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Brand: The Big Issue;jane Graham
EAN: 9781788706452
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Over 15 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask well-known figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics, literature, business and more, one simple question:\n\nIf you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say?\n\nThis collection of 70 inspiring, moving and honest interviews includes Billie Piper on feeling burnt out, Monica Ali on self-belief, Mica Paris on sudden loss, Nancy Sinatra on marrying young, Fearne Cotton on battling imposter syndrome, Alesha Dixon on risk-taking and so much more.\n\nALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE.

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Brand: Jane Graham;the Big Issue
EAN: 9781788702324
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A Sunday Times Book of the Year\n\nAll royalties from sales of this book go to The Big Issue\n\nIf you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say?\n\nOver 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best-known, most interesting and most successful figures in entertainment, politics, food, sport and business to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves. They opened up, in ways they never had, to interviewer Jane Graham, reflecting on their lives and themselves with affection, sympathy and sometimes disbelief. \n\nThis collection of 100 of the most incredible letters includes Paul McCartney on how he found inspiration, Olivia Colman on overcoming confidence problems, Mo Farah on the importance of losing, Arianna Huffington on knowing your motivations, Jamie Oliver on trusting your instinct and many, many more, including Rod Stewart, Margaret Atwood, Buzz Aldrin, David Cameron, Eddie Izzard, Desmond Tutu, Neil Gaiman, Ruby Wax, Ranulph Fiennes, Tracey Emin, Ian McEwan, Michael Palin, Melanie C, Tim Peake, Dionne Warwick and Ewan McGregor.\n\nLetter to My Younger Self is a revelatory and profound exploration into the wit and wisdom that age brings, and of the unique insights that looking back can reveal.\n\nProceeds from the sales of this book go to The Big Issue to continue their work dismantling poverty and promoting social justice.\n\n\"A truly wonderful book ... a gateway to intelligent, learned and genuinely inspiring stories, moments and people ... We would highly recommend it ... It's a fab cause and put together seamlessly.\" Magic Radio - October Book Club Pick\n\n'The answers make for great reading.' Sunday Mirror\n\n'This collection is full of insightful stories that will make you think about how you live your own life, and how you want to live it in the future.' Woman's Weekly

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Brand: Jane Graham;the Big Issue
EAN: 9781788702348
Categoria: Libri e riviste

NOW INCLUDES BONUS MATERIAL FROM RICHARD OSMAN, DOLLY PARTON, DAVE GROHL AND MANY MORE. \n\nOver 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask well-known figures to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves. They opened up in ways they never had, reflecting on their lives and themselves with affection, sympathy and, sometimes, disbelief.\n\nThis collection of 100 incredible letters includes Paul McCartney on how he found inspiration, Olivia Colman on overcoming confidence problems, Mo Farah on the importance of losing, Diane Abbott on self-belief, Jamie Oliver on trusting your instinct, and so much more.\n\nLetter to My Younger Self is a revelatory and profound exploration into the wit and wisdom that age brings, and of the unique insights that looking back can reveal.

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Brand: Elena Cirotti
EAN: 9788825538526
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This issue of the \"Privacy e Innovazione\" series contains the work of Elena Cirotti who won the second edition of Award for the best degree or doctoral thesis on the themes of data protection and innovation. The thesis was considered by the relevant committee to be highly contemporary, well written and assisted by an important bibliographic reference kit. Big Data has now become a part of our everyday life. But what pitfalls do Big Data entail and how national laws can react to them? These are key questions that guide the analysis throughout the entire book. The volume closely studies the exploitation of personal data by firms and its consequent impact on both the market and the individuals. It intends to contribute to the academic and political debate on whether or not more control over data should be granted to data firms. To do so, the volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the EU and US jurisdictions that, in the attempt to picture the complexity of the phenomenon, analyses three different branches of laws - competition, IP and data protection - and the intersections among them.

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Brand: Viz Magazine
EAN: 9781916421967
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Roger’s Profanisaurus has long been one of the most popular sections in Viz Comic. And now, as the magazine celebrates its 45th year disgracing the shelves of shops in Britain and around the world, we’re pushing out our beefiest ever volume of foulage - Roger’s Profanisaurus: Turtleshead Revisited.\n\nEach issue of Britain’s funniest* magazine sees readers suggesting more hilarious definitions to add to our potty-mouthed dictionary of rude words, filthy phrases and appalling euphemisms. And now we’ve brought the whole thing together in this tastefully designed 700-page cistern-smasher of a book - Roger’s Profanisaurus: Turtleshead Revisited. (*publisher’s estimate)\n\nContaining more words than the whole of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (no, really), Roger’s Profanisaurus : Turtleshead Revisited is a filthy romp through the filthiest (and funniest) sewers of the English language, with each eye-popping definition exhaustively cross-referenced for greater clarity. If you don’t reach for your copy next time you’re applying for a job, writing a wedding speech, or roughing out a police statement, you really will be missing a trick.

