Hľadanie: The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un ...
Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated ...
Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:
`A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times
`Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Daily Telegraph
`Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian
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The Law of Innocence
Heading home after winning his latest case, defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - is pulled over by the police. They open the trunk of his car to find the body of a former client.
Haller knows the law inside out. He will be charged with murder. He will have to build his case from behind bars. And the trial will be the trial of his life.
Because Mickey Haller will defend himself in court.
With watertight evidence stacked against him, Haller will need every trick in the book to prove he was framed.
But a not-guilty verdict isn't enough. In order to truly walk free, Haller knows he must find the real killer - that is the law of innocence...
'Pick up this gripping book at your peril, especially if you have other things to do like working or sleeping.' Express
'The so-called Lincoln Lawyer . . . turns in another dazzling courtroom performance' New York Times Book Review"
The law of innocence is unwritten. It will not be found in a leather-bound code book. It will never be argued in a courtroom. In nature, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the law of innocence, for every man not guilty of a crime there is a man out there who is. And to prove true innocence the guilty man must be found and exposed to the world."
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11,50 €
The Phantom of the Opera - OXBL 1
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. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers...But who has actually seen him? CEFR A1/A2 Word count 6,230
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Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Mono) LP
KDO: Pink Floyd jsou nepochybně jednou z nejzásadnějších skupin hudební historie. Jejich experimentální rocková muzika ovlivnila miliony posluchačů a inspirovala několik generací hudebníků. Vždy je zdobil progresivní přístup při hledání nových možností, kladli důraz na koncepční propojení zvuku s obrazem. Měli jedinečné nápady a pořádali originální výpravné koncerty. Od roku 1964, kdy vznikli, natočili patnáct studiových alb. Těžko hledat slavnější art-rockovou skupinu!
CO: Reedice slavné nahrávky v remasterované podobě, jež vznikla pečlivým zpracováním původních mono záznamů. Připomeňme, že The Piper at the Gates of Dawn je debutové album anglické skupiny Pink Floyd. Bylo vydáno v srpnu 1967 a je jedinou deskou kapely, která byla nahraná pod vedením Syda Barretta. Deska je považována za jedno z nejvlivnějších alb psychedelického rocku.
LP1
1. Astronomy Domine [04:13]
2. Lucifer Sam [03:07]
3. Matilda Mother [03:03]
4. Flaming [02:42]
5. Pow R. Toc. H [04:22]
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk [03:05]
7. Interstellar Overdrive [09:42]
8. The Gnome [02:11]
9. Chapter 24 [03:51]
10. Scarecrow [02:08]
11. Bike [03:26]
The History of the World in 100 Plants
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout.
As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of ours hands. But we still consume the energy of the sun in the form of food. The sun is available for consumption because of plants. Plants make food from the sun by the process of photosynthesis; nothing else in the world can do this. We eat plants, or we do so at second hand, by eating the eaters of plants.
Plants give us food. Plants take in carbon dioxide and push out oxygen: they give us the air we breathe, direct the rain that falls and moderate the climate. Plants also give us shelter, beauty, comfort, meaning, buildings, boats, containers, musical instruments, medicines and religious symbols. We use flowers for love, we use flowers for death. The fossils of plants power our industries and our transport. Across history we have used plants to store knowledge, to kill, to fuel wars, to change our state of consciousness, to indicate our status. The first gun was a plant, we got fire from plants, we have enslaved people for the sake of plants.
We humans like to see ourselves as a species that has risen above the animal kingdom, doing what we will with the world. But we couldn't live for a day without plants. Our past is all about plants, our present is all tied up with plants; and without plants there is no future.
From the mighty oak to algae, from cotton to coca here are a hundred reasons why.
The Remains of the Day
'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.
The Cabin at the End of the World (movie tie-in edition)
The Stoker Award-winning, taut and propulsive twist on home invasion horror, packed psychological suspense. Soon to be a major film, Knock At the Cabin, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction.
As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young and friendly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologises and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Three more strangers arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
So begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are intertwined.
The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.
Soon to be a major film. Knock at the Cabin, directed by M. Knight Shyamalan and startting Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Rupert Grint and Nikki Amuka-Bird.
Lacná kniha The Visible World (-70%)
'My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake.' As a boy growing up in New York, the narrator's parents' memories of their Czech homeland seem to belong to another world, as distant and unreal as the fairy tales his father tells him. It is only as an adult, when he makes his own journey to Prague, that he is finally able to piece together the truth of his parents' past: what they did, whom his mother loved, and why they were never able to forget.
