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Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
Short Stories in Swedish for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly – enjoyment! Mapped to A1-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these…
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The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed ”Dr. Doom,” until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great…
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Kategorier: Historiska romaner Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Ett hav av vallmo är första delen i Ibis-trilogin.
Om Ett hav av vallmo:
”En fantastisk roman.” The Guardian
”Ett hav av vallmo har en mängd karaktärer som vi kan älska och hata, och ger oss vidunderliga och detaljerade beskrivningar av britternas opium-produktion, det hårda sjömanslivet på 1800-talet, och…
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The seventh book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron’s much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, ’the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher’ (Sunday Times)
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’A brilliant account of how models are so often abused and of how they should be used’ John Kay
How do mathematical models shape our world – and how can we harness their power for good?
Models are at the centre of everything we do. Whether we use them or are simply affected by them, they act as…
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’This is the book we’ve been waiting for – the one Nick’s legacy deserves and so badly needs. Richard Morton Jack has reconstructed Nick’s life with great sensitivity and care, and in remarkable detail. It is a biography to be treasured’ Joe Boyd
In 1968 Nick Drake had everything to…
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*THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC – ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War Japan: a poorly socialized genius stuck…
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE’Thrilling’ Daily Mail’Gripping’…
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What Socrates’s greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?
Can we make ourselves into better human beings?
Can we help others do the same?
Can we get our leaders to care that humanity prospers, not just economically, but also…
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It’s now cheaper to save the world than destroy it.The solutions to overcome the global climate crisis already exist, and contrary to the belief that we’re all doomed, we will continue to prosper.
We have now entered the third major transition since the industrial revolutions: from wood to coal to oil, the…
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Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.
”I love Olly’s work – and you will too!” – Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers
Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written…
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A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.
Hailed as the ”first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.In Free…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Remember when talking about money was taboo? Times have changed and in our times, with so many radical and disruptive changes to the economy, the role of the entrepreneur now embedded at the centre of so much societal and technological change, and digital currencies changing the way we think about exchange, money has…
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’A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women’ Rachel CuskThe five of them – Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly – met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons and late nights. Friendship seemed…
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’Nerd royalty’ Ben Goldacre ’Laugh-out-loud funny’ Bill Gates’Totally brilliant’ Tim Harford
WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?
And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar…
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Kategorier: Brottslighet och kriminologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialtjänst, välfärd och kriminologi
Part manifesto, part exploration of what justice truly means for survivors of trauma and abuse, Judith Herman forces us to reconsider our perspective on victims, revealing uncomfortable truths about our justice systems and proposing new ways to implement justice. A follow-up to the bestselling Trauma and Recovery the…
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Kategorier: Informationsteknik
A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist’s counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant – and employable – in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human.
It’s not a future scenario any more. We’ve been taught that to compete with automation and AI, we’ll have to…
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Kategorier: Historiska romaner Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
I centrum för denna storslagna roman står skeppet Ibis och dess passagerare. Deeti är änka till en opiummissbrukare, räddad från makens begravningsbål av den lågkastiga Kalua. Paulette är den föräldralösa dottern till en fransk botaniker och Jodu, sonen till hennes amma, hennes enda länk till det förflutna. Vi får…
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Kategorier: Antropologi Kulturantropologi och socialantropologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi och antropologi
A Spectator Book of the Year’Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital’ Literary Review’A terrific storyteller’ New York Times’Exceptional . . . tender and beautifully written’ Country LifeThe groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across…
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’Epic . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat’ Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
’A little piece of magic’ Sunday Independent, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
’Enthralling . . . A timely musing on what and who are lost to history’ The Economist,…
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Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.
”I love Olly’s work – and you will too!” – Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers
Short Stories in Russian for Beginners has been written…
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Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution’s rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too long. Based in the small German town…
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Set amidst the unforgettable sights and smells of 18th and 19th Century Paris, Elixir tells the story of Edouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent, the son of a perfumer and a fellow aspiring chemist, who met on the Left Bank while pursuing their passion for science. Spurned by the scientific establishment of the time, the…
’Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable’ The Sunday Times
’Deeply researched and elegantly written – essential reading’ Dan Jones
’Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed’ Daily Telegraph
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world…
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A riotous novel about sex and money set in the electric world of Soho, featuring a group of sex workers, a billionaire Russian oligarch, a nearly over-the-hill actor, junkie vagabonds, a once far-right extremist and a very glamorous borzoi
Kategorier: Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Icelandic.
”Olly’s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work…
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A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer…
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DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he’s a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age.…
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Cyprus, 1954. One sultry summer night, a young woman abruptly ends a love affair. It’s an impulsive act of revenge but it’s one that will reverberate through the lives of everyone involved.
Finsbury Park, London, 1988. Evgenia has just been given the news that nobody wants to hear. She’s dying, but…
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you…
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