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NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM. The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai... Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection s title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China â “ taking the world s #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Liu s writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu s stories show humanity s attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos. Cixin s trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war GUARDIAN. Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States.

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The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem.From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore our place in the universe, pitting the vastness of space against the fragility of humanity.The scale of Liuâ ™s imagination is immense, exploring both the infinite and the infinitesimal, the epic and the intimate. Here, machine intelligences create art or sow terror, humanity is annihilated or created anew, alien civilizations come bearing gifts, or they come in the cold logic of universal war. Solar systems are devoured, planets are turned into spaceships, and time is reversed.With a physicistâ ™s mind and a philosopherâ ™s heart, Liu takes us to the boundaries of the cosmos and consciousness... but thatâ ™s just where his imagination begins.STORIES INCLUDE:With Her Eyes, Contraction, End of the Microcosmos, Whale Song, The Wandering Earth, Fire in the Earth, The Micro-Era, Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming, The Village Teacher, The Messenger, Fibers, Sun of China, Devourer, Sea of Dreams, The Thinker, Destiny, Heard It in the Morning, Butterfly, Cannonball, Cloud of Poems, Glory and Dreams, Of Ants and Dinosaurs, Mirror, The Circle, For the Benefit of Mankind, Taking Care of God, Ode to Joy, Mountain, 2018-04-01, Moonlight, Curse 5.0, The Time Migration.

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The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North AmericaPRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: A mind-bending epic. -The New York Times * War of the Worlds for the 21st century. -The Wall Street Journal * Fascinating. -TIME * Extraordinary. -The New Yorker * Wildly imaginative. -Barack Obama * Provocative. -Slate * A breakthrough book. -George R. R. Martin * Impossible to put down. -GQ * Absolutely mind-unfolding. -NPR * You should be reading Liu Cixin. -The Washington PostThe Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China s most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries time. The aliens human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth s defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he s the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath s EndOther Books by Cixin LiuBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the SkyThe Wandering EarthA View from the Stars

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Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he s the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

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Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age NPR Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel WIRED Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth.Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they ll need to keep the world running.But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents world. And though they imagine a better, brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity s dark instincts...

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The instant New York Times bestseller. A heartbreaking and high-stakes story of queer love and survival set against the backdrop of a climate change apocalypse, this book is Station Eleven and The Last of Us meets All Thatâ ™s Left in the World.The world is about to end. Again.Itâ ™s been a year since a devastating storm ripped Lizâ ™s world apart. Haunted by the memories of those she couldnâ ™t save, Liz holes up in the only place she felt safe before her world fell away: the bookstore where she used to work. Now she spends her days trading books for supplies and collecting stories from the remaining survivors who pass by.Until she learns that another earth-shattering storm is coming . . . and everything changes.Enter Maeve, a spiky out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night. When Maeveâ ™s secrets and Lizâ ™s inner demons come back to haunt them both, they find themselves fighting for their lives and asking themselves one big question.As the end of the world approaches, is there time for one final love story?â ˜A thoroughly original, intimate and sometimes harrowing meditation on survival, forgiveness and learning how to love again at the almost end of the worldâ ™ Nicola Yoon, New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Starâ ˜Hopeful, thrilling, and twisty, The Last Bookstore on Earth is the snarky sapphic dystopian of our dreamsâ ™ Jennifer Dugan, author of Some Girls Doâ ˜Hauntingly beautifulâ ™ Jarrod Shusterman, New York Times bestselling author of Dry I was hooked from the first page Jenny Ireland, award-winning author of The First Move and The Boy Next Door A slow-burn sapphic romance plays out against the challenges of apocalyptic life in a reflective, poignant take on climate dystopia Observer Vivid Publishers Weekly Stellar Kirkus

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A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories – a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself. Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction s most visionary writers.

