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Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life - Sir Andrew Motion

Philip Larkin: A Writer''s Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as ''an exemplary biography of its kind'' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century''s most popular, and most private, poets. ''There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion''s, like Forster''s of Dickens, will always have a special place.'' John Carey, Sunday Times''Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer''s life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man''s frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary ''Life'' of him.'' Peter Conrad, Observer''Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion''s book could not be bettered.'' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

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New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 - Sir Andrew Motion

This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion’s distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems.Certain preoccupations unite the book, which from first to last is particularly concerned with the ways in which our lives are shaped by loss – by wars, by accidents, by the erosion of time and by grief. Motion is an energetic and protean spirit, a listener and a watcher, and while his poems mostly develop his themes by using intimate and lyric forms, they also sometimes adapt from direct speech and documentary sources. In every case, and especially movingly in the long poem ‘Essex Clay’, Motion uses acts of personal witness to reflect the vulnerabilities of the world at large.These are extraordinary poems of and for our times, enlarging our sense of the cost of human experience even as they refine those sensibilities that keep us most alive and engaged with the present. ‘Andrew Motion is one of the essential English poets of our time.’ John Burnside‘Motion’s greatest and most distinctive gift . . . is to look squarely at the world and describe it with ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Sleeping on Islands - Sir Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence — where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion — to the excruciations of early public appearances, to the decade he spent as Poet Laureate, promoting and ensuring the central place of poetry in a nation’s character. Along the way, we hear about the risks and sacrifices involved, as well as the difficulties of sustaining a commitment to writing within a helix of other obligations. We see in close-up the significance of Motion’s formative relationship with W. H. Auden and his subsequent friendship with Philip Larkin. And during his time as Laureate, we witness memorable encounters with Royalty and Prime Ministers, and discover the costs and complications that accompany such a high-profile role.By turns moving and humorous, this is the intimate story of a rare poetic life. And it proves Motion’s contention that the poems we most enjoy ‘are not weird visitations, or ornaments stuck on the surface of life, but part of life’s daily bread’.

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Essex Clay - Sir Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion’s prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, over a decade later and after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel – but this time in verse. Essex Clay rekindles, expands and gives a tragic resonance to subjects that have haunted the poet throughout his writing life. In the first part, he tells the story of his mother’s riding accident, long unconsciousness and slow death; in the second, he remembers the end of his father’s life; and in the third, he describes an encounter that deepens the poem’s tangled themes of loss and memory and retrieval. Although the prevailing mood of the poem has a sweeping Tennysonian melancholy, its wealth of physical details and its narrative momentum make it as compelling as a fast-paced novel: a settling of accounts which admits that final resolutions are impossible.

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William Barnes - Sir Andrew Motion

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and music, taught himself wood engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. He was deply interested in grammar and language, and waged a lifelong campaign to rid English of classical and foreign influences. Among his best-known books of poetry are Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1844) and Homely Rhymes (1859. His work has often been praised for its evocations of Dorset life, landscape and customs; he also wrote political poems of great power and was a master elegist. Barnes died in 1886.

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The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin - Philip Larkin

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin''s poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin''s typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript and printed sources have been scrutinized afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of the text and of dates of composition are provided; and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected. Variant wordings from Larkin''s typescripts and the early printings are recorded.For the first time, the poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Due prominence is given to the poet''s comments on his poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnett''s commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Philip Larkin Poems - Philip Larkin

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin''s four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.''Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there''s another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom?... Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.'' - Martin Amis

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Collected Poems - Philip Larkin

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin''s Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin''s own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin''s ''own'' collected poems.

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Philip Larkin: Letters Home - Philip Larkin

The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin''s writing life: his correspondence ''home'' to his father, mother and sister. Letters Home helps tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a ''conservative anarchist'' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in LarkinÂ’s life; to his timid, depressive mother Eva, who by contrast lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship. In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as ''Young Creature'' and ''Old Creature'', with which he enlivens his letters throughout ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The North Ship - Philip Larkin

The North Ship, Philip Larkin''s earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its content.This is the first thingI have understood:Time is the echo of an axeWithin a wood.

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The Whitsun Weddings - Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England''s best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that ''this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand''. Behind this modest description lies a poet who made greatness look, in Milton''s prescription, ''simple, sensuous and passionate''.This collection, first published in 1967, contains many of his best-loved poems, including The Whitsun Weddings, An Arundel Tomb, Days, Mr Bleaney and MCMXIV.

