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Nudging towards Health
Behavioral economics sees “nudges” as ways to encourage people to re-evaluate their priorities in such a way that they voluntarily change their behavior, leading to personal and social benefits. This book examines nudging as a tool for influencing human behavior in health policy. The authors investigate the contemporary scientific discourse on nudging and enrich it with an ontological, epistemological and praxeological analysis of human behavior. On the basis of detailed analyses of the literature and a systemic review, nudging tools are defined in the paradigm of prospect theory. In addition to the theoretical contribution, the book also examines and offers suggestions on the practice of health policy regarding obesity, malnutrition, and especially type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Castles in their Bones
Born to rule. Raised to deceive.
The plot: overthrow a kingdom. The goal: world domination. The plan: marriage.
Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes.
Beautiful, smart, and demure, the triplets appear to be the perfect brides - because Margaraux knows there is one common truth: everyone underestimates a girl. Which is a grave mistake. Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz are no innocents. They have been trained since birth in the arts of deception, seduction, and violence with a singular goal - to bring down monarchies - and their marriages are merely the first stage of their mother's grand vision: to one day reign over the entire continent of Vestria.
The princesses have spent their lives preparing, and now they are ready, each with her own secret skill, and each with a single wish, pulled from the stars. Only, the stars have their own plans - and their mother hasn't told them all of hers.
Life abroad is a test. Will their loyalties stay true? Or will they learn that they can't trust anyone - not even each other?
Laura Sebastian stuns in this new trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess. A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown.
Love Finds The Duke at Last (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 160) (EN)
The Duke of Lavenham learns from a letter that the beautiful Lady Penelope who he finds fun and amusing, is telling her friends that she is going to marry him. The Duke is horrified as he has no intention of marrying anyone for many years to come and he hurries to visit Penelope to discuss the matter with her and tell her that he has no intention of marrying anybody.
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Landfill Mountains (EN)
Audiobook Landfill Mountains written by Rab Ferguson. In a world ravaged by the effects of climate change, sixteen-year-old Joe has been left with nothing but mountains full of junk. When Joe and his friends are caught in an avalanche of waste, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out towards a mysterious city to seek out help. Nothing could prepare him for what he finds on the way: a dangerous prince wearing a suit made of stars, the wolf from Red Riding Hood bearing its teeth, and the reality-changing power of storytelling aloud.
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The Man I Married (EN)
An addictive debut psychological thriller for fans of "The Girl on the Train", Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley. This is the story of Lucy and Paul. They met. They fell deeply in love. They got married. Lucy thought that she had everything she wanted. Until she found the photograph, the text messages.
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It's Time to... Bake It!
You can do it too with Ladybird's It's Time to...!
This interactive novelty board book is filled with sliders and flaps to help little ones mimic the adult behaviours they see every day.
In It's Time to... Bake It! the moving sliders and transformative flaps on every page allow toddlers to perform the tasks in the simple text - they can break the eggs, mix the batter and even decorate the cake!
The It's Time to... series:
Boosts motor skills
Encourages imaginative play
Recommended for children aged 3+
Also available:
It's Time to... Fix It!
It's Time to... Clean Up!
It's Time to... Grow It!
The Last Thing to Burn
'Outstanding. The best thriller in years' MARTINA COLE
'One of the best thrillers I have read in years' THE OBSERVER
'I couldn't put it down. A visceral nightmare of a book with one of the most evil villains I've come across in a long time. Powerful writing' STEVE CAVANAGH
'Short, sharp shocker' THE TIMES
'An early contender for one of the best books of the year' S MAGAZINE
He is her husband. She is his captive.
Her husband calls her Jane. That is not her name.
She lives in a small farm cottage, surrounded by vast, open fields. Everywhere she looks, there is space. But she is trapped. No one knows how she got to the UK: no one knows she is there. Visitors rarely come to the farm; if they do, she is never seen.
Her husband records her every movement during the day. If he doesn't like what he sees, she is punished.
For a long time, escape seemed impossible. But now, something has changed. She has a reason to live and a reason to fight. Now, she is watching him, and waiting . . .
Brigáda zatracených - Královná temnot 01
Válka kopí skončila porážkou pro síly Královny Temnot a skupina jejích drakoniánských vojáků opustila bojiště. Drakoniáni ze ženijní jednotky první dračí armády přišli na to, že válka v sobě nese jednu velkou nevýhodu – jeden během ní může snadno zemřít. Vedení smělým plukovníkem, Bozakem jménem Kang, se drakoniáni dostanou do Karoliských hor, kde v malém a poklidném údolíčku založí vesnici a zkouší žít v míru. Naneštěstí nemají vrchovští trpaslíci na druhé straně téhož údolí zrovna radost z vyhlídky na nové sousedy a jeden nájezd vede k druhému, což vyústí v třicet let trvající spor.
