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A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series.'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.'Like his much-loved novels, E. M. Forster's short stories are rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds. Telling tales of violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings, his sharp and vivid prose has the ability to throw the characters', and reader's, perceptions and beliefs off balance.Selected to appeal to a new generation of readers around the world, this new selection of short stories in the Penguin English Library series celebrates E. M. Forster's unparalleled skill for storytelling, beginning with his masterful work of science fiction, The Machine Stops.
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We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way.A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two. When the group decides to invite the elegant traveller to lunch with them, they cannot begin to imagine the miraculous abilities, strange wisdom, and a life-changing story he is about to impart to one of the friends in particular. . .Deeply atmospheric and sensual, The Gentleman From Peru weaves achingly poignant insight into a story of regret, fate and epic love.
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Three. Two. One...Romance?Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to be evicted. The last thing she needed was to run into her ex and his new girlfriend at her favourite coffee shop. Panicked, Amerie pretends to be dating the annoyingly sexy man she met. He plays along - for a price.Half the single men in Houston claim to be astronauts, but Vincent Rogers turns out to be the real deal. What started as a one-off lie morphs into a plan: for the three months leading up to his mission, Amerie will play Vincent's doting partner. In exchange, she gets a rent-free room in his house.What Amerie doesn't plan for is Vincent's gravitational pull. While her mind tells her a future with this astronaut is too unpredictable, her heart says he's exactly what she needs. As their time together counts down, Amerie must decide if she'll settle for the safe life-or shoot for the stars.Perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis, The Hating Game and The Spanish Love Deception.
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Max Hastings nos trae uno de los capítulos más dramáticos olvidados de la segunda guerra mundial.En agosto de 1942, una asediada Malta estuvo a pocas semanas de rendirse porque sus 300.000 habitantes ya no podían ser alimentados. Churchill tomó la decisión personal de salvar a toda costa la ''isla fortaleza''. No se trataba simplemente de una cuestión de estrategia, sino de prestigio nacional, cuando la fortuna y la moral de Gran Bretaña habían caído a su punto más bajo. Por las páginas de este libro veremos desfilar catastróficos hundimientos de buques, junto con luchas por rescatar a los supervivientes y salvar los barcos siniestrados. Max Hastings describe esta historia como una de las más extraordinarias que jamás haya contado. Hasta las últimas horas, ningún participante de ninguno de los dos bandos pudo saber cuál sería el resultado de una epopeya de suspense y valor en tiempos de guerra.
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A richly illustrated survey celebrating humankind’s enduring relationship with the garden, explored throughout art, science, history, and cultureGarden takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have found inspiration in gardens and horticulture throughout history. With more than 300 entries, this comprehensive and stunning visual survey showcases the diversity of the garden from all over the world – from the garden of Eden and the grandeur of the English landscape garden to Japanese Zen gardens and the humble vegetable plot. Spanning a wide range of styles and media – art, illustrations, and sculptures to photography, film stills, and textiles – Garden follows a visually arresting sequence, with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired, and features large-scale images, accessible texts, and reference information, including a glossary, illustrated timeline, and biographies. Offering a comprehensive introduction to the subject, Garden features work by a diverse range of both lesser-known and iconic artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Roberto Burle Marx, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Gertrude Jekyll, Claude Monet, Marianne North, Crispijn de Passe, William Robinson, Alma Thomas, and Howard Sooley, among others, including a variety of surprising examples that will appeal to specialists as well as the general reader. Aimed at a wide audience, this book has diverse appeal – from artists, designers, and art historians to garden enthusiasts, horticulturists, and everyone interested in the natural world around them.
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The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever.Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map, Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
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On the trail of Don Quixote, la edición en inglés de Los Caminos de Don Quijote, es un libro y una ruta, un viaje y un camino, una lección y una bendita locura. Sus protagonistas están imbuidos de un heroísmo, un arrojo y un trastorno impropios de este mundo. Todo eso los agiganta. El territorio de este maravilloso desquiciamiento es La Mancha, una geografía labriega y horizontal, poética y silenciosa, moteada de plazas mayores, molinos de viento, ventas, lagunas y cuevas donde cualquier aventura, por novelesca que resulte, es posible. En La Mancha el Quijote no se acaba nunca.
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Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful, bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in the Berkshires with her two beloved dogs. But behind this peaceful exterior is a dark, painful past. As a child raised by an emotionally distant father, Sabrina rarely felt love. And as an adult, her marriage twisted into an abusive relationship from which she had to escape.