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The Less Deceived - Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin''s second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers.The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again. from ''At Grass''

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High Windows - Philip Larkin

Larkin''s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces (''The Old Fools'', ''This Be the Verse'', ''The Explosion'', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet.Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass,And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. from ''High Windows''

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High Windows - Philip Larkin

Larkin''s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces (''The Old Fools'', ''This Be the Verse'', ''The Explosion'', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet.This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber''s publishing over the decades.

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The Penguin Book of Elegy - Andrew Motion, Prof Stephen Regan

''A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and unignorable'' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month)Elegy is among the world''s oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp.In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Denise Riley.The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, The Penguin Book of Elegy is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honour the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.

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The New Long Life - Scott Andrew J., Lynda Gratton

A practical guide to how we can positively adapt to a changing world, from the internationally bestselling authors of The 100-Year Life'The London Business School professors Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton have been predicting how society must adapt for years. Now they have a post-pandemic road map for us all' Sunday TimesSmart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great heights, but at the same time it has prompted anxiety about where we're heading. Are our jobs under threat? If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working? And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others?One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. In our era of unprecedented change, we haven't yet discovered new ways of living.Drawing from the fields of economics and psychology, Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton offer a simple framework based on three fundamental principles (Narrate, Explore and Relate) to give you the tools to navigate the challenges ahead. The New Long Life is the essential guide to a longer, smarter, happier life.

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The 100-Year Life - Scott Andrew J., Lynda Gratton

What will your 100-year life look like?A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface''Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying'' Niall FergusonDoes the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse – life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.The 100-Year Life is here to help.Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew J. Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis as well as a raft of solutions, showing how to rethink your finances, your education, your career and your relationships and create a fulfilling 100-year life. · How can you fashion a career and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Rabalux 75011 stropní LED svítidlo Larcia, 19 W, černá

Stropní LED svítidlo Larcia s černým plastovým diskem a bílým stínítkem má výkon 19 W a barevnou teplotu 4000 K. Disponuje pohybovým senzorem a krytím IP44 pro ochranu proti vodě a prachu. Průměr svítidla je 285 mm a montuje se ve vzdálenosti 70 mm od stropu.

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Rabalux 75009 stropní LED svítidlo Larcia, 18 W, černá

Kulaté stropní LED svítidlo Larcia s výkonem 18 W poskytuje svítivost 970 lumenů se stínítkem. Disponuje krytím IP44, které chrání proti stříkající vodě a pevným částicím. Svítidlo má průměr 280 mm a je vhodné do obývacích pokojů, ložnic nebo kuchyní.

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Jill - Philip Larkin

Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable ''friend'', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world …‘Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.'' Joyce Carol Oates‘Remarkable … A book about innocence.’ Simon Garfield''A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.'' Andrew Motion

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A Girl in Winter - Philip Larkin

Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the ‘best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.'' (Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One winter''s day, she receives a telegram: and her thoughts drift back to falling in love with her pen-pal, Robin Fennel, on a glorious summer exchange. But on his return from the army, their reunion is not what they imagined ...‘Beautiful.’ Nina Stibbe‘Remarkable … Diffused poetry.’ Simon Garfield‘Highly sensitive … Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf.’ Joyce Carol Oates‘Funny and profoundly sad.'' Andrew Motion''Strange and beautiful ... Short, intense and obsessed with the tiny ballets of social interaction, they could only have been written by someone very young (the writer they most remind me of is Sally Rooney) ... Weird but brilliant ... Zingily contemporary.’ Sunday Times

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The Imagined Life - Porter Andrew

A taut, elegiac, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve.Driving up the coast of California, Steven seeks out his father’s friends, family, and former colleagues, and is transported back to his 1980s childhood: his parents’ legendary pool parties, black-and-white films on the backyard projector, his father’s male friends in the cabana house… With every revelation his father becomes more difficult to recognise, and, with every insight, Steven must confront truths about his own life.In cinematic prose, Andrew Porter explores the full nexus of male relationships: fathers and sons, husbands and lovers—set achingly against the US AIDS epidemic and the homophobia of the 1980s—and masterfully weaves a tale of trauma, generational secrets, forbidden love, and shame.

