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Matki i córki / Marilyn French ; przeł.z ang. Wiesław Marcysiak. - Bydgoszcz : ELLIOT, 1991. - 554s. ; 24cm.
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Rambo II / David Morrell. - Bydgoszcz : ELLIOT, 1991. - 25s. ; 20cm.
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Cómo empezar un canal de YouTube / Elliot Shore. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliot Shore : Legimi, 2021.
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¡Descubra cómo puede empezar su propio canal de YouTube, hacerlo crecer y ganar dinero! ¿Alguna vez ha navegado por YouTube y se ha preguntado cómo sería tener su propio canal? ¿Ve a los youtubers y cree que puede hacer lo mismo, o incluso algo mejor? ¿Es un amante de las cámaras que puede crear grandes obras de arte que le gustaría mostrar al mundo? ¡Entonces este es el libro para usted! En este libro, usted podrá: - Aprender a diseñar paso a paso su canal de YouTube y crear vídeos increíbles - Descubrir cientos de consejos sobre cómo crear vídeos que consigan una gran cantidad de visualizaciones y suscriptores - Dominar las técnicas necesarias para crear su propia marca en YouTube, desde los logotipos y los esquemas de color hasta las miniaturas y los gráficos - Aprender a ganar dinero en YouTube - Descubrir qué buscan los espectadores y cómo utilizar los anuncios para llegar a una audiencia mucho mayor - Aprender a crear contenidos entretenidos que la gente quiera ver y compartir - Conocer los pasos que debe dar antes de publicar su primer vídeo - Dominar el arte de la edición de vídeo - Aprender a desarrollar una estrategia para su canal de YouTube, incluso si es nuevo - Dominar las estrategias para ganar suscriptores distinguiéndose de la competencia Cómo crear un canal de YouTube es la guía definitiva que todo creador de contenidos de YouTube necesita. Tanto si siempre ha querido crear un canal de YouTube como si ya tiene uno y quiere llevarlo al siguiente nivel, ha llegado al lugar adecuado. ¡Consiga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre cómo empezar su canal de YouTube!
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Cómo empezar un pódcast / Elliot Shore. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliot Shore : Legimi, 2022.
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Shore Elliot. Autor
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¡Todo lo que necesita saber hoy en día para comenzar su propio pódcast! ¿Ha tenido dificultades para familiarizarse con el mundo de los pódcast? ¿Siente que le faltan ideas sobre qué hacer y le cuesta obtener beneficios? ¿Le resulta casi insoportable escribir para su pódcast? ¿Quiere divertirse haciendo pódcast y que le paguen por ello? Ha llegado el momento de tener una perspectiva diferente sobre todo lo relacionado con los pódcast. En este libro, usted podrá: - Entender cómo funciona el mundo de los pódcast. - Aprender a desarrollar un pódcast exitoso. - Descubrir cómo elegir el nicho y la audiencia adecuados. - Conocer el aspecto comercial del mundo del pódcast y crear una marca. - Aprender todo sobre los equipos que puede necesitar según su presupuesto. - Aprender todo lo que necesita saber sobre la edición y la posproducción. - Descubrir los mejores canales para publicar su pódcast. - Explorar las múltiples formas de monetizar su contenido. - Dominar la comercialización de su pódcast. - Dominar las técnicas de entrevista para cuando tenga invitados. Como creador de contenidos, su tiempo, esfuerzo y recursos son demasiado valiosos para desperdiciarlos en técnicas que no funcionan. Ha llegado el momento de hacer un alto en el camino y planificar un nuevo enfoque. Este minucioso libro le guiará a través del proceso de crear un pódcast, distribuirlo y obtener beneficios de él. ¿A qué espera? Adquiera este libro ahora para aprender más sobre cómo empezar un pódcast.
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Pathfinding / Kerri Andrews. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2025.
