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Three Rivers


A fascinating exploration of the rich and varied cultural worlds shaped by the Rhine, the Rhone and the Po Three of Europe's greatest rivers share the same geological cradle: one fertile patch of Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. Coursing down through the peaks, the Rhine, the Rhone and the Po gave birth to three different European cultures - German, French and Italian - as they flowed across the continent. From this shared geological cradle, these waterways have shaped the landscape, influenced the pattern of towns and cities, laid the foundation for economies and created an intricate network of transport, trade and agriculture. From the Romanesque buttresses and vines of Provence to the Wagnerian music of the Rhine and the artistic miracles of Lombardy, the heart of Western Europe - its languages, religion, philosophy, science, politics and art - has been nourished by these waters. Setting off in the dramatic mountain landscape where this story begins, acclaimed historian Robert Winder traces the rivers' journeys from their increasingly fragile glacial sources, revealing in shimmering detail their impact on Europe's rich history as they flow towards the sea.
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27,95 €

Economica


THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW WOMEN MADE THE WORLD WEALTHY Humanity's journey from poverty to prosperity is filled with men who have become household names. But how many female entrepreneurs, merchants and industrialists can you name? Economica places women at the centre of the story of economic growth. Starting in the Stone Age and continuing to the present day, it takes the reader through the key economic milestones of the past twelve millennia - from the birth of farming to the advent of computing - all told through the experiences of women as well as men. Historian Victoria Bateman weaves a thrilling, globe-spanning narrative that proves women weren't 'missing' from economic life, they were merely hidden from view. We discover the female workers who helped to build the Great Pyramid of Giza, and to plumb the city of ancient Rome; the silk weavers who made a vital contribution to the development of the Silk Road and global trade; the women who dominated London's brewing trade during medieval times; and the brave twentieth-century pioneers who fought to make our economies not just richer but fairer. Economica rewrites our understanding of women's role in the economy, and tells a more accurate economic history of us all.
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23,95 €

The ADHD Reset


“Readers who have recently been diagnosed with ADHD will find this an especially smart and approachable resource.” —Publishers WeeklyTransform your ADHD from a struggle to a strength with this empowering toolkit.What if what you need to succeed and manifest your goals is what you have been trying to overcome—your ADHD? The ADHD Reset is a new and hopeful perspective that transforms ADHD from an obstacle to a source of power. Without the right tools, ADHD can rule your life in a challenging way. But you can thrive with ADHD. In fact, an ADHD brain has some pretty magical qualities! Creator of the popular handle @ModernHippieMindset, ADHD coach Claire Michalski shows you how to reset your mindset and approach to living with ADHD. Learn how to live your dream life with ADHD—not in spite of it.The ADHD Reset offers dozens of practical tools and strategies that will move you from feeling limited to liberated. Feel empowered to accept the disowned parts of yourself through shadow work, reframing techniques, mindset shifts, and self-love. Coaching, interactive journal practices, and a step-by-step approach set you up to shift your mindset, clarify your objectives, and find your unique magic. This practical and inspiring guide will help you:Understand your ADHD brain in a way that brings loving self-awareness and unconditional self-acceptanceRewire your brain with easy mindset techniques Finally manage emotional dysregulationHabit stack, manage your time effectively, and set and complete goalsMove from managing your life to manifesting the life you want with The ADHD Reset.
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24,49 €

The Law for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life


An up-to-date presentation of the Law of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law.   This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive presentation of the Law of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law. It also outlines the process of legal protection in canonical administrative matters. It is intended as an introduction for superiors and members of institutes and societies, as well as for vicars and officials in ecclesiastical administration. It will also serve as a useful resource for novitiate formation, and an initial overview for students engaged in academic study.
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36,99 €

Something Wicked


<p>The autumn must read: <i>Something Wicked </i>this way comes...<br><b><br>Accused. Condemned. Redefined.</b><br><br>On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group died in Lancaster Castle's dungeons, while awaiting trial.<br><br> Today, a thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we know about the case originates from a single source: Thomas Potts' <i>Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches</i>, hurriedly published in 1613 and distinctly skewed in favour of the prosecution. Until now...<br><br><i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author Carol Ann Lee brings an entirely fresh perspective to the story by approaching it as true crime. Having worked in the genre for more than a decade, her research leads to revelatory discoveries, transforming our knowledge of those shadowy figures behind ill-famed names, and the terrible events that befell them.<br><br> After four centuries of superstition and surmise, the two central, warring families - each headed by a fiercely independent widow working as 'cunning women' - emerge fully formed, as the book uncovers the reality of their lives and their alleged crimes before exploring the trial and executions.<br><br> Along the way, we uncover the truth behind some of the story's most enduring mysteries: the legend of Malkin Tower and the final resting place of the Pendle witches. <br><br>This is a ground-breaking book that will take the reader on a spellbinding journey into the dark heart of England's largest and most notorious witch trial.</p>
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14,99 €

