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Is a River Alive


From the celebrated writer and observer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young ‘Rights of Nature’ movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept. Is a River Alive? flows like water from the mountains to the sea, over three major journeys: The first is to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened with destruction by gold-mining. The second is to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way. The third is to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream who rises a mile from Macfarlane’s house, and flows through his own years and days. Passionate, immersive and revelatory, Is a River Alive? is at once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date. It is a book that will open hearts, spark debates and challenge perspectives. Lit throughout by other minds and voices, it invites us radically to reimagine not only rivers but also life itself. At the centre of this vital, beautiful book is the recognition that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has.
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33,95 €

Somebody Told Me


Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure she’s not spending too much time on YouTube? Is she talking fondly of dictators? Has she suddenly started quietly muttering in the Aldi queue about the “Jewish Space Lasers” she’s heard are setting wildfires around the world to make sure everyone believes in climate change? When was the moment the world began to believe anything? Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens. He discovers how disinformation and well-told lies can ruin a year or a whole life, how they can affect our family, our street, our community. How they can spread across a country, a continent, even the world. How they take hold of our imaginations and make us feel both helpless and powerful. And Danny asks: can you do anything to stop it – even with the truth on your side?
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18,95 €

The Revolutionary Temper - Paris, 1748-1789


When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, class conflict or Enlightenment ideology. Without denying any of these, Robert Darnton offers a different explanation: what Parisians themselves, those at the centre of the Revolution, thought was happening at the time and how it guided their actions. To understand the rise of what he calls ‘the revolutionary temper’, Darnton draws on a lifetime’s study of pamphlets, books, underground newsletters, songs and public performances, exploring Paris as an information society not unlike our own. Its news circuits were centred in cafes and market-places, on park benches, and under the Palais-Royal’s Tree of Cracow, a favourite gathering-place for gossips. He shows how the events of forty years – from disastrous treaties, official corruption and royal scandal to thrilling hot-air balloon ascents and a new conception of the nation – all entered the collective consciousness of ordinary Parisians. As news and opinion travelled across this profoundly unequal society, public trust in royal authority eroded, its legitimacy was undermined, and the social order unravelled. Much of Robert Darnton’s work has explained the hidden dynamics of history, never more so than in this exceptional book. It is a riveting narrative, but it adds a new dimension, the perceptions of contemporary Parisians, which allows us to see these momentous decades afresh.
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23,95 €

Rok na vsi aneb Kronika všedního dne Jakuba a Dorotky


Poprvé vyšla publikace Rok na vsi výtvarnice a spisovatelky Kamily Skopové v roce 2011. Od té doby se vedle nového vydání v roce 2025 tento malý pozdrav bratřím Mrštíkům dočkal i volného pokračování v podobě druhého dílu. I v této Kronice všedního dne Jakuba a Dorotky autorka navazuje na své předešlé publikace s národopisnou tematikou a prokazuje své umění její nenásilné popularizace. I nyní stylizuje knihu do podoby starobylých kalendářů, které bývaly oblíbenou četbou ve venkovských domácnostech. Vyprávění dvou mladých lidí přibližuje přístupnou a čtivou formou všední i sváteční život na vesnici ve druhé polovině 19. století. Ve výpovědi běžných i neobvyklých událostí jednoho roku se tu střídají mládenec Jakub a jeho manželka a novopečená maminka Dorotka. Možná ale důležitější než všechny události běžného roku je podoba knížky, jež navazuje na starobylé kalendáře přinášející čtenářům kromě praktických údajů také vyprávění, pranostiky, říkadla a písničky, zajímavé recepty a nezaměnitelné obrázky.
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15,05 €

