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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London.Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?
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College sweethearts meet again years later, in this highly anticipated sequel to the viral TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet!Nora Mackenzie's entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend.Nora didn't end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it's come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he's holding a grudge. Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge.If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his heart, wants to be his agent, oh he'll let her be his agent. The plan is simple: make Nora's life absolutely miserable. But if Derek knows anything about the woman he once loved-she won't quit easily.Instead of giving in, Nora starts a scheme of her own. But then a wild night in Vegas leads to Nora and Derek in bed the next morning married. With their rule book out the window, could this new relationship be the thing to save their careers?
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Meddy and her meddling aunties are back and about to land themselves in a whole new world of trouble…After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her extended family. And a former beau of Second Aunt’s shows up bearing extravagant gifts―he’s determined to rekindle the romance!His grand gesture goes awry when a particular gift intended for a business rival is included by accident. When the Aunties return it (after all, anyone would forgive an honest mistake, right?), Meddy and the Aunties find themselves as helpless pawns in a decades-long war between Jakarta’s most powerful business factions. It’s up to Meddy to come up with a plan to save them all. Determined to rescue her loved ones, Meddy embarks on an impossible mission―but with the Aunties by her side, nothing is truly impossible…
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A day to remember . . .The Wedding Planner is a sparkling story about the winding road to happily ever after, from billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel.Faith Ferguson is one of New York’s most sought after wedding planners. Realizing dreams and making magic happen are part of why Faith loves her job. But weddings aren't always champagne and roses, and this particular year brings challenges both professionally and personally.On an estate in the Hamptons, the Alberts' event – with orchid swans, a firework extravaganza and added family strife – does not come without its problems. Morgan and Alex’s tasteful celebration in a handsome New York townhouse runs like clockwork, until a last minute addition to the guest list threatens to derail it. And a stiff, formal reception at a city club with a groom who cares more for his colleagues than his bride-to-be sends warning signals to Faith.Faith has come close to marriage twice – with disastrous consequences. She loves making magic happen for others, yet believes it isn't meant for her. But maybe the saying ‘never say never’ is true . . .
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Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a she has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City—and the distance from Ardith’s Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them.Ardith became a single mother when Morgan was seven, after her unfaithful husband died in a helicopter accident. In recent years, she has found amiable companionship with fellow actor Bill West. But Ardith’s comfortable world is turned upside down when she hires a temporary personal assistant, Josh Gray, while Bill is away filming in London. Josh’s rough-around-the-edges persona is the opposite of what Ardith is used to, but an unexpected tragedy brings them closer, stirring up conflicting feelings in her for this younger man.In New York, Morgan is swept off her feet by world-renowned TV anchorman Ben Ryan. Though more than two decades her senior, Ben is handsome, charismatic, and just as smitten as Morgan. But when a blackmail scheme puts his career—and their relationship—on the line, Morgan doesn’t know where to turn. Perhaps . . . to her mother? As each woman navigates an unconventional romance, they cautiously approach each other on new terms and attempt to put aside their past for a new future.In Upside Down, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of bold choices, second chances, and the hope of reconciliation.
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Meet Kitty Collins.FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone.I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t displeased when I did and, despite the mess I made, I appeared to get away with it.That’s where my addiction started…I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it.A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. Fans of My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve will love this wickedly clever novel!
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The thrilling new instalment in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series.Trouble is never far away . . .The Women’s Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco’s finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities.They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano takes the case.But assigning blame is made impossible due to the victim’s chaotic version of events – and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing memory.As Yuki argues the toughest case of her career, Lindsay must chase down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Women’s Murder Club short a bridesmaid . . . or two.
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Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian Castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories of the past return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite what it seems, Old God's Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.
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An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! As a child, [REDACTED] lived a peaceful life with his parents, playing war games with his friends and having minor quarrels with his father. It never even occurred to young [REDACTED] that the life he’d taken for granted might one day end…
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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.
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Collected for the first time, these three previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, Sands of Dune is essential reading for any fan of the series.The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to the splendor of the imperial homeworld of Kaitain, readers have lived in a universe of treachery and wonder.Now, these stories expand on the Dune universe, telling of the lost years of Gurney Halleck as he works with smugglers on Arrakis in a deadly gambit for revenge, inside the ranks of the Sardaukar as the child of a betrayed nobleman becomes one of the Emperor's most ruthless fighters, a young firebrand Fremen woman, a guerrilla fighter against the ruthless Harkonnens, who will one day become Shadout Mapes.
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The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog, When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse, It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end,
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THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER*One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade*This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .
