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James Joyce
A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political insight unrivalled among his fellow modernists. In this biography of Joyce in his youth and early exile, acclaimed Irish historian and biographer Frank Callanan reveals a Joyce who is markedly more politically conscious, informed and complex than the Joyce of Richard Ellmann’s classic account. Written in a sparkling style and rich with historical insights, Callanan’s deeply researched biography is the first sustained account of how Joyce’s Irish and European political and cultural context shaped his life, thought, and writings. Joyce was eight years old in 1890 when the O’Shea divorce scandal tore Irish nationalism apart, leading to the split in the Irish Parliamentary Party, the death of nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, and a long, bitter period dominated by the anti-Parnellites. This was the Ireland that Joyce grew up in and rebelled against, and which determined his literary direction. Callanan uncovers a Joyce who was a highly original and dissenting Irish nationalist, who refused to avow or vaunt his nationalism and whose understanding was refined by the experience of living in multicultural Trieste with its fraught ethnic politics and differing models of statehood. Callanan’s Joyce is as heroic as Ellmann’s defiantly modernistic artist but in a more interesting way—a writer who didn’t lack political conviction but whose views didn’t yield to the expectations of his time. Energizing, witty, profound, and elegant, James Joyce: A Political Life is a magisterial biography that will transform how readers look at Joyce and his politics.
Dispatch From Every Second Guess
A verse-memoir spanning the breakdown of a marriage and the resulting wide-open horizon of single motherhood,Dispatch From Every Second Guess explores how we negotiate the present in the light of the past, how our lingering resentments limit our attentions, and how old wounds reopen in new ways. Gannon’s life is layered with tensions. The tension of being a white adoptive mother to a Black son. The tension of healing from a failed marriage. The tension of supporting a partner through mental health crises. The tension of mothering the partner’s child in the shadow of a fraught relationship with one’s own mother. And the tension of admitting ugly truths in a genre that often demands beauty, especially from women poets. Perfect for fans of Sharon Olds and Maggie Smith, Gannon’s second full-length collection of poetry is rife with poignant self-reflection and lyrical storytelling as she writes her way toward understanding, and maybe even forgiveness.
Skeleton Knight in Another World (Manga) Vol. 14
Ahead of the battle with the Holy Hilk Kingdom, Arc is invited to a council with the elves to discuss their battle plans. But when the skeleton knight’s abilities come into question, only a mock battle with Dragon Lord Felfi Visrotte will put their doubts to rest. Suddenly, the adventurer from another world has been put under the spotlight! Can he prove his skills while also convincing the Dragon Lord to fight on their side?
Flower Power
If Super Bloom is the ingredients list, Flower Power is the recipe book. This is a practical and beautiful guide on how to layout and plan your garden.
A book like no other, this abundantly illustrated volume breaks down the processes, techniques and latest thinking in planting design and garden-making. It features:
- A how-to on categorizing and understanding plants
- A detailed guide to designing your garden, including such aspects as colour, composition, texture and layers
- How to achieve your garden design, exploring easy techniques and required tools in sumptuous photography
- Fun charts and layouts showing colour palettes, flowering calendars, planting forms, density and distribution
Flower Power will take your gardening to the next level, using up-to-the-minute international thinking in design translated into an accessible and immersive reference for anyone who wants to try something new in their garden.
Muskism
Who on earth is Elon Musk and what is he doing? Is he a hero, a villain, or does he swing constantly between those two poles?
According to the constant media gush driven by his every act and pronouncement, Musk is best understood in personal terms. This book argues differently. Rather than seeing Musk as an individual, it sees him as an avatar of something called Muskism: a playbook for our new postliberal age.
It’s not that Musk himself holds a coherent set of beliefs; you could say his life is one long improvisation. And he’s certainly never used the word Muskism – just as, a century ago, Henry Ford never used Fordism to define his own postliberal modernity. In exploring the forces that have shaped Musk, from South Africa to Silicon Valley, Space X to DOGE, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff outline the motifs and practices that have come to dominate our own crisis-ridden world.