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THE MUST-HAVE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION, THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS AND COLLECTORS:â ” Exclusive foil hardcoverâ ” Full colour, illustrated endpapersâ ” Full colour, designed printed edgesThe award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon â “ now a major Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China s Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang s investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. Praise for The Three-Body Problem: Your next favourite sci-fi novel Wired Immense Barack Obama Unique George R.R. Martin SF in the grand style Guardian Mind-altering and immersive Daily Mail Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

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The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELOver 1 million copies sold in North America A mind-bending epic. -The New York Times * War of the Worlds for the 21st century. -The Wall Street Journal * Fascinating. -TIME * Extraordinary. -The New Yorker * Wildly imaginative. -Barack Obama * Provocative. -Slate * A breakthrough book. -George R. R. Martin * Impossible to put down. -GQ * Absolutely mind-unfolding. -NPR * You should be reading Liu Cixin. -The Washington PostThe Three-Body Problem is the first novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China s most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.Set against the backdrop of China s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath s EndOther Books by Cixin LiuBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the SkyThe Wandering EarthA View from the Stars

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Divoce imaginativní scifi román od autora bestsellerové trilogie Vzpomínka na Zemi V den oslavy svých čtrnáctých narozenin se Čchen namísto šťastného sfouknutí svíček na dortu stane svědkem smrti obou rodičů. Přímo před jeho očima je zabije kulový blesk, přírodní jev, jímž se dodnes zabývá mnoho vědců. Čchen se zatvrdí a rozhodne se zasvětit zkoumání kulového blesku celý svůj život. Čím víc toho Čchen ví, tím silněji si uvědomuje, že kulový blesk je jen špičkou ledovce úplně nových obzorů fyziky. Samotářský a odhodlaný vědec se díky svému úkolu setkává se spoustou lidí, kteří jsou stejně jako on hnáni kupředu nějakou posedlostí. Jako červená nit se Čchenovým příběhem linou poslední slova jeho otce: Klíčem ke krásnému životu je okouzlení. Román Kulový blesk vznikl ještě před vydáním Liou Cch -sinovy slavné ságy Vzpomínka na Zemi a lze jej číst nejen jako samostatné dílo, ale také jako předmluvu k této trilogii.

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We re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. A View from the Stars features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu s prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu s experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.

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Weâ ™re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... Weâ ™re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future. â “ Cixin Liu, from the essay Sci-Fi Fans A View from the Stars features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu s prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu s experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.

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1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China s Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang s investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredicatable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem series⠔now a Netflix Original series⠔A View from the Stars is a new collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces.A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu s prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu s experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.⠜A vital collection. . . . down-to-earth, but unafraid to ask big questions.⠝⠔Publishers WeeklyThe Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath s EndOther Books by Cixin LiuBall LightningSupernova EraTo Hold Up the SkyThe Wandering EarthA View from the Stars

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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon â “ now a major Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China s Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang s investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.Praise for The Three-Body Problem: Your next favourite sci-fi novel Wired Immense Barack Obama Unique George R.R. Martin SF in the grand style Guardian Mind-altering and immersive Daily Mail Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

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Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location.This is Cixin Liu s THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY.Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity s struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum.Available now in a single volume, including:1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM2 THE DARK FOREST3 DEATH S ENDRead the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.

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Imaginativní povídková sbírka od autora bestselleru Problém tří těles. Liou Cch -sin, nejznámější čínský autor science fiction, uchvátil svět svou rozsáhlou trilogií Vzpomínka na Zemi, avšak jeho povídková tvorba je neméně strhující a zajímavá. V těchto příbězích o sluneční smrti, mimozemských civilizacích nebo cestování časem a vesmírem najdou čtenáři podnětné meditace o technologii i umění, kontrastech rozlehlosti a mikroskopičnosti světů, ale i o nekonečném boji mezi životem a smrtí. Každá z těchto povídek jako by ve zkratce zachytila Liouovo soucitné chápání lidstva a hlubokou reflexi lidské povahy. Dohromady pak slouží jako úžasná a inspirující hostina pro fantazii.

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First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien⠙s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien⠙s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954⠓5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. From sweeping themes as complex and profound as the metaphysics of Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Númenor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, and even who had beards!This new collection, which has been edited by Carl F Hostetter, one of the world⠙s leading Tolkien experts, is a veritable treasure-trove offering readers a chance to peer over Professor Tolkien⠙s shoulder at the very moment of discovery: and on every page, Middle-earth is once again brought to extraordinary life.

