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Arguing for a Better World
Can you be racist to a white person?
Does cancel culture exist?
Is it ever okay to laugh at jokes that rely on racist, sexist or homophobic stereotypes?
Is it sexist to say 'men are trash'?
These questions tap into some of today's most divisive issues, and finding an answer can often lead to confusion and resentment.
Political and generational divides often dictate how questions such as these are answered, and when asked most people give automatic answers that roughly align with the broader position they believe is right - though many flounder when asked to detail their reasoning. This creates cultural and political tribes, makes people nervous about engaging at all, or leads to the issues to be trivialised or attributed to the excessive sensitivity of 'snowflakes' to 'identity politics'.
You Can't Say Anything Anymore cuts right to the heart of these tensions, with the aim of demonstrating the importance of rigorous definitions and distinctions, revealing the arguments that break the stalemates, and equipping readers with the tools to identify and defend their positions. Drawing on Shahvisi's work as a philosopher, and using live controversies, well-known case studies, and personal anecdotes, this book reveals and analyses the power relations that shape our social world, and offers powerful ways to challenge them.
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023
A SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST BOOK OF THE MONTH
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH (HISTORICAL FICTION)
A CHURCH HOUSE BOOKSHOP BOOK OF THE WEEK
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent
In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich.
Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.
Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.
The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more the powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.
Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Full of magic and danger, Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the breathtaking sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's ground-breaking, #1 New York Times-bestselling West African-inspired fantasy Children of Blood and Bone.
After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Or?sha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could've imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.
Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Or?sha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But with civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orisha tears itself apart . . .
Forms of Enchantment
An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics.
Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of several artists – with a notable focus on the inner lives of women – through an exploration of the range of stories and symbols to which they allude. Metamorphosis features vividly in the imagery, stories and media of the art that Warner has chosen to write about: in connection with animals in the work of Louise Bourgeois, for instance; with the Catholicism of Damien Hirst; and with performance as a medium of memory and resistance in the installations of Joan Jonas.
Rather than drawing on connoisseurship, the author’s approach grows principally out of anthropology and mythology. She argues that art and aesthetics increasingly fulfil a magical social function – a principle that runs through these writings to give the collection a quality that is polemical as well as coherent. With an introductory essay and illustrations throughout, Marina Warner investigates how artists noted for their treatment of disturbing, uncanny material have reached beyond the visible, to express interior states. Truly inspiring, her writing unites the imagination of artist, writer and reader, creating a reading experience parallel to the intrinsic pleasure of looking at art.
Dreamland
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream - and whether it's possible to leave the past behind.
Fate drew them together . . . but will their dreams tear them apart?
Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, but tragedy grounded his dreams. Now the dust has settled, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home.
But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down, and Colby can't help but wonder if the responsibilities he has shouldered need dictate his life forever. Morgan is on her way to Nashville with plans to become a star and she wants Colby to come with her.
While they are falling headlong in love, Beverly is on a heart-pounding journey of another kind. Fleeing an abusive husband with her six-year-old son, she is trying to piece together a new life in a small town far off the beaten track. Danger is never far and her money is fast running out.
In the course of a single unforgettable week, three very different people will have their own ideas of love put to the test. As fate draws them together, they will each be forced to question whether the dream of a better life can ever overcome the weight of the past.
Flirting with Danger
A picture should tell a story. It should open doors to a mysterious journey of thought by letting its viewers forget the world around them for a brief moment. David Drebin is known for infusing his photographic masterpieces with compelling narratives. Although each of his works is marked by creative uniqueness, his signature style puts a distinct stamp under each image - a romantic melancholy with a hint of eroticism that elegantly invites you into an exciting fantasy. In his new illustrated book Flirting With Danger, the renowned star photographer now presents particularly sensational moments of this theme. David Drebin creates a dream world in a cinematographic way, which, thanks to his hyper-realistic style, seems so lifelike that the viewer feels part of the scenery. Perhaps it is this twist that makes his artworks so suspenseful, or perhaps it is the way he skilfully stages his protagonists. Each of his pictures leaves the impression of its own dramaturgy, which only stimulates the mental cinema. What will happen next? What happened before? The artist's new coffee-table book is now dedicated to the fascinating attraction of the forbidden and the dangerous. Intense snapshots show approaches to the exciting sides of life. The result is a book in a class of its own. In an extra-large format, the artist's pictures can achieve maximum effect and thus skilfully bring the emotions of the viewers to their peak.