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A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer’s impeccably curated life overboard in the next romantic comedy from international bestselling author Amy Lea.In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded bed-and-breakfast owner and fisherman, Evan Whaler—who single-handedly disproves the theory that Canadians are “nice.”After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his fiancée by his welcoming yet quirky family, who are embroiled in a long-standing feud over the B&B. In a bold attempt to mend family fences, Mel agrees to fake their engagement for one week in exchange for Evan’s help with her social media content.Amid long hikes and campfire chats, reeling in their budding feelings for each other proves more difficult by the day. But is Mel willing to sacrifice her picture-perfect life in the city for a chance at a true, unfiltered love in the wild?
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Learn about amazing vehicles with fantastic LEGO® builds. Plus bricks to build four exclusive LEGO mini models!Discover the world's most incredible things that go with specially commissioned LEGO® models.Buckle up and explore the most incredible moving machines on the planet. Get inspired by more than 100 LEGO model ideas, from diggers to cars to aeroplanes to trains. Follow simple building tips to create your own LEGO vehicles.From trains and tractors to aircraft, spacecraft, and automobiles, this book showcases every kind of machine that moves-from past to present, and far into the future. Children will learn as they build and play.Best of all, it comes with 61 bricks to build four exclusive LEGO mini-vehicles!©2019 The LEGO Group.
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Norma and Belly really really REALLY want a donut.But things aren’t going their way! With a burned breakfast and a grumpy donut seller at the local food truck, they may be stuck with only nuts to eat… But these squirrels won’t give up that easily!They’re on a mission to get their paws on the biggest, most delicious donut of their tiny lives!
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Coloring book for the little ones, with fun drawings, thick lines and basic colors. Dogs, cats, rabbits, dinosaurs, elephants, parrots... The best known and loved animals for children to enjoy coloring.
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Invitamos a los lectores (sobre todo entre 2 y 5 años) a que identifiquen y experimenten las increíbles estaciones a lo largo del mundo a través de versos rítmicos e ilustraciones maravillosas: el helado invierno, la floreciente primavera, el abundante otoño y el colorido verano.Cada página se acompaña de textos secundarios informativos llenos de datos curiosos para que el niño comience a considerar su entorno, haciendo de la lectura una experiencia personal dentro de un contexto global.Este divertido y completo homenaje a las estaciones en la Tierra está diseñado para inspirar a los niños a aprender más sobre el planeta y aumentar sus interacciones con el mismo.
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Margarita, Daniel y Carlos ven un gatito hambriento y deciden darle de comer. Su dueña Garrapata, agradecida, les hace tres regalos mágicos: un lapicero, una goma y un sacapuntas. Margarita empieza a dibujar y ¡ocurre algo increíble! Los dibujos se hacen realidad. ¿Qué elegirán dibujar los tres niños?Una valiente historia de amistad, igualdad y diversidad familiar.
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Explore the workings of amazing machines, from cars to factories to smartphones, with incredible illustrations and dozens of shapedflaps to lift.
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A richly imagined and spellbinding story set in the Spanish Golden Age, The Familiar is a gorgeously written historical novel with a dusting of magic brimming with peril and dark deeds. When Luzia, a servant in the household of a Spanish nobleman reveals a talent for domestic magic, her social-climbing mistress demands she use her gifts to win over the royal court. But what begins as simple amusement turns dangerous, as the king seeks any edge in his ongoing war with England. Overmatched and at risk of revealing herself as a heretic, Luzia will have to use every bit of her wit and resilience to survive-even if that means enlisting the help of an embittered (and rather dashing) immortal familiar.
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Can you live a lie?It’s a ghost town, this place that haunts me, the one that made me.It’s clear to me that I’ll never outgrow Triple Falls or outlive the time I spent here.I can still feel them all, my boys of summer.Even when I’d sensed the danger, I gave in.I didn’t heed a single warning. I let my sickness, my love, both rule and ruin me. I played my part, eyes wide open, tempting fate until it delivered.There was never going to be an escape.All of us are to blame for what happened. All of us serving our own sentences. We were careless and reckless, thinking our youth made us indestructible, exempt from our sins, and it cost us all.I’m done pretending I didn’t leave the largest part of me between these hills and valleys, between the sea of trees that hold my secrets.It’s the reason I’m back. To make peace with my fate.And if I can’t grieve enough to cure myself in my time here, I’ll remain sick. That will be my curse.But it’s time to confess, to myself more so than any other, that I’d hindered my chances because of the way I was built, and because of the men who built me.At this point, I just want to make peace with who I am, no matter what ending I get.Because I can no longer live a lie.
