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Hotwired
Humans were born to sweat and sweating makes us stronger.
In Hotwired, bestselling co-author of Outlive and science editor Bill Gifford explores how heat can improve our performance and our health. Combining cutting-edge science, personal discovery and practical insights, Gifford reveals how humans evolved to excel in hot conditions and how we ve lost touch with this ancient advantage.
He plunges into the steamy world of Finnish saunas, serves as a test subject in heat labs and tackles a 100-mile bike ride under the blazing Texas sun to show how exposing ourselves to discomfort can expand our physical and mental limits. He even explores how infrared sauna therapy and cold plunging could fight depression more effectively than medication.
And he examines how, in cities around the globe, social saunas are reviving communal wellness.
Whether you want to perform better, extend your lifespan or adapt to a warming planet, Gifford shows you the incredible benefits of reawakening your body s natural adaptability to heat and cold. Hotwired is a thrilling call to reimagine heat not as a threat, but as a tool for strength, resilience and longevity.
Jolted
Most of us are just one event away from leaving our job. Conventional wisdom and lists of the “top reasons people quit their jobs” would have us believe that people quit when the toxic elements of their jobs grow too big or when they spot a better professional opportunity. But that’s only half the story.
In reality, quitting is often triggered by a single event, inside or outside our jobs, that stops us in our tracks and causes us to rethink our relationship with work. These events are what organizational psychologist Anthony Klotz calls “jolts,” and they are the most underacknowledged realities in our work lives today. Jolts represent pivotal moments in our careers, and yet all too often, we respond to them in ways that harm our well-being and success.
In Jolted, Klotz breaks down the different types of jolts we encounter and provides a road map to help us navigate them in ways that improve, rather than derail, our pursuit of the good life through our work.
Honeysuckle
Once upon a time, on the edge of a forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. So his sister made him a playmate — Daye, a girl woven from carefully selected flowers and words. And finally, this boy, Rory, had a friend.
Rory is gloriously happy, until he learns that Daye is a seasonal creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And when, one autumn, his sister fails to return home from university in time, Rory has no choice but to watch his best friend slowly crumble, not knowing until the last second if she can be pieced together again.
Realizing he can no longer rely on his sister to keep Daye alive, Rory determines he must leave home to learn how to do it himself. And the more he learns, the more he starts to wonder: Why can’t Daye survive more than one season? Can he do anything to break this cycle of bloom and decay? But as Rory grows older, his thoughts turn darker too . . . While Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments, ensconced in libraries and hunched in university labs, Daye is left to wait for his return. Alone.
Sometimes, the silence seems to seep all the way to her branch-bones. Sometimes, the company of birds is the only thing to remind her that she is still alive. And as Rory keeps pushing his experiments further and further, Daye starts to wonder – how far is too far?
IBS
You don't have to accept bloating, cramping, urgency or pain as your 'normal.'
When clinical pharmacist Izabella Wentz was first diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, she was told her digestion was simply 'overly sensitive.' Like many people, she tried to live with the discomfort, until she discovered there were real, treatable reasons for her symptoms. And the same can be true for you. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to uncover the true source of your symptoms and create a personalised healing plan to restore your gut and your life.
You'll discover how to:
• Understand what normal digestion really looks like
• Identify potential root causes behind IBS symptoms
• Explore testing options - from gluten intolerance and SIBO to enzyme function and triggering infections
• Remove reactive foods and triggers with targeted nutrition strategies
• Restore microbial balance
• Rebuild digestive function with tailored supplements and lifestyle shifts
• Manage symptoms gently while you work toward lasting healing
Whether you've been struggling with IBS for years or were just diagnosed, this is your invitation to dig deeper, heal smarter and reclaim your energy, confidence and well-being - with guidance from one of the world's leading voices in root cause healing.
Bethnal Green
Penang, 1971.
When Suyin Lim is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - a place as a trainee nurse in London's Bethnal Green Hospital - she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with her sister, who left for the same path a year before. However, without warning her sister returns to Penang, a shadow of her former self and Suyin is forced to leave without any answers.
Suyin soon finds herself starting a new life in London, falling in love with the vibrant city and its people and as she immerses herself in the gruelling but rewarding work of caring for her patients, she begins to understand what she really wants out of life ...
Padouch a já
Postavit se šikaně není snadné. Možná tě někdo trápí, posmívá se ti nebo ti ubližuje – ale ty v sobě máš víc síly, než si myslíš! Ukážeme ti, jak padoucha poznat, jak s ním jednat a jak se bránit. Objevíš své skryté superschopnosti i zbraně, naučíš se, co dělat, když padouch zaútočí – i jak čelit těm na internetu. A když věci nejdou podle plánu? Poradíme ti, koho a jak požádat o pomoc. Vytrénuj svou mysl, nevzdávej se a proměň se v superhrdinu, který dokáže chránit sebe i ostatní!
