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Mosaics in Britannia
Mosaics in Britannia provides an authoritative overview of Romano-British mosaics, including how they were made and maintained, how the craft was organised, the geometric designs and the subject matter, source and significance of the figured pavements. Also considered is the mosaics’ place within the buildings they adorned, and what they tell us about the social dynamics of the residence and baths. The book ends with the fate of mosaics in the late Roman period and thereafter, including their recording upon rediscovery and their display. Although Romano-British pictorial mosaics seldom attain the artistic brilliance of those around the Mediterranean, they often have sophisticated content. Several demonstrate a good knowledge of classical literature, arguably more so than most other provinces, which is perhaps surprising to those who have assumed that Roman Britain was a backwater at the extreme edge of the Roman Empire.
Good Dirt
PRE ORDER THE GRIPPING TALE OF LOVE, FAMILY, AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW BEGINNING, FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK CAKE''A beautifully imagined family saga, with a moving and hopeful ending’ NEW YORK TIMES''This novel solidifies Wilkerson''s place as one of the great multi-generational storytellers of our time'' ABI DARE''A sensational story about hidden heartbreak, hope, and the power of embracing one''s ancestry'' JESSICA GEORGE, author of MAAME''Will be every reader''s highlight of 2025'' ETHAN JOELLA, author of THE SAME BRIGHT STARS''Glittering and discerning prose, poignant yet hopeful'' NIKKI MAY, author of WAHALA—A family full of secrets. A chance to set them all free.When Ebby Freeman travels to France to take a three-month hiatus from her complicated home life, the last person she expects to find is her ex-fiancé Henry, with his new girlfriend in tow.Nearly twenty years earlier, the Freemans were the only African American family living in a wealthy coastal enclave in Connecticut when armed robbers invaded their home and tragedy changed their lives forever.Then, just as Ebby thought she had a new chance at happiness, her storybook romance with Henry fell apart.Now, this unexpected encounter with Henry will force Ebby to reckon with her past and to think on the other loss her family suffered that day – the destruction of a beloved stoneware jar crafted by an enslaved ancestor and passed down through the generations. A piece that might hold not only her family history, but also the key to reclaiming her future.--''One of the great multi-generational storytellers of our time'' ABI DARE, author of THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE''I''m in utter awe of Charmaine - she is the real real'' HARRIET CONSTABLE, author of THE INSTRUMENTALIST''Her brilliance knows no adequate words'' ORE AGBAJE WILLIAMS, author of THE THREE OF USPraise for Charmaine Wilkerson and Black Cake:''Completely blew me away'' Red''Unputdownable. Astonishing. Twists and turns so shocking they will leave your head spinning and your heart aching'' Grazia''You can''t help but fall in love with this book'' Stylist''A novelist to watch'' Independent''Beautiful, deeply resonant . . . A story that is as meaningful as it is delicious'' Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Staircase in the Woods
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS FROMS THIS NEW MESMERISING HORROR NOVEL''Unputdownable, with imagery that cuts like a knife - this is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game.'' THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT, AUTHOR OF HEX AND DARKER DAYS''A searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known.'' KIERSTEN WHITE, NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIDE__________Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhereOne friend walks up – but never comes back down.Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy – and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods…FROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.__________''Chuck Wendig is one of my very favorite storytellers.'' ERIN MORGENSTERN''Wendig''s wheelhouse is knowing exactly how to pluck heartstrings and prey on fears at the same time'' SADIE HARTMAN''Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror'' ADAM CHRISTOPHER
The Mbappe Project
Kylian Mbappé is a global football superstar. A world champion at the age of nineteen in Russia, the World Cup's Golden Boot four years later in Qatar, the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final since Geoff Hurst in 1966, the winner of twelve major honours with Paris Saint-Germain. Mbappé is still only 26, wears the shirt of Real Madrid and is captain of France's national team. At its core this book tells the ascent of a child of immigrants who rose to become the world's best player. But Mbappé's story is far more - his ascent was planned from the beginning, in a way no other sports career had been orchestrated before. Kylian Mbappé's trajectory was mapped out from a very early age by his family, with the player's full consent. For Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, the brand was developed as a consequence of their exceptional playing achievements. For Mbappé, the plan was in place before he'd played a minute of football with his first professional club, AS Monaco. He was only six years old when Nike knocked on his parents' door and gave him his first sponsorship contract. His name was trademarked worldwide before he'd won his first cap for France. Every move, every decision has been calculated from the outset. Yes, Mbappé is a generational talent, and an exceptionally smart individual who looks as much at ease at the Elysée palace as on the pitch. But what truly sets him apart is that he is not just a sportsman: he is a project. This book tells that story for the first time.