Buried Treasure


Drawing together three years’ worth of the hugely popular Church Times ‘Sunday’s Reading’ column, Buried Treasure offers both professional preachers and casual readers wise, engaging and relevant insight into the Sunday readings for lectionary years A, B and C in one volume. Cally Hammond’s beautiful and profound reflections break down the division between reading and prayer inviting readers to see that the best way to read scripture is not by excluding error, but by including life in all its messy fullness.
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32,99 €

Off The Rails


Britain: from railway pioneers to the fiascos of HS2‘High Speed 2’ was to be the crown jewel of British rail Bringing the antiquated and unreliable north-west line up to date, it would connect central London with Manchester and Leeds via Birmingham, reducing travel time and combatting the North–South divide. It was, however, not to be. Dogged by mismanagement, overspending and incompetence, HS2 has collapsed, reduced to a much smaller line connecting Birmingham with the outskirts of London – Euston, the central London terminus, still seemingly unreachable. All of this has cost taxpayers around sixty-six billion pounds. In a forensic examination of how the project imploded, Sally Gimson meets with the politicians, engineers and ordinary people affected by the failure of HS2. From those whose business and houses were compulsorily bought to make room for the line to the scattering of ghost towns which punctuate the now cancelled Northern branch, Off the Rails offers a thorough and scathing account of how a vital project was overcome by government mismanagement.
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25,49 €

M18 Hellcat vs Panther


This fully illustrated study examines the bloody battle between the US Army''s M18 tank destroyer and Germany''s formidable Panther tank at Arracourt in September 1944.In response to Germany’s Blitzkrieg victories of 1939–41, the US Army created a dedicated tank-destroyer force intended to encircle and destroy the massed attacking armored divisions. Fast, relatively well-armed, but weakly armored, the M18 was designed from the start as a tank destroyer, unlike the M10 and M36. By September 1944, the German Army’s armored divisions fielded the Panther tank alongside the PzKpfw IV. In this book, William Hiestand notes that the Panther’s combination of long-range firepower, impressive armour, and good mobility won it a fearsome reputation, but shows how the M18 proved to be a very able opponent when the two types clashed on a foggy September morning during the battle of Arracourt. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside archive photographs, this lively study examines the origins, development, strengths, and limitations of the two AFVs as well as their crews’ training, doctrine, and combat effectiveness. It also provides a detailed account of the momentous battle between the US 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion and the German Panzer-Brigade 113 at Arracourt, where the two types clashed in a surprising encounter that challenges our preconceptions about armored warfare in World War II.
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19,99 €

Driven by the Monsoons


The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng He. This story complements that of the land routes, showing how humans have been driven across thousands of years to create and maintain networks whatever the difficulties.Driven by the Monsoons illuminates maritime connections between the Indian Ocean and its surrounding water routes: the Arabian Gulf and the Red and China Seas. It begins with the movement of humans into South-East Asia and ends about 1600 CE when European companies emerge to takeover. It is tale of exotic goods, material needs, adventure, and desire.While conditions at sea and the abilities of the maritime communities provided a degree of stability, the direction and intensity of trade and the types of commodities on the move was determined by the fortunes and aspirations of distant empires, those of China in the east and South-West Asia and the Mediterranean in the west. This ever-changing pressure provided the dynamic situation in which society and economies in East Africa, India and South-East Asia flourished. Driven by the Monsoons explores the birth of the modern, connected, world.
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39,49 €

A Short History of Ulster


A shortened version of Jonathan Bardon’s definitive tome, A History of Ulster, this book provides a comprehensive account of the province from the earliest settlements nine thousand years ago to the turmoil of the Troubles, and the fragile peace period that followed. A preface from the author includes the peace process that saw the region emerge from thirty years of brutal conflict. Covering social, political and economic life in the province, the book explores the Viking and Norman invasions, the plantations and the Penal Laws, the rise of the United Irishmen and Orangeism, the Act of Union, emigration and the Great Famine, the linen industry and shipbuilding, and the Home Rule Crisis and partition, right through to civil rights, the turmoil of the Troubles and the period of peace that has followed. Lavishly illustrated throughout, this accessible edition takes its place alongside Jonathan Bardon’s hugely popular A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes.
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29,99 €

