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Antisocial
This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became 'fake news', how fringe ideas spread, and how a candidate many dismissed as a joke was propelled to the presidency by the dark side of the internet.
For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded with alt-right propagandists, who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. He also spent time with the social-media entrepreneurs who made this possible, through their naive and reckless ambition, by disrupting all of the traditional information systems.
Join Marantz as some of the biggest brains in Silicon Valley teach him how to make content go viral; as he hangs out with the conspiracists, white supremacists and nihilist trolls using these ideas to make their memes, blogs and podcasts incredibly successful; and as he meets some of the people led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization.
Antisocial is about how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then becomes reality. By telling the story of the people who hijacked the American conversation, Antisocial will help you understand the world they have created, in which we all now live.
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18,00 €
18,95 €
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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12,30 €
12,95 €
The Whole Fish Cookbook
The Whole Fish Cookbook is the bestselling cookbook that has changed the way we think about fish. Jamie Oliver called Josh Niland one of the most impressive chefs of a generation and Yotam Ottolenghi voted the book one of his favourites – ever. Add to that a swag of awards, including: The Australian Book Industry Association’s Illustrated Book of the Year in 2020; André Simon Food Book Award 2019; and two James Beard awards in 2020 – Restaurant and Professional and the prestigious Book of the Year. The Whole Fish Cookbook was also shortlisted as debut cookbook of the year in the Fortnum & Mason food & drink awards in 2020 and longlisted as Booksellers’ choice in the adult non-fiction category by the Australian Booksellers’ Association. As well, photographer Rob Palmer won the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2020 with a stunning photo of Josh from the book.
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29,93 €
31,50 €
Rumini kapitány
Megérkezett a nyolcadik Rumini!
Galléros Fecó csatlakozik a Kartács-tengerre tartó Szélkirálynőhöz, hogy elrabolt kisfia és Sajtos Rozi nyomába eredjen. Újra együtt hát a legénység! De egy végzetes baleset során Rumini és Fecó eltűnik, később a Szélkirálynő is végveszélybe kerül, ráadásul nem kevesebb, mint három gonosz keresztezi hőseink útját: Pengecsőr báró, André de Majré és Vipera.
Bár a helyzet gyakran válik reménytelenné, hőseink mégis mindig megtalálják a kiutat, néhol a szerencse, máskor jó szándékú barátok segítségével. Földön, vízen, levegőben zajlanak a váratlan és sorsfordító események, amelyek megállíthatatlanul sodorják a jól ismert tengerészeket az utolsó nagy megmérettetés felé. Kálmán Anna különleges rajzain opálbálnák, amandina pintyek, mérgezett karmú baglyok és nyílméregbékák kelnek életre, akik mind fontos szerepet játszanak a történet alakulásában.
Emma
This title comes with an introduction by Andrew Motion. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion. "Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility". (Robert McCrum, Observer). Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.
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9,03 €
9,50 €
Cracking the Egyptian Code
Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Revolution who made the vital breakthrough in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. This finely illustrated account charts Champollion’s dramatic life and achievements: by turns a teenage professor, a supporter of Napoleon, an exile, a fanatical decipherer and a curator at the Louvre, he lived life to the full but drove himself into an early grave. Andrew Robinson’s full-blooded account brings the man, his setbacks and his ultimate triumphs vividly to life.
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12,30 €
12,95 €
Diana - Her True Story - In Her Own Words
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 2017A reissue of this classic title brought up to date with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and a new introduction by Andrew Morton.This edition reflects on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication, and on the long-term legacy of Diana, the woman who helped reinvigorate the royal family, giving it a more emotional, human face, and thus helping it move forward into the 21st century.
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23,28 €
24,50 €
The Secret World
'The most comprehensive narrative of intelligence compiled ... unrivalled' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
'Captivating, insightful and masterly' Edward Lucas, The Times
The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.'God sent out spies into the land of Canaan'. From there, Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from divination to what we would recognize as attempts to gather real intelligence in the conduct of military operations, and considers how far ahead of the West - at that time - China and India were. He charts the development of intelligence and security operations and capacity through, amongst others, Renaissance Venice, Elizabethan England, Revolutionary America, Napoleonic France, right up to sophisticated modern activities of which he is the world's best-informed interpreter. What difference have security and intelligence operations made to course of history? Why have they so often forgotten by later practitioners? This fascinating book provides the answers.
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22,75 €
23,95 €
Wild Cards Mississippi Roll
The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire
Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Mississippi Roll is an all-new, adventurous jaunt along one of America’s greatest rivers, featuring many beloved characters from the Wild Cards universe
Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Mississippi Roll features the writing talents of Stephen Leigh, David D. Levine, John Jos. Miller, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Cherie Priest, and Carrie Vaughn.
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10,93 €
11,50 €
Andrews Brain
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times-funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew's Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is "the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history."
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14,73 €
15,50 €
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
`The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever before' Sybill Trelawney
Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet school term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It's assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney's ghoulish predictions seriously?
These adult editions have been stylishly redesigned to showcase Andrew Davidson's beautiful woodcut cover artwork.