Muskism, they show, speaks the language of crisis and emergency to invoke a less human future: where humans are purged from the productive process and, through social media and video games, merged with the machine. This is a worldview in which the technocrat is king; which piggybacks on the state to achieve supremacy; and in which only a select few deserve salvation. If you enter, this book warns you, you will grind and you will live in the shadow of one man – but the rewards could be priceless and the alternative might be extinction.
Vanitas: Magická kniha 4
V pařížských katakombách, hluboko pod městem, jsou chasseuři – lovci z církevní protiupírské divize – v patách Noému a Vanitasovi. Pátrání po pohřešovaných upírech je zavede na cestu, kterou Vanitas až příliš dobře zná a ve stínech podzemí budou muset čelit nejenom děsivé hrozbě, ale také samotné Vanitasově minulosti.
A zöld boszorkány jóskártya
Bővítsd mágikus gyakorlataidat - engedd, hogy a természet bölcsessége vezessen!
A Zöld Boszorkány Jóskártya egy különleges eszköz, amely összekapcsol a természet bölcsességével és a zöld boszorkányság elbűvölő világával. Ez a kártya egy varázslatos, belső utazásra hív, amely átalakít és közelebb visz önmagadhoz. Te hallod a hívását?
A gyönyörűen illusztrált lapokon növények, ősi szimbólumok és misztikus lények kelnek életre. A kártyák mélyebb rálátást és finom iránymutatást adnak, hogy közelebb kerülj saját belső igazságodhoz.
A Zöld Boszorkány jóskártyái segítenek felfedezni a gyógyulás és a teremtés természetes útjait, és támogatnak abban, hogy újra emlékezz belső bölcsességed hangjára. Akár tapasztalt vándor vagy a zöld boszorkányok ösvényén, akár most teszed meg az első lépéseket, a pakli hídként kapcsol össze a természet tanításaival, és segít meghallani az elemekben lakozó szellemek halk üzeneteit.
Arin Murphy-Hiscock Montreálban, Kanadában él és több mint húsz éve tevékenykedik az alternatív spiritualitás területén. A zöld boszorkány – Teljes útmutató a természetmágiához és a Boszorkány praktikák önmagunkért – Mágikus varázslatok, rituálék a testi és lelki egészségért a természet gyógyító erejével című könyvei magyar nyelven is megjeletek.
A doboz tartalma:
• Kézikönyv a jóskártya használatához
• 50 lapos, gyönyörűen illusztrált Zöld Boszorkány jóskártya csomag
Nyom nélkül
"A világ legkedveltebb mesélőjének sodró története a második esélyről, arról, hogy életünk a lehető legjobb is lehetne.
Charles Vincent-nak látszólag minden megadatott – gyönyörű feleség, vagyon, sikeres karrier. De a fényes lakkréteg elfedte, hogy Charles hiába kereste, nem lelte meg a boldogságot. Élete azonban örökre megváltozik, mikor egy éjszaka a normandiai parti úton autózva egy rettenetes pillanatban lezuhan a sziklafalról.
Csodával határos módon Charles nem hal meg. Sérült és hitehagyott, amikor egy házikóra bukkan, a kedves és szép Aude otthonára. Tüstént egymásba szeretnek. Aude meggyógyítja a férfit, Charles pedig rátalál a szenvedélyre, amely annyira hiányzott az életéből.
Majd rádöbben, hogy nem kell visszamennie. Dönthet úgy is, hogy egyszerűen eltűnik, hogy kilép előző életéből. Mintha a szeszélyes sors új kezdet esélyét kínálná fel. Ám Aude-nak is vannak titkai, és múltjuk kisvártatva mindent fenyegető jelenidővé válik."
