Many worlds one life

Many Worlds Under One Heaven

Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political and cultural change under the

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One Planet, Many Worlds – The Climate Parallax

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Distant Worlds - Universe

The Universe is Yours! Distant Worlds: Universe is the newest chapter of this critically acclaimed sci-fi series, adding incredible new features and an exciting new storyline.  Universe is also the ultimate collector’s edition, the first time all previous Distant Worlds releases have been included in one package, along with an updated manual and greatly expande...

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Distant Worlds - Universe (PC)

The Universe is Yours!Distant Worlds: Universe is the newest chapter of this critically acclaimed sci-fi series, adding incredible new features and an exciting new storyline.  Universe is also the ultimate collector’s edition, the first time all previous Distant Worlds releases have been included in one package, along with an updated manual and greatly ...

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How Many Miles to Babylon?

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men

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Between Two Worlds

Set in Soweto, this is one of the most important novels of South Africa under apartheid. It depicts the life od an account typist in a large busy shop

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Contemplations of myriad worlds

Travel is not just touring sights but a state of mind and a way of seeing the world, bringing about a lasting change in one's own perspectives and way of life, long after the journey is over. Journey through these pages of colourful travel photography from across the continents, with reflections on travel and on themes from childhood to daily life, companionship and spi...

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How Many Planets Circle the Sun?

Why is there life on earth? How did Saturn get its rings? Which planet is biggest, which one's hottest and which has a cloud named Scooter? This book

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Rich Forever: What They Didn’t Teach You about Money, Finance and Investments in School - Bianca Miller-Cole

<p>We all want financial freedom. But we also know just how much pressure the subject of money exerts on us, and many of us feel our personal finances are out of control. But that's not surprising - after all, no-one ever explained how to manage money properly - or if they did, we didn't listen.If a head-in-the-sand approach to personal finance ever worked, it doesn...

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Worlds of Blake's 7 - The Clone Masters

Blake's 7 proves to be one of Big Finish's most popular ranges, with fans of the original late 1970s BBC1 series enjoying many of the TV actors return

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Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds

Fourteen leading metamodern writers create and inspire viable and desirable futures in this time between worlds, where one pattern of collective life

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Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay - Boyd William

Anotace: THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photogra...

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Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay - William Boyd

<p>THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand – but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing ...

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Daughter of No Worlds - Carissa Broadbent

<p>A life in slavery taught Tisaanah how to survive with nothing but a sharp eye, a quick mind, and a touch of magic. But the night she tried to buy her freedom, she nearly paid with her life. Instead, she murdered the most powerful man in Threll. Forced to flee, she has only one chance at saving those she left behind: pledging herself to the Orders, an organizatio...

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Life Story

Many lives, one epic journey. Accompanying the BBC1 landmark natural history series, Life Story reveals the extraordinary lengths to which animals will go to secure their future.

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London Life

While many publications claim to have captured the phenomenon that was "Swinging London", only one magazine was present to illustrate this extraordina

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Contemplations of myriad worlds - Lynne Kolar-Thompson

Anotace: Travel is not just touring sights but a state of mind and a way of seeing the world, bringing about a lasting change in one's own perspectives and way of life, long after the journey is over. <br><br> Journey through these pages of colourful travel photography from across the continents, with reflections on travel and on themes from childhood t...

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Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress (PC) DIGITAL

Plots within plots and schemes within schemes devolve the crew of the Wandering Wrath into mistrust and outright mutiny, and all the while the lives of the islands' innocents hang perilously in the balance. The ship's notorious captain is a man so cruel and vile, he is said to have been born without a soul. Yet it is often true in the murky underbelly of the harsh seas, t...

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Life of Messiaen

One of the most influential and idiosyncratic composers of the twentieth century, Messiaen was at the centre of many significant developments in music

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Science of Everyday Life

In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show's resident scientist Marty Jopson explains the answers to many baffling questio

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Social Life of Teak

A fascinating, original and beautiful book examining the many aspects of teak, using oral histories to examine the history of one of the world's most

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Book of Life

A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After travelling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchant ing series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to...

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Aesop´s Fables (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Ezop

<p>The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first writte...

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El Diego : The Autobiography of the World´s Greatest Footballer - Maradona Diego

Anotace: Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius with a ball took him to the heights of European and world football, and his struggle with the pressures of life inside and outside the game pulled him right back down aga...

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Be Useful: Seven tools for life - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anotace: The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.The world`s greatest bodybuilder. The world`s highest paid movie star. The leader of the world`s sixth largest economy. That these are the same person so...

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Sontag : Her Life - Benjamin Moser

<p>The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world. Her writin...

