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Iran and the Revolution
A major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present
Iran's revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this seismic event? How did the revolutionary movement gain such strength? And what has its legacy been for modern Iran?
In this comprehensive history, Homa Katouzian explores Iran from the 1940s to the present, showing how the revolution came into being. From the chaos of oil nationalisation to the overthrow of Mosaddeq in 1953, through the revolutionary moment itself, to the resistance movements of contemporary Iran, the revolution has had long and lasting effects. We see the profound influence of US presidents and the ramifications of Saddam Hussein's invasion in 1980. Crucially, Katouzian shows how the revolution constituted an uprising of the whole of Iranian society and was not a purely Islamic movement.
This is an engaging account of an epochal event-one which continues to shape Iran to this day.
A Beautiful Year with Jesus (SC)
A Beautiful Year with Jesus is a thoughtfully crafted devotional that combines Scripture, prayer, and contemplative imagery to invite you into a peaceful rhythm of daily connection with God.Created with simplicity and depth in mind, this 30-day devotional is especially suited for those who long to connect with God but struggle to find the time. Each entry is short, meaningful, and easy to engage with—offering a Bible passage, a brief reflection, and a closing prayer that help you pause, recenter, and draw near to God, even in life''s busiest seasons.To create a richer, more meditative experience, A Beautiful Year with Jesus features original artwork by two gifted artists: Rachel Yumi Chung and Katie Waiyu. Rachel, based in Virginia, paints whimsical, joy-filled worlds deeply rooted in faith, Korean heritage, and a sense of wonder. Katie, based in the UK with roots in Hong Kong, crafts art that celebrates the quiet beauty of everyday life and invites the viewer into rest. Together, their illustrations infuse each page with visual peace and gentle reflection.Whether you begin your mornings with it or return to it in quiet moments throughout the day, A Beautiful Year with Jesus offers space to slow down, breathe deeply, and encounter the presence of Jesus—one day at a time.
Star Wars Jedi - Fallen Order
Three rules to survive: Don't stand out, accept the past and trust only in the Force. Cal Kestis, a former Jedi Padawan, narrowly escaped the devastating purge of Order 66. Now on the run from the evil Empire's deadly Inquisitorius, Cal teams up with a former Jedi Knight and a cantankerous pilot in a quest to revive the Jedi Order. Can Cal unlock the secrets of the past before the Empire catches up with him?
In Bloom
Flowers and plants are a staple of British life. Nearly 40% of our population considers themselves to be gardeners, making this and associated activities a national pursuit. And yet, while we hold endless discussions over how to seed, grow, and disseminate our cherished plants, we still known relatively little about how they were collected, exchanged, circulated, identified, and modified, and how much art has shaped our understanding and appreciation of them. This publication, designed to accompany the homonymous exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, explores some of these plant stories through highlights from Oxford’s collections. Bringing together historical and scientific expertise, art and material culture, traditional and contemporary artworks, this book ultimately reflects on the long-lasting impact of flora on our society – and of us on it.
MONKEY IN MY POCKET
What if mischief lived in your pocket? Meet the cheeky little monkey who ventures out when the day is done, turning quiet evenings into bursts of laughter, rhyme, and playful mayhem. This joyful picture book celebrates imagination and fun while gently reminding readers of all ages that making things right can be part of the adventure too. Perfect for bedtime snuggles, big giggles, and sharing together again and again.
Nightshade
A gorgeous, Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt—with a dash of magic realism. Longing for glamour and riches and freedom, Zelda is a young woman who chafes against her Romany identity and her family's poverty. Everything changes when she’s lured away from working alongside her mother and aunts and other migrant workers in the tobacco fields and is hired as an assistant and good luck charm to the charismatic Trixie Tormentine. What starts out as a summer of ease and access to the unfettered wealth of the Tormentines—Trixie's husband Jack owns the tobacco farm that employs Zelda's family and friends—unspools into dangerous displays of power and manipulation. One of the Romany family's puppets, grandmother Puri Dai, acts as Zelda's confidante and mentor, and warns her about the devil of the tobacco fields, a harbinger of destruction. As Zelda struggles with her simmering feelings toward the Tormentines, the devil appears to her one night in a motel parking lot. Can Puri Dai's love pull Zelda back from the brink and into a new future? The fate of her family depends on it.
