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A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing – us included. Many are so ingenious that they seem nearly impossible. Did you know plants can communicate when they are being eaten, allowing nearby plants to bolster their defences? They move and that movement stops when they are anaesthetised. They also use electricity for internal communication. They can hear the sounds of caterpillars eating. Plants can remember the last time they have been visited by a bee and how many times they have been visited – so they have a concept of time and can count. Plants can not only communicate with each other, they can also communicate with other species of plants and animals, allowing them to manipulate animals to defend or fertilise them. So look again at the potted plant, or the grass or the tree and wonder: are plants intelligent? Or perhaps ask an even more fundamental question: are they conscious? The Light Eaters will completely redefine how you think about plants. Packed with the most amazing stories of the life of plants it will open your eyes to the extraordinary green life forms we share the planet with.

Stop drifting and start living with purpose. What Do You Really Want From Your Life? Do you feel stuck, unsure, or are searching for a new direction? Becoming You is the guide you need to take control of your life. Suzy Welch, bestselling author and NYU professor, offers a fresh, practical method to help you discover what truly matters, unlock your natural talents, and find work that excites and sustains you. Forget vague advice or empty mantras-this book features relatable stories and hands-on exercises to help you uncover your personal "sweet spot" where these three elements align. Figure out what's most important to you. Recognise what you're naturally great at. Build a life and career that works for you-financially and emotionally. Whether you're starting out, pivoting careers, or craving more purpose, Becoming You is the blueprint to create a life that feels authentic, fulfilling, and uniquely yours. It's time to stop drifting-and start building the life you deserve.

Discover Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy of living a good life and learn how to apply it to your own.   The hero for our time is someone few people get right. Thoreau wasn’t a hermit in the woods. He lived during a time like ours, of rapid technological and economic changes, political division, and a pandemic. Thoreau, like us, reassessed his priorities: What does success really look like? What is my duty as an ethical citizen of a less-than-ethical world? How can I live a good life amid (insert hand-sweeping gesture) all of this?   His solution: Pare down to trade up.  Finding Your Walden combines classic literature with happiness studies, exploring how experts—psychologists, career coaches, and doctors—support Thoreau’s ideas as guideposts for today’s Great Reassessment. It combines insights of the 1854 classic with people who embrace the pare-down-to-trade-up philosophy today, whether through major life changes (such as tiny homes or sabbaticals) or smaller life hacks (like digital sabbaths or meditation practices). Their stories inspire us to apply creativity, simplicity, and peace to the experiment of life.  Finding Your Walden isn’t about shunning money or success. It’s about grappling with the purpose of the first and the meaning of the second. Whether you love Walden or haven’t read it, you can join Thoreau on a path to discover an intentional life during a volatile time—you just need to make a stop at a cabin on the way.

Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In the hours that followed, Western leaders weaponized economic tools in a world-changing financial experiment. The goal was to sap the strength of Putin’s war machine by damaging its economy, without risking a global recession in the process. In Punishing Putin, veteran journalist Stephanie Baker uncovers how this furious financial war has unfolded, from seizing superyachts to manipulating the global price of oil to blocking the sale of military technology. Baker reveals how the West mobilized an army of white-collar-crime investigators to crack down on illicit Russian money, targeting oligarchs and their enablers for sanctions evasion. Filled with propulsive, fly-on-the-wall details, Punishing Putin takes us into the frantic backroom deliberations that led to a whole new era of economic statecraft and radically rearranged global alliances, influencing world order for generations to come.

A true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK. In the summer of 1983, Barbara Kingsolver was assigned to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike as a freelance journalist. Over the year that followed, she recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, and she was determined to share their voices. This is the true story of the courageous women and girls who held the line, who discovered themselves in their fight for rights, and of Kingsolver's commitment to showing the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.