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Brand: Plum Sykes
EAN: 9781408894675
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'A brilliant, breathless ride' Telegraph\n'A satirical comedy observing high society life and glamour at its most bizarre. Fun and witty … Accessorized with style' Big Issue\n\nThe New York Times bestselling second novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes, set in the cutthroat world of Manhattan’s most eligible elite\n\nSylvia Mortimer is licking her wounds somewhat: she’s back from her honeymoon, and her husband is already AWOL. But then she meets Lauren Blount, queen bee of Manhattan’s glamorous Debutante Divorcée set. Lauren’s the gleaming, glossy proof that there’s life after divorce – in fact, she wears it fabulously. \n\nBut when New York’s most notorious Husband Huntress sets her sights on Sylvia’s new man, she starts to wonder – is Lauren right that no one needs a husband anyway? Or should she hold out for Happily Ever After II, stand up and fight for her man?

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Brand: Femi Kayode
EAN: 9781526617613
Categoria: Libri e riviste

LONGLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2024 \n\n'Wonderful' LEE CHILD \n'Outstanding' NADINE MATHESON\n'Deftly plotted' GUARDIAN \n'Vivid and immersive' BIG ISSUE \n\n\nFolasade Dawodu is married to the Bishop of a Nigerian Megachurch. She is prominent, she is young, she inspires: she is the First Lady. \nBut when Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu is arrested at the pulpit for the murder of his beloved wife, shock cuts through this tight community. The arrest is televised all around Lagos, but while Bishop consistently maintains his innocence, and his congregation believe him, the First Lady remains missing. \nPhilip Taiwo, compassionate investigative psychologist, is asked by his sister, a member of the Dawodus’ church, to take on the case: to find out the truth, whatever the cost. But as he searches for Folasade, his own beloved family begins to fracture.\n\n Gaslight is the sensational follow up to Femi Kayode's acclaimed debut, Lightseekers, picked as a Book of the Month by the Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times and as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month\n\n----------------\n\n'Femi Kayode is an unparalleled wordsmith' S. A. COSBY\n'The atmosphere and characters were authentic to the point I felt I could recognise them, and I was captivated to find out who was responsible and why' AMEN ALONGE

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Brand: Patrick Alley
EAN: 9781913183509
Categoria: Libri e riviste

*****\n\n'Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue\n\n'Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn't all true.' - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding\n\n'Global Witness are fearless.' - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner and Co-Founder of the Body Shop\n\n'Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of the brilliant and necessary superheroes of Global Witness, whose superpower is the truth.' - Edward Zwick, Director of Blood Diamond\n\n'Very Bad People reads like a non-stop high-speed chase as our fighters against corruption hunt down a litany of criminals and con-men.' - David Farr, Screenwriter, The Night Manager\n\n'The story told in this book of three youthful idealists is simply riveting. Don't miss it.' - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia\n\n'Alley has produced a clear-eyed account of a world poisoned by dark money, and a welcome reminder that resistance is possible. As it turns out, his book is even more timely than he could have hoped.' - Irish Times\n\n'This book is inspirational. It shows how young people with sufficient passion and intelligence have the capacity to go after some of the most powerful governments and corporations and shame, humiliate and just push governments to support important reforms that can make this a more decent world.' - Frank Vogl, Co-Founder of Transparency International\n\nArms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. Blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes - and the 'shadow network' that enables them.\n\nVERY BAD PEOPLE is about following the money, going undercover in the world's most dangerous places, and bringing down the people behind the crimes. Case by case we see maverick investigators pitched against warlords, grifters and super-villains who bear every resemblance to The Night Manager's Richard Roper. One dictator's son spent $700 million in just four years on his luxury lifestyle.\n\nAs they unravel crooked deals of labyrinthine complexity, the team encounter well-known corporations whose operations are no less criminal than the Mafia. This network of lawyers, bankers and real estate agents help park dirty money in London, New York, or in offshore accounts, safe from prying eyes.\n\nPatrick Alley's book is a brilliant, authoritative and fearless investigation into the darkest workings of our world - and an inspiration to all of us who want to fight back.

