How we lived then

How We Lived Then

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largel

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How Should We Then Live?

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How Should We Then Die?

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How We Lived in Ancient Times

A window into history through the lives of children through time, showing the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the games they played, and the ama

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How We Lived in Ancient Times

A window into history through the lives of children through time, showing the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the games they played, and the ama

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How We Fall Apart

Anotace: Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying in this electrifying YA thriller where students at an elite prep school are forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best friend turns up dead.Nancy Luo is shocked when her former best friend, Jamie Ruan, top-ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, goes missing, and then is found dead. Nancy is even more shocked when word...

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How We Met - Huma Qureshi

<p>You can't choose who you fall in love with, they say.If only it were that simple.Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds - school and teenage crushes in one, and the expectations and unwritten rules of her family's south Asian social circle in the other. Reconciling the two was sometimes a tightrope act, but she managed it. Until it came to ...

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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s (1474601731)

Kniha - autor Anne Sebba, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná How Parisian women loved, lived and died in the 1940s - under Occupation and then after Liberation.

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How We Fall Apart - Katie Zhao

<p>Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying in this electrifying YA thriller where students at an elite prep school are forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best friend turns up dead.Nancy Luo is shocked when her former best friend, Jamie Ruan, top-ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, goes missing, and then is found dead. Nancy is even more shocked when word ...

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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (0007578814)

Kniha - autor Catherine Belton, 640 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020 'The Putin book that we've been waiting for' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is ...

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Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived - Kempton Beth

Anotace: kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything. Join Japanologist Beth Kempton on a pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life`s biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and ...

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Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived - Beth Kempton

<p>kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything. Join Japanologist Beth Kempton on a pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life's biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and b...

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The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (1800750374)

Kniha - autor Robert D. Putnam; Shaylyn Romney Garrett, 448 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to ...

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We Bought an Island

Evelyn Atkins and her sister Babs were two middle-aged sisters who lived in suburban Surrey and led the humdrum life of so many commuters. Then Evelyn

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Genes - Rutherford Adam

Anotace: A dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history - 'Brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating' BRIAN COX 'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox<br> This is a story about you. It is the...

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Genes - Adam Rutherford

A dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history - 'Brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating' BRIAN COX <p>'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox</p> <p>This is a story about you. It is the history of who y...

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Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story - Carlino Renée

Anotace: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist "missed connection" post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next ...

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Difficult Conversations : How to Discuss What Matters Most - Patton Bruce

Anotace: We`ve all been there: We know we must talk to a colleague, our boss or even a friend about something we know will be at least uncomfortable and at worst explosive. So we repeatedly mull it over until we can no longer put it off, and then finally stumble through a confrontation when we could have had a conversation.Difficult Conversations is the definitive work o...

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Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story - Renée Carlino

<p>From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist "missed connection" post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm r...

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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval - Gaia Vince

<p>Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how ...

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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live - Cave Peter

Anotace: An entertaining guide to history`s most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life`s big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosoph...

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How To Prevent the Next Pandemic - Bill Gates

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and in this book he lays out c...

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How Proust Can Change Your Life - de Botton Alain

Anotace: With an introduction by comedian and novelist David BaddielA novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust´s In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features is its staggering length, many of us feel intimidated and perha...

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How (Not) to Save the World Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video

Jesus said, 'Do this in remembrance of me' and it's time we take that prompting seriously. Jesus lived in community, dependent on God's lead, complete

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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live, 1. vydání - Peter Cave

<p>In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness of touch, he addresses questions such as: Is there anything 'out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does re...

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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live, 1. vydání - Peter Cave

<p>An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosop...

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A DOGGIE AND A PUSSYCAT HOW THEY WERE WASHING THE FLOOR - Josef Čapek

Anotace: Dear children, Josef Čapek, the writer, wrote for you the Tale About a doggie and a pussycat. For this Tale he also drew lots of very nice pictures. When he was writing and drawing all of this, little Alice was sitting on his lap. She was his daughter and he loved her very much, and little Alice loved her father. Because they were fond of each other like that, M...

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A Doggie and a Pussycat How They Were Washing the Floor

Čapek Josef. Dear children, Josef Čapek, the writer, wrote for you the Tale About a doggie and a pussycat. For this Tale he also drew lots of very nice pictures. When he was writing and drawing all of this, little Alice was sitting on his lap. She was his daughter and he loved her very much, and little Alice loved her father. Because they were fond of each other like that...

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A Doggie and a Pussycat - How they were washing the Floor - Josef Čapek

<p></p><p> Dear children,</p> <p> Josef Čapek, the writer, wrote for you the Tale About a doggie and a pussycat. For this Tale he also drew lots of very nice pictures. When he was writing and drawing all of this, little Alice was sitting on his lap. She was his daughter and he loved her very much, and little Alice loved her father. Because ...

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We Begin at the End : A Guardian and Express Best Thriller of the Year - Chris Whitaker

<p>For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry comes a powerful novel about the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.</p> This is a book that will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. A triumph of a novel from the award-winning author of Tall Oaks. <p&g...

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We Begin at the End : A Guardian and Express Best Thriller of the Year - Chris Whitaker

<p>For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry comes a powerful novel about the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.</p> This is a book that will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. A triumph of a novel from the award-winning author of Tall Oaks. <p&g...