Szeresd magad! - Foglalkoztatókönyv nőknek


Indulj el az önelfogadáshoz vezető úton! Nőként manapság mindannyian küzdünk azzal, hogy egyensúlyt teremtsünk a különböző szerepeink között. Egyszerre akarunk helytállni otthon és a munkahelyünkön, ápolni a kapcsolatainkat és megoldani a feladatainkat. De mikor gondolunk önmagunkra? Ráébredünk-e arra, hogy először saját magunkkal kell törődnünk, mert anélkül másokon sem tudunk segíteni? Hogy ha nem szeretjük önmagunkat, másokat sem tudunk jól szeretni? Vedd a kezedbe ezt a hasznos tanácsadót, és fedezd fel, mennyi szeretnivaló van rajtad! A Szeresd magad foglalkoztatókönyvnek a segítségével megtanulhatod, mit jelent megismerni és megszeretni önmagadat, és olyan gyakorlatokat próbálhatsz ki, amelyeknek köszönhetően fejlődésnek indul az önbizalmad, és jobbá válnak az emberi kapcsolataid. Akár a testképeddel harcolsz, akár egy egészségtelen kapcsolatból akarsz kilépni, akár egyszerűen azzal küzdesz, hogy elfogadd önmagad, ez a könyv hasznos eszközöket és feladatokat kínál a kiteljesedéshez és a lelked táplálásához. Kíváncsi vagy, mi emeli ki ezt a könyvet a nőknek szóló önsegítő kiadványok közül? A bevált technikák. Szeresd meg önmagadat egy sor, a tudatosság és a pozitív pszichológia eszköztárába tartozó gyakorlat alkalmazásával! Az inspiráló ötletek és motivációt adó feladatok. Fedezd fel változatos képességeidet rejtvények és naplóbejegyzések révén! Értsd meg az érzelmeidet és engedd el azokat a meggyőződéseidet, amelyek csak gúzsba kötnek! Gondolkozz, tűnődj, és világosodj meg! A megerősítő állítások. A könyvben folyamatosan találkozol olyan kijelentésekkel, amelyek segítségével pozitívabbá teheted a hozzáállásodat, és támogató gondolatokból töltekezhetsz! Teremts célokkal és az önmagad iránt érzett szeretettel teli életet! MEGAN LOGAN amerikai mentálhigiénés szakember húsz éve foglalkozik tanácsadóként többek között a családon belüli bántalmazás és szexuális erőszak áldozataival, étkezési zavarokban szenvedő betegekkel és hospice gondozásba került páciensekkel. Szakterülete a traumához, abúzushoz, evési zavarokhoz, gyászhoz és veszteséghez kötődő lelki problémák kezelése.
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15,49 €

The Next Day


In a rare window into some of her life’s pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions. Transitions are moments in which we step out of our familiar surroundings and into a new landscape – a space that, for many people, is shadowed by confusion, fear, and indecision. The Next Day accompanies readers as they cross that space, offering guidance on how to make the most of the time between an ending and a new beginning and how to move forward into the next day when the ground beneath you is shifting. In this book, Melinda will reflect, for the first time in print, on some of the most significant transitions in her own life, including becoming a parent, the death of a dear friend, and her departure from the Gates Foundation. The stories she tells illuminate universal lessons about loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping friends navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty, and more. Each one of us, no matter who we are or where we are in life, is headed toward transitions of our own. With her signature warmth and grace, Melinda candidly shares stories of times when she was in need of wisdom and shines a path through the open space stretching out before us all.
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23,95 €

Girl on Girl


From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement's power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress. Sophie Gilbert identifies an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the energy of third-wave and "riot grrrl" feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Mining the darker side of nostalgia, Gilbert trains her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more. What she recounts is harrowing, from the leering gaze of the paparazzi to the gleeful cruelty of early reality TV and a burgeoning internet culture vicious toward women in the spotlight and damaging for those who weren't. Gilbert tracks many of the period's dominant themes back to the rise of internet porn, which gained widespread influence as it began to pervade our collective consciousness. The result is a devastating portrait of a time when a distinctly American blend of excess, materialism, and power worship collided with the culture's reactionary, puritanical, and chauvinistic currents. Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and continues to shape our world today.
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33,50 €

24/7


The bestselling and internationally translated book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life. Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance.
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14,95 €

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes


Based on over 150 audio interviews with those who fought, this is a moving and powerful oral history that marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy. Published alongside a groundbreaking BBC2 documentary series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes. D-Day was a critical turning point in the Second World War, but for the tens of thousands of young men who took part it was bloody, chaotic and terrifying. For those who survived the beaches, months of bitter fighting lay ahead, often against some of Germany's most elite divisions. Drawing primarily on the extraordinary archives of the Imperial War Museums and National World War II Museum, this immersive book describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed. British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, speak of experiences they could never forget. Here is the forward observer hiding alone on Omaha beach, thinking of his wife as he waits for the invasion to begin. The commando racing to the besieged airborne forces at Pegasus Bridge. The Typhoon pilot about to be executed by the SS when he is saved by a Luftwaffe officer. The teenage GI surrounded and under fire for six days. The German soldier haunted by the memory of abandoning his dying friend. Their words reach across the decades as they share their experiences with us. In D-Day The Unheard Tapes Geraint Jones, author of Brothers in Arms and a former infantry soldier, has skilfully brought the battle for Normandy to life in a vivid narrative that allows the voices of those who fought to shine through, authentic and unforgettable.
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15,95 €