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Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It: Very Best Of CD
Tracklist:
1. Fresh
2. Celebration
3. Get Down on It
4. Ladies Night
5. Cherish
6. Too Hot
7. Straight Ahead
8. Joanna
9. Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)
10. Tonight
11. Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh La La La)
12. Steppin' Out
13. Misled
14. Victory
15. Jungle Boogie
16. Big Fun
17. Open Sesame
18. Hi De Hi, Hi De Ho
19. Get Down on It - (Eiffel 65 Remix)
World of Warcraft - Shadowlands: Gyülekező árnyak
"A Horda jelentéktelen!" - Szélfutó Sylvanas ezekkel a hírhedt szavakkal árulta el és hagyta hátra a Hordát, amelynek szolgálatára felesküdött. Most, hogy a Horda és a Szövetség, de még a saját nővére, Alleria is a nyomában van, a Sötét Úrnő és csapatai az árnyékok közé húzódnak. Amikor a Horda kulcsfontosságú szövetségese, Talanji zandalari királynő ellen merényletet kísérelnek meg, Thrallnak és a tanács tagjainak cselekedniük kell, és megbízzák az ifjú troll sámánt, Zekhant, hogy segítsen Talanjinak felfedni, mi áll a királynőt fenyegető veszély hátterében.
Ezalatt Mételyhívó Nathanos és Holdőrző Sira a Sötét Úrnő parancsára rémisztő hazárdjátékba kezd: megkísérelnek végezni a halál loájával, Bwonsamdival. Miközben Zekhan és Talanji próbálják megmenteni Bwonsamdit, tetteik kulcsfontosságúvá válnak abban, hogy a Horda képes lesz-e szembeszállni a közelgő sötétséggel. Hiszen ha nem tudják megmenteni a szövetségeseiket, a cselszövő isten pusztulásra ítéltetik. Ám ha sikerrel járnak, talán újra rátalálhatnak arra, ami oly erőssé teszi a Hordát...
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Lacná kniha Ptačí sněm / The parliament of Fowls (-70%)
Díky své delikátní formě a vytříbenému obsahu, spojujícímu ty nejlepší prvky středověké básnické tradice, si Ptačí sněm anglického básníka Geoffreyho Chaucera (asi 1343–1400) zajistil nejen výsadní postavení v rámci autorova rozsáhlého díla, ale rovněž platí za klenot středověkého literárního kánonu. Skladba komorní délky zachycuje básníka neznalého lásky, jenž po dni stráveném nad latinskými spisy usíná neklidným spánkem. Ve snu se mu zjevuje římský vojevůdce Scipio Africanus, který se mu stává průvodcem a zavádí jej do alegorické zahrady, v níž „plodný květen vládne celý věk“ a kde básník poprvé dostává příležitost poznat (byť jen jako svědek) lásku a její rituály zblízka.
Ptačí sněm je ukázkou tzv. snového vidění, jednoho z nejoblíbenějších literárních žánrů vrcholného a pozdního středověku. O zdomácnění této formy se v anglickém prostředí nemalou měrou zasloužil právě Geoffrey Chaucer, a to jak překladem, tak vlastní tvorbou. Přestože datace i účel Ptačího sněmu jsou do značné míry spekulativní, mnohými historiky bývá báseň kladena do přímé souvislosti s námluvami mladého anglického krále Richarda II. a Annou Českou, dcerou římského císaře Karla IV., jíž vzdal Chaucer hold hned v několika svých skladbách. Zároveň se jedná o jeden z nejranějších dokladů spojení kultu svatého Valentýna s milostnou tematikou. Českému čtenáři se tímto vydáním dostává překlad básně do rukou poprvé, doplněný předmluvou nastiňující hlavní rysy žánru středověké snové poezie a Chaucerových variací na její témata a ukázkami z několika významných děl, jež s Ptačím sněmem úzce souvisejí.
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The Wall at the Edge of the World (EN)
Audiobook The Wall at the Edge of the World, written by Damion Hunter. Save lives. Or take them? A gripping novel of the Roman frontier. Army Medic Postumus Justinius Corvus is a long way from his native Britannia, in the Syrian provinces at the far corner of Empire. But now he is going home, unexpectedly promoted to Senior Surgeon in the Sixth. The new Emperor faces problems in the far-flung island at the edge of Empire.
