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Chainsaw Man 12: Pták a válka
Asa Mitaka nezapadá ve škole a ve třídě nemá žádné kamarády. Její život se však po setkání s jistým ďáblem náhle obrátí o 180 stupňů! Jaký je cíl ďábla, který se stane novou světovou pohromou?! A kde je záhadný Chainsaw Man, který se zjevuje, když ho člověk nejméně čeká? Právě se zvedá opona nad šokující druhou částí příběhu explodující krvavým mládím!
The Sticker Treasury of the Mystical and Esoteric
800 stickers to peel and decorate every page!
The Sticker Treasury of the Mystical and Esoteric is a deluxe compendium of more than 800 vintage-inspired stickers, perfect for embellishing any creative project you have on the go, be it scrapbooking, junk journaling, collaging, gift wrapping, or merely personalizing any page.
With 96 pages of whimsical vintage elements - from witches and fairies to astrological symbols and watching eyes - this book has a sticker for every need.
The Sticker Treasury of Blooms and Butterflies
1,200 stickers to peel and decorate every page!
The Sticker Treasury of Blooms and Butterflies is a deluxe compendium of more than 700 vintage-inspired stickers, perfect for embellishing any creative project you have on the go, be it scrapbooking junk journaling, collaging, gift wrapping, or merely personalizing any page.
With 92 pages of vintage flowers, butterflies and other botanical decorative elements – this book has a sticker for every need.
The End of Capitalism
How do we manage to transition to a more sustainable world without the collapse of the economy?
Capitalism has brought about many positive things. At the same time, however, it is ruining the climate and the environment, so that humanity’s very existence is now at risk. ‘Green growth’ is supposed to be the saviour, but economics expert and bestselling author Ulrike Herrmann disagrees. In this book, she explains in a clear and razor-sharp manner why we need ‘green shrinkage’ instead.
Greenhouse gases are increasing dramatically and unchecked. This failure is no coincidence, because the climate crisis goes to the heart of capitalism. Prosperity and growth are only possible if technology is used and energy is utilised. Unfortunately, however, green energy from the sun and wind will never be enough to fuel global growth. The industrialised countries must therefore bid farewell to capitalism and strive for a circular economy in which only what can be recycled is consumed.
Herrmann makes a convincing argument that we won’t get anywhere without personal restrictions and government planning. Her example for a solution is the British war economy of the 1940s. This is not a utopian scenario, but a comprehensive example of the restrictions and government-led plans needed now and in the future.
BARE
Aged 15, Lorna was living on the streets of Soho, trying to avoid abuse and rape whilst battling an addiction to heroin. She worked as an escort and a stripper, lost custody of her daughter, and relapsed multiple times. But, somehow, and unlike most of the people imprisoned by the streets, Lorna didn't just survive but she flew.
'I've dodged through these streets for a lifetime. I realise I have never stopped running since the day that I left the streets, never sat still, never found peace. But the process of unpicking my life means that, for the first time ever, I am actually facing what I have to do. It's time to tell my story.'
On any given night, tens of thousands of families and individuals across the UK are experiencing homelessness. One in three people sleeping rough have experienced violence and are nine times more likely to take their own life.
Cyanotype
A no-nonsense beginner's guide to cyanotype: make your own beautiful prints and craft projects in just a weekend.
One of the simplest and most elegant forms of photography, the cyanotype print gives distinctive white-on-blue results that are simultaneously graphic, intricate and mysterious. Drawing on Victoria Glover’s experience running workshops for beginners, this book will walk you through the process and presents a selection of projects for you to develop your skills.
You'll learn how to print onto a cushion cover, T-shirt, tote bag and lampshade. And you can take your creativity further, toning your prints and using long exposures to create surprising X-ray effects.
The Way
The world has been ravaged by a lethal virus and, with few exceptions, only the young have survived. Cities have been destroyed, and the natural world has reclaimed the landscape in surprising ways, with herds of wild camels roaming the American West and crocodiles that glow neon green lurking in the rivers.
