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The Scarlett Pimpernel + CD Pack Level 2
Paris, 1792, people are dying. Aristocrats are running from angry revolutionaries, and a brave Englishman is helping them. He and his friends are taking them to England. But who is this Englishman, this Scarlet Pimpernel'? The revolutionaries really want to know and then they can kill him.
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8,70 €
Hide and Seek
Spirit yourself into the future without losing track of the present using this unique desktop calendar, specially illustrated by Julie Morstad. One side functions as a daily calendar, while on the other side a clever mechanism allows you to predict dates more than 50 years ahead. Fly through time to your next birthday or summer holiday the fun is never ending! For day dreamers of all ages. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo).
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8,08 €
8,50 €
The Joy of Leaving your shit all over the Place
Science shows that messy people are more creative (as well as cleverer and more attractive). With this book, learn how to clutter mindfully with checklists, quizzes, guidelines, flow-charts (really?) and inspirational stories. Your plants will stop dying. Your whiskey bottle will never run dry. Your clubcard points will finally add up to a free jar of salsa and some nice shampoo. Go on-leave your pants on the floor tonight.
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12,30 €
12,95 €
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple.
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible - more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller.
So prolific was Agatha Christie's output - 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over 150 short stories - it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes?
Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations and details that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story.
Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christie's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. This book features Agatha's original ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. It also includes a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full, including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule Poirot, and an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the Caretaker's Wife.
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18,00 €
18,95 €
Célok!
Valósítsd meg álmaidat!
Miért érik el bizonyos emberek az összes céljukat, miközben mások csak ábrándoznak arról, hogy jobb életük lesz? Brian Tracy megmutatja, merre vezet az út a szorongástól a kiteljesedésig. Módszerével több százezer sőt több millió ember jutott el a nincstelenség állapotából a nagy sikerekig. Ebben a könyvében olyan alapelveket mutat be, amelyekkel valóra válthatjuk álmainkat.
Egyszerű, erőteljes és hatékony rendszert állít fel a célok kitűzésére és elérésére. A módszer hatékonyságáról több mint egymillió ember tudna mesélni, akik rendkívüli dolgokat értek el vele.
A Tracy által vázolt huszonegy stratégia alkalmazásával te is képes leszel elérni bármilyen és bármekkora célt, amelyet magad elé állítottál. Megtanulhatod, hogyan mérd fel az erősségeidet, igazi értékeidet, és hogy mit akarsz valójában elérni az előtted álló években.
A szerző azt is megmutatja, hogyan építsd fel az önbecsülésedet és magabiztosságodat, hogyan bánj hatékonyan bármilyen problémával vagy akadállyal, hogyan küzdd le a nehézségeket, hogyan reagálj a kihívásokra, és hogyan haladj töretlenül a céljaid felé, bármi történjék is. És ami a legfon-
tosabb: ebből a könyvből elsajátíthatsz egy olyan célkitűzési stratégiát, amely egész életedben jó szolgálatot tesz majd.
Brian Tracy hivatásos szónok, tréner, szemináriumvezető és tanácsadó,
valamint a Brian Tracy international tréning- és tanácsadó cég elnöke, melynek székhelye a kaliforniai Solana Beach-en található. Mára könyveit, hangfelvételeit és videoszemináriumait harmincnyolc nyelvre fordították le, és ötvennyolc országban használják.
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10,01 €
10,54 €
I am Life
Life is in all things; personified as an unassuming yet enchanting creature, Life visits flowers, animals, and humans with her gifts of energy and positivity. A pink-winged creature flies across each page; Life is present within all things. The pastel-colored protagonist befriends and animates every living being from bees that pollinate spring flowers to turtles that live under the sea to grandparents who impart wise words. Whether short or long, Life is always present. A sensitive story that answers many childhood questions, I am Life is the lovingly crafted complementary volume to Life and I, a Little Gestalten favorite. As Life and I addressed themes of loss, I am Life embarks on a colorful journey about Life’s magic and the never-ending search for the meaning of life.
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16,63 €
17,50 €
Birds and Other Animals: with Pablo Picasso
A groundbreaking study of animals as captured in rarely seen sketches by legendary artist Pablo Picasso The masterful drawings of Pablo Picasso are used to teach animal recognition in this artful, read-aloud board book. Birds & Other Animals takes children through Picasso's series of single-line animal drawings, beginning and ending with various kinds of birds. The cleverly whimsical charm of Picasso's sketches keeps readers engaged, while the accompanying text enriches the experience with conversational commentary. Readers will not only broaden their visual definitions of which animals are which, but also grow familiar with fine art in this relevant and relatable third title in the 'First Concepts with Fine Artists' series. Includes a read-aloud 'about the artist'.