The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family. Smartphone Nation will transform the way you - and your children - understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr - one of the world's foremost experts on digital literacy - sets out how you can keep the advantages of the internet whilst identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you're over-reliant. Grassroots movements have done an amazing job of alerting many of us to the dangers inherent in our, and our kids', use of devices. But it is not enough. In reality, being a part of the online world is essential for modern life, and, at some point we - and our children - all have to dive in. Covering misogyny, pornography, body image, advertising, violence and more, Smartphone Nation provides a wealth of information - plus practical exercises and clear takeaways - to help you think critically about the content you're consuming, and how it is 'fed' to you. You'll learn how to game your algorithm, how to limit targeted advertising, how to catch misinformation and how to improve your digital nutrition. The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family. Smartphone Nation will transform the way you - and your children - understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr - one of the world's foremost experts on digital literacy - sets out how you can keep the advantages of the internet whilst identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you're over-reliant. Grassroots movements have done an amazing job of alerting us to a critical generational problem, but there is more work to be done. In reality, being part of the online world is essential for modern life and understanding that world is crucial. Covering misogyny, pornography, body image, advertising, violence and more, Smartphone Nation provides a wealth of information - plus practical exercises and clear takeaways - to help you think critically about the content you're consuming, and how it is 'fed' to you. You'll learn how to game your algorithm, how to limit targeted advertising, how to catch misinformation and how to improve your digital nutrition. Essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever worried about how compulsively they check their phone, Smartphone Nation will equip you not only to survive in the digital space, but to thrive.

“This is a book for spiritual seekers and all who want to bring a piece of the Italian way of life into their own homes.” —James Martin, SJ, author of Learning to Pray   Take a pilgrimage of the heart, a journey toward change that will allow you to approach life with a more contemplative stance and recreate a sense of la dolce vita—the sweet life—wherever you may be.   In The Italian Soul, Judith Valente shares personal stories and insights into the Italian way of life that she experienced as she strolled the streets of this charming country. Focusing on the attitudes, traditions, and practices that make the people of Italy role models for experiencing delight amid the demands and distractions of ordinary living, she observed how they have a deep appreciation for quality and aesthetics, value taking the time to savor the little moments in life, show a strong sense of community and make room for leisure and personal care, and honor their dead and have a deep respect for tradition.   Additionally, it explores the contemplative practices and attitudes that seem to come naturally to a people who have made an art of living and working joyfully. A cross between a travel dispatch and a spirituality guide for seekers who eschew traditional religious practices but yearn for ways to bring more balance, sanity, and a greater sense of the transcendent into their daily lives. The Italian Soul is a book that will change the way you look at life.

Anselm Grün bencés szerzetes 365 lelki üzenete ahhoz nyújt ösztönzést nap mint nap, hogy átalakíthassuk az életünket. Egyszerűen akkor élünk, ha összhangban vagyunk önmagunkkal, a megélt pillanattal, és ha képesek vagyunk arra koncentrálni, ami valóban számít. A szerző azt tanácsolja, hogy reggeli szertartásaink részeként olvassuk el aznapi üzenetét, hogy az kísérőnk lehessen az előttünk álló napon. Az üzenetek segítségével könnyebben összpontosítunk életünk fontos kérdéseire a hétköznapok során is, általuk tudatosabban és egyszerűbben élhetünk, illetve könnyebben megtalálhatjuk majd az egyensúlyt a test és a lélek, a külvilág és benső világunk között. Grün szerzetes nem oktat ki, empatikusan fordul felénk a tanácsaival, mozgósítja a bennünk rejlő erőforrásokat és pozitív energiákat szabadít fel. Az üzenetek lenyűgöző keverékei az élet értelmét firtató kérdéseknek és a teljesen gyakorlatias tanácsoknak, melyeket áthat a szerző kifogyhatatlan spiritualitása, mély hite és emberszeretete. „Tehetünk egy hosszabb vándorlást a természetben és eközben elképzelhetjük: Kivándorlok a függőségeim és a magamról alkotott képek fogságából. Felszabadulok az eddig játszott szerepeimből.”

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard, thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War. By the start of 1944, the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line: a formidable barrier of wire, minefields, bunkers and booby traps, woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino. It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer before the Allies could finally bludgeon their way north and capture Rome. By then, more than 75,000 troops and civilians had been killed and the historic abbey and entire towns and villages had been laid waste. Following a rich cast of characters from both sides - from frontline infantry to aircrew, from clerks to battlefield commanders, and from politicians and civilians caught up in the middle of the maelstrom - James Holland has drawn widely on diaries, letters and contemporary sources to write the definitive account of this brutal battle. The result is a compelling and often heart-breaking narrative, told in the moment, as the events played out, and from the perspective of those who lived, fought and died there.

