Saving Time

This gripping book is the story of Ukraine?s Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child. 'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail 'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to happen next...' When the German army rolled into Kyiv in 1941 the young Anatoli was just twelve years old. He began writing down what he saw in his journals. Within ten days of the invasion, the Nazis had begun their campaign of fear and murder in Ukraine. Babi Yar (Babyn Yar in Ukrainian) was the place where the executions of Jews and many others took place. It was one of the largest massacres in the history of the Holocaust. Anatoli could hear the machine guns from his house. Anatoli?s clear, compelling voice, hon...

A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor. ?A book that will stay with you for life? NATALIE HAYNES ?The best book about multiple sclerosis? THE TIMES We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time... But sometimes we are unlucky. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist. When the trapdoor opened for Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, he plummeted into a world of MRI scans, a disobedient body and the crushing unpredictability of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. But, as he explores in Metamorphosis, his fall also did something else. It took him deep into his own mind: his hopes, his fears, his loves and losses, and the books that would sustai...

A book about how we can reclaim time from a culture that commodifies and capitalises it from the bestselling author of HOW TO DO NOTHING A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money, and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing. Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we experience time itself-and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Explaining how we got to the point wh...

Rób NIC i uwolnij się od nałogu COŚRÓBSTWA Otaczają cię rzeczy nierzeczywiste: wizualizacje produktów, idealne zdjęcia w mediach społecznościowych, zbawienne aplikacje, dzięki którym zaoszczędzisz mnóstwo czasu. Bo przecież czas to pieniądz, a jest jeszcze tyle do zrobienia! Już kładąc się do snu, w głowie pojawia się myśl: „Jutro muszę…”. Jeśli nie wykażesz się produktywnością, to… …świat się nie zawali. Wręcz przeciwnie – zrobisz mu przysługę. W czasach, kiedy tracenie czasu jest powszechnie potępiane i uznawane za najgorsze z możliwych marnotrawstw, Jenny Odell zachęca, aby swoją uwagę skierować na świat rzeczywisty – pełen różnorodności i inspiracji. Przekonuje, że tylko zmniejszając lawinę wymagań i rozpraszaczy, możesz...