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Andrews Kerri. Autor
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The desire to walk is something that defines us, bringing joy, connection and freedom. But what happens to all this when we become mothers? From the author of Wanderers, comes an urgent exploration of what it means to rediscover ourselves through the land we walk and the people we walk alongside. ___ In the wake of the complete metamorphosis of becoming a mother, Kerri Andrews determines to undertake a series of journeys on foot to understand what has happened to her. Alongside a backpack full of supplies, Kerri carries with her the shadow of post-natal depression and the idea that maybe the hills are no longer for those, like her, who bear the mental and physical scars of childbearing and childrearing. Yet, what she soon discovers are tales of mother-walkers that have long been neglected or hidden away. From Mary Wollstonecraft and Ellen Weeton to Kate Chopin, here are women whose urgent stories offer new ways of stepping into motherhood. As Kerri traverses urban, rural and increasingly mountainous landscapes in the North West and Scotland, she is joined by women who have also experienced the profound changes that having children can bring to bodies and minds. Together, they explore the complicated ground of motherhood today – balancing enormous responsibility and upheaval with ambition, rage and hope – creating new paths as they go. ___ 'Left me itching to lace up my boots and follow the call of the path.' Laura Pashby, author of Chasing Fog 'Bold, brave... I had the feeling, as I read, that Kerri Andrews might be clearing a path for us all.' Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal 'Powerful and unflinchingly honest' Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept: Why Women Walk
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The Company of Owls / Polly Atkin. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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Atkin Polly. Autor
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Share in the company of owls in this nocturnal love song… From the author of Some of Us Just Fall, longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. 'I couldn't put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.' Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries ___ In the woods above Polly Atkin's home in Grasmere, Cumbria live the tawny owls she calls her neighbours. Each night, they come down to her cottage at dusk, calling out as night falls – in particular a trio of owlets she watches grow from fledglings to young adults. As the antics of the owl siblings develop – their capacity to play, to bicker, to share and to protect – they encourage her to think differently about some of the big needs of all our lives: solitude and companionship, care and belonging, rest and retreat. And into the frame step questions about all sorts of relationships, from how we feel when in darkness to the homes and connection we so desperately seek. The Company Of Owls is a love song to these incredible creatures, and a reflection on what makes them, and us, unique. It's a call to find joy in unexpected places and times. It is a lesson in learning to listen – to really listen – when all around us seems clamour and noise. ___ 'Rarely have I found a book so transporting, so moving.' Jessica J. Lee, author of Dispersals 'A beautiful guide to moving through this world with tender curiosity, joy and reflection.' Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean
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How Labour Wins / Douglas Beattie. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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Beattie Douglas. Autor
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'Labour's record in government shows that Attlee and Blair were in the top rank of change-making Prime Ministers, and Wilson not far behind. An inspirational history.' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL A fascinating history of how the unfolding drama of each election from 1900 to 2024 has shaped the Labour Party and modern Britain. This is an essential guide to how left-wing politics succeeds or fails through an accessible, highly readable and timely history of Labour's performance in the 33 British General Elections since 1900. There have been 8 hung parliaments resulting in coalitions. Labour has won power 12 times; the Conservatives outright on 14 occasions. The final chapter of the book analyses the landslide result of the General Election on 4th July 2024. HOW LABOUR WINS is a book about the pursuit of power for working people. In assessing the fortunes of the Labour Party at the ballot box, it asks a simple overarching question – how and why does Labour win and lose? When Rishi Sunak announced the 4 July 2024 General Election, the Labour Party had been out of power for almost fifteen years and lost four consecutive elections since 2010. These were turbulent times defined by austerity, a Scottish independence referendum, Brexit, and the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson. Now, under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Labour Party is back in government. How do the lessons of the past show us how Starmer can maximise his victory and deliver the change promised in Labour's manifesto? With exclusive insights from former leaders and Prime Ministers - including Gordon Brown and Neil Kinnock - How Labour Wins delves deep into the secrets of long-forgotten campaigns, traces the Party's roots, examines the strategies, leaders, transformative moments and missteps which have defined Labour's success at the ballot box and shaped modern Britain. Each chapter assesses the state of the nation going into a general election, the issues that shaped that election agenda and the dominant leaders and personalities of the day. This includes analysis of the election result statistics from landslides to hung parliaments, starting with the Labour Party's first election with only 15 candidates in 1900, Labour first calling for the abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 and the first Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald. It includes party manifestos, such as 'The nation wants food, work and homes' (Labour, 1945), party political broadcasts (first televised in 1951) and the historical context for all the major political movements of 20th and 21st century Britain. At the end of every chapter there is an election recap such as the following example: 1923 General Election Result Date of Election: 6 December 1923 Turnout: 71.1% Labour candidates: 427 MPs: 191 Votes: 4,439,780 Labour % share of vote: 30.5% Result: Labour minority Highlight: James Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister 'If Labour is to flourish in power, it needs to know much more about its history. Reading this book would be an excellent starting point for its leaders and followers.' Anthony Seldon 'A timely and brilliantly illuminating book that offers much needed context to the 2024 general election. A must read.' Steve Richards, BBC Radio 4 Week in Westminster and host of Rock and Roll Politics