The Woman in the Water
'Unputdownable' JOSEPH O'CONNOR'A roller coaster read' LIZ NUGENTTHEY WERE BEST FRIENDS. NOW THEY ARE MURDERER AND WITNESS. At the heart of the classic novel Rebecca lies a mystery ... Pearl Day has always lived in the background - companion to her childhood friend, the dazzling and unpredictable Lady Eleanor Nicholson. Their bond was forged at Alderleigh, Eleanor's crumbling country estate, but now they share a sleek London home where Eleanor's life of indulgence is spiralling into chaos. When Eleanor shoots her lover in a drunken rage, Pearl becomes the key witness in a scandalous murder trial. But she knows more than she's revealed - and with Eleanor behind bars, she sees a chance to escape her quiet desperation. Their connection, once rooted in friendship, is now warped by grief, envy and power. And Eleanor's reach is long. Set between 1930s London and the windswept Cornwall coast, this taut, gothic thriller dares to answer one of literature's abiding questions: in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, who is the woman in the water?'Dark, twisty and gripping' SAM BLAKE
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Dark Laboratory
Our planet is on the precipice of ecological breakdown and climate despair is at an all-time high. But there are many communities who have survived beyond the environmental destruction wrought on them by colonialism - and they hold the solutions for climate repair.
Using the Caribbean as a case study, Tao Leigh Goffe traces the history of the islands back to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, when the Caribbean became the subject of Western exploitation. Charting the ecological forces that have shaped the islands - from guano to coral reefs, sugarcane to mongooses - and learning from Black, Indigenous and Asian island histories, Goffe makes the argument that the extractivist capitalism that is the origin of the climate crisis is borne from colonial thinking - and that to fight one effectively is to fight both.
Treating the Caribbean as both a warning and a guide, Dark Laboratory is a lyrical, vibrant and urgent investigation into the greatest threat facing humanity.
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle loved pseudo-orders, which she used to arbitrarily assemble terms and pictograms on a sheet of paper. Under the heading "I Love," for example, the sign of a snake could be found next to the emblem for justice, an orange spot for the corresponding color next to two stars as a symbol for astrology. Niki de Saint Phalle A-Z takes the same liberty and puts the many facets of Niki de Saint Phalle's work into the order of the alphabet.
This logical order is deceptive, though. From A as in AIDS to Z as in Zurich Angel, from B as in Bride to V as in Vanitas, a mosaic of concepts emerges that filters out the various levels of meaning in her manifold oeuvre and playfully engages them in mutual commentary.
A House in Japan
A House in Japan explores the home as a space where ideas of dwelling are constantly reimagined. In a culture shaped by precision and restraint, domestic projects become sites of quiet experimentation. These houses privilege clarity over excess, intent over display. Rigorous yet flexible, they adapt to daily rhythms while proposing fresh ways of living. The book reveals how Japanese homes, understated yet radical, show that even the everyday can be transformed into something unexpected.
Avicenna
Abú Alí al-Husajn ibn Síná (asi 970–1037), řečený Avicenna, je přelomovou postavou arabskojazyčného myšlení a vědy a díky latinským překladům, jež vznikly ve 12. století, směrodatně ovlivnil též latinskou křesťanskou filosofii. Jeho nauka o „svatém intelektu“, odborníky doposud opomíjená, propojuje teologii, kosmologii, metafyziku i psychologii a představuje proroka jako aktivní střed lidského světa, díky kterému se nahodilé historické společenství může náležitě včlenit do řádu veškerenstva. Avicennova nauka o proroctví je přesazením Platónova filosofa na trůnu do rámce islámu a vytyčuje půdorys, který prostřednictvím Mosese Maimonida a Alberta Velikého spoluurčoval samo pojetí úkolu a smyslu filosofie v prostředí všech tří velkých monoteismů.
Minor Black Figures
Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest
Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and an art restorer but he's struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects.
Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two men seemingly have nothing in common, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. But as the men grow closer, the differences between them become more stark, until Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk - for art and for love.
Deficit
How can we create a better future - one that truly prioritises health and happiness?
For too long, economic thinkers have left out acts of care - written off as 'women's work' for centuries - from their calculations. The result? Terrible real-world consequences today: crumbling public services, struggling schools and care systems on the brink of collapse.
In Deficit, prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten reveals how and why this happened, and argues that the things that matter - doing homework with your child, checking in on loved ones, talking to a
colleague who doesn't seem well - might seem inconsequential, but are in fact the building blocks of the economy. Urgent and incisive, this is a call to rethink the economic value of care.
'One of the most important feminist voices of the 21st century' - Sofie Hagen
Říše mandal – omalovánky, 2. vydání
Odvážné, výrazné a bláznivé nebo naopak jemné a elegantní, takové mandaly můžeš vykouzlit s pomocí pastelek díky své fantazii. Záleží jen na tobě. Geometrické, květinové či zcela podivné tvary čekají, aby s tvou pomocí zazářily. Díky perforovaným stránkám si nejhezčí obrázky snadno vytrhneš. Můžeš si je vystavit nebo darovat.
