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Celtic Magic
A captivating introduction to Celtic magic, revealing its integration into daily life from antiquity to the Middle Ages, inviting readers to explore its mysteries through rituals and practical charms.
Druids and divination, curses and charms: the Celtic world was filled with magic and intrigue, but how did people practise magic and what did they use it for? Brigid Ehrmantraut takes us on a journey through the Celtic-speaking world to explore the different ways people interacted with magic. Some sought aid through deities and dedications, while others wanted to punish their enemies with spells and curse tablets.
By the start of the medieval period, we see magic collide with popular religion, saints overtake the old gods, and witches, shapeshifting and spirit battles make their way into medieval literature. Ehrmantraut introduces us to the gods and practices that shaped the lives of the Celtic people in antiquity. She brings to life forgotten gods like Cernunnos and Esus, immortalized on the Pillar of the Boatmen, and explores the sanctuary of Sequana, goddess of healing at the Seine's source. But magic wasn't always benevolent; curses (defixiones) like those etched on the Larzac tablet expose a darker side to magic practitioners. While Classical accounts of magic offer tantalizing glimpses into lurid rituals and wild druids, their accounts blurring fact and fiction.
Our voyage through the Celtic world sweeps into medieval Wales and Ireland, touching on Scotland and Brittany in the process. Protective prayers, such as St Patrick's loricae, and miraculous tales from saints' lives reveal the interplay of magic and religion. While the power of star signs and medicinal charms connect Celtic practices to broader medieval traditions. Finally, the book celebrates the legacy of Celtic magic, linking ancient magic to modern Celtic-inspired spirituality.
Throughout the book, the reader will find tips and tricks for practising their own magic, including creating curses, dedicating ex votos to the gods, and a medieval Welsh cure for a hangover.
Forgotten
Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
From ancient city ruins to the Nabi 'Ukkasha mosque and tomb, acclaimed writers and researchers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson ask: what has been memorialised, and what lies unseen, abandoned or erased - and why? Whether standing on a high cliff overlooking Lebanon or at the lowest land-based elevation on earth at the Dead Sea, they explore lost connections in a fragmented land.
In elegiac, elegant prose, Shehadeh and Johnson grapple not only with questions of Israeli resistance to acknowledging the Nakba - the 1948 catastrophe for Palestinians - but also with the complicated history of Palestinian commemoration today.
Ölelgetős könyvecske - Szeretlek, Nagyi!
Nagyit megölelni mindig csuda klassz! Melyik nagyszülő melyik kölyköt ölelje? Játékos lapozó a legkisebbeknek. Lapozzatok, és keressétek meg az összetartozó figurákat!
Ugye, milyen jó dolog az ölelés! Mit éreznek az állatkölykök, amikor Nagyihoz bújnak? És te mit érzel, amikor megöleled, akit nagyon szeretsz?
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Lost Lambs
Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.
For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone - or something - is monitoring the town's citizens.
Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy - one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.
Rippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.
Learn Like a Lobster
We used to go to work to learn to do the job. Now learning IS the job.
Whatever your career, staying relevant and adaptable is essential to your success. And your unexpected role model for learning at work? A lobster.
In Learn Like a Lobster, Sunday Times bestselling authors Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis explore the unexpected parallels between lobsters and lifelong learning:
* Lobsters never stop growing - and neither should you
* Lobsters grow through hard moments - use your challenges to uncover new learning
* Lobsters fuel their own growth - don't wait to be taught, create your own opportunities to learn
Learn Like a Lobster shows how to make learning an easy and energising part of every working day. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to develop in their career in a way that feels meaningful and motivating.
Whether you are someone who is ambitious to grow or you're not sure about where to start, Learn Like a Lobster offers the practical skills, tools and motivation you need for career progression and fulfilment.
Because when we learn, we grow.
Felnőttmesék tavaszi estékre
A tavasz a megújulás, az újjászületés, a remény és a szerelem évszaka. Szerzőink kellemes tavaszi hangulatot varázsolnak a kötet lapjaira, ám néhol megmutatja a szeszélyeit az időjárás, és izzani fognak a lapok a kezeink alatt. A kötet garantált kikapcsolódást nyújt a langyos tavaszi éjszakákra.
Svietiace 3D nálepky - Stavebné stroje
Znovupoužiteľné fosforeskujúce nálepky s motívom staveniska rozžiaria každú izbu a premenia ju na svet stavbárov, žeriavov a bagrov! Po absorpcii svetla svietia v tme!