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The Diary of a CEO
This is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent.
At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I've conducted on my podcast - are a set of principles that can stand the test of time, apply to any industry, and be used by anyone who is search of building something great or becoming someone great.
These are the fundamental laws that will ensure excellence.
They are rooted in psychology and behavioral science, are based on the wisdom of tens of thousands of people I've surveyed across every continent and age group, and of course, drawn from the conversations I've had on my chart-topping podcast with the world's most successful people.
These laws will work now or in 100 years from now. Are you ready to get started?
Kinks, The - The Journey Part 1 2CD
Na oslavu 60 rokov anglickej rockovej kapely The Kinks vychádza album THE JOURNEY - PT. 1 zberateľská súprava so všetkými ich najväčšími hitmi od roku 1963. Konkrétne obsahuje hity, kľúčové skladby, single, fanúšikovské obľúbené, B-strany, všetko remastrované z pôvodných pások. Box bol vybraný a navrhnutý spoločnosťou The Kinks.Vnútri brožúry s fotografiami a poznámkami, ktoré napísali Ray Davies, Dave Davies a Mick Avory.
Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. You Really Got Me (2023 Remaster)
02. All Day and All of the Night (2023 Remaster)
03. It's All Right (2023 Remaster)
04. Who'll Be the Next In Line (2023 Remaster)
05. Tired of Waiting for You (2023 Remaster)
06. Dandy (2023 Remaster)
07. She's Got Everything (2023 Remaster)
08. Just Can't Go to Sleep (2023 Remaster)
09. Stop Your Sobbing (2023 Remaster)
10. Wait Till the Summer Comes Along (2023 Remaster)
11. So Long (2023 Remaster)
12. I'm Not Like Everybody Else (2023 Remaster)
13. Dead End Street (2023 Remaster)
14. Wonderboy (2023 Remaster)
15. Schooldays (2023 Remaster)
16. The Hard Way (2023 Remaster)
17. Mindless Child of Motherhood (2023 Remaster)
18. Supersonic Rocket Ship (2023 Remaster)
19. I'm in Disgrace (2023 Remaster)
20. Do You Remember Walter? (2023 Remaster)
CD 2:
01. Too Much On My Mind (2023 Remaster)
02. Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl (2023 Remaster)
03. Days (2023 Remaster)
04. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains (2023 Remaster)
05. Where Have All the Good Times Gone (2023 Remaster)
06. Strangers (2023 Remaster)
07. It's Too Late (2023 Remaster)
08. Sitting in the Midday Sun (2023 Remaster)
09. Waterloo Sunset (2023 Remaster)
10. Australia (2023 Remaster)
11. No More Looking Back (2023 Remaster)
12. Death of a Clown (2023 Remaster)
13. Celluloid Heroes (2023 Remaster)
14. Act Nice and Gentle (2023 Remaster)
15. This Is Where I Belong (2023 Remaster)
16. Shangri-La (2023 Remaster)
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
The Hunger Games meets vampires in the first book of the New York Times bestselling Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent, a heart-wrenching, epic fantasy romance of dark magic and bloodthirsty intrigue.
Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always - always - guard your heart.
The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.
But winning won't be easy, pitting Oraya against the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, she will be forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.
Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father's crown - and her greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.
But there's no room for compassion in the Kejari - and nothing more deadly than love...
Electronic - Get The Message: The Best Of 2CD
KDO: V projektu Electronic se sešli dva významní britští hudebníci – zpěvák a kytarista Bernard Sumner z New Order a kytarista Johnny Marr z The Smiths. Na hudbě manchesterské skupiny se zčásti podíleli také Neil Tennant a Chris Lowe z Pet Shop Boys nebo Karl Bartos z Kraftwerk. Superskupina se zrodila v roce 1988, kdy frustrovaný Sumner hodlal natočit sólovou desku, ale během připrav pochopil, že ji nechce dělat sám. Oslovil Marra, se kterým už spolupracoval v minulosti. Debutový singl Getting Away With It proklouzl do americké Top 40 a Electronic následně předskakovali slavným Depeche Mode na jejich severoamerickém turné v roce 1990. Vydali tři studiová alba.
CO: Reedice. Sbírka nejdůležitějších momentů superskupiny, ve které v devadesátých letech působily ikony světové populární hudby, vyšla původně v roce 2006. Zájemci na desce najdou singly a jejich B strany i další nahrávky Electronic. K dispozici na 2CD a vůbec poprvé také na vinylu.