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10,93 €
11,50 €
Lacná kniha Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (-90%)
`The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever before' Sybill Trelawney
Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet school term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It's assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney's ghoulish predictions seriously?
These adult editions have been stylishly redesigned to showcase Andrew Davidson's beautiful woodcut cover artwork.
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1,15 €
11,50 €
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A tenisz nagykönyve
E könyvvel Nick Bollettieri - napjaink legsikeresebb edzője - megalkotta a legátfogóbb útmutatót a teniszjáték elsajátításához és oktatásához. Nick edzési és fejlesztési szisztémája világszerte elismert. Számos éljátékos került ki kezei közül, többek között Temesvári Andrea, Andre Agassi, Szeles Mónika Anna Kurnyikova, Boris Becker, Jelena Jankovics, Serena és Venus Williams.
Most anélkül dolgozhatunk Bollettierivel, hogy el kellene látogatnunk a Bolletti Teniszakadémiára. Részletes leckéket kapunk az ütéstechnikáktól kezdve, stratégiákon, készségek fejlesztésén, erőnléti edzéseken, mentális tréningen át, a teniszoktatásról és gyakorlásról vallott elveiig.
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31,02 €
32,65 €
Day of the Oprichnik
Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New Russia
Moscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the Terrible to create a dystopia chillingly akin to reality. Over the twenty-four-hour span of the novel, Komiaga will rape, pillage and torture, in the name of the czar he fears and adores. Shimmering with invention, fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit, Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Selected Poems
John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. But when he died at the age of only twenty-five, his writing had been attacked by critics and his talent remained largely unrecognized.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Dr Andrew Hodgson.
This volume, Selected Poems, reflects his extraordinary creativity and versatility, drawing on the collections published during his lifetime as well as posthumously. He wrote in many different forms - from his famous Odes to ballads such as 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', and the epic Hyperion. Together, they celebrate a poet who wrote with unsurpassed insight and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering and nature.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
The Pixels of Paul Cezanne
The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped and inspired him.
"How are they doing it?" is the key questions Wenders asks as he looks at the dance work of Pina Bausch, the paintings of Cezanne, Edward Hopper of Andrew Wyeth, or the films of Ingmar Bergman, Michelanelo Antonioni, Ozu, Anthony Mann, Douglas Sirk and Sam Fuller.
He finds the answer by writing about them, trying to understand their individual perspective, and, in the process revealing his own art of perception, in texts of rare poignancy.
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18,00 €
18,95 €
Success Is 90% Spite
Based on the popular webcomic The Pigeon Gazette! Follow
artist Jane Zei through the everyday rollercoaster of a quarter-life
crisis-when high-flying optimism meets cold, hard adulthood during the
journey from college to a full-time career.
With favorites from viral webcomic The Pigeon Gazette, along with never-before seen comics, Success is 90% Spite
is a reminder that there's nothing you can't achieve through hard work,
persistence-and really wanting to prove someone else wrong.
* A hilarious and high-energy collection that captures the all-too-real difficulties of life as a 20-something in a modern world
* Comics follow Jane's endearingly awkward and whimsical efforts to navigate adulthood.
* Covers a range of topics in both short, four-panel, and longer-form comics
When life gives you lemons . . . throw those suckers back into life's stupid face and make your own success.
From choosing Lord of the Rings
over love, to mastering pooping etiquette in the workplace, Jane's
existential adventures are told with an extra dose of narrative
imagination, extended jokes on inane topics, and daydreams.
* The Pigeon Gazette has been featured in articles by Huffington Post, Bored Panda, and Buzzfeed
* Great gift for fans of funny webcomics, internet humor, and any millennial trying to make their way in the world
* Add it to the collection of books like Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection by Sarah Andersen, Am I There Yet?: The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood by Mari Andrew, and It's All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I've Drawn It Instead by Ruby Elliot
Russias Dead End
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving in various key capacities and as a member of Mikhail Gorbachev's staff, Kovalev reveals hard truths about his country as only a perceptive witness can do. In Russia's Dead End Kovalev shares his intimate knowledge of political activities behind the scenes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kremlin before and after the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, including the Russia of Vladimir Putin. Kovalev analyzes Soviet efforts to comply with international human-rights obligations, the machinations of the KGB, and the link between corrupt oligarchs and state officials. He documents the fall of the USSR, the post-Soviet explosion of state terrorism and propaganda, and offers a nuanced historical explanation of the roots of Russia's contemporary crisis under Vladimir Putin. This insider's memoir provides a penetrating analysis of late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics that is pungent, pointed, witty, and accessible. It assesses the current dangerous status of Russian politics and society while illuminating the path to a more just and democratic future.
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22,33 €
23,50 €
Lego Friends: Jungle Adventures Activity Book with Miniset
Read all about Andrea, Mia, Emma, Stephanie and Olivia and get involved in their exciting adventures in the jungle! This activity and puzzle book comes with a LEGO bricks miniset, so you can join in with the girls and play along with the story.
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6,60 €
6,95 €