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We Begin at the End : A Guardian and Express Best Thriller of the Year - Chris Whitaker

<p>For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry comes a powerful novel about the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.</p> This is a book that will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. A triumph of a novel from the award-winning author of Tall Oaks. <p&g...

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We Begin at the End : A Guardian and Express Best Thriller of the Year - Chris Whitaker

<p>For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry comes a powerful novel about the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between.</p> This is a book that will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. A triumph of a novel from the award-winning author of Tall Oaks. <p&g...

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A Doggie and a Pussycat How They Were Making a Cake

Dear children and others, we are informing you that everything is in the best disorder, and so we are again meeting you in this next book from the Tales About a Doggie and a Pussycat, which is all about the two of us, written by the author Mr. Josef Čapek. We want to add to this that we are both very happy that he had portrayed us so nicely in his pictures. This new book ...

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Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action (0241958229)

Kniha - 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it.Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers tha...

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A Doggie and Pussycat - How They Were Making a Cake - Josef Čapek

<p></p><p> Dear children and others,</p> <p> we are informing you that everything is in the best disorder, and so we are again meeting you in this next book from the Tales About a Doggie and a Pussycat, which is all about the two of us, written by the author Mr. Josef Čapek. We want to add to this that we are both very happy that he had por...

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The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age (0062843397)

Kniha - autor Steven R. Gundry, 272 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life. From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating matur...

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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (0241989051)

Kniha - autor Tom Higham, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of...

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Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You - Abdaal Ali

Anotace: `The master of productivity.` Steven Bartlett, creator of Diary of a CEO`The book we`ve all been waiting for.` Dr Julie Smith, author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?`This book will free you from the guilt and shame of feeling like you`re not doing enough and guide you to accomplish more than you ever dreamed of.` Jay Shetty, author of Think Like a Monk an...

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TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game - neuveden

Anotace: `A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious expose of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.` - Piers Morgan`Very funny (and furious)... This is not some crazed figure on the extreme left hoping to bring down the establishment. The book is written by an accountant who has spent his ...

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TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

<p>'A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious expose of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.' - Piers Morgan'Very funny (and furious)... This is not some crazed figure on the extreme left hoping to bring down the establishment. The book is written by an accountant who has spent his c...

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The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (&amp; How It Came to Control Your Life) - George Monbiot

<p>How can you fight something if you don't know it exists? We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit - the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable,...

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TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game - Rebel Accountant The

<p>'A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious expose of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.' - Piers Morgan'Funny, clever and really quite brilliant. Taxtopia will make you furiously angry and possibly even filthy rich.' - Tom Peck, The Independent'If you want to know how skewed the ...

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TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game - The Rebel Accountant

Anotace: `A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious expose of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.` - Piers Morgan`Funny, clever and really quite brilliant. Taxtopia will make you furiously angry and possibly even filthy rich.` - Tom Peck, The Independent`If you want to know how skewed the...

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The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller - Josef Lewkowicz

<p>**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The Survivor both terrifies us and inspires us. It's a must read.'Tova Friedman, author of The Daughter of Auschwitz.One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakabl...

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Bug Club Phonics - Phase 5 Unit 26: Dinosaurs

We find out all about dinosaurs - when and where they lived, what they ate and what they looked like, and how fossils give us more information about t

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Britain in the 1950s

More than 200 images showing how we lived, played, travelled, took our holidays and much more, in a decade when austerity and rationing turned to pr

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Great Realisation

We now call it The Great Realisationand, yes, since then there have been many. But thatÂ’s the story of how it started Â…

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Professor Astro Cat's Space Rockets

Greetings, fellow space travellers! Have you ever wondered how a rocket works? Do you dream of becoming an astronaut? Then come along as we find out a

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Electric Century

The Electric Century examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as the century of steam from the impact it had on employm

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Die to Love

Die to Love radically wakes the reader up to the love beyond all ideas, and then explores how we live as that love

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The Amazing book of Dinosaurs AJ - neuveden

Anotace: Although it may seem incredible, while humans have only inhabited the Earth for 3-4 million years, before we did, dinosaurs walked this ground for 150 million years. So how could we forget about them? Discover the first dinosaurs that lived during the Tri

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The Amazing book of Dinosaurs AJ

Although it may seem incredible, while humans have only inhabited the Earth for 3-4 million years, before we did, dinosaurs walked this ground for 150 million years. So how could we forget about them? Discover the first dinosaurs that lived during the Tri

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The Amazing book of Dinosaurs AJ

<p>Although it may seem incredible, while humans have only inhabited the Earth for 3-4 million years, before we did, dinosaurs walked this ground for 150 million years. So how could we forget about them? Discover the first dinosaurs that lived during the Tri</p>

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Ask an Ocean Explorer

How deep do sharks swim? Have more people been into space then the deep ocean? And what effect are we having on the health of our seas? Ask An Ocean E

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter - Garton Ash Timothy

Anotace: `Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating` Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times`Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ... defiantly hopeful` Financial TimesDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our great...

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Garton Ash Timothy

Anotace: **A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**`A moving love letter to Europe` Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid ...

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter - Timothy Garton Ash

**A Financial Times Best Book of 2023****Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and t...

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Timothy Garton Ash

<p>**A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid e...

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Artbook

Book of illustrations and concept art from the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which, just like the game, is a little out of the ordinary. While in the case of fantasy and sci-fi games the illustrator can let his imagination run wild, limited only by what can subsequently be transformed into models in the 3D engine, the approach in Kingdom Come was quite different. Our ga...

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