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‘The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.’This landmark work of reportage exposed how a handful of fast-food giants came to dominate America and remake the world in their image: eroding wages, damaging consumers’ health and wrecking the environment. From talking to workers at meatpacking plants with shocking safety...

An utterly absorbing collection of depraved, delectable and enchanting short stories from the queen of weird girl fiction. 'Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy' Lucy Rose, author of LambCan 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high...

Sharpen your instincts in a world full of uncertainty and risk.The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with fewer than one-in-a-thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision can have catastrophic consequences. Throughout his high-pressure career in the cockpit of the world's most advanced and expensive weapons systems, Hasard Lee learned to master s...

The only thing Lyra has understood about her magic is that she must keep it secret.But when she’s forced to reveal her abilities to save her family she is found to possess the rarest magic and is claimed by the crown as their Bone Melder.To be the Bone Melder is a death sentence and Lyra is determined to free herself and take revenge for the persecution of her people. Starting with the silent, brooding guard—Roark Ashwood.The more she plots, the closer she is drawn to Roark a...

Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short-lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Faye’s experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up ...

The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of ‘spreading democracy’ – except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many?In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America’s pursuit of global domination – from Washington’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – offerin...

Murder isn’t always ugly.Aimée is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool head and a taste for chaos, she arrives in the backwater town of Bléville – a festering stew of grudges, corruption, and small-town rot – ready to make a killing.It's a game she’s played before: stir up trouble, pit the locals against one another, then disappear with blood on her hands and money in her pocket. But this time, something breaks and the game turns on he...

Termin „zbrodnia pomorska 1939” oznacza eksterminację przez Niemców na terenie przedwojennego województwa pomorskiego, polskiej ludności cywilnej (głównie inteligencji, ale także rolników i robotników), osób chorych psychicznie, a także pomorskich Żydów, której dokonano w pierwszych miesiącach okupacji. Pierwsza monografia zbrodni pomorskiej udziela nowej, pełniejszej odpowiedzi na pytanie dlaczego skala zbrodni niemieckich na terenie przedwojennego województwa pomorskiego by...

Adam Marzec, właściciel renomowanej firmy budowlanej „Game Pole”, staje przed życiowym wyzwaniem, gdy niepokojące bóle głowy okazują się symptomem poważnej choroby. Jego czas zaczyna się kurczyć równie nieubłaganie, jak rosną stawki w grze, którą prowadzi. Razem z najlepszym przyjacielem Olgierdem odkrywa spisek związany z matactwami przy budowie polskich autostrad. Razem zaczynają niebezpieczną rozgrywkę z międzynarodowymi służbami specjalnymi… „Mocodawca” Dariusza Laskows...

Publikacja poświęcona historii województwa lubelskiego w okresie Polski lubelskiej. Określenia powyższego używano w odniesieniu do terytorium, nad którym władzę sprawował PKWN i Tymczasowy Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w okresie od lipca 1944 r. do przełomu stycznia i lutego 1945 r., gdy władze centralne stopniowo opuszczały Lublin. W książce omówiono: ujawnianie się struktur cywilnych Polskiego Państwa Podziemnego, stronnictwa polityczne związane z PPP, niepodległościowe f...

In this epic conclusion to Star Wars: The High Republic, the Jedi face a final confrontation against the Nihil and Marchion Ro. The Force is everything. A single life connected to all life. All things connected to all other things. This is what the Jedi believe, and this is why they fight. For life . . . and the light.For too long, the light has been threatened by Marchion Ro, a sinister despot who will stop at nothing in his quest for power. The conflict with Ro and his mara...

WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'So bracing, so strange and humane . . .I loved it.' SHARLENE TEO, author of PONTI‘Funny . . .All the people in this novel are alive.’ HIROMI KAWAKAMI, author of STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYO‘Witty and sharp . . .I devoured it.’ NATALIE SUE, bestselling author of I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL'A slim but impactful novel that will make you laugh and think' DAZEDThe power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lun...

'For anyone who has wondered whether they'll ever be in charge of their emotions, this book has the answer: yes' - Angela Duckworth, author of Grit'This book does much more than make sense of emotions – it breaks new ground on how to manage them' - Adam Grant, author of Think AgainWhether it’s anxiety about the dentist, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiralling. But as difficu...

