HarperCollins strana 224 z 287

`Nevertheless, she persisted' has become a rallying cry for millions of those fed up with phony promises and governments that no longer serve their people. In this inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller and inspiring book, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren argues for a fair future for ordinary working people. Join the fight!Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of working people, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how, after the wreckage of the great depression, a society was built that offered opportunity, a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years undermining working families, and a rousing call to action.Warren grew up in Oklahoma, and she's never forgotten how difficult it was for her mother and father to hold on at the ragged edge of the lower middle class. An educational system that offered opportunities for all made it possible for her to achieve her dream of going to college, becoming a teacher, and, later, attending law school. But now, for many, these kinds of opportunities are gone, and a government that once looked out for working families is instead captive to the rich and powerful.Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal ushered in an age of widespread prosperity; in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan reversed course and sold the country on the disastrous fiction called trickle-down economics. Now, with the election of Donald Trump - a con artist who promised to drain the swamp of special interests and then surrounded himself with billionaires and lobbyists -the middle class is being pushed ever closer to collapse.Written in the candid, high-spirited voice that is Warren's trademark, This Fight Is Our Fight tells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working people who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its people - she won't sit down, she won't be silenced, and she will fight back.

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime?Exploring how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, `Algorithms To Live By' helps to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. When should you switch between different tasks, and how many tasks should you take on in the first place? How much messiness should you accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favourites is the most fulfilling? When computers face constraints of time and space, they too must untangle very human questions: how to have better hunches, when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.Acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms developed for computers can be applied from finding your spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing your inbox to understanding the workings of memory. Where you have a dilemma, they have a rule, and each fascinating algorithm turns the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Skotsko, 1745 Na pozadí osudové bitvy u Cullodenu na Skotské vysočině, v níž jakobitská vojska utrpěla porážku od Angličanů, se odehrává jiný souboj – mezi mužem a ženou, jehož vítěznou trofejí je čest, respekt a láska. Skotka Serena MacGregorová už od dětství, kdy jejich údolí napadla skupina vojáků, nemá Angličany vůbec v lásce. A přítel jejího bratra Brigham Langston není výjimkou, přestože stojí ve sporu o krále na straně Skotů… a přestože Serenu přitahuje. I když si tenhle sympatický a příjemný muž získá náklonnost celé MacGregorovy rodiny, Serena se stále zdráhá připustit si ho k tělu. Ale Brigham s ní má jiné plány. Její krása, nadšení a oddanost ho uchvátily natolik, že je rozhodnutý vybojovat nejen svobodu Skotů, ale i Serenino srdce!

'Tahir spins a captivating, heart-pounding fantasy' Us Weekly The sequel to the explosive New York Times bestselling debut AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, that's captivated readers worldwide. A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT takes readers into the heart of the Empire as Laia and Elias fight their way north to liberate Laia's brother from the horrors of Kauf Prison. Hunted by Empire soldiers, manipulated by the Commandant, and haunted by their pasts, Laia and Elias must outfox their enemies and confront the treacherousness of their own hearts. In the city of Serra, Helene Aquilla finds herself bound to the will of the Empire's twisted new leader, Marcus. When her loyalty is questioned, Helene finds herself taking on a mission to prove herself-a mission that might destroy her, instead.

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones-and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas...or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva's father's misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. The Beast. Deaf to her sisters' protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory-a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva's only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try. In We Should All be Feminists, her eloquently argued and much admired essay of 2014, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and daughters differently. Here, in this remarkable new book, Adichie replies by letter to a friend's request for help on how to bring up her newborn baby girl as a feminist. With its fifteen pieces of practical advice it goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "My heart is good, but still I am a monster." A poor merchant, lost deep in the woods during a storm, seeks refuge in a forbidding castle. Thinking it is deserted, he takes advantage of the food and shelter he finds there. But when he plucks a rose from the garden as a gift for his daughter, he is attacked by a hideous beast who demands the merchant's daughter, Beauty, in repayment for his hospitality. Banished to the castle and fearful for her life, Beauty surrenders herself to the mercy of the Beast...This edition includes Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's version of the classic story, and brings together many other best-loved fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, many of which have been the subject of film adaptations. Other classic stories included in this edition: Beauty and the Beast The Ugly Duckling The Emperor's New Suit The Little Mermaid Little Tiny, or Thumbelina The Princess and the Pea The Red Shoes Rapunzel Hansel and Gretel Little Red-Cap, or Little Red Riding Hood The Elves and the Shoemaker Snow-White and Rose-Red Blue Beard Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood Puss in Boots Little Tom Thumb

Imagine a sisterhood - across all creeds and cultures. An unspoken agreement that we, as women, will support and encourage one another. That we will remember we don't know what struggles each of us may be facing elsewhere in our lives and so we will assume that each of us is doing our best...So begins WE: an inspiring, empowering and provocative manifesto for change. Change which we can all effect, one woman at a time. Change which provides a crucial and timely antidote to the 'have-it-all' Superwoman culture and instead focusses on what will make each and every one of us happier and more free. Change which provides an answer to the nagging sense of 'is that it?' that almost all of us can succumb to when we wake in the dead of night. Written by actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel - two friends who for the last decade have stumbled along together, learning, failing, crying, laughing and trying again - WE is a not a theoretical treatise but instead a rallying cry to create a life that has greater meaning and purpose. Combining tools which are practical, psychological and spiritual, it is both a process and a vision for a more fulfilling way of living.And a truly inspiring vision of a happier, more emotionally rewarding future we can all create together...