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The Way Through the Woods / Rebecca Beattie. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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Beattie Rebecca. Autor
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Discover your path through life's ups and downs with green witch Rebecca Beattie, a Wiccan priestess who has practised witchcraft for over twenty years and the author of The Wheel of the Year. 'Bring your troubles with an open mind and go away with the balm of nature and kindness.' Maggie Brookes, author of Acts of Love and War Where do we take our troubles when things get tough? In The Way Through the Woods, green witch Rebecca Beattie encourages us to reclaim times of great change in our lives – in relationships, work and family, and in our bodies and selves – as transformative, alchemical moments full of possibility. Drawing inspiration from the ebb and flow of the natural world, this is a must-have seasonal toolkit for optimising your spiritual, bodily and mental health. Whenever you need a helping hand, be it through grief or menopause, a new career or finding your flow, this enchanting book is filled with nurturing rituals and wild magic to guide you. The Way Through the Woods will help you to pause and reflect, to reconnect to nature and to yourself as you uncover a path towards joy and abundance. ___ 'The best book I have found yet on the magic of personal growth and personal healing. It is a perfect journey through the year and through nature to the self.' Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch 'Laden with compassion and care, it ripples with hope and is full of delicious magic and ritual.' Jini Reddy, author of Wanderland
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Refiner's Fire / Richard Bratby. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2023.
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Bratby Richard. Autor
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Financial Times – BEST BOOKS OF 2023 PRESTO MUSIC – BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 'This superb account of how that glorious institution came into being will give you deep and abiding pleasure' Stephen Fry When harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood and record producer Peter Wadland founded the Academy of Ancient Music in 1973, their mission was to create Britain's first orchestra devoted to recording baroque and classical music on period instruments. They went on to change the musical world. Their success brought the AAM global fame – bringing historically informed performance into the mainstream and putting Vivaldi into the pop charts. But then the orchestra faced a new challenge: reinventing itself to survive and thrive in the world its own success had created. For the first time, Richard Bratby tells the story of this trailblazing orchestra and the people who shaped it: fifty years of innovation, exploration and musical adventure, from the pioneering days of the early 1970s to new directions – and new triumphs – in the 21st century. 'An uplifting, anecdote-packed account of the Academy of Ancient Music […]' Lucie Skeaping 'The refiner's fire of AAM still burns brightly: this book tells us why. From the Marquis of Granby to the Hollywood Bowl; an illuminating account of a musical revolution.' Catherine Bott 'Using a mass of archival material and many interviews, Refiner's Fire is a lively account of the orchestra's history, of Christopher Hogwood himself and of the other essential players (literal and figurative).' Emma Kirkby
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The Fires of Gallipoli / Barney Campbell. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2025.
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Campbell Barney. Autor
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'A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime' Antonia Senior, The Times The Fires of Gallipoli is a heartbreaking portrayal of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War. 'In this vivid and engaging novel of war and friendship, Barney Campbell shows us once again that he is a natural writer. This is a novel of men at arms of the highest quality'.Alexander McCall Smith Edward Salter is a shy, reserved lawyer whose life is transformed by the outbreak of war in 1914. On his way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign, he befriends the charming and quietly courageous Theodore Thorne. Together they face the carnage and slaughter, stripped bare to their souls by the hellscape and only sustained by each other and the moments of quiet they catch together. Thorne becomes the crutch whom Edward relies on throughout the war. When their precious leave from the frontline coincides, Theo invites Edward to his late parents' idyllic estate in Northamptonshire. Here Edward meets Thorne's sister Miranda and becomes entranced by her. Edward escapes the broiling, fetid charnel-house of Gallipoli to work on the staff of Lord Kitchener, then on to the Western Front and post-war espionage in Constantinople. An odd coolness has descended between Edward and Theo. Can their connection and friendship survive the overwhelming sense of loss at the end of the war when everything around them is corrupted and destroyed? The Fires of Gallipoli is a heartbreaking, sweeping portrayal of friendship and its fragility at the very limits of humanity.
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No Tears / David Charters. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2010.
