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Human Origins
Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the environment, discovered the secrets of the universe and travelled into space.
Yet just 7 million years ago, we were just another species of great ape making a quiet living in the forests of East Africa. We do not know exactly what this ancestor was like, but it was no more likely than a chimpanzee or gorilla to sail across the ocean, write a symphony, invent a steam engine or ponder the meaning of existence. How did we get from there to here?
Human Origins recounts the most astonishing evolutionary tale ever told. Discover how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilisation - perhaps the only one of its kind in the universe. Meet your long-lost ancestors, the other humans who once shared the planet with us, and learn where the story might end.
ABOUT THE SERIES
New Scientist Instant Expert books are definitive and accessible entry points to the most important subjects in science; subjects that challenge, attract debate, invite controversy and engage the most enquiring minds. Designed for curious readers who want to know how things work and why, the Instant Expert series explores the topics that really matter and their impact on individuals, society, and the planet, translating the scientific complexities around us into language that's open to everyone, and putting new ideas and discoveries into perspective and context.
Soundtrack - Eric Clapton: Life In 12 4LP
Tracklist:
Disc 1
1 Big Bill Broonzy - „Backwater Blues”
2 Muddy Waters - „My Life Is Ruined”
3 Muddy Waters - „I Got Mojo Working” (Live At Newport Jazz Festival 1960)
4 The Yardbirds - „I Wish You Would”
5 The Yardbirds - „For Your Love”
6 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - „Steppin' Out”
7 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - „All Your Love”
8 Cream - „I Feel Free”
9 Cream - „Strange Brew”
10 Cream - „Sunshine of Your Love”
11 Aretha Franklin - „Good to Me As I Am To You”
12 Cream - „Crossroads”
13 The Beatles - „While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
14 Cream - „Badge”
15 Cream - „White Room (Live)”
16 Cream - "Spoonful (Live from Goodbye tour - LA Forum October 19, 1968) *
17 Blind Faith - „Presence Of The Lord”
Disc 2
1 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends featuring Eric Clapton - „Comin' Home”
2 Eric Clapton - „After Midnight” (alternate mix)
3 Eric Clapton - „Let It Rain” (alternate mix)
4 Derek and The Dominos - „High” *
5 George Harrison - „My Sweet Lord”
6 Derek and The Dominos - „Thorn Tree In The Garden”
7 Derek and The Dominos - „Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out”
8 Derek and The Dominos - "Bell Bottom Blues -
9 Derek and The Dominos - „Layla”
10 Derek and The Dominos - „Little Wing (Live at the Fillmore 1970)” *
11 Derek and The Dominos - „Got To Get Better In A Little While”
12 Eric Clapton - „I Shot The Sheriff” (full length version) *
13 Eric Clapton - „Little Queenie” (Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, July 19/20, 1974)
14 Eric Clapton - „Mainline Florida”
15 Eric Clapton - „Tears In Heaven”
Throne of Glass Box Set (Paperback)
Enter the realm. Unleash the darkness. Live the legend.
Discover the worldwide phenomenon of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Throne of Glass series in this gorgeous 8-book box set!
In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King's Champion.
Her name is Celaena Sardothien.
As dark forces gather on the horizon – forces which threaten to destroy her entire world – Celaena must fight to protect everything she holds dear, thrusting her into the epic, heart-stopping fantasy series that turned #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas into a worldwide phenomenon.
Fans new and old will dive into this gorgeous paperback box set that contains the entire series: The Assassin's Blade, Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn and the thrilling finale, Kingdom of Ash.
The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings Boxed Set
Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien's classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits' epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million copies around the world.
This new boxed set offers readers a new opportunity to discover Tolkien's remarkable world of Middle-earth and to follow the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits' part in the epic quest for the Ring - beginning with Bilbo's fateful visit from Gandalf and culminating in the dramatic climax between Frodo and Gollum atop Mount Doom and Bilbo's departure to the Grey Havens.
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41,75 €
43,95 €
Expected Goals
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them.
This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game. Central to this cast is Chris Anderson, an academic with no experience in football, who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed. His aim: to infiltrate the strange, insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data.
Expected Goals charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world, from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich, began to see how data could help them unearth new players, define radical tactics and plot their path to glory.
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18,53 €
19,50 €
Giantsize Xmen Tribute to Wein and Cockrum Gallery Edition
In 1975, one comic book changed the face of Marvel Comics forever! Writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum revamped the X-Men completely, with an international cast including Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus and Wolverine! This legendary story took comic fans by storm and set the stage for the X-Men to become the most popular heroes in the Marvel Universe! Now, 36 of Marvel's top artists come together to recreate this epic story, each drawing one pulse-pounding page in tribute to a true Marvel masterpiece! This all-new, all-different tribute is presented alongside Wein & Cockrum's inimitable original -- together with behind the scenes artwork and more special features -- and all on oversized pages that give new meaning to Giant-Size X-Men!
