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts - a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction.
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Hate
"Madison Kate Danvers was murdered tonight."
Those words changed my life, and not for the better.
They were wrong, of course. I wasn't dead. But I was set up.
After being framed for a deadly riot, charged with a string of offences, and being made into an example by my politically minded father, I'm eventually released back into Shadow Grove. I could keep my head down, but I only have one thing on my mind.
Hate.
The boys who framed me are going to pay for derailing my carefully laid-out future. They're going to catch the full force of my revenge. Except when I arrive back in town, thanks to my father's shiny new girlfriend, I find all three of them living in my house, right down the hall.
Archer, Kodiak, and Steele are secretive. Untrustworthy. Dangerous-and dangerously magnetic, too. But I'm not falling for their games. Not after what they did to me.
Archer D'Ath and his boys messed with the wrong chick, and they're about to learn just how cold Madison Kate's hatred can run.