'Dazzling. Mind-altering. World-changing.A once-in-a-generation contribution' NAOMI KLEIN'Sweeping and provocative... groundbreaking' AMITAV GHOSH'Will transform your understanding of the modern world' JONATHAN KENNEDYFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents.The story of the United States' unique sense of itself was forged facing south - no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north.In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from constant, turbulent engagement with each other, shedding new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolome de las Casas, Simon Bolivar and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain.America, America traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest - the greatest mortality event in human history - through the eighteenth-century wars for independence and the Monroe Doctrine, to the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century. This monumental work of scholarship fundamentally changes our understanding of Spanish and English colonialism, slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off authoritarian impulses.At once comprehensive and accessible, America, America shows how the United States and Latin America together shaped the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world.Drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World.'Masterful and erudite yet absolutely riveting' ADA FERRER'A major and desperately needed synthesis of the Americas' NED BLACKHAWK'An awe-inspiring masterpiece' SAMUEL MOYN* Professor Greg Grandin won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction in 2020 with his book The End of the Myth.
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This large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with images from Katie Scott's Botanicum. Featuring plantlife of all kinds, from right around the world, it's a stunning celebration of all things botanical.
Noir paelaga minikleit pakub seksikat ja julget välimust – läikivast powerwetlook-materjalist, sügava paelaga dekolteega ja voolava seelikuga.Miks on Noir paelaga minikleit hea?Noir paelaga minikleit on ideaalne valik, kui soovid enesekindlalt ja võrgutavalt välja näha. Läikiv powerwetlook-materjal tagab kaasaegse ja sensuaalse ilme, samal ajal kui pehme ja veniv kangas pakub mugavat kandmist. Sügav, reguleeritav pael ulatub dekolteest kuni naba piirkonnani, rõhutades visuaalselt rinda ja kõhtu. Kitsas ülaosa ja A-jooneline laienev seelikuosa loob naiseliku silueti, mis tõmbab kõigi pilke.Miks kliendid armastavad Noir minikleitiLäikiv powerwetlook-materjal – moodne, trendikas ja provokatiivne stiil.Reguleeritav pael – sügava lõikega kuni nabani.Naiselik lõige – kitsas ülaosa ja laieneva seeliku kombinatsioon.Mugav kanda – valmistatud pehmest ja venivast materjalist.Kandiline kaelus – elegantne ja silmatorkav detail.Komplekti kuulubNoir paelaga minikleit (must)Toote omadusedVärv: mustMaterjal: 76% polüester, 24% elastaan, polümeerkateKujundus: ees reguleeritav pael, kandiline kaelus, laienev seelikSuurus: Noir eraldi suurustabelMida jälgida Noir paelaga minikleidi kasutamise ajal: Pese käsitsi, et säilitada powerwetlook-materjali läikivus ja elastsus. Väldi tugevaid kemikaale ja kuivatis kuivatamist. Hoiustamisel jälgi, et pael ei haakuks teiste rõivaste külge.
