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Vous ne la connaissez pas, pourtant elle a tenu le monde entre ses mains. Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, Gertrude Bell a dessiné les frontières de l''Orient, dans ce désert sauvage où t

Beautifully illustrated detailed and clear this is a wonderful introduction to human reproduction Professor Alice RobertsFollow the amazing transformation that occurs as a baby develops from a single cell into a fully formed human body Hundreds of spectacular images show you the progress of human pregnancy in unprecedented detail The computer generated imagery illustrations scans and photographs show exactly how a baby changes and grows during pregnancy and how the female body adapts to carry it A chapter on labour and birth explains these processes with step by step illustrations and easy to grasp text The Science of Pregnancy also looks at the nature of human pregnancy including how it evolved and explores the anatomy and physiology of both the male and female reproductive systems The mysteries of DNA and genetics are unravelled and explained in clear illustrated detail including patterns of inheritance and the interplay of genes and environment The book also provides straightforward illustrated information on possible problems before during and after birth Fascinating clear and authoritative this new and updated edition of The Science of Pregnancy is the ideal visual guide for prospective parents and medical and midwifery students

Award winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age an instant New York Times bestseller

A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it''s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They''ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other''s out, and they''ll both go on to f

A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal more corrupt and more dangerous McKinsey & Company have earned billio

What matters is to live everything Live the questions for now This title features profound and lyrical letters the author wrote to a young friend with advise on writing love sex suffering and t

Allen Carrs books have sold over 20 million copies to date in more than 40 different languages

Fans of Exciting Times and Convenience Store Woman will devour this funny and original literary debut about the unintentional consequences of anxiety and the relentless pressures of modern life starring the most unforgettable literary creation since Eleanor Oliphant and Fleabag

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.INCLUDES THE NEWLY DISCOVERED SHORT STORYA treasure trove glistening with lost gems Financial TimesFrom one of the worlds best-loved storytellers, a truly unmissable collection of rediscovered stories, written under a pseudonym in the 1970s and 80s. These early tales hint at the worlds Terry would go on to create, containing all his trademark wit, satirical wisdom and fantastic imagination.

Investigating Animal Abuse Crime Scenes A Field Guide is a handy in field resource for animal control officers police officers and investigators as well as a reference for analysts in forensic la

the author of When We Cease to Understand the World a thrilling kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI Monstrously good Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller Mark HaddonIn a scintillating mix of fact and fiction The MANIAC tells of the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI At its core is John von Neumann a titan of science who revolutionised fields from game theory to computer systems and helped develop the atomic bomb As illness unmoored his mind his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control With dazzling mastery Benjamin Labatut weaves von Neumann s story together with the crises in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and humanity s showdown with artificial intelligence a hundred years later Innovative and disquieting this book plunges us into the most profound questions of humanity where reason teeters on the brink of chaos

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays from the world s greatest writers designed by the award winning Coralie Bickford Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun drenched Mediterranean island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon Beautifully designed and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with foil Regarded as one of world literature s foremost novelists Fyodor Dostoevsky s short stories are also some of the best ever written White Nights tells of love and loss on the streets of St Petersburg A Nasty Business presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate while The Meek One is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy

Ditch the failed sales tactics fill your pipeline and crush your number Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople sales leaders entrepreneurs and executives a practical eye opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development prospecting

Hey I m Jamie a 29 year old trans guy from the UK I ve been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans by accident at sixteen years old I knew I was a boy since the age of four but realised whilst growing up that I was different It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was and what I needed to do Since then I ve been on testosterone for more than a decade I know I can t believe it either I ve also had top and bottom surgery and legally changed my sex so I know a few things about the transitioning process and being trans I want to welcome you to The T in LGBT where you can explore and learn about so many topics surrounding gender identity realising you re trans starting hormones considering surgery and everything in between Whether you re questioning your own identity and are looking for advice on certain stages of transition or whether you re wanting to learn about the trans experience to support someone or understand allyship I hope this book can be your one stop guide to everything trans related And don t just take my word for it either this book is packed full of advice tips and the personal stories of a range of trans voices because no one journey is the same