A Day at Fluffyville Port
From sunrise to sunset, the harbor comes to life across seven beautifully illustrated spreads. Children can follow a family as they tour the port, ride the ferry, and even visit a pirate ship. Along the way, familiar faces return—including the mischievous Bandit Badger, who’s back as a stowaway hiding in plain sight. Each detailed scene is packed with playful surprises and whimsical characters, offering countless opportunities to observe, search, and discover. Whether it’s cranes unloading cargo, seagulls swooping overhead, or curious critters peeking from behind barrels, every page invites readers to slow down and explore. With its detailed artwork, interactive format, and irresistible cast of characters, this is a book children will return to again and again—always spotting something new. Perfect for quiet moments or shared reading, this engaging book encourages close looking, storytelling, and curiosity about the world. Fans of the series will delight in the rich illustrations and gentle humor, while newcomers will be instantly charmed by Fluffyville’s playful spirit. A joyful celebration of life by the water, full of warmth, whimsy, and discovery.
What Do We Know About Dragons?
Are dragons winged, fire-breathing beasts or water gods who promise good luck? Across the globe, legends of dragons have varied greatly. Stories and images of dragons can be traced back to the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In many East and Southeast Asian cultures, dragons were considered friendly, serpent-like creatures, but in Western cultures, they were ferocious, feared, and monstrous. Were dragons slayed by knights in medieval Europe? Or did they bring promises of plentiful rain in Japanese folklore? Both! These are just two examples of historic dragon lore. Today, dragons are in their golden age. They are featured in literature, games, movies, and television and have never been more popular. How to Train Your Dragon shows them as peaceful companions to humans. The Hobbit uses a dragon as a clever and cruel villain. From Norway to Korea, send your curiosity into flight and learn all we know about these mysterious creatures in this exciting book for young readers!
The Opposites Game
AUTHOR OF FIVE POETRY COLLECTIONS • NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHOR, Brendan Constantine presents his newest collection, The Opposites Game. A playful and profound meditation on language, binaries, and the radical act of seeing each other more clearly. In his fifth collection of verse, The Opposites Game, poet Brendan Constantine inspires us to revel in the abundance of life by reckoning its many astonishments (and antonyms). Through a simple yet profound framework of odes, lists, memoirs, and classroom assignments, Constantine asks us to think critically about how we define and understand each other, urging us to look beyond simplistic binaries and engage with the deeper nuances of meaning. The Opposites Game is a powerful reminder of the intricate relationship between words and the realities they represent, and an invitation to explore the rich, beautiful, and often perilous terrain of human thought and emotion.
Okavango and the Source of Life
Follow intrepid explorer Steve Boyes as he leads the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, documenting the little-known lakes and rivers flowing through central Africa to the vast Okavango, a region supporting the world’s largest elephant population as well as lions, cheetahs, and hundreds of bird species. For miles on end of twisting waterways and leech-filled swamps, Boyes and his fellow explorers pole their flatboats with only satellite imagery and hippo trails to guide them. Sometimes they must drag their boats through dense bush or mud-thick waters. An angry hippo threatens to overturn the caravan; swarms of bees dive-bomb explorers’ ears and eyelashes. In Angola, closed off by war for decades, the team tracks ghost elephants—a subspecies thought to have disappeared forever. By day they press on, by night they camp under the stars. Lions roar and hyenas howl in the distance. Locals become friends and fellow travelers—guardians of the rivers, sharing generational knowledge of these waters they call the “source of life.”With more than 100 photographs and maps, including a foreword by Prince Harry and portraits of local wisdom keepers, this beautiful book provides a glimpse of primeval wilderness still thriving on the planet—and the grit of explorers determined to preserve it.
Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons Book 2)
Now available in a stunning Deluxe Collector's Edition, The Viscount Who Loved Me, the second novel in No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, gorgeous sprayed edges and a decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together!Watch BRIDGERTON, created by Shondaland for Netflix. ANTHONY & KATE'S STORYLondon's most elusive bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton, is determined to wed. But one obstacle stands in his way - his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield, who is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal. Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands, and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. She's determined to protect her sister - even as she fears she may not be able to resist the reprehensible and oh-so-desirable rake herself . . .
Kapibarák szökésben
A három kapibara – Emi, Trisztán és Raul – mindennapjai elég unalmasan telnek az állatkertben. Ám egy napon felmerül bennük a kérdés: mi rejtőzhet a kerítés túloldalán? Vajon sikerül felfedezniük a bőség tengerét és a körülöttük levő világot? Éjszakai kiruccanásaik során megismerik a szomszédos állatokat, és izgalmas kalandokba keverednek. De mit szólnak mindehhez a tengerimalacok?
Hekate - Goddesses of the Underworld 1
Born into a world on fire, Godling Hekate has never known safety. After her parents find themselves on the losing side of the war between the ruling Titans and the new Olympian Gods, Hekate is taken by her mother Asteria to the Underworld, where Styx and Hades agree to raise her. Meanwhile, Asteria is pursued across the world by Zeus and Poseidon and, to escape their clutches, transforms herself into an island in a stormy sea.
Orphaned and alone, Hekate grows up amongst the horrors and beauties of the Underworld, desperate to find her divine purpose and a sense of belonging in the land of the dead.
When she finally uncovers her powers and ascends to Goddess status, she realises that even the most powerful Olympians are terrified of her. But when immortal war breaks out again, threatening to destroy everything from Mount Olympus to the Underworld itself, the Goddess of witchcraft and necromancy is the only one who can bring the deadly conflict to an end...
Az ördög ölelésében
„Érzi, hogy valami mocorog benne. Nyújtózkodik, ágaskodik a démon. Felébredt a hosszú alvás után, és most áldozatra les. Vissza kell fognia, különben baj lesz.”
Egy nő Firenzébe érkezik, ahol találkozik egy férfival, és hamarosan egymásba szeretnek. Nem telik el sok idő, és mindketten hűtlenné válnak. A nő egyre inkább meg van győződve arról, hogy nem csupán egy erőszakos emberrel van dolga: a férfiban egy démon lakozik – ahogy benne is. Az ördög ölelésében felemelő, nyugtalanító és meglepően humoros, kíméletlenül pontos leírást ad a bántalmazó kapcsolatok világáról. Veszedelmesen sötét és misztikus történet, amely lélegzetelállító utazásra hív az ember legsötétebb énjébe.
Repetition : A Novel
In a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl at the opera, and through their padded jackets feels a dreadfully familiar tension conducted from the parents seated on her far side. She thinks back to her sixteenth year. The year she first got drunk and the year she first had sex with a boy.
A year of being circled by an anxious, hawkish mother and, at a notable distance, her silent father. The year her family made an unspoken decision, and an unspeakable sacrifice.
Adolf Matura
Adolf Matura (1921-1979), výrazná osobnost československého sklářského umění a designu, se zásadně podílel na podobě užitkového a dekorativního skla padesátých až sedmdesátých let minulého století. Studoval v ateliéru profesora Karla Štipla na pražské Uměleckoprůmyslové škole. Po krátkém působení jako samostatný rytec skla začal v roce 1952 působit jako designér v Ústředním výtvarném středisku pro průmysl skla a jemné keramiky. Se svými návrhy se zúčastnil významných mezinárodních přehlídek užitého umění XI. Trienále v Miláně v roce 1957 a světové výstavy Expo 58 v Bruselu. Roku 1959 se stal vedoucím výtvarníkem oboru skla v nově vzniklém Ústavu bytové a oděvní kultury (ÚBOK) v Praze. Jako zkušený designér vytvořil množství návrhů foukaného, broušeného i hutně tvarovaného skla, především se ale zaměřil na sklo lisované, jehož vývoj progresivně ovlivnil jak z výtvarného, tak z technologického hlediska.
