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Psychology of Luck: Korean Secrets for Attracting Wealth and Success
Praised as a book that 'brings you luck the moment you open it', this book contains lessons on how to understand - and use - the psychology of luck.
Why are successful people so obsessed with luck?
Because they want to draw things of value to them.
The average person will experience at least a couple of lucky breaks in their lives, but life's successes and failures are dependent on how well you recognize the signs of such luck.
Born into a family with a gift of intuitive foresight and raised in Korean traditions of numerology, astrology and shamanism, Min Ji Yoo has developed deep insights into how people attract luck, money and the things they value to themselves. In The Psychology of Luck, Min Ji Yoo focuses on how successful people harness their luck to attract success - and how we can too.
Drawing on her years working with celebrities, business tycoons, politicians, and everyday people, Ji Yoo explains that the capacity to take advantage of lucky opportunities determines one's success. In this book, she reveals the surprising truths that you can enrich your life in many ways, simply by changing your attitude and psychological approach to luck.
Each chapter offers life lessons about luck and abundance - as well as approaches that quiet those anxieties that weigh us down. From 'live according to your instincts' to 'the more grace you give, the less pain you receive', Min Ji Yoo demonstrates that self-knowledge, worldly wisdom and luck are essential to becoming rich - whether measured in money, love, health or spiritual terms.
Men of a Certain Age
From Jeff Beck to Ray Davies, Jon Bon Jovi to Kevin Ayers, Kate Mossman has long fostered an interest in male musicians of a certain age.
Why is it that when I meet them, I feel something ignite inside me? What is this strange connection - to feel so excited, yet so at ease? And how is it that in the presence of a wrinkly rock star twice my age, I sometimes feel like I'm meeting . . . me?
Featuring nineteen long-form profiles lovingly constructed for The Word magazine and the New Statesman, Men of a Certain Age chronicles the lives of some of the biggest rock stars of our time, including Brian May, Gene Simmons, Terence Trent D'Arby, Johnny Rotten and Nick Cave.
The book is a meditation on the powerful archetype of the ageing rock star, but it is also a personal story - of music and obsession, and of the deep unconscious projections at play in our relationships with the famous people who most capture our hearts. As Kate travels 5,000 miles to try and find Glen Campbell, and to the depths of the Cornish countryside for a rendezvous with Roger Taylor, will she finally unravel the roots of her obsession with the elder statesmen of rock?
The Kennedys and the Windsors
The story of two iconic dynasties-the Kennedys and the Windsors-whose glamour and ambition defined an era. Reveals never-before examined stories about Queen Elizabeth, King Charles, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Princess Diana, Prince Harry, JFK, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Jr., and many others.
For fans of The Crown and Disney+ new Ryan Murphy limited series Love Story.
For nearly a century, two families have captured the world's collective imagination: the Windsors and the Kennedys. Much has been written about their individual trysts, tragedies, and triumphs over the years, but no one has examined their intertwined legacies. Until now.
The Kennedys and the Windsors unearths the shared story of these two families, drawing out some startling parallels between them: the style icons Princess Diana and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, who both tragically died young, the frustrated "second sisters" Princess Margaret and Lee Radziwill, the scandal-plagued next generation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the man formerly known as Prince Andrew, and the current generation's struggles to figure out what a monarchy - actual or imagined - means in the twenty-first century.
From Queen Elizabeth's coronation to President Kennedy's historic London visit, JFK Jr.'s shocking death to Prince Harry's decisive break with his family, Caroline Hallemann traces the key moments in the lives of these dynasties through a fresh and fascinating lens, showing how they have intersected over the generations in ways that not only shaped their images, but history itself.
Natures Echo
Nature wants to heal, and we can help.
When Earth's ecosystems fall out of harmony, the damage can spiral out of control. But what if we could help nature to regain its balance?