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.
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The Mars House
From the #1 bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about a refugee from Earth and a xenophobic Mars politician who agree to a fake marriage after a media encounter damages both their reputations.
In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee on Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. In Tharsis, January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to Mars's lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January's job choices, housing, and even transportation options are dictated by this second-class status, and now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale is running on a platform that would make it all worse: Gale wants all Earthstrongers to be surgically naturalized, a process that is always disabling and can be deadly.
When Gale chooses January for an on-the-spot press junket interview that goes horribly awry, January's life is thrown into chaos, but Gale's political fortunes are damaged, too. Gale proposes a solution to both their problems: a five year made-for-the-press marriage that would secure January's future without immediate naturalization and ensure Gale's political future. But when January accepts the offer, he discovers that Gale is not at all like they appear in the press. They're kind, compassionate, and much more difficult to hate than January would wish. But as their romantic relationship develops, the political situation worsens, and January discovers Gale has an enemy, someone willing to destroy all of Tharsis to make them pay - and January may be the only person standing in the way.
The Eighth Girl
One woman, many personas. But which one is telling the truth?
Alexa Wu is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities. Only three people know about their existence: her therapist Daniel; her stepmother Anna; and her enigmatic best friend Ella.
When Ella gets a job at a high-end gentleman's club, she is gradually drawn into London's cruel underbelly. With lives at stake, Alexa follows her friend on a daring rescue mission. Threatened and vulnerable, she will discover whether her multiple personalities are her greatest asset, or her biggest obstacle.
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The Daughter of Auschwitz
An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival.
'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.'
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.
During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.
As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited.
In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime.
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist.
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult childhood in Yonkers, New York, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls’ reformatory school?where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald’s tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity at midcentury.
Tick’s compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald’s complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre’s mainstream. As she navigated the shifting tides between jazz and pop, she used her originality to pioneer modernist vocal jazz. Interpreting long-lost setlists, reviews from both white and Black newspapers, and newly released footage and recordings, the book explores how Ella’s transcendence as an improvisor produced onstage performances every bit as significant as her historic recorded oeuvre.
From the singer’s first performance at the Apollo Theatre’s famous “Amateur Night” to the Savoy Ballroom, where Fitzgerald broke through with Chick Webb’s big band in the 1930s, Tick evokes the jazz world in riveting detail. She describes how Ella helped shape the bebop movement in the 1940s, as she joined Dizzy Gillespie and her then-husband, Ray Brown, in the world-touring Jazz at the Philharmonic, one of the first moments of high-culture acceptance for the disreputable art form.
Breaking ground as a female bandleader, Fitzgerald refuted expectations of musical Blackness, deftly balancing artistic ambition and market expectations. Her legendary exploration of the Great American Songbook in the 1950s fused a Black vocal aesthetic and jazz improvisation to revolutionize the popular repertoire. This hybridity often confounded critics, yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ella reached audiences around the world, electrifying concert halls, and sold millions of records.
A masterful biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald describes a powerful woman who set a standard for American excellence nearly unmatched in the twentieth century.
