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The Break-In
You know who. But you don't know why
Alice didn't mean to kill the intruder. She only meant to stop him hurting her daughter when he burst into her kitchen and grabbed a knife.
The police agree that she acted in self-defence, but wracked with guilt, Alice sets out to apologise to Linda, the mother of the young man she killed. But nothing unfolds as planned.
Alice can't bring herself to tell Linda who she really is and the more Alice learns about Ezra and why he was at her house, the more she starts to wonder whether she has the full picture about what happened that terrible day.
The new must-read thriller from the rising star of smart suspense fiction.
Intimacy
From the initial spark of attraction when your eyes first meet, to spontaneously dancing together in the kitchen and falling asleep side by side - how do we create those intimate moments of connection?
How we see sex and intimacy portrayed on screen has profound effects on how we learn to love each other, but before Ita O'Brien, no-one was thinking about it. After a lifetime of working in film and TV and seeing its abuses first-hand, Ita decided to change how we portray intimacy for good.
Now, as Intimacy Coordinator on productions including Normal People, Sex Education and I May Destroy You, Ita has transformed the way we see and talk about sex in pop-culture. Here, Ita guides us through how she helps actors create authentic sex scenes, and how we can use those techniques to rebuild a deeper and healthier connection with our bodies, create a safe space for exploration, and rethink how we navigate sex and intimacy in our own lives - at home, in our closest relationships - and in society as a whole.
Full of behind-the-scenes stories from her work on set, Intimacy is a call for us to rethink how we navigate ourselves and each other, not just through our words, but through our bodies and actions, too.
Fires Which Burned Brightly
In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most acclaimed novelists.
There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of Birdsong in his brother’s house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.
The book is driven by a desire ‘to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ It ends with a tribute to Faulks’s parents and a sense of how his own generation was shaped by the disruptive power of war and its aftermath.
Sharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit, Fires Which Burned Brightly is a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.
Manga Classics: Little Women
Enter the cosy, creative and colourful world of the March sisters as they each negotiate the path from childhood to womanhood.Meet beautiful, traditional and kind Meg; Jo, the rebellious tomboy writer; gentle and shy peacemaker Beth; and feisty artist Amy, the baby of the family. The girls live in Massachusetts with their adored mother Marmee, in genteel poverty, while their father is far away fighting in the American Civil War.As the story unfolds, the girls meet new characters and must face the challenges and opportunities life will hold for them, including marriage, work, domesticity and education. Travel with Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy as they leave girlhood behind to become little women, in this classic of American realism that has become a perennial favourite for readers of all ages.Each volume in the Manga Classics series provides a fast-paced and fun introduction to a great work of literature in a manner that is clear, accessible and entertaining.Many of these works are on reading lists ranging from KS2 up to GCSE.
A Logician's Code of Conduct
The logic we rely on every day to help us communicate and make decisions can also reinforce injustice. Logic is often treated as a neutral arena for reasoning, but that supposed neutrality can fail to include everyone on fair terms. When certain ways of thinking are dismissed as incoherent reasoning, logic itself can become a tool of exclusion, supporting patterns of oppression, silencing voices, and erasing people. Drawing on lessons from feminist, queer, and post-colonial theory, A Logician’s Code of Conduct challenges us to listen more carefully to those who have been pushed to the margins of social and intellectual life – not just public voices, but people in our workplaces, communities, and families. Instead of demanding that people continually defend their deeply held beliefs, logic can be a flexible and revisable framework that adapts to multiple perspectives. Patrick Girard outlines a code of conduct to make logic more just: be transparent about assumptions, negotiate standards suited to each context, and recognize others as coherent reasoners. Logic, Girard argues, can both liberate and connect us, creating spaces of inquiry that are not only neutral but also equitable. In clear, accessible prose and free of formal symbolism, A Logician’s Code of Conduct is a bold and original contribution to logic and social philosophy. Girard demonstrates that logic is not an abstract discipline reserved for philosophers, but a practical resource we all use every day – and one we can learn to apply more fairly and effectively.