COLLECTING: Giant-Size X-Men: Tribute to Wein & Cockrum (2020) 1, Giant-Size X-Men (1975) 1
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42,70 €
44,95 €
Nočné mory! Zabudnutá uspávanka
Charlieho Lairda opäť mátajú zlé sny. A pritom ich nemal od čias, ako sa odvážne postavil svojim strachom. Zakaždým sa ocitne v Podsvetí na poli, obklopený stádom desivých čiernych oviec. Nie sú to obyčajné ovečky, aké počítame, keď nevieme zaspať. Okrem toho, že vyzerajú hrozivo, nerobia vlastne nič mimoriadne. Charlieho však najviac znepokojuje, že to nie je jeho vlastná nočná mora. Jednoducho uviazol v zlom sne niekoho iného. A dal by ruku do ohňa za to, že v tom majú prsty dvojčatá ICK a INK...
Vzala si mi všetko
Príbeh o nenaplnenej láske, zlom rozhodnutí a ľútosti, ktorá prišla príliš neskoro.
Kým Michaela sa po tragickej smrti manžela s láskou stará o dcéru Veroniku, Renáta robí svojej Johanke zo života peklo. Dievčatko trpí nedostatkom lásky a jej úprimné pokusy o priazeň matky končia vždy rovnako. Hnevom, krikom a nenávistným osočovaním.
Obidve ženy, napriek rozdielnym postojom k výchove dievčat, spája nerozlučné priateľstvo. Až do chvíle, keď sa Renáta rozhodne urobiť zásadné životné rozhodnutie. To osudovo zasiahne nielen jej dcéru, ale pretrhne aj niť priateľstva s kamarátkou, ktorá jej vždy ochotne podala pomocnú ruku.
Vajon hol lehet? Az én építkezésem – Keresőkönyv
Gyere velünk az építkezésre! Láthatod, hogy Leon nem tétlenkedik: gödröt ás, markolóval dolgozik, új kerékpárutat épít, az óvodában pedig lekövezi az udvart.
A szórakoztató keresőkönyv számos érdekes illusztrációja, a keresés és a felfedezés öröme mind-mind a kicsik beszédfejlődését szolgálja. 12 hónapos kortól ajánljuk. Vajon hol lehet a vödör, a cica, a vakolókanál, a csavarhúzó? És a betonkeverő? Keresd meg a képeken, és próbáld kimondani a szavakat!
A vidám keresést és a boldog rátalálást kedves rímes versike is segíti.
Adolf Loos
The must-have monograph on one of modern architecture's most influential figures, long a rarity and now available in an expanded and updated edition
Viennese architect Adolf Loos was influential among his fellow early modernists not only for his radical designs but for his controversial ideology and famously militant opposition to ornament. Loos approached architecture from a primarily utilitarian perspective: he believed that interiors should be designed according to function, taking full advantage of the size and space of a building.
In this definitive monograph, a true labor of love, architect Ralf Bock seeks to reveal the sensuality of Loos' interior designs, focusing on his sincere belief in the evolution of tradition. The book explores 30 existing projects from Loos' oeuvre, documented in 160 full-color images by the celebrated French photographer Phillippe Ruault. Along with materials from the Loos archive at the Albertina Museum Vienna, these photographs and Bock's commentary provide a new interpretation of Loos' work and encourage the reintroduction of his ideology into the contemporary architectural conversation. Profiles of Loos' original clients and interviews with people who currently inhabit his designs round out this unique publication.
Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a radical figure in his time: his critique of the Vienna Secession and advocacy for utilitarian design greatly influenced the less ornamental approaches to architecture among subsequent modernist designers. He studied briefly at Dresden University of Technology and delivered his famous lecture "Ornament and Crime" at the Academic Association for Literature and Music in 1910. His most recognizable building is the multipurpose Looshaus at Michaelerplatz in Vienna, characterized by the numerous window boxes on the building's façade.
Red Dwarf Omnibus
Here are the first two novels of the cult series "Red Dwarf" in one volume - "Red Dwarf" and "Better Than Life" - plus the first draft of the original TV pilot script. It all begins, when Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes. Together with a dead man, a senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt chip and the best-dressed entity in all six known universes, the last remaining member of the human race begins his epic journey home.
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18,99 €
The Bartender's Manifesto
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • Offering a foundational approach to cocktails, this manual from a James Beard Award-winning trailblazer will have you understanding and creating original drinks like a seasoned barkeep.
Take a raucous romp through the essential stages of fashioning cocktails and learn the hows and whys of bartending with acclaimed mixologist Toby Maloney and the team from The Violet Hour. When the pioneering cocktail bar opened in Chicago in 2007, it set a high standard with an innovative training program that teaches not just how to replicate classic cocktail recipes flawlessly, but how to embrace ingenuity, make smart decisions, and create original, inspired recipes from rote. Like cooks who can peer into their pantry and whip up dinner on the fly, no recipe needed, those who follow the methods in The Bartender's Manifesto will have the technical foundation and confidence to take their cocktail skills to the next level and fabricate a drink from any ingredients at hand.
