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The Anatomy of Anxiety


'A redeeming way to look at the condition, as not merely a burden but ultimately a blessing ... unexpectedly moving ... validating and hopeful' GuardianAnxiety. It's all in your head, right? Wrong. Psychiatrist Dr Ellen Vora challenges the conventional view of anxiety as a mental disorder, suggesting instead that much of what we call anxiety begins in the body. Rather than our troubled thoughts creating physical symptoms, she argues that many types of anxiety are the result of states of imbalance in our bodies, whether blood sugar crashes, caffeine highs or sleep deprivation. Her clinical observation shows this type of anxiety is far more preventable than we may realise, responding almost immediately to straightforward adjustments to diet and lifestyle. Backed by the latest scientific research and Dr Vora's own clinical work, The Anatomy of Anxiety offers a fresh, much needed look at mental health, offering actionable strategies for managing our moods. She further argues that other forms of anxiety, when listened to and honoured instead of suppressed, can be seen as a course correction to help nudge us back to a more balanced life. In her groundbreaking book, Dr Vora walks beside us through a healing process to reframe our relationship with anxiety, creating a more joyful and fulfilled life.
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17,99 €

MVP


'Powerful ... an essential guide for us all' GERRY HUSSEY'INVALUABLE FOR TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS WANTING TO TAKE THEIR PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL' DARRAGH O'SULLIVAN, MANAGER OF ALL-IRELAND CLUB WINNERS BALLYGUNNERIn his game-changing new book, elite performance coach Tony Óg Regan reveals the winning mindset that transforms contenders into champions - on the pitch, in the boardroom and in everyday life. Drawing on his experience as a top-level athlete and his unique 'Mindset Match' approach, Tony Óg delivers a powerful strategy to help you set and achieve your goals and to silence self-doubt, enabling you to face pressure and high-stake moments with unshakable courage and a deep-rooted belief in yourself. Whether you're chasing silverware or striving for personal excellence, this book is your guide to winning and becoming the Most Valuable Player of your own story.
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15,99 €

James II and Wales


The reign of James II was a dramatic failure in Wales. He became King when Welsh loyalty to the crown and church was strong. But his attacks on the church and his own adherents in Wales meant that loyalty to him quickly drained away. James’s treatment of the Welsh gentry, lawyers and politicians stimulated a spirit of opposition that strengthened as his Catholicising policies became more strident. Clergy members were at the forefront of resistance to the King; Bishop William Lloyd of St Asaph became one of the conspirators who sought to overthrow James and replace him with William of Orange; and, when it came, the Revolution of 1688 was much more turbulent in Wales than in England. This comprehensive study of a ruined reign shows the ways in which opinion turned against James in Wales, providing an account of a neglected period in Welsh history.
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32,99 €

Your Life Is Manufactured


From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, embark on an eye-opening guided tour through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the planet. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products, be it furniture, technology, clothing, and or even food. The processes by which these things appear in our lives are virtually invisible. How often do we stop to think: Where do the things we buy actually come from? Charting the byzantine journeys taken by everyday items to reach us, Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world - and explores how it could offer us a path to a truly sustainable, more equitable future. In doing so, Minshall grants us the ability to make better choices for ourselves, our communities and the planet.
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18,45 €

Positively Potty


Start early, finish confidently: why a gentle approach to potty learning from as early as 6 months can help to support healthy bladder and bowel habits in young ones. Step 1 – Preparation: Build body awareness and core skills through playful routines, short nappy-free times, and introducing the potty in a positive way. Step 2 – Practice: Use engaging games, stories and characters l to make potty learning fun and help your child connect body signals to action. Step 3 – Stopping nappies: Follow the gentle, evidence-based Little Steps method for a smooth transition—even if your child is anxious or has had false starts. Tailor your approach: With a unique temperament tool and a distinct strategy for supporting neurodivergent children, this book ensures that potty training works for every child’s personality, offering adaptable and flexible methods that even the busiest caregiver can apply. Troubleshooting made easy: Practical solutions for common challenges like accidents, resistance, constipation and night time dryness. Busy family friendly: Tips for working parents, co-parenting and childcare settings, plus guidance for naps, outings and night-time success.
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13,49 €

Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History


Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History brings together the works of Georg W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), one of the greatest philosophers of history, who, prior to his death, did not execute a treatise setting forth his philosophy of world history. All that remains are fragmented and truncated manuscript materials and meticulous student transcripts from his lectures on the philosophy of world history, which are assembled in this book to present what Hegel might call the "essential phases" or "moments" in his philosophy of world history as an articulated, unfolding, organic whole. Drawing from historical-critical editions, Thomas L. Pangle has compiled a range of passages that provide the fullest and clearest expression of Hegel's teachings on the philosophy of history as divine reason expressing itself dynamically in the whole of existence. Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History provides lucid, vivid, and concrete access to Hegel's political philosophy, as the most ambitious and thorough attempt to demonstrate that world history overall, starting with ancient China and India, exhibits God's providence for humanity as a truly rational divine plan.
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146,99 €

The Swedish Art of Ageing Well


This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings. Wear stripes. Eat chocolate. Don't leave empty-handed. But also embrace change, let go of what doesn't matter and take care of something or someone other than yourself. The Swedish Art of Ageing Well is a gentle and welcome reminder that, no matter your age, there are always fresh discoveries ahead and pleasures to be enjoyed every day.
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16,45 €

Career Comedown


You've spent years climbing the career ladder, snagging promotions and basking in the glow of well-deserved pay rises. On paper (read: LinkedIn), everything seems great - enviable even. However, you can't quite help but feel … underwhelmed? The go-getter energy that once propelled you out of bed has been replaced with burnout and now, beneath it all, you're left wondering: 'Is this really it?' If this sounds familiar, then you may be experiencing 'career comedown'. Thankfully, Stefanie Sword-Williams, award-winning founder and author of F*ck Being Humble, is here to help. Drawing upon Stefanie's years of experience as a career expert, and hundreds of hours of interviews and research, this personable and relatable handbook offers a trove of practical advice on what to do when work isn't working for you. Exploring three distinct pathways - sticking with your current job but moulding it to suit you, twisting down a different path and reinventing yourself professionally, or tapping out from work being your identity altogether - Career Comedown is an engaging and essential guide to prioritising your needs in your working life. So if you've ever asked yourself… - Am in the right career? - Am going to feel stuck forever? - How can I find better work life balance? - How can I stop letting work take over? - Can I reinvent myself and still be successful? …then this book is the one for you. Feel empowered to reflect on your values, take charge of your career journey and redefine success on your own terms.
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22,45 €

Operation Paperclip


In this engrossing and deeply disturbing exposé from the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen tells the gripping story of a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. In the chaos following the Second World War, the US government faced a critical decision: what to do with the great scientific minds of the Third Reich. Many were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder. Nevertheless, the US government secretly decided that their knowledge of rocketry and medical advances were vital to the outcome of the Cold War. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and dossiers discovered in archives across the world, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the twentieth century.
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20,45 €

The Short History of Russia


The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 began a new episode in history and was surrounded by a miscellany of historical claims. This book is a succinct, up-to-date guide to the histories on offer about and from Russia, one that seeks to make sense of present issues and future prospects as well as of the past. There is a heavy emphasis on war and international relations, but that is appropriate not only for the past but also from a present in which both are to the fore.Peter the Great (r. 1689-1725), an eager modernizer, was viewed as an un-Russian evil phenomenon in light of his denial of the divine identity of traditional Russian monarchy, his blasphemy, his theft of time from God when he changed the calendar, and his sacrilegious violation of the image of God in man when he forced men to cut off their beards. Vladimir Putin cuts off no beards, he is no moderniser; the fall of the Berlin Wall left him with an abiding mistrust of democracy and ''People''s Power''. At Davos in 2000, American journalist Trudy Rubin asked a panel of top Russian officials: ''Who is Mr Putin?'' None of them could answer, except to say: ''He is the president of Russia.'' How did this foreign intelligence officer of the KGB become Trump''s favourite running dog of capitalism? To answer the question, we have to understand what Russia was. There is a continuity that will give us a clue about what it is and will become.
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26,99 €

Over Work


Workers across all demographics, industries, and socioeconomic levels report exhaustion, burnout, and the wish for more meaningful lives. Drawing on years of research, Brigid Schulte traces the arc of our discontent from a time before the 1980s, when work was more compatible with well-being and many jobs enabled a single earner to support a family, until today, with millions of people working multiple hourly jobs or in white-collar positions where no hours are ever off duty. She casts a wide net in search of solutions, exploring the movement to institute a four-day workweek, introducing Japan's Housewives Brigade - which demands legal protection for family time - and embedding with CEOs who are making the business case for humane conditions. Rich with stories and informed by deep investigation, Over Work lays out a clear vision for ending our punishing grind and reclaiming leisure, joy, and meaning.
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18,45 €

