The industries of the future

Penguin Readers Level 6: The Girl on the Train (ELT Graded Reader) - Hawkins Paula

Anotace: The Girl on the Train, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

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The Three-Body Problem

1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engin...

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Survival of the City

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities

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Survival of the City

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities

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Cloud of the Impossible

A progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.

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The Invention of Tomorrow

A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future

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The Fraud - Smith Zadie

Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...

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Interparliamentary Relations and the Future of Devolution in the UK 1998-2018

Interparliamentary Relations and the Future of Devolution in the UK provides a political analysis of interparliamentary relations at a time when devol

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Revenge of the Real

What will the future of Post-Pandemic politics look like?

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Bastille: Give Me The Future + Dreams Of The Past (2x CD) - CD (4549994)

Hudební CD - Unikátní dvojalbum oblíbené kapely Bastille na CD Unikátní dvojalbum oblíbené kapely Bastille na CD Bastille je anglická pop rocková kapela založená v roce 2010. Skupina začala jako sólový projekt hlavního zpěváka Dana Smithe , ale později se rozšířila o klávesistu Kylea Simmonse, baskytaristu a kytaristu Willa Farquarsona a bubeníka Chrise „Woodyho”. Rok...

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Bastille: Give Me The Future + Dreams Of The Past (Coloured) (2x LP) - LP (4549993)

LP vinyl - Unikátní dvojalbum oblíbené kapely Bastille na dvou LP. Unikátní dvojalbum oblíbené kapely Bastille na dvou LP. Bastille je anglická pop rocková kapela založená v roce 2010. Skupina začala jako sólový projekt hlavního zpěváka Dana Smithe , ale později se rozšířila o klávesistu Kylea Simmonse, baskytaristu a kytaristu Willa Farquarsona a bubeníka Chrise „Wood...

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The Meat Paradox. Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat - Rob Percival

<p>How will we eat a decade from now, or a century? Will we be eating meat?</p> <p>Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation, by geopolitical tensions and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to the status quo - pandemics and economic strife, the escalation of the ...

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Matthew Spinka, Howard Kaminsky, and the Future of the Medieval Hussites

This study examines the work of Matthew Spinka and Howard Kaminsky on medieval Hussites. The author analyzes their numerous contributions to our under

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Doctor Who: Sontarans vs Rutans - 1.2 The Children of the Future

The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans has been going on for millennia and is likely to continue for millennia more - a terrible conflict where

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Wars of the Interior

A searing account of the struggle between the indigenous people of the Amazon and hungry global industries of gold, wood and oil.

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HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

A must read for any HR executive. This research-based competency model is particularly compelling because it is informed by the perspective of non-HR

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Rule of the Robots

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.

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Rule of the Robots

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.

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The New Breed: How to Think About Robots - Darling Kate

Anotace: `A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics` Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcherThe robots are here. They make our cars, they deliver fast food, they mine the sea floor. And in the near-future their presence wil...

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A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future

"Anthony Peake is uniquely qualified to analyze Philip K Dick's life." - E J Morgan, author of A Kindred Spirit It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane - Philip K. Dick, VALIS Philip K.

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Power of Professional Learning Networks: Traversing the present; transforming the future

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Human and Technological Progress Towards the Socio-Economic Paradigm of the Future

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Dark Side Of Healthcare, The: Issues, Cases, And Lessons For The Future

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Síla i budoucnost jest národu národnost. The Strength and Future of the Nation Is National Identity

Tato kniha je výstupem projektu Architektura a česká politika v 19. – 21. století, na němž tým Katedry teorie a dějin umění UMPRUM pracuje od roku 2018.

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Prophecies of the Bible

The Smart Guide to the Bible: Prophecies of the Bible gives you the truth about fulfilled and future prophecies. You'll learn how to discern the Sover

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Will of the Many

At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of myste

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A Really Short Journey Through the Body - Bryson Bill

Anotace: `Offers children a series of fascinating scientific facts` Daily TelegraphWe spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it.Want to know why the skin is the biggest organ?Why our brains can see into the future?Or why your eyes are back to front?Packed full of facts, big numbers (such as the a...

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Prisons of the World

This book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will be

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Heat of the Day

It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his tra

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Unlocking the Universe - Hawking Stephen William

Anotace: Have you ever wondered how our universe began?Or what it takes to put humans on the moon? Do you know what happens in the microscopic world of a life-saving vaccine? What would you do if you could travel through space and time?Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this beautiful collection of up-to-the-minute essays, mind-blowing facts and out-of-this-world c...

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Master of the Revels

The fast-paced sequel to the near-future adventure The Rise and Fall of D.O.DO.

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Troubles of the Past?

This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish societ

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Children of the Divide

No matter how far humanity comes, it can't escape its own worst impulses, in this far-future SF thriller from the author of The Ark

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Time of the Ghost

Can a ghost from the future save a life in the past? A chilling tale of dark forces and revenge…

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Eyes of the Void

A thrilling far-future space adventure, and the second instalment in the epic Final Architecture trilogy, from the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning auth

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Monsters of the Deep

The fifth volume in an extraordinary SF series set 200 years in the future when China rules the world. With Triad bosses and assassins, emperors, whor

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Physics of the Impossible

Shows how our far-fetched ideas today - from Star Trek's phasers and teleportation to time travel as envisioned by Back to the Future - are destined t

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Testament: The new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the bestselling Master of Adventure, Wilbur Smith - Smith Wilbur

Anotace: An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith.IN THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST RISEFOR THE GLORY OF EGYPTYears of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two kingdoms have now been reunited by the armies of the true Pharaoh, his position is perilous, his rule under threat from those who seek...

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Eye of the Beholder

When an art expert goes missing, three women fighting to regain control of their lives realise their future is about to become as dangerous as their p

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Shadow of the Sun

Impoverished Egyptian teacher Helmy is desperate for a better life for himself, his wife and little boy, seeing no future at home in Cairo. He dreams

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Son of the Night

The 100 Years War reaches the bloody slaughter of Crecy as Angels and Demons fight for the future of Man, in a series for fans of George RR Martin and

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Theory for the World to Come

Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a f

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House of the Spirits

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Set in an unnamed Latin Ame

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI - Max Bennett

<p>A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.</p> <p>The entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Ea...

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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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In America

Anotace: The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland`s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzej...

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Why the West Rules for Now : The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future - Morris Ian

Anotace: Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.

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Why the West Rules for Now : The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future - Ian Morris

<p>Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.</p>

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The Architecture of Reciprocity

We should ask not only how architecture is, but primarily, what it causes. Such is the epigraph for the present work, discussion (not only) architecture in a way that addresses every one of us. The authors of the publication, who have spent much time investigating the mutual relations between human beings, their environment and architecture, demonstrate through concrete e...

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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Anotace: A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of the most famous Christmas story in the world - Charles Dickens` beloved book A Christmas Carol.Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge...

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Mrs Dalloway - Woolfová Virginia

Anotace: `One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century` Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith`s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her frien...

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The Labyrinth of Time

The legendary King Minos has commissioned a labyrinth bridging time and space. Once completed, this labyrinth, with doorways into all eras of history, will allow Minos to rule the Earth. You have been chosen as hero. Abruptly lifted from your routine existence, you have been dropped into a realm where time and space hang in check. Through exploration and puzzle solving, y...

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The Vedute of Prague

„Book „The Vedute of Prague“ describes the development of Prague cityscape in the period of last 5 centuries and emphasizes future possible scenarios how the city composition could be continuously developed in the 21st century,“ comments the content of the book Roman Koucký, the co-author of the book and the chief of the Metropolitan plan office, that prepares new urban p...

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Alfie and Zoella A-Z

THE ALFIE AND ZOELLA A-Z is the ultimate guide to one of the hottest and most popular new celebrity couples. As part of the vlogging super elite, Alfie Deyes and Zoe Sugg (aka 'Zalfie'), have risen to the top of online fame and share their world with millions of devoted followers. Ever since 2013 when they confirmed their romance, the internet superstars have thrilled fan...

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Metamorphosis - Kafka Franz

Anotace: 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 Mediterrane...

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In The Shadow of the Machine

A philosophical and spiritual study of the historical development of electronic technology and its implications for the future.

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Little Women - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: `I`m not afraid of storms, for I`m learning how to sail my ship.`Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo`s hand, cried over little Beth`s death, and dream...

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Winter of the World

Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth centuryBerlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith...

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Penguin Readers Level 2: Ballet Shoes (ELT Graded Reader) - Streatfeild Noel

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Magicians of the Gods

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only rece...

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