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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI - Murgia Madhumita
Anotace: Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Non-Fiction`Code Dependent is the intimate investigation of AI that we`ve been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon.` - Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism`Murgia combines her deep experience of the last decade in technology with incredible storytelling and the result is a nuanced, thoug...
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Living in Japan. 40th Anniversary Edition - Alex Kerr
<p>Japanese homes are refuges of tranquility, crafted in a unique domestic aesthetic of Eastern minimalism. Traditional architecture features alongside cutting-edge contemporary dwellings in this collection of homes, with many never-before-seen photographs. Turn to the rising sun and discover the fluid simplicity of these spaces where Zen philosophy breathes.</p&...
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The Dead Fathers Club (1786893258)
Kniha - 288 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father'...
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The Complete Maus (0141014083)
Kniha - autor Art Spiegelman, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore ...
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Dragon Post
A fiery story about friendship and asking for help from award-winning author-illustrator Emma Yarlett. One day Alex finds a dragon living in the cupboard under the stairs. Luckily he knows just what to do. He writes letters to lots of different people - including the fire brigade and the butcher- to ask how he should take care of his surprise visitor. Children will love o...
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Dragon Post - Emma Yarlett
<p>A fiery story about friendship and asking for help from award-winning author-illustrator Emma Yarlett. One day Alex finds a dragon living in the cupboard under the stairs. Luckily he knows just what to do. He writes letters to lots of different people - including the fire brigade and the butcher- to ask how he should take care of his surprise visitor. Children wi...
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Civilization and Its Discontents, 1. vydání - Sigmund Freud
<p>In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness...
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Don´t Worry : 48 Lessons on Achieving Calm - Shunmyo Masuno
<p>Learn to let go of stress, Change how you worry, And improve your life for good. Shunmyo Masuno, Zen Buddhist Monk and million copy bestselling author of Zen: The Art of Simple Living, shows you how to relieve the anxieties of everyday life in 48 vital, easy-to-achieve lessons. Use this book as your tool to focus on the 'now', to improve your most important rel...
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The Sickness Unto Death : A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus - Søren Kierkegaard
<p>One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of ...
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Reasons to Stay Alive
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.A moving, funny and joyous explo...
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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...
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Big Blonde - Dorothy Parker
<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners. In the stories collected...
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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
<p>As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as ...
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The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness (0141990856)
Kniha - 308 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Anne Boyer, 308 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressi...
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Power of Regret
Everybody has regrets. They're a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. Drawing on the largest sampling of attitudes about regret ever conducted from his own World Regret Survey, Pink identifies the four core regrets that most...
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La Vita e Dolce : Italian-Inspired Desserts - Letitia Clark
<p>La Vita e Dolce is an exciting take on Italian baking by food writer and trained pastry chef, Letitia Clark. Featuring over 80 Italian desserts, La Vita e Dolce showcases Letitia's favourite puddings inspired by her time living in Sardinia. Whether you're looking for something fruity, nutty, creamy, chocolatey or boozy, you will be seduced by the sweet aromas o...
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his pa...
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
<p>Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures of friendship and a desperat...
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
<p>When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, a...
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The House of Mirth, 1. vydání - Edith Wharton
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, The House of Mirth sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy fam...
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Rebel Moon Part One - A Child Of Fire: The Official Novelization - V. Castro
<p>When a peaceful settlement on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, a mysterious stranger named Kora becomes their best hope for survival.</p> <p>From Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes REBEL MOON, an epic science-fantasy e...
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All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
<p>Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the l...
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All the Bright Places (9780141357034)
Kniha - anglicky Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet mee...
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Silverview (0241994535)
Kniha - autor John Le Carré, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of mon...
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Gleam: The Plated Prisoner 3 - Raven Kennedy
<p>THE DARK FANTASY TIKTOK SENSATION AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT'S SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES**PERFECT FOR FANS OF SARAH J. MAAS AND JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT**'I don't choose him. Not anymore. I'm choosing me.'I was told that being confined was to keep the bad out . . . Until I realized it was about keeping me in.Midas made me forbidden and weak. Little did he kn...
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The Wonder of Us - Kim Culbertson
<p> "An epic journey of love and friendship, forgiveness and possibility... The novel itself is a beautiful wonder, and I would follow Riya and Abby anywhere." Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places </p> <p>Riya and Abby are: Best friends. Complete opposites. Living on different continents. About to embark on...
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Love & Gelato - Welchová Jenna Evans
<p>People go to Italy for love & gelato ... but sometimes they discover much more. The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe." Why did her mother wait so long to te...
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle - Ben Macintyre
<p>The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller on the incredible true story of WW2's most infamous Nazi prison, and the colourful characters behind its walls In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz ha...
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Martin Wolf
<p>From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very noti...
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A Thousand Broken Pieces - Tillie Coleová
<p>PRE-ORDER THE HEARTBREAKING SEQUEL TO A THOUSAND BOY KISSES TODAY . . .--CAN TWO BROKEN HEARTS MAKE A WHOLE . . . ? After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her siste...