Alexander - God, King, Man


A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author's own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages. In 336 BCE, at the age of twenty, Alexander, a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army which answered to nobody. Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army east, into the heart of the vast Persian Empire, and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. The young man became a king, the king became a hero, the hero became a living god, and the god died aged thirty-two, broken-hearted in Babylon. For centuries, historians have told his story, yet Alexander has remained a mystery. But now, the ruins of his cities have emerged from the bottom of the sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed. For the first time, instead of the legend, we can meet Alexander the man. Based on more than a decade of cutting-edge research, Alexander allows readers to feel the desert wind and experience the full horror of battle. Richardson's research has taken him from the catacombs of Egypt to the passes of Afghanistan. Alexander is a cinematic work of non-fiction: a revelatory retelling of one of the most famous and elusive stories in history.
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26,99 €

Eroding Democracy from the Outside In


The end of the Cold War gave way to a fundamental shift in the structure of the international system. It was an era characterized above all by liberal triumphalism in which Western politicians and policymakers turned to international organizations (IOs) to spread and reinforce liberal values. These IOs, backed by the West, proliferated at exceedingly high rates, with democracies in particular becoming fully integrated members. Scholars agreed with policymakers, finding overwhelming evidence that these IOs were positive forces for democracy, and for several decades liberal democracy appeared ascendant. However, beginning around 2010, liberal democracy''s forward march abruptly halted, and ongoing evidence of democratic backsliding ---an historically unprecedented phenomenon in which democratically elected officials erode liberal democratic institutions--- calls into question the post-Cold War narrative of liberal democratic triumphalism. What explains democracy''s sudden reversal of fortune and the emergence of this new form of democratic regression on the heels of unmatched international integration and support for liberal democracy? Eroding Democracy from the Outside In proposes a novel international-level theory of democratic backsliding. In the decades after the Soviet Union fell, IOs became not only much more common, but a certain subset of these organizations also gained unprecedented power and influence over domestic affairs and substantive, highly salient economic and political policy outcomes. One unintended consequence of this increased delegation of economic and political policy authority to powerful IOs has been that over time core domestic representative institutions, such as political parties and legislatures, have been eroded, while power has been increasingly concentrated in the hands of executives who represent their states at the international level. These weak institutions, unable to either represent citizens'' wide-ranging interests or act as a check on growing executive power, have paved the way for would-be autocrats to consolidate their hold on the state. The result all too often has been democratic backsliding.
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26,99 €

Conservatism


The idea that conservatism amounts to little more than being in favour of free market capitalism and a small state—widely held for decades—is seriously mistaken.Award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is to return to a genuine conservatism that is distinct from the hollow promises of contemporary economic and social liberalism. He explains how this great Anglo-American conservative tradition – rooted in empiricism, faith and the nation – emerged and developed in England in the thought of men like Richard Hooker and Edmund Burke, and later inspired American figures ranging from the Federalists to Lincoln. He analyses how this tradition was corrupted and subverted from the 1960s onwards by the right’s misconceived embrace of ‘fusionism’ and liberalism, and how it can be revived today to respond to an era of progressive hegemony.Reflecting on his own first-hand experiences - and the importance of personal behaviour, piety and virtue in rebuilding the culture and politics of conservatism – Hazony makes a powerful counter-cultural case for a revivified conservatism that no-one dissatisfied with the current state of the political right can afford to miss.
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19,99 €

The Sound of Utopia


'An illuminating account of how the Soviet system waged its war on musicians' Financial TimesWhen Stalin came to power, making music became a dangerous endeavour. Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential subversion.The Sound of Utopia offers a vivid portrait of Soviet musicians and composers struggling to create art in this climate of terror. Some successfully toed the ideological line, diluting their work in the process; others ended up facing the Gulag or even death. With pace and verve, Michel Krielaars tells stories of intrigue, betrayal and stunning reversals of fortune, from the gay popular singer arrested at the height of his popularity to the blacklisted composer who wrote music on scrap paper in a forced labour camp.Dramatic and immersive, this is a rich exploration of the absurdity and the richness of Soviet musical life - and a tribute to those who crafted sublime melodies under the darkest circumstances.
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17,99 €