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9,45 €
9,95 €
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Darien - Empire of Salt
From the daring and critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, DARIEN is the first book in the Empire of Salt, an epic new fantasy series of spellbinding imagination . . . TWELVE FAMILIES. ONE THRONE. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change. Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. It will summon strangers to the city - Elias Post, a hunter, Tellius, an old swordsman banished from his home, Arthur, a boy who cannot speak, Daw Threefold, a chancer and gambler, Vic Deeds, who feels no guilt - and Nancy, a girl whose talent might be the undoing of them all. As the sun sets, their arrival inside the walls will spark a series of explosive events. Before the sun returns, six destinies will have been made - and lost - in Darien.Welcome to the Empire of Salt, where sword and sorcery are at their finest . . . 'A master storyteller' Sunday Express'Iggulden is in a class of his own' Daily Mirror'One of our finest historical novelists' Daily Express
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13,25 €
13,95 €
Honk, Honk! Baa, Baa!
A colourful baby board book from a beloved author/illustrator with charming animals and a novelty surprise.
"Heehaw," says the donkey. "Miaow," says the cat. Turn the pages and learn all the animal sounds in this fun and lively board book from multi-award-winning author/illustrator Petr Horacek. Part of the Baby Walker series of books for babies, the shaped pages build to a special animal ending. You're in safe hands with Baby Walker.
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8,08 €
8,50 €
Death By Shakespeare
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up?
In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre were high. It was also a time of important scientific progress. Shakespeare kept pace with anatomical and medical advances, and he included the latest scientific discoveries in his work, from blood circulation to treatments for syphilis. He certainly didn't shy away from portraying the reality of death on stage, from the brutal to the mundane, and the spectacular to the silly.
Elizabethan London provides the backdrop for Death by Shakespeare, as Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out? Could lack of sleep have killed Lady Macbeth? Can you really murder someone by pouring poison in their ear? Kathryn investigates what actual events may have inspired Shakespeare, what the accepted scientific knowledge of the time was, and how Elizabethan audiences would have responded to these death scenes. Death by Shakespeare will tell you all this and more in a rollercoaster of Elizabethan carnage, poison, swordplay and bloodshed, with an occasional death by bear-mauling for good measure-.
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18,00 €
18,95 €
Only Mostly Devastated
Ollie and Will were a summer fling; now they're classmates. But only one of them is out...SIMON VS THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets a modern-day, queer re-imagining of GREASE.
It was the very last Wednesday of August when I realized Disney had been lying to me about Happily Ever Afters. Because, you see, I was four days into mine, and my prince was nowhere to be found.
"Please don't lose contact. I need to see you again," he'd said. So why was I here, banging my head against a metaphorical wall, weighing up the pros and cons of sending another message? This wasn't a big deal. It was just a guy texting another guy. A guy who knew all my biggest secrets, and had Seen. Me. Naked (TM). A guy who'd convinced me he really, really liked me. A guy who'd better have been abducted by goddamn aliens...
When Ollie meets Will over the summer break, he thinks he's found his Happily Ever After. But once summer's ended, Will stops texting him back, and Ollie finds himself short of his fairy-tale ending.
A family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country - Will's school - and Ollie finds that the sweet, affectionate and comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn't the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, a basketball jock and, well, a bit of a jerk.
Ollie isn't going to pine after a guy who isn't ready for a relationship. But as school life repeatedly throws them together, from music class to the lunch table, Ollie finds his resolve weakening.
With the noisy drama of their friends as the backdrop - from ambitious Juliette and frosty Lara, to big-hearted Darnell and king-jock Matt - Ollie has a decision to make.
The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again. Right?
Indián mesék
Medve Apa, Antilop Anya, Róka Fiúcska és Prérifarkas Apó egy olyan korban éltek, amikor az emberek és az állatok még nem szakadtak el egymástól. Az ő vándorlásuk történetét követve ismerhetjük meg a kaliforniai indián törzsek varázslatos mesevilágát, amelyet a nyelvész-antropológus Jaime de Angulo gyűjtött egy kötetbe. Angulo – akit Ezra Pound „az amerikai Ovidius”-nak nevezett – a pit river törzsnél töltött hosszú évek tapasztalataiból merítve alkotta meg a fikciónak, a folklórnak, a fantasztikumnak, a tréfáknak, az ünnepi rítusoknak és a kalandoknak e sajátos ötvözetét. A történeteket eredetileg a saját gyermekei szórakoztatására írta, szabadon kölcsönözve más bennszülött törzsek hitvilágából is.
Jaime de Angulo nem törekszik tudományos pontosságra, de nem fest romantikus, idealizált képet sem az indiánok életéről, gondolkodásmódjáról. Ő maga ezt tanácsolja az olvasóknak: „Ha azon kapjátok magatokat, hogy valamit nem értetek, és gépies magyarázatot kerestek rá, akkor találjatok ki egyet. Ha pedig valamilyen következetlenségre vagy csodás valószínűtlenségre bukkantok, jusson eszetekbe, amit a hajdani indiánok mondtak: »Így szokták elmondani ezt a mesét. Nem én találtam ki!«”
Jaime de Angulo 1887-ben született Párizsban, spanyol szülők gyermekeként. Tizennyolc éves korában kivándorolt az Egyesült Államokba, ahol az első években segédmunkásként dolgozott egy nagybirtokon. Később orvosnak tanult a Johns Hopkins Egyetemen, és az első világháborúban egy egészségügyi alakulatban szolgált. Több évtizedet töltött a Csendes-óceán partvidékén élő indián törzseknél, ahol az antropológustól az orvosságos emberig sokféle szerepben kipróbálhatta magát. 1950-ben halt meg Berkeley-ben.