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The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.1942. Singapore is falling to the Japanese Army. English musician Norah Chambers places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe. As the island burns, Australian nurse Nesta James joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the HMS Vyner Brooke. After only two days at sea, the ship is bombarded and sunk.Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of Indonesia only to be captured and held in one of the notorious Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality. But even here joy can be found, in music, where Norah's 'voice orchestra' transports the internees from squalor into light. The friendships they build with the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope, strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive.Sisters under the Rising Sun tells the story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and resilience in the darkest of circumstances.
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Málaga es una ciudad muy atractiva para le público europeo e inglés en concreto. Y este libro ayuda a los chavales de 10 a 14 años a conocerla.
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-Cute, portable wipe clean learning for preschool learners. -A fun, engaging way to practise key maths and literacy skills to prepare forstarting school. -Comes with a wipe clean pen with built in eraser for all in one no mess fun. -My First Numbers strengthens counting skills and number formation.
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Una rica y sugerente celebración visual de la Navidad, desde sus inicios religiosos hasta los hitos culturales mundiales.Este libro es una celebración visual única e innovadora de la Navidad, una alegre ocasión religiosa y cultural observada por miles de millones de personas en todo el mundo. Los orígenes de la Navidad se encuentran en la observancia cristiana del nacimiento de Cristo el 25 de diciembre y, desde principios del siglo XX, se ha convertido en una fiesta secular con innumerables decoraciones, rituales y temas.Los temas clave cubiertos incluyen el advenimiento y la natividad, el árbol de Navidad y adornos navideños, entrega de regalos y canto de villancicos, películas navideñas clásicas, y música festiva. Este extraordinario libro muestra un amplio espectro de tradiciones festivas globales de muchas culturas diferentes, como el pollo frito que se come en la cena de Navidad, los Santas surfistas y los zapatos rellenos de zanahorias.Con pinturas, libros, grabados, esculturas, textiles, cerámica y fotografías, la selección de obras incluidas presenta una amplia gama de artistas icónicos y menos conocidos, incluidos Sandro Botticelli, Grandma Moses, Beatrix Potter, Norman Rockwell, Malick Sidibé, Andy Warhol, y muchos más.En The Christmas Book, la importante influencia artística y cultural de la Navidad a lo largo de la historia se explora a través de una amplia gama de bellas y significativas obras de arte e imágenes de todas las épocas y seis continentes, creando el complemento cultural definitivo para la temporada festiva.
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Rogan Gregory’s work pushes boundaries across media and scale – from miniature bronze animal forms to towering sculptures and furniture in innovative aggregated materials. Gregory’s iterative process and life-long interests in abstract forms, geology, and evolutionary biology allow him to develop an organic aesthetic unlike that of any designer working today.
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Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.
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¿Qué harías si te dijeran que es posible viajar por el tiempo? The Olympic Games of Greece es el tercer libro en inglés de la colección THE TIME EXPLORERS, ilustrada a todo color y que combina diálogos de cómic con novela de aventuras para niños de entre 9 y 12 años. Cada libro nos permite disfrutar de un fascinante viaje por el tiempo de Víctor, Cristina, Celoni e Ibis, los protagonistas. Los lectores encontrarán algunas preguntas que permiten descubrir curiosidades históricas sobre antiguas civilizaciones. Para hacerlo, tendrán que usar el Reloj del Tiempo, incluido en el libro, para descifrar el número de página que se oculta tras un fondo de color rojo y así poder viajar por el tiempo para descubrir curiosidades históricas increíbles. Al final de cada libro encontrarás tres secciones: Cool stuff! Descubriremos curiosidades explicadas por los personajes de la colección, sobre sí mismos o sobre la época histórica a la que viajan. Stuff to do! Disfrutaremos de una receta de cocina para hacer en casa y de un juego ambientado en la época histórica. Bibliochronohistories! Personajes muy relevantes de la humanidad nos explicarán quiénes son y qué hicieron para lograr que aún los recordemos hoy en día. En The Olympic Games of Greece, los Exploradores del Tiempo visitarán la Olimpia del año 556 a. C. durante la celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos. Para esta misión, tendrán que tratar de hacerse con la corona de oro de Heracles, aunque nadie sabe si dicho objeto existió de verdad o no es más que una leyenda. ¿Serán capaces de completar su misión antes de que Maléfico Durador les pare los pies? Y tú, ¿quieres ser un explorador del tiempo? Una vez terminado el libro, supera el test de los exploradores y conseguirás el objeto que se ha recuperado en cada libro de la saga. ¡Pégalo en el póster de la colección! ¿Podrás obtener todos los objetos perdidos en el tiempo? Si superas el test, también podrás descargarte un fragmento digital de uno de los libros de la colección Illustrated History. ¡Aprende más sobre cada civilización y conviértete en un crac de la historia! **Tienes disponible una guía de lectura gratis para trabajar la lectura en la escuela.** Otros libros de la colección The Time Explorers: The Legions of Rome The Expeditions of the Vikings The Olympic Games of Greece The Gold of the Incas The Arrows of the Sioux The Swords of the Samurai Más títulos próximamente. Consulta la web de la editorial para ver su fecha de publicación. Libros de la colección Illustrated History: Rome The Vikings Ancient Greece Ancient Egypt The Incas The Indigenous People of the USA, Canada, and Greenland Más títulos próximamente. Consulta la web de la editorial para ver su fecha de publicación.
