A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. If you adopt the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are you may live up to a decade longer. So what's the formula for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has lead teams of researchers across the globe to uncover the secrets of Blue Zones - geographic regions where high...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the...

When the Bantrys wake to find the body of a beautiful, young stranger in their library, Dolly Bantry knows there's only one person to call: her old friend Miss Marple. Who was the young girl? What was she doing in the library? And is there a connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry? Miss Marple must solve the mystery, before tongues start...

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. 'Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma...

Nate, najmłodszy z rodu McKinleyów, nie podążył utartą przez ojca ścieżką, ale wybrał dla siebie zupełnie inną drogę. Osiągnął sukces i zdobył pozycję na rynku jako właściciel firmy ochroniarskiej. Keira Fitzpatrick to rozpieszczona córka senatora i celebrytka. Nate nie wspominał najlepiej spotkań z nią podczas przyjęć, które obsługiwała jego firma. Dlatego postanowił za wszelką cenę trzymać...

'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument' Observer The final diaries of Che Guevara begin in 1966, when he travelled to Bolivia to foment a revolution, and end just two days before his death in October 1967. They form an unvarnished account of his guerrilla campaign against CIA-backed Bolivian troops, fighting in the jungle...

Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points - industrial or transportation hubs - cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell delves deep...

Become a competent, confident spell-worker with this practical guide to witchcraft, presented in a beautiful hardback with gilded page edges. Containing an extensive collection of traditional spells and techniques, this guide will help readers attract positive friendships, love and luck as well as promote healing, careers and protection. The Practical Book of Witchcraft is an...

'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first...

Czterej bracia. Dwie trudne misje. Zapierająca dech w piersiach przygoda trwa. Genialna kontynuacja bestsellerowej serii „The Inheritance Games”. Grayson Hawthorne został wychowany na następcę swojego dziadka, miliardera Tobiasa Hawthorne’a. Lecz teraz wielki Tobias Hawthorne nie żyje, a jego rodzina została wydziedziczona, jednak lekcje, których udzielił wnukom, nadal procentują. Kiedy...

Based on the success of the original, The Business 2.0 continues to offer Business English students the fundamentals and skills they need to succeed in the competitive international business environment.

Based on the success of the original, The Business 2.0 continues to offer Business English students the fundamentals and skills they need to succeed in the competitive international business environment.

Go on a journey from bean to brew and explore the history of coffee, its production and how to become an expert barista at home. Are you a coffee lover who wants to learn how to extract the perfect brew? This coffee guide is a must-have for anyone looking for information and inspiration to experiment with different beans, methods, and flavours. Inside this essential go-to guide to all things...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, 'In a German Pension', appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The...

The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history. The book is a...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider: the only book you need to read on this subject. *An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year* Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of...

Primary Readers obejmują książeczki z serii Storytime i Christmas-time. Lektury te są przeznaczone dla dzieci w wieku 9-12 lat, uczących się w klasach IV-VI szkoły podstawowej lub na kursach językowych. Dostępne na trzech poziomach – niebieskim, czerwonym i zielonym, mogą służyć jako uzupełnienie każdego kursu języka angielskiego. Pięknie ilustrowane książeczki motywują dzieci do...

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the...

Tracklista: CD 1: Melkweg Amsterdam 1979 Live at Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 12, 1979" 1. Seventeen Seconds 2. Accuracy 3. M 4. 10:15 Saturday Night 5. Play for Today 6. In Your House 7. Fire in Cairo 8. A Forest 9....

Entertainment oraz Supermassive Games łączą siły, aby dostarczyć graczom utrzymaną w konwencji horroru przygodową grę akcji. Seria Dark Pictures składa się z oddzielnych epizodów, utrzymanych w konwencji horroru, aby systematycznie dostarczać nowe, przepełnione grozą doświadczenia graczom. Wszystkie epizody są od siebie niezależne i będą prezentować zupełnie odmienne historie, jak i...