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Brand: Helen Thomson
EAN: 9781473611771
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Wonderfully clear, fluent and eye-opening' THE TIMES\n\n'A stirring scientific journey, a celebration of human diversity and a call to rethink the \"unthinkable\"' NATURE\n\n'An utterly fascinating romp around the nether regions of the human mind' BIG ISSUE\n\n\nIMAGINE . . . getting lost in a one-room flat; seeing auras; never forgetting a moment; a permanent orchestra in your head; turning into a tiger; life as an out-of-body experience; feeling other people's pain; being convinced you are dead; becoming a different person overnight.\n\nOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathise and understand the world around us, but how would our lives change if these abilities were dramatically enhanced - or disappeared overnight? \n\nAward-winning science writer Helen Thomson has spent years travelling the world tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people. From the man who thinks he's a tiger to the doctor who feels the pain of others just by looking at them, their experiences illustrate how the brain can shape our lives in unexpected and, in some cases, brilliant and alarming ways. \n\nDelving into the rich histories of these conditions, exploring the very latest research and cutting-edge medical techniques, Thomson explains the workings of our consciousness, our emotions, our creativity and even the mechanisms that allow us to understand our own existence. \n\nStory by remarkable story, Unthinkable takes us on an unforgettable journey through the human brain. Discover how to forge memories that never disappear, how to grow an alien limb and how to make better decisions. Learn how to hallucinate and how to make yourself happier in a split second. Find out how to avoid getting lost, how to see more of your reality, even how exactly you can confirm you are alive. Think the unthinkable.

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EAN: 9788846733351
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Table of Contents In this issue papers by: GIOVANNI PAOLONI (University of Rome, La Sapienza) Vito Volterra and the Making of Research Institutions in Italy and Abroad ANGELO BARACCA (University of Florence) Too Big or so Little? Nuclear Physics in the Thirties and Forties in USA and Japan JOHN KRIGE (Georgia Tech Institute, GA, USA) Maintaining Americas Competitive Technological Advantage: Cold War Leadership and the Transnational Co-production of Knowledge ANTONIO TISEO (Rome 3 University) The Carter Administration and its Non-Proliferation Policies: the Road to INFCE DAVID BURIGANA (University of Padua) The European Search for Aeronautical Technologies, and Technological Survival by Co-operation in the 1960s1970s... with or without the Americans? Steps, ways, and Hypothesis in International History FILIPPO PIGLIACELLI (University of Bologna) Like a Stone Guest. European Space Cooperation and the Birth of the Community Research Policy (19601973) LORENZA SEBESTA (University of Bologna) commentari on Luisa Dolza Storia della tecnologia

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Brand: Wenyan Lu
EAN: 9781838957582
Categoria: Libri e riviste

***'A refreshing perspective on mourning, as well as a moving tale of a social outcast' - i-D Magazine***\n\n***'Subtle and understated [...] ultimately very moving' - The Big Issue***\n\n***A fascinating glimpse into how [rural women's] lives are still led' - Dorset Magazine***\n\nIs it ever too late to change your life?\n\nElegant, wry and moving, The Funeral Cryer tells the tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China and proves that it's never too late to alter your fate.\n\nThe Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and under-appreciated by The Husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break-up. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, The Funeral Cryer takes a leap of faith - and in so doing things start to take a surprising turn for the better . . . \n\nDark, moving and wry, The Funeral Cryer is both an illuminating depiction of a 'left behind' society - and proof that it's never too late to change your life.\n\nWhat readers have been saying about The Funeral Cryer:\n\n'A beautiful, thought-provoking book [...] incredibly humorous' - J. Wells, Five-star Reader Review\n\n'A stunning debut' - Stacey, Five-star Reader Review\n\n'A first person narrative that shows how the life of a middle-aged woman working as a funeral cryer in China is deeply linked to the people who touch her life and the way they treat her.' - Kate Poels, Five-star Reader Review\n\n'A remarkable novel that explores themes of marriage, family relationships, elderly care, and gender equality [...] this book offers a unique reading experience and an opportunity for deep contemplation.' - Rui, Five-star Reader Review\n\n'Excellent literary fiction. [...] Simultaneously the story speaks to the rural economic desperation, the separation of town and country, they way the young move to the cities and are often left with no other option to finance themselves than selling themselves. The huge discrepancy between the haves and have-nots is very evident.' - Cheryl M-M, Five-star Reader Review

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Brand: Yara Zgheib
EAN: 9781838954888
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Longlisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize\n\n'Tense, lyrical, intelligent' - The Big Issue\n\n'A heart-wrenching human story' - Saga\n\nExit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future...when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son's birth.\n\nBoston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip to Jordan to bury his father, he is stopped at border control - a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted - while she awaits him on the other side. \n\nWorlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion? \n\nAchingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught up in forces beyond their control, fighting for the freedom and home they found in one another.

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Brand: Katie Blackburn
EAN: 9780571370443
Categoria: Libri e riviste

UPDATED EDITION FOR 2021: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR HARDWORING DADS EVERYWHERE!\nBUYING THIS BOOK SUPPORTS THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION\n\nIllustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this is the hilarious sequel to Where the Wild Mums Are . . . because hardworking dads still have a wild side! \n\nThe night Dad had a few cheeky ones after work, forgot the milk and tripped over the rubbish, Mum called him A Wild Thing and said \"Don't mind me!\" and spent the rest of the night on the phone . . .\n\nIn this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a tired and emotional dad finds himself drifting off to the place where the Wild Dads went. 'Now PARTYYYYYYYYYY!' he said. In a riot of dad dancing and air guitar, he is at the centre of a great escape, but pretty soon he begins to miss the place he left behind . . .

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Brand: Chris Bickerton
EAN: 9780141983097
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue\n\n'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial Times\n\nFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the EU remains a black box, closed to public understanding. Is Europe ruled by Germany or by European bureaucrats? Does a single European economy exist after all these years of economic integration? And should the EU have been awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2012? Critics tell us the EU undermines democracy. Are they right?\n\nIn this provocative volume, political scientist Chris Bickerton provides an answer to all these key questions and more at a time when understanding what the EU is and what it does is more important than ever before.

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Brand: Richard T. Kelly
EAN: 9780571346585
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Action-packed and panoramic.' Observer\n'Magnificent . . . there won't be a finer piece of Scottish fiction published this year.' Big Issue \n'A galloping and impressively wide-ranging read.' Herald (Scotland) \n'Gripping.' Times Literary Supplement \n\n1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives.\n\nMeanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh's grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world - one through high finance, the other on the political stage.\n\nAnd Joseph, heir to an Aberdeen trawler-fishing dynasty, is brooding over whether his true ambitions are set higher than his father's succession plan.\n\nFor each of them, the discovery of oil under the North Sea will make their dreams achievable. But behind the promise and temptation of 'black gold,' there is a price to be paid; and they will discover that oil can overthrow relationships, turn friends into foes, and even put lives in peril.

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Brand: Richard T. Kelly
EAN: 9780571346592
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'So compelling.' Guardian \n'I loved it.' Sunday Times \n'Magnificent.' Big Issue \n\nThe discovery of 'black gold' in the North Sea transforms all it touches - including the dreams of five very different individuals. \n\nJoe and Ally each aspire to make their fortunes in business. Mark believes oil can cause political change. Aaron wishes to write his name into scientific history. Robbie only hopes for a better chance in life. \n\nBut every wish incurs a price, and the desires spurred by oil will turn old friends into foes - even putting lives in peril.\n\n'Gripping . . . In Kelly's hands, the unfolding of the hunt for oil off the Scottish coast takes on the momentum of a thriller.' Herald (Scotland)

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Brand: Sarah Churchwell
EAN: 9781408894774
Categoria: Libri e riviste

SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE\n\n'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES\n'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN\n'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH\n'Enthralling' GUARDIAN\n'My number one contributor when it comes to US politics' DAN SNOW\n\n\n'The American dream is dead,' Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'. \n \nThe 'American Dream' and 'America First' are two of the most loaded phrases in America today - and also two of the most misunderstood. As divides within America widen, Sarah Churchwell looks to the past to reveal what the surprising history of these two phrases can tell us about today.

