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The Penguin Book of Cults
A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the ancient Roman ritual sacrifices that inspired The Wicker Man all the way up to Heaven?s GateA Penguin ClassicHypnotism. Human sacrifice. Sexual perversion. Mass suicide. For millennia, people have been enthralled by graphic descriptions of terrible rites performed by the religious other. The Penguin Book of Cults compiles the most notorious and uncanny of these true accounts: salacious stories of frenzied worship by the cult of Dionysus; human sacrifices burned alive in giant wooden effigies, the inspiration for the (cult) classic movie The Wicker Man; moral panics over the hypnotic powers of yoga; early horror stories of abuse in the Mormon Church; the massacre at Jonestown, which left hundreds of bodies strewn across a foreign jungle; a church that worshipped a 1950s salesman named Bob; the bloody FBI siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; and the mass suicide of Heaven?s Gate. Both terrible and tragic, this illuminating history of cults exposes the seductive power with which new religious movements have ensnared their followers and beguiled outsiders for generations.
Keith Haring in 3D
A fresh perspective on the work of Keith Haring - one of the world’s most beloved contemporary artists - with a special focus on his three-dimensional work
From the moment he landed in NYC in 1978, Keith Haring took three-dimensional objects - whether discards on the street, household appliances, or subway walls - as his atypical canvas. From cars to vases to refrigerators and even a sarcophagus, these could often be rich sites of collaboration with artist contemporaries including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and LA2 (Angel Ortiz) among others. Extending his unmistakable mark-making to clothes, stage sets, and bodies inspired creative connections beyond the boundaries of the art world: Haring collaborated with the likes of Grace Jones, Bill T. Jones, Madonna, and Annie Leibovitz, the last of whom photographed Haring in an now-famous session during which he made his own body a canvas, painting himself to blend into an elaborate 3D environment. Although his career was brief, Keith Haring’s sculpture practice was a significant and integral facet of his extensive oeuvre, with his three-dimensional artworks found in museums and art collections worldwide.
Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Keith Haring in 3Dilluminates this rarely explored dimension of Haring’s work, and its role in his enduring legacy. The book’s generous format and engaging design, including more than 350 illustrations, invites readers to immerse themselves in the world Haring created. Featuring archival photographs of Haring at work, stunning reproductions of his art in three dimensions, and a trove of essays by respected curators, scholars, and collectors, Keith Haring in 3D celebrates in stunning detail the buoyant, brilliant work of one of the world’s most iconic artists.
Undiscovered Corbett
Jim Corbett was the local hero of northern India in the 1920s and 30s when he tracked down the man-eating tigers and leopards which had killed hundreds of poor villagers. His exploits still thrill thousands of readers all round the world today, and his enthusiasts will welcome Ian Douglas’ new biography packed with 90 previously unpublished photographs, private letters and reports which throw new light on Corbett. His friendships, his fishing, his guns, his accounts of the tiger tracking and his views on the jungle he so loved, are all here
Ascent
THE STORY OF HOW A WILD MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE EVOLVED INTO AN ELITE OLYMPIC SPORT'Why is the best blood of England to waste itself in scaling hitherto inaccessible peaks, in staining the eternal snow, and reaching the unfathomable abyss never to return?’ - The Times, 1865In the 1950s, rock climbing was a wild mountain adventure that was defined by a rebellious, bohemian culture and practised by small groups of amateur enthusiasts. Today, rock-climbing has become a professionalised, high-performance, mass-participation Olympic sport. There are now more than 400 climbing walls and over 500,000 people climb regularly in the UK. Ascent tells the story of this remarkable transformation. Anthony King – a dedicated climber himself – traces the sport’s evolution through decades of rebellion, innovation and achievement to its place today as a vibrant, diverse culture. His own experiences colour the narrative; we discover not just how climbing developed, but what it feels like to climb and be a climber. More than just a history of the sport, through this story we also see how British society itself has changed. Expansive, immediate and deeply engaging, Ascent is both cultural sport history and lived experience.
Paint by Numbers: Woodland
Let out your inner artist with Paint by Numbers: Woodland from Petit Collage!This craft activity kit includes everything you need to collect acorns with squirrels, play in the branches with raccoons, enjoy a round of hide-and-go-seek with bunnies, and many more forest scenes you can frame, display, or share with friends and family. Each of the included sheets has a printed paint palette that just needs a little water added to work. This minimizes mess and makes it easier to take your creativity on the go. Simply match the numbers of the colors to the numbers on the artwork to make your masterpieces!Perfect for ages 6+, all the materials come packaged in a brightly illustrated keepsake storage tin that can be reused. Inside, you’ll find 20 pre-printed sheets with line drawings to color, plus two wooden paintbrushes. Packaged in a reusable and recyclable tin, the sheets are made using FSC materials.