Agentka Eliza se odvážně vrhá do všech úkolů, i přes děsivé tajemství ze své minulosti. Kdysi se ocitla v moci zločince, kterého se jí podařilo dostat za mříže, jenže teď je Thomas na svobodě! Eliza nemůže čekat, až si pro ni přijde, ale musí ho jednou provždy zneškodnit. Wade nikdy nikomu nedovolil nahlédnout pod svou masku – kromě Elizy. Ta se mu dostala pod kůži a nic mu ji nedokáže vyhnat z hlavy. Když však v jejích očích zahlédne paniku a strach, ví, že je něco špatně. Tentokrát to nebude Eliza, kdo se postaví do role ochránce. A stojí za to, aby se za ni Wade bil do posledního dechu…!

Agentka Eliza se odvážně vrhá do všech úkolů, i přes děsivé tajemství ze své minulosti. Kdysi se ocitla v moci zločince, kterého se jí podařilo dostat za mříže, jenže teď je Thomas na svobodě! Eliza nemůže čekat, až si pro ni přijde, ale musí ho jednou provždy zneškodnit. Wade nikdy nikomu nedovolil nahlédnout pod svou masku – kromě Elizy. Ta se mu dostala pod kůži a nic mu ji nedokáže vyhnat z hlavy. Když však v jejích očích zahlédne paniku a strach, ví, že je něco špatně. Tentokrát to nebude Eliza, kdo se postaví do role ochránce. A stojí za to, aby se za ni Wade bil do posledního dechu…!

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest tale of high-stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. Legendary spy Gabriel Allon is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, ISIS detonate a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible. They call him Saladin... He is a terrorist mastermind, whose network communicates in total secrecy, leaving Gabriel no choice but to insert an agent into the most dangerous terrorist group the world has ever known. An extraordinary young doctor, she must pose as an ISIS recruit in waiting, a ticking time bomb, a black widow out for blood.

Skandál v knížectví Princezna Gabriela z knížectví Cordina uteče ze zajetí, ale na cestě k rodině má nehodu a ztratí paměť. A únosci jsou stále na svobodě! Proto jejímu otci nezbude nic jiného než najmout bodyguarda, který s Její Výsostí princeznou Gabrielou bude ve dne v noci… Jediný muž, který se na tuto práci hodí, je Američan Reeve MacGee. Přitažlivý a charismatický bývalý policista dokáže ochránit Gabrielu před únosci, možná jí i vrátit paměť, ale zabránit tomu, aby jeho srdce propadlo lásce k ní, neumí… Dokonalé představení Když Američanka Eve před lety navštívila knížectví Cordina – tehdy ještě jako školačka –, setkala se s neodolatelným princem Alexanderem a od té doby o něm nepřestala snít. Jenže princové si obyčejnou dívku berou jen v pohádkách. Teď se do téhle malé země na břehu Středozemního moře znovu vrací, aby tu na divadelních prknech představila svou hereckou společnost. Alex je překvapený, v jakou sebevědomou, nezávislou a krásnou ženu Eve vyrostla. Přestože to vůbec neměl v plánu, najednou touží Eve dokázat, že on je tím pravým, koho by si měla vzít za manžela!

Mary vždy dostane to, co chce! A nejen proto, že je Cynsterová… Poslední svobodná dívka z rodu Cynsterů přece nemůže zůstat na ocet! Mary je rozhodnutá vzít osud do vlastních rukou a najít si manžela, o jakém vždy snila. Na pomyslném seznamu potenciálních ženichů je tvrdohlavý lev všech salonů Ryder Cavanaugh, markýz z Raventhorne, skoro až na posledním místě. Jenže to vypadá, že Osud s ní má jiné plány! Markýz se kolem ní stále motá a pronásleduje ji na každé společenské akci této sezony. Jako by ji sváděl, chtěl ji přesvědčit, aby se stala jeho markýzou… Mary mu odolává, ale jen do chvíle, než si uvědomí, že Ryder vůbec netouží po bohatství Cynsterových, ale po jejím srdci.

EIGHT hilarious and moving novels from bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams, in one SUPER-TASTIC box-set! GRANDPA'S GREAT ESCAPE: Many years ago Grandpa was a World War II flying ace. But when he is sent to old folk's home Twilight Towers - run by sinister Matron Swine - it's up to Grandpa and his grandson, Jack, to plot a daring escape. Little do they know, the wicked matron is on to them...AWFUL AUNTIE: Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily, Stella has a secret - and slightly spooky - weapon up her sleeve...DEMON DENTIST: Strange things were happening in the dead of night. When children put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, they would wake to find something creepy in its place. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it? RATBURGER: Can Zoe keep her beloved pet rat safe from the clutches of the dastardly Burt of Burt's Burgers? GANGSTA GRANNY: Ben's grandma is the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble and eat cabbage soup.But there are two things Ben doesn't know about her: 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels, and now she needs Ben's help...BILLIONAIRE BOY: Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. He has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there's just one thing he really needs: a friend...MR STINK: Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well...But there's more to this vagrant than meets the nose! THE BOY IN THE DRESS: Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book...

Experience your favourite characters from one of the most famous fantasy worlds ever created - Middle-earth - in a brilliant new way with this authorised colouring book based on the epic motion picture trilogy The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson. The Hobbit film trilogy brought J.R.R. Tolkien's incredible world of Middle-earth to life for millions of people. Now you can add your own artistic touches and explore this enchanted universe as never before.

This special paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling novel by award-winning author Lauren Oliver features poster art from the major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley, as well as special interviews about the making of the movie. Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. Living the last day of her life seven times during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death--and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.