Learning the Language of Creation


A vision for realizing the promise of integral ecology and putting it into practice.  In his landmark encyclical on care for creation, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis popularized the idea of integral ecology by connecting contemporary ecological concerns and church teachings on creation addressed by Catholic Social Thought. In Learning the Language of Creation, Franciscan Sister Damien Marie Savino, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences, frames integral ecology as a pilgrimage guided by a process of listening and learning the language of creation. In this book, she offers a new way of thinking about creation, human beings, and the relationship between them to realize the promise of integral ecology put into practice.
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19,99 €

How to Be Well


‘...an intelligent take-down, but funny too' The TimesHow To Be Well was made Welldoing's Book of The Month. Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women’s lives?'Penetrating and thought-provoking, this will cause readers to think twice before reaching for the latest purported cure-all.' Publishers Weekly'A rollicking exploration of our desperation for wellness, our devotion to CBD, (and) self-care...deftly separating the gobbledygook from the truly transformative.' Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not ApplyToday, the wellness industry is a $3.7 trillion behemoth that touches us all. Amy Larocca takes readers into the communities that swear by their activated charcoal toothpaste and green juice enemas, explaining what each of these practices really is, and what the science says. Larocca holds a magnifying glass to alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions — and tries a lot herself along the way — ultimately delivering an assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our (gendered, class-based, racialised) perceptions of care and self-improvement, and how it preys on our unshakable fear of the unknown. She traces the history of how the beauty and fashion industries have peddled snake oil to women for decades, and why we keep coming back for more.
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22,99 €

Quirky Cardiff


Behind Cardiff’s familiar landmarks lies another city: one of lost chapels, ghostly legends, hidden treasures and secret passageways. Quirky Cardiff uncovers these stories, celebrating the people and places that make the city so unmistakably Cardiffian.Step inside the lavish fairy-tale chamber created for Sleeping Beauty; meet Captain Morgan, the real-life pirate of the Caribbean; and explore the childhood worlds of Roald Dahl and Shirley Bassey. The city has an uncanny edge too: Daleks roaming the streets, mischievous poltergeists, and even a UFO sighting dubbed the Welsh Roswell. These are the oddities, scandals and surprises that rarely appear in the guidebooks but have shaped Cardiff’s character.From legendary pubs and striking street art to the roar of the stadium on match days, every alley and avenue brims with stories. And, of course, no tale of Cardiff would be complete without a late-night stop on Chippy Lane. Funny, eerie and surprising in equal measure, Quirky Cardiff lifts the lid on the hidden side of Wales’s bustling capital.
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Prečo si pamätáme


Pamäť je oveľa viac než len záznam minulosti. V tejto prelomovej knihe o mysli a mozgu jeden z popredných svetových výskumníkov pamäti odhaľuje silnú funkciu, ktorú má pamäť takmer v každom aspekte nášho života – od zapamätania si tvárí a mien cez učenie, rozhodovanie až po traumu a uzdravovanie. Najnovší vedecký výskum prináša nový pohľad na našu pamäť. V knihe Prečo si pamätáme neurovedecký priekopník a psychológ Charan Ranganath radikálne prehodnocuje spôsob, akým vnímame každodenné spomínanie. V kombinácii zrozumiteľného jazyka a najmodernejšieho výskumu ukazuje prekvapivé spôsoby, akými náš mozog zaznamenáva minulosť a ako tieto informácie používame na pochopenie toho, kým sme v prítomnosti, a na predstavovanie si a plánovanie vlastnej budúcnosti. Ako ukazuje Dr. Ranganath, pamäť je vysoko transformačná sila, ktorá ovplyvňuje, ako prežívame svet, často neviditeľným a niekedy aj deštruktívnym spôsobom. Poznanie týchto mechanizmov nám môže pomôcť pri každodenných úlohách, ako je hľadanie kľúčov, ale aj pri vyrovnávaní sa so stratou pamäti v staršom veku. Navyše, keď pracujeme v súlade so schopnosťou mozgu učiť sa a nanovo interpretovať minulé udalosti, môžeme liečiť traumu, zbavovať sa predsudkov, učiť sa rýchlejšie a rozvíjať si sebauvedomenie. V knihe nájdete fascinujúce štúdie a príklady z popkultúry. Ranganath čerpá aj zo svojho života vedca, otca a dieťaťa prisťahovalcov. Prečo si pamätáme je strhujúce čítanie, ktoré odhaľuje skrytú úlohu pamäti naprieč naším životom. Keď porozumieme jej sile a zvláštnostiam, dokážeme sa prehrýzť balastom a pamätať si to, čo si pamätať chceme. Budeme schopní sa rozhodovať slobodnejšie a plánovať šťastnejšiu budúcnosť.
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21,40 €

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