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Brink opens with its title-poem and it stays on the brink of various worlds and conditions throughout. Most crucial is the brink between life and death, each of which is seen from the perspective of the other as in the great five-part sequence ‘Republic’, showing how death is interwoven into life. But, precarious as the brink is, the unyieldingly sympathetic foundation of these poems in the reality of family and immediate perception is wholly redemptive. Ferriter’s is a world aware of Rilke’s beauty and terror; Art, particularly music, offers consolation for the fragility and terror of the world in Bosnia or Afghanistan or Civil War Kerry. There are great, redemptive elegies for Shane McGowan, Sinead O’Connor and Seamus Begley.

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THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024''Ferriter tells the latest chapter in Ireland''s story with authority and insight, deftly weaving together economic and political upheavals with equally tumultuous societal and cultural shifts'' Financial Times ''Forensic and insightful... A major achievement. Ferriter delivers his material with the authority and conviction of a born teacher'' Irish Independent Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined the scale of the transformation. The new diversity of the population and literary and musical prowess also revealed a country experiencing rapid alteration.The road to peace - that saw an end to war in Northern Ireland and culminated in the first visit to southern Ireland of a reigning British monarch in 100 years - illuminated the new Anglo-Irish dynamic. Explosive revelations about deep betrayals from the past destroyed the credibility of the traditionally powerful Catholic Church. And in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Ireland rebounded ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined the scale of the transformation. The new diversity of the population and literary and musical prowess also revealed a country experiencing rapid alteration.The road to peace - that saw an end to war in Northern Ireland and culminated in the first visit to southern Ireland of a reigning British monarch in 100 years - illuminated the new Anglo-Irish dynamic. Explosive revelations about deep betrayals from the past destroyed the credibility of the traditionally powerful Catholic Church. And in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Ireland rebounded and rebuilt to great success, but remained plagued by health and housing failures. Economic recovery, the end of civil war politics, ever closer European involvement and Anglo-Irish highs were followed by Brexit lows and increasing talk of Irish unity.There is much to open people''s eyes in this riveting account ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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THE IRISH BESTSELLER''Ferriter has richly earned his reputation as one of Ireland''s leading historians'' Irish Independent''Absorbing ... A fascinating exploration of the Civil War and its impact on Ireland and Irish politics'' Irish TimesIn June 1922, just seven months after Sinn Féin negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government to create the Irish Free State, Ireland collapsed into civil war. While the body count suggests it was far less devastating than other European civil wars, it had a harrowing impact on the country and cast a long shadow, socially, economically and politically, which included both public rows and recriminations and deep, often private traumas.Drawing on many previously unpublished sources and newly released archival material, one of Ireland''s most renowned historians lays bare the course and impact of the war and how this tragedy shaped modern Ireland.

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Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who ought to.'' The TimesFor the past two decades, you could cross the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic half a dozen times without noticing or, indeed, turning off the road you were travelling. It cuts through fields, winds back-and-forth across roads, and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. It is frictionless - a feat sealed by the Good Friday Agreement. Before that, watchtowers loomed over border communities, military checkpoints dotted the roads, and smugglers slipped between jurisdictions. This is a past that most are happy to have left behind but might it also be the future?The border has been a topic of dispute for over a century, first in Dublin, Belfast and Westminster and, post Brexit referendum, in Brussels. Yet, despite the passions of Nationalists and Unionists in the North, neither found deep wells of support in the countries they identified with politically. British political leaders were often ignorant of the conflict''s complexities, rarely visited the border, and privately disliked their erstwhile unionist allies. Southern leaders'' anti-partition statements masked relative indifference and unofficial cooperation with British security ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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A comprehensive introduction to the styles and techniques of portrait photography. Through simple projects on subjects such as 'Making Self-Portraits' and 'Capturing Personal Moments' as well as captivating profiles of twenty internationally acclaimed photographers, Cian Oba-Smith and Max Ferguson give you a visual tour of the medium. Perfect for the aspiring portrait photographer, this manual includes: * Projects with which to experiment and develop your technique * Inspirational profiles of leading photographers from around the world * A complete overview of the most exciting, continually evolving form of photography

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A brisk, humorous collection of essays that redefines the mythos of fatherhood depicted in film, television, and video games.What do dads tell us about the world? Not your real dad, but dads in general. Dads are everywhere. Lurking in our movies, television shows, and video games. Spouting homespun wisdom and atrocious jokes, wallowing in might-have-beens and back-in-my-days, or rigidly defending the status quo. These fictional dads fuel a myth of fatherhood. What is that myth trying to tell us? And what is it trying to sell us? Dad Bod is a clever, riveting collection of essays about father figures in popular culture. From Gandalf to Homer Simpson, Die Hard to The Mandalorian, these essays unpack the tropes that inform our collective image of fatherhood. Follow Cian Cruise, newly minted dad, as he riffs on the stereotypes and lore of fatherhood, traces a contemporary art history of dads in popular culture, and journeys to the heart of dadness to become a better father.A RARE MACHINES BOOK

