I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.\' Catherine Townsend describes herself as \'part slut, part hopeless romantic\'. Her quest is to have h er cake and eat it -- an intelligent dinner date followed by a passionate one-night stand; to combine sleeping around with finding a soul mate. Sex

In I Want to Sleep, Harriet Griffey helps you to understand, address and overcome sleep issues as she explores the roots of sleep problems and offers practical advice on dealing with them. Harriet starts with the basics and looks at what sleep is and why we need it, as well as circadian rhythms and cycles. She explores patterns of sleep for babies, teenagers and adults, and goes on to cover common

Celebrated children\'s book author and illustrator Peter SIs creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, \"The Conference of the Birds.\"In \"The Conference of the Birds\" Caldecott Honor-winning children\'s book author and illustrator Peter SIs breathes new life into this foundational Sufi poem, revealing its profound lessons.SIs\'s

\"Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.\" (Harlan Coben the Victims). In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston. The Killer: five years ago, a

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin\'s Russia, the country she loved, as the twists and turns of a betrayal and counter-betrayal unravel. American Nate Nash, idealistic and ambitious, handles the double agent, codenamed MARBLE, considered one of CIA\'s biggest assets.

\'Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII\'s much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery\' Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King\'s Obsession and Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, paints a spellbinding portrait of Anna of Kleve, Henry VIII\'s fourth queen. \'This six-book series looks

Joseph Conrad\'s enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by \"Hellboy\" artist Mike Mignola\"Heart of Darkness\" is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed

Workshop of the Film Form provides an in-depth overview of the achievements of Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WWF; Workshop of the Film Form), a group of avant-garde artists who were working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, between 1970 and 1977. WWF was founded by the students and graduates of the school, now known as the National Film School,

\'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.\' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. In them he recorded everything that interested him in the world around him, and his

Topics covered include travel, tourism, ticketing, hotels and staff, restaurants, kitchens, table settings, service and cooking, along with general business, accounting and personnel terms. Handy supplements include quick-reference lists of airline and airport codes, currencies, international dialling codes, time zones, balance sheets and international public holidays. Ideal for students, employers,

Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD\'s Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed race girl. The police department has changed, but one thing hasn\'t - Harry\'s nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been

Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another. In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands, and finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an outlander, in a country torn by war

\'The land was enormous, white with snow and silent. Into the still, lifeless silence broke the sounds and movements of life - of dogs breathing, and men calling to the dogs ...\' White Fang is one of these dogs and the greatest fighter of them all. A classic adventure story by Jack London who wrote The Call of the Wild (also available as a Penguin Reader, Level 2). Recommended for younger learner

V 50. a 60. rokoch sa americký maliar Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) stal jedným z najdôležitejších predstaviteľov pop - artu. Vo svojom umení využíval prvky masovokomunikačných prostriedkov, industriálnej spoločnosti. Používal ikonografiu typic kú pre reklamu, komix, bulvár a plagát. Snažil sa hľadať novú podobu umenia, ktorá by reflektovala a zároveň kritizovala spôsob života vtedajšej spoločnosti.

George Pantis is in a pickle. After walking out on his wife Rosie on Referendum night 2016 to shack up with hairdresser \'Brexit Brenda\' next door, he thinks he\'s got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he only vaguely remembers entering. Unfortunately, he\'s forgotten his password and can\'t get at his money. Which is a problem because he suddenly has to contend with

Jhumpa Lahiri\'s landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy\'s vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the

Es gab so vieles, was ich damals gern gewusst hätte. Zum Beispiel dass das mit mir und Tom Cruise nie was würde. Ich hätte trotzdem alles wieder genau so gemacht, inklusive aller Fehler ... bis auf den allergrößten. Für Lou ist es Zeit, alles aufzuschreiben, was sie ihrer Tochter mit auf den Weg geben will, denn - Nein, das wird an dieser Stelle nicht verraten.

Interior design helps to shape all aspects of our lives and has now come of age both intellectually and professionally. This text sets out to change and clarify the perceptions and misconceptions about contemporary interior design by examining some o f the key issues that define what it is, how it is different from architecture, what specific skills it requires and what design problems it solves. The

A stranger arrives in a small village wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is covered in bandages and dark glasses hide his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who is he? When they discover the stranger’s terrible secret, they realize that they are in great danger.