Právě začalo léto. Žhavé léto předznamenávající zkázu Krynnu. Ve světě dochází k podivným a děsivým událostem – událostem, kterým nikdo v údolí nevěnuje nejmenší pozornost. Neboť trpaslíci objevili mapu vedoucí k pohádkovému pokladu ukrytému hluboko v tunelech trpasličího království Thorbardinu. Drakoniáni zjišťují, že tenhle poklad je pro ně cennější než všechno bohatství na světě a bezpodmínečně jej musí najít ještě před trpaslíky. Královna Temnot mezitím spřádá vlastní plány. Kdo první získá poklad? A bude někdo naživu, aby si jej pak také užil?
Jan Špáta 1, 2, 3, 4 DVD
Kolekce představuje osmnáct filmů Jana Špáty, digitálně zrestaurovaných a přepsaných do HD formátu, na čtyřech DVD Jan Špáta - 18 dokumentárních filmů klasika české kinematografie. Výběr nejvýznamnějších filmů ze Špátovy tvorby zahrnuje např. snímky Respice finem, Hallo Satchmo, Variace na téma Gustava Mahlera, Mezi světlem a tmou a Atletické variace nebo oba filmy Největší přání I. (1964) a II. (1990).
Obsah DVD kolekce:
•Největší přání (29´), 1964
• Okamžik radosti (17´), 1965
• Hallo Satchmo (26´), 1965
• Respice finem (15´), 1967
• Země sv. Patricka (29´), 1967
• Lidé z hor (26´), 1968
• Matějská pouť (16´), 1974
• Jdi za štěstím (16´), 1979
• Variace na téma Gustava Mahlera (13´) 1980
• Atletické variace (28´), 1982
• Mezi světlem a tmou (24´), 1990
• Japonsko, má láska (53´), 1993
• Největší přání II (89´), 1990
• 777 vteřin v Československu (13´), 1992
• Máňa (20´), 1993
• Parta (30´), 1993
• Láska, kterou opouštím 1. díl (58´), 1998
• Láska, kterou opouštím 2. díl (58´), 1998
DVD jsou doplněna několika cennými bonusy, které zahrnují například díl z cyklu portrétů GEN o Janu Špátovi (režie Olga Sommerová), soukromý fotoarchiv, unikátní filmové záběry natočené v době Janova dětství jeho otcem aj.
Womans Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Womens Football
DISCOVER THE STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR THE LIONESSES
This is the astonishing history of women's football: from the game's first appearance in England in the late nineteenth century to the incredible teams that at their height drew 53,000 spectators to Goodison Park, through to its fifty-year ban in the UK and the aftershocks when restrictions were lifted. Following the game's meteoric rise in recent years, Suzanne Wrack considers what the next chapter of this incredible story might - and should - be.
Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! Vol. 1
A Mature-rated, sweet and sexy yuri rom-com about self-discovery and the search for lost love!
Sweet but awkward college student Asumi never got over her childhood crush on her old friend Mai. Their first and only kiss couldn't have gone worse. So when she learns that Mai may be working at a nearby brothel, she sets her sights on redemption! But there's one catch: none of the women on the brothel's website use full photos or real names. Thus begins a journey of self-discovery and sexual exploration as nervous Asumi sets out to find her one that got away.
The Rooster House
In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past it.
In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria visited her grandmother in Bereh, the hamlet near Poltava that was a haven in her childhood. Just before the trip she came across her great-grandfather's diary, one page scored deep with the single line: 'Brother Nikodim, vanished in the 1930s fighting for a free Ukraine.' She had never heard of this uncle and no one - especially her grandmother - seemed willing to tell her about him.
Victoria became obsessed with recovering his story, and returned to her birth country again and again in pursuit of it. In the end, after years of sifting through Ukraine's post-Soviet bureaucracy, after travelling to tiny, ruined villages and speaking to the wizened survivors of that era, her winding search took her back to the place she had always known it would - to the Rooster House, and the dark truths contained in its basement.
Inspired by the author's love for her family, and peopled by warm, larger-than-life characters who jostle alongside the ghostly absences of others, The Rooster House is at once a riveting journey into the complex history of a wounded country and a profoundly moving tribute to hope and the refusal of despair.
Fatherland
What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party’s brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country’s crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out.
What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century, tracing one family’s path through history’s wreckage.
For readers of Bart van Es’s The Cut Out Girl or Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with the Amber Eyes, this is a story of middle lands, torn allegiances and loaded family inheritance.
Diamond Hill
1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man who calls himself Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth. He moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill, where planes landing at the nearby airport fly so close overhead that travellers can see into the rooms of those below.