A life affirming and perspective shifting memoir of one woman s walk in the wilds as she comes to terms with an Asperger s diagnosis

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR ''Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent'' Guardian Its autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosbys longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olives apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known unrecorded lives, Olive calls them reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.Elizabeth Strout, Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 2022

Orixinalidade narrativa e temática en estado puro.O fráxil, o indómito, a violencia, a poesía, o delirio, a forma, o entusiasmo, a agonía, o futuro, a decepción, o inesperado e o cotián. Sesenta e un artefactos con xente atrapada, fantasia de andar pola casa, profesionais que fan o que poden, crueldade, ciencia ficcion domestica, mordacidade, dor e humor.Nada ten sentido. Todo ten sentido. E o Pifostio.O fraxil, o indomito, a violencia, a poesia, o delirio, a forma, o entusiasmo, a agonia, o futuro, a decepcion, o inesperado e o cotian. Sesenta e un artefactos con xente atrapada, fantasia de andar pola casa, profesionais que fan o que poden, crueldade, ciencia ficcion domestica, mordacidade, dor e humor.Nada ten sentido. Todo ten sentido. E o Pifostio.

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's going to join them...In this tense, gripping game of cat and mouse, 'The King of Crime' (Express) returns to his much-loved creation, the inimitable John Rebus, as he faces a case unlike any other... * * * * * PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN: 'Ian Rankin is a genius' LEE CHILD 'Rebus is one of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse' DAILY MAIL 'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre' GUARDIAN 'The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life's pleasures' EXPRESS 'Rankin is a phenomenon' SPECTATOR 'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best' SCOTSMAN 'The king of crime fiction' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Great fiction, full stop' THE TIMES

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero''s descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and inconveniently in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if shes going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. Thats if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? 2025s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENTPowerful, mesmerically beautiful MAIL ON SUNDAYOne long, clever magic trick OBSERVERMagisterial, moving and thought-provoking a beautiful love letter to our oceans NEW SCIENTISTPlayground follows four lives - a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough. In the worlds largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading - sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanitys next great adventure.Praise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

Vous ne la connaissez pas, pourtant elle a tenu le monde entre ses mains. Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, Gertrude Bell a dessiné les frontières de l''Orient, dans ce désert sauvage où t

Beautifully illustrated detailed and clear this is a wonderful introduction to human reproduction Professor Alice RobertsFollow the amazing transformation that occurs as a baby develops from a single cell into a fully formed human body Hundreds of spectacular images show you the progress of human pregnancy in unprecedented detail The computer generated imagery illustrations scans and photographs show exactly how a baby changes and grows during pregnancy and how the female body adapts to carry it A chapter on labour and birth explains these processes with step by step illustrations and easy to grasp text The Science of Pregnancy also looks at the nature of human pregnancy including how it evolved and explores the anatomy and physiology of both the male and female reproductive systems The mysteries of DNA and genetics are unravelled and explained in clear illustrated detail including patterns of inheritance and the interplay of genes and environment The book also provides straightforward illustrated information on possible problems before during and after birth Fascinating clear and authoritative this new and updated edition of The Science of Pregnancy is the ideal visual guide for prospective parents and medical and midwifery students

Award winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age an instant New York Times bestseller

A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it''s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They''ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other''s out, and they''ll both go on to f

A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal more corrupt and more dangerous McKinsey & Company have earned billio

What matters is to live everything Live the questions for now This title features profound and lyrical letters the author wrote to a young friend with advise on writing love sex suffering and t

Allen Carrs books have sold over 20 million copies to date in more than 40 different languages

Fans of Exciting Times and Convenience Store Woman will devour this funny and original literary debut about the unintentional consequences of anxiety and the relentless pressures of modern life starring the most unforgettable literary creation since Eleanor Oliphant and Fleabag

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.INCLUDES THE NEWLY DISCOVERED SHORT STORYA treasure trove glistening with lost gems Financial TimesFrom one of the worlds best-loved storytellers, a truly unmissable collection of rediscovered stories, written under a pseudonym in the 1970s and 80s. These early tales hint at the worlds Terry would go on to create, containing all his trademark wit, satirical wisdom and fantastic imagination.