Naše víra roste upřímným děkováním. Dostáváme dary nad naše pomyšlení. Podle Terezie z Lisieux budeme spaseni dříve, než všechny dary vůbec spočteme. Předložený text systematizuje taková obdarování, která nám vylévá Pán-Láska ze svého Srdce. Při jejich četbě začneme rozumět, že více je dary přijímat, než je chtít nejprve analyzovat. Pochopení totiž roste pospolu s vděčností a vztahovou láskou.

So many people are trying to navigate a corporate world that is laden with secrets; cleverly hidden and unspoken rules to a game that most employees don’t know they are playing. In order to find the success that most people want in their careers, it requires navigating this unspoken set of guidelines effectively. Secrets of the Career Game is geared towards arming individuals with the knowledge they need to understand how to evaluate their own competencies, build their toolset to open doors for progression, and establish a network that will accelerate their growth.

Az egzisztenciális pszichológia a huszadik század súlyos történelmi és világnézeti válságok sújtotta európai kontinensén jött létre a pszichoanalízis, a fenomenológiai pszichiátria, az egzisztencialista filozófia és az irodalom egyfajta szintéziseként. A különféle iskolákra tagolódó irányzat – amely a második világháborút követően az angolszász világban is teret nyert – az emberi létezés sajátosságainak lélektani következményeit igyekezett megfogalmazni, és azt a gyógyító, önismereti munkában is széleskörűen alkalmazni. A hetvenes-nyolcvanas évektől kezdve kibontakozó kulturális, politikai és tudományos változásokat követően ez a perspektíva átmenetileg háttérbe szorult, és a pszichológián belül olyan megközelítések váltak csaknem hegemónná, amelyek a természettudományok egzakt módszereire és egyfajta túlzóan optimista emberképre építve kínáltak gyors, könnyű és technikai jellegű megoldásokat a nyugati világ emberének dilemmáira és szenvedésére. Az ezredfordulót követő, mind általánosabbá és kiterjedtebbé váló civilizációs krízis, amely magában foglal immár nemcsak gazdasági, népesedési, politikai, egészségügyi, hanem ökológiai, kulturális és filozófiai válságokat is, sokakat ösztönzött arra, hogy ismét az egzisztencialista filozófia és az egzisztenciális pszichológia mélyenszántó gondolatisága felé forduljanak. Az elmúlt időszakban egyfajta örvendetes reneszánsznak lehetünk szemtanúi, ami nemcsak a klasszikus szerzők és műveik újrafelfedezését eredményezte, hanem arra ösztönözte az irányzatok jelenlegi képviselőit, hogy friss, aktuális szemmel tekintsenek a 21. századi ember problémáira. Kőváry Zoltán nagyszabású műve, a Bevezetés az egzisztenciális pszichológiába ezekre a változásokra reflektálva született, amelynek Az egzisztenciális pszichológia története és irányzatai című első kötetét tartja kezében az olvasó. A hatalmas szakirodalmi anyagot megmozgató, a pszichológia, a filozófia és az irodalom határmezsgyéjén mozgó könyv érthető, élvezetes stílusban tárja elénk az egzisztenciális irányzat filozófiai, irodalmi és pszichotudományos gyökerekből kibontakozó „világtörténetét”, mutatja be fő irányzatai, a daseinanalízis, a logoterápia és egzisztenciaanalízis, az egzisztenciál-humanisztikus és az egzisztenciál-fenomenológiai pszichológia eszméit. Az alapos filozófiai és pszichológiatörténeti előkészítést követően megismerkedhetünk Otto Rank, Ludwig Binswanger, Medard Boss, Viktor Frankl, Rollo May és R. D. Laing életével és munkásságával, és találkozhatunk az egzisztenciális pszichológia jelenlegi képviselőivel, Alice Holzhey-Kunzcal, Alfried Längle-lel, Kirk Schneiderrel, Irvin Yalommal és Emmy van Deurzennel. A szerző külön fejezetben foglalkozik azzal, hogy miért tekinthető a magyar Szondi Lipót sorsanalízise, különösen annak második világháború utáni változata egzisztenciális pszichológiai irányzatnak. A kötet izgalmas és élvezetes olvasmány mindazok számára, akik érdeklődnek az emberi létezés mélyebb dimenziói iránt, és szeretnének valódi és hasznos lélektani támpontokat kapni önmaguk és a világ megértéséhez. A második kötet Az egzisztenciális pszichológia alkalmazási lehetőségei címmel jelenik majd meg 2025 második felében. „Kőváry Zoltán gazdag írása átfogó módon mutatja be az egzisztenciális gondolkodás történelmi fejlődését, amely egyre jelentősebb szerepet tölt be a kortárs pszichológiában és pszichoterápiában. A könyv valóságos kincsesbánya tudósok és szakemberek számára egyaránt.” Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, pszichoanalitikus, filozófus (USA), az „Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis” alapítója és a Trauma and Human Existence című könyv szerzője „Kőváry – több évtizedes kutatómunka eredményeire támaszkodva – briliáns módon mutatja be az egzisztenciális pszichológia minden jelentős gondolkodójának munkásságát Kierkegaardtól napjainkig. Ehhez a könyvhöz foghatót még soha nem publikáltak; a tömörség és a mélység mesterműve.” Robert Kramer PhD, Otto Rank életművének kutatója, (Magyarország – USA), Corvinus Egyetem – Visiting Professor of Public Leadership, a The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis társszerkesztője