The Sweaty Startup


Real-life, hard-won wisdom on how to start, run and grow a successful business, from the founder of The Sweaty Startup. If you ask the average person who an entrepreneur is, they’ll probably say people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. But the truth is, you don’t need to know how to code or raise VC money to start a business. There are hundreds of millions of small business owners globally, with most creating simple, straightforward services that customers need. Nick Huber, founder of The Sweaty Startup and several million-dollar businesses, challenges the prevailing Silicon Valley wisdom by demonstrating that success as a small business owner is based on the essential principle of doing common things uncommonly well. In The Sweaty Startup, Nick offers readers the simplest, easiest, and lowest-risk path to reclaiming entrepreneurship, generating value, and forging a new path to get ahead on their own terms. By returning to the most foundational business tactics, this book is a refreshing burst of clarity and simplicity in a world that’s obsessed with technology startups, the suffocating squeeze of digital innovation, and the elusive lure of billion-dollar payouts. Filled to the brim with practical insights, inspiring real-life stories, and actionable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, Nick will reveal how to create a business that succeeds on the most essential level: making money, consistently and predictably over the long term. His book will redefine entrepreneurship and become the go-to handbook for years to come.
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23,95 €

Demokrácia és populizmus


Merre visz a liberális demokrácia útja? John Lukacs 2005-ben megjelent esszéje szerint a populizmus felé, amit az elmúlt két évtized világpolitikai tendenciái is igazolni látszanak. Reneszánszát éli egy olyan politizálás, mely immáron a modern tömegmédia eszközeivel, végletekig leegyszerűsített üzenetekkel hajhássza a népszerűséget - "a nép" egyetlen hiteles képviseleteként fellépve, akár a gyűlölet szításától sem visszariadva. A Demokrácia és populizmus közérthető és elgondolkodtató áttekintése annak, miképp változott a történelem során a politikai jobb- és baloldal, és hogy milyen veszélyeket rejt magában a "totális demokrácia". "Az igazi hazafiság védelmező, a nacionalizmus támadó" JOHN LUKACS (1924-2019) Nekünk, magyaroknak: Lukács János. Amerikai-magyar (vagy magyar-amerikai) történész és író. Budapesten született; átélte Budapest ostromát, majd a háború után a kommunisták elől Nyugatra emigrált. 1947-től Pennsylvaniában élt. Több mint 30 könyve jelent meg, életművének nagy része magyarul is olvasható. Világszerte a XX. század egyik jelentős történészeként tartják számon; népszerűségét nem annyira új kutatási eredményeinek, mint inkább a történészszakmában ritka szépirodalmi stílusának köszönheti. Munkásságát többek között Corvin-lánccal (2001) és Széchenyi-nagydíjjal (2014) is elismerték.
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16,90 €

Battleground


The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global powers sought to further their interests. The United States, for so long the dominant actor, had stepped back, leaving a vacuum behind it to be fought over. Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the region, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the EU, and the US. Moving through ten key flashpoints, from Syria to Palestine, Phillips argues that the United States’ overextension after the Cold War, and retreat in the 2010s, has imbalanced the region. Today, the Middle East remains blighted by conflicts of unprecedented violence and a post-American scramble for power – leaving its fate in the balance.
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18,95 €

The People’s War


There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun at us… Schoolboy in Kent, during the Battle of Britain My legs pressed harder around my father's waist; my arms nearly choked him. The humming of Japanese aircraft was loud enough for everyone to hear now, and panic spread like ink on a blotter. Child saying goodbye to her parents, Singapore 1942 In the early 2000s, the BBC launched its biggest oral history project, recording the lives and experiences of the ordinary people who lived through World War II. It amounted to 47,000 testimonies and over 400 diaries and letters, all of which have remained unexplored in the archives for twenty years – until now. In The People's War, John Willis reveals untold stories of everyday bravery, moments of terror, and tales of life-affirming community, that guide us through the years of the World War II. From soldiers in North Africa and prisoners of war in East Asia, to evacuees in the British countryside and women in the factories, The People's War is a truly ambitious and comprehensive journey through a devastating and pivotal period of our history, as you've never read before. Follow the remarkable stories of ordinary individuals who lived, fought, grieved, loved, and survived through the war.
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33,95 €