Noir paelaga minikleit pakub seksikat ja julget välimust – läikivast powerwetlook-materjalist, sügava paelaga dekolteega ja voolava seelikuga.Miks on Noir paelaga minikleit hea?Noir paelaga minikleit on ideaalne valik, kui soovid enesekindlalt ja võrgutavalt välja näha. Läikiv powerwetlook-materjal tagab kaasaegse ja sensuaalse ilme, samal ajal kui pehme ja veniv kangas pakub mugavat kandmist. Sügav, reguleeritav pael ulatub dekolteest kuni naba piirkonnani, rõhutades visuaalselt rinda ja kõhtu. Kitsas ülaosa ja A-jooneline laienev seelikuosa loob naiseliku silueti, mis tõmbab kõigi pilke.Miks kliendid armastavad Noir minikleitiLäikiv powerwetlook-materjal – moodne, trendikas ja provokatiivne stiil.Reguleeritav pael – sügava lõikega kuni nabani.Naiselik lõige – kitsas ülaosa ja laieneva seeliku kombinatsioon.Mugav kanda – valmistatud pehmest ja venivast materjalist.Kandiline kaelus – elegantne ja silmatorkav detail.Komplekti kuulubNoir paelaga minikleit (must)Toote omadusedVärv: mustMaterjal: 76% polüester, 24% elastaan, polümeerkateKujundus: ees reguleeritav pael, kandiline kaelus, laienev seelikSuurus: Noir eraldi suurustabelMida jälgida Noir paelaga minikleidi kasutamise ajal: Pese käsitsi, et säilitada powerwetlook-materjali läikivus ja elastsus. Väldi tugevaid kemikaale ja kuivatis kuivatamist. Hoiustamisel jälgi, et pael ei haakuks teiste rõivaste külge.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 336, Publishers: Hodder & Stoughton, Author: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, ISBN-13: 9781529363814, Date of issue: 2022
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 320, Publishers: University of Chicago Press, Author: Scott Norton, ISBN-13: 9780226793634, Date of issue: 2023
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play.As a result, most of us never properly understand how our brains work and what they're truly capable of. We fail get the best out of them, ignore some of their most useful features and struggle to overcome their design faults.Featuring witty essaysand fascinating 'try this at home' experiments,New Scientist take you on a journey through intelligence, memory, creativity, the unconscious and beyond. From the strange ways to distort what we think of as 'reality' to the brain hacks that can improve memory,The Brain: A User's Guide will help you understand your brain and show you how to use it to its full potential. Autorid: New Scientist
In 1815, when Lady McInnis and her daughter are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies displayed in grotesque poses, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, explores a host of unsavory suspects and is drawn to a conclusion far more horrific than he ever could have imagined. "On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her daughter dead. As the men gaze in horror at the strangely posed bodies of the victims, the other two children come up laughing, their arms full of blossoms. Arabella opens her mouth to scream, but there is no sound. Sir Henry Lovejoy, Bow Street magistrate and good friend of Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself reliving a nightmare. Fourteen years before, Lovejoy's own wife and daughter were murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in the same bizarre fashion. Lovejoy himself had been instrumental in the arrest of the ex-soldier later found guilty of the killings, and he'd watched the man hang with grim satisfaction. Now he must turn to Sebastian for help as he confronts the very real possibility that he helped send an innocent man to the gallows, and that the monster responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter is still at large--and has killed again."-- Autorid: C.S. Harris
"Rachel Morgan must go on a deadly journey-into the past-in the next thrilling Hollows novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. What's a witch to do when the coven of moral and ethical standards demands she untwist a curse-but an essential spell component no longer exists? There's only one choice: go back in time. Caught between self-exile and an Alcatraz cell, Rachel must find an Atlantean mirror to reverse the curse and prove to Cincinnati's brand-new witch coven that, no, she does not practice illicit magic. Unfortunately, the only mirror of its kind in existence belonged to the insane demon Newt, forcing Rachel to go to the past to bargain with her for it. But the time-travel spell goes awry, dragging Elyse, the young leader of the coven, into the past with Rachel. They expect to land five years in the past but instead arrive two days before Rachel's long-lost love, Kisten, dies. Heartbroken and torn, Rachel knows she can't change the past. Even with no allies, Rachel still has one thing going for her: Cincinnati is her city, now and forever. If she can find a way to work with Newt and prevent Elyse from becoming the demon's next familiar, they might all get home"-- To reverse a dangerous curse and avoid jail time, witch Rachel Morgan must travel back in time with a coven leader in the eighteenth book of the series following Demons of Good and Evil. Rachel Morgan must go on a deadly journeyinto the pastin the next thrilling Hollows novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Whats a witch to do when the coven of moral and ethical standards demands she untwist a cursebut an essential spell component no longer exists? Theres only one choice: go back in time.Caught between