Migrace. V posledních letech zaznívá toto slovo ve veřejném prostoru čím dál častěji. V projevech některých politiků se stává strašákem a hrozbou. Přitom se ale lidé stěhovali do jiných zemí odjakživa, a to z nejrůznějších důvodů. Stejně jako dnes je mohla na cestu vyhnat válka nebo útlak v původní vlasti, ale mohli také vyrazit do světa za lepšími možnostmi či za prací. Za minulého režimu se odcházelo za svobodou „na Západ“, dnes se cizinci stěhují za svobodou k nám. Začtěte se do životních příběhů exulantů a imigrantů – tažných ptáků. Mohou nám mnohé napovědět – nejen o daném historickém období a stavu společnosti, ale i o nás samotných…

Zažíváte narážky nebo nevhodné „vtipy“, ale vtipná odpověď vás napadne až po deseti minutách? Cítíte, že některé situace vás svazují a nutí mlčet, i když byste se chtěli ozvat? Máte někdy pocit, že vás neviditelná síť očekávání a stereotypů brzdí v rozletu? Pak je tahle kniha přesně pro vás! Naučíte se v ní, jak se bránit slovním útokům a manipulaci – prakticky, bez omáčky a s humorem. Dozvíte se, jak čelit situacím, kdy vás přerušují na poradách, shazují vaše názory nebo vám podsouvají, že „tohle přece není problém“. Krok za krokem si projdete, jak zvládnout podceňování, shazování, podrývání autority a další běžné jevy, které dusí vaše sebevědomí. A hlavně, naučíte se, jak si svou sílu a hlas vzít zpátky. Tahle kniha není pro ty, co se smíří s tím, že „tak to prostě je“. Je to manuál pro všechny, kdo chtějí umět zvednout hlas. Pro všechny, kdo chtějí pro sebe – a celou společnost – lepší budoucnost. Protože odvážné činy začínají jedním: říct už dost.

Facing real threats of extinction and futurelessness, a search for new ground on which to build projects toward emancipationChaos and the Automaton is the first volume to collect Franco ?Bifo? Berardi?s extensive collaboration with e-flux, which has become one of his primary English-language publishers since 2010. The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi?s prescient interventions into more than a decade of social turmoil, offering a tour through the cataclysms that have rocked the foundations of the global order since the 2008 financial crisis, from European austerity, Occupy, the Arab Spring, and Anonymous through the ascendance of Pope Francis, Brexit, Covid-19, the Trump?Biden sequence, the U.S. Capitol riots, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine?as well as bizarre new cultural occurrences that were consequences. Berardi draws not only from current events but also movements and figures at the firmament of his thought, such as Guattari, Pasolini, and Italian street art of the 1970s. His essays represent a sustained and singular effort to reveal the psychic and material underpinnings of a society in which history came roaring back at the same moment as any vision of a sustainable future receded from sight. ?I know that it is dangerous to write in simultaneity with events that nobody can precisely foresee, that can only be vaguely intuited,? he wrote on the eve of the 2020 American elections, ?but the only way to imagine something about the becoming of the psycho-sphere is to run ahead of the dynamics of the disaster.?