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Břink!: Družina dobrodruhů – rozšíření pro více hráčů a nová dobrodružstvíRozšiřte svou partu a ponořte se do dungeonu v šesti! Břink!: Družina dobrodruhů je rozšíření pro oblíbené deckbuilding hry Břink! a Břink! V katakombách, které přináší nové postavy, asymetrické schopnosti a možnost hrát až v šesti hráčích. Do dungeonu vstupují elf, trpaslík, mág, ork, robot... a dokonce i lstivá kočka Fousek! Každá postava má vlastní balíček a styl hry, díky čemuž se každá partie stává jedinečnou. 2–6 hráčů, ideální pro větší skupiny Asymetrické postavy se specifickými schopnostmi a balíčky Nový protivník – hladová hydra, která přidává další vrstvu výzvy Kombinovatelné s hrou Břink! i Břink! V katakombách Délka hry cca 90 minut, doporučený věk 13+ Co rozvíjíTaktické myšlení, schopnost adaptace a týmovou i individuální strategii. Díky odlišným postavám je každé rozhodnutí unikátní – každý hráč musí využít svůj potenciál naplno, aby v dungeonu přežil a přitom nasbíral co nejvíce pokladů.Obsah balení 6 postav s unikátními startovními balíčky Nové herní karty a komponenty pro rozšíření základní hry Prvky pro přidání 5. a 6. hráče Nový nepřítel: hydra Břink!: Družina dobrodruhů je ideálním doplňkem pro hráče, kteří si chtějí užít Břink! v ještě větším počtu a s větší dávkou zábavy. Připravte se ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Břink! V katakombách – dobrodružná deckbuilding hra s překvapivým plánemVstupte do temných katakomb a zažijte napínavý závod o poklady – s novou samostatnou hrou ze série Břink! budete procházet tajemné chodby, bojovat s nestvůrami, sbírat artefakty a snažit se neupozornit dračici Umbrok Vessnu. Břink! V katakombách přináší jedinečný herní zážitek díky tomu, že herní plán vzniká až v průběhu hry přikládáním dílků, takže každá partie je jiná.Hra využívá osvědčený princip deckbuildingu, kde si hráči postupně vylepšují svůj balíček karet, kterými se pohybují, bojují a získávají poklady. Pozor však na přílišný hluk! Vaše kostičky hluku mohou přivolat útok dračice, a to může být osudové. Ve hře nechybí novinky jako duchové, portály nebo strašidelné dílky a čeká vás také mnoho rozhodnutí – který poklad se vyplatí risknout?Co hra rozvíjí Strategické plánování a správu zdrojů Rozhodování v nejistotě a s omezenými informacemi Koordinaci pohybu, útoků a využití balíčku Proč si ji zamilujete Samostatně hratelná hra s možností kombinace s ostatními tituly série Břink! Jedinečný modulární plán vytváří napínavé a neopakovatelné partie Bohatý obsah a atraktivní vizuál s fantasy atmosférou Zábavný zážitek jak pro zkušené hráče, tak pro fanoušky tematických her Obsah balení Deska Břink! 28 dílků katakomb + výchozí dílek 120 kostiček hluku ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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''It wasn''t only Britain''s biggest heist, it became the bloodiest'' Mail on SundayThe inside story of the 20th century''s most lucrative armed robbery.On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink''s-Mat warehouse at London''s Heathrow Airport. The heist made the careers of many of the underworld''s biggest names, and changed the face of British crime for ever. In the years following the robbery, many of those involved, innocent and guilty alike, have been sent to an early grave. Two decades on, the death toll is still rising. Nobody knows more about that extraordinary morning''s events than Wensley Clarkson. Nobody is better placed to track the vicious, violent and unexpected waves that followed in its wake, or bring to life its cast of larger-than-life characters. From small-time crime in south-east London, to ''the heist of the century'' and its bloody consequences, Wensley Clarkson''s The Curse of Brink''s-Mat is an epic tale of villainy, gold and revenge.

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With crime of heightened concern in the country''s largest cities, Peter Moskos brings readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s, and won.From the 1970s to the early 1990s, New York City was seen, justifiably, as out of control. The city approached bankruptcy, the subways were covered with graffiti, and murders were at a record high. Right-wing fearmongering and vigilante justice were countered by liberal pleas to end poverty and provide drug treatment--none of which happened. Then, in a surprising break from the past, new NYPD leadership decided to focus on crime. Between 1993 and 1996, New York City''s murder numbers were cut in half, dropping to under 1,000 for the first time in decades. Eventually New York City would have fewer than 300 murders, fewer than Chicago, with one-third the population. Fewer than Baltimore, even, with one-fifteenth the population. In Back from the Brink, Peter Moskos takes readers behind the Blue Wall, telling the story of "The New York City Miracle" from the men and women who were on the job. Moskos, a sociologist and former ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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''Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator'' Dan Snow, History Hit''Vividly brings to life a terrible year'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times''Sheds intriguing light on just how close Churchill was to losing his grip on power'' Publishers WeeklyIn 1942, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. From the collapse in Malaya and the biggest surrender in British history at Singapore to the passing of three large German warships through the Straits of Dover in broad daylight and the longest ever retreat through Burma to the gates of India, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession. People began to claim that Churchill was not up to the job and his leadership was failing badly. Public morale reached a new low.In 1942: Britain at the Brink, Taylor Downing charts the frustration and despair that characterised this year. Most people think that Britain''s worst moment of the war was in 1940 when the nation stood up against the threat of German invasion. Here, Downing describes in nail-biting detail what was really Britain''s darkest hour.