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In this new edition of the classic Ot the Wizard comic strips, recommended for all ages, you will also learn how to do a magic trick, and you will do a super cool arts and crafts activity. The activities in the collection get progressively more difficult and this is the second book of the collection, so you will find the intermediate level activities.Ot's soft and subtle humor will make you laugh your head off. This wizard is loved by everyone, and he has made a few generations fall in love with his bright and crazy ideas. Sit down, relax and enjoy Ot the Wizard’s comical world. You will be hooked! Ot the Wizard is the cure for boredom!It is not easy to come across an artist that has made such an impact on so many people’s childhoods as Picanyol has. Thanks to his hard work, his creativity and his perseverance, many generations have grown up by reading his stories, always accompanied by his characteristic and witty illustrations full of detail. His most well-known character is, without a doubt, Ot the Wizard, that he published for more than 40 years in a row in a children’s magazine for his fans’ enjoyment: grandparents, parents, and children.
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Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig’s mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his landlady’s daughter.
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Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people's lives from the data in archive documents. One woman's file is particularly intriguing. She is dead, and he decides to trace her life backwards, from death to birth. But can he bring her back to life?
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Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing--in 1755 the city was devastated by the largest earthquake ever to strike modern Europe, followed by a catastrophic tsunami and a six-day inferno that turned sand to glass.Barry Hatton unearths these forgotten memories in a vivid account of Lisbon's colourful past and present, bringing to life the 1147 siege during the Iberian reconquista, the assassination of the king, the founding of a republic and the darkness of a modern dictatorship. He reveals the rich, international heritage of Portugal's metropolis--the gateway to the Atlantic and the unrivalled Queen of the Sea.
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A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.
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If Nox and Amaris are ever to have the life together they've always hoped for, they will have to use all the power and strength within them to protect their continent. When powerful enemies from Sulgrave wielding unspeakable access to magic threaten to shatter their world for good, they must join with Raascot's military, the reevers, and an unlikely ally from the mountains to have any hope of saving their kingdoms. Together, their forces press north across deadly wastelands, facing unknowable threats, impossible battles...and new questions of what their fate truly holds.Their entire lives have been building toward this moment. Caught between faith and frenzy, questions and identity, love and lust, past and present, Nox and Amaris's story draws to an explosive conclusion as they fight once and for all to protect their people, their future, and each other.
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Adéntrate en el disparatado y simpático mundo de Ot el brujo y disfruta de sus tiras cómicas más famosas en inglés, ¡publicadas consecutivamente durante más de 40 años! Con esta nueva edición de las clásicas tiras cómicas de Ot the Wizard recomendadas para todas las edades, ¡también podrás aprender un truco de magia y harás una manualidad chulísima mientras aprendes inglés! La dificultad aumenta progresivamente en cada libro. El humor blanco y sutil de Picanyol hará desternillarte de risa. No hay quien pueda no amar a Ot el brujo, que ha enamorado varias generaciones con sus brillantes y alocadas ocurrencias. Siéntate, relájate y disfruta del mundo cómico de Ot el brujo. ¡Te enganchará! ¡Ot the Wizard es el antídoto contra el aburrimiento! No es fácil encontrar a un artista que haya marcado la infancia de tantos y tantos niños como Picanyol. La verdad es que su creatividad y trabajo, laborioso y constante, han hecho que varias generaciones hayan podido crecer leyendo sus narraciones, siempre acompañadas de sus características ilustraciones ingeniosas y llenas de detalles. Su personaje más famoso, sin duda, es Ot, el brujo, que publicó consecutivamente durante más de 40 años en una revista infantil, por el disfrute de sus fans: abuelos, padres e hijos.
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La série phénomène vendue à 2 millions d'exemplaires Antonia Scott est spéciale. Très spéciale. Elle n'est ni flic ni criminologue. Elle n'a jamais porté d'arme ni d'insigne, et pourtant, elle a résolu des dizaines d'affaires criminelles. Avant de tout arrêter. Depuis un tragique accident, Antonia se terre dans un appartement vide et n'aspire qu'à une chose : qu'on lui fiche la paix. C'était compter sans l'inspecteur Jon Gutiérrez. Missionné pour lui faire reprendre du service, il parvient à la convaincre d'étudier un dernier dossier, celui d'un assassin sans scrupules qui s'en prend aux héritiers des plus grandes fortunes d'Espagne. Sa particularité? L'homme ne semble motivé ni par l'appât du gain, ni par le plaisir de tuer. Un cas complexe auquel la police madrilène n'entend rien. En un mot, le terrain de jeu favori d'Antonia Scott.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from Lee Child and Andrew Child.A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention.That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?
