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Understanding the World's Cultures
Understanding the World's Cultures is designed for anyone who wants to help in "figuring out" the behaviour of someone from another culture. Educators
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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the
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Taste of the World
Take a culinary trip around the world without leaving home! This childrenÂ’s cookbook invites the whole family to explore new flavors and cultures thr
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How To Watch Football: 62 rules for understanding the beautiful game, on and off the pitch - neuveden
Anotace: `I love Tifo` Ian Wright `Tifo are great` Alan Shearer`Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis` Elis JamesRULE #1: DON`T WATCH THE BALLYes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it`s also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It`s about the ticking clock, and the bellow...
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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music ...
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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music ...
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The Book of Tarot: A Spiritual Key to Understanding the Cards - Huneidi-Palmer Sahar
Anotace: This beautiful hardback with gilded page edges will reveal the secrets of tarot and tarot reading in detail.From how to take care of your tarot cards to how to unlock your intuition when reading, this enthralling guide will appeal to anyone wanting to learn to read the cards or improve their readings. With plenty of information on the history of the tarot, the d...
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Communicating Across Cultures Student´s Book with Audio CD - Dignen Bob
Anotace: Communicating Across Cultures is an innovative short course for learners of business English who want to function effectively in an international environment by developing their intercultural skills in English. Drawing on inspirational advice from leading figures in the world of cross-cultural communication, Communicating Across Cultures covers all types of oral...
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On the Suffering of the World - Schopenhauer Arthur
Anotace: Schopenhauer`s perception of the importance of art, morality and self awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world radically transformed our understanding of the individual and remains a searing vision of the human condition.
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana
Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...
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Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams and Organisations - Murphy Mary C.
Anotace: In her multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset Carol Dweck coined the terms `fixed` and `growth` mindset, transforming our view of individual success. Award-winning social psychologist Mary Murphy builds on Dweck`s work in Cultures of Growth to present a groundbreaking argument: that mindset is not isolated to an individual. Instead, we can all influence each othe...
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1421: The Year China Discovered The World - Menzies Gavin
Anotace: On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di`s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was `to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas` and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their j...
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Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage Taylor & Francis Ltd
Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of authenticity and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritage – those objects, texts, and intangible practices concerned with China’s past. Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage provides an opportunity for reflection on the contingencies of authenticity deb...
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A Taste of the World - Beth Walrond
Food glorious food! Everyone loves a feast with the family … even the little ones! A Taste of the World travels across the globe uncovering different dishes, traditions, cultures and festivals from Egypt to Germany, from China to America. Learn about the origins of Thanksgiving in America, Bastille Day in France, Christmas in Germany, Hanami in Japan, Chinese New Y...
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The World: A Family History - Montefiore Simon Sebag
Anotace: THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST`S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Mont...
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Designing World Language Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence - Eddy Jennifer
Anotace: This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to com...
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How to Read Castles: A Crash Course in Understanding Fortifications - Hislop Malcolm
Anotace: The essential companion to discover the styles, architecture, form, significance and historical impact of castles from all over the world.How to Read Castles is a travel-size primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up your vocabulary of castle types, styles and materials, and showing you how these aspects can be recognised a...
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Amazons : The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World - Man John
Anotace: Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks. For centuries people believed in their ex...
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Coordinate Systems of the World Taylor & Francis Ltd
A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation’s history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation. A starting point of information for understanding the world’s datums and grids....
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How to Build a Car : The Autobiography of the World`s Greatest Formula 1 Designer - Newey Adrian
Anotace: `Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.` Damon Hill The world`s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain`s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adr...
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Old World - Wonders and Dynasties
Old World - Wonders and Dynasties introduces 30 unique ways of starting your game with the addition of new rulers, alongside eight new wonders with which to leave a lasting legacy. Each empire has received multiple new leaders to choose from, bringing additional starting conditions, family trees, traits, and events with them. Rule with an iron fist using Sulla’s uni...
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Symphony of Mission – Playing Your Part in God`s Work in the World
Argues that God's mission is broad and that all of us can live intentionally into this mission by understanding its many facets and focusing on a part
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Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games - Sautoy Marcus du
<p>An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.</p> <p>Where should you move first in Connect 4?</p> <p>What is the best property in Monopoly?</p> <p>And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?</p> <p>Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries a...
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The Cossacks - Tolstoj Lev Nikolajevič
Anotace: 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.Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a peop...
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers Carson
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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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Kandinsky Wassily
Anotace: A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art`s traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revo...
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Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings - Mlodinow Leonard
Anotace: `Both a brilliant scholar and a great writer, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the fascinating science of what we feel, and why - and what we can do about it. I learned a lot from this wonderful book` Rick HansonWe`ve been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as importan...
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Greek Lessons - Kang Han
Anotace: Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.`Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with` Max PorterIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek la...
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Adventure of Life
The Adventure of Life is a modern-day spiritual manual that guides us towards understanding the roots of anxiety and confusion, both on a personal level and in society today, and offers the practice of meditation as a tool to centre and harmonise our lives. It introduces us to a modern spiritual lifestyle with focus on health, diet, sport, family life and the workplace.Th...
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The Culture Map
Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work har...
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Astrological World of Jung’s 'Liber Novus'
The Astrological World of Jung’s Liber Novus explores how Jung’s understanding of astrology influenced his work and his legacy, focusing on
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Old World - Wonders and Dynasties (PC)
Old World - Wonders and Dynasties introduces 30 unique ways of starting your game with the addition of new rulers, alongside eight new wonders with which to leave a lasting legacy.Each empire has received multiple new leaders to choose from, bringing additional starting conditions, family trees, traits, and events with them. Rule with an iron fist using Sulla’s ...
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The Tree and the River - Becker Aaron
Anotace: A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind - and our impact on the natural world - from an award-winning master of the wordless form.For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imaginary civilizations. Borrowing from multiple cultures and architectural s...
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Trolleybus World from A to Z - Sergey Korolkov, Konstantin Klimov
ANNOTATION This book is an attempt to reach a new, more general and holistic level of understanding the development and evolution of the world’s trolleybus systems.
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Unlock the Power of Your Chakras
Explore the rich country of your inner world with this full-colour book's detailed approach to understanding the chakras and using a variety of physic
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The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World´s Fastest-Growing Sport - Robinson Joshua, Clegg Jonathan
Anotace: F1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of Drive to Survive. In this book - the first, definitive account of how F1 came to achieve total global fandom - Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg take us inside a world full of racing obsessives...
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The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World´s Fastest-Growing Sport - Joshua Robinson
<p>F1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of Drive to Survive. In this book - the first, definitive account of how F1 came to achieve total global fandom - Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg take us inside a world full of racing obsessives,...
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Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense - Perlmutter Saul
Anotace: *Available for pre-order: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information*__________In our deluge of information, it`s getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? How can we navigate the next uncomfortable discussion w...
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Trolleybus World from A to Z - Konstantin Klimov
<p>This book is an attempt to reach a new, more general and holistic level of understanding the development and evolution of the world´s trolleybus systems. Based on a systematized review of trolleybus systems´ data, the book presents the development history and technical specifities of the popular urban means of transportation powered by electricity and known as tr...
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Dominion : The Making of the Western Mind - Holland Tom
Anotace: `If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland`s book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny` Sunday Times History Book of the YearChristianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient ...
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The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
Anotace: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday..."Marvellous". (John Boyne). "Original, clever and perfectly written". (Jill Mansell). "Adorable". (Marian Keyes). "An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read". (Chris Cleave). 'I'm not good at understanding what other people want.' 'Tell me something I don't know ...' L...
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The Swallows´ Flight - McKayová Hilary
Anotace: From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes a moving World War II story of family and friendship on opposite sides of a devastating conflict. The Swallows` Flight is the stunning companion novel to The Skylarks` War.`It`s not necessary to have read The Skylarks` War (though many beloved characters make reappearances) to be instantly and joyfully lost...
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The Content Trap - Anand Bharad
Anotace: For readers of The Innovator`s Dilemma comes an incisive new approach to one of the key questions of our time--how to thrive rather than be destroyed by digital transformation--from Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand. Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bhara...
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The Adventure of Life - Sri Chinmoy
Anotace: The Adventure of Life is a modern-day spiritual manual that guides us towards understanding the roots of anxiety and confusion, both on a personal level and in society today, and offers the practice of meditation as a tool to centre and harmonise our lives. It introduces us to a modern spiritual lifestyle with focus on health, diet, sport, family life and the wo...
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The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing - Horowitz Rosalind
Anotace: With a wide range of contributors from all over the world and from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook offers a truly global perspective on developments in research on writing. The new edition draws greater attention to writing and human development within a range of cultures, from childhood through adulthood. Attention to multimodalities, and ...
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The Art of Loving - Fromm Erich
Anotace: Since it was first published " The Art of Loving" has become a classic, inspiring thousands of people with its clarity and power. Erich Fromm, the renowned psychoanalyst, sees love as the ultimate need and desire of all human beings. In this book, he discusses every aspect of the subject: romantic love, the love of parents for children, brotherly love, erotic lo...
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Sanderson Brandon
Anotace: The Sanderson book for readers who have never picked up a Sanderson book before... Sunday Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson returns to his beloved Cosmere Universe in this exquisitely romantic standalone adventure perfect for fans of This Is How You Lose the Time War and genre-blending anime and manga sensations like Your Name. 'This was utterly brillian...
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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Kohn Marek
Anotace: A fascinating journey through Europe`s old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent`s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace an...
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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Gottlieb Anthony
Anotace: The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mod...
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Astrology. The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley
<p>Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. From its birth as astronomy’s sister science, to our current Age of Aquarius, the story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images—from Egyptian temples to contemporary art—sequenced to mirror the spin of t...
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Trolleybus World from A to Z - Konstantin Klimov,Sergey Korolkov
Anotace: ANNOTATION This book is an attempt to reach a new, more general and holistic level of understanding the development and evolution of the world's trolleybus systems. Based on a systematized review of trolleybus systems' data, the book presents the development history and technical specifities of the popular urban means of transportation powered by elec...
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A Year of Last Things: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient - Ondaatje Michael
Anotace: With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery`My life always stops for a new book by him` JHUMPA LAHIRI, author of The Namesake`Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable` TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a c...
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The Principia - Newton Isaac
Anotace: First published in Latin in 1687, "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", commonly referred to as "The Principia", is the groundbreaking work of science and mathematics by Isaac Newton. Consisting of three books, "The Principia" was updated twice by Newton during his lifetime, with new editions published in 1713 and 1726, as he further refined and expan...
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The Universe In A Nutshell - Stephen W. Hawking
Anotace: Stephen Hawking`s A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening ...
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The Game of Time
Petr Nikl (*1960) is an intermedia artist with roots in fine and applied arts. His work is as confident and compelling when expressed through the means of traditional fine art techniques as when it takes the forms of artist books, interactive projects, and performance-based improvised actions, theatre and music performances. His ability to freely combine all of the differ...
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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean - Pangonis Katherine
Anotace: Its name means `centre of the world`, and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees.Of the many...
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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean - Pangonis Katherine
Anotace: Its name means `centre of the world`, and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees.Of the many...
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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Greene Robert
Anotace: From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of...
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The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us - Ireland Tom
Anotace: Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, `good` viruses known as phages are infec...
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Frankopan Peter
Anotace: A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESMAN * THE TIMES * THE WEEK * WATERSTONES * BLACKWELL`SMost people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.In The Earth Transformed, ground-...
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