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Grit, Rigour & Humour - Barclay Patrick, Quentin Willson, Andrew Likierman, Steph McGovern, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Sebastian Coe, Sean Keach, Dominic O'Co

''Manual for success'' The AthleticWith an opening chapter by Sir Jim RatcliffeTo mark the 25th Anniversary of the founding of INEOS in 1998, seven leading specialist authors explore the main strands of INEOS''s business, including its core chemical business to its ventures into sport, automotive, consumer goods, sustainability, next generation and philanthropy.* Dominic O''Connell on INEOS'' core petrochemicals and energy business* Patrick Barclay on INEOS''s involvement in sport from the America''s Cup to cycling, athletics to Formula 1 and football* Quentin Willson on the building of the Grenadier from scratch in response to the demise of the Land Rover Defender* Steph McGovern on INEOS'' move into the consumer goods sector with brands such as Belstaff and INEOS Hygienics, so vital during the pandemic* Sean Keach on INEOS'' journey to Net Zero and sustainable investment* Lord Sebastian Coe on the vital importance of exercise for the next generation, with a particular focus on INEOS''s worldwide children''s exercise initiative, ''The Daily Mile'', and the ''Forgotten 40'', the 40% of the UK''s young who are affected by a lack of basic resources to remain fit and healthy* Sir Andrew Likierman on INEOS'' philanthropic projects and investmentsGrit, Rigour & Humour offers an extraordinary and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin - Alan Bennett

Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail. Ranging from hidden treasures to famous poems, this is a collection for the beginner and the expert alike. Speaking with candour about his own reactions to the work, Alan Bennett creates profound and witty portraits of Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin, all the more enjoyable for being in his own particular voice.Anybody writing poetry in the thirties had somehow to come to terms with Auden. Auden, you see, had got a head start on the other poets. He''d got into the thirties first, like someone taking over the digs.

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At the Loch of the Green Corrie - Andrew Greig

A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.''At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressively broad erudition'' - Sunday Herald''You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer'' - ScotsmanFor many years Andrew Greig saw the poet Norman MacCaig as a father figure. Months before his death, MacCaig''s enigmatic final request to Greig was that he fish for him at the Loch of the Green Corrie; the location, even the real name of his destination was more mysterious still. His search took in days of outdoor living, meetings, and fishing with friends in the remote hill lochs of far North-West Scotland. It led, finally, to the waters of the Green Corrie, which would come to reflect Greig''s own life, his thoughts on poetry, geology and land ownership in the Highlands and the ambiguous roles of whisky, love and male friendship. At the Loch of the Green Corrie is a richly atmospheric narrative, a celebration of losing and recovering oneself in a unique landscape, the consideration of a particular culture, and a homage to a remarkable ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Rules For Modern Life - Tang Sir David

Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine's cards to one's pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if you've ever struggled for the right response to an unwelcome gift or floundered for conversation at the dinner party from hell, fear not: help is at hand. In Rules for Modern Life, Sir David Tang, resident agony uncle at the Financial Times, delivers a satirical masterclass in navigating the social niceties of modern life. Whether you're unsure of the etiquette of doggy bags or wondering whether a massage room in your second home would be de trop, Sir David has the answer to all your social anxieties - and much more besides

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The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 - Philip Gourevitch

A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world''s best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. From Faulkner''s determination that a great novel takes ''ninety-nine percent talent . . . ninety-nine percent discipline . . . ninety-nine percent work'', to Gabriel Márquez''s observation that ''in the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book'', The Paris Review has elicited revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets and playwrights. With an introduction by Orhan Pamuk, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, comprising: Graham Greene, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Robert Lowell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, John Gardner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, James Baldwin, William Gaddis, Harold Bloom, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Peter Carey and Stephen King. ''A colossal literary event'' as Gary Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Interviews vol. 2 is a treasury of wisdom from the world''s literary masters.

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Stone Men - Andrew Ross

"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine’s largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle East countries and even more overseas.Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel, Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating, ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build out the state of Israel—in the process, constructing "facts on the ground"--even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For decades, the hands that built Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine-Israel conflict in a new light, this book asks how this record of achievement and labor can be recognized.