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Mozaika slovenskej medicíny a mosaic of slovak medicine
Starajú sa lekári o svoje zdravie? Vedia relaxovať, alebo je ich život natoľko spätý s povolaním, že doslova žijú v nemocnici? Majú nejaké koníčky? Považujú svoje povolanie za poslanie? Aj takéto otázky kládli dvaja novinári Dagmar Krištofičová a Gus
tav Bartovic šestnástim slovenským lekárom. Odpovede môžu čitatelia nájsť v dvojjazyčnej (slovensko-anglickej) knižke Mozaika slovenskej medicíny, s podtitulom Rozhovory s lekármi.
Publikácia vznikla na podnet Slovenskej asociácie farmaceutických sp
oločností orientovaných na výskum a vývoj (SAFS) možno aj preto, že skutočné osobnosti sú v súčasnosti mnohokrát nepoznané. Je určená nielen tým, ktorí sa zaujímajú o medicínu a osobnosti, ktoré v nej na Slovensku pôsobia, ale aj všetkým tým, ktorí c
hcú vo svojom živote dosiahnuť určité méty. Určite však poteší všetkých, ktorí sa chcú dozvedieť viac a spoznať nielen odborný, ale aj ľudský rozmer týchto slovenských lekárov.
Vzhľadom na obmedzený rozsah publikácie sa do nej vošiel iba zlomok osobn
ostí slovenskej medicíny, avšak vydavateľ (SAFS) a autori rozhovorov by ju radi venovali všetkým tým, ktorí si za svoju prácu zvolili službu ľuďom.
Viac o svojom živote prezrádzajú profesori Ján Breza, Ján Danko, Svetozár Dluholucký, Ivan Ďuriš, Vlad
imír Krčméry, Peter Krištúfek, Ján Murín, Vladimír Novotný, Juraj Payer, Elena Tóthová, Ján Štencl, Pavel Traubner, Ladislav Chovan a doktori Eva Siracká, Danica Caisová-Škultétyová a Zuzana Némethyová.
Celý výnos z predaja venuje vydavateľ Detskému
hospicu Plamienok.
Všetky rozhovory autori vytvorili špeciálne pre potreby tejto publikácie, pričom svoje pocity z práce na knižke zhrnuli nasledovne:Stretnutia s ľuďmi, ktorí majú čo povedať, odovzdať sú na žurnalistickej práci tie najkrajšie, pov
zbudzujúce a najmä obohacujúce. A tieto rozhovory boli z tých, ktoré potešili, mimoriadne zaujímavé, ľudské, prekvapujúce otvorenosťou a ochotou hovoriť o svojom povolaní aj živote. Máte pri nich ten skvelý pocit, že slovenské zdravotníctvo má svojic
h hrdinov a priekopníkov, je na vysokej profesionálnej úrovni a z ľudí sa nestratila "človečina". Práve naopak, toto povolanie, ktoré je zároveň aj ich vášňou, ich formuje aj po tej ľudskej stránke, uviedla Dagmar Krištofičová.Tešil som sa na tieto r
ozhovory, pretože keď ma pred ôsmimi rokmi lekári a vôbec všetci pracovníci z ústavu, ktorý má v tejto knihe dvoch zástupcov, odohnali z predsiene márnice, videl som, v akých podmienkach slovenská medicína je a čo tí ľudia dokážu. Robia to ďalej, hoc
i už úrad tento ústav zrušil, a rovnako to robia aj ďalší skvelí profesionáli, ku ktorým ma zaviedla cesta za textami pre túto knižku.
S múdrosťou a láskavou zaťatosťou nás vracajú životu, niektorým umožnili zostať tu dlhšie, iným zasa dali šancu, k
torú nemali - prísť na tento svet. Zaľudňujú ho, počlovečujú vo všetkých významoch týchto dvoch slov, dodal Gustav Bartovic.Z krstu knihy...