self-exile and an Alcatraz cell, Rachel must find an Atlantean mirror to reverse the curse and prove to Cincinnatis brand-new witch coven that, no, she does not practice illicit magic. Unfortunately, the only mirror of its kind in existence belonged to the insane demon Newt, forcing Rachel to go to the past to bargain with her for it.But the time-travel spell goes awry, dragging Elyse, the young leader of the coven, into the past with Rachel. They expect to land five years in the past but instead arrive two days before Rachels long-lost love, Kisten, dies. Heartbroken and torn, Rachel knows she can't change the past.Even with no allies, Rachel still has one thing going for her: Cincinnati is her city, now and forever. If she can find a way to work with Newt and prevent Elyse from becoming the demons next familiar, they might all get home. Autorid: Kim Harrison
When a mysterious figure shows up in the photograph an architect takes of the derelict Seabrink Hotel, ghostly encounters and murder are unleashed.Aubrey Spencer loves photographing classic old buildings and abandoned places that hold old secrets. The Hotel Seabrink, perched overlooking the sea, is one such place. Currently abandoned but scheduled for a major renovation, it has a torrid history. Back in the 1920s it hosted A-list celebrity clientele, and now the locals insist it is haunted by the ghosts of two young women who died there. When Aubrey goes to photograph the site before the renovation begins, she bumps into a man named Dimitri Petroff, a minor online celebrity who shares her fascination with old buildings, the Hotel Seabrink in particular.When he is found dead the next day at the base of a cliff, the police are quick to close the investigation. But Aubrey feels unsettled by locals who claim he was murdered and that its not the first time someone interested in the hotel was killed. As she digs deeper into the propertys dark history (and its origins as an asylum) as well as Dimitris professional rivalries, she becomes mired in an unsolved murder case from several decades earlier, one with eerie parallels to the contemporary case. But someone is determined to keep her from discovering the truthat any cost. Autorid: Juliet Blackwell
Haunted by a painful past, cafe owner Shabina tries to keep her distance from the man she once hurt, but when danger closes in, she must rely on him for protection and decide what she's ready to risk to survive. Autorid: Christine Feehan
"The Academy always comes first . . . which makes marriage to its most formidable adversary an exceedingly inconvenient arrangement. Well removed from London's more curious eyes, the Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of Young Ladies strives toward one clandestine goal: to distract, disrupt, and discredit men in power who would seek to harm the advancement of women-by appropriate means, of course. When intrepid newspaper editor Miles Quincy starts to question the school's intentions, the Academy appoints Penelope "Nell" Trewlove, one of their brightest graduates, to put this nuisance to rest. An easy enough mission, she supposes. Or it would be, if Miles wasn't so fascinating-too fascinating to resist-and if Nell's visit to London didn't perfectly coincide with the murder of one of Miles's reporters. When the inexorable claws of fate trap Nell and Miles in a compromising situation, they agree to an arrangement that will save their reputations while enabling them to investigate the story that led to a man's death, as well as the surprising chemistry between them . . "-- Provided by publisher. When intrepid newspaper editor Miles Quincy starts to question the intentions of the Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of Young Ladies, the Academy appoints Penelope Nell Trewlove, one of their brightest graduates, to put this nuisance to rest, which wouldn't be an issue if Miles wasn't so fascinating. Original. The Academy always comes first . . . which makes marriage to its most formidable adversary an exceedingly inconvenient arrangement.Well removed from Londons more curious eyes, the Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of Young Ladies strives toward one clandestine goal: to distract, disrupt, and discredit men in power who would seek to harm the advancement of womenby appropriate means, of course.When intrepid newspaper editor Miles Quincey starts to question the schools intentions, the Academy appoints Penelope Nell Trewlove, one of their brightest graduates, to put this nuisance to rest. An easy enough mission, she supposes. Or it would be, if Miles wasnt so fascinatingtoo fascinating to resistand if Nells visit to London didnt perfectly coincide with the murder of one of Miless reporters. When the inexorable claws of fate trap Nell and Miles in a compromising situation, they agree to an arrangement that will save their reputations while enabling them to investigate the story that led to a mans death, as well as the surprising chemistry between them . . . Autorid: Mimi Matthews
