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Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, full of candid, intimate, spiky meditations on inspiration, artistry, sexuality, race, love, self-doubt, abuse, defiance and everything in between' OBSERVER'Variously optimistic, troubling, joyful, illuminating, fierce and thoughtful' GUARDIANINTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE OF MUSICWriter and critic Amy Raphael has i...

From the bestselling author of Million Dollar Maths, a clear and entertaining guide to help anyone make sense of special offers, fake news, dodgy reporting and politicians' promisesFigures have always been misused and distorted in pursuit of political and commercial gain, but seldom has the need for us to grasp exactly how this is done been greater or more urgent.Politicians, economists, scientists, journalists have all been known to bend the ...

Maker sein - weil Selbermachen einfach geiler ist! Dieses Buch zeigt Schritt für Schritt, wie man aus simplen Alltagsgegenständen supercooles, stylishes und vor allem nützliches Survival- und Outdoorzubehör baut. Von der Freiluftküche über den Camping-Wasserfilter und den rustikalen Wanderstock bis hin zur Hängematte ist alles dabei, um sich die Natur zurückzuerobern und auch draußen perfekt ausgerüstet ins nächste Abenteuer zu starten!

When Ethan Flynn, charismatic vocalist of supergroup Stigma, is electrocuted by his own guitar in front of 175, 000 witnesses on the Pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival, suspicion falls on his tyrannical twin, Tyrone.Leading the murder investigation is Buddhist detective, Vincent Caine, and his partner, DI Shanti Joyce. To Shanti's consternation the pair have become known as 'the go-to team for weird stuff in the West Country' and few cr...

Silvia Beneditos "Atmosphere Anatomies" veranschaulicht, wie sich die Atmosphäre auf das sensorische und physiologische Wohlbefinden auswirken kann, wenn sie als Gestaltungsmittel in die Architektur einbezogen wird. Anhand innovativer Projektbeispiele besprechen die Essays die vielseitigen Techniken und Kontexte, die die Atmosphäre während des Gestaltungsprozesses berücksichtigen und integrieren. Die eindrucksvollen fotografischen Arbeiten von...

Architecture influences the way we live and the way we live influences architecture. Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects - Architecture Is a Social Act explores these two ideas at the core of LOHA's work and shows how one informs the other. The book features 25 projects from across two decades and two continents, ranging in scope from housing projects and commercial complexes to cultural landmarks and master-planned communities. Each project demonstra...

This stylish debut novel by an Oscar-winning Argentine screenwriter (he co-wrote Birdman) is a suspenseful, darkly funny exploration of the creative process and the porous boundary between reality and fiction. Highly recommended' The Mail on Sunday, 'The Best New Fiction'From the Academy Award-winning co-writer of Birdman, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of Misery and Kiss of the Spiderwoman about a screenwriter kid...

Den Zustand, im Kompromiss zu leben, nennt man Zivilisation" (Dieter Nuhr, Jahresrückblick 2018).Es war ein Kompromiss der Staatsführung der DDR mit den Kirchen, als im September 1964 die Möglichkeit für Wehrdienstpflichtige, die den Dienst an der Waffe verweigerten, die Baueinheiten der NVA geschaffen wurden. Auch für die Wehrdienstverweigerer war diese Lösung ein Kompromiss, immerhin waren die Baueinheiten ein Teil der NVA und wurden fast 10...

A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.First published in the 1920's, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century, and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's Prophet speaks of many things central t...

Close your eyes and ask yourself, 'what do I feel?'What was your experience? Did you feel the physical presence of your body - its size, its shape? Did you feel any of your body's needs, like hunger or thirst? You probably also had a sense of whether you were feeling healthy or unwell.All of these sensations are kinds of body feelings, and although many of them are always present, in modern life we don't pay much attention to them. Most of the...

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills'Gandhi united India in a national movement and changed the course of history. In this classic autobiography, first published under the title The Story of My Experiments with Truth, he recounts his life from boyhood through the first stirrings of non-violent protest in South Africa to the early phase of his part in India's fight for independence. Setting out t...

The scandalous erotic novella of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twentieth-century ViennaA married couple are first disturbed and then achieve a new depth of understanding by confessing to each other their sexual fantasies, dream-like adventures and might-have-beens in Dream Story. Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and writer Arthur Schnitzler was a bold pioneer in exploring the dark tangled roots of hum...

An illustrated explanation of the geological background to the first Industrial Revolution that originated in eighteenth-century Britain.

Whether you're sight-seeing in the constellation of Kasterbouros or slumming it on planet Earth, you need to be able keep track of things - especially if you're a time traveller. This handy Time Lord-approved diary is perpetual, so will work whichever year you land in, and with a day to a page there's plenty of room to record your adventures or plan your next move. It's also packed with useful information about holidays and anniversaries from ...

Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of southern Africa with her parents King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, during which she celebrated her twenty-first birthday.The year of the royal tour of southern Africa, 1947, marked both the high-water mark of the British Empire and the very moment at which it began to unravel. Gr...

5. überarbeitete und verbesserte Auflage! Runen - die geheimnisvollen Zeichen der germanischen Völker bilden den Schwerpunkt dieses Buches. Waren es Schriftzeichen? Oder Zauberzeichen? Oder beides? Hier sind die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse dazu zusammengetragen. Im ersten Teil des Buches erläutert Gunivortus Goos die Geschichte der Runeninschriften und des Runenritzens, gefolgt von einer ausführlichen Mythologieforschung im zweiten Teil. De...

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is easily the best fantasy-heist book I have read in years!' A Fantastical Librarian on The Thousand Deaths of Ardor BennArdor Benn has saved civilisation from destruction, but his efforts brought war to the kingdom and it's believed that the rightful rulers have all been assassinated. When rumours surface that a young heir might have survived, Ard is hired to infiltrate The Realm - an ancient and...

Buddha - A Drama in Twelve Scenes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly p...

Environmental Noise and Management Selma Kurra, Istanbul Technical University and dBKES Engineering Ltd, Turkey A comprehensive overview of environmental noise pollution from the standpoint of environmental impact and control Environmental noise is studied, regulated and monitored by many governments and institutions, as well as forming the basis for a number of different occupations due to the adverse effects of noise exposure. Environ...

Das Buch ist unterteilt in zwölf Themenbereiche wie »Ausdruck«, »Farbkomposition«, »Raumaufteilung« oder »Selbstportraits« und bietet sowohl Einsteigern wie auch Fortgeschrittenen technische Tipps und vor allem visuelle Inspirationen für die eigene Arbeit. Anhand einer großen Bandbreite von 50 historischen und zeitgenössischen Fotografien werden unterschiedlichste Konzepte und Techniken verständlich erklärt, damit sie für die eigene Arbeit auf...