As a leading ecologist, Professor Thomas Crowther studies not just how species work in isolation, but how complex ecosystems regulate themselves. When nature's cycles are allowed to build momentum, each species can create the conditions to allow others to thrive. From the birth of galaxies to the creation of life, the greatest transformations in our universe have been driven by quiet, self-reinforcing processes known as feedback loops.
Drawing on cutting-edge ecological science, gripping personal narrative and initiatives already happening around the world, Nature's Echo shows how natural feedback loops have astonishing power to rebound, even with minor intervention. If we can only realize how integral we are to this highly interconnected natural world, we will re-discover the path to a better future.
Humans
Humans - who are we?
Physically, Homo sapiens is unremarkable in the animal world - a hairless ape. But somehow, in combination, our characteristics make us remarkable. With our dexterity and brain power, we discovered ways of finding food and beating the elements not only in our home on the African savanna, but in every habitat from jungle to Arctic waste. Humans tells the story of our evolution with beautiful illustrations of our seemingly ordinary anatomy alongside colourful, mind-expanding graphics of what we have achieved with it.
This book is:
shaped and guided by broadcaster and expert in anatomy and archaeology, Professor Alice Roberts
written by an international team of experts in many fields of human evolution, including archaeology, palaeontology, anthropology, and cognitive science
built from chapters about the evolution of different parts of the body, giving an instant, familiar way in to the topic
This thought-provoking book presents the latest advances in understanding human evolution, challenging old myths and baked-in misconceptions - all through the lens of the human body. Each chapter tackles a different body part, showing how it has evolved and the role it has played. The story of hands, for instance, begins with the first animals with limbs, which clambered onto land 375 million years ago, but goes on to show how humans use the unique precision and power in their grasping digits - and their ability to teach one another skills - to create ever-more sophisticated technology.
Visually vibrant and rich, this book features not only beautiful illustrations, but also photos of prehistoric art, tools, jewellery, and recreations of all of these made by experimental archaeologists.
Humans asks intriguing universal questions about our origins and nature. When did we invent clothes? Did we always form pair bonds? How did prehistoric people cross the ocean? Are we the only animals to become self-aware?
Find out who we are, where we come from, and perhaps - where we're going.
LEGO DC Batman Adventures in Gotham City
Discover iconic vehicles, gadgets, battles, and bases in this action-packed LEGO® Batman™ book – with an exclusive minifigure!
Explore iconic LEGO Batman sets, from the Batmobile™ to the Batwing™, as you uncover fun facts and key information about Gotham City’s heroes and villains. Meet fearsome foes such as The Joker™, Harley Quinn™, and The Penguin™, plus buddies like Batgirl™, Robin™, and more as you learn about their cool gadgets, incredible vehicles, and the amazing locations around Gotham City.
Explore the adventures of LEGO Batman through Gotham City:
Packed with exciting facts and fantastic images of the many minifigures, vehicles, and locations of LEGO Batman
The perfect gift for LEGO DC and Batman fans who want to learn more about their favourite heroes and villains
Add to your LEGO collection with an exclusive Batman minifigure – a must-have for collectors of all ages!
This action-packed book is perfect for fans who are eager to know more about LEGO Batman, with pages full of thrilling facts, epic action, and engaging images – plus an EXCLUSIVE minifigure that both kids and collectors will be super-excited to get their hands on.
© 2026 The LEGO Group
The Straight Eight Engine
The straight eight engine, also known as the inline eight engine, was the driving force behind some of the most fascinating luxury vehicles of the first half of the twentieth century. From its introduction in the 1920s through its demise in the 1950s, the straight eight graced a number of upmarket vehicles from makers like Pontiac, Packard, and Daimler, and even appeared under the hood of the hyper-exclusive Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, of which only eighteen models were produced. Although it was eventually replaced by the V8 engine, the straight eight engine can be found in some of the most valuable and sought-after vehicles of all time. Keith Ray's The Straight Eight Engine is the first volume to be published about this extraordinary mechanism. Featuring four hundred images, the book is a lush tribute to an automotive component likely to never be equaled for smoothness and refinement.