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First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien⠙s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien⠙s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954⠓5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. From sweeping themes as complex and profound as the metaphysics of Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Númenor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, and even who had beards!This new collection, which has been edited by Carl F Hostetter, one of the world⠙s leading Tolkien experts, is a veritable treasure-trove offering readers a chance to peer over Professor Tolkien⠙s shoulder at the very moment of discovery: and on every page, Middle-earth is once again brought to extraordinary life.

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An award-winning nature therapy session for the soul--encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.In a series of 12 lyrical nature essays, herbalist, writer, and Earth intuitive Asia Suler illuminates the healing power of the living Earth--and gives us permission to nurture self-compassion and empathy as forces for personal and ecological healing.In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth.Here, Suler reveals the opposite: our goodness, our empathy, our intuitive connections, and our capacity for self-compassion are more than personal traits or antidotes to despair: they are, in fact, our most potent vehicles for planetary transformation. And as we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth.Combining poetic nature writing with exercises and reflection prompts at the end of each essay, Mirrors in the Earth coaxes us to come as we are: to discover and tend the inherent brilliance and medicine that lives in each of us. From the manatee-calm springs of wild Florida to the flower-dotted coves of the world’s most biodiverse mountains, Mirrors in the Earth is an invitation and encounter with the benevolence of the living world--and a nature therapy session for the soul.

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IT S NOT ABOUT THE DESTINATION...During her travels, Elaina visits all kinds of places—hostile and welcoming, honest and dishonest. On this leg of her journey, she stops by a string of restaurants abuzz with rumors of an enigmatic country whose location no one seems to know, tries to give purpose to a peacekeeping organization in a city without any crime, helps track down a bloodthirsty killer in a place where the people have outlawed magic, and spends time in a kingdom that uses sleep as currency. Meanwhile, in the past, a young Fran travels with her teacher to the Land of Actors, where every day is a constant performance. As always, life is never boring for the Wandering Witch.

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Planet Earth. Four elements. One incredible story. Lonely Planet Kids The Big Earth Book takes children on a rollercoaster ride through history, geography, science and more to show how four elements - earth, fire, air and water - created the world and everything that exists today. Amazing facts, photography and illustrations bring our planet and its past to life in an exciting, engaging way. Written by Mark Brake, a science writer and broadcaster who s worked for NASA, the BBC and the National Science Museum of Thailand, and created in consultation with Dr Mike Goldsmith, a research scientist and writer with a PhD in astrophysics from Keele University in the UK. Highlights include: Earth: How the Earth was formed The structure of the Earth Plate tectonics and rocks Earthquakes and volcanoes Humans in the stone age Hunter-gatherers and farming Fossils and digging for treasure DNA: the code of life Fire: Ingredients for fire Fire and humans The history of fire The dangers of wildfire The Great Fire of London Gunpowder and fireworks The combustion engine Carbon and global warming Air: What s air made of? The Northern Lights How animals learned to fly Dinosaurs in the air Birds and bats The history of flight Speech and language Music and instruments Weather and climate Water: The origins of water Rivers and oceans The water cycle The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Canals, bridges and dams Exploring the seas The age of exploration Tsunamis and waterfalls About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let s start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.

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Kniha - 210 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 210 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Find your way through every part of J.R.R. Tolkien s great creation, from the Middle-earth of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to the undying lands of the West...The Atlas of Tolkien s Middle-earth is an essential guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days as recounted in The Silmarillion to the Third Age of The Lord of the Rings, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring.Hundreds of maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters day by day including all the battles and key locations of the First, Second and Third Ages. Plans and descriptions of castles, buildings and distinctive landforms accompany thematic maps describing climate, vegetation, languages and population throughout the history of Middle-earth.