Gumolepky - Veselé Vianoce
Vyskladajte si vlastné scenérie, v ktorých sú hlavnými hrdinami elfovia, Mikuláš, snehuliaci či perníčky. Príbehová sada obsahuje 22 gumolepiek a roztvoriteľné pozadie s vyobrazením vianočnej dedinky.
Moje tvorivé Vianoce PZ
Pracovný zošit Moje tvorivé Vianoce obsahuje 56 strán vystrihovačiek, maľovaniek, 3D dekorácií a iných hravých aktivít, ktoré vykúzlia atmosféru najkrajších sviatkov roka.
Skryté místo
Před karlovarskou nemocnicí se objeví brutálně zohavené tělo nadějného hokejisty a vyšetřovatelka Andrea Šimečková brzy zjistí, že vražda skrývá děsivé tajemství ukryté přímo v těle oběti. Mezitím její partner Alexandr Kraus pátrá v Plzni po dokumentech, jež měl ukrýt jeho zesnulý otec – muž s temnou minulostí. Spolu s kartářkou, otcovou někdejší důvěrnicí, odkrývá stopy, které ho mohou dovést k pravdě, ale i k nebezpečí, jež číhá mnohem blíž, než by kdokoli čekal...
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DK Top 10 Provence and the Cote dAzur
Make the most of your trip to Provence and the Côte d’Azur with this Top 10 guide.
Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Provence and the Côte d’Azur has to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.
Inside this guide to Provence and the Côte d’Azur, you’ll find:
• Top 10 lists of Provence and the Côte d’Azur's must-sees and must-dos, including admiring Roman architecture in Arles, sunning yourself in St-Tropez and hiking in the Gorges du Verdon
• Provence and the Côte d’Azur’s most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping
• Themed lists, including the best places of worship, villages, beaches, vineyards and much more
• Brand-new itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week
• A laminated pull-out map of Provence and the Côte d’Azur, plus eight full-colour area maps
DK San Francisco and the Bay Area
Make your trip to San Francisco and the Bay Area extraordinary.
Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge. Exploring the streets of Chinatown. Taking a ride on a historic cable car. San Francisco and the Bay Area offer enough bucket-list experiences to fill a lifetime. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK travel guide is the perfect companion.
Our updated guide brings San Francisco and the Bay Area to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations, which take you inside the city’s buildings and neighbourhoods.
You'll discover:
- our pick of San Francisco and the Bay Area’s must-sees and top experiences
- beautiful photography and detailed illustrations, taking you to the heart of San Francisco and the Bay Area
- the best spots to eat, drink, shop and stay
- detailed maps and walks which make navigating the region easy
- easy-to-follow itineraries
- expert advice: get ready, get around and stay safe
- colour-coded chapters to each part of San Francisco and the Bay Area
- a lightweight format, so you can take it with you wherever you go
The Yves Saint Laurent Revolution: The Story of Le Smoking
The story of an outfit, a designer, his muse, and what the three of them created together: contemporary style.
Paris, 1966. In the tranquility of his studio on Avenue Marceau, Yves Saint Laurent is conducting research for his next collection. From his drawings a female figure emerges... in a tuxedo! 'Le Smoking' is born.
New York, 1967. Yves Saint Laurent steps out for lunch on the Upper East Side with his lifelong muse Betty Catroux. They are denied a table at every restaurant... because Betty is wearing Le Smoking. A woman in trousers? Unacceptable!
This chic graphic novel tells the story of Yves Saint Laurent and Betty Catroux's journey with Le Smoking. Through encounters with such timeless figures from fashion and art as Coco Chanel, Christian Dior and Andy Warhol, we discover the studio secrets of the making of Le Smoking and learn how this iconic piece anticipated and contributed to second-wave feminism in the late 1960s.
Leaving Home
'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish' Rachel Clarke, author of Dear LifeSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. Mark Haddon's parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least Mark had the consolations of The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham. Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It’s about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It’s about family. It’s about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. And it’s richly illustrated throughout with images from the author’s childhood. As bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does. 'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment
Phonic Books Lift Off Readers Affixes
Aligned to the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) Foundations phonics programme, Phonic Books Lift Off Readers: Affixes comprises 10 non-fiction books and is aimed at children aged 7-11. This set covers the following:Book 1: -sion, -tionBook 2: -tureBook 3: -er, -or, -istBook 4: -ishBook 5: -yBook 6: -nessBook 7: -mentBook 8: -able, -ibleBook 9: uni-, bi-, tri-Book 10: affixes review
Second Chances
It''s never too late for second chances...For the first time in her life, Lydia is taking a great big leap of faith. She''s moving to a small town on the West Coast of Ireland to overhaul a large, long-abandoned residence named Chance House with her new husband.Then tragedy strikes, and Lydia is reminded why she doesn''t take chances. Suddenly she''s facing a very different prospect: a half-finished ramshackle estate, an overgrown garden, dwindling funds, no-one to turn to - and everywhere she looks, reminders of the love she''s lost.Starting over feels impossible. Staying put feels harder still. But when the local community rallies around her, and Lydia is unexpectedly reminded of the power of new beginnings, she realises she might just owe it to herself and them to take a second chance on Chance House...From the Irish bestseller comes a brand-new heart-breaking yet hopeful read about putting the broken pieces of your life back together again, even when it feels impossible, and the importance of community - perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond, Cathy Bramley and Jill Mansell.
Venice Requiem
On the 22nd of January 2017, Pateh Sabally, a twenty-two-year-old Gambian refugee living in Italy since 2015, arrives in Venice from Milan. He leaves his backpack near the Scalzi Bridge, puts his train ticket and residence permit in a plastic pouch, and then plunges into the cold waters of the Grand Canal, amidst the gaze of onlookers and tourists. As he drowns, some insult him, while others shout "Africa". Outraged by this tragic death, the novel’s narrator, a young writer based in Paris, follows Pateh’s trail aiming to piece together and understand the sequence of events leading up to his death. Venice Requiem tells the story of a Venice where literature grapples with the pressing dramas of our time. Throughout the novel, the narrator quotes authors who lived in or wrote about Venice: Goldoni, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Lord Byron, Marcel Proust, and others. Through a dialogue with the writings and experiences of these authors, the novel explores the potential of literature to rescue humanity.
America The Beautiful
Wonderfully spare, deceptively simple verses pair with richly evocative paintings to celebrate the iconic imagery of America. Each spread shows a stirring tableau, from the view of the Statue of Library at Ellis Island, to the great plains, to a spacecraft at Cape Canaveral blasting off. With illustrations paired to each line of the well-known song, and that celebrate America''s history, landscape, and people in powerful, stirring and reflective illustration. Non-fiction spreads at the end of the book will explain this history and significance of the song, and why we sing it today as well as more information on some of the places shown in the artwork.O beautiful for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple mountain majestiesAbove the fruited plain!America! America!God shed His grace on theeAnd crown thy good with brotherhoodFrom sea to shining sea!O beautiful for pilgrim feet,Whose stern, impassioned stressA thoroughfare for freedom beatAcross the wilderness!America! America!God mend thine every flaw,Confirm thy soul in self-control,Thy liberty in law!O beautiful for heroes provedIn liberating strife,Who more than self their country lovedAnd mercy more than life!America! America!May God thy gold refine,Till all success be nobleness,And every gain divine!O beautiful for patriot dreamThat sees beyond the yearsThine alabaster cities gleamUndimmed by human tears!America! America!God shed His grace on theeAnd crown thy good with brotherhoodFrom sea to shining sea!
Panic
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Murder and mystery are peppered with dark humour in this fast-paced thriller from the bestselling crime writer and author of The DCI Ryan Mysteries. “LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers” – The Times“A literary phenomenon” – Evening Chronicle----------------------------------------The only way to catch a killer is to think like one... When a senior Metropolitan Police officer and High Court judge die in quick succession, criminal profiler Doctor Alex Gregory is convinced their deaths are linked to the most shameful case of his career: the notorious wrongful conviction of Carl Deere, an innocent man found guilty of a series of heinous murders perpetrated by the 'Soho Killer'. Four years later, released from prison and with his record wiped clean, Deere is an invisible spectre with a new name and a new face. But, as Gregory knows only too well, the past isn't easily forgotten, and revenge can be a powerful motive - even for an innocent man... With Scotland Yard determined to avoid any further scandal, Gregory and his friend and mentor, Professor Bill Douglas, are left to fend for themselves. With no real evidence and the body count racking up, they know it's only a matter of time before their names are next on the killer's list... ----------------------------------------READERS LOVE PANIC BY LJ ROSS"Everything a thriller needs to be - fast-paced, clever, fun, shocking." - 5-star reader review"A great crime thriller with a brilliant ending" - 5-star reader review"Excellent, and plenty of twists" - 5-star reader review"A cracking addition to the Alexander Gregory series!" - 5-star reader review"If you like your thrillers fast-pace and explosive, then this book is definitely for you." - 5-star reader review
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