Fragments of a Future Scroll
The 50th anniversary edition of a paradigm-shifting work by one of the most important Jewish figures in postwar America. By the time of his death, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), also known as Reb Zalman, had transformed the landscape of Judaism in America. The son of liberal Hasidic Jews, a Holocaust refugee, and a devoted Lubavitcher Hasid, Reb Zalman eventually left the traditional Hasidic fold and committed himself to seeding a mystical Jewish renaissance. An active participant in the counterculture and New Age movements, Reb Zalman began experimenting with different forms of Jewish ritual and contemplative practice—and their intersection with other spiritual traditions—ultimately founding the Jewish Renewal movement. Fragments of a Future Scroll, Reb Zalman's first book, was originally published by a small press in 1975 and, until now, was long out of print. A truly unique book—or "anti-book," as Shaul Magid refers to it in his new introductory essay—Fragments gathers Reb Zalman's first idiosyncratic attempts at articulating a renewed "Hasidism for the Aquarian Age," envisioning Judaism's evolving place and role within an emergent "planetary consciousness." This wild text presents an electrifying weave of sparks, flashes, stories, teachings, and ecstatically lyrical translations of traditional Jewish sources—"spiritual sheet music," as Reb Zalman called it. Full of boundary-breaking wisdom and crackling poetic oddity, Fragments of a Future Scroll is a book for people from all religious and spiritual traditions who are looking to experience the world—and consciousness itself—anew. This historic 50th anniversary edition presents an updated version of the original text, alongside essays by four contemporary Jewish thinkers—Rabbi Shaul Magid, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Rav Jericho Vincent, and Arthur Kurzweil—reflecting on Reb Zalman's enormous impact, and guiding contemporary readers into his paradigm-shifting worldview.
Summoned to the Wilds
She’s sworn to protect the realm. Her heart has other plans.
Lady Ammalie Avington, Baroness of Faebarrow, knows it's not safe to pine after the son of a demon. Especially not the blood mage who threatened and abducted her and now intends to bring ruin to the realm. The very realm she is sworn to serve. It's just a terribly inconvenient fact because, well…he's rather cute.
Despite her best efforts, Amma can’t seem to get him out of her mind, not whilst locked up in a tower surrounded by infernal beings, nor trapped below ground in a den of beguiling vampires, and definitely not in the heart of a wild jungle under the tutelage of esoteric witches. She just can't help herself around Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne, danger be damned. And what danger is there? Damien's heart, the one he swears to not have, has been softening right before her eyes. Perhaps with her guidance, Damien won't rain chaos and destruction down on the world. Perhaps she can even save them both as Damien searches for a way to magically unlink them on their quest to fulfill their destinies.
So, when Amma learns she may have ancient, innate magical powers of her own, why not use them to do exactly as she pleases?
Jeřábi táhnou na jih
Boovi Andersonovi v životě zbývají už jen pravidelné návštěvy pečovatelské služby, věrná psí láska a zavařovací sklenice se šátkem dosud vonícím po milované manželce. Víko sklenice už ale jeho revmatické prsty otevřít nedokážou. Čas se krátí a Bo by ještě rád napravil ochladlý vztah se synem. Jenže ten se teď snaží otce připravit i o poslední útěchu v životě — psa Sixtena. Obavy, že přijde o oddaného společníka, ve starém muži vyvolají bouři emocí, která ho nutí ohlédnout se za svým životem, otcovstvím i za tím, jakým způsobem dával najevo lásku.
Švédská kniha roku 2024
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
We can move the dial on pain.
Leading expert Rachel Zoffness bridges the gap between medicine and psychology to get to the heart of treating pain.
Every one of us will experience pain, be it back pain, the pain of childbirth, or living in an ageing body. Not a single one of us will escape. But what if everything you thought you knew about pain was wrong?
We’ve been told that pain is purely physical, something to do just with bones and body parts. The truth is that pain is constructed by the brain – influenced not just by injuries, but also by emotions, expectations and environment. This means you have infinitely more control over pain than you ever imagined: because if the brain can change, pain can change.
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and rich patient stories, Rachel Zoffness completely upends the myths we’ve been told – finally reconnecting physical and emotional pain, and providing a roadmap for healing. The fact is that chronic pain is treatable. But to do that, we must target the whole person, not just a body part.
Whether you live with chronic pain or know someone who does, this book offers more than insight – it offers an empowering way forward.