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A funny, fresh comic-strip look at the amazing (and very long!) history of planet EarthTake a whirlwind comic strip trip through 4.5 billion fascinating years of Earth s history, discovering how Earth and the solar system formed, how the first life evolved in the oceans, LUCA, the ancestor of all living things, what became of the dinosaurs, and much, MUCH more.Each book works as a timeline, combining information spreads with comic strip stories, and supported throughout by high-interest facts and plenty of humour. Perfect for kids aged 9 and up.Contents: Our humble home/The whole of time at a glance!/It started with a BANG!/Nothing! Or was there?/Hello sunshine!/The early Earth/Collision course/Water world/It s raining rocks!/A spark of life/Meet your ancestor! Millions of years of microbes/New cells on the block/Land on the move/Party atmosphere!/Snowball Earth/Animals arrive/Life explosion/Stepping ashore/Green scene/The age of fish/Tetrapod takeover/Day of the dinosaurs/Phew! What a scorcher!/Dinosaur battle/Sea and sky monsters/Furry and feathery/Asteroid alert!/Goodbye dinosaurs/Glossary/Index

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A classic collection of the New Yorker s most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergencyIn 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet.At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben s work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face.The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change - its past, present, and future - taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben s seminal essay The End of Nature, the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.

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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A triumph Independent Literary alchemy SFX1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man s Land gone?2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever.And that is an understatement if ever there was one...____________________This is the first novel in the Long Earth series. The Long Earth series deserves a place on the bookshelves of hardcore SF fans and general readers alike Independent on Sunday

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Catrice The Cozy Earth, 9 g, Paletky očních stínů pro ženy, Oční stíny se sametově jemnou texturou Oslňte svět okolo sebe s nepřehlédnutelným pohledem. Paletka očních stínů Catrice The Cozy Earth s osmi vysoce pigmentovanými odstíny a různými matnými a třpytivými efekty umožňuje vytvářet nekonečné kombinace pro denní i noční líčení. Upoutejte své okolí očima, které utkví v paměti. nbsp; Vlastnosti: snadno se na oční víčko nanáší a roztírá vytváří na víčku matný či třpytivý efekt obsahuje osm vysoce pigmentovaných stínů Složení: neobsahuje minerální oleje veganské složení Jak aplikovat: Pro výrazné oční líčení použijte z paletky Catrice The Cozy Earth světlý odstín na vnitřní koutek oka a tmavší odstín na vnější koutek oka. Pro 3D efekt naneste třpytivý odstín na střed pohyblivého očního víčka a tmavší matný odstín do záhybu očního víčka. Notino tip: Doplňte svůj nepřehlédnutelný look o objemovou řasenku s voděodolnou texturou Catrice Curl Perfector.

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*Winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2025**Winner of the the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2025* â ˜Dazzlingâ ¦ brilliantâ ¦ exactly the kind of history that we need on our crisis-ridden planetâ ™ - Tom Simpson, TLSIn this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Spanish silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railways and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against nature. Amrithâ ™s account of the ways in which the First and Second World Wars involved the massive mobilization not only of men, but of other natural resources from around the globe, provides an essential new way of understanding war as an irreversible reshaping of the planet. He also reveals the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm. The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth. Amrith relates, on the largest canvas, a mind-altering epic â “ vibrant with stories, characters, and vivid images â “ in which humanity might find the collective wisdom to save itself.

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Velkolepé finále nejoceňovanější sci-fi série současnosti. Půl století po Bitvě soudného dne mezi lidmi a Trisolarany stále trvá napjaté přiměří, jehož zárukou je fundamentální princip temného lesa. Země díky trisolaranským technologiím zažívá dosud nevídanou éru prosperity. Lidská věda postupuje mílovými kroky kupředu a Trisolarané zase přejímají pozemskou kulturu. Zdá se, že obě civilizace budou záhy schopny rovnoprávně koexistovat v míru bez strašlivé hrozby vzájemného zničení. Lidstvo ve zlatém věku má však sklon k samolibosti. V nové éře se z hibernace probouzí Ccheng Sin, letecká inženýrka z jednadvacátého století. Přináší s sebou informace o dávno zapomenutém projektu z počátku trisolaranské krize a sama její existence může narušit křehkou rovnováhu mezi oběma světy. Dosáhne lidstvo ke hvězdám, nebo zahyne už v kolébce?