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Brand: Damian Barr
EAN: 9781408886052
Categoria: Libri e riviste

An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year\n An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick \n Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award\nShortlisted for the London Magazine Debut Fiction Prize 2020\nLonglisted for HWA Debut Crown 2020\n \n'Beautifully written and emotionally devastating' Daily Mail\n\nA beautiful and heart-breaking story set in South Africa where two mothers - a century apart - must fight for their sons, unaware their fates are inextricably linked.\n \nOrange Free State, 1901. At the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred can only watch as the British burn their farm. The polite invaders cart them off to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp promising you will be safe here.\n \n Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider who just wants to be left alone with his Harry Potter books and Britney, his beloved pug. Worried he's turning out soft, his Ma and her new boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Camp, where they 'make men out of boys.' Guaranteed.\n \n The red earth of the veldt keeps countless secrets whether beaten by the blistering sun or stretching out beneath starlit stillness. But no secret can stay buried forever.

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Brand: Elizabeth Von Arnim
EAN: 9788833932798
Categoria: Libri e riviste

«Un’accattivante autobiografia. I cani la fanno da padroni, ma anche mariti problematici, case meravigliose, e una vita\r\nsorprendente» - The Observer\r\n\r\n«Il ritratto di un mondo ormai svanito, e insieme la storia di un’autrice amatissima» - Big Issue\r\n\r\n «I cani, quando amano, amano in modo costante, inalterabile, fino all’ultimo respiro. È così che mi piace essere amata. E perciò parlerò di cani»: così esordisce Elizabeth von Arnim in questa sorta di autobiografia intessuta di ironia. Scritto nel 1936, il libro racconta il rapporto di Elizabeth coi quattordici cani che, testimoni non del tutto silenziosi, le sono stati via via accanto. E proprio attraverso il loro succedersi vicino a lei, quasi «datando» affettivamente i momenti della sua esistenza, l’autrice evoca luoghi, fatti e amori di una vita non comune. Immediato è il collegamento col fortunato Giardino di Elizabeth: sono cambiati i protagonisti – i cani hanno sostituito i fiori e le piante – ma sono rimasti intatti la sensibilità, l’intelligenza, l’anticonformismo con cui la von Arnim racconta.

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Brand: Jane Godwin
EAN: 9781912854899
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A BIG ISSUE BOOK OF THE YEAR\n\n\nThis beautifully written rhyming text, matched with exquisite illustrations, explores love, loss, memory, and the power objects can hold.\n\n\nArno had a horse,\n\nit was brown and it was black.\n\nHe took it with him everywhere,\n\nbut did he bring it back?\n\n\nWhen Arno loses his precious toy horse, all the kids in town help him to look for it. They look everywhere, but will Arno ever see his horse again?\n\n\nA touching story about loss, memory, and the mysterious ways we feel connected to those we love.

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Brand: Traci Todd
EAN: 9781914484261
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A BIG ISSUE BOOK OF THE YEAR\n\n\nLonglisted for the UKLA Book Awards\n\n\nThis illuminating and defining biography from bestselling author Traci N. Todd, with illustrations from award-winner Christian Robinson, tells the story of Eunice Waymon, who grew up to become Nina Simone — and shares her bold, defiant, and exultant legacy with a new generation.\n\n\n\nWith passion and unparalleled skill, Traci N. Todd and Christian Robinson bring this iconic singer’s story to young readers and their families. Meet young Eunice, who sang before she could talk, and journey with her from the piano stool she shared with her father in her childhood home, to the bars and concert halls where she became the one and only Nina Simone.\n\n\n\nLearn about how Nina’s voice started out rich and sweet but grew to a thunderous roar as the Civil Rights Movement gained steam. Witness this artist in all her brilliance, singing in protest against racial inequality and discrimination. With rhythmic prose and masterful images, Nina perfectly demonstrates the relationship between art and activism. An essential addition to every young reader’s library.

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Brand: Adrian Tomine
EAN: 9780571392360
Categoria: Libri e riviste

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW\n\n'The outstanding graphic novelist of his generation.' Big Issue\n'Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH\n'Tomine has both talent and a writer's eye for the truth.' NICK HORNBY\n\nAdrian Tomine began his professional career at the age of sixteen, and in the decades since, has made a name for himself as a bestselling graphic novelist, screenwriter, and New Yorker cover artist. Now, for the first time, he's taking questions. Part personal history, part masterclass (illustrated throughout with photos, outtakes, and step-by-step process images), Q & A is an unprecedented look into Tomine's working methods and a trove of insight, guidance, and advice for aspiring and practising creatives alike.

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Brand: Michelle Paver
EAN: 9781788549578
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A Times Best Book of 2019.\n 'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. \"Something has been let loose...\" \n\nIn Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. \n\nWhen he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. \n\nMaud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past. \n\nSpanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl's longing to fly free by the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry.