Secret Vienna Guide
Let Secret Vienna guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Vienna guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 220 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Vienna guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Inside Secret Vienna you can discover:A chocolate houseAn alchemical ceiling in SchönbrunnOne of the most beautiful pharmacies in the worldAn exceptional Art Nouveau churchThe tomb of a fish that would have converted to JudaismA jazz museum in public toiletsThe oldest organ in Vienna hidden behind a paintingAn empress dressed as a nunA surprising private museum of billiardsThe extraordinary underground annex of the Mauthausen camp where the world’s first jet was builtAn indispensable guide for those who thought of knowing Vienna or for those who wish to discover the other face of the city. The definitive insider’s guide to Vienna.
Old Parish
'No matter if you're a die-hard hurling fanatic or you've never seen a match, Old Parish is well worth a read.’ Hot Press'Entertaining and thoughtful' Irish Independent---Hurling is Ireland’s national game – a source of fascination and pride, even to people who have never played it. Ciarán Murphy, a lifelong club footballer, used to be one of those people. Then he spent a summer trying to play hurling with a tiny club in the West Waterford Gaeltacht. Along the way he embarked on a quest to understand the history, geography and mystique of this extraordinary sport. Old Parish is the club of Ciarán’s father, a club where relatives of his are still deeply involved, and possibly the only place brave (or stupid) enough to take on a forty-one-year-old newcomer to the game. Predictably (and at times hilariously), Ciarán finds out just how difficult a sport hurling is to pick up when you’re in your sporting dotage, up against men who’ve played it since childhood. Ciarán also explores why hurling is played in only half the country; he investigates the origins of hurling clubs’ antipathy to football and the difficulties of establishing hurling in new areas; he looks into the mysteries of hurley-making; and he seeks to understand why, when a hurling legend refers to the sport as ‘the greatest game ever played by any man’, he has to be taken seriously. Anyone who has ever watched hurling knows that it is something unique and extraordinary. Old Parish explains why.
NASCAR Champions
Discover what it takes to be a NASCAR Cup Champion! This officially licensed and stunningly illustrated volume chronicles the story of every Champion in the series’ history.Over the decades, NASCAR’s top drivers have achieved legendary status. Winners like Lee and Richard Petty, Dale “the Intimidator” Earnhardt, “Wonder Boy” Jeff Gordon, and super-champion Jimmy Johnson have etched their names in the record books, each contributing to NASCAR’s ongoing evolution. Fierce rivalries, unforgettable victories, and crushing losses weave through the stories of each of NASCAR’s Cup Champions.From NASCAR’s birth on the dirt tracks of the South to today’s superspeedways, NASCAR Champions: Every Cup Winner from 1949 to Today details it all with:A chapter for every Champion, covering their story and winning season(s), beginning with the first, 1949’s Red Byron200 exhilarating photographs from NASCAR’s historic archive and top race photographersEngaging commentary by sports journalist and NASCAR insider H.A. Branham, who knows many of these winning drivers personallySidebars covering topics like greatest races, key seasons, milestone moments, and moreThis is a must-have reference and collectible for any NASCAR fan.
Partisans & Guerrillas of World War Two
The occupation of Europe by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy from 1939 met with resistance from all the peoples of Western, Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Balkans. This resistance took various forms from low level sabotage and intelligence gathering in some Western European countries to full scale Partisan resistance in other parts of Europe. In this first of two volumes on Partisans and Guerrillas between 1939 and 1945 the Partisans of Poland from 1939, the Soviet Union from 1941 and Czechoslovakia from 1939 are covered. Italian Partisans were active from the fall of Mussolini in 1943 and the French Resistance went from insurgency in 1940 until from 1942 til 1945 it developed into full scale partisan warfare in some remoter regions of the country. Using over 300 wartime photographs some of which have not been published before Philip Jowett retells the story of resistance, guerrilla and partisan warfare. This brutal chapter in World War Two annals was to greatly effect the situation at the front line while the populations of occupied countries suffered the wrath of the occupying armies. His second volume in this series will feature the occupied Balkans where some of the fiercest partisan fighting of the war took place.