CD1
1. Forbidden City [04:03]
2. Getting Away with It [05:16]
3. Get The Message (Single Remix) [03:51]
4. Feel Every Beat [05:08]
5. Disappointed (Single Mix) [04:20]
6. Vivid (Radio Edit) [03:49]
7. Second Nature [04:55]
8. All That I Need [04:15]
9. Prodigal Son [07:10]
10. For You [04:53]
11. Imitation Of Life (New Edit) [03:46]
12. Out of My League [04:36]
13. Like No Other [04:39]
14. Twisted Tenderness [05:30]
15. Late at Night (Radio Edit) [03:58]
CD2
1. Getting Away With It (Vocal Remix) [4:54]
2. Lucky Bag [5:43]
3. Feel Every Beat (DNA Remix) [5:40]
4. Lean To The Inside (2013 Edit) [4:01]
5. Get The Message (DNA Groove Mix) [5:28]
6. Free Will (Edit) [3:03]
7. Disappointed (12" 808 State Remix) [4:32]
8. Idiot Country Two (Edit) [4:44]
9. Gangster (FBI Mix) [7:59]
10. I Feel Alright [4:48]
11. A New Religion [4:16]
12. Turning Point [5:35]
13. Until The End Of Time (Fluffy Dice Remix) [5:36]
14. King For A Day [4:28]
15. Radiation [7:33]
Četba pro začátečníky - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Čaroděj ze země Oz) (A1 - A2)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American childrens novel originally published in 1900. Since then it has stirred the imagination of young and old alike. Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying cyclone crashes through Kansas and she and her dog Toto are swept away from their home to the magical land of Oz. To get home they have to follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the mysterious Wizard of Oz. Embark on a strange but enchant-ing adventure with Dorothy, Toto and their companions the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the cowardly lion whom they meet on the way.
Čaroděj ze země Oz je americký román pro děti vydaný poprvé v roce 1900. Od té doby podněcuje fantazii dětí i dospělých. Dorotka si myslí, že je nadobro ztracená, když se Kansasem prožene větrná smršť a odnese ji a jejího pejska Tota z domova do kouzelné země Oz. Aby se mohli vrátit domů, musí se vydat po cestě ze žlutých cihel do Smaragdového města a najít záhadného čaroděje ze země Oz. Vydejte se na podivné, kouzelné dobrodružství s Dorotkou, Totem a jejich společníky Plecháčem, Strašákem a zbabělým lvem, které cestou potkají.
Banská Bystrica / Poézia svetla / The Poetry of Light
Za živa v Bystrici, po smrti v nebi.
Už po stáročia sa každé ráno prebúdza mesto do neopakovateľnej atmosféry. Prvé ranné slnečné lúče dopadajú na hrdo sa týčiace bystrické veže. Veže, ktoré dotvárajú kolorit Banskej Bystrice ako niekdajšieho starobylého baníckeho mesta. Mesta, ktoré žije svojou výnimočnosťou a dýcha históriou na každom rohu.
Zachovalé chrámy, veže, hradby a meštianske domy sú trvalým klenotom našich dejín. Príbehy z minulosti sú zaznamenané nielen v kamenných múroch budov. Cítiť ich pri prechádzkach tajomnými uličkami mesta, ktoré sa každý deň vynímajú v poézií svetla. Aj keď metropola stredného Slovenska prešla od svojho vzniku výraznými zmenami, svoje genius loci si zachovala dodnes.
Sugestívnym pohľadom na Banskú Bystricu, vyobrazenú na čiernobielych fotografiách, je snahou zachytiť memento dávnych čias cez hru svetla a tieňov až do dnešnej podoby. Aj keď stáročia poznačili vývoj a smerovanie osídlia pod Urpínom, dodnes je nasiaknuté svojou minulosťou.
Prevediem Vás nielen históriou, ale aj súčasnými náladami tohto jedinečného mesta v srdci Slovenska, ktoré si pre svoju krásu okamihu právom zaslúžilo označenie Perla Slovenska.
EDUARD GENSEREK
Usborne - English Readers 2 - The Phantom of the Opera
From the classic story by Gaston Leroux. When the soloist Carlotta loses her voice, young soprano Christine becomes a star overnight - but who is her teacher? Anonymous letters, mysterious accidents - something strange is behind the scenes at the Paris Opera House... and then Christine disappears.With fun activities after the story, and online audio in both British English and American English.