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Charters David. Autor
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We all know the truth about the Square Mile... Don't we? What goes on in the City is the stuff of legend. Degrading interview processes. Booxy lunches that last well into the early hours. High-risk decisions made whilst still suffering from the night before. Humiliating firings in front of colleagues. A former senior investment banker, David Charters has seen it all. In No Tears, his cult collection of City-based short stories, he finally reveals the secrets of the Square Mile with brutal honesty. It's all you'd imagine it to be - and worse.
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Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You / Candice Chung. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2025.
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Chung Candice. Autor
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'If only my Cantonese parents weren't so allergic to the word love…' 'A wonderfully heart-warming memoir from the bottom of the stomach.' Xiaolu Guo 'A real and delightful surprise, full of smart thought and deft words – and also very funny.' Ella Risbridger 'Poetic, delicious and full of moments of grace and beauty.' Nikesh Shukla What is the most unsayable thing you have ever wanted to say to your parents? For newly single food journalist Candice Chung, there's been one thing on her mind lately: 'If anything happens, I love you.' Simple. Reasonable. If only her estranged Cantonese parents weren't so allergic to the word 'love'. Still, she's determined to tackle what's left unsaid. To find a way to unscramble what her family has been trying to tell each other all along – not in Cantonese or English, but with food. As Candice dives into the rituals of family dining, and her parents offer to join her at restaurants she's due to review, she begins to unravel how a decade of silence and distance have shaped their relationship. Through shared meals and culinary adventures – from steaming hotpots to pasta at uncomfortably romantic trattorias – they begin to confront the unspoken. And to unpick what it means to show care when you come from a culture where saying 'I love you' isn't the norm. Set against the backdrop of a burgeoning new relationship, grasped-at date nights mid-pandemic and an uncertain future across seas, Candice reflects on migration, solitude and intimacy. How can we rebuild closeness when we've drifted apart? Can food fill the gaps where words fail? For anyone who has ever found their loved ones' emotional worlds unreachable, Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You is packed with heart, humour and those bright-hearted moments around a dinner table that bring us together. __ 'Tenderly shows how food steps up to provide the emotional support, comfort, and safety that humans need, when words cannot.' Hetty Lui McKinnon 'Will undo anyone whose love language is food.' Tara Wigley, co-author of Ottolenghi SIMPLE
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Rogue Agent / James Crossland. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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Crossland James. Autor
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'It is impossible not to keep the pages turning' Scotland on Sunday 'It's a brilliant book everyone, go and get it!' Dan Snow 'Compelling and meticulously researched, the riveting life of a maverick Scottish spy.' Charles Cumming THE THRILLING BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART, BRITAIN'S 'AGENT' IN MOSCOW Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970) was an impressive figure: a diplomat, intelligence agent, conspirator, journalist and propagandist who played a key role in both world wars. He was a man who charmed his way into the confidences of everyone from Leon Trotsky to Anthony Eden. A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed 'could well have been prime minister'. And yet Lockhart died almost forgotten and near destitute, a Scottish footnote in the pages of history. Rogue Agent is the first biography of this gifted yet habitually flawed maverick. It chronicles his many exploits, from his time as Britain's 'Agent' in Moscow, and his role in a plot to bring down the communist regime, to leading the Political Warfare Executive, a secret body responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the Second World War. Exploring Lockhart's unorthodox thinking and contributions to the development of psychological warfare as well as his hedonistic lifestyle, late nights and many affairs that left him in a state of perpetual debt, Rogue Agent tells the thrilling story of this unconventional war hero. 'In this rigorously researched yet lively and highly readable account, James Crossland cuts through the myth and legend to tell a compelling story.' Professor Rory Cormac, author of How to Stage a Coup 'This riveting account of Lockhart's adventures in revolutionary Russia, his penchant for exotic women and extravagant nightlife, reads like a thriller.' Julia Boyd, author of A Village in the Third Reich 'A mesmerising tale of espionage and journalism . . . when an elite Scot with "no drop of English blood in my veins" might believe he could almost single-handedly change world history.' James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of Germany
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Environomics / Dharshini David. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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'Opens our eyes to the everyday contributions all of us make to how the world is changing.' Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography 'A much needed blend of optimism and realism' Brett Christophers, author of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet Why might an orangutan care which toothpaste you choose? What does your mobile phone have to do with wind turbines? And can your morning coffee really power a bus? Economics affects every aspect of our lives, from the clothes on our backs to the bread on our tables and the fuel in our cars. And there are huge changes afoot as the global green revolution sweeps across the globe. In this vibrant and eye-opening book, economist and broadcaster Dharshini David follows the course of an average day – from the moment we flick on the light in the morning – to reveal the green changes that are already taking place in every aspect of our world. Exploring industries such as energy, food, fashion, technology, manufacturing and finance, she asks what is happening, how quickly, who is driving it all – and what it means for us. Ranging from crucial issues such as sustainability and corporate greenwashing, to global flashpoints such as industrialisation and trade wars, she shows how even the smallest details in our day are part of a much bigger story about where our world is heading. If you've ever wondered what green issues really mean for your day-to-day life, this book is for you. 'An important yet accessible addition to the green debate.' Country & Town House
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Chokepoints / Edward Fishman. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2025.