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Hasta la proliferación de los populismos de derechas, los regímenes que corrompían las reglas democráticas para anular a la oposición y perpetuarse en el poder tenían fundamentalmente signo marxista. Pero el nuevo antiliberalismo nacionalista y ultraconservador, bajo la bandera de la «batalla cultural», le ha arrebatado al chavismo y al socialismo el monopolio del despotismo. El conocido ensayista José Benegas, curtido en la lucha contra los populismos latinoamericanos, desarrolla en este libro la tesis de que el tradicional eje izquierda/derecha ya no permite comprender el actual momento político. Ambos bandos comparten el gusto por los caudillos que destruyen las instituciones, y que tras haber ganado el favor popular en las urnas acaban con los métodos de control a su corrupción, convierten a los poderes legislativos en amanuenses, colocan adeptos en la justicia para blindarse ante cualquier investigación y amordazan a la prensa. Benegas desmonta las trampas retóricas con las que los regímenes populistas, auténticas dictaduras del siglo xxi, instalan el reino de su propia arbitrariedad en nombre de la democracia. Y, al refutar sus presupuestos doctrinales, echa por tierra la legitimidad de los gobiernos que plantean la concentración del poder para mostrarse como salvadores del pueblo. Pero no basta simplemente con exponer estas trampas. Si las prácticas del despotismo populista están triunfando es porque las sociedades están afectadas por una anemia respecto de las ideas de la libertad, la propiedad y el gobierno limitado. Por eso, Un mundo contaminado se propone demostrar que la idea del gobierno como gran benefactor es un mantra a izquierda y derecha que contradice el principio democrático del verdadero autogobierno. Este libro es una contribución inestimable a la causa de la recuperación de la democracia liberal y la institucionalidad perdidas, y del restablecimiento de las bases jurídicas, políticas y éticas de una sociedad libre.
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Get creative with all the equipment and techniques you need to create 25 watercolour tattoo designs.
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IL·LUSTRACIONS DE TONI LLOBET The coastline of the Balearics is home to a great diversity of environments: from lagoons and secluded beaches to steep cliffs exposed to northern storms. All along the seashore, from where waves break down to a few meters deep, we find a huge variety of species of animals and algae. This guide collects the most easily visible while strolling along the beach, exploring rocky shores, or snorkeling in shallow waters. They are illustrated in detail and grouped in plates at the same scale to facilitate comparison and identification.
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A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.This is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders.Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others we've forgotten. We don't recall Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and her crucial contribution to the history of type. Nor Charles Edward Mudie, populariser of the circulating library - and the most influential figure in publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare's First Folio, then disappeared.The Book-Makers puts people back into the story of the book. It takes us inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows - from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. It's a tale of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. This is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and shows why the printed book will continue to flourish.
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More than twenty five years on from the huge bestseller Emotional Intelligence , this book reframes the concept's importance for a new era, explaining how to create high performing individuals, teams and organisations.
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This Land presenta una sátira a fuego lento del sueño americano mientras se topa con la realidad del cambio climático.This Land es un mural épico creado por el artista neoyorquino David Opdyke a partir de postales estadounidenses antiguas que luego trató con desconcertantes intervenciones pintadas. Lo que al principio parece una vista panorámica a vista de pájaro de un idílico valle alpino se revela, tras un examen más detenido, como una serie de escenas y viñetas conectadas. A través de más de quinientas postales, cada una de las cuales representa una porción distinta de la cultura estadounidense idealizada (plazas de ciudades, carreteras de montaña, calles principales y sedes de condado), las alteraciones mordaces y emocionalmente discordantes de Opdyke se vuelven gradualmente evidentes.En esta remodelación profética, los bosques están en llamas, los tornados pasan de una tarjeta a la siguiente, un barco de vapor es tragado entero por una especie de nueva megafauna, las ranas caen como granizo bíblico del cielo. Las respuestas humanas forman una cacofonía de deseos y demandas, pánico y negación.Las imágenes se ven animadas a su vez por la vívida y astuta mezcla de perfil artístico e interpretación crítica de Lawrence Weschler.
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