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Heart Yoga - Karuna Erickson, Andrew Harvey

***WINNER, 2010 Spirituality & Practice Best Spiritual Book Award – YogaIn Heart Yoga, renowned spiritual writer and Sacred Activist Andrew Harvey and longtime yoga teacher Karuna Erickson present a vision of hatha yoga practice that links ancient spiritual traditions to contemporary life. Including excerpts of poetic sacred writing from mystical sages through the ages, the book reminds readers that the purpose of yoga is not to improve one''s physical health or even to achieve peace of mind (although these results may be achieved along the way), but to reach a state of unity with the divine, the goal of mystics from all traditions. With detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty yoga poses and their alchemical effects on the body and consciousness, Heart Yoga presents yoga as a simple meditative practice that enables the practitioner to dwell in the heart and experience the bliss of union with the sacred power underlying all of life. The book explains how to prepare for Heart Yoga and describes the “Five Great Joys” that are part of the path. Included are the authors'' own compelling stories of their individual journeys along the path of yoga: stories of suffering, transcendence, and joy that both inspire and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Writer - Ben Berkowitz, Max Berkowitz, Josh Gad

The Writer plunges readers into the captivating world of Stan Siegel, a renowned comic book writer, whose life spirals into a terrifying adventure beyond the confines of reality. Alongside his mother Liz and daughter Izzy, Stan faces an onslaught of Nazis, demons, and mythical creatures drawn from Jewish folklore. As they navigate a landscape steeped in occult mysteries, their quest for answers reveals hidden identities and ignites a high-stakes race against an emerging terror. This gripping series not only celebrates the essence of comic book storytelling but also embarks on an exploration of heroism, legacy, and the power of writing.

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The Writer's Cats - Muriel Barberyová

An entertaining and gorgeously illustrated portrait of a writer's life avec chats from the acclaimed author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.Like so many writers, Muriel Barbery is a lover of cats. Grey-furred and amber-eyed, Barbery's four Chartreux cats keep her company as she works from her house in the French countryside, entertaining her with their quirks and foibles.But that's not all. For Kirin, Ocha, Mizu and Petrus are no ordinary felines. These intelligent creatures have taken it upon themselves to guide their owner's writing - flicking aside sections of her manuscript with a disdainful tail, pointing an approving paw at others. And it's time these mischievous literary consultants get the recognition they deserve.With delicious wit and irony, and delightful illustrations by Maria Guitart, the beloved author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog gives an insight into her writing life - and the paws behind the pen.

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Diesel Fuel For Life Homme - EDT 125 ml

Diesel Fuel For Life Homme je pánská toaletní voda uvedená na trh v roce 2007. Vůně se vyvíjí od svěžích tónů grapefruitu a anýzu přes střední tóny maliny a levandule k dřevitému základu s otočníkem. Díky své přirozené kompozici je vhodná pro různé příležitosti.

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On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures - Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and learn from their example.I have lucked into things continuously. I have done things which have seemed appalling at the time, disastrous even, but out of them has come another story or a deeper knowledge of human character and the ability to express myself better on paper and write books which people enjoy reading. Along the way, I have lived a life that I could never have imagined.I have been privileged to meet people from all corners of the globe, I have been wherever my heart has desired and in the process my books have taken readers to many, many places. I always say I've started wars, I've burned down cities and I've killed hundreds of thousands of people - but only in my imagination!From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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An Improbable Life - Trevor McDonald

Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals. In An Improbable Life, Sir Trevor recounts his personal experience of world events and interviews with globally famous - or notorious - figures. He has witnessed war and death and risked his own life to meet and talk with despots and liberators. We read about his first trip to South Africa, and obtaining the first British television interview with Nelson Mandela; his reflections on the Windrush generation; and experiencing Barack Obama''s momentous inauguration as President of the USA. We are also present at his dramatic meetings with Saddam Hussein (the first and only one by a British television correspondent) and Muammar Gaddafi.Engaging, intimate and moving, this is the life story of an exceptional journalist and broadcaster who over decades has expertly revealed to us history in the making.

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The Writing Life - Annie Dillard

"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." — Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer''s life.In these short essays, Annie Dillard—the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood—illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillard’s own experiences while writing her works, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions.

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Vopi Dětský koberec City life, 133 x 165 cm

Dětský koberec City life o rozměrech 133 x 165 cm nabízí měkký a pohodlný povrch s motivem budov a silnic. Slouží jako dekorativní doplněk i vzdělávací hračka pro dlouhodobou zábavu. Vzor je střižen z metráže, takže se může mírně lišit, s opakováním přibližně po 2 metrech.