Across the Massive-Verse Volume 2
Welcome back to the MASSIVE-VERSE, the thrilling new universe of Image superheroes! This pulse-pounding sampler collects the first issues of RADIANT RED, RADIANT PINK, NO/ONE, and COWL at the bargain price of $9.99—a perfect entry point for new readers!A schoolteacher deep in gambling debt finds herself on a collision course with a miniature black hole. A streamer who can’t slow down discovers a way to be everywhere at once. In Pittsburgh, a faceless vigilante stands against a killer seeking accountability. And in 1960s Chicago, the world’s first superhero labor union struggles against its greatest villain - a disillusioned public. Collects Radiant Red #1, Radiant Pink #1, NO/ONE #1, and COWL #1. WHAT IS THE MASSIVE-VERSE? Kyle Higgins & Marcelo Costa's breakout hit Radiant Black took superhero storytelling to new heights. But Radiant Black isn't the only character inhabiting the MASSIVE-VERSE. There's a whole universe for readers to explore! Characters like Rogue Sun, Inferno Girl Red, The Dead Lucky and more yet to be revealed each of them has a different story to tell, different adversaries to face and they each occupy a very different corner of this shared universe. What are you waiting for? Now's the time to get into the MASSIVE-VERSE!
Anna Karenina
Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin''s estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett''s translation conveys Tolstoy''s precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.
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Blue Lock 28
A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid Game–meets–World Cup manga, now available in print! Anime airing now! After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's mising? An absolute ace striker. The Football Union is hell bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, so Blue Lock--a rigorous training ground for 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players--is created. To survive this battle, the last striker standing will have to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in his way!
Making Common Sense
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to solve this puzzle. The ambiguity began centuries ago with the merger of the common sense, the sensorium commune, a kind of sixth sense responsible for coordinating the other five, with the sensus communis, a collection of implicit social habits and beliefs. Ever since, common sense, as a power both practical and thoughtful, has promised to split the difference between sensation and reason, the body and the mind, and between individuals and their society. As challenges from medical science and skeptical philosophy accumulated, though, common sense assumed a number of different forms in response. It has been a physical organ, a mental faculty, a body of knowledge, a system of axioms, an ethical principle, and a synonym for culture, until finally, with game theory and artificial intelligence, it becomes a number. Michael North tracks the obvious through these changes, showing why it remains, even now in the age of AI, as dark and mysterious as it was in the beginning.
100 Bullets Book Four
In a world where vengeance comes with no consequences, 100 Bullets asks: what would you do if you could get away with murder? As the war between the Houses of the Trust escalates, loyalties shift and the Minutemen prepare for the final reckoning. This Eisner Award-winning series continues to unravel a dark, gripping conspiracy that challenges morality at every turn. 100 Bullets Book Four collects issues #59 80 of the acclaimed crime-noir series. As the shadowy organization known as the Trust fractures from within, the Minutemen once the enforcers of its will begin choosing sides. With Lono rising to power and the endgame approaching, the lines between justice, revenge, and survival blur in this gritty, masterfully illustrated volume.
HOOL!GAN'S Vol. 2
In nineteenth century London, deep in the East End, there live the Hooligans: a band of miscreants led by alchemist Lee Heartrib, the current head of the Antilia Family mafia. Entrusted with guardianship of the city by his predecessor, Lee uses his alchemy to keep the junkies happy—but his true aim is creating a “paradise” for the good of the people. And sometimes, that involves getting his hands dirty, especially when he’s pitted against the other mafia heads, or shadowy beings who want to eliminate human life on earth. A new world order is on the horizon, with the Hooligans leading the way!
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Vol. 4
Wei Wuxian was once one of the most outstanding men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts, knowledge, and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek a new power through demonic cultivation, the world's respect for his skills turned to fear, and his eventual death was celebrated throughout the land. Years later, he awakens in the body of an aggrieved young man who sacrifices his soul so that Wei Wuxian can exact revenge on his behalf. Though granted a second life, Wei Wuxian is not free from his first, nor the mysteries that appear before him now. Yet this time, he'll face it all with the righteous and esteemed Lan Wangji at his side, another powerful cultivator whose unwavering dedication and shared memories of their past will help shine a light on the dark truths that surround them. This Chinese xianxia fantasy novel series built around the romanticized love between two men (danmei) has been translated into numerous languages and spawned a multimedia franchise that has taken the globe by storm, including the animated series The Master of Diabolism available on Crunchyroll and the live-action series The Untamed available on Netflix. This deluxe hardcover rerelease of Seven Seas’ bestselling English-language paperback features special embellishments: a dust jacket featuring all-new art and foil lettering, a new foil illustration on the hardcover itself, elaborate printed edges, new endpaper illustrations, and a ribbon bookmark.
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