Proč Darwin považoval želvy za tolik zajímavé? Pocházejí lidé opravdu z opičích předků? Jak přišel páv ke svému obrovskému ocasu? Jak by mohl asi vypadat život jinde ve vesmíru? V této bohatě ilustrované knížce nám Gerard Cheshire vypráví příběh evoluce a toho, jak jsme se stali těmi organismy, jimiž nyní jsme. Obsahuje všechny klíčové informace o konvergenci, pohlavním výběru, epigenetice a všech

A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR\'A true hero\' Greta ThunbergA legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope.In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?Looking at the headlines?the worsening climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval?it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

Válka přichází k hranicím Delavy. Nepřátelé pochodují zemí, plení a pálí, co jim přijde do cesty, a město Dussu může zachránit jen opravdový hrdina z písní, drakobijce Cuchenan. Jenže ten není k nalezení. Lesem, kde zmizel, se ozývají písně divoženek, koruny stromů mlčí a ve vzduchu je cítit smrt. K tomu, aby zjistil, co se stalo, bude muset bard Minangar vystrčit hlavu zpod ženských sukní a udělat

Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with similar struggles realize they weren\'t alone. Julia\'s poignant, relatable comics honestly depict her personal ups and downs while dealing with the

No child likes going to bed and as every parent knows, their little treasures will try and delay it for as long as possible! Discover all the antics children get up to before going to bed, in this hilarious board book, written and illustrated in Boynton\'s own unique humourous style. The perfect way to read kids to

Explores the unknown world of ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire, filled with vivid detail of everyday life in a now-vanished world. A new look at Turkish cultural and social history from the world\'s leading

It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal\'s cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the Botswanan night, the frightened South African refugee slips in and out of

This collection brings together Philip Ridley\'s one-act plays for young people, known as The Storyteller Sequence, ideal for teenagers to either watch or perform.Karamazoo is a fifteen-minute monologue about one of the coolest, most popular kids in the school, whose recent increase in popularity is the direct result of a character make-over following the death of a parent. A witty and moving performance

Fleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton, Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit and the two decide to stick together. But a chance discovery endangers their lives and soon Peter is deep in murderous plots, secrets and even

Staffordshire is usually associated with the Potteries and the Black Country, the industrial heartland of the Midlands, yet it is also a county of gently rolling landscape with some of the most eccentric gardens in the

\' A screamingly funny genre-defying feat ... sublime.\' Maggie O\'Farrell, Daily

Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn\'t want to be found. From JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF WEST, Secret Wars, Avengers) and TOMM COKER (UNDYING LOVE) comes the next installment in the crypto-noir series about the power of dirty, filthy money... and exactly what kind of people you can buy with it. THE BLACK MONDAY MURDERS is classic occultism where the various schools of magic are actually clandestine

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky, and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports

\"Every man\'s must-read. Tell your guy to put down the remote and pick up She Comes First.\"--Cosmopolitan Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First--an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest--You\'re Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner\'s \"cool sense of humor and an obsessive desire to inform,\" as he \"encourages

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Gilles

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill. This book argues that the curious ambiguity of the think tank is not an accidential feature of its existence, but the very key to its

Kenneth Burke\'s innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a literary critic, Burke has elaborated a perspective toward the study of behavior and society that holds immense significance and rich insights for sociologists.

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MEDIUM LOVE – keby išlo o mäso, tak to bude ešte ružový, v strede už však nie surový, ale pevný stejk. Lenže tu ide o život. V tomto príbehu znamená medium vek hlavného hrdinu Spajka, ktorý nechce zostarnúť. Médium je aj jeho život, pretože pracuje ako moderátor. Aj miluje tak akosi medium. Skôr nemiluje. Ako toto všetko súvisí s mladou študentkou Poppy? Jej babička bola vedúca v predajni Mäso údeniny.

Román zavedie čitateľa do exotických kútov našej zeme, kde sa obchoduje so zbraňami. Tomuto biznisu sa venuje aj hlavný hrdina Filip. Postupne sa vypracuje na jedného z najväčších obchodníkov so smrťou a po presťahovaní na Slovensko sa stáva oligarchom – politici sú v jeho područí a jeho rozhodnutia sa stávajú prvkom politiky. Je to smutno neveselý príbeh našej spoločnosti.