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Swiping, situationships, love bombing, ghosting, healing... Dating is hard. Why has making connections never felt so simple, yet keeping them has never been so complicated?To understand why nearly half of us report having negative dating experiences, sex & dating journalist Rachel Thompson has spent the past decade – coinciding with the advent of dating apps – investigating how we seduce, perceive, and treat each other in this new era.Written for all of us, but with particula...

We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at least, not immediately.In this game-changing intervention, leading philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns exposes the true extent of our wealth problem, which has spent the past fifty years silently spiralling out of control. In moral, politic...

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it underpins all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering, no computers.A century after the development of quantum mechanics, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat tells the full story of how scientists reckoned with a truth stranger than any fiction. John Gribbin leads us into the ever more bizarre and fascinat...

Conversation is at the heart of our relationships and our decision-making. From meeting a colleague to saying goodnight to our loved ones, our days are filled with verbal communication -- but the science of everyday conversation is little known. We may spend time thinking about difficult exchanges, but research shows that there’s room to improve seemingly easy interactions too. In Talk, Harvard professor Alison Wood Brooks shows how simple changes in how we communicate can en...

CARTER AND SADIE KANE, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts, Apophis, the giant snake of Chaos, is still threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Now the Kanes must do something no magician has ever managed - defeat Apophis himself. No pressure there then. Battling against the forces of Chaos, their only hope is an ancient spell - but the magic has been lost for a millennia. Will they find the serpent...

The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington PostMolly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was s...

For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.Blending intimate stories wi...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this epic edition of Tales of Ancient Egypt.Travel back deep in time to Ancient Egypt and discover the great myths and legends of the Sun God, Amen-Ra; the love story of Osiris and Isis; the curse of the book of Thoth and many other captivating tales of magic, treasure and adventure from one of the oldest and most fascinating civilizations in the world....

It’s Duggee’s birthday! Join the Squirrels as they prepare a surprise party for Duggee. Follow the tabs as they plan party invitations, decorations, and a cake all by themselves! This chunky eight tabbed board book is full of party fun.Happy Birthday Duggee!Don’t miss these other amazing Duggee books:Hey Duggee: Getting Ready for Bed: Tabbed Board BookHey Duggee: Vehicles: Tabbed Board BookHey Duggee: Duggee’s Nursery Rhymes: Tabbed Board Book...

Three women. One Killer.Talking to strangers has never been more dangerous...When forty-four-year-old Karen Simmons is found lifeless, abandoned in remote woodland, journalist Kiki Nunn is determined to beat every other reporter to the story.And she already has a head start. Just days before Karen’s murder, Kiki interviewed her about the highs and lows of mid-life romance. Karen told her about the expensive gifts and the starlit rendezvous. About the scammers and the creeps.....

'An espionage story of high literary calibre' Strong Words Magazine'A dramatic and thoroughly immersive account of loyalty, ideology and betrayal' Guardian'A terrific new voice in spy fiction…A complex, action packed portrait of a continent in ferment’ Mail on Sunday'In remarkably granular detail, Worrall conjures up a Fifties Paris where historical and fictional characters coexist' Sunday Times________________It's 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupie...

It's time to meet Bluey from the new hit animation!Join Bluey, Bingo, Chilli and Bandit for loads of adventures in this super jam-packed activity book with over 40 stickers!Meet Bluey! is the perfect sticker activity book for new fans of Bluey. Solve mazes, spot the differences and colour in Bluey and all her family and friends!

Join Bluey and Bingo in this jam-packed colouring book. Full of characters from the world of Bluey, children can use their crayons and pencils to bring each scene to life! With 64 pages to colour, this book is perfect for keeping Bluey fans busy for hours.