Against this perilous backdrop, Will Collins, the de facto caretaker of a Buddhist monastery in Colorado, receives an urgent and mysterious request: to deliver a potential cure to a scientist in what was once California. So Will sets out, haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved, in a rusted-out pickup pulled by two mules. A menacing thug is on his tail. Armed militias patrol the roads. And the only way he'll make it is with the help of a clever raven, an opinionated cat and a tough teenage girl who has learned to survive on her own.
A highly original contribution to the canon of dystopian literature, The Way is a thrilling and imaginative novel, full of warmth, wisdom and surprises that reflect our world in unsettling, uncanny and even hopeful ways.
3 Shades of Blue
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue.
3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and the aftermath. It's a book about music, business, race, addiction and the cities that gave jazz its home; from New York and LA to Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City. Kaplan meditates on creativity and the great forebears of this golden age who would take the music down strange new paths.
Above all, this is a book about three very different men - their struggles, their choices, their tragedies, their greatness. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan's hands, an American Odyssey, with no direction home.
Barcelona
A marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love.
A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature.
A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.
The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, long car journeys or in suburban rooms, we glimpse characters as they approach those moments of desperation - or revelation - that change or reshape fate.
Abundance
The real threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - but a lack of effective action by so-called progressives.
We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's time for change.
Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
Love and Money, Sex and Death
After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and two kids, McKenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her relation to the world. Transition changes what, and how, she remembers. She makes fresh sense of her past and of history by writing to key figures in her life about the big themes that haunt us all-love and money, sex and death.
In letters to her childhood self, her mother, sister, and past lovers, she writes a backstory that enables her to live in the present. The letters expand to address trans sisters lost and found, as well as Cybele, ancient goddess of trans women. She engages with the political, the aesthetic, and the numinous dimensions of trans life and how they refract her sense of who she is, who she has been, who she can still become. She confronts difficult memories that connect her mother's early death to her compulsion to write, her communist convictions, her coming to New York, the bittersweet reality of her late transition, and the joy to be found in Brooklyn's trans and raver communities.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
‘[I]n Memories of a Catholic Girlhood [McCarthy] made a small, or perhaps more than small, masterpiece.’ — John Banville, Guardian
Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion.
There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face-lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange juice with castor oil, and taped her lips at night to prevent unhealthy ‘mouth-breathing’.
‘Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs,’ Mary McCarthy says, ‘I have wished that I were writing fiction.’ But these were the people, along with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart convent school, who inspired her engaging perception, her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous, and her witty, novelist’s imagination. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is a major work by one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written.
Every Body Counts
Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals a secretive world where lives don't matter, but where every body counts. From the Mediterranean to the English Channel, the Rio Grande to Thailand, at any moment there are over 280 million people attempting to emigrate.
While most migrants take legal channels, those outside the system represent financial potential for the corrupt. Sex trafficking, drug mules, organ trading, forced labour; the flow of desperate people generates billions of dollars annually, not only for smugglers who get them across borders, but also for traffickers. Every body has a price, as the veteran investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau knows.
Yet no other multi-billion pound transnational enterprise is less understood than the trade in humans, a fact that organised crime networks increasingly exploit as turn to migration for their profits. From the criminal underworld to the highest echelons of national institutions, from mafia cartels to glamorous fashion houses, banks, and governments, this ground-breaking investigation follows the money to reveal a clandestine industry.
How Not to Invest
This book was designed to reduce mistakes.
Your mistakes with money.
Tiny errors, epic fails and everything in between.
You can do thousands of things right, but make just a few of the errors we discuss, and you destroy much of your portfolio.
If you could learn how to avoid the unforced errors investors make all the time, you would make your life so much richer and less stressful.
The counterintuitive truth is avoiding errors is much more important than scoring wins.
How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers.
Make fewer errors, end up with more money.
We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.
Hikaru in the Light! (Volume 1)
Best friends compete for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become pop stars in this funny, feel-good manga perfect for fans of K-On!, The Tryout, and The Baby-Sitters Club.
Middle-school student Hikaru Ogino is known as the songbird of her family's bathhouse in Tokyo.
Her beautiful singing echoes from room to room as she cleans up after school, but she dreams of holding a microphone, not a mop!