The Ten Stories
Out of the countless experiences in a lifetime, why are certain narratives chosen, repeated, and preserved by aging individuals? The Ten Stories suggests that most elderly people return to a core set of approximately ten stories as they reflect on their lives. The significance of those narratives lies not in their factual details, but in the values and meanings they convey. Most stories told are set during late adolescence and early adulthood – often eight or nine out of ten originate during this period. The stories are also audience-specific, as they are shaped by the relationship between teller and listener. The book explores how stories told by mothers are different than those told by fathers; how stories told to sons differ from those told to daughters; and how the stories of immigrant parents differ from non-immigrants. Social scientist and health policy researcher Mary Ann McColl provides insight into what older adults may be expressing through repeated stories. She shares twenty recurring themes emerging from the stories – such as overcoming obstacles, showing kindness, regrets and resentments, and standing up for what’s right – that represent an opportunity for connection and understanding, rather than a source of frustration. This book offers practical strategies for listening more effectively and appreciating those narratives as intentional, meaningful acts of communication.
Medzisvet
Medzisvet je fotografická kniha autorky Zuzany Lobotkovej obsahujúca sériu štyridsiatich atmosférických fotografií lesa, hmly a zvierat zachytených v tichu prirodzeného okamihu. Nejde o dokument prírody ani klasickú obrazovú publikáciu — Medzisvet vytvára priestor pre vnútorné zastavenie, vnímanie a tiché pozorovanie. Fotografie vznikajú bez inscenácie a bez potreby efektu. Zachytávajú jemné premeny svetla, prítomnosť jeleňov v hmle či okamihy, keď sa hranica medzi človekom a krajinou na chvíľu stráca. Kniha pracuje s atmosférou ticha, spomalenia a prítomnosti a pozýva čitateľa vstúpiť do medzipriestoru medzi vnútorným a vonkajším svetom. V symbolickej rovine sa v diele objavuje jeleň ako bytosť stojaca na prahu známeho a neznámeho — sprievodca krajinou, kde sa svet nestáva objektom pozorovania, ale skúsenosťou bytia. Les tu nie je kulisou, ale živým priestorom, v ktorom sa čas spomaľuje a zostáva len ticho, prítomnosť a vedomie okamihu. Medzisvet osloví milovníkov autorskej fotografie, prírody, vizuálnej meditácie a poetických obrazových publikácií. Je to kniha bez potreby vysvetlení — tichá pozvánka vstúpiť na chvíľu do lesa a jednoducho byť.
Bacon Disfigured
A collection of essays that opens up new connections between Francis Bacon's art and the ideas of key thinkers.
Francis Bacon is undoubtedly one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. In his paintings, Bacon radically disfigures his subjects, making them all but unrecognizable. This is no mere stylistic quirk, but the expression of a deeply held aesthetic vision. For Bacon, the essence of a subject can only be captured in the distorted recording of its appearance. His disfigurations are therefore, as he himself says, attempts to bring back the intensity of reality, to paint images that are 'truer than the literal truth'.
In this groundbreaking collection of essays, some of today's leading philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists go to work on Bacon. They do to the artist what the artist does to his own figures: they disfigure and distort him, twisting and turning him into something new and previously unseen. This strategy of disfiguration blasts Bacon out of his traditional contexts, opening up new connections between his art and the ideas of key thinkers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Freud, Canguilhem, Genet, Lacan, Adorno and Althusser. The results are revelatory, allowing us to transform our understanding not only of Bacon but also of modernism itself.
Poradca 1/2027 - Zákonník práce s komentárom
Vydavateľstvo Poradca prináša aktualizovaný Zákonník práce po novele s odborným komentárom
Zákonník práce s komentárom od Vydavateľstva Poradca ponúka praktický výklad najnovších legislatívnych zmien.
Spoľahlivá publikácia pre personalistov, zamestnávateľov, účtovníkov aj odborníkov na pracovné právo.