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Havel: A Life - Michael Žantovský

Anotace: Životopis Václava Havla od Michaela Žantovského v angličtině. Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally successful playwright who became a political dissident and then, reluctantly, a president. His pivotal role in the Velvet Revolution and the modern Czech Republic makes him a key figure of the twentieth century. Michael Za...

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Havel: A Life - Michael Žantovský

<p></p><p> Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally successful playwright who became a political dissident and then, reluctantly, a president. His pivotal role in the Velvet Revolution and the modern Czech Republic makes him a key figure of the twentieth century. Michael Zantovsky was one of Havel's closest confidants. They live...

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Maths of Life and Death

"Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book.It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - Ian McEwan "Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he sho...

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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science - Richard Dawkins

<p>In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run thro...

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Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reidová

Anotace: From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold-with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with h...

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Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold—with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Sh...

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The Life of a Stupid Man

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and acro...

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Principles : Life and Work - Dalio Ray

Anotace: "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." -The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world`s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he`s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business-and which any person or organization can adopt...

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Life on the Orinoco (Book with Multi-ROM)

The Orinoco River is one of the longest rivers in the world. Many lives depend on this river. Many people, animals and plants live in or near the wate

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The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante

<p>From the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided NaplesTO BE ADAPTED INTO AN ORIGINAL TV SERIES BY NETFLIX AND FANDANGO"Ferrante shows again how she is unbeatable."-The Times (UK)"Modern, urgent, truthful."-Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Telegraph"Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence an...

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The Principle of Moments: The biggest SF fantasy debut of 2024 and the first ever winner of the Future Worlds Prize - Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

<p>'My favourite kind of grand space opera'BEN AARONOVITCH, Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Rivers of London series6066: In Emperor Thracin's brave new galaxy, humans are not citizens but indentured labourers, working to repay the debt they unwittingly incurred when they settled on Gahraan - a desert planet already owned by the emperor himself. Asha Akindele ...

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Secrets to a Long Life Intermediate Book with Online Access

There are many secrets to a long and happy life - and being rich and famous isn't one of them. Come explore why friends, love, a positive personality, and the environment are much more important.

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One Last Stop - McQuiston Casey

Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don`t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can`t im...

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Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature - Federico Faggin

<p>Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention t...

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying (0091955106)

Kniha - autor Marie Kondo, 248 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Marie Kondo, 248 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Japan's expert declutterer and professional cleaner Marie Kondo provides a step-by-step life-changing method for transforming space by tidying the home in the correct order, all in one go, and quickly. Left after this with onl...

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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono - Watkins,Deliso, Bono

Anotace: For the first time ever Bono is putting pen to paper to write a story that isn`t going to hit the charts. This is the story of his life, from his humble beginnings in Dublin, to the sudden loss of his mother at age 14, his rise to fame as the lead singer of one of the world`s greatest ever rock bands U2, and his many years of activism, fighting against AIDS and ...

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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (0425284646)

Kniha - autor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of o...

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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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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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Be Useful: Seven tools for life - Arnold Schwarzenegger

<p>The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sou...

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The Book of Life : (All Souls 3) - Harknessová Deborah

Anotace: Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the phenomenal climax to their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After travelling throu...

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All That Remains: A Life in Death - Black Sue

Anotace: `Utterly gripping` - The Guardian `Fascinating` - The Sunday Times `Moving` - Scotsman `Engrossing` - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities ...

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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones - Dolly Parton

<p>A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive.In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half...

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All That Remains: A Life in Death - Sue Black

<p>'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian 'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times 'Moving' - Scotsman 'Engrossing' - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities d...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and longtime collaborator of Elton John. This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, a...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*`Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.` -Elton John`Self deprecating and refreshingly honest` - Sunday Times`Divine. I couldn`t put it down.` -Pete Townshend`Hilarious and so emotionally true` -Cameron Crowe`Taupin`s words need no musical accompaniment. They sing with a poet...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin's words need no musical accompaniment. They sing with a poets...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: `This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.` -Elton John`Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan`s delight. Divine. I couldn`t put it down.` -Pete Townshend`In Bernie Taupin`s miraculous memoir Scattershot you`ll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady p...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'In Bernie Taupin's miraculous memoir Scattershot you'll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady pu...

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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 5

After being reincarnated as the "villainess" from the otome game Fortune Lover, Katarina expected to meet doom in the form of one of many Catastrophic

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One Last Stop, 1. vydání - Casey McQuiston

<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White &amp; Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She...

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The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist´s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life - Nathalie A. Cabrol

<p>'A mind-altering and exhilarating read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'Of all the popular books on the search for life that are now being published, this one is quite special' James L. Green, former NASA chief scientistOne of the world's leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity's mo...

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Peterson Jordan B.

Anotace: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson`s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson ...

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