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Všechno je tuberkulóza
Autor bestsellerů Hvězdy nám nepřály a Papírová města se ve své populárně naučné knize zaměřil na nejsmrtelnější nemoc v dějinách lidstva – tuberkulózu. Svým jedinečným vypravěčským stylem popisuje nejen historii nemoci, ale i dlouholetou snahu vědců nalézt na ni účinný lék. Na současném příběhu chlapce ze Sierry Leone ukazuje, že těžký boj s touto zákeřnou chorobou, která v minulosti kosila bez rozdílu slavné i bezejmenné tohoto světa, zdaleka není u konce.
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Průvodce jižanského čtenářského klubu zabíjením upírů
Patricia Campbellová nikdy netrpěla tak silným pocitem méněcennosti. Manžel je workoholik, dospívající děti si žijí po svém, senilní tchyně vyžaduje trvalou péči a ona sama soustavně nestíhá odškrtávat položky ze seznamu každodenních úkolů. Při životě ji drží jen čtenářský klub, uzavřená skupina žen z Charlestonu, které pojí vášeň pro knihy o true crime. Na schůzkách klubu diskutují se stejným zápalem o masovém vrahovi Mansonovi a jeho Rodině stejně jako o svých vlastních rodinách. Jednoho večera po schůzce klubu Patriciu brutálně napadne postarší sousedka, a tím do jejího života vstoupí sousedčin pohledný synovec James Harris. Je to scestovalý a sečtělý muž a v Patricii vyvolává pocity, jaké nezažila už roky. Když se ale v jiné části města začnou ztrácet děti a policie se k vyšetřování staví lhostejně, Patricia pojme podezření, že James Harris je spíš Ted Bundy než Brad Pitt. V čem je zásadní problém? James je netvor poněkud jiného typu – a Patricia mu otevřela bránu svého srdce i dveře svého domova. Krůček po krůčku proniká James do Patriciina života a pokouší se ji připravit o všechno, co dosud považovala za samozřejmé, včetně čtenářského klubu. Ale Patricia se nehodlá vzdát bez boje, jak dokládá tento krvavý příběh o láskyplných sousedských vztazích, jež se vymkly z rukou. Drákula dupe v záhonech Ocelových magnólií v příběhu o záhadném cizinci, který naruší fádní život ženského čtenářského klubu v jednom malém jižanském městě.
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Shigeru Ban
From emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces in shipping containers, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with his restlessly inventive response to material and situation, as much as with his humanitarian work at the sites of natural and man-made disasters. According to scholar Riichi Miyake, Ban's work represents "an architectural iteration of Doctors Without Borders."
In the spirit of three-dimensional poetry, Ban uses materials as an integral part of his design, selected not for their cutting-edge credentials but rather for their expressive ability, their capacity to convey the building's overall concept. In particular, Ban has made regular use of paper tubing in projects as varied as the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover and the Paper Log Houses in the Philippines, built after Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013.
This essential introduction, compiled with Ban's own collaboration, presents his most important projects to date, surveying the full reach and importance of, in the words of the Pritzker Prize jury, a "committed teacher who is not only a role model for younger generations, but also an inspiration."
Monet
A magnificent biography of the founder of Impressionism
In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown. Jackie Wullschläger's enthralling biography, based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet's turbulent private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous, sensational painting.
Monet said he was driven 'wild with the need to put down what I experience'.
This rich and moving biography immerses us in that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement.
Cesta na Sardinii
Maminka, dcera a vnučka. Tři generace jedné rodiny. A cesta k moři, která na první pohled vypadá jako obyčejná dámská jízda. Jenom maminka ale ví, proč vybrala jako cíl právě Sardinii, a koho na ostrově bude hledat. Dcera si na pláži plánuje pořádně odpočinout. Nic víc. Nic míň. A vnučka? Ta se těší, až celá tahle příšerná rodinná dovolená konečně skončí.
Pak je tu ještě Helena. Žena, o které se v rodině přes padesát let nemluvilo a která netouží po ničem jiném, než aby mohla vysvětlit, co se kdysi dávno opravdu stalo.
Humorný román, který pohladí po duši a dodá odvahu jít si za svým.
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Paint by Sticker (Official): Architecture
Paint by Sticker: Architecture contains everything you need to create 12 totally unique polygon paintings of famous buildings and structures—simply find a sticker (for example, A1), place the sticker in the spot labeled A1 on the corresponding sticker map, and watch your art come to life, sticker by colorful sticker. Create the signature curves of the Sydney Opera House; the impressive spindle-shaped towers of Barcelona's La Sagrada Família; the iconic blocklike facade of Habitat 67 in Canada; and more. Plus the card-stock pages are perforated, so every finished piece can be easily removed for gifting or display.
Happiness
Happiness is the second part of Yuri Felsen’s The Recurrence of Things Past trilogy, following the critically acclaimed Deceit. Both subtle and profound in its exploration of love, art, literature, and human frailty, Felsen’s trilogy traces the tormented romance of its protagonist alongside his artistic evolution, standing at the forefront of aesthetic and philosophical currents in European modernism.