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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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Csontfuvola
A két súlyosan sérült kommandós, Daniel Belloq és Steve Delgado a tóparti nyaralóban lábadozik. Steve mélységesen depressziós, nem hajlandó felkelni, mosdani, étkezni. Akciócsoportos társai mindent elkövetnek talpra állítása érdekében, de még a nyári Mikulás-terápia se válik be nála. Tán-tán Nympha, a könyörtelen gyógytornásznő segíthet. Denisa válósat álmodik, ezért sürgősen a tóhoz száguld, hogy Belloqkal lehessen. Idilljük hamar véget ér; lovaglás közben géppisztolysorozatot zúdítanak rájuk egy dzsipből. A kergült ló elhagyott farmra robog Denisával, ő pedig a kútból áradó hullaszag éreztén mozgósítja a helyi erőket. Pedofil gyerekrablás-sorozat nyomára bukkannak, ám a rendőrfőnök nem akar statisztikarontó ügyeket a városában. Belloq nem kíván részt venni az ügyben, arra hivatkozva, hogy besokallt, kiégett. Amikor azonban mesterlövész flintával megsebesítenek néhány helybéli hobbivadászt, feltámad benne a zsaru. Színre lép Gerret Flach, a nagy hatótávolságú vonzerővel bíró, örökbarna bőrű megyei főügyész-helyettes, és felkéri őket a nyomozásra. Denisa, Belloq, Steve, a kezdő zsaru Martin és a furabogár Cyd nekilát, hogy felderítsék a két bűnügyet. A gubancos szálak ekkor még alaposabban összekuszálódnak. A gyerekrablási gaztett véres fordulatot vesz. A hobbivadölők vadásza bedurvul. Eddigi és leendő áldozatai nem hajlandók együttműködni a zsarukkal, ugyanis szerintük ők a greenpeaces támadók. Nympha és Gerret Flach feromon-kisugárzása felbolydítja a kedélyeket; Belloq kamasz lánya kritikusan életun és világfáj, de még házi kedvenceik is agyászra szorulnak. A válságos írómester, Donald is jelen van, hogy pipatüzeket okozzon.
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Batman Rip TP
Written by GRANT MORRISON Art by TONY DANIEL & SANDU FLOREA Cover by ALEX ROSS The death of The Dark Knight is now in trade paperback, featuring BATMAN #676-683! With Bruce Wayne out of the picture, The Club of Villains begins a crime spree through the streets of Gotham City, while Batman's allies attempt to keep order.
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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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Justice League Vs Suicide Squad
It's the first major event storyline of DC's Rebirth era in JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD!
This was a day that Amanda Waller--the government liaison in charge of Task Force X--always knew would come: the Justice League discovers the existence of the Suicide Squad! The government-sponsored black-ops team of super-villains with bombs implanted in their brains is obviously a dealbreaker for the World's Greatest Superheroes. But you can bet the Wall and her gang won't go down without the fight to end all fights!
Written by rising star Josh Williamson (THE FLASH) with art from acclaimed illustrators Jason Fabok (JUSTICE LEAGUE: DARKSEID WAR), Tony S. Daniel (BATMAN), Fernando Pasarin (JUSTICE LEAGUE), Howard Porter (JLA) and more, the most explosive battle of the year is here in JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD!
Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD #1-6, SUICIDE SQUAD backup story of #8, SUICIDE SQUAD #9-10, JUSTICE LEAGUE #12-13.
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Lacná kniha Accidente (-90%)
En Accidente, Danielle Steel plasma a unos personajes que viven la vida que todos vivimos, pero estos personajes tan cercanos a nosotros de pronto ven transformadas sus existencias por un accidente de automóvil. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Danger Gang
The electrifying number one bestselling adventure from the author of The Christmasaurus and The Creakers, Tom Fletcher!
Franky can't wait to move to his new town - although he wishes he didn't have to leave his best friend Dani behind.
But everything changes after the storm, when strange green lightning and powerful thunder crash down on the town. From that night on, the kids who live on Franky's street start to change. One by one, they become a little odd. A little unusual. A little... magical.
Franky's always wanted to be part of an amazing gang - just like his hero, super-spy Zack Danger! And soon, he realises that there's real danger in store for himself and his new friends.
And so the Danger Gang is born...
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