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Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the humanities in crisis? In answer to these questions, Laughing on the Brink of Humanity seeks not some essence of the human but rather an epiphenomenal manifestation-a sign of the human. The book finds such a sign in the joyless, painful, and often deadly laughter that resonates when we cross the barrier between what is human and what is not: animality, machinery, divinity. Jan Miernowski brings together a wide swath of discourses and figures, from Plato and the Bible through early modern humanism, to Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Hannah Arendt, Claude Lanzmann, Spike Jonze, Tom Stoppard, and Michel Houellebecq. Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity-in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science-the book offers an exercise in epihumanism appropriate to our posthuman age.

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Pánská turistická obuv ALFA BRINK ADVANCE GTX M je navržena pro aktivní pohyb v přírodě i ve městě. Díky membráně GORE-TEX® Extended Comfort zůstávají vaše nohy v suchu za každého počasí, zatímco ripstop textilní svršek zvyšuje odolnost proti opotřebení. Podrážka Vibram® Grip A/P/S poskytuje vynikající trakci na mokrých i suchých površích, samočistící efekt vzorku usnadňuje údržbu. Anatomicky tvarovaná stélka EVA tlumí nárazy a podporuje pohodlí při dlouhých túrách. Dvojitý zámek šněrování umožňuje přesné nastavení podle tvaru chodidla. Impregnované tkaničky zabraňují absorpci vody, poutka usnadňují nazouvání. Nízká hmotnost a skladnost činí tento model vhodným i pro vícedenní výlety v různých terénech.

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An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He is also a lover, a friend, a husband, and a father. Having declared his great topic to be “the infinitude of the private man,” he is nonetheless an intensely social being who develops Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore Parker. And although he resists political activism early on—hoping instead for a revolution in consciousness—the burning issue of slavery ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson’s life alongside landmark essays like “Self-Reliance,” “Experience,” and “Circles,” Glad to the Brink of Fear reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and freedom, race and inequality, love and grief. It shows, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Selected for the Woman’s Own Book Club May 2023One of Prima Magazine’s Best New Books May 2023''Warm, wry, sad and brilliantly sharp'' Daily Mail''Clever, fresh and original'' Nina Pottell, Books Editor at Prima MagazineDan and Anya Moorcroft have decided to get a divorce. Together, they’ve done it all. Two kids, three owned houses, four rented flats, fifty-something holidays, and one affair apiece. Now, after fifteen years together (nine of them married) they’re on the brink.But as they go through couples’ mediation, revisiting and rediscovering their shared history in sessions surrounded by lawyers and paperwork, are they about to find something that’s worth saving? Or are they going to reaffirm their decision to end things for good?Each section of the book is a focus area for the divorce mediation process: sex, home, money, family, us. Through this, the novel explores how marriage is built on bonds between people and the experiences they share. It goes back in time to reveal Dan and Anya’s past. And then returns to the present day as they work out their future.''Witty, wise and honest'' Katie Marsh''Moving and charming'' Kate Sawyer

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Inventions on the Brink, a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engagingly plainspoken and informed essays on American poetry from Edgar Allan Poe to the present, written by a poet with long experience in the classroom. The collection discusses writers as divergent as Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and A. R. Ammons, Gerald Stern and John Prine. It includes a separate section of essays examining the craft of translation with attention to specific works translated from ancient Greek, Italian, and modern French. A distinguishing feature of the book is that it is informed by literary theory but independent of any particular critical modality. Barbarese writes about literature for a general audience, particularly readers with wide tastes interested in engaging with literary art. His essays are the outcome of deeply reading and internalizing work he has known, studied, and admired over the course of a long career of publishing, teaching, and public lecturing.

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The Fourth volume of the best-selling sci-fi detective series - Detective Bridget Kurtis has to solve a brand new mystery.The entire planet of Mercury seems to have vanished and a video clip is implicated in what looks like a mass-kill ... as always on the brink of existence, truth may be stranger than fiction.In the late 21st century, after humanity has left the Earth it poisoned and now huddles in deep-space Habitats, life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, with many spilling over into madnessHSD cop Bridget Kurtis has investigated cults and murders that have driven her to the very edge, but now she must stop the spread of a viral video clip which sends viewers insane...

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