Syracuse
Syracuse, on the eastern coast of Sicily, was one of the great cities of the ancient Mediterranean: a place of brute power, dazzling culture, and vivid myth. Here, tyrants waged wars and built vast palaces, Aeschylus staged tragedies, Plato hoped to create his ideal ‘philosopher king’, and the nymph Arethusa, transformed into water, lived on as a spring fringed with papyrus. Moving to the city after a bereavement, the poet Joachim Sartorius discovers a place of haunting and haunted beauty, where the layers of the past are always visible. At his side we wander with demigods and generals through the old town of Ortigia and meet the people of the present-day city: its artists and police officers, café owners and barbers, barons and refugees. Unravelling the threads of Sicilian history, Sartorius explores the city’s mingling of ancient and modern, Greek and Arab, medieval and baroque, creating a portrait of a city inseparably entwined with its past.
The Spectacular Science of Art
The Spectacular Science of Art is guaranteed to answer all those tricky science questions that children ask about colours, perspective, and symmetry. Questions include: What is colour theory? How do artists use maths in their paintings? How do scientists spot forgeries in a laboratory? And many, many more!The bright illustrations by Moreno Chiacchiera will encourage science-hungry children to pore over every detail and truly get to grips with the science that underpins everything around us. Information is delivered on multiple levels by expert author Rob Colson, allowing readers to dip in and out at speed, or take a deep dive into their favourite subjects. There are so many wonderful titles to discover in the Spectacular Science series, including Space, Buildings, Planet Earth and more!
Love Lies
It's bad enough that the world's most powerful vampires are following gallery assistant Hanna Harvey like a cloud of undead mosquitos. But finding one of their heads in the trunk of her Mustang? There's not enough cheese in the world to unsee that. Her stud-muffin alpha werewolf boss, Mark Abernathy, suspects that someone stashing vampy bits in Hanna's immediate vicinity is part of a plot to set-off an inter-species war...with Hanna's own destiny at its heart. Getting to the bottom of Hanna's headless guests will mean fending off the dogged investigation of Detective James Morrison--now suspended from the force and hell-bent on exposing the secrets that could not only destroy Abernathy, but everyone he's sworn to protect. Now facing a force older and more sinister than any she's encountered, the stakes have never been higher for Hanna, who must finally decide to ascend to her rightful place in the pack, or risk losing everything-and everyone-she loves.
A Road for All Seasons
A journey of 6,518 miles, that filled 14 notebooks and encompassed all 4 countries of the United Kingdom, travelling through 42 out of its 95 counties, visiting 23 cities; requiring 75 trains, 60 maps, 26 cars, 16 buses, 9 ferries, 4 tubes, 4 uber taxis, 4 black cabs, 2 DLR, 2 vans, a canal boat, a probation service minibus, an intercontinental articulated lorry, a 1953 Morris Oxford and a pair of size 9 boots ... A tumultuous period in British politics left writer Harry Bucknall questioning whether he really knew the place he called home. Propelled by a growing desire to better understand his island nation, Harry decided to undertake a pilgrimage of sorts; he embarked on a series of four walks across Britain that would mirror the changing seasons, covering a distance of nearly 1,600 miles.From fresh and heady spring through to the gloriously crisp winter months, Harry journeyed across Britain visiting cities, towns and vast swathes of the countryside from Mull to Sunderland and Aberystwyth to Lowestoft, meeting a host of diverse and charismatic characters along the way as he strove to uncover the beating heart of the nation. Uplifting, joyous and charming, A Road for All Seasons is a vivid, social and cultural snapshot of 21st-century Britain. Focusing as much on the beauty of the fertile land as the people who inhabit it, it explores a unique culture, its folklore both past and present, as well as the wealth of the nation''s history and heritage. Exquisitely written and filled with delightful people and places, this is Harry''s ardent tribute to the British Isles.
Heart of Mischief
Pre-order the thrilling sequel to Soul of Shadow, a Norse mythology inspired contemporary romantasy where love, magic, gods, and monsters collide with devastating consequences.--I will make myself strong.I will find Elias.I will kill Elias.I will never trust a boy with my heart again.These are the vows Charlie Hudson made the day after Elias Everhart betrayed her, nearly killing everyone she loves most.One month later, revenge is still her priority, even as she navigates a harsh new reality: one where her brother and friends can now see Asgard, making them just as susceptible to its dazzling delights - and deadly dangers - as she is. But when two bodies turn up in the forest outside town, and Elias waltzes back into her life with an offer to help find out what''s happening, Charlie finds herself accepting his offer—but only because feigning an alliance is her best chance to figure out how to kill him. And if it feels like the more time she spends with him, the more her heart softens, it must be a trick of the unusually warm fall air. Because there’s no way she would make the grave mistake of falling for Elias Everhart twice. . . right?
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