Once and for All
As bubbly as champagne and delectable as wedding cake, Once and for All, is set in the world of wedding planning, where crises are routine.Louna spends her summers helping brides plan their perfect day and handling every kind of crises: missing brides, scene-stealing bridesmaids and controlling grooms. Not surprising then, that she's deeply cynical about happy-ever-afters, especially since her own first love ended in tragedy.When handsome girl magnet Ambrose enters her life, Louna won't take him seriously. But Ambrose hates not getting what he wants and Louna is the girl he's been waiting for.Maybe it's not too late for a happy ending after all?'When I read a Sarah Dessen novel, I'm sixteen again, in the flush of first love.' Jodi Picoult
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10,40 €
10,95 €
Far North
Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city. Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check. Into this cold, isolated world comes evide
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7,03 €
7,40 €
The Golden House
**New York Times bestseller**
A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society.
The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, Rene, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. Rene chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work.
Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair.
In a new world order of alternative truths, Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity, truth, terror and lies. A brilliant, heartbreaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the world's greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers.
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11,35 €
11,95 €
Picnic Comma Lightning - In Search of a New Reality
**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**
'Clever, funny and deeply moving... an engaging and thought-provoking journey through the fakery of modern life.' Mail on Sunday
'A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world.' Guardian, 'Book of the Week'
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In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the narrator offers a memorably brief account of his mother's death: 'picnic, lightning'. Picnic Comma Lightning similarly opens with the death of Laurence Scott's parents, and the definitive ending of their deaths raises for him one fundamental question: how much of what we live through is truly real?
With humour and insight, Scott transforms this personal meditation on loss into an exploration of what it means to exist in the world now. It used to be that our vision of the world was rooted to reasonably solid things: to people, places and memories. But today, in an age of constant internet debates, online personas and alternative truths, reality feels more vulnerable than ever before.
Picnic Comma Lightning looks at how digital life is distorting, echoing and magnifying our age-old preoccupation with what is real and what isn't. Where do we draw the line? How is technology shifting these boundaries? And how do we maintain a sense of reality in an increasingly unreal world?
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'A report from the front line of the digital generation by someone superbly well-equipped to read and decode the signals.' Sunday Times
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship 1
The book is intended for a broad academic and professional readership. It will help postgraduate students and participants in requalification courses, doctoral students as well as students in other forms of higher education to get to grips with a complex subject. The book links theory to practice and will also be of service to the owners of enterprises, shareholders, senior and middle managers. It is useful for specialists in a range of fields because its unifying objective is to show how management is a discipline with universal relevance.
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99,75 €
105,00 €
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Introducing Chaos
"Introducing Chaos" explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexity, the new unifying theory which suggests that all complex systems evolve from a few simple rules.This is an accessible introduction to an astonishing and controversial theory that could dramatically change our view of the natural world and our place in a turbulent universe.
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Egy jóravaló ház
Egyszer volt hol nem volt, az üveghegyen túl, az italok óceánján innen volt egyszer egy képzeletbeli kisváros, valahol Amerikában egy álomszép tengerparti gazdagok által lakta vidéken.
Így is kezdődhetne ez a történet, ám ez egy komoly embermese egy alkoholistáról. és ahogy a fejezetekbe egyre jobban belemerülünk, tabumentesen feltárulnak azok a kapuk, amik szenvedélybetegségéhez vezettek.
Hildy Good a salemi boszorkány elődökkel, és sötét örökséggel terhelt, csúcsingatlanos meséli el életének történéseit.
Egy sikeres üzletasszony, akinek a gazdagság nem hullott csak úgy az ölébe. Elvált. Családos, mégis magányos és boldogtalan. Kőkeménnyé tette az élet, öntörvényű, realista, feminista, aki boszorkányos trükkjeit az emberek kiismerésére fordítja. És aki többnyire titokban az alkohol sötét mentsvárába, ismerős démonjai közé menekül vissza. Ám mint minden mesében itt is megjelenik a reménysugár, egy fogyatékkal élő kisfiú családja, és egy egyszer volt hol nem volt félszeg férfi szenvedélyes, őszinte szerelmében, aki a maga csöndes módján mindig ott van, ahol kell...
A regény komoly kérdéseket feszeget: Lehetséges-e mindebből, kiutat találni, a félelmekkel szembe nézni, őszintén érdekek nélkül szeretni túl a sokadik x-en, és annyi hátba döfés után, bízni magunkban, vagy azokban, akik szeretnek minket?
Lehetséges-e a megtévesztés, a félelmek, az önbecsapás mámorító világából kilépni a valódi életbe, szembesülni mindavval, amit a szenvedélyen túli pillanatnyi mámor kínál?
Ann Leary gyilkos humorral, és oly meghatóan nyers őszinteséggel mesél, hogy kezdeti ellenszenvünk és előítéletünk - Hildyvel és ezzel a sokakat érintő gonddal szemben - másfaj megvilágításba kerül.
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11,84 €
12,46 €