Investigating Animal Abuse Crime Scenes A Field Guide is a handy in field resource for animal control officers police officers and investigators as well as a reference for analysts in forensic la

the author of When We Cease to Understand the World a thrilling kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI Monstrously good Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller Mark HaddonIn a scintillating mix of fact and fiction The MANIAC tells of the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI At its core is John von Neumann a titan of science who revolutionised fields from game theory to computer systems and helped develop the atomic bomb As illness unmoored his mind his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control With dazzling mastery Benjamin Labatut weaves von Neumann s story together with the crises in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and humanity s showdown with artificial intelligence a hundred years later Innovative and disquieting this book plunges us into the most profound questions of humanity where reason teeters on the brink of chaos

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays from the world s greatest writers designed by the award winning Coralie Bickford Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun drenched Mediterranean island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon Beautifully designed and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with foil Regarded as one of world literature s foremost novelists Fyodor Dostoevsky s short stories are also some of the best ever written White Nights tells of love and loss on the streets of St Petersburg A Nasty Business presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate while The Meek One is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy

Ditch the failed sales tactics fill your pipeline and crush your number Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople sales leaders entrepreneurs and executives a practical eye opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development prospecting

Hey I m Jamie a 29 year old trans guy from the UK I ve been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans by accident at sixteen years old I knew I was a boy since the age of four but realised whilst growing up that I was different It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was and what I needed to do Since then I ve been on testosterone for more than a decade I know I can t believe it either I ve also had top and bottom surgery and legally changed my sex so I know a few things about the transitioning process and being trans I want to welcome you to The T in LGBT where you can explore and learn about so many topics surrounding gender identity realising you re trans starting hormones considering surgery and everything in between Whether you re questioning your own identity and are looking for advice on certain stages of transition or whether you re wanting to learn about the trans experience to support someone or understand allyship I hope this book can be your one stop guide to everything trans related And don t just take my word for it either this book is packed full of advice tips and the personal stories of a range of trans voices because no one journey is the same

A life affirming and perspective shifting memoir of one woman s walk in the wilds as she comes to terms with an Asperger s diagnosis

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR ''Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent'' Guardian Its autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosbys longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olives apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known unrecorded lives, Olive calls them reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.Elizabeth Strout, Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 2022

Orixinalidade narrativa e temática en estado puro.O fráxil, o indómito, a violencia, a poesía, o delirio, a forma, o entusiasmo, a agonía, o futuro, a decepción, o inesperado e o cotián. Sesenta e un artefactos con xente atrapada, fantasia de andar pola casa, profesionais que fan o que poden, crueldade, ciencia ficcion domestica, mordacidade, dor e humor.Nada ten sentido. Todo ten sentido. E o Pifostio.O fraxil, o indomito, a violencia, a poesia, o delirio, a forma, o entusiasmo, a agonia, o futuro, a decepcion, o inesperado e o cotian. Sesenta e un artefactos con xente atrapada, fantasia de andar pola casa, profesionais que fan o que poden, crueldade, ciencia ficcion domestica, mordacidade, dor e humor.Nada ten sentido. Todo ten sentido. E o Pifostio.

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's going to join them...In this tense, gripping game of cat and mouse, 'The King of Crime' (Express) returns to his much-loved creation, the inimitable John Rebus, as he faces a case unlike any other... * * * * * PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN: 'Ian Rankin is a genius' LEE CHILD 'Rebus is one of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse' DAILY MAIL 'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre' GUARDIAN 'The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life's pleasures' EXPRESS 'Rankin is a phenomenon' SPECTATOR 'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best' SCOTSMAN 'The king of crime fiction' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Great fiction, full stop' THE TIMES

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero''s descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and inconveniently in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if shes going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. Thats if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? 2025s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENTPowerful, mesmerically beautiful MAIL ON SUNDAYOne long, clever magic trick OBSERVERMagisterial, moving and thought-provoking a beautiful love letter to our oceans NEW SCIENTISTPlayground follows four lives - a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough. In the worlds largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading - sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanitys next great adventure.Praise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD