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The midlife years are only the beginning - a transformational edit for your very best life.In 2019, Gail McNeill sold her cherished family home and moved to Portugal with just a few boxes of possessions. Soon after, the Covid pandemic enforced her isolation in a remote part of the world...

An enchanting medieval city ebbing with history and culture, Prague's tiny cobblestone lanes will lead you through a maze of spectacular Gothic architecture, traditional local pubs, grand royal residences and picturesque pastel buildings. Your DK Eyewitness Top Ten travel guide ensures you'll find your way around the City of a...

Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson's Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.Underlying everything in the book is Johnson's belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should...

This candid memoir of punk rock, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows Whibley's rise from a punk kid in Canada to an international star.   From his earliest days as a kid in Canada, Deryck Whibley was a punk who loved music and couldn't wait to...

Lost in Bratislava? Impossible with this City Guide! It’s clear to anyone who has spent time in Bratislava that the ancient city straddling the Danube possess many charms. The Slovak capital was once the coronation capital under the prosperous Habsburg Monarchy, a significant part of the city’s history celebrated every year...

Čtenář se ve dvou svazcích této řady, která volně navazuje na devítisvazkovou řadu "C. k. pionýrské vojsko", opět seznámí s vojenskou historií z poněkud jiné strany. Dozví se něco o zákulisí bojů o pevnosti v popisech činnosti částí technického vojska staré c. k. armády zvaných sapéři, minéři a inženýři a...

Twenty-five years after her tragic death, James Patterson tells the heartbreaking true story of Princess Diana's life as a mother and a global icon. At the age of thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As...

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internetrevealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off. For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners...

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Freddie Mercury, the trailblazing musician who rocked the world! Born on the tiny island on Zanzibar off the coast of modern-day Tanzania, young Farrokh dreamt of having a fabulous life. When his...

From the heights of the Peruvian Andes to the banks of the Mekong River Delta in Laos, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has traveled far and wide to find culinary inspiration in some of the world's most remote locations. In this travelogue-meets-cookbook, Ramsay reveals the rich food traditions and cultures he's...

Celebrate Christmas like Harry, Ron, and Hermione with over 50 recipes inspired by holiday celebrations in the Harry Potter films!Filled with recipes ranging from fan favourites like treacle tart; Yule Ball-inspired appetisers and punches; to classic British dishes such as Neville Longbottom's Toad in a Hole and Bubble and Squeak,...

By the age of twenty, Lucy Spraggan had already experienced more extraordinary things than many do across a lifetime. Growing up in a creative household, surrounded by artists, alcohol and raucous parties, by her late teens she had played pubs, clubs and festivals, fallen in love with an older woman...

Staňte se svědky závodu o nadvládu na poli supersportovních vozů mezi předními světovými výrobci automobilů. Dozvíte se vše o vychytávkách automobilů, jejichž vývojové rozpočty (a nezřídka i vzhled) se přibližují vesmírným lodím. Přečtěte si o designérech a inženýrech, kteří stojí za těmito skvostnými stroji a seznamte se s názory těch,...

One of the greatest rock memoirs ever written and a Sunday Times bestseller now out in paperback - the honest, irreverent and powerfully entertaining life story of the U2 front-man. Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography- honest and...

The new book by STEVEN BARTLETT: entrepreneur, podcaster and Dragon's Den starThis is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent.   At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER TO HELP YOU OVERCOME ANXIETY AND BECOME MORE CONFIDENT, EFFECTIVE, AND FULFILLED From Mel Robbins, #1 podcast host, best-selling author and expert on change and motivation. In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions the five second secret...

On April 1, 1976, two scruffy twentysomethings, both named Steve, founded a startup. Their goal: To bring the revolutionary power of computers to everyone. Over the next five decades, Apple reshaped the technology and cultural landscapes, introducing the public to breakthroughs like the mouse, laser printing, CD-ROM, WiFi, digital...

The book traces the history of Venetian art from the beginnings to the end of the Republic of Venice - with buildings, paintings, mosaics, sculptures, and glass objects reflecting the international contacts of the medieval trading republic.

Autor knihy se jako miliony jiných amatérských běžců aspoň jednou ročně vážně zranil. Po cyklech bolestí, injekcí a střídání běžeckých bot chtěl na doporučení lékařů s běháním skoncovat. Místo toho se však vydal do kaňonů v Mexiku, kde žijí Tarahumarové – nejtajemnější, nejzdravější a nejšťastnější běžci na planetě. Běhání v...

Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight: Here's how to think about choosing a job. Here's how...

Everything the young fan wants to know about Jack Grealish, from his childhood to the present day, including lots of quizzes and facts.

A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day. Acknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest addition to the Art Essentials series invites the reader to experience and appreciate the entirety...

Many of us gaze up into space and marvel at the Milky Way, but do you know what you're really looking at? The Art of Stargazing is the ultimate insider's guide to the night sky in which award-winning space scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock shares...

Precious stones are masterpieces of nature and their mysterious shimmer has fascinated man since time immemorial. This overview publication briefly conveys the history of precious stones, introduces the materials most often processed and used in the past. Precious stones reveal to us the life and problems of ancient civilizations. Through...

From New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisis. In Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to reveal how America has...

We all love a good BBQ but too often they centre around some slightly burnt sausages and burgers. Not anymore! Jamie’s got 90 recipes to show us just how brilliant and versatile barbecuing can be, whatever the season. With recipes suitable for both charcoal and gas BBQs, Jamie shares his...

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social, and financial fallout.   The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become...

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EAST, MADE IN INDIA AND FRESH INDIA. ‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to be yours too.' Dinner is a fresh and joyful celebration of the power of a good meal all...

Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and...