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Závěrečný díl světového fenoménu od nejlepšího čínského autora science fiction Půl století po Bitvě soudného dne mezi lidmi a Trisolarany stále trvá napjaté přiměří, jehož zárukou je fundamentální princip temného lesa. Země díky trisolaranským technologiím zažívá dosud nevídanou éru prosperity. Lidská věda postupuje mílovými kroky kupředu a Trisolarané zase přejímají pozemskou kulturu. Zdá se, že obě civilizace budou záhy schopny rovnoprávně koexistovat v míru bez strašlivé hrozby vzájemného zničení. Lidstvo ve zlatém věku má však sklon k samolibosti. V nové éře se z hibernace probouzí Ccheng Sin, letecká inženýrka z jednadvacátého století. Přináší s sebou informace o dávno zapomenutém projektu z počátku trisolaranské krize a sama její existence může narušit křehkou rovnováhu mezi oběma světy. Dosáhne lidstvo ke hvězdám, nebo zahyne už v kolébce?

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When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family s survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan s desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family s money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

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Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know; the perfect combination of science, philosophy and madness Daniel Kwan, Oscar-winning director of Everything Everywhere All At OnceHumankind has been reduced to the height of handspan - a transformation that is both potentially lethal and exasperatingly inconvenient On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists - are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something other? Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a monumental discovery - God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we ve been taught to expect. As Goodwin prepares to make first contact with the omnipresent ocean-spanning creature, forces conspire in the wings, and the spectre of imminent catastrophe inches closer and closer still . . . Dark, witty, and wildly ambitious, Mikey Please guides us into The Expanded Earth, a high-stakes adventure packed with jeopardy and life-affirming beauty - a story that ultimately celebrates the capacity of small things to effect great change. The first in a spellbinding trilogy, this beautifully illustrated debut novel marks the arrival of a new talent and perhaps a new genre - the world of the micropocalypse.

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The Wombles live in a beautifully snug, well-ordered and cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common - the perfect base from which to sort and recycle all the rubbish that unthinking humans constantly drop. But the Wombles peaceful and harmonious existence is suddenly under threat.

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The New York Times-bestselling author begins a gripping new saga about a refugee from the future come to save the Earth and the one naval space officer who believes her.

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Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen s parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics.Chen s obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can t insulate him from the real world s interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat. Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Liu s award-winning Three-Body trilogy.Praise for Cixin Liu: Your next favourite sci-fi novel Wired Immense Barack Obama Unique George R.R. Martin SF in the grand style Guardian Mind-altering and immersive Daily Mail A milestone in Chinese science-fiction New York Times China s answer to Arthur C. Clarke New YorkerWinner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

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A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth s first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus lunch. From humble tooth-picking origins, ants and dinosaurs â “ two species so unalike and yet so complementary â “ forged an alliance that culminated in an antimatter-powered Age of Wonder. But such magnificent industry came at a price â “ a price paid first by Earth s biosphere, and then by all those dependent on it. And yet the dinosaurs refused to heed all warning of impending ecological collapse, leaving the ants facing a single dilemma: destroy their allies... or perish alongside them? Made my brain itch with its creativity and klaxon alarm... Deceptively simple and brilliantly clever, I simply adored it LoveReading Liu s sense of fun is contagious Locus

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This moving picture book about an anxious girl’s arrival at a new school celebrates kindness, learning to face your fears, and the profound difference one brilliant teacher can make in a child’s life. Celebrate the teachers you love on Teacher Appreciation Day, at graduation, or any day by sharing Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year. Lila Greer is full of worries. Even the smallest things—from cabbages to cardboard—fill her with dread and what-ifs. So when her family makes a big change—moving to a new town—the worry and what-ifs only grow. What if things go wrong? What if no one likes her? At first, Lila feels right to be worried. In her new home, everything is strange. The new kids, the new smells. Lila feels alone and invisible. But there’s one person who sees her: Lila’s teacher, Ms. Kern. Through some creativity, blackboard erasers, and—most of all—kindness, Ms. Kern finds a way to make Lila feel welcome and open to new experiences. A lesson that will resonate with Lila long after second grade.Check out all the books in the Questioneers Series: The Questioneers Picture Book Series: Iggy Peck, Architect | Rosie Revere, Engineer | Ada Twist, Scientist | Sofia Valdez, Future Prez | Aaron Slater, Illustrator | Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year | Billie Jean Peet, AthleteThe Questioneers Chapter Book Series: Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters | Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants | Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion | Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote | Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs | Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake | Lila Greer and the Shrieking ShadowQuestioneers: The Why Files Series: Exploring Flight! | All About Plants! | The Science of Baking | Bug Bonanza! | Rockin’ Robots! | Team Green!Questioneers: Ada Twist, Scientist Series: Ghost Busted | Show Me the Bunny | Ada Twist, Scientist: Brainstorm Book | 5-Minute Ada Twist, Scientist StoriesThe Questioneers Big Project Book Series: Iggy Peck’s Big Project Book for Amazing Architects | Rosie Revere’s Big Project Book for Bold Engineers | Ada Twist’s Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists | Sofia Valdez’s Big Project Book for Awesome Activists | Aaron Slater’s Big Project Book for Astonishing Artists