As Buddha begins to care for the nuns and their neighbours, this pocket of the old city is vanishing. Even the fiery Iron Nun cannot prevent the frequent landslides that threaten the nunnery she fights for, and in the nearby shanty town, a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn is hiding a deep secret and trying to survive with her teenage daughter who has a bigger fish to fry.
But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit. Can he make peace with his past and survive in this disappearing city?
Beautifully written and utterly compelling, Diamond Hill is a gorgeous love letter that perfectly captures a lost place, filled with unforgettable characters. If you love books by Hanya Yanagihara, Colm Toibin and Ocean Vuong, you'll adore this haunting and evocative novel.
The Bear and the Dragon
Newly elected as President, domestic pitfalls await Jack Ryan around every corner. Now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade. Even more disturbing is the potential identity of the assassin. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?
He is right to wonder. For even while Russian investigators pursue the case, forces in China are moving forward with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail. . . the consequences may be unspeakable.
Harry Potter Official Christmas Cookbook
Celebrate Christmas like Harry, Ron, and Hermione with over 50 recipes inspired by festive celebrations in the Harry Potter films!
Filled with ideas to inspire feasts for every occasion, this cookbook includes recipes ranging from Professor Sprout's Superior Sprouts; Weasley Sweater Focaccia; and the Great Hall Floating Candle Cake to make sure you're covered from starter to dessert. It even features drinks to conclude every gathering - both boozy and alcohol-free options to suit the needs of every attendee.
The Harry Potter: Official Christmas Cookbook features full colour photography of your favourite moments and characters from the acclaimed film franchise, step-by-step instructions and helpful tips to ensure every cook - advanced and novice - makes magic in the kitchen.
Zsurzs
"Szerettem vele dolgozni. Nem volt bennem görcs, drukk a forgatásokon. Úgy éreztem, ha ő rám bíz egy szerepet, akkor képesnek tart az eljátszására. Persze nem akartam neki csalódást okozni szerettem volna látni, hogy elégedett velem. Szerettem volna megszolgálni a bizalmát, és én is a legmesszebbmenőkig bíztam benne: az értékítéletében, az instrukcióiban, az ízlésében, a tudásában, a tapintatában, a szeretetében. Sokat kaptam és tanultam tőle.
Gyerekkoromban az egész család ott ült a tv előtt, amikor leadták az új filmjét. Izgultunk, hogy siker legyen! Akkor azt hittem, természetes, hogy a nézők a rendező miatt néznek egy tv-flmet. Csak később jöttem rá, hogy mekkora szó, hogy az ő neve azt is jelentette a tv előtt ülőknek, hogy parádés szereposztásban láthatják a magyar és a világirodalom remekeinek az eredetihez hű és alázatos adaptációit úgy, hogy a filmek mégis az ő kézjegyét viselték.
Büszke voltam rá és vagyok ma is, amikor a csatornák ennyi év után is, sűrűn játsszák ezeket a filmeket. Elképzelem, ha élne, aggódva nézné az új és új vetítéseket, filmje vajon kiállja-e az idő próbáját, vajon nem lassú-e, vajon lépést tud-e tartani az azóta rohanó világgal?! Élete utolsó éveiben is ezeket a kérdéseket tette fel, ha leadták egy-egy régebbi művét. Mit szólna akkor most, két évtizeddel később? A világ változott, felgyorsult, de a nézők még mindig szívesen nézik a Fekete várost, az Abigélt, a Feleletet, a Csongor és Tündét, az Othello Gyulaházánt és sorolhatnám.
Ezzel a könyvvel emlékeztetni és emlékezni szerettünk volna a Magyar Televízió egy letűnt, talán soha vissza nem térő gazdag korszakára, a fantasztikus színészekre, a remek szakemberekre és a kor egyik legnépszerűbb rendezőjére, akit úgy emlegettek: A Zsurzs.
De akik vele dolgoztak, azoknak Évike, az unokáinak pedig a Mami volt." (Zsurzs Katalin)
Facing The Mountain
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought in World War II
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.
In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the unforgettable story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Japanese-American heroes who displayed incredible courage on the brutal battlefields of Europe. Achieving the impossible in often near-suicidal missions, including rescuing a 'lost battalion' surrounded by Nazis in the French mountains, the 442nd went on to become one of the most decorated units in history. Yet at the same time, their parents were put in camps and stripped of their livelihoods, and an equally brave battle was being fought in the courtroom back home.
A cinematic tour de force, Facing the Mountain puts a real-life band of brothers in the history books where they belong and reminds us that victory is rarely as simple as we think.
Behind Her Smile (EN)
As part of her recovery from a devastating car accident, Grace Thomas embarks on a surprise cruise booked by her husband, Cameron. The accident still haunts Grace and she is a little anxious to be leaving her family, but excited to fulfil what has been a life-long dream of hers - cruising around the Mediterranean with some girlfriends - even if her husband's secretary, Chantelle is tagging along for the trip.
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