Slow Horses 3: Praví tygři
Catherine Standishová je ze všech Pomalých koní tím nejméně nápadným. Zažila toho dost na to, aby přestala věřit, že existuje něco jako náhoda. Takže když se stane obětí únosu, pochybuje, že by šlo o něco osobního. Musí za tím být Jackson Lamb, respektive jeho minulost. Ale ať už si o Lambovi myslíte cokoli, není to člověk, který by někoho ze svého týmu nechal na holičkách.
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Shylock is My Name
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is ingeniously reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism.
'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?'
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship...
Mythica
Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliadand Odyssey . . .
Contrary to perceptions built up over three millennia, ancient history is not all about men – and it's not only men's stories that deserve to be told.
In Mythica Emily Hauser tells, for the first time, the extraordinary stories of the real women behind some of the western world’s greatest legends. Following in their footsteps, digging into the history behind Homer’s epic poems, piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent astonishing archaeological finds and the latest DNA studies, she reveals who these women – queens, mothers, warriors, slaves – were, how they lived, and how history has (or has not – until now) remembered them.
A riveting new history of the Bronze Age Aegean and a journey through Homer’s epics charted entirely by women – from Helen of Troy, Briseis, Cassandra and Aphrodite to Circe, Athena, Hera, Calypso and Penelope – Mythica is a ground-breaking reassessment of the reality behind the often-mythologized women of Greece’s greatest epics, and of the ancient world itself as we learn ever more about it.
Our World in Pictures Bugs, Butterflies, Beetles and Bees
Did you know that there may be 5 million species of insects in the world? And that there are over a billion insects for every human on our planet?
With nearly 1,000 stunning images of insects from around the world, Our World in Pictures: Bugs, Butterflies, Beetles, and Bees takes a fun look at this gigantic group of tiny animals. This colourful bug book for kids aged 8-12 years is filled with galleries of stunning photographs that bring to life a huge variety of bugs – including insects that glow in the dark, the honeybees that pollinate our food, and bugs that live in our backyards.
This guide to the insect kingdom helps you:
• See the unseen details of hairy legs and shimmering wings through galleries of high-definition photography.
• Read your way through complex science broken down into bite-sized captions that keep even reluctant readers turning pages.
• Understand nature and the vital jobs insects do to keep our planet alive and our food growing.
• Trust the facts written and checked by experts, including well-known, award-winning entomologist Adam Hart
You'll also discover insect habitats, learn about their bodies, and see how they communicate, hunt, and look after their young. Prepare to be amazed by the spectacular stories of these creatures that play a vital role in Earth's ecosystems.
Learn all about the world one picture at a time!
The Knitting Book
Cast on with confidence and master even the trickiest of stitches with The Knitting Book.
This bestselling guide features over 250 step-by-step techniques, showing you everything from simple knit and purl stitches and techniques for casting on and off, to colourwork, cables, brioche, and lace, as well as how to knit in the round, turn a sock heel, and block knitted fabrics for a flawless finish.
Discover the right yarns and needles for any project, and test out your new-found skills with a library of over 120 stitch patterns. Complete with twenty projects including clothing and accessories, toys, and homeware, this is the ultimate guide for knitters of all abilities.
DC Encyclopedia New Edition
The official and definitive guide to the dynamic and engrossing characters of the DC multiverse – now updated with more than 1,000 entries.
Written by DC experts, the fifth and latest edition of the comprehensive DC Encyclopedia includes more than 1,000 Super Heroes and Super-Villains, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, The Joker, and Harley Quinn.
The most captivating and complete DC Encyclopedia to date:
• The fifth edition of the highly celebrated DC Encyclopedia contains over 1,000 entries for DC’s eclectic cast of Super Heroes and Super-Villains, as well as features for major events from the comics.
• Exclusive cover artwork created by renowned Dark Crisis and Wonder Woman artist Daniel Sampere, as well as fresh new character artworks on expanded entries.
• The ultimate gift for DC and Super Hero fans looking for an official and up-to-date reference book for this influential franchise.
This fresh and exciting update makes new additions to the DC Encyclopedia, introducing new content that covers the latest events in the DC multiverse – including Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, Lazarus Planet, and Absolute Power, as well as new and enhanced character entries.
Stunningly illustrated with DC artwork, including hundreds of new images from the latest DC comics, this book is a must-have on any DC fan’s shelf.
DK Top 10 Greek Islands
Make the most of your trip to the Greek Islands with this Top 10 guide.
Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that the Greek Islands 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 the Greek Islands, you’ll find:
• Top 10 lists of the Greek Islands' must-sees and must-dos, including visiting Delos, wandering through Corfu Old Town and exploring Pátmos's Monastery of St John
• The Greek Islands' most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping
• Themed lists, including the best castles, bays and beaches, outdoor activities, local dishes and much more
• Brand-new itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week
• A laminated pull-out map of the Greek Islands, plus seven full-colour area maps
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