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In these nine life-fulfilling lessons, learn how your cat can bring you peace, comfort and a unique happiness.A home without a cat is just a house, as they say. There is something special about our feline friends the comfort they bring, their intuition, their famously comedic side that contributes to a household's average happiness index. In fact, just looking at your cat can ease anxiety and bring a sense of understanding and calm but why is that? What are these curious qual...

In a recent survey (CNBC), 57% of Gen Zers said they would like to become an influencer if given the chance. Some 53% of Gen Zers believe becoming an influencer is a reputable career choice (and would quit their jobs if they could earn enough to pay for their current lifestyle). In business, 77% of companies use social media to reach their customers.It’s undeniable that influencers and their content has become a mainstream part of our social and business world today. This boo...

'Another genteel but compelling murder mystery in a glorious setting that deserves a huge readership'  A devastating accident An isolated hotel A murdered guest… When Miss Atalanta Ashford learns that her dear friend Raoul Lemont has had a serious accident, she rushes to his remote hotel in the Alps only to discover he has no memory of her – or his life before. Atalanta is determined to stay undercover while she helps Raoul recover. But when another resident is found dead, sh...

For years, Emelle has been a cupid - The ultimate matchmaker to help others fall in love. But this job means that she has no physical body and can't be seen by anyone. Or be able to fall in love herself.Unfortunately, she becomes responsible for some rather bad matchmaking. So much so, she's punished and exiled from the human world.Fed up she angrily fires Love Arrows at a fae prince, but he retaliates, and suddenly, she's pushed out of the Veil.Now, she has a real body. A re...

First flown in 1982, the Boeing 757 was an impressive accomplishment. The aircraft was fast, quiet, and fuel efficient while still exhibiting stellar takeoff, climb, and landing performance. Hear firsthand accounts from the leaders of the 757 program who skillfully established an extraordinary culture within their organization. This team, empowered by the program's expert guidance, overcame the challenges of producing a new aircraft type in an environment that was fast paced ...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existe...

Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing o...

In her later years, Jane Austen made a patch­work quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs these slivers of cloth to illustrate Jane Austen's life story.Evans teases apart the threads that connect Austen's beloved novels, the events of her life, and the fabric of society in Regency England. Patchwork is a major new work of graphic biography. Kate Evans has an unparallel...

Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data-the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or...

Wyrusz w niezwykłą podróż po odległych galaktykach! „Przygody w kosmosie” to kolorowanka, która zabiera dzieci w świat rakiet, astronautów, planet, gwiazd i tajemniczych kosmicznych stworzeń.Na małych odkrywców czekają:- dynamiczne sceny startów rakiet- kolorowe planety i księżyce- astronauci w kosmicznych misjach- abawne istoty z innych światów- kosmiczne pejzaże i fantastyczne pojazdyDodatkowo w środku znajduje się aż 60 barwnych naklejek, które dziecko może wykorzystać do ...

Jedno przypadkowe spotkanie w centrum handlowym, które miało się nie powtórzyć. Jedno opakowanie czekoladek, którymi postanowili się podzielić. Jeden słodki całus, który miał pozostać tylko przyjemnym wspomnieniem. Poznaj historię Oliwii i Błażeja, którzy w ramach grudniowej magii świąt dostają szansę na zasłużony uśmiech od losu. Czy ją wykorzystają? Czy gwiazdkowy klimat wystarczy, by z przypadkowej znajomości zrodziło się prawdziwe uczucie? Oliwia i Błażej ...

In Anthropocene Communism, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism. In a highly original reading of Karl Marx's exchanges with the populist 'terrorists' in Russia and informed by the cultural studies of Raymond Williams, the Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui, and Ernst Bloch's attachment to the land, the author develops a...

Who is allowed to hate? Hatred, this grating, corrosive feeling, is omnipresent, roaring from the streets or whispered in bourgeois homes. It thrives in parliamentary speeches, conspiracy theorists' fantasies and children's bedrooms - and certainly not in secret, even if many would like to see it restricted there. German bestselling author Seyda Kurt frees hatred from its banishment and sets out on the trail of its potential for resistance.She is particularly interested in pe...