  • Měkký a pohodlný povrch pro hraní
  • Vzdělávací vzor s budovami a silnicemi podporuje kreativitu
  • Vhodný jako dekorace i hračka do dětského pokoje
  • Velikost 133 x 165 cm poskytuje dostatek prostoru

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Alu-Frost Kryt prahu pátých dveří - nerez+karbon CITROËN JUMPY III, Opel Zafira Life, Opel Vivaro II (30-5550)

Ochranná lišta hrany kufru Alu-Frost chrání prahy pátých dveří vozů CITROËN JUMPY III, Opel Zafira Life a Opel Vivaro II. Výrobek je vyroben z kombinace nerezové oceli a karbonového vzhledu. Slouží jako praktická ochrana proti mechanickému poškození při nakládání.

  • Chrání hrany kufru před poškozením
  • Kvalitní kombinace materiálů nerez a karbon
  • Snadná instalace bez nutnosti vrtání
  • Přesné padnutí pro uvedené modely vozů

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Odkládací stolek Life Oak

Odkládací stolek Life Oak je vyroben z melaminované dřevotřísky o tloušťce 18 mm. Rozměry 60 cm na šířku, 60 cm na výšku a 20 cm na hloubku zahrnují polici vysokou 27 cm. Design v dubovém dekoru kombinuje odolnost s moderním vzhledem.

  • Vyrobeno z odolné melaminované dřevotřísky s tloušťkou 18 mm pro stabilitu a snadnou údržbu.
  • Široká pracovní plocha (60x60 cm) a police (výška 27 cm) poskytují praktický úložný prostor.
  • Elegantní dubový dekor a jednobarevné provedení dodají interiéru teplo a moderní vzhled.

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Life in the Garden - Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.

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The Writing Life - Annie Dillard

A slim volume that bursts with insight by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard, illuminating the creative process and the trials of a writer's life

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Noční stolek Sirius Right Oak

Noční stolek Sirius Right Oak je vyroben z melaminované dřevotřísky v barvě dubu o tloušťce 18 mm. Nabízí horní desku, otevřenou polici a zásuvku pro úložný prostor. Rozměry jsou 32 cm na šířku, 61 cm na výšku a 30 cm do hloubky.

  • Robustní konstrukce z 18mm melaminované dřevotřísky v barvě dubu
  • Praktický úložný prostor s horní deskou, otevřenou policí a zásuvkou
  • Kompaktní rozměry (32x61x30 cm) vhodné i do menších prostor

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Noční stolek Sirius Left Mocha

Noční stolek Sirius Left Mocha je vyroben z melaminované dřevotřísky o tloušťce 18 mm, zajišťující pevnost a odolnost. Má kompaktní rozměry 32 cm na šířku, 61 cm na výšku a 30 cm na hloubku, což poskytuje praktický úložný prostor. Světlá barva mocha dodává ložnici teplý a příjemný vzhled.

  • Vyrobeno z odolné 18 mm melaminované dřevotřísky pro dlouhou životnost.
  • Kompaktní rozměry (32x61x30 cm) ideální pro malé prostory.
  • Světlá barva mocha vytváří útulnou a relaxační atmosféru.
  • Snadno čistitelný hladký povrch pro minimální údržbu.

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Noční stolek Sirius Right Light Mocha

Noční stolek Sirius Right Light Mocha je vyroben z melaminované dřevotřísky o tloušťce 18 mm. Má kompaktní rozměry 32x61x30 cm a světlou barvu moka. Nabízí praktický úložný prostor a snadno se udržuje.

  • Vyrobeno z odolné 18mm melaminované dřevotřísky pro dlouhou životnost.
  • Kompaktní rozměry (32x61x30 cm) ideální do menších ložnic.
  • Světlá barva moka vytváří útulnou a relaxační atmosféru.
  • Hladký povrch pro snadné čištění a údržbu.

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iSaprio Sir Giraffe pro iPhone 7 Plus / 8 Plus (sirgi-TPU2-i7p)

Tento zadní kryt z měkkého TPU materiálu chrání iPhone 7 Plus a 8 Plus. Zajišťuje dobrou odolnost a příjemný neklouzavý povrch. Veškeré konektory a tlačítka zůstávají plně přístupné.

  • Skvělá ochrana pro iPhone 7 Plus a 8 Plus
  • Měkký TPU materiál pro snadné nasazení
  • Příjemný povrch, který neklouže z ruky
  • Přesné výřezy pro všechny konektory a ovládací prvky

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Canis (CXS) Pracovní kraťasy SIRIUS BRIGHTON - Černá / žlutá | 50

Pracovní kraťasy Canis SIRIUS BRIGHTON v černé a žluté barvě jsou určeny pro profesionální použití. Model je dostupný ve velikosti 50 s dodací lhůtou 4 dny. Kraťasy kombinují praktičnost s odolným provedením.

