The Ultimate battle begins on Ravnica. ... Teyo Verada wants nothing more than to be a shieldmage, wielding arcane energies to protect his people from his world's vicious diamondstorms. When he's buried alive in the aftermath of his first real tempest, the young mage's life is about to end before it can truly begin-until it doesn't. In a flash, a power he didn't know he had whisks him away from his home, to a world of stone, glass, and wonder: Ravnica. Teyo is a Planeswalker, one of many to be called to the world-spanning city-all lured by Nicol Bolas, the Elder Dragon. Bolas lays siege to the city of ... |
|
|
Rob had it all, but when his dad was caught embezzling funds from half the town, everything changed. Now Rob's the social pariah who los everything - his friends, his status, even his family. Maegan was a typical overachiever until the pressure got to her last year. And now that her sister is pregnant, pretending to be "perfect" family might be too much to handle. When Rob and Maegan are paird together at school, they're both reluctant to let down the walls they've built. But Rob's plan to fix the damage caused by his father could ruin more than their fragile new friendship... ... |
|
|
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves into everything from ... |
|
|
Escape. Delete. Disappear. ... Everyone tells Kat that her online personality - confident, funny, opinionated - isn't her true self. Kat knows otherwise. The internet is her only way to cope with a bad day, chat with friends who get all her references, make someone laugh. But when she becomes the target of an alt-right trolling campaign, she feels she has no option but to Escape, Delete, Disappear. With her social media shut down, her website erased, her entire online identity void, Kat feels she has cut away her very core: without her virtual self, who is she? She brought it on herself. Or so Wesley keeps telling ... |
|
|
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? ... It;s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes. Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they might attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat or defy the "knowledge" given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever. & ... |
|
|
"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. It's an exciting life - full of fast cars, money, and travel. The names of Formula One champions are known all over the world. And everywhere young drivers dream of success one day in Monaco, Melbourne, Monza... But it is a difficult life too. Drivers need strong bodies - and minds. They need to ... |
|
|
"Smart and kind and wise". Katherine Rundell ... That year she found the power to be extraordinary. With a grandmother from China and another from Ghana, fifteen-year-old Wing Jones is often caught between worlds. But when tragedy strikes, Wing discovers a talent for running she never knew she had. Wing's speed could bring her family everything it needs. It could also stop Wing getting the one thing she wants. "I loved "Wing Jones". And it makes you want to pull on your shoes and start running." Katherine Rundell "In her darkest time, Wing finds her own strength. I fell in love ... |
|
|
"My father's land was taken from him. He died lonely, waiting for the white man to go. But the white man stayed. My father died on the land, working for another man. Now I too work for a white man on the land that used to belong to us...But one day the land will return to us. I work here, waiting for that day." From the Book This tragic story of Njoroge and his family is set in Kenya in the 1950s. This book is in British English. Here you can find: points for understanding comprehension questions; glossary of difficult vocabulary; list of titles at upper level. ... |
|
|
"The Serenity Of Suffering" е дванадесетият студиен албум на една от най-влиятелните рок банди на съвремието - "Korn". Продуцираният от Ник Раскулинец ("Foo Fighters", "Deftones", "Mastodon") запис включва специалното участие на Кори Тейлър от "Slipknot". Групата (Джонатан Дейвис - вокали, Джеймс Шафър "Munky" - китара, Брайън Уелч "Head" - китара, Реджиналд Арвизу "Fieldy" - бас и Рей Люзиър - барабани) изпълнява за пръв път новия сингъл "Rotting In Vain" пред 25 000 зрители в Чикаго. Това се случва в рамките на фестивала ... |
|
|
"Въображението на Борис Ф. Поршнев, неговият изумително могъщ диалектически метод, най-сетне интелектуалната му смелост, граничеща с безумие, ще доставят на читателя онова същинско удоволствие, което може да носи единствено свободната мисъл. Изводите, крайната картина, отговорът на загадката за нашия произход не са лесни за преглъщане; не само защото истината се оказва някак прекалено страшна. А преди всичко защото от тази версия (ако, разбира се, е вярна) следват прекалено много и прекалено радикални промени за всички наши "знания" за себе си. В това е и отговорът на въпроса: докога един неунищожим ... |
|
|
Как да правите професионално изглеждащи изображения, като използвате камерата, която винаги носите с вас. ... Представете си, ако някой вземе същите фотографски техники, принципи и инструменти, които се използват от топ и професионалните фотографи, но ги прилага, като снима с iPhone. Представете си типа изображения, които ще можете да създавате, като използвате същите тези идеи. Е, най-накрая някой го е направил. Най-продаваният автор в света за техники във фотографията е на път да разбие всички правила, като ви покаже как да прилагате същите техники, които топ професионалните фотографи днес използват, за да правят ... |
|
|
Невероятно изследване на свръхчовешките постижения. ... Добре дошли в бъдещето на човешките постижения! Внимание: "Възходът на свръхчовека" може да предизвика анормално поведение - още на първата страница ще ви изпълни неудържимо желание да разширите границите си и вероятността да не откриете крайния предел е заплашително голяма. Никога досега в човешката история не сме ставали свидетели на такова скоростно развитие в човешките възможности. От десетилетия учените забелязват, че човек се държи различно в обстоятелства, които изискват пълната му концентрация, независимо дали свири на инструмент, медитира, или е ... |