From finding a diamond in a bird's stomach, to stealing a racehorse - in these four stories, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes works with his friend Dr Watson. Holmes understands people and he finds many clues. But will he solve the crimes?Our Penguin Readers books include: Simple text (CEFR-levelled) Pictures to help you understand the story Fun exercises to help you learn and practise EnglishWith the print book, you can get even more help online: Read the book online Lis...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Anne of Windy Willows. Now a young woman and her romance with Gilbert Blythe beginning to flourish, Anne Shirley becomes Principal of Summerside High School. But Summerside is virtually ruled by the Pringle family, who don't want Anne at the school. It takes all of Anne's courage and tact, and the comfort she draws from the eccentric household a...

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.How to Give Up Plastic, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, ...

Nie tylko baśnie braci Grimm bawią i uczą najmłodsze pokolenia. Rosyjskie bajki ludowe, choć trochę zapomniane, śmiało mogą z nimi w tej dziedzinie konkurować. Rosyjskie opowieści zakorzeniły się w naszej świadomości dawno, dawno temu, tak więc najwyższy czas, by do nich powrócić. Wspólnie z małymi czytelnikami warto docenić uniwersalny przekaz historii o Kurze pstrokatce, Lisiczce z wałkiem albo Maszy i niedźwiedziu, która doczekała się nawet swojego filmowego, ani...

W 80 dni dookoła świata to najpopularniejsza powieść francuskiego pisarza Juliusza Verne’a, która swoją premierę miała w 1873 roku. Należy do cyklu powieściowego Niezwykłe podróże. Akcja książki rozpoczyna się w XIX-wiecznym Londynie. Phileas Fogg wiedzie samotne i uporządkowane życie - do czasu, gdy zakłada się, że w osiemdziesiąt dni okrąży cały świat. Wraz z księżniczką Aoudą i swoim służącym Obieżyświatem uczestniczą w szalonej, pełnej przygód podróży. Bohater k...

„Zanurzenie" współczesnego człowieka w świat mediów zwiększa się praktycznie z każdą chwilą, w sposób niezwykle złożony, dynamiczny i z ogromną szybkością. kształtujemy naszą rzeczywistość poprzez nowe formy jak nowej generacji seriale telewizyjne, które mnożą się w tempie ekspresowym, wprost trudnym go ogarnięcia i nadążenia.Doktorantka w bardzo dobrej pracy „zanurza" nas bardzo mocno we współczesność i jej potężne wyzwania, głównie związane właśnie z mediatyzacją, czyni to ...

Matylda, młoda dziewczyna po studiach, zaczyna swoje dorosłe życie w Kazimierzu. Razem z miłością swojego życia, Rafałem, dążą do spełnienia marzeń i rozwijania swojej pasji, jaką jest malarstwo. Niestety rzeczywistość nie będzie taka kolorowa. Matylda, żeby poradzić sobie ze swoimi emocjami, zaczyna pisać pamiętnik. Powoli wszystko zaczyna się układać, ale do czasu. Pewnego dnia Rafał znika bez śladu. Zrozpaczona dziewczyna szuka ukochanego, ale wszystko wskazuje na to, że m...

Młoda Nowa Kobieta/Nowy Człowiek, urodzona w roku 1910, wraca z krótkiego, ale owocnego pobytu w Bauhausie w Dessau (wśród studentek Bauhausu w Dessau nie było Polki, ale mogła być) z postanowieniem zrealizowania nowoczesnego filmu o Nowej Kobiecie (taki film nigdy nie powstał, ale mógł powstać). Światowy kryzys ekonomiczny, narastający faszyzm, wojna domowa w Hiszpanii i wybuch drugiej wojny światowej nie ułatwiają jej pracy.„To prawdziwe kompendium jest, summa, hipnotyczny ...

_______________________________________He thought it was his dream job. It turned into his worst nightmare.When Mitch McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. Bendini, Lambert and Locke were a small, well-respected firm, but their offer exceeded Mitch's wildest expectations: a fantastic salary, a new home, and the keys to a brand new BMW.Except for the mysterious deaths of previous lawyers with the firm. And the FBI in...

Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both an...

"Japan style" is an aesthetic recognizable to everyone: a beautifully displayed flower, an elegant piece of calligraphy, or a simple rock garden, yet it is also difficult to define.