  • Vysoká odolnost a trvanlivost materiálu
  • Praktický design s funkčními kapsami
  • Výrazné barevné provedení pro lepší viditelnost
  • Komfortní střih pro celodenní nošení

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Noční stolek Sirius Right White

Noční stolek Sirius Right White je vyroben z melaminované dřevotřísky o tloušťce 18 mm. Má rozměry 32 cm na šířku, 61 cm na výšku a 30 cm na hloubku. Nabízí prostornou zásuvku a horní plochu pro uložení osobních věcí.

  • Elegantní bílý design vhodný do jakéhokoli interiéru
  • Robustní konstrukce z 18 mm melaminované dřevotřísky pro dlouhou životnost
  • Kompaktní rozměry ideální do malých prostor s prostornou zásuvkou

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Noční stolek Sirius Left White 2

Noční stolek Sirius Left White 2 je vyroben z melaminované dřevotřísky o tloušťce 18 mm. Má rozměry 32 cm na šířku, 61 cm na výšku a 30 cm na hloubku. Nabízí kompaktní design s úložnou zásuvkou a bílou barvou.

  • Elegantní moderní design v bílé barvě pro klidnou atmosféru
  • Robustní konstrukce z 18 mm melaminované dřevotřísky pro dlouhou životnost
  • Kompaktní rozměry ideální do malých prostor s praktickou zásuvkou

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The Soaring Life of the Lark - John Lewis-Stempel

"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside. Their music is the quintessential sound of spring. The spirit of English pastoralism, they inspire poets, composers and farmers alike. In the trenches of World War I they were a reminder of the chattering meadows of home.Perhaps you were up with the lark, or as happy as one. History has seen us poeticise and musicise the bird, but also capture and eat them. We watch as they climb the sky, delight in their joyful singing, and yet we harm them too. The Soaring life of the Lark explores the music and poetry; the breath-taking heights and struggle to survive of one of Britain''s most iconic songbirds.PRAISE FOR JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL''Britain''s finest living nature writer'' - The Times''Lewis-Stempel is a fourth-generation farmer gifted with an extraordinary ability to write prose that soars and sings'' - Daily Mail

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Uganda - Andrew Roberts, Philip Briggs

Bradt''s Uganda has for many years been considered the go-to source of information for travellers interested in this extraordinary country, which boasts Africa''s most biodiverse - and arguably most exciting - safari circuit. Written by Philip Briggs, the world''s foremost guidebook writer on Africa, this new tenth edition of the most detailed travel guidebook available to Uganda has been thoroughly updated by local resident and experienced travel writer Andrew Roberts. Uganda excels for wildlife-watching, and recent transport improvements now make for relatively easy year-round access to key sites. Visit the lush montane forests of Bwindi, which protect one of the world''s largest remaining populations of mountain gorillas, watch habituated chimpanzees in Kibale and tree-climbing lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park, or enjoy outstanding birdwatching throughout - with more than a thousand bird species in a country similar in size to Great Britain. As well as treating readers to a dedicated wildlife chapter with over 100 colour wildlife photographs, Bradt''s Uganda guides visitors around key wildlife-watching experiences. It provides up-to-date coverage of gorilla-tracking options, describing gorilla groups and their locations - everything anyone who dreams of encountering these remarkable primates needs to know. Uganda is not just about wildlife. Hikers love ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Yoga Life - Brett Larkin

“Brett translates the magic of ancient yoga for those who need it most.” —James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of BreathOverwhelmed? Overscheduled? Want to access the benefits of yoga, but can’t seem to make it to the mat? Beat stress with a yoga ritual that works for you in 20-minutes or less. Featuring adaptations for anxiety, weight loss, injury, and prenatal yoga, this "playful and real" (Elena Brower) guide is a must-read for beginners and seasoned yoga teachers alike. We all know that yoga can calm your mind and heal your body, but let’s be real: It can be hard to cram one more thing into your messy, stressful, time-crunched life. Good news! If you're not making it to the mat, the problem isn’t you—it’s the yoga you’re practicing. Award-winning instructor and Uplifted Yoga founder Brett Larkin is here to help you design an adaptable, personalized practice, and cut to the chase with quick yoga habits that soothe your soul. With the support of quizzes and thirty book-exclusive companion videos you’ll learn: A five-step method to design a personal practice that works for your schedule. How to adapt your practice to meet your physical, mental, and emotional needs. More ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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