The Canceling of the American Mind


Why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career? Greg Lukianoff was one of the first to raise the alarm about the troubling social and psychological consequences of the growing intolerance of opposing viewpoints on university campuses in America; a phenomenon which then swept through the English-speaking world. In this new book, he teams up with Rikki Schlott to show how this trend has spread to a wide range of workplaces and cultural spaces, which are giving up on a culture of free speech in favour of cancel culture. Drawing on original research and data, along with hundreds of new examples from publishing to psychotherapy, comedy, science and medicine, this book shows how the left and the right both work to silence their enemies in different ways. It's not simply a matter of Twitter spats; people are losing their jobs, livelihoods and sometimes their lives over it. Eye-opening, urgent and transformative, The Canceling of the American Mind argues that cancel culture is not merely a moral panic, but a dysfunctional way in which people battle for power, status and dominance: moving us away from being able to argue productively, listen generously and ultimately be civil when we disagree. This book offers concrete steps towards reclaiming a culture of free speech, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders and all those who use social media. It shows how we can all harness intellectual humility to become more resilient and open minded.
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18,95 €

The World of the Cold War


A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSR Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union? In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, Vladislav Zubok traces the origins of the Cold War in post-war Europe, through the tumultuous decades of confrontation, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond. With remarkable clarity and unique perspective, Zubok argues that the Cold War, often seen as an existential battle between capitalist democracy and totalitarian communism, has long been misunderstood. He challenges the popular Western narrative that economic superiority and democratic values led the USA to victory. Instead, he looks beyond the familiar images of East-West rivalry, shining a light on the impact of non-Western actors and placing the war in the context of global decolonization, Soviet weakness and the accidents of history. Here, he interrogates what happens when stability and peace are no longer the default, when treaties are broken and when diplomacy ceases to function. Drawing on years of research and informed by Zubok’s three decades in the USSR followed by three decades in the West, The World of the Cold War paints a striking portrait of a world on the brink.
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33,95 €

Girl on Girl


Cosmetic surgeries at an all-time high, Ozempic is bringing back 'heroin chic' and TikTok trad-wives are on the rise - after four waves of feminism, what went wrong? In this blazing, razor-sharp takedown of popular culture in the twenty-first century, Girl on Girl turns 90s and 00s nostalgia on its head, and shows how the media of that era repackaged the feminist movement as a containable, commodifiable (and hugely successful) product: 'Girl Power'. From the Spice Girls to the Kardashians, to #GirlBoss and OnlyFans, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Sophie Gilbert illustrates how the cultural forces of the last few decades have systematically shaped - and warped - women's relationships with themselves and other women. Relatable, wide-ranging and covering TV, film, music, journalism and the internet, Girl on Girl asks how did we get here, and what lies ahead.
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23,95 €

Superagency


nstant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller. Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider's perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities. "An essential companion." - Fei-Fei Li "An important read." -Bill Gates "Brilliant mind. Compassionate heart. Bold ideas...Read this book!" -Van Jones "Refreshingly optimistic and welcome perspective." - Ariana Huffington "A fascinating and insightful book." -Yuval Noah HarariAs taught at UPenn's Wharton and Stanford.
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20,95 €

Capitalism and Its Critics


A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the biggest political, economic, and social dislocations of our time. But in this sweeping, kaleidoscopic history of the economic system that has shaped our world, the Pulitzer Prize finalist John Cassidy adopts a bold new approach: he examines global capitalism through the eyes of its critics. From the English Luddites, who rebelled against early factory automation, to communists in Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century, Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, this absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It visits with familiar names?Smith, Carlyle, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi?but also focuses on many lesser-known figures, including William Thompson, the Irish proto-socialist whose work influenced Marx; Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labor union; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; J.C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Gandhian economics; Eric Williams, the Trinidadian author of a famous thesis on slavery and capitalism; and Joan Robinson, the Cambridge economist and critic of the Cold War. Blending rich biography, panoramic history, and lively exploration of economic theories, Capitalism and Its Critics tells an expansive story that illuminates the deep roots of many of the most urgent issues we face today, from widening inequality and the ecological crisis to technological transformation and resurgent authoritarian politics.
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41,95 €

Život pod vládou Kristovou


Nejznámější kniha charismatického kněze, kapucínského teologa a kardinála Raniera Cantalamessy vznikla jako svérázný komentář k listu apoštola Pavla Římanům, a to na základě promluv pro papeže Jana Pavla II. a jeho spolupracovníky. Nejde v ní jen o exegezi Pavlovy epištoly. Autor míří k srdci evangelia a pokouší se vystihnout nosné prvky víry v Krista, křesťanské tradice a společného svědectví věřících křesťanů v současném světě. Autor knížku hojně využíval při duchovních cvičeních pro různé posluchače – od řeholních komunit a studentů přes farní společenství až po ekumenická duchovní setkání. Svěží syntézu pravd víry, stavějící na síle Božího slova a moci Ducha Svatého, ocení účastníci duchovních cvičení a obnov, ti, kdo se připravují na přijetí křtu a biřmování, jednotlivci, společenství ve farnostech i další zájemci.
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20,75 €

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