BEATING THE ODDS
“I shouldn’t be here to write these words — statistically, i should be dead.”
In May 2025, Andy Wheeler suffered a Widowmaker heart attack — the kind most people don’t survive. Against the odds, he lived. Within days, he was undergoing triple bypass surgery and facing a recovery that would test every part of him.
Inside you’ll find:
* A raw, human account of surviving the odds
* Honest insight into recovery beyond the hospital walls
* Practical tools: trackers, checklists, and prompts
* Guidance for carers and loved ones
Andy shares what he went through — and what he wished he’d known. Honest, compassionate and practical, this book will help you face surgery with clarity, courage, and hope.
100 Movies of the 1990s
The last decade of the 20th century consolidated once again the fascinating power of the silver screen, both by looking to the future and drawing on the past. It's no exaggeration to say that never before had there been a time when the cinema focused so ironically on its own vanity, and never had it been so intensely preoccupied with itself as a medium. Filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and Ang Lee created worlds that were as cryptic as they were disorientating, while James Cameron and Steven Spielberg conjured up ever more spectacular special effects.
Do you dream of wandering the desert with The English Patient? Could you save yourself from the doomed Titanic? Are you still convinced that There's Something About Mary? 100 Movies of the 1990s reviews cinema's most important events from 1991 to 2000 and brings to life a rich variety of movie highlights. The storyline and aesthetic characteristics of each film are presented in an incisive and informative way. Commentaries on actors, directors, and historical or technical aspects of cinema introduce additional features of interest. 100 Movies of the 1990s is specialized yet entertaining, clear yet challenging. A work resembling a great moment of cinema, unforgettable and utterly gripping.
Memoir of a Polish Resistance Fighter
Stanislaw Franciszek Czekaj was born on 10 August 1924. His early life was tough. His father, a veteran, died the following year, weakened by his incarceration in a Russian POW camp. His paternal grandparents had some property but when this was destroyed by arson Stan's mother took him to live with her parents. They scraped a living on a smallholding with dirt floors and no electricity. He was still only fifteen years old when the Germans invaded Poland on 1 September 1939\. He vividly recalls the war arriving with 'a terrible roar of aeroplanes and exploding bombs and machine gun fire' as the Luftwaffe attacked the airfield near his village. Under German occupation, Stan and his neighbours suffered food shortages and a reign of terror by the Gestapo. Brutality, summary arrest, deportation and executions were rife and 'everybody was afraid to talk in front of strangers in case there was an informer present and even in front of people that you knew'. When he was about seventeen, Stan joined the Polish Provisional Brigade (Brygasa Swietokrzyska) and adopted the alias Zwierz (Animal). Caught between two enemies, who then went to war with each other it was a perilous existence, fighting the Nazi occupiers, and then, once they were pushed out, resisting the returning Soviets. Stan's participation in numerous operations, including the elimination of informers (described in sometimes-graphic detail: ?How many people have you betrayed? then I pulled the trigger pointing at his head'), resulted in a "Dead or alive" price being put on his head. Eventually he was forced to escape via Germany under the assumed name of Stanislaw Wozniak. He describes these experiences as a refugee, life in the DP (displaced person) camps, a stint in a Belgium coalmine and finally to Britain, where he was to spend the rest of his life. AUTHOR: Stanislaw Franciszek Czekaj was born on 10 August 1924 in Poland. His childhood and life in the Polish resistance are the subject of this book, told in his own words as he remembered and wrote them post-war. He died in 1990, still only 66 years old. His son, Len Czekaj has added an epilogue describing Stan's post-war life. He lives in Cardiff. 16 b/w illustrations
Coyote Hills