First, dive deep into the mechanics of creating cocktails with the right balance, texture, aroma, and temperature. From there, Toby goes well beyond the fine-tuned mechanics of the craft, covering how to kickstart the creative process and bring professional-level complexity and sophistication to drinks. Additional essays offer insider intel on how to offer top-notch hospitality (at the bar and at home), find comfort in the everyday rituals of the craft, and spark surprise and curiosity in the process. With detailed insights into The Violet Hour’s greatest recipes, expert tips from bar alumni, and helpful step-by-step illustrations and photographs, readers will come away with a deeper understanding of what makes the bar’s training program so legendary, plus the superpower of creating imaginative cocktails that reflect their personal style and creativity.
Witcher: Ronin (Manga)
Presenting a new original manga in The Witcher universe based on the rich traditions of Japanese folklore!
Set in an ancient Japanese-inspired world, Geralt trails the mythical Lady of Snow. Here, the role of a witcher is just as essential—as dangerous spirits and demons are constantly on the prowl.
In a new world inspired by Edo-period Japan, Geralt is faced with difficult moral choices while battling a variety of yokai and oni, creatures inspired by Japanese myths. Each encounter drops a clue in his desperate search for a mysterious apparition known as the Lady of Snow, yuki onna, for she is the key to who Geralt seeks, but finding her won't be easy . . .
The Tales of Aylfenhame Compendium
Sometimes love waits a world away, and happiness must be fought for.In the year 1811, impassable barriers separate the world of carriages, battles and bonnets from the world of witches, goblins and fae.Until the Solstice comes. Then the walls fall, and anyone may pass out of England and into Aylfenhame…Three courageous heroines will take that step. Sophy Landon, impoverished and alone; Isabel Ellerby, trapped by the prospect of an unwelcome marriage; and Bessie Bell, a mistreated housemaid.But courage brings its own rewards. Curses, betrayals and a dark history may wait in the realm of the fae, but so do adventure, and magic, and dreams.And for those with heart enough, true love.These are stories of escape, of freedom, of joy snatched from the jaws of despair. They're stories of the road to happiness, winding though it may be. Of a brightness in the sky on the darkest of days, and above all: of love, and its power to change everything.This compendium contains three blissful novels of love, magic and adventure: Miss Landon and Aubranael, Miss Ellerby and the Ferryman, and Bessie Bell and the Goblin King.
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10,68 €
Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful
The time has come in which graphic designers are playing an important role in rendering ever more complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. To stress this urgency, Renate Boere dove headfirst in the world of project management lingo, confidentiality statements, copyright, complicated contracts, the search for stakeholders, and grant applications. This journey resulted in the designer's novel Beyond Design.
This nonfiction novel provides insights into the contemporary, often hybrid, practice of today's multi-talented graphic designers. The story tells how Boere decides to take matters into her own hands by working on socially relevant design projects. An exciting and informative book that gives insights into the designer's do's and don'ts while working on projects from start to finish.
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16,50 €
Dune
A special hardcover edition of the best-selling science-fiction book of all time part of Penguin Galaxy. Science fiction’s supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib. Paul’s noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called “the spice.” After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
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29,95 €
The Two Towers (Collector's edition)
Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. This edition features the complete story with a sumptuous cover design and brand new reproductions of all of Tolkien's original drawings and maps. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
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19,50 €
Confess
Rob Halford, front man of global iconic metal band Judas Priest, is a true 'Metal God'. Raised in Britain's hard-working heavy industrial heartland he and his music were forged in the Black Country. CONFESS, his full autobiography, is an unforgettable rock 'n' roll story - a journey from a Walsall council estate to musical fame via alcoholism, addiction, police cells, ill-starred sexual trysts and bleak personal tragedy, through to rehab, coming out, redemption... and finding love.
Now, he is telling his gospel truth.
Told with Halford's trademark self-deprecating, deadpan Black Country humour, CONFESS is the story of an extraordinary five decades in the music industry. It is also the tale of unlikely encounters with everybody from Superman to Andy Warhol, Madonna, Jack Nicholson and the Queen. More than anything else, it's a celebration of the fire and power of heavy metal.
Rob Halford has decided to Confess. Because it's good for the soul.
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13,95 €
Finding Bear
The unmissable follow-up to the phenomenal bestselling and award-winning The Last Bear. Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold and perfect for readers 8+.
April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But, over a year later, she can’t stop thinking about Bear.
When April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she’s convinced it’s her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic. So begins an unforgettable journey across frozen tundra and icy glaciers.
But along the way, she discovers much more than she bargained for – a tiny polar bear cub, desperately in need of her help. In freezing temperatures, April must navigate the dangerous Arctic terrain and face her deepest fears if she’s to save him.
Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold, Finding Bear is a stunning story of survival and a heartwarming tale of love that shows us how hope is born from the smallest of beginnings.