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Brand: Harold Winter
EAN: 9780226828886
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The highly engaging introduction to thinking like an economist, updated for a new generation of readers.\n\n When economists wrestle with any social issue—be it unemployment, inflation, healthcare, or crime and punishment—they do so impersonally. The big question for them is: what are the costs and benefits, or trade-offs, of the solutions to such matters? These trade-offs constitute the core of how economists see the world—and make the policies that govern it. \n\nTrade-Offs is an introduction to the economic approach of analyzing controversial policy issues. A useful introduction to the various factors that inform public opinion and policymaking, Trade-Offs is composed of case studies on topics drawn from across contemporary law and society. \n\n Intellectually stimulating yet accessible and entertaining, Trade-Offs will be appreciated by students of economics, public policy, health administration, political science, and law, as well as by anyone following current social policy debates.

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Brand: Luke H. Davis
EAN: 9781527105201
Categoria: Libri e riviste

If God rescues us to be his people, then how can our lives demonstrate our love for him? Luke Davis takes us on a journey through some of the big questions in the arena of Christian ethics, highlighting why our ideas matter. He helps us to have a firm grasp of what the issue is, what God’s Word has to say about it, and what practical impact that has on our lives.

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Brand: John Cleese;robin Skynner
EAN: 9780749323202
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Brilliantly entertaining, enlightening and inspiring, Robin Skynner and John Cleese take on the big issue: life, and the challenge of living, in all its myriad forms. This book is an essential guide to surviving life's ups and downs - at home or in the workplace, as a member of a family or society. \n\nPresented in the same lively style as the best-selling Families and How to Survive Them, Life extends Skynner's and Cleese's study beyond the family to relationships and group interaction in life outside it. The book deals with such pithy issues as: \n\n-Why life gives you all the lessons you need\n-How grief can be good for you\n-Why work is essential to our psychological health\n-What mid-life crisis means for you\n\nWe are all searching for healthier, happier, more satisfying lives, but it's the journey that matters, not the destination. Skynner and Cleese are the perfect travelling companions.

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Brand: Nick Harkaway
EAN: 9781472156907
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Nick Harkaway novels are electric' Patrick Ness, author of A MONSTER CALLS\n'Cross-genre brilliance' William Gibson, author of AGENCY\n'Captivating from start to finish' The Big Issue\n\nCal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. Clearly, he is a Titan - one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically-altered elites.\n\nThere are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, all thanks to Stefan Tonfamecasca's discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which elevated his family to near godlike status. A dead Titan is big news . . . a murdered Titan is unimaginable. But Titans are Cal's specialty. In fact, his ex-girlfriend, Athena, is a Titan. And not just any Titan - she's Stefan's daughter, heir to the Tonfamecasca empire.\n\nAs Cal digs deeper into the murder investigation, it soon becomes clear he's on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world. Titanium Noir is a tightly woven, intricate tale of murder, betrayal, and vengeance.

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Brand: Saskia Vogel
EAN: 9780349700427
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Beautifully written, mysterious and compelling' Janet Fitch, bestselling author of White Oleander \n\n'An addictive read you'll finish within hours' Stylist \n\n'Vogel is a gleaming new talent' Observer \n\n'An alternative feminist love story for the modern age' Big Issue\n\n'Refreshing' Guardian \n\n'Dreamy' Oprah Magazine\n____________\n\nA raw, fresh, haunting, emotionally and sexually honest literary debut.\n\nWhen Echo's father gets swept away by a freak current off the Los Angeles coast, she finds herself sinking into a complete state of paralysis. With no true friends and a troubled relationship with her mother, the failed young actress attempts to seek solace in the best way she knows: by losing herself in the lives of strangers. When, by chance, Echo meets a dominatrix called Orly, it finally feels like she might have found someone who will be nurturing and treasure her for who she is. But Orly's fifty-something houseboy, Piggy, isn't quite ready to let someone else share the intimate relationship he's worked so hard to form with his mistress. \n\nPermission is a love story about people who are sick with dreams and expectations and turn to the erotic for comfort and cure. As they stumble through the landscape of desire, they are in a desperate search for the answer to that sacred question: how do I want to be loved?

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Brand: Kevin Barry
EAN: 9781782116202
Categoria: Libri e riviste

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE\nIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER\nSHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS AND THE KERRY GROUP AWARDS\nA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, i, THE ATLANTIC and LITERARY HUB\n\n'A true wonder' Max Porter\n'Beautifully written' Guardian\n\nIt's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?

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