'Exceptionally exciting' New York Times_________________________Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He’s perfectly happy investigating calm, low-stakes embezzlement cases – that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a case only he can solve. Adam Valois, the missing son of a wealthy Los Gatos couple, was found floating dead in the Bay with a head injury and drugs in his system. The police have lost interest, ruling it an overdose. But as Clay digs deeper into Adam’s mysterious death, he begins to suspect darker forces are at play…______________PRAISE FOR JONATHAN KELLERMAN'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying' Sunday Telegraph'High-octane entertainment' The Times'Jonathan Kellerman has delivered the goods again, adding another instalment to a series that shows no sign of running out of steam' Shots Magazine
Sin, Grace and Free Will
"In the third and final volume, Matthew Knell takes his readers through the crucial thinkers of the early modern and modern period. Tracing the new traditions of authority in the interpretation of scripture, and the continuities and developments that emerge through the work of thinkers such as Luis de Molina, Arminius, Jonathan Edwards, and Karl Barth, Knell illuminates his key concepts of Sin, Grace and Free Will anew. Considering the impact of such ideological and cultural shifts as Modernism and the Enlightenment, as well as the growing influence of agnostic or atheistic philosophy, his nuanced, source-focussed approach is an indispensable primer for any beginning scholar. "
Star Wars Dad Jokes Strike Back
The cringe is strong with this one. An all-new collection of Star Wars–inspired dad jokes, perfect for geeky fathers, pun lovers, and sci-fi fans of any age. What is Lando Calrissian’s fashion philosophy? “Cape it simple.”How did Han Solo get out of his prison cell? With a Wook-key. What do you call a famous Mon Calamari? A star fish. So dad they’re good, the hokey and wholesome jokes in this sensational sequel to Star Wars Dad Jokes finds the fun in the Star Wars galaxy. From silly Sith knee-slappers to jokey Jedi jests, behold the groan-inducing power of this fully armed and operational dad joke collection. Featuring more than 150 new Star Wars puns and gags by author Kelly Knox, irresistibly illustrated by artist Johnny Sampson, these are the laughs you are looking for. © & TM 2025 Lucasfilm Ltd.
Palkó a városban
Kövessétek Palkót és családját a városban, ahol csupa izgalmas dologgal tölthetitek az időt!
Látogassatok el az építkezésre, a boltba, a vasútállomásra, a játszótérre, apu rendelőjébe és Hanna néni kiállítására. Egy ilyen kíváncsi kisfiúval, mint Palkó, biztosan nem fog unatkozni egyetlen gyerek sem!
Nemcsak tipegőkorúaknak, hanem óvodásoknak is ajánljuk, határozott célja a szókincsbővítés, a kifejezőkészség fejlesztése.
Palkó falun
Járjátok körbe a falut Palkóval és Micivel!
Látogassátok meg Zoli bácsi birtokát, Éva néni ménesét és Móni néni fazekasműhelyét.
Tanuljátok meg, hogyan készül a lekvár és az ünnepi kalács. Biztosan nem fogtok unatkozni!
Nemcsak tipegőkorúaknak, hanem óvodásoknak is ajánljuk ezt a könyvet; határozott célja a szókincs bővítés, a kifejezőkészség fejlesztése.
Prokletí lesa Grimm
Prokletí lesa Grimm je druhý díl duologie odkrývající záhady tajemného lesa Grimm. Obyvatele Grimmské Doliny sužuje strašná kletba, kterou na ně uvrhl čarovný les poté, co byla jeho magie zneužita k vraždě místního kováře. Dokud se hlavní hrdince Claře nepodaří vypátrat vraha, les ve své zlobě nepoleví. Po událostech z prvního dílu – částečném zlomení kletby – je dlouhé utrpení přerušeno krátkým obdobím naděje. Tu však velmi rychle vystřídá o to větší zklamání, když les udeří znovu a silněji. Clara s Axelem, svým milým, se tedy opět vydávají do lesa Grimm, aby rozluštili všechny záhady a zároveň se pokusili zachránit co nejvíce obyvatel vesničky, které les vtáhl a jejichž osudy proměnil v pokřivené a vražedné verze pohádek bratří Grimmů. Při čtení tak na vás čeká pořádná dávka napětí, trocha hororové atmosféry a nechybí ani romantická linka.
Domov zlatem spravený
Středoškolačka Mao žije se svou babičkou Čie, která se věnuje tradiční japonské technice kincugi – umění opravovat rozbité nádoby pomocí zlata tak, aby se staré praskliny staly jejich ozdobou.
Mao se musí brzy rozhodnout, jakým směrem se vydá, ale zatím ji svírá nejistota. Když jednoho dne v babiččině zásuvce objeví lakovanou jehlici do vlasů, spustí tím vlnu vzpomínek, která je obě zavede na cestu do minulosti. Staré křivdy, nevyřčená tajemství i slova, která už nelze vzít zpět, rozlámala lidská srdce.
A přesto, stejně jako při opravě prasklého nádobí zlatem, i z rozbitých duší může znovu vzniknout krása a naděje.
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