These Divided Isles


A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition.These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides of the Irish Sea. Cutting through the layers of grievance and prejudice it explores the emotional intimacy and enmity of a relationship shaped by close familial ties and clashing national identities. It’s a story written by big political leaders – David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera – and the millions of Irish emigrants who crossed from Ireland to Britain to begin new lives.Today demography, Brexit and political logic have brought the possibility of Irish unity into view. Grounded in decades of personal contact and interviews with key policymakers across Britain and Europe, Stephens maps this complex relationship and asks how Ireland might deploy its history to inform its future rather than hold it in place.
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33,49 €

Patient Testimonies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy


In this unique and candid book, nearly forty patients offer straightforward, personal testimonies of their experiences in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Both remarkable and novel in its approach, Patient Testimonies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy sees experienced psychoanalyst Mark Kinet give patients the space to speak for themselves. Each case study includes a first-person account of the patient's experience, allowing them to explore what they felt worked, and what did not, in each individual case. Bookended by a thorough introduction and conclusion outlining the approaches and outcomes of each case, the book allows the reader to explore methods with patients experiencing wide-ranging psychic difficulties, from trauma and addiction to anxiety and depression. This book offers psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds of patients and explore the psychotherapeutic journey from an entirely new perspective.
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46,99 €

The Art of Power


THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker – how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: ‘Mother, get a life!’ And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been. In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history – not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in America, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest-working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines, women who inspired her, and human rights activists who fought by her side. Pelosi took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day, warning early about the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government’s long record of misbehaviour. This moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump, with whom she famously tangled, becoming a red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here, she reveals how she went toe-to-toe with Trump, leading up to January 6, 2021, when he unleashed his post-election fury on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation, never expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives – and her determined efforts to get the National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later, violence and fury would erupt inside Pelosi’s own home when an intruder, demanding to see the Speaker, viciously attacked her beloved husband, Paul. Here, Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for her and her family.
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17,99 €

Making ADHD Make Sense


Praise for NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE:''Insightful and compassionate. This will help a lot of people'' Matt Haig''One of the most complete and moving accounts I''ve ever read... On behalf of all of us who grope toward understanding, thank you, Mr Partridge; thank you, thank you, thank you.'' Edward Hallowell, MD''Alex is rich, successful and an entertaining and concise communicator. Alex is also very ADHD. You want to read this book for all these reasons. It helps that it is short.'' Kate Spicer''Truly life changing. The perfect antidote for shame'' Samantha Hiew PhD, founder of ADHD Girls''A powerhouse of a book. Deeply validating'' Rich and Roxanne Pink (ADHD Love)This elegant hardcover guided journal is a compassionate, wise interactive companion to Now It All Makes Sense, the bestselling guide to living with an ADHD diagnosis from the host of ADHD Chatter, Alex Partridge. In Now It All Makes Sense, Alex Partridge ignited an outpouring of support and recognition from readers who saw themselves in his vulnerabilities, and his journey from shame to strength. Just as in his acclaimed podcast, ADHD Chatter, Alex is wonderful at distilling the essence of what it is to live with ADHD, from parenting with (and for) ADHD, to managing your mental health, your finances and even your shopping list, in a uniquely relatable and unashamedly honest way.This guided journal, for use daily, regularly, or when you remember (!) uses prompts and exercises to help you feel your way towards a place of understanding and self-acceptance. It gives practical takeaways as well as psychological insights, based not only on Alex''s lived experience, but also on the expertise of the very many clinicians and experts he has interviewed. Designed to encourage ongoing writing and reflection on your strengths as well as your struggles, this beautifully designed journal will sit alongside you at every step of the journey to remind you that you are not broken, and you were always enough.
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22,99 €

US Seventh Fleet, Korea 1950–53


Naval dominance was crucial to the defence of South Korea, and this illustrated study explains how the US Navy brought its war-winning fleet to bear in a complex campaign. Fought just five years after the US Navy’s carrier-led forces swept into Tokyo Bay, the naval campaign in Korea was a very different war, and one that set the trend for naval warfare for the rest of the century. In this book, Dr Corbin Williamson, a specialist on the US Navy of the period, explains how a fleet built to fight an uncompromising total war rapidly adapted to a successful Cold War multinational intervention. Seventh Fleet’s role included blockading enemy ports, escorting convoys, close air support, interdiction, naval gunfire support, and amphibious invasions and evacuations. With few exceptions, Seventh Fleet’s command of the sea around Korea was unchallenged, allowing the fleet to focus its efforts on supporting the ground war. The Korean War was also part of a period of intense technological change, and it saw the combat debut of naval jet aircraft and helicopters. Packed with battle diagrams, photographs and meticulously researched battlescenes, this book examines the ships and technology, command and organization, logistics, intelligence, and combat performance of the fleet. It is a rounded portrait of how Seventh Fleet proved the flexibility and importance of sea power in an unexpected theater.
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19,99 €