Incorruptible
The most radical and powerful idea in business isn't disruption… it's integrity.
The Lean Startup transformed how a generation of entrepreneurs build products and sparked a global movement for smarter, faster innovation. Now Eric Ries takes the next step, asking a deeper question: how can we build companies that stay true to their mission once they succeed?
In Incorruptible, Ries reveals the hidden forces that cause even great organizations to drift from their values and shows how to design businesses that can withstand that pressure. Drawing on two decades of work with founders, CEOs, and investors around the world, offers the blueprint for "mission-locked" organizations that can grow, prosper, and endure without losing their soul.
Including wide-ranging examples such as Cadbury, John Lewis Partnership, Vanguard and Anthropic, Incorruptible uncovers the urgent need for purpose-driven leadership. It gives every builder, founder, executive, investor or citizen the tools to create enterprises that uplift rather than exploit.
We all have a role to play in shaping a better future. This book is the place to start.
The Traveller
'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring
An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature
George Forster was a man out of time: he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom. Celebrated during his lifetime, he knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Alexander von Humboldt but has since been largely forgotten by history.
The Traveller seeks to restore Forster as one of the great visionaries of his era. At the age of seventeen he joined Captain Cook's second voyage - an exploration of vast contrasts from the icy world of Antarctica to the tropical islands of the South Pacific. A brilliant mind driven by boundless curiosity, he studied the diverse nature, people and cultures he encountered and came back imbued with a deep belief in the equality of races. On his return he was feted in England, France, Germany and Poland, using his fame to advocate freedom and human rights and argue against empire, racism and slavery. He admired strong and educated women and was proud to have daughters. The book traces how - inspired by the French Revolution - he became a leader of the short-lived Republic of Mainz and was eventually forced into exile in Paris during the Reign of Terror.
Following in Forster's footsteps from Europe to Tahiti, and drawing on a wealth of correspondence mostly unpublished in English, Andrea Wulf paints a portrait of a remarkable, passionate figure unbound by place, people or establishment. She vividly conveys his extraordinary quest to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart.
Never Settle
The definitive guide to transforming everyday interactions into remarkable wins, from Harvard Law, MIT, and University of Michigan's negotiation experts.
What if you could walk away from every conversation with exactly what you want?
At work, at home, and in our daily interactions, our lives are full of constant negotiation:
Trying to score a promotion at work
Changing an airline flight
Even getting our spouse to take out the trash
But, while we like to think we know how to get our way, too many of us struggle to capture what we know we deserve.
In Never Settle, renowned negotiation experts Attia Qureshi and John Richardson move beyond the basic theory of persuasion to help you learn these invaluable skills to get more in every aspect of your life.
Drawing from decades of experience teaching at elite institutions and incorporating insights they've culled from FBI negotiation tactics, they offer readers groundbreaking, actionable strategies to negotiate with confidence and achieve extraordinary results, no matter the circumstances.
With easy-to-follow, habit-building exercises, this revolutionary guide reveals how you can build trust through reciprocity, get more through a strategic no, and craft win-win outcomes using creative problem-solving.
Accessible and empowering, Never Settle equips you with the techniques you need to unlock the best deal, without settling for anything less.
This Immortal Heart
From the #1 bestselling author comes an epic story of love and war as two opposing deities find themselves drawn to each other against all odds. Because when Aphrodite and Ares fall in love, sparks are bound to fly.
This is the oldest love story of all time . . .
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, wields unparalleled power over every divine and mortal heart. Though her world is one of beauty, she is the most dangerous god of all, ruled by passion regardless of the consequences.
Ares, God of War, is her perfect contradiction: feared, unwanted and relentless in his devotion to chaos. Where she breathes life into longing, he thrives in destruction.
And yet gods are no more immune to love and loss than anyone else, and soon their lives collide. But even divine love can't protect them from the fates of Mount Olympus, and whilst the God of War may be capable of greater love than anyone else, so may the Goddess of Love be capable of the gravest mistakes . . .
Give Me Butterflies - Jöhetnek a pillangók - Oaks Sisters 1.
Megható, szenvedélyes munkahelyi románc egy tudományos múzeum falai közt.
Millie-t soha nem érdekelték az elvárások. Gyerekkori rajongása a bogarak és a természettudomány iránt a rovartan területére kalauzolta őt, és kurátorként naponta inspirálja a múzeumba látogatókat. Nagy álma, hogy a Rovartani Tár osztályvezetőjévé váljon, ezért amikor a pozíció megüresedik, elhatározza, hogy semmi sem térítheti el a céljától. Főleg nem Finn, a mindig mogorva kolléga, akinek rosszalló tekintete, mélykék szeme és megszámlálhatatlan csillagászati mintás nyakkendője van... Nem mintha Millie ezekre odafigyelne.
Finn nem szándékosan mogorva mindenkivel, csupán nehezen tartja egyensúlyban az élete különböző területeit: egyedül neveli unokahúgait, igyekszik, hogy legalább néha ne égesse oda a vacsorájukat, gyászolja elveszített nővérét, és közben a múzeumban is helyt kell állnia. Nem engedheti el magát, és végképp nincs szüksége több bonyodalomra - különösen a ragyogó mosolyú, rendíthetetlenül optimista Millie-re, akivel szó szerint folyton összeütközik.
A férfi túl bogaras. A nő vakítóan ragyog, akár egy csillag. Nem áll szándékukban közelebbről megismerni egymást, de mivel Finn tagja a pozícióra interjúztató bizottságnak, ez elkerülhetetlen. Millie hamarosan rájön, hogy a karrierjét kockáztatni egy dolog; a szívét kockáztatni viszont már egészen más.
"Az édes és a pikáns tökéletes egyvelege." - Kirkus Reviews
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Shelby Cobras
Carroll Shelby's creation of the Cobra automobile during 1961-1962 transformed an aging British sports car into a 1965 World Manufacturers GT Championship winner for Shelby American. Today, the Cobra is still one of the most recognized automobiles in the world. This book narrates the work required to develop the first production Ford-powered AC Ace 3.6 roadsters that today are referred to as Mark I Leaf Spring Cobras. Seasoned Cobraphiles, novice enthusiasts and especially those who had the foresight to buy the cars, will enjoy the hundreds of fascinating snippets and backstories. The author has researched each of the 125 production Mark I Cobras built and conducted several hundred interviews with the people connected with each car. This endeavor uncovered unknown histories and facts, as well as hundreds of previously unpublished photographs and documents. Despite the lion's share of accolades going directly to Carroll Shelby and the staff at Shelby American for the success of the Cobra, some portion of that credit rightfully belongs to the hardworking craftsmen employed at AC Cars in the 1960s. The Cobra could not have been created without them. Virtually everything except the Mark I Cobra's Ford engine and transmission had been hand-built by old-world craftsman in England. That partnership reflects the best of the Anglo-American spirit and produced one of the most iconic automobiles ever built.
Humus
Čo sa stane, keď sa zo života stratí smrť? V zašlom malomeste, kde obyvatelia, zväčša načrtnutí jediným ťahom pera, dokola opakujú bezvýznamnosti, sa udeje zvláštna vec: Gabiru, absurdný muž s magnetickými žabími očami, namieša elixír, ktorý skoncuje so starobou a nadobro zaženie smrť. Fiktívny denník pokrývajúci približne rok v živote – koho vlastne? – odkrýva najtemnejšie zákutia ľudskej duše: pokrytectvo, chamtivosť, bolesť, beznádej, sny i nehu. Otázky týkajúce sa Boha, svedomia či povinnosti kladie tak bezprostredne, až má čitateľ pocit, že by na ne mal odpovedať sám. Humus je neobyčajne živá kniha – tak živá, až ju Brando dvakrát do hĺbky prepracoval a dal jej dva rôzne konce. Už celé storočie inšpiruje generácie spisovateľov a hrôza, sen i neha, ktoré do nej vložil, sa nás stále dotýkajú rovnako bytostne.