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'Chokepoints is a masterful narrative of US economic warfare in the 21st century.'Financial Times 'A timely, riveting world tour … absorbing'The Economist THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics'Wall Street Journal 'A gripping, firsthand account. Unparalleled.' Chris Miller, author of Chip War It used to be that ravaging another country's economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. The global economy is now a weapon of war. Chokepoints is a thrilling behind-the-scenes account of one of the most pivotal geopolitical shifts of our time. Drawing on extensive research, personal experience and interviews with key players, Edward Fishman, a former top US State Department official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power around the world. Here we meet an eclectic group of innovators: the diplomats, lawyers and financial whizzes who've masterminded a fearsome new arsenal of economic weapons, exploiting Western dominance in global finance and technology, and harnessing the power of Wall Street, the City of London and Silicon Valley to confront a rising authoritarian axis. The sanctions against Russia might be the biggest coordinated act of economic warfare we've seen, but it won't be the last. Control over modern-day chokepoints – such as the US dollar, advanced microchip technology and critical energy supply chains – has become the key to geopolitical power in the twenty-first century. The result is an economic arms race among great powers and a fracturing global economy. Utterly gripping and brimming with rare insight, Chokepoints is indispensable reading to understand the forces that will shape our world for decades to come. 'This is the must-read book of the month for me: Eddie Fishman's Chokepoints. Those who write about war and geopolitics for a living are generally poor at economic warfare. This book is a great place to start.' Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money
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Her Lotus Year / Paul French. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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The revealing story of the legendary Wallis Simpson's controversial and formative year in China in the 1920s. 'Compelling' Dr Amanda Foreman 'Fascinating' Lisa See 'Riveting' Anne Sebba 'Surprising' Anne de Courcy 'Convincing' Hugo Vickers 'Intriguing' Julia Boyd 'A book of fascinating revelations' Laurence Leamer 'Magisterial, beautifully written and impeccably researched' Alexander Larman In her memoirs, Wallis Simpson described her time in China as her 'Lotus Year', referring to Homer's Lotus Eaters, a group living in a state of dreamy forgetfulness, never to return home. That year, however, was also used to damn her in the eyes of the British Establishment. Determined to 'save' the monarchy, the British government's 'China Dossier' of Wallis's rumoured amorous and immoral activities in the Far East portrayed her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign agents, and unfit to marry a king. But little was really known about how she spent that mysterious period in her life – until now. Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian of China, uncovers a completely different picture, portraying a woman of tremendous courage who may have acted as a courier for the US government, undertaking dangerous undercover diplomatic missions in a China torn by civil war. Despite the many challenges she faced, from violent riots to the breakdown of her abusive first marriage, it was there that she established her confidence and independence, developed her unique fashion sense, and forged friendships that would last a lifetime. She emerged from that year as the elegant, stylish, cosmopolitan and worldly woman for whom a king gave up his throne. Her Lotus Year takes a headlong dive into Wallis's early, formative years – and into the chaotic and thrilling China of the 1920s – to explore the untold story of a woman too often maligned by history.