Kniha představuje Maturovu tvorbu od raných autorských ryteckých prací, které v letech 1957 až 1960 úspěšně reprezentovaly moderní československé sklo na mezinárodních výstavách užitého umění a skla, po sochařsky řešené lisované vázy z let šedesátých a sedmdesátých, jimiž podstatně ovlivnil a obohatil výtvarnou podobu sériové produkce užitkového i dekorativního skla.
Kniha vychází jako devátý svazek edice Design Profily Osobnosti.
Koncepce knihy a text: Jan Mergl Redakce textů: Kateřina Bendáková, Karolína Hajdíková Překlad resumé: Linda Leffová Fotografie: Gabriel Urbánek, Ondřej Kocourek, Aleš Kosina Reprodukce archivních dokumentů: Jan Mergl Grafický design: Štěpán Malovec
Welcome Little One Box Set
Celebrate a new little one's arrival to the world with this special set of board books by USA Today bestselling author Sandra Magsamen, the perfect baby shower gift!
Included in this Three-Book box set:
• Welcome Little One
• Lots of Love Little One
• Sweet Dreams Little One
This baby board book set is the perfect way to share heartwarming messages of joy, wishes, and never-ending love for a newborn child, featuring three incredibly heartfelt books to say, "We're so glad you're here!", "I love you!", and "Goodnight!" Filled with gentle rhyming text and adorable elephant illustrations perfect for baby girl or baby boy, this sweet collection is a wonderful gift to celebrate new parents or new little ones at baby showers, nesting parties, first birthdays, Christmas, or anytime of year!
Each story also includes a special bonus page of write-in prompts to record treasured memories all about little one to cherish forever.
On the day you were born, it was love at first sight.
We welcomed you, little one, and held you so tight.
The Makeup Remover: Volume 1
She might have the plainest face in the country… and that's exactly why he wants her.
Kim Yeseul has always heard that everyone glows up in college… so why does she feel like the least pretty college student ever?! All of her peers look effortlessly put together 24/7, but Yeseul has no idea how to apply makeup or style her hair. With neither the looks nor the confidence to stand out, Yeseul resigns herself to hiding behind her camera as she completes her photography degree.
Enter Cheon Yuseong, the most sought-after makeup artist in Korea. He needs a model for an upcoming TV competition series, and he's certain that Yeseul's plain face is the perfect canvas to showcase his skills. Yeseul isn't interested in fame or glory – she just wants to look pretty enough to catch the attention of her longtime crush, Seungwoo. But as Yeseul plunges face-first into the cutthroat world of cosmetics, she begins to question whether appearance really is everything.
Volume 1 collects episodes 1-14 of the webcomic The Makeup Remover.
Szláv boszorkányság
Az orosz varázslás az isteneknek, szellemeknek és természeti erőknek az átlagemberek életébe történő beavatkozásán, valamint ezen erők irányításán alapszik. Bizonyossággal mondhatom, hogy az oroszok századok óta alkalmazzák a varázslást céljaik elérése érdekében. A varázslás szerves részét képezte az őseink által gyakorolt pogány hagyományoknak, e varázslás célját pedig az élet megsegítése, a gyógyítás, valamint a negatív energiáktól való megszabadulás jelentette. Őseink mindenféle varázslást alkalmaztak – az igéktől és bűbájoktól kezdve az üzleti és harci sikereket eredményező ráolvasásokig. Az orosz varázslás a pogányság és kereszténység szintézise. Máig élnek olyanok, akik a pogány ünnepségek megtartása mellett keresztény szent napokon varázsolnak. Ma is léteznek csomókra való suttogással átkozó vagy gyógyító boszorkányok. A varázslók valóban rendkívüli dolgokra képesek.
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