Najnovšie vydanie od Vydavateľstva Poradca reflektuje významné novely Zákonníka práce a prináša prehľadné vysvetlenie zmien, ktoré ovplyvňujú každodennú pracovnoprávnu prax. Publikácia pomáha zorientovať sa v nových pravidlách týkajúcich sa pracovných pomerov vo vysokom školstve, možností predlžovania pracovných zmlúv na dobu určitú či podpory štátom podporovaného nájomného bývania.
Odborný komentár spracovaný skúsenými autormi ponúka:
- zrozumiteľný výklad jednotlivých ustanovení
- praktické príklady a odporúčania pre prax
- upozornenia na najdôležitejšie zmeny po novelách
- aktuálne informácie využiteľné pri každodennej práci
Vydavateľstvo Poradca dlhodobo patrí medzi overených partnerov odborníkov v oblasti legislatívy, daní a personalistiky. Aj v tomto vydaní prináša publikáciu, ktorá spája odbornú presnosť s praktickým využitím.
Majte aktuálny Zákonník práce s komentárom vždy poruke a získajte istotu pri riešení pracovnoprávnych otázok.
Titul obsahuje úplné znenie zákona po novelách s komentárom:
Zákonník práce – zákon s komentárom
Dňa 15. apríla 2026 bol schválený nový zákon zákona o rovnakom odmeňovaní mužov a žien za rovnakú prácu alebo za prácu rovnakej hodnoty. Zákon svojím spôsobom ovplyvňuje aj základný pracovnoprávny predpis, ktorým je Zákonník práce. Vzhľadom na novú právnu úpravu sa v Zákonníku práce vypustila úprava o práve na rovnakú mzdu pre mužov a ženy a ponechal sa odkaz na úpravu rovnakého odmeňovania na osobitný predpis, ktorým je práve nový zákon č. 76/2026 Z. z. Právo na rovnaké odmeňovanie podľa nového zákona je totiž širšie, nezahŕňa iba mzdu, ale všetky základné a doplnkové zložky odmeny. V ustanovená § 119a Zákonníka práce sa ponechalo zakotvenie práva na rovnaké odmeňovanie pre osoby rovnakého pohlavia za rovnakú prácu alebo za prácu rovnakej hodnoty s tým, že rovnaká práca alebo práca rovnakej hodnoty sa v záujme jednotnosti bude určovať na základe tých istých kritérií ako v novom zákone.
Bytové spoluvlastnictví a bytová družstva. Komentář, 2. vydání
Komentář je zaměřen na komplexní výklad právních předpisů v oblasti bytového spoluvlastnictví a bytového družstevnictví v aktuální podobě, několik let po nabytí účinnosti významné novely občanského zákoníku a zákona o obchodních korporacích č. 163/2020 Sb., která zásadně proměnila právní rámec obou oblastí. Cílem druhého vydání je nejen shrnout a systematizovat provedené změny, ale především zhodnotit jejich praktické dopady. Publikace reflektuje rozsáhlý nárůst judikatury vydané od prvního vydání a promítá ji do výkladu jednotlivých ustanovení. Autoři se soustředí zejména na problematická místa právní úpravy a nabízejí řešení vycházející z rozhodovací praxe soudů i z vlastních zkušeností s aplikací práva.
Komentář tak poskytuje prakticky orientovaný a srozumitelný výklad nové koncepce bytového spoluvlastnictví jako zvláštní formy spoluvlastnictví, jakož i úpravy bytových družstev, včetně jejich vnitřních poměrů a vztahů k členům. Publikace je určena především advokátům, soudcům, notářům, správcům domů, členům orgánů společenství vlastníků jednotek a bytových družstev i dalším odborníkům, kteří se s touto problematikou setkávají v praxi.
Mastering Connections
Simple but powerful body language skills to connect instantly with anyone and build rapport, from the international bestselling author of What Every Body is Saying, Joe Navarro.