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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.Earth has. Now the predators are coming.Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he s the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

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It was the Ice and Snow Arts Festival that lured the low-temperature artist to Earth. Drawn by the beauty and technical skill of the sculptures displayed, the extraterrestrial visitor longed to collaborate and share its own art.But while humans learnt to craft ice into exquisite ephemera, the low-temperature artist s civilisation mastered the manipulation of whole worlds to create artworks - drawing on the seas and ice caps, and cooling their temperature to beautiful effect.Faced with the inevitable devastation and heat death of their planet, humankind must use their final breaths to fight for existence. But the artist will only speak to one human: Yan Dong, the ice sculptor whose beautiful work first drew its eye.

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This award-winning picture book tells with spare, elegant prose and poignant illustrations how Lila saves her Kenyan village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows. For months the sun has burned down on Lila’s village. It is too hot to gather firewood, or weed the garden. It is even too hot to milk the cow. Without rain the well will run dry and the crops will fail. Lila is so worried that when her grandfather whispers the secret of rain to her, she sets off to talk to the sky herself.Lila and the Secret of Rain introduces the topics of natural resources and the impact that extreme weather can have on people’s lives in a tender way that children can relate to. With the added magic of folklore, the African setting sparks interest in our world’s diverse cultures. Your heart will be drawn again and again to follow Lila in her quest to save her village with the secret of rain. *A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner*

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â ˜A touch of Jekyll and Hyde in this story of murder, vengeance and bonds of friendship. Fine stuffâ ™ Ian Rankinâ ˜BRILLIANT!!â ™ Suzy K Quinnâ ˜Thrillingâ ™ Riley Sagerâ ˜A smart, taut thrillerâ ™ Chris BohjalianPraise for Lisa Unger:â ˜The best nail-biter I have read for agesâ ™ Lee Childâ ˜Gripping suspense at its bestâ ™ Karin Slaughter* * * *You committed the perfect crime. But someone knows the truth.You followed the trial obsessively. You know heâ ™s guilty and canâ ™t believe he got away with it.But someone is determined to see justice done.Rain Winter left journalism behind to focus on her baby daughter. But when a man acquitted for murder is killed, in the same way as his suspected victims, Rain sees a pattern emerging between a series of cold cases.Meticulous and untraceable, this killer strikes in the dead of night, making sure that the guilty are suitably punished for their crimes.As Rainâ ™s investigation deepens, she must face up to dark secrets in her own past and the realisation that the killer may be closer than she thinksâ ¦From bestselling author Lisa Unger comes a dark and addictive psychological suspense which will keep you breathless until the last page.* * * *Crime writers love Lisa Unger!â ˜Suspenseful, sensitive, sexy, subtle. The best nail-biter I have read for ages. Highly recommendedâ ™ Lee Childâ ˜This is one book that will have you racing to the last page, only to have you wishing the ride wasnâ ™t overâ ™ Michael Connellyâ ˜Riveting psychological suspense of the first order. If you havenâ ™t yet experienced Lisa Unger, what are you waiting for?â ™ Harlan Cobenâ ˜Deliciously intense and addictiveâ ™ Karin Slaughterâ ˜This is a haunting, compulsive tale that will have you under its spell long after youâ ™ve closed the book.â ™ Tess Gerritsenâ ˜A twisting labyrinth of a book where nothing is as it seemsâ ™ Lisa Gardnerâ ˜A perfectly dark and unsettling, spellbinding thrillerâ ™ Mary Kubica