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«Ahora tenemos la oportunidad de conocer en nuestro idioma a una de las más importantes escritoras brasileñas». Iván Thays, BabeliaEdgar Wilson trabaja en un matadero como aturdidor, es el encargado de darles a los animales el golpe que los deja inconscientes antes de que los degüellen y faenen. Edgar hace su trabajo con pericia, él no hace sufrir a los animales, ya que eso endurece la carne, pero además porque es un hombre compasivo. Una mañana, la desaparición misteriosa de un grupo de vacas sorprende a Edgar y a los trabajadores del matadero mientras el dueño está de viaje, y los obliga a suspender sus tareas y emprender la búsqueda. Lo que en principio parece ser un robo termina siendo un suicidio colectivo, algo difícil de creer ya que los animales, sencillamente, no se suicidan.Las conversaciones, estrategias, confesiones e hipótesis que desata el hecho dejarán al descubierto la permeabilidad de los límites entre lo humano y lo animal, la brutalidad en todos los ámbitos de una sociedad que, paradójicamente, desprecia y cuestiona a personas como Edgar por un trabajo que no es sino un engranaje indispensable del proceso de fabricación de los productos que consumen.
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El Anuario Heartstopper a todo color está repleto de contenido exclusivo del universo Heartstopper, que incluye ilustraciones nunca antes vistas, un mini-cómic exclusivo, una mirada retrospectiva a las obras de arte de Alice Heartstopper a lo largo de los años, perfiles de personajes, curiosidades e información sobre su proceso creativo, todo narrado por una versión animada de la propia Alicia.
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Versión en inglés de POETAS DE MADRID, con Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Góngora, Quevedo, Valle-Inclán y Rubén DaríoThis is Madrid.Madrid. Homeric city, the cradle and grave of many of us that pour out the joyful days of youth among its streets and wineries, throughout its history it has accepted into its fold non-conforming poets from the four corners of the earth, because one is born a poet in his land, but one is made and perishes in Madrid.No matter where you are from, Madrid never leaves you indifferent, it always offers the rhapsodist who has moved to the capital in search of fortune, a lively space about which to write their verses. If our lives are the rivers as Manrique said, today the Manzanares river has been reborn and is full of life.Poets of Madrid is a generous title, as is Madrid. This anthology shows that the city drew them in from very distant places: Rubén Darío, for example, was born in Nicaragua, Valle-Inclán in Galicia, Góngora was Andalusian, Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares, thirty kilometres from Madrid, only Francisco de Quevedo and Lope de Vega were true Madrid natives.With this, we are trying to say that the presence of Rubén Darío in the anthology represents the percentage of the Hispanic American population who, proud of the city that embraces them, carries the same language in their voices, Góngora and Valle-Inclán, that of the surrounding areas, Cervantes, that of the city's close neighbours, and Lope and Quevedo, that of those born in Madrid. Because those us of from other parts of the globe were attracted to this city, which is no longer a Manchegan dump, for its courtesy and its lack of rejection, as a place known for its cosmopolitanism should be.
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EL BEST SELLER INTERNACIONAL La inolvidable historia de dos heroínas anónimas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: las hermanas Janny y Lien Brilleslijper, que se unieron a la Resistencia holandesa, ayudaron a salvar docenas de vidas, fueron capturadas por los nazis y sobrevivieron al Holocausto. Al principio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras la invasión nazi de Holanda, Janny y Lien Brilleslijper, dos hermanas judías, se unieron a la Resistencia. Escaparon de la ciudad hacia una casa perdida en medio del bosque que con el tiempo se convirtió en un lugar estratégico para la Resistencia y en un refugio para otros muchos perseguidos. No obstante, al año fueron detenidas y conducidas al campo de Westerbork, donde conocieron a Ana Frank y a su hermana Margot. Las cuatro juntas fueron trasladadas a Auschwitz, donde Janny y Lien cuidaron de las hermanas Frank durante los últimos días de su vida. Casi setenta años después, cuando la escritora Roxane van Iperen se trasladó a vivir al campo, descubrió por casualidad el extraordinario pasado de la casa que acababa de comprar y el destino de las hermanas Brilleslijper. Decidió entonces dedicar seis años de su vida a desenterrar el pasado y dar testimonio del valor de estas dos extraordinarias mujeres unidas por la tragedia.