Drawing on unique expertise gained over his 25-year career as an FBI counterintelligence officer, bestselling author Joe Navarro shows how to use simple body-language tools to transform relationships in everyday interactions, both personally and professionally. With the help of Navarro's easy-to-grasp insights and practical advice, he will help you:
Master the art of the first impression
Build trust and rapport with someone new
Handle workplace negotiations with ease
Defuse tension and conflict
Be prepared for a first date
Foster positive life-long relationships
No matter how challenging the situation you find yourself in, Navarro's body-language insights and tools will give you greater confidence in your everyday interactions, helping you engage with others with greater ease and build more meaningful friendships and relationships.
Unfairies: Death by Toad
The second hilarious full-colour graphic novel series from breakout talent Huw Aaron! Perfect for fans of Bunny Vs Monkey, Dogman and Donut Squad.
PREPARE TO RE-ENTER THE GARDEN.
The Treefairy stronghold of Oakhold has a new ruler. Yay! But there's already trouble. Boo!
Something sinister is stirring in The Garden . . . And Pip could not give two hoots about it.
That is, until best buddy Twig is KIDNAPPED. Now it's up to Pip and a most unlikely ally to set off on an epic rescue mission.
Along the way, they will face ferocious squirrels, leeches, shocking betrayals, angry ladybirds, fairy enemies old and new, MORE leeches . . . and try their best to avoid . . . DEATH BY TOAD.
Waffles and Julius: No Hugs Please
Introducing Waffles and Julius: a new grumpy/sunshine duo and the stars of this brilliantly funny, brand-new picture book. Focused on friendship and respecting each other's differences, No Hugs Please comes from the mind of Ed Vere, the bestselling creator of Max the Brave and How to Be a Lion.
Meet Waffles and Julius.
Waffles loves hugs.
Julius does not.
Waffles would very much like to hug his friend Julius. Julius, however, prefers other things: most notably, cat-naps. But definitely not hugs.
Waffles will wait until Julius is ready. It won't be so hard...will it?
(Yes...it will.)
Will Waffles get a hug?
"Vere presents the classic cat-and-dog conflict with humor that primarily comes through his colorful mixed-media illustrations.The playful text makes for a lively read-aloud. Underneath the silliness is a welcome lesson about patience, respecting boundaries, and accepting others as they are." - The Horn Book Magazine.
The Rolling Stones
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN … THE ROLLING STONES
What left is there to say about the Stones?
A hell of a lot, it turns out . . .
You think you know the story? Think again. Shorn of dulling layers of myth and received wisdom, an irresistible, clear-eyed portrait emerges of a band who, after sixty years, continue to break new ground and command our attention.
And at the heart of it all is the remarkable, unique, fractious, codependent, alchemical bond between Mick and Keith, the Glimmer Twins. There's been debauchery, decadence and death along the way. Not everyone survived the journey, but the band was always greater than the sum of its parts, laying down a trail of classic albums and landmark live performances in its wake.
Drawing on decades of music industry experience and five years of dedicated research, critically acclaimed biographer Bob Spitz brings a fresh eye to the epic story of the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
In 2026 they remain in a league of their own. The Rolling Stones shows why.
The Secrets of our DNA
DNA has become one of the most powerful tools in modern science; From unlocking crime and immigration cases, to ensuring our food and animal safety, to resolving questions of history and archaeology, ancestry and even, for some, identity.
In this eye-opening book, Professor Turi King - the scientist who identified the remains of Richard III in a Leicester car park - uncovers how genetics is changing the way we understand the world. Through compelling real-life cases, she shows how DNA has solved crimes, rewritten history, and reshaped ideas of who we are.
From the O. J. Simpson trial to mistaken dinosaur DNA, from Dolly the sheep to Angelina Jolie's BRCA1 gene, King brings genetics to life with fascinating examples that reveal what DNA can - and can't - tell us about who we are.
She reminds us that while our DNA can reveal a predisposition to certain diseases and conditions, it doesn't determine our future. And, perhaps most importantly, she shows why we all need to be part of the conversation about how new genetic discoveries are used for the benefit of life on Earth.
Compelling, compassionate, and entirely captivating, The Secrets of Our DNA is the must-read book about how genetics has changed - and is changing - the world.
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud
He wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in 'about an hour' in his childhood bedroom.
