Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. ... Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. Drawing upon her cutting-edge research Professor Blakemore explores: What makes the adolescent brain different? Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? What drives the excessive risk-taking and the need for intense friendships common to teenagers? Why it is that many mental illnesses - depression, addiction, schizophrenia - begin during these formative years. ... |
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Лекции на Шри Шри Рави Шанкар . ... "Отдаваш се някого, защото го обичаш. Но скоро имаш куп изисквания към тази връзка. А когато започнат изискванията, любовта намалява. Цялото вълнение, радост - изглежда сякаш всичко избледнява. Тогава си казваш: "О, направих грешка". Боли те, измъчваш се, опитваш се да избягаш от връзката..., а когато го направиш, започваш нова връзка... и същата история се повтаря! Какво искаш да знаеш за взаимоотношенията? Всъщност искаш да разбереш как да бъдат дълготрайни? Искаш да знаеш тайната на успешната връзка нали? Три са съществените неща за една връзка - правилно възприемане, ... |
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Нощта преди изпита по математика е настъпила, а мозъкът ти е вкочанен от ужас. По телевизията дават мач по крикет и ти си твърде разсеян, за да направиш домашното си по химия. Да се фокусираш върху тези френски глаголи, е почти невъзможно, след като току що си имал спор с твоята приятелка. Има ли начин да превъзмогнем тези ситуации? Възможно ли е ученето да бъде наистина забавно? Учителите на "Изкуството да живееш" Куршед Батливала (Бава) и Динеш Годке ще ти разкажат как ученето може да се превърне в приятно и смислено преживяване, фокусирано върху ученето, а не просто върху подготовката за изпит. Те предлагат ... |
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Новото хилядолетие вероятно ще бъде по-духовно време за човечеството. Вече виждаме все повече хора, търсещи духовни отговори, питащи се за смисъла на живота и търсещи удовлетворение, което идва отвътре. Упътване може да бъде намерено на много места, но в края на краищата всеки трябва да открие своя собствен път. Основното знание за нашите емоции и за тенденциите на ума и правенето на практики за изчистване на организма от стрес и нечистоти, ни предлагат начините, по които можем да възстановим връзката с източника на радост и любов в нас. Неуловимият ефект на молитвата и благодатта също могат да изиграят важна роля за ... |
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From the creator of viral Tiktok sensation, @MammyBanter, comes a hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood - and how having it all sometimes isn't what you think it might be. She used to want it all. Now she just wants a nap. Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyonce but suddenly she's thirty-six - with three kids, a loving husband, a very boring job - and instead of headlining Glastonbury, she's in her pyjamas on a Friday night, watching Gogglebox. It's time for a mammy makeover. She's going to show her teenage daughter she's still cool. She's going to ... |
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Based on the story of Frances Hodgson Burnett . Retold by Clare West . ... Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the Secret garden ... which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1 - C1 of the CEFR. Word count: 10. ... |
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Lia lives with her mother, her father and her brother, Jay. Her grandmother lives with them too. Lia's grandmother is old and sick. But the journey to the well is dangerous. There is a volcano. There is smoke and fire. Soldiers are guarding the roads. Why does Grandmother want water from the well? And what will Lia and Jay find there? This book is in British English. Free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at www.macmillanreaders.com . ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features some of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went ... |
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"A yet too rare example of a balanced approach towards the Bulgarian past is what you will come upon in this book... You might not share the opinion of what has been laid out here; you might find the events and their explanation well-known or queer - anyway, it is worth reading it." Andrey Pantev , Professor of history ... |
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Aestheticization in tourism is used in different types of projects in all kinds of tourism objects like hotels, resorts, restaurants, sport and golf clubs, casinos, cruise ships and others. The designer’s role is especially important for the success of these projects. In his activities he will comply with the essence of the tourist, the functional requirements of the object, the requirements of the standards for achieving a certain image (for example in the hotel chains), as well as with the budgetary and financial constraints. Aesthetic solutions in the tourism reflects the goals that the objects want to implement, such ... |
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Traditions and their Transformations in the British Cinema of the 90s, of the 20th Century ... Writing this book was a strange journey over bridges across different cultures. The title is a metaphor of the hybrid, intellectual and anti-spectacular british feature cinema from the end of the 20 th century with affinity to egalitarianism, minimalism of the "short form", archetypal imagery and hedonism. It is a triumph of the expansive yough's counter-culture with it's intrinsic intolerance of authority, power and cliches. The transformation of tradition in the context of instability of the national- ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This is a fresh, contemporary translation of Sun Tzu 's "The Art of War" for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance, it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. It also contains a full commentary on Sun Tzu, the man and his ideas, contemporary of Confucius and Buddha; and a critical guide to further reading. ... |