Aftertaste
Kostya is haunted. Still reeling from the loss of his father, he's working as a dishwasher when he discovers something extraordinary. The tastes that have flooded his mouth without warning since childhood - thin-skinned dumplings bursting with lightly sugared sour cherries - are being sent by spirits seeking closure and, by cooking their food, Kostya can bring them back for one last meal to find it.
Maura is moonlighting as a psychic when a man with curious talents enters her booth. She's the only one who understands what Kostya is really capable of - as well as the consequences of messing with the afterlife. And as Kostya and Maura fall deeply, irresistibly in love, the line between supporting his dreams and keeping her own ghosts at bay begins to blur.
While Kostya and his best friend, Frankie, work towards opening a New York restaurant with a unique menu and unprecedented clientele, Maura senses a supernatural catastrophe looming that could see them losing everything…
Malý Génius 2/2026
Malý Génius je edukačno-zábavný časopis určený deťom mladšieho školského veku, ktorý rozvíja zvedavosť, logické myslenie, kreativitu a vzťah k poznávaniu sveta hravou a prirodzenou formou. Každé vydanie sa venuje konkrétnej tematike...od matematiky, geografie či ľudského tela až po vedu, prírodu a experimentovanie prostredníctvom kvízov, hlavolamov, zábavných úloh, faktov a interaktívnych aktivít. Cieľom časopisu je podporovať deti v učení bez tlaku, motivovať ich objavovať nové vedomosti a zároveň vytvárať priestor na spoločné trávenie času rodičov s deťmi. Časopis vychádza štvrťročne a je určený predovšetkým deťom približne vo veku 7 až 11 rokov.
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Arabela Beckettová, obhajkyňa práv žien v Amerike, sa vracia zo svojich ciest, na ktorých bojovala za volebné právo žien, keď sa nečakane ocitne v problémoch. Pomoc prijíma len veľmi nerada – obzvlášť ak prichádza od arogantného a samoľúbeho „rytiera v žiarivej zbroji“, ktorý sa objaví práve v poslednej chvíli. Súkromný detektív Teodor Wilder prijíma úlohu chrániť Arabelu ako láskavosť pre svojho priateľa Hamiltona Becketta, no rýchlo sa mení na divokú naháňačku naprieč krajinou. Keď konečne nájde Hamiltonovu sestru, zistí, že Arabela je žena s radikálnymi názormi, silnou túžbou po nezávislosti, a to ho úplne vyvádza z miery. Po návrate do New Yorku sa ich cesty opakovane pretínajú. Chaos, ktorý Arabela počas svojich ciest neúmyselne rozpútala, sa priblíži až k jej domovu a začne ohrozovať jej život. Tvárou v tvár smrteľnému nebezpečenstvu však táto dvojica narazí na veľmi zvláštnu okolnosť, s ktorou nikto nepočítal...
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Když se Olivia Bevelstokeová doslechne, že její nový soused možná zavraždil svou snoubenku, ani na okamžik tomu nevěří. Z okna svého pokoje, pečlivě ukrytá za záclonou, pozoruje podivína naproti a čeká… a objevuje nanejvýš zajímavého muže, který má určitě něco za lubem. Sir Harry Valentine pracuje pro ministerstvo války a krásné blondýnky, která ho špehuje, si ihned všimne. Jeho zájem o ni brzy přestane být jen diplomatický…
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Obľúbená česká ilustrátorka Ivona Knechtlová, ktorá ilustrovala knihy Stela a 16 huskyov a Stela v krajine tučniakov, tentoraz prináša čitateľom svoju autorskú knihu o letnom dobrodružstve, odohrávajúcom sa na vlnách zátoky za obcou Lehota, a prináša nezabudnuteľné priateľstvá i napínavé okamihy.
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