Klinický obor kardioonkologie se zaměřuje se na celoživotní péči o pacienty po onkologické a hematoonkologické léčbě s kardiovaskulárními komplikacemi a spojuje tak práci onkologa či hematoonkologa, kardiologa, angiologa, internisty i praktického lékaře. V péči oboru jsou i pacienti s primárními srdečními nádory. Na počátku 70. let minulého století se objevily první informace o fatálním kardiotoxickém účinku chemoterapie obsahující antracyklinové deriváty. Během dalších deseti let byly publikovány velké randomizované studie, které vyhodnotily kardiotoxicitu těchto léků jako akutní, subakutní, chronickou a pozdní závažnou komplikaci jinak velmi efektivní protinádorové terapie, zejména v hematoonkologii. V současné době snad neexistuje onkologický léčebný režim, který by nevedl k nějaké formě kardiovaskulárního poškození. Od roku 1990 je zaznamenán strmý pokles onkologické mortality s nárůstem přežívajících po terapii, ale zároveň s rizikem rozvoje kardiovaskulární toxicity. Většina kardiovaskulárních komplikací souvisí přímo s aktuálním podáním onkologického léčebného protokolu nebo k nim dochází v průběhu celé terapie. Mezi nejzávažnější projev kardiotoxicity patří poškození funkce srdce. Je častý zejména jako pozdní následek terapie řadu let po jejím ukončení u pacientů v remisi onkologického onemocnění a představuje závažný problém především u pacientů léčených v dětském a adolescentním věku. Onkologická léčba ale výrazně zvyšuje riziko dalších kardiovaskulárních onemocnění. Zájem odborníků se proto obrací do oblasti arytmií, metabolického syndromu, ischemické choroby srdeční, srdečního selhání, cévních mozkových příhod apod. Nová monografie předních odborníků oboru kardioonkologie se zaměřuje na pregraduální a postgraduální výchovu. Publikace cílí nejen na specialisty ve specializovaných kardiologických a onkologických centrech, ale především na velkou síť ambulantních lékařů, kteří musí pacienty převzít do dalšího mnohdy celoživotního sledování.

In 2020 protest movements across the world revealed the inequalities sewn into the fabric of society. The wildfires that ravaged Australia and California made it clear we are in the middle of a climate catastrophe. The pandemic showed us all just how precarious our economies really are, and the conspiracy theories surrounding the US election proved the same of our democracies. Those in charge do not have the answers. In fact, those in charge, more often that not, are the problem. So, what do we do? In Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now, award-winning political commentator Ece Temelkuran puts forward a compelling new narrative for our current moment, not for some idealised future but for right now, and asks us to make a choice. To choose determination over hope; to embrace fear rather the cold comfort of ignorance; to save our energy for an unwavering attention on those in power and the destructive systems they uphold, rather than wasting time spewing out anger and outrage online. Above all, this book asks you to choose to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with.

On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history, in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff, while the SAS - hitherto an organisation shrouded in secrecy - laid plans for a daring rescue mission: Operation Nimrod. Drawing on unpublished source material, exclusive interviews with the SAS, and testimony from witnesses including hostages, negotiators, intelligence officers and the on-site psychiatrist, bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes readers on a gripping journey from the years and weeks of build-up on both sides, to the minute-by-minute account of the siege and rescue. Recreating the dramatic conversations between negotiators and hostages, the cutting-edge intelligence work happening behind-the-scenes, and the media frenzy around this moment of international significance, The Siege is the remarkable story of what really happened on those fateful six days, and the first full account of a moment that forever changed the way the nation thought about the SAS - and itself.

The leadership manual Tony Blair wishes he had when he became prime minister, with personal insights and global examples that show aspiring leaders how to go from talking about change to making change. Sir Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time he came to understand that there were certain key characteristics of successful government that he wished he had known when he started. Now Sir Tony has written the manual on political leadership that he would have wanted back in 1997, sharing the insights he has gained from his personal experience and from observing other world leaders at first hand, both while he was in office and since, through his Institute’s work with political leaders and governments globally. Written in short, pithy chapters, packed with examples drawn from all forms of political systems from around the world, the books answers the key questions: How should a leader organize the center of government and his or her own office? How should he or she prioritize and develop the right plan and hire the right personnel, cope with unforeseen events and crises, and balance short-term wins with long-term structural change? What’s the best way to deal with an obstructive or inert bureaucracy, to attract investment, to reform healthcare or education, and to ensure security for the citizen? And how should governments harness the massive opportunities of the 21st-century technological revolution? This is a masterclass on leadership in general, and political leadership in particular, from a master statesman.