He would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder.
He was a pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and, at the same time, critiqued his own image mercilessly.
He lived through the AIDS crisis and one of the most homophobic periods of British history and yet when he finally came out, he did so boldly and unapologetically.
Wham! were the first Western pop group to play in Communist China and he repeatedly broke boundaries in music too.
Ten years after his death, George Michael is still everywhere: the annual success of 'Last Christmas', new covers of his songs, and endless memes on social media.
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud is at once a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of Britain's most beloved musicians and an account of a strange and turbulent period of British history. In his unconventional and enthralling book, bestselling author Sathnam Sanghera explores the connection between music and politics, exposes what secrecy does to the soul, and reveals how fame rots the sense of self. Throughout, Sanghera captures, joyfully and poignantly, one of Britain's greatest artists in all his musical glory.
The One Day You Were My Husband
HE PROMISED HER A LIFETIME. HE GAVE HER FOUR HOURS.
Twelve years ago, Carrie said "I do" on a sun-drenched beach in Thailand. Four hours later, her world shattered when her husband, Johan, was snatched away in a violent abduction. He was never seen again.
Today, Carrie is a working mum, navigating the beautiful chaos of raising premature twins and rebuilding her life with a man who truly loves her. She has finally found peace. The past is a closed book.
Until she sees his face on a computer screen.
Johan is alive. He has a new life. And he never tried to find her.
Driven by a desperate need for answers, Carrie risks the stability of her marriage and the safety of her family to uncover the truth of what happened that day in Thailand. But as she peels back the layers of Johan's double life, she is forced to face a devastating question:
Is the truth worth the destruction of her second chance at happiness?
A love story with the pulse of a thriller, The One Day You Were My Husband is a "gasp-inducing" journey through secrets, motherhood, and the high cost of a first love that refuses to stay buried.
How to Win a Trade War
An essential guide to our new era of economic competition. From Soumaya Keynes, podcaster and columnist at the Financial Times and Chad Bown, former Chief Economist at the US State Department under President Biden.
We used to take trade for granted. Trillions of dollars of goods and services crossed borders each year. Nobody paid too much attention: it just worked.
Now, surging oil prices can hit your mortgage. Trump's latest tariff announcement can crash markets and ruin your pension. Brexit can sever Britain from its closest trading partners. Chinese restrictions can bring the West's car production to a crashing halt. Curbs on trade in cutting-edge chips could determine who wins the AI race. The stakes couldn't be higher.
In this irreverent guide, Keynes and Bown explore the history, players, and rules of trade, asking how we prepare for what the future might hold. Could trade wars lead to hot wars? What can the West learn from China? How should countries defend their economies?
Timely, funny and informative, How to Win a Trade War argues that the old system is dead. But what will emerge in its place? And ultimately, what is at stake for you, your country, and your company?
Stealing Hitler's Rocket
This is the incredible story of how one of Adolf Hitler's top secret V2 rockets was stolen by the Poles and smuggled to Britain in the most extraordinary operation of the Second World War. More extraordinary still, it is a story that is utterly neglected.
The V2 rocket was part of Adolf Hitler's plan to break British morale. The world's first rocket delivered warhead, the VI, had killed thousands of British people before allied forces captured its launch sites and halted the weapon in its tracks. What they weren't ready for was a new and more terrifying rocket appearing seemingly out of thin air - this one as tall as a four-storey building and using highly advanced technology. Powered by a rocket engine burning a mix of alcohol-water and liquid oxygen, the V2 blasted its way to the edge of space, before falling back to Earth at supersonic speed and killing thirty thousand people. This was the threat of Hitler's terror made devastatingly real.
But Winston Churchill's intelligence chiefs had known of the weapon weeks before it first struck the mainland, and British operatives hatched a plan with Polish resistance forces to smuggle one of these rockets out from underneath Hitler's nose. In Stealing Hitler's Rocket, Guy Walters reveals the true extent of the secret and life-threatening operation undertaken by the allies and the Polish underground movement that changed the course of history forever.
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