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1. 1. Ekspert w ogrodzie. Hortensje, Ewa Chojnowska

   Popularność hortensji wśród miłośników roślin wzrasta z roku na rok. Ta monografia o hortensjach niezwykle wyczerpująco opisuje 10 gatunków i niezliczoną liczbę odmian nadających się do sadzenia w naszych ogrodach, parkach i miastach. W książce szczegółowo przedstawiono tajemnice uprawy hortensji, w tym zasady cięcia czy sposoby zmiany kolorystyki kwiatów. Jest tu także niezbędny dla każdego hobbysty kalendarz prac. Wszystkie opisy odmian oraz informacje ogólne wzbogacone są efektownymi zdjęc...

2. 2. Beautiful Venom wer. angielska, Rina Kent

   From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a sizzling dark hockey romance set in a new glamorous secret world. In a den of vipers, revenge is the deadliest venom. They shattered my world; now, I`ll bring down theirs. The problem? I have virtually no way to trace the puppet master. My only lead: The Vipers. An elite college hockey team that rules the ice—and the shadows beyond it. To infiltrate their secret society, I set my sights on their weakest link. Ka...

3. 3. Pocket Dublin. Lonely Planet, Fionn Davenport

   Discover twice the city in half the time as Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Dublin. This latest edition uncovers the city's most popular experiences and unexpected surprises from exploring the elegant campus of Trinity College to touring Dublin Castle, the former HQ of British Imperial power and admiring rare artefacts at Ireland's best small museum, the Chester Beatty Library. Build a trip to remember ...

4. 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban wer. angielska, Joanne Kathleen Rowling

   The third adventure in the spellbinding Harry Potter saga - the series that changed the world of books foreverWhen the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea le...

5. 5. A Christmas Carol. Wordsworth Classics wer. angielska, Charles Dickens

   With a new Introduction by Dr Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham A Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential novella is powerfully vivid and infallibly moving. Scrooge himself, Marley`s ghost, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and...

6. 6. Murtagh wer. angielska, Christopher Paolini

   Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hu...

7. 7. The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud, Cecilia Rikap

   Capitalism's rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney, McDonalds, Nike or Walmart depend on them to use AI for knowledge and value extraction and for disciplining workers. States see some of their core functions sequestered. Innovation is not a free and neutral game, but a hierarchy topped by the rulers. Rikap's new theoretical fram...

8. 8. Two Can Keep a Secret, Karen M. McManus

   A perfect town is hiding secrets. Two teenagers are dead. Two murders unsolved. And a killer who claims to be coming back.Ellery's never been to Echo Ridge, but she's heard all about it. It's where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen's murder five years ago made national news. And where Ellery now has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, after her failed-actress mother lands in rehab.Malcolm grew up in the shadow of the Homecoming Queen's de...

9. 9. Read the Room. Empathize at Work, Barnaby Mollett

   Understanding others, having empathy and showing emotional intelligence are critical in the workplace. Those entering the workforce often haven't been prepared with the tools and techniques to effectively develop these skills in a working environment, however, despite them being critical for success. Read the Room shows you how to build the ability to be empathetic and use human intelligence to interpret meaning, manage relationships and think critically. The transition from education to empl...

10. 10. How to See Like a Machine. Images After AI, Trevor Paglen

    Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indistinguishable from reality for us to explore. Trevor Paglen goes in search of the ways and means of understanding this new visual universe. Instead of asking what these technologies "say" about the world, he teaches us to ask what they "do" and where such images come from. Exploring the esoteric wor...

11. 11. Little Book of Burberry, Darla-Jane Gilroy

    From their heritage trenches and ubiquitous check to experimental red carpet looks, the House of Burberry is known worldwide for its covetable designs.Sophisticated, simple, and quintessentially British, Burberry is beloved for its remarkable ability to straddle tradition and innovation. The allure of the 'Burberry Girls', like Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, epitomizes just what Burberry is about: aspiration, elegance and grace.Featuring an exquisite range of photographs, from...

12. 12. Problematic Summer Romance, Ali Hazelwood

    What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It`s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother`s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As C...

13. 13. Anne & Pollyanna. Czytamy w oryginale (barwione brzegi), Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Seria wydawnicza „czytamy w oryginale“ zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Anne of Green Gables. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza Lucy Maud Montgomery i Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter to dwie ponadczasowe powieści o niezwykłej sile optymizmu i wyobraźni. Obie historie łączy motyw osieroconych dziewcząt, których...

14. 14. How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber

    How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk is the go-to guide designed to transform your relationship with your child. - Learn how to set clear boundaries and engage your child's co-operation - Find out how to overcome a pattern of arguments - Swap ineffective punishment for positive parenting - Prioritise a respectful and sympathetic approach to conflict resolution Including accessible and helpful case studies, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will ...

15. 15. Lord Jim. Wordsworth Classics wer. angielska, Joseph Conrad

    Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English le...

16. 16. Hiszpański. Kurs językowy z kryminałem. Roja es la nieve. Czerwony śnieg. Poziom A1-A2, Carlos Solanillos

    Wciągająca lektura, która łączy naukę języka hiszpańskiego z emocjonującą fabułą kryminalną, stanowi doskonałe narzędzie dla osób na poziomie A1-A2. Ten kurs językowy nie tylko pozwala na rozwijanie umiejętności czytania i rozumienia, ale także angażuje w proces nauki przez interesującą narrację. Fabuła opowiada o sierżancie Lópezie, który w wyniku śnieżycy zostaje uwięziony w małej wiosce, gdzie nie wszystko jest takie, jak się wydaje. Tego rodzaju kontekst sprawia, że przyswajanie słownictw...

17. 17. Before We Forget Kindness wer. angielska, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents - A wife holding a child with no name . . . They must follow the café's strict rules, ...

18. 18. The Blue Hour wer. angielska, Paula Hawkins

    `Undoubtedly Hawkins` best novel yet`ObserverIn the dead of night, Grace wakes . . .The Scottish island of Eris is largely unreachable from the mainland. Cut off by the tide for twelve hours each day. No way in.No way out.The island's only house is home to Grace - content in her own isolation, guarding the island's past.But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery in London, Grace receives an unexpected visitor. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge.Suddenly, this is a very da...

19. 19. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza. Anne of Green Gables. Czytam po angielsku, Lucy Maud Montgomery

    W świecie literatury dziecięcej niezwykle ważne jest, aby czytanie stawało się przyjemnością oraz sposobem na naukę. Ta wyjątkowa książka to doskonałe narzędzie, które wprowadza najmłodszych w anglojęzyczną literaturę poprzez wciągającą fabułę. Historia opowiada o Matthew i Marilli, którzy planują adoptować chłopca do pomocy w gospodarstwie. Zamiast tego, przyjeżdża żywiołowa i pełna marzeń Anne Shirley, która odmienia ich życie. Dzięki jej impulsom i wyobraźni, czytelnicy mogą odkrywać świat...