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Lila has just moved to a new town and can t wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: A crow! A crow! The new girl s hair is black like a crow! The others whisper and laugh, and Lila s heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes. Now every day at school, Lila hides under her turtleneck, dark glasses, and hat. And every day when she goes home, she sees a crow who seems to want to tell her something. Lila ignores the bird and even throws rocks at it, but it won t go away. Meanwhile, the great autumn festival is approaching. While the other kids prepare their costumes, Lila is sadder and lonelier than ever. At her lowest point of despair, a magical encounter with the crow opens Lila s eyes to the beauty of being different, and gives her the courage to proudly embrace her true self.

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From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world s leading artistsHans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world s greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes. Inspired by the great Vasari, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects explores the meaning of art and artists today, their varying approaches to creating, and a sense of how their thinking evolves over time. Including David Hockney, Gilbert and George, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Rem Koolhaas, and Oscar Niemeyer, this is a wonderful and unique book for those interested in modern art.

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Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Changes Book Prize, Rachel Mannheimer⠙s debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with tenderness how art and love intersect to make one⠙s life. Transporting the reader across decades and from the Moon to Mars by way of Alaska, Berlin, and the Hudson Valley, Earth Room considers a lineage of sculpture, performance, and land art⠔from Robert Smithson to Pina Bausch⠔with observations shaped by gender and environment, history and portents of apocalypse. With an urgent, direct, and unmistakably powerful voice, Mannheimer tests the line between nature and culture, ordinary life and performance.A work of sly wit and bracing sincerity, Earth Room is an original, unsparing book that Louise Glück calls ⠜a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves.⠝RACHEL MANNHEIMER was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she works as a literary scout and as a senior editor for The Yale Review. This is her first book.⠜Multiple readings of Rachel Mannheimer⠙s thoroughly fresh debut reward and fascinate like multiple visits to Walter De Maria⠙s eponymous ⠜Earth Room⠝ installation. This book is a charismatic travelogue for our interior and exterior landscapes; it⠙s a conceptual art catalog with a poet⠙s notes written in the margins; it⠙s a one-act play of engrossing verbal theater. The stupendous Earth Room makes language a place. It⠙s roomy, it⠙s personal, it⠙s every day.⠝⠔TERRANCE HAYES, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin ⠜Rachel Mannheimer⠙s Earth Room is something uncanny. Behold the odd charge in the atmosphere: one minute, your attention is carried forth by the poems⠙ calibrated details and riveting textures of thought; the next, you⠙re inexplicably bereft, left with a dense, lush grief lodged inside you. It⠙s a feat the poem pulls off again and again: making traces of meaning felt while leaving much unseen. Earth Room registers the body traversing and impressing upon the edges of psychic, physical, and imagined landscapes⠓and at each way station and geographic marking, Mannheimer⠙s warm, animating intelligence renews its insistent claim on life⠙s blurriness and opacity. Earth Room is a singular and lambent collection, made perfectly strange.⠝⠔JENNY XIE, author of Eye Level⠜To describe Rachel Mannheimer⠙s elegiac Earth Room, I need to borrow the words an astronaut used to convey his first impression of the moon: ⠘magnificent desolation.⠙ This is an intimate, understated, lunar-lit work of earthen dispossession in which Mannheimer⠔in community, in grief, in love, and in solitude⠔acknowledges the very fine eroding line between art and life, and dares not only to cross it, but to do so with abandon. There is nowhere in this vertiginous work, as it takes us to memorials, galleries, performances, parks, guestrooms, seascapes, and cemeteries, in which the scale of human atrocity is not palpably encountered in ⠘direct, tactile intimacy.⠙ Earth Room is a wholly original confessional-ekphrastic undertaking that brings artifice and reality so close they speak with a single crystalline voice⠔Mannheimer⠙s. This is an extraordinary book.⠝⠔ROBYN SCHIFF, author of A Woman of Property⠜How many voices can sustain an entire book length poem? I think of Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson. And here, Mannheimer, as she thinks aloud on the page with her supple, discerning intelligence. This is that rare work that is both profoundly alert to its historical moment and also, in the questions it entertains and the magnitude of its intent, timeless.⠝⠔LOUISE GLÜCK, author of Faithful and Virtuous Night