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Business or Pleasure - Rachel Lynn Solomon
PRE-ORDER the fun, flirty and steamy new rom com from Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of The Ex Talk and Weather Girl!'An unputdownable, sexy riot!' Christina Lauren'The spice was unparalleled' Reader Review *****'Delightfully addictive and downright red-hot spicy! Amy Lea'Just perfect. I loved this and I can't wait to read it again' Reader Review *****'Her sexiest novel yet ...
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Churchill : Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts
<p>Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used...
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Skin of the Sea (0241413974)
Kniha - autor Natasha Bowen, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An epic love story infused with West African mythology. For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this book is a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine. This is the story of a great love - a ...
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Love & Gelato (1406372323)
Kniha - autor Jenna Evans Welchová, 336 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Now a Netflix movie, starring Susanna Skaggs The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to k...
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Magnus Chase 01 and the Sword of Summer (0141342447)
Kniha - autor Rick Riordan, 498 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The first book in the incredible new series from the author of Percy Jackson, the Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus.My name is Magnus Chase. I'm orphaned and living rough on the streets of Boston. And things are about to get much worse.My day started out normally enough. I was sleeping unde...
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The Catcher in the Rye (9780241950425)
Kniha - anglicky "The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...
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The Catcher in the Rye - Jerome David Salinger
<p>"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...
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The Secret History - Donna Tartt
<p>FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.______________________________________'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up...
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Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
<p>WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt se...
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36 Streets - T. R. Napper
<p>Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives.</p> <p>Lin "The Silent One" Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Str...
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Silas Marner, 1. vydání - George Eliot
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!"Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his prec...
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The Moonstone, 1. vydání - Wilkie Collins
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion a...
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Magnus Chase And The Sword Of Summer - Rick Riordan
<p>The first book in the incredible new series from the author of Percy Jackson, the Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus. My name is Magnus Chase. I'm orphaned and living rough on the streets of Boston. And things are about to get much worse. My day started out normally enough. I was sleeping under a bridge when some guy kicked me awake and said, 'They're after yo...
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Numbers Don´t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World, 1. vydání - Václav Smil
<p>'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill Gates Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From Earth's nations and inhabit...
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The Marriage Question: George Eliot´s Double Life - Clare Carlisle
<p>*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year*'The best book I've read on George Eliot' John Carey, Sunday TimesAn exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and lifeWhen she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon a...
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The Fragile Threads of Power - Victoria Schwab
<p>Launching a new trilogy in the Shades of Magic universe, an enchanting and thrilling epic fantasy from the international sensation, V. E. Schwab, perfect for fans of Samantha Shannon, Kerri Maniscalco, Leigh Bardugo and R. F. Kuang. Seven years have passed since the doors between the worlds were sealed. Seven years since Kell, Lila and Holland stood against Osar...
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The Sky Is Everywhere, 1. vydání - Jandy Nelson
<p>Now a major motion picture from Apple Original Films and A24New York Times bestselling authorLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal"Entirely compelling." The Guardian"Heartwarming." The IndependentFor fans of Jojo Moyes, Adam Silvera and Gayle Forman. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fi...
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On The Road, 1. vydání - Jack Kerouac
<p>Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen....
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The Key to Happiness: How to Find Purpose by Unlocking the Secrets of the World´s Happiest People - Meik Wiking
<p>** FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ****Previously published as The Little Book of Lykke**</p> <p>"A wonderful guide to happy living. It's based on hard evidence and written with a wonderful sense of fun" Richard Layard, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE and author of Happiness</p> <p>Happiness is just around the co...
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The Cut Out Girl : A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 - Es Bart Van
<p>The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl nam...
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A Promised Land, 1. vydání - Barack Hussein Obama
<p>A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly pers...
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Collins Primary History - Events Beyond Living Memory Pupil Book - Temple Sue
Anotace: Collins Primary History provides a rich coverage of the Primary National Curriculum for History. Packed with information, source materials, questions and activities, the beautifully designed pupil books support children to explore, interpret and develop knowledge of significant historical periods. The accompanying Teacher`s Guide provides planning suppo...
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Brain Power
Packed full of practical tips for keeping our most complex organ in shape, Brain Power is the essential guide to living better for longer.
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Power of Ancient Wellness
Overhaul your lifestyle with this essential guide to ancient wisdom, updated for modern living. Packed full of activities and exercises, the only book
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Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story for Little Ones
The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story for Little Ones---part of the popular Zonderkidz The Berenstain Bears Living Lights series of books---is per
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Demon Copperhead: Longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2023 - Barbara Kingsolver
<p>A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR BOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4 AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK WITH OVER 18,000 5* REVIEWS 'Extraordinary.' OPRAH 'She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I...
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The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
Anotace: Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed- the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now...
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The Wolf of Investing: My Playbook for Making a Fortune on Wall Street - Jordan Belfort
<p>From Jordan Belfort, author of The Way of the Wolf and subject of the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street, comes his long-anticipated guide for mastering the stock market. The Wolf of Investing teaches you when to buy, sell, hold, and cash out; how to make smarter (and safer) investments; and how to build significant wealth over both the short- and long-term. Unlik...
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Film Tie-In
Film-tie in edition to the movie due for cinema release this year, starring Renee Zellweger. In this humorous sequel, Bridget discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat. The }Bridget Jones{ books have sold over six million copies worldwide to date.
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Agatha Christie - Clocks
The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly reme...
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