Wojna bez ofiar..., czy to możliwe? Krążownik pomocniczy Kron-prinz Wilhelm udowodnił, że jest to możliwe. Zatopił kilkanaściealianckich statków, ale dopiero wówczas, gdy ich załogi się poddałyi przeszły do niewoli na niemiecki krążownik legendę pierwszej wojny światowej. Jednym z oficerów tego okrętu był Polak, hrabia Stanisław Nieżychowski. Los zmusił go do walki po jednej ze stron konfliktu. Nigdy nie ukrywał on jednak swojej polskości, do tego stopnia, że orkiestra okrę...
With this colourful book, young explorers will discover many incredible machines: tractors and combines, excavators and bulldozers, cranes and graders, rescue vehicles and giant tunnelling borers, huge ships and many other record-breaking vehicles. The detailed pictures are sure to capture the imagination of curious readers!
This comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia explores the most important issues facing our planet and people. It contains many interesting facts and incrediblephotographs from around the world, is based on the latest research findings and is an excellent guide to climate change,pollution, endangered animals, overconsumption and other key environmental issues.
Aurora lives with her mother and younger brother in Kyiv. Their dad is a soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is at the frontline. It's winter, and because of frequent power cuts, their mother takes the children to the village for a while. Aurora doesn't like it: she likes to play Roblox more than anything else, and her grandfather doesn't have internet. Bored, the girl accidentally finds her mother's old diary and plunges into the story of her old summer...
Why does the body change as we grow up? Why are breasts, vulvas and penises so different for everyone? Why does body hair grow and why do stretch marks appear? What should you know before having sex for the first time? How to communicate safely on the Internet? What should you do to prevent a condom from breaking and what to do if it does break? I, Ficus Benjamin, knew the answers to all these questions. I did! I had spent ten carefree years on the windowsill in the school nu...
Ravka is surrounded by bad weather and instability. And the young king Nikolay Lantsov is increasingly turning to dangerous soil at night. General Zoya Nazialensky witnessed the death of her mentor and the resurrection of her bitter enemy. Now all she lives for is protecting sinners around the world, securing Ravka's throne, and saving Nikolai. But while Zoe desperately searches for a cure for her king's mysterious illness, the sinners find themselves in danger: they ...
"The most fearless of all female assassins, Adarlen, is only eighteen. Selena is an outstanding assassin who managed to win a dangerous competition and win the title of royal protector. However, she was promised such a dream of freedom, but in return, the girl is not even able to give free rein to her heart. A greater burden on her soul had never been before: if she cold-bloodedly killed an enemy so hated by her, it would mean a death sentence for everything she held dearest ...
Feyra is preparing to marry her lover, Temlin. However, the memory of the crime she committed to free herself from Amaranta comes back to haunt her. Tamlin tries to protect her by controlling her every step, but the girl does not want to become a fairy princess. In addition, Tamlin himself has more and more secrets from his beloved. Is it just to protect her? At this time, Risend, the Lord of the Night Court, reminds of the agreement made between them. He probably wants to us...
Private investigator Ian Cameron wakes up in a hospital bed. He doesn't remember who he is or what happened to him. All that remains is the memory of dark hooded figures and two strange things: a bloody business card with the name of a master magician and a pocket watch with time stopped on it. In order to recover his lost memories, Ian goes to the women who found him unconscious. Edwina and Mary Blackwood, witch sisters with a dark past, run a shop where they sell things...
The future architect Effie Sayer has always believed in fairy tales - since childhood she has been haunted by visions of the Faerie King. She always has a battered volume of Anghared, Emrys Murddin's epic about a mortal girl falling in love with the Fae King and then destroying him, on her desk. So when the writer's family announces a competition to redevelop his estate, Effie realizes that this is her chance. However, the Hirais estate is old and musty, and its inhab...
The Hollow sisters are incredibly beautiful, glamorous, and frighteningly strange. Dark and inexplicable things are happening around Grey, Vivi and Iris. It all started a few years ago when the girls disappeared from an Edinburgh street and suddenly returned a month later. The sisters can't remember what exactly happened, but it left each of them with the same crescent-shaped mark under their throats. They have changed dramatically since the incident - the once dark-haire...