If you ask the average person who an entrepreneur is, they’ll probably say people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. But the truth is, you don’t need to know how to code or raise VC money to start a business. There are hundreds of millions of small business owners globally, with most creating simple, straightforward services that customers need.Nick Huber, founder of The Sweaty Startup and several million-dollar businesses, challenges the prevailing Silicon Valley...

We used to go to work to learn to do the job. Now learning IS the job.Whatever your career, staying relevant and adaptable is essential to your success. And your unexpected role model for learning at work? A lobster.In Learn Like a Lobster, Sunday Times bestselling authors Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis explore the unexpected parallels between lobsters and lifelong learning:Lobsters never stop growing - and neither should youLobsters grow through hard moments - use your challen...

One couple. One past. A million tomorrows. Adam and Jules have been married for 25 years when they discover a time machine in their shed - can it bring back their romantic spark? Or will it unravel everything? Meet Adam and Jules. Married for nearly twenty-five years and stuck in a rut, their future looks, well, boring. Then Adam stumbles across a pile of old mixtapes he and Jules made for each other when they were young and falling in love. He dusts off his vintage stereo, i...

In the revolution, everyone paysIn Paris, the Nada gang – a small cell of left-wing radicals – hatch a plan to kidnap the U.S. ambassador. They’re armed, angry, and almost successful – but totally unprepared for what follows. As the crackdown begins, the group splinters, exposing cowardice, betrayal, and the thin line between radical idealism and outright nihilism. There will be no heroes – only casualties.Jean-Patrick Manchette skewers both the establishment and its would-be...

Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance. This is the story of one man who stood in opposition.In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The maxi-processo saw 471 men and 4 women take the stand, accused of kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and many thousands of murders. Sitting in the gallery was Leonardo Sciascia, then aged sixty-five. One of the greates...

W świecie, w którym technologia zmienia zasady działania, prezentowana publikacja stanowi kompendium wiedzy o zastosowaniach sztucznej inteligencji w praktyce prawniczej. To nie tylko przegląd możliwości, ale także głęboka analiza techniczna, etyczna i prawna, która pozwala zrozumieć, jak AI wpływa na zawód prawnika – dziś i w przyszłości.Publikacja prowadzi czytelnika przez 10 studiów przypadku, prezentujących realne i możliwe do wdrożenia zastosowania AI – od analizy umów c...

Łatwo zatracić się w fikcji, gdy w realnym życiu tak trudno odnaleźć prawdziwą miłośćKamila, trzydziestolatka zmęczona nieudanymi związkami, odnajduje ukojenie w słowach. Pisanie jest dla niej terapią i ucieczką od samotnej codzienności. Gdy zaczyna tworzyć powieść o wymarzonym mężczyźnie, fikcyjny bohater niespodziewanie staje się jej… obsesją.Wtedy w jej życie wkracza on – arogancki i irytujący sąsiad celebryta. Manki to absolutne przeciwieństwo wszystkiego, czego Kamila sz...

1915, the Cabrach. In the fierce, wild beauty of this remote corner of Scotland, an isolated community makes a discovery: an ancient body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved.Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and Johnny, a nomadic singer and farm hand.Soon afterwards, strange events begin to occur. At hearthside and inn, people whisper: what have we unearthed?As tensions run high and men leave for war, old fears and secrets...

A groundbreaking new understanding of happiness to help us build a fuller, more authentic life.We all want a good life. But do the simple, predictable pleasures we call happiness lead to complacency and regret? Does a life of purpose invite narrow or misplaced loyalties?Now, one of our foremost psychologists Shigehiro Oishi proposes a new way to live. Psychological richness is a concept that prioritizes curiosity, exploration and a variety of experiences. These can be as simp...

You’ve heard of IQ and EQ. But in today’s world, they’re no longer enough. We need the Agility Quotient (AQ). In a time defined by nonstop disruptions, when jobs vanish overnight, industries evolve in months, and yesterday’s rules no longer apply, AQ—the Agility Quotient—is the intelligence you need to handle change, uncertainty, and the unknown. The good news is that, with the right toolkit, you can grow your agility and learn to navigate a world of increasing instability. D...

Twenty-five years ago, Tiger Woods achieved the greatest feat in golf history: the ‘Tiger Slam’. Now, for the first time, the award-winning author of Tommy’s Honor delivers a riveting account of Tiger at his most brilliant - dominating the game in a way we will never see again.In 1997 Tiger Woods wins the Masters by the largest margin in history, becoming the first Black player to win a major championship. Four years later, the world watches with breathless anticipation as he...