When her best friend, Ran – a former girl group idol – invites her to try out for a pop star survival camp together, it's the chance of a lifetime to put her talents to the test.
Can Hikaru outshine the competition and make her stage debut, or will she fall flat?
Pitch-perfect manga capturing the high stakes atmosphere of pop star competitions
Perfect for fans of K-On!, The Tryout, and The Baby-Sitters Club
Translated from the original Japanese!
Jane Austen's Garden
An elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austen’s life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her.
Through explorations of the botanical inspirations and symbolism in Austen’s work and personal life, as well as historical information about the gardens and landscapes of the Regency Era, Jane Austen’s Garden will transport readers back in time to the lush English landscape of the early 1800s. Woven throughout are DIY projects to help you create a home garden worthy of a surprise visit from Lady Catherine de Bourgh or maybe just give your dining table a bit of historical flair. Accessible, entertaining, and enhanced by the enchanted illustrations of celebrated artist Jessica Roux, Jane Austen’s Garden is a fun twist on a familiar subject that will delight plant lovers and Janeites alike.
AI for Small Business
An essential guide for small business owners and entrepreneurs looking to use artificial intelligence to automate tasks, improve customer service, make better decisions, grow their businesses faster, and stay ahead of the AI curve.
ChatGPT, machine learning, automation, natural language processing. Every day, it seems like there is a new AI term to learn and a new promise of how it will improve your work. But with tons of conflicting information, small business owners are left wondering exactly how to leverage AI technology to grow and, more importantly, stay competitive with larger companies.
Cutting through the buzzwords and media frenzy, AI for Small Business is the road map to take you from overwhelmed to empowered. Opening with simple explanations of AI basics and clarification of myths, you are empowered to assess your goals to create a comprehensive AI strategy for your business-including information on selecting tools, a timeline for implementation, and ideas for scaling systems. This essential guide then walks you through practical AI applications for each department, informing you how to use AI to automate tasks, make better decisions, and grow your business in all areas including:
-Sales
-Marketing
-Social media and content creation
-Customer service
-Finance and accounting
-Operations and logistics
-Human resources and talent management
-Data analysis and decision-making
-Security and legal compliance
-R&D and innovation
Author Phil Pallen is a brand strategist who uses his AI expertise to help hundreds of businesses scale and grow profits. In AI for Small Business, case studies from Pallen's successful clients illustrate how real small business owners are applying AI technology in various ways. Plus, ready-to-try prompt sidebars and specific product recommendations allow you to start employing the power of AI in real time.
Everything I'll Say to You Tomorrow
If you could rewrite your memories, would you do it?
Fashion editor Miranda loves her work and lives a high-energy life in the hustle and bustle of Madrid. Her boyfriend Tristan hates the fast pace, noise and exhaust fumes, and wants only to get back to Galicia and the seaside, longing for kids and a white picket fence.
As explosive as their mutual attraction is, and as deep their love, one of them is going to have to give up their dreams. It’s only a matter of time before Tristan admits that even love isn't strong enough to overcome their fundamental differences.
The breakup is a shock to Miranda, but the very next day, she wakes up in the past on the day they met, and is forced to relive each momentous day throughout their relationship. At first she's determined to avoid the heartbreak by stopping the relationship before it begins, but eventually she sees that she can rewrite the details of her past…but not the trajectory.
So, she sets out to do better, hoping that she can avoid the inevitable heartbreak. But it becomes increasingly clear that she can't change who she really is – and what she really wants.
Everything I’ll Say to You Tomorrow is charmingly witty and deeply profound, exploring the nature of regret and the very human desire to rewrite the past – and, most importantly, the catharsis of acceptance in the midst of it all.
Stories of Ireland
A fake! A quack! A charlatan! Get a grip on yourself, woman! We’ll say another rosary and then I’ll leave you home.’
Stories of Ireland is a brilliant, colourful compendium of mid-century Irish experience from one of Ireland’s greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friel’s peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermen’s talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal.
Selected by Friel himself, and introduced by acclaimed author Louise Kennedy, this charming, heartful collection truly offers some of the best stories ever written.
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