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With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33) Thus Livy describes the reaction to the Roman commander T.Q. Flamininus proclamation of the freedom of Greece at the Isthmian games near Corinth in 196 BC. Half a century later Greece was annexed as a province of the Romans who burned the ancient city of Corinth to the ground. Books 31 to 40 of Livy s history chart Rome s emergence as an imperial nation and the Romans tempestuous involvement with Greece, Macedonia and the near East in the opening decades of the second century BC; they are our most important source for Graeco-Roman relations in that century. Livy s dramatic narrative includes the Roman campaigns in Spain and against the Gallic tribes of Northern Italy; the flight of Hannibal from Carthage and his death in the East; the debate on the Oppian law; and the Bacchanalian Episode. This is the only unabridged English translation of Books 31 to 40.The complete Livy in English, available in five volumes from Oxford World s Classics. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Kniha - 464 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 464 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo Award-winning The Fifth Season · Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards · A New York Times Notable Book · The inaugural Wired.com book club pick The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every outcast child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed. Praise for this trilogy: 'Amazing' Ann Leckie 'Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal 'Beautiful'...

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A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women.What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear the stories of women from this period?Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women who did. Those women were: Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a no-good wife . In their own ways these four very different writers pushed back against the misogyny of the period. Each of them broke new ground in womenâs writing and left us incredible insights into the world of medieval life and politics.Hetta Howes has spent her working life uncovering these womenâs stories to give us a valuable and unique historical biography of their lives that challenges what we hold to be common knowledge about medieval women in Europe. Women did earn money, they could live independent lives, and they thought, loved, fought and suffered just as we do today.This mesmerising book is an unforgettably lively and immersive journey into the everyday lives of medieval women through the stories of these four iconic women writers, some of which are retold here for general readers for the first time.

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Discover the amazing story of our home planet – as told by Earth itself – by award-winning duo Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley.Welcome to Earth – the planet we call home. From its very earliest beginnings 4.5 billion years ago to the birth of life, rise of biodiversity and the myriad creatures and lush landscapes that cover its surface – it’s ALL here!Planet Earth: My Life So Far is a comic-style, first-person account by Earth itself of its own life story. It includes the formation of Earth and the Moon, Earth’s geographical and geological features, its habitats, life forms past and present, and the challenges it faces today. Planet Earth is written in Mike Barfield’s hilarious style and accompanied by Jess Bradley’s quirky and colourful comic-strip illustrations. Perfect for fans of the award-winning A Day in the Life... series.

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Sacred Earth Celebrations is the revised and updated version of Glennie KindredÂ’s bestselling, classic book, Sacred Celebrations. It is an uplifting and inspiring source book for everyone seeking to celebrate and honor the changing rhythms and seasons of the Earth and her cycles. Uplifting and inspiring, it explores the eight Celtic festivals, how they were celebrated and understood in the past, the underlying changing energy of the Earth, and the ways we may use this energy to create meaningful celebrations for today to deepen our connection to the Earth and our fellow human beings.Glennie offers a vibrant, contemporary approach and encourages us, whether celebrating on our own or with family and friends, to follow our own inspired interpretations of each festival. She helps us touch the sacred, share and participate in the power of nature, express our feelings, and find ways to focus on spiritual regeneration and healing.Sacred Earth Celebrations deepens our understanding of the five elements, the laws of manifestation, the rhythms of the Moon, Earth energies and sacred landscape, inner journeying, and meditation. It explores ways to create sacred space both inside and outside, celebrations for children, crafts, the use of song and dance, garden and land projects, building a sweat lodge and labyrinths, and many other creative activities to help us connect to the moment, to the Earth, and to each other.

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**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An epoch-defining book Matt Haig If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this David Sexton, Evening StandardSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New StatesmanA Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.Over the past decades, the term Anthropocene has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.

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