A guide to the historical events that inspired World at War, 1944 explains what caused World War II, what D-Day was and more, providing complementary photos and illustrations that expand student learning. Simultaneous and eBook. In the next Magic Tree House® Fact Tracker, track the facts about World War IIwith Jack and Annie! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Super Edition #1: World at War, 1944, they had lots of questions. How did World War II begin? Why were so many innocent people killed? What was D-Day? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie learn all about one of the darkest hours of history. Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use the Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet Common Core text pairing needs. Have more fun with Jack and Annie on the Magic Tree House website at MagicTreeHouse.com! Did you know theres a Magic Tree House book for every reader? Find the perfect book for you: Classic: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just starting to read chapter books. F&P Level M. Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House® reader. F&P Level N. Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure with Jack and Annie. F&P Level P. Fact Trackers: Non-fiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House® adventures Autorid: Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Carlo Molinari
In the heart of London, beside the Thames not far from the site of the world famous flower show, there is another magical garden. It has been there for over three hundred years and is now the calmest corner, and the most valuable four acres of freehold, in fashionable SW3. It has been the scene of some of the most important developments in the history of horticulture, medicine and twentieth-century agriculture. This book tells its fascinating story. Autorid: Sue Minter
The sixtieth birthday party of Silas Kane was marred by argument and dissension amongst his family. And then, the morning after the celebrations, Kane is found dead at the foot of a cliff. The theory that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog is confirmed when the coroner returns a verdict of death by misadventure. But then Kane's nephew and heir is murdered and threats are made on the next in line to the fortune, throwing a new and sinister light on Silas Kane's death. All clues point to an elderly lady of eighty as the killer. But as the redoubtable Superintendent Hannasyde delves further into the case he discovers that nothing is quite as it seems... Autorid: Georgette Heyer
This textbook, now in its third edition, offers a practical introduction to probability with statistical applications, covering material for both a first and second undergraduate probability course. The author focuses on essential concepts that every student should thoroughly understand. The content is organized into brief, easy-to-follow chapters, motivated by plenty of examples. The first part of the book focuses on classical discrete probability distributions, then goes on to study continuous distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical tests. The following section introduces more advanced concepts suitable for a second course in probability, such as random vectors and sums of random variables. The last part of the book is dedicated to mathematical statistics concepts such as estimation, sufficiency, Bayes' estimation, and multiple regression. This third edition includes a new chapter on combinatorics and a more distinct separation betweendiscrete and continuous distributions. Some of the longer chapters in the previous editions have been divided into shorter chapters to allow for more flexible teaching. Probability with Statistical Applications, Third Edition is intended for undergraduate students taking a first course in probability; later chapters are also suited for a second course in probability and mathematical statistics. Calculus is the only prerequisite; prior knowledge of probability is not required. Autorid: Rinaldo B. Schinazi
The first book to document the history of the groundbreaking company Architectural Pottery, tracing its critical influence on midcentury design and its enduring appeal today Architectural Potterys strikingly minimalist designs heralded new domestic housewares that could uniquely accent the modern homeinside and out. Formally expressive yet accessible, their refreshingly unembellished, elegant pots and planters were enthusiastically received by the public upon Architectural Potterys launch in 1950, soon ubiquitous in spaces representing the epitome of modern living. Highly coveted and prized in design circles, they were seen in houses by Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and the historic Case Study Houses, and featured in the first of MoMAs legendary Good Design exhibitions alongside now-iconic designs by Ray and Charles Eames, Alexander Girard, and George Nelson. Over three decades, Architectural Pottery also developed innovations in stoneware production, expanded into fiberglass furniture, and included famed furniture designer Paul McCobb and sculptor David Cressey on its roster of designers. A midcentury modern design enthusiasts dream, Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape is the first full history of this celebrated and influential brand. Richly illustrated with contemporary photography and extensive visual archival materialincluding the records of the founders Rita and Max Lawrence, and the personal archives of designers, art directors, and photographers associated with the companyit both tells a compelling story and is a valuable resource for collectors and interior designers. The publication of this new book will coincide with a major exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. Autorid: Daniel Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, Jo Lauria
