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<b>A STUNNING DELUXE EDITION OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard</b><br/><br/><b>A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science, with special features including:</b><br/><br/>Intricately designed stenciled edges <br/><br/>New cover art on a deluxe jacket <br/><br/>Full-color illustrated endpapers <br/><br/>A gorgeous custom-stamped case<br/><br/>HUGO AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES READER PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Parade, Newsweek, New York Public Library, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

The Bond That Burns (deluxe Limited Edition) [Bok / Inbunden]

<b>This hardcover edition celebrates the #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller that set our sights on Mars and inspired the major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, with special features including:<br/><br/>- Intricately designed sprayed edges<br/>- New cover art on a deluxe jacket<br/>- Full-color illustrated endpapers<br/>- A custom-stamped case</b><br/><br/><b>A mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man's struggle to survive. From the author of <i>Project Hail Mary</i> comes "a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire" (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>).</b><br/><br/><b>"Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling."-<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br/><br/>Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.<br/><br/>Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.<br/><br/>After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive-and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.<br/><br/>Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.<br/><br/>But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills-and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit-he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?<br/><b><br/>NAMED ONE OF <i>PASTE</i>'S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE<br/></b><br/>"A hugely entertaining novel [that] reads like a rocket ship afire . . . Weir has fashioned in Mark Watney one of the most appealing, funny, and resourceful characters in recent fiction."<b>-<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br/><br/>"As gripping as they come . . . You'll be rooting for Watney the whole way, groaning at every setback and laughing at his pitchblack humor. Utterly nail-biting and memorable."<b>-<i>Financial Times</i></b>

In a dark, climate-controlled basement room in London, some 14,000 dried plants are stored. This is the eighteenth-century herbarium of Carl Linnaeus himself, meticulously catalogued in faded folders tied with brown cotton ribbon. The plants were collected by botanists across the globe in an effort to map the world s flora. Some have been hastily taped to the sheet, others carefully mounted and described in elegant handwriting. Some of the plants are spoils of war or trade goods, and many people sacrificed their lives to contribute to this collection. What can the Linnaean Herbarium tell us about eighteenth-century relationships to the natural world? And what stories are hiding among these pages? <br/><br/>In this book, photographer Lena Granefelt literally illuminates herbarium sheets from two of the most significant Linnaean collections in the world, one held by the Linnean Society of London and the other by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. In the light from Granefelt s flash invisible details emerge: the structure of the paper, watermarks, and notes that bring together the thoughts and observations of botanists from many different eras. Colours also re-emerge, folds and enclosed seeds become visible. <br/><br/>This photographic documentation is accompanied by the words of Sverker Sörlin, historian of ideas, professor of environmental history and award-winning author, who examines the practicalities of plant collecting and reveals the contribution of herbaria to a revolution in knowledge about our world.

<b>The third novel of the nationally bestselling Bridge Kingdom series, now in a stunning deluxe hardcover edition, featuring:<br/><br/>- Designed sprayed edges<br/>- A deluxe jacket with new cover art<br/>- A full-color illustrated book case with new character art<br/>- An interior black-and-white map (included in previous volumes)<br/>- Designed endpapers<br/>- A spine design that will stretch across future deluxe hardcover editions in the series<br/><br/>In this sweeping, sizzling fantasy romance, forbidden romance blooms between two sworn enemies who must choose between their thirst for vengeance and their love for one another-from the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>A Fate Inked in Blood</i>.<br/></b><br/>A soldier raised as heir to an empire, Zarrah is motivated by two truths. The first is that the Veliant family murdered her mother. And the second is that her pursuit of vengeance will put every last one of them in their graves.<br/><br/>The Endless War between Maridrina and Valcotta has raged for generations, leaving thousands of Zarrah's people dead and countless more orphaned. So when she's given command of the contested city of Nerastis, Zarrah is prepared to do whatever it takes to destroy the Maridrinian forces who oppose her. And to kill the Veliant prince who leads them.<br/><br/>Yet a chance encounter with an anonymous, and handsome, Maridrinian causes Zarrah to question whether the violence she's perpetrated is justice or a crime. And as she continues to meet the nameless man each night, she finds common ground-and fiery passion-in his arms.<br/><br/>But when identities are revealed, Zarrah must decide whether to embrace a chance at peace . . . or march to the drums of war.<br/><br/><b>Includes the bonus Bridge Kingdom novella <i>The Calm Before the Storm</i>, from the points of view of Lara and Aren, also in the paperback reissue </b>

The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (The White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras and tape recorders documenting every day's work and conversations, the band rehearse a huge number of songs, culminating in their final concert, which famously takes place on the rooftop of their own office building, bringing central London to a halt.<br/><br/>The Beatles: Get Back tells the story of those sessions through transcripts of the band's candid conversations. Drawing on over 120 hours of sound recordings, leading music writer John Harris edits the richly captivating text to give us a fly-on-the-wall experience of being there in the studios. These sessions come vividly to life through hundreds of unpublished, extraordinary images by two photographers who had special access to their sessions-Ethan A.<br/><br/>Russell and Linda Eastman (who married Paul McCartney two months later). Also included are many unseen high-resolution film-frames, selected from the 55 hours of restored footage from which Peter Jackson's documentary is also drawn. Legend has it that these sessions were a grim time for a band falling apart.

For thousands of years, human beings around the world have used hallucinogenic plants and fungi to alter consciousness and connect with the Divine. Although such practices faded with the rise of organized religion, the last century has seen a revival of entheogen-based spirituality in North America. From LSD-powered guru Timothy Leary to cannabis-sex cults to psychedelic outlaw churches, Mike Marinacci presents a comprehensive tour of North American religious sects and spiritual groups that use entheogens and psychoactive drugs in the search for higher consciousness, mystical insight, and spiritual enlightenment. Exploring prominent churches and cults in depth, he examines the lives of their colourful leaders, the origins of their unorthodox beliefs, the controversial practices of their congregants, and their many conflicts with both law enforcement and public opinion. He looks at the Native American Church and their legal battle over their peyote rituals, the cannabis-sex temple known as the Psychedelic Venus Church, the murderous end of the LSD-therapy cult known as the Church of Naturalism, and several other major groups and temples of psychedelic spirituality. He then offers an encyclopedic survey of dozens of minor organizations, many of which have never been documented in an authoritative source before. Sharing personal interviews and anecdotes about the strange, outrageous adventures of religious psychonauts alongside rare photos and illustrations, this extensively researched study of underground psychedelic religious groups in the United States reveals their spiritual and cultural influence from the 1960s to the present day.