Economica


''Erudite, ambitious and richly global in scope'' - PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads''This book sets a new standard in economic history'' - TIM HARFORD, author of How To Make the World Add UpTHE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW WOMEN MADE THE WORLD WEALTHYHumanity''s journey from poverty to prosperity is filled with men who have become household names. But how many female entrepreneurs, merchants and industrialists can you name?Economica places women at the centre of the story of economic growth. Starting in the Stone Age and continuing to the present day, it takes the reader through the key economic milestones of the past twelve millennia - from the birth of farming to the advent of computing - all told through the experiences of women as well as men.Historian Victoria Bateman weaves a thrilling, globe-spanning narrative that proves women weren''t ''missing'' from economic life, they were merely hidden from view. We discover the female workers who helped to build the Great Pyramid of Giza, and to plumb the city of ancient Rome; the silk weavers who made a vital contribution to the development of the Silk Road and global trade; the women who dominated London''s brewing trade during medieval times; and the brave twentieth-century pioneers who fought to make our economies not just richer but fairer.Economica rewrites our understanding of women''s role in the economy, and tells a more accurate economic history of us all.''Victoria Bateman''s revelatory and compelling new book puts women at the very heart of mankind''s economic history. Economica should help ensure that''s where they will remain'' - BEN CHU, BBC''A must-read for anyone interested in women''s history and economic justice'' - AMANDA FOREMAN, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire
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33,49 €

Pozorujeme ptáky - Praktická příručka


Každý z nás někdy toužil být blíž přírodě – a ptáci jsou tím nejdostupnějším, nejbarevnějším a nejzpěvnějším způsobem, jak začít. Pozorování ptáků je mnohem víc než jen záliba – je to cesta k větší všímavosti, klidu i radosti z maličkostí. Tato praktická příručka vás krok za krokem naučí, jak ptáky najít, poznat a správně pozorovat – ať už ve městě, na chalupě, nebo při procházce do přírody. Kniha vás provede základy vybavení, prvním výletem i určováním druhů podle vzhledu i hlasu. Přidává tipy pro celoroční pozorování, seznamuje s digitálními nástroji i s tím, jak přilákat ptáky přímo k vám na zahradu. Pro děti i dospělé, začátečníky i nadšence.
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20,75 €

Chasing the Dark


'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' Sarah Waters 'Shiversomely eerie... so impressive in its research and remarkable in all it uncovers' Tom Holland Late one evening the telephone rings, and on the line is a stranger. They tell you that your nine-year-old son gave them your number. Your heart stops. You tell them that your son has been dead for almost 20 years. They know this, they say. He wants you to come and see him. What do you do when reality begins to fray around you? Where do you go when science cannot explain your experiences? The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 to tackle these very questions and to shine light on the shadowy world of the supernatural. Distinguished members have included prime ministers and Nobel Prize-winning scientists. But the most prolific of all the SPR's paranormal investigators was a young British naval officer named Tony Cornell. A rationalist and a sceptic he became haunted by a wartime encounter in India that changed everything . Between 1950 and 2010 he became perhaps the world's most prolific investigator of psychic phenomena and paranormal events. Alongside his colleague, the psychologist Alan Gauld, they combined the roles of detectives, exorcists and psychiatrists, returning time and again to the unsettling spaces that exist on the very periphery of our tidy, rational lives: Ghosts. Poltergeists. Psychic powers. Drawing on a previously untapped archive of Cornell's case files, which survive as a unique repository of encounters reported by ordinary people, Chasing the Dark is the compelling story of our relationship with the supernatural. What do these atmospheric and often chilling cases teach us about who we are, and the anxieties that consume us? And why do the dead still find ways to make themselves known?
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23,95 €

A Lie Too Big to Fail


In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed; and how the justice system and the media failed to present the truth of the case to the public. Pease reveals how the trial was essentially a sham, and how the prosecution did not dare to follow where the evidence led. A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing listeners to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time. Lisa Pease goes further than anyone else in proving who likely planned the assassination, who the assassination team members were, and why Kennedy was deemed such a threat that he had to be taken out before he became President of the United States.
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36,99 €

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