Przygody z kolorowanką – koloruj, baw się i naklejaj!„Przygody z kolorowanką” to pełna radości i kreatywnej zabawy propozycja dla każdego dziecka. W środku czekają różnorodne ilustracje do pokolorowania oraz zestaw kolorowych naklejek, które można wykorzystać do ozdabiania obrazków, tworzenia własnych scenek i dodatkowych prac plastycznych.Ta kolorowanka:- rozwija wyobraźnię i kreatywność- wspiera koncentrację i zdolności manualne- daje możliwość swobodnej ekspresji- zapewnia...

‘I have read and loved this book so much’ – Lucy Jane Wood, author of RewitchedPerfect for fans of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes and TJ Klune, The Spellshop is a cosy fantasy tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams and even sweeter romance.Every home needs a little magic . . .Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. But, as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she hasn’t had to.She and her assistant Caz, a sentient spider plant...

Help your child learn to identify colours with this engaging early-learning play set from bestselling author Roger Priddy.Little ones will enjoy matching the puzzle pieces with the colours on the pages, while also learning core vocabulary and developing fine motor skills. The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.Sturdy play pieces and a board book in which to put them makes learning exciting and fun. This set teaches the ...

See, Touch, Feel: Animals is a fantastic first concepts book from Priddy Books. This new compact board book format introduces animals to very young children in a fun and simple way.Specially designed to stimulate toddlers and encourage the development of motor skills, this engaging board book is filled with embossed images and textures to touch. The bright pages featuring happy babies and handprint artwork will appeal to young children as they learn first animals....

Roger Priddy's Lift the Flap: Nursery Rhymes is a chunky board book with colourful, beautifully illustrated artwork and large flaps that reveal lots of fun surprises.Each page features kooky characters in a classic nursery rhyme and includes a fun flap to lift. Children will love finding the mouse in Hickory Dickory Dock, seeing the cow jump over the moon, and finding out what happens to Jack and Jill in this delightfully charming book.Illustrated by Craig Shuttlewood....

With refreshed imagery and design, My First Animals is an exciting new addition to the First 100 series.Young children will learn essential first words and pictures with this bright board book. There are 100 colour photographs to look at and talk about, and 100 simple first words to read and learn, too. The pages are made from tough board for hours of fun reading, and now in a new size that will be a great display on any child's bookshelf.

Discover your favourite creatures in Roger Priddy's First 100 Animals!Packed full of first animal words to read and learn, a padded cover and a small, easy-to-hold size, it's the perfect little book for animal fans.With colourful photographs featuring farmyard favourites, ocean creatures, jungle critters and more, there is no shortage of words for little ones to learn.Learn more first words with the First 100 Soft To Touch series: First Farm Words, First 100 Animals, and Firs...

The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations. Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are f...

Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg declared there were only two great Holocaust heroes - the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mordechai Anielewicz) and Rudolf Vrba. After he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April of 1944, Vrba and his co-escapee Alfréd Wetzler co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report, credited with saving 200,000 Hungarian Jews. "No other single act in the Second World War," according to World War II historian Sir Martin Gilbert, "saved so many Jews from the fa...

Today, a Ferrari is still an object of art, one of the most beautiful demonstrations of the link that can unite artist and craftsman: creativity. Very few books dedicated to the Ferrari brand devote most of their pages to the image and, likewise, few are aimed at the general public, who admire these fabulous cars in all their simplicity, often without knowing them and sometimes even without being able to identify them. If you simply wish to enjoy these cars, which are rarely ...

She spent years in the Veil as an invisible cupid. Unable to talk, touch or love anyone, which made her a little bitter.Now, Emelle has a life . . . and a bounty on her head. The fae prince wants her dead, and her three gorgeous genfins are arrested. The royal culling trials are about to begin, but Emelle isn't going to let everything be taken from her without a fight.There's rebellion in the air, a princess who's not all she appears to be and a lamassu fae who claims to be E...