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One of the bestselling books of the 21st century, soon to be a major new TV series starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart... In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too. So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz. Discover the incredible bestselling The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy, with Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters also available now. Sisters under the Rising Sun, Heather Morris's exceptional new novel, based on a true story of women in Japanese prison of war camps, is available in hardback now.
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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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Go on a magical adventure with this amazing activity book, packed with hours of things to do! Help Sparkle through the maze to her mermicorn friends, create a candyland sticker scene, draw your own unicorns and much more in this enchanting activity book.
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Aprende a dibujar absolutamente todo. Paso a paso.
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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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The third book in the Dreamland Billionaires series from bestselling author Lauren Asher. CALLAHANI'm the Kane brother everyone gossips about behind closed doors.Trust fund brat. Washed-up athelete. High-functioning alcoholic.No one know the real me but her.Lana Castillo - my childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved.When I broke her heart six years ago, I promised to never return to Lake Wisteria.I kept my word until my grandfather's will changed everything.To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer at the family lake house before selling it.The request was simple in theory, until my entire my plan blew up on the very first day.Turns out Lana doesn't just live at the house, but she claims to own it too. ALANAFalling in love with Callahan Kane was a mistake.He told me so before destroying my heart and our friendship six summers ago.When he promised never to come back, I foolishly believed him.But then Cal showed up again, intending to sell his grandfather's lake house.The biggest flaw in his plan?My name is on the deed.
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El primer libro dedicado a la fotografía de moda del reconocido fotógrafo británico Martin ParrFashion Faux Parr muestra la colección de fotografía de moda de Martin Parr por primera vez en un solo libro. Más de 250 imágenes en color, muchas de ellas inéditas, exploran una amplia variedad de trabajos de moda, desde colaboraciones editoriales con importantes revistas y casas, incluidas Vogue, Balenciaga y Gucci, hasta fotografías sinceras detrás de escena en los principales eventos de moda y retratos de la industria e iconos.Dos ensayos de las influyentes personalidades de la industria de la moda Patrick Grant y Tabitha Simmons ofrecen comentarios sobre la visión única de Parr sobre el mundo de la moda y la sitúan dentro de un contexto más amplio. Este es el único libro dedicado a la original visión de la moda de Martin Parr, que incluye fotografías personales y por encargo, así como facsímiles de sus artículos publicados en Vogue y otras revistas de moda internacionales.
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Dickens' delightful Christmas writings are presented in this gorgeous new hardback edition, After reading ''Christmas Carol'', the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties, The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory,
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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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A stunning new edition of the third novel in the bestselling Bone Season series with gorgeous new cover artwork and updated text, by the bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree. A rebel who becomes a queen Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London’s criminal population. But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging. Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom for the clairvoyant community and the world as they know it…
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From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time.In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history - and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment, about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state, about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples, about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.
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Hot on the heels of the “superb” (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.Hollywood.The city where dreams are made.On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life.A quiet, peaceful existence.But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him.And when Hollywood starts shooting a film of his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.Then he falls in love.With a beautiful movie star who has a dark past of her own.As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny Ryan has to fight for his life in a city where dreams are born.Or where they go to die.From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.
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Basic Human Anatomy teaches artists the simple yet powerful formula artists have used for centuries to draw the human figure from the inside out. A comprehensive, yet flexible and holistic approach, Roberto Osti’s method of teaching anatomy is exhaustive, but never loses sight of the fact that this understanding should lead to the creation of art. Osti, using the basic system of line, shape, and form used by da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, takes readers step-by-step through all the lessons needed in order to master this essential foundation skill. Organized progressively, the book shows readers how to replicate the underlying structure of the body using easy-to-understand scales and ratios, conceptualize the front and side views of the skeleton with basic shapes, add detail with simplified depictions of complex bones and joints, draw a muscle map of the body with volumetric form and realistic dimension, master the feet, hands, and skull to create realistic renderings of the human form, and apply a deeper knowledge of anatomy to finished drawings for more impact.
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In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land 250 Camera, Smith started posting selfies with her phone, portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world, her daily coffee, the books she’s reading, the graves of beloved heroes: William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, and Albert Camus. Over the days and months, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape in the extraordinarily personal photographs that chart Smith’s passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother’s keychain, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith's archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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