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In All Weathers / Matt Gaw. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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From the howling winds of Skye to the fen-sucked fogs of East Anglia, explore the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms. 'Beautifully written, wonderfully immersive and utterly life-affirming. This book glows with a rare light.' Julian Hoffman 'In All Weathers pulls off the trick of shining a fresh light on our much-maligned climate'Mail on Sunday 'In his glorious ode to the inclement, author and teacher Matt Gaw reveals how all weathers transform our relationship with the natural world – the secret is to open your senses and immerse yourself'The Observer magazine All too often our weather is simply deemed as good (sunny) or bad (anything else), and our likelihood of venturing outside is governed by that simplistic judgement. But inclement weather can be beautiful, sublime, even fun. It transforms the light, textures and colours of a landscape and influences our mood and behaviour. It has inspired poets and artists, seeped into our language and folklore, and fundamentally shaped our way of life on these isles. It allows new worlds to emerge, shrouded in fog, splintered by ice and refreshed by rain. In In All Weathers Matt Gaw embarks on a series of walks across Britain – through rain, fog, wind, ice and snow – to look again at our most widely accessed experience of the natural world, exploring where our weather comes from, the ways it is changing, and how we can embrace it as a positive presence in our lives. It's time to throw open the doors, window and soul to the inspiring wildness of weather. 'Gorgeously immersive and exposing. Matt Gaw's writing is lucid and illuminating, but with a subtle sensuality and creatureliness that means we almost walk in his skin. A journey of reconnection when we have never needed it more.' Amy-Jane Beer, author of The Flow 'In All Weathers is a beautiful book, a shimmer of unexpected ways of seeing and experiencing the world, shining with detailed insight and attentive understanding. Wild, oppressive and inclement weathers have found a wonderfully gentle champion in Matt Gaw – these are explorations to delight every walker and refresh any reader.' Horatio Clare, author of Heavy Light 'Elegant, learned and thoughtful, this book vindicates our obsession with the weather.' Katherine May, author of Enchantment 'Matt's vivid, personal journey through weather will inspire you to welcome and embrace even the dullest, dampest, shiver-inducing-est of conditions. Uplifting and full of wonder.' Lev Parikian, author of Taking Flight 'A brilliant, bracing, elucidating book. Wonderfully researched and written.' Stephen Rutt, author of The Eternal Season
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The Language of Trees / Katie Holten. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2023.
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS* THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER and IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Max Porter 'A forest of writing to be cherished' Irish Times 'One of the most inspired items of environmental literature in recent years.' Irish Independent If trees have memories, respond to stress, and communicate, what can they tell us? And will we listen? A stunning international collaboration that reveals how trees make our world, change our minds and rewild our lives – from root to branch to seed. In this beautifully illustrated collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate pieces from some of the world's most exciting writers and artists, activists and ecologists. Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. Printed in deep green ink, The Language of Trees is a celebratory homage filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Suzanne Simard, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, Plato and Robin Wall Kimmerer. 'Immersive, celebratory… all beautifully illustrated.' Observer 'A visual reminder that, like strong oaks from little acorns, we still can create the world in which we wish to live.' Kerri ní Dochartaigh 'A thoughtful and incisive view of Nature across the globe.' The Countryman
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Infinite Life / Jules Howards. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg. It's time to tell a new story of life on Earth. 'Jules Howard's egg's-eye view of evolution is dripping with fascinating insights' ALICE ROBERTS 'So much passion and poetic prose' BBC Radio 4, Inside Science If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind's eye? A chicken egg, hard-boiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Or the majestic marble-blue eggs of the blackbird? Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished. In Infinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period and Carboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the age of dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power. Eggs would evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyons and mudflats; be dropped in nests wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests in trees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas. Whether belonging to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are objects that have been shaped by their ecology, forged by mass extinctions and honed by natural selection to near-perfection. Finally, the epic story of their role in the tapestry of life can be told. 'In a book that brilliantly evokes past eras, Howard provides a new perspective on the history of life on Earth.' The Mail on Sunday
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A Winter Dictionary / Paul Anthony Jones. - [miejsce nieznane] : Elliott & Thompson : Legimi, 2024.
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Jones Paul Anthony. Autor
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As the nights draw in and the cold descends, the winter world emerges – and with it an incredible array of words that superbly capture the season. From frost-dogs (tiny frozen particles of falling snow) and Stepmother's breath (a sudden cold snap) to hibernaculum (a winter refuge during the winter months) and crapulent (feeling the aftereffects of overindulgence), Paul Anthony Jones delves into the origins of these rare, fascinating and forgotten words, opening up a whole new way of describing the winter months. Whether you're keeping cosy in front of the fire, warding off the winter blues or throwing yourself into the party season, A Winter Dictionary is the perfect way to while away the snow-laden days. Praise for Why Is this a Question? 'An enlightening, delightful book that will make you question every sentence you've ever read or written.' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library 'As entertaining as it is engrossing . . . this book will delight logophiles everywhere, and create many new ones.' John Banville 'Every page will make you stop, think and wonder.' James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of England
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