Welcome to the Centenary! Once every hundred years, the island of Lightlark hosts the Centenary, a deadly game for the rulers of the six realms. One hundred days on the island is the last chance to break the curse that has haunted their peoples for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide and something to fight for. But one of them will have to die... Ayla Crown is the young ruler of the Wild Realm. Her people have been cursed with a double curse: they must kill those they...
You are holding a magical book - a guide to the world of birds, both real and created by the rich imagination of the ancient Ukrainians. Birds build their nests on linden trees near the house and in the attic of a high-rise building, in gardens and parks, but above all in fairy tales, legends, parables, carols, shchedrivkas and lullabies. They can easily reach Irium and unlock it with the keys, appearing as demiurge creators and harbingers of the will of the gods. These birds...
Why do companies lose millions of dollars every year? One of the reasons is a lack of understanding of their customers. Ignorance of their needs, habits and behaviour leads to reduced loyalty, customer churn and loss of revenue. Recent studies show that only 15% of companies have studied their customers well. Imagine this: 85% of companies do not use the potential of their data to identify customer trends and improve customer relationships! And in today's realities, when ...
The 8 Rules of Love, which you'll want to follow because you'll feel better and live more consciously, is accessible, artfully modernised Vedic wisdom. Instead of idealising love, Shetty offers clearly defined steps to learn how to practice and nurture this feeling. He shares his thoughts on how to win and lose together, how to tell if you are in love or not, and explains why couples sometimes cannot truly break up, even after they have already broken up. The first da...
We live in a world of codes. Poetry, music, mathematics, English, sign language are all separate language codes that are harmoniously combined in our brains. And the more of these codes we have, the easier it is for us to get and interpret information, generate new ideas, build a career, and accelerate radical progress. Because these codes determine how we perceive ourselves and others, the world around us, how we solve problems, what we pay attention to, what we remember. Th...
Relationships with family members, partners, friends, coworkers, and most importantly, self-love, determine your quality of life and how easily you overcome adversity. Dr. Perry's case studies are about you. Some people stayed too long on maternity leave and closed themselves off from the rest of the world. Some feel overwhelmed and/or incompetent at work. Someone lost touch with their closest friend. Someone has been abandoned by a partner with an avoidant type of attach...
The Open Fracture of the Voice are poems written in the darkness. In its depths, where everyone is alone with themselves and doubts their own strength, their voice, and the possibility of the future. This is the point of the sharpest pain, the undermining of all the knowledge we have had about the world and ourselves. But these are also poems that move toward the light. Because it is the knowledge of its existence somewhere outside, above, that makes this progress possible. T...
This book contains the best of the creative work of Mykola Bazhan, one of the two famous Ukrainian nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature. And if the prize were awarded to a Ukrainian poet, the wording would read: for his critical mind, creative energy, intellectual depth, lyrical power, sincerity and humanity. For his pen, sharp and precise as a scalpel. For the ability to draw a thread from the past to the future and connect them with the present into one indivisible wh...
This book contains the best of the creative work of Mykola Bazhan, one of the two famous Ukrainian nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature. And if the prize were awarded to a Ukrainian poet, the wording would read: for his critical mind, creative energy, intellectual depth, lyrical power, sincerity and humanity. For his pen, sharp and precise as a scalpel. For the ability to draw a thread from the past to the future and connect them with the present into one indivisible wh...
When a tragic accident takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth's foster mother and Raven's memory, she moves to New Orleans to recover and finish her last year of high school. Starting over is not easy. Raven remembers everyday things like how to do math and cook pasta, but she can't remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. And when the unthinkable begins to happen, Raven thinks that maybe it's better not to know who she used to b...
Anastacia Allen is a persistent, demanding figure skater. She has been working her whole life to make the U.S. national team, and everything seems to be going according to plan. The talented athlete gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and a spot on the team. Nathan Hawkins is a hockey player, the soul of the team, a true captain, ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of the team. Even when he has to share the rink with the skaters. Even when...
Florence Day works as a ghostwriter for a successful author of romance novels. After a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love, so it's hard for her to write novels with happy endings. But the new editor, Ben Andor, does not want to extend the book's deadline, and she is ready to say goodbye to her career... One day Florence receives sad news from home - her father has died. The girl returns to her hometown, from which she had to flee ten years ago because sh...