Hľadanie: Assassin’s creed - bratstvo
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Chronique d´une Mort Annoncee
Les frres Vicario ont annoncé leur intention meurtrire tous ceux qu'ils ont rencontrés, la rumeur alertant finalement le village entier, l'exception de Santiago Nasar. Et pourtant, l'aube, ce matin-l, Santiago Nasar sera poignardé devant sa porte. Pourquoi le crime n`a-t-il pu tre évité ? Les uns n'ont rien fait, croyant une simple fanfaronnade d'ivrognes ; d'autres ont tenté d'agir, mais un enchevtrement complexe de contretemps et d'imprévus - souvent joyeusement burlesques -, et aussi l'ingénuité ou la rancur et les sentiments contradictoires d'une population vivant en vase clos dans son isolement tropical, ont permis et mme facilité la volonté aveugle du destin. Chronique d'une mort annoncée est un roman hallucinant o l'humour et l'imagination du grand écrivain colombien, prix Nobel de littérature, se débrident plus que jamais pour créer une nouvelle et géniale fiction sur les thmes éternels de l'honneur et de la fatalité.
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Kamasznak lenni
Hogyan élnek a kamaszok?
Mit gondolnak az iskoláról, a családjukról, a barátaikról?
Mitől félnek és mit szeretnének?
Csíkszentmihályi Mihály és Reed Larson könyve különleges kutatásra alapozva válaszolja meg ezeket a kérdéseket. 75 véletlenszerűen kiválasztott tizenévest kért4ek fel, hogy amikor a maguknál hordott csipogóval jeleznek nekik -legyen az bármely napszak- jegyezzék fel, mire gondolnak, mit csinálnak éppen, hogyan érzik magukat. Az eredmény ez a könyv, amelyben feltárul a kamaszok mindennapi élete, akár az iskolában, akár a barátaikkal vagy éppen családjukkal töltik idejüket.
Ha szeretnénk, hogy a felnövő generáció ne kallódjon el, segíteni, hogy kamaszaink elégedett, boldog felnőttek legyenek, hogy társadalmunk stabil maradjon, érdemes megfontolni a "Kamasznak lenni" eredményeit és a szerzők ajánlásait.
Lenyűgöző olvasmány, nemcsak tanulságos, de "kötelező irodalom" minden szülő, pedagógus és pszichológus számára.
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The Wristwatch Handbook
Despite the functional obsolescence of the mechanical wristwatch (our phones and computers tell more accurate time) the early 21st Century has seen a boom in the development, production, and appreciation of all things horological. Whether it is presented to the collector as an alternative investment, as a feat of micro-mechanical technology, or as a showcase of artisanal mastery, the mechanical wristwatch has never possessed more forms, functions or facets than it does today. The Wristwatch Handbook is written from the epicentre of a renaissance, a place in time between the Quartz revolution and the rise of the smart device - where the mechanical wristwatch is the antidote to the microprocessor and the permanent buzz of your inbox. From the multi-axis tourbillion, to the split-second chronograph, to the sidereal sky chart, The Wristwatch Handbook covers it all and does so with more than 470 rich illustrations from over 90 of the World's leading brands.The book is separated into two sections. The first section provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the mechanical movement.Its chapters explore power, transmission, distribution and regulation illustrating the basic concepts before considering the innovation and complexity that takes place further toward the cutting edge.
From the fifty-day power reserve, to the constant force mechanism, and the 1,000Hz mechanical escapement, section 1 will allow the reader to understand and appreciate what is happening beneath the dial of their watch. Section two allows the reader to take this understanding and apply it to the vast range of complications (functions) that exist in modern horology. Each chapter showcases a distinct category of complication. For example, the regatta timer, pulsometer, and monopusher chronograph join a host of others in a chapter entitled 'Recording Lapses of Time'; The power reserve indicator, dynamograph, and crown position indicator are featured in a chapter for 'Power and Performance Indication'; The moon phase indicator, annual calendar, and planetarium can be found in the 'Astronomical Complications' chapter.Once the functional categories are exhausted, the final three chapters explore whimsical complications that have little regard for practical function, novelty time indication, and the 'super-complicated' watch - a rare breed of timepiece that houses an intimidating host of complications featured throughout the book.
Upon completion of The Wristwatch Handbook the reader will be able to identify even the most exotic complication from across the room, and be able to share their appreciation and understanding of what makes it so useful and compelling. The Wristwatch Handbook is "brand agnostic", using only those watches that most aptly illustrate the given subject-matter. As a consequence the book places equal emphasis on the classic and the cutting edge, on watches produced in large volume or exclusive runs, by industry-leading technology or at the hand of a master. In doing so the book provides an unparalleled range of watches from over 90 brands, allowing the reader to determine for themselves which brands, complications, and styles they will build their collection from.
Les Autres
L'oncle Antoine est mort mardi, la veille de la Toussaint, vers onze heure du soir vraisemblablement. La mme nuit Colette a tenté de se jeter par la fentre peu prs dans le mme temps, on apprenait qu'Édouard était revenu et que plusieurs personnes l'avaient aperçu en ville. Tout cela a créé des remous dans la famille qu'on a vue hier, l'enterrement, pour la premire fois au complet depuis des années. Ce soir, dimanche, il pleut nouveau. Des rafales secouent les volets, font vibrer les vitres et l'eau coule intarissablement dans la gouttire qui descend un mtre de ma fentre. Dans le jardin public entouré de grilles qu'on appelle le Jardin Botanique, les arbres se courbent et des branches cassées, dans les allées, se mlent aux feuilles mortes.
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Terreur au 3e Degre
A San Francisco, la demeure d'un millionnaire explose. Dans les décombres, on découvre trois corps et un message : Que la voix du peuple se fasse entendre. " Quelques jours plus tard, un homme d'affaires est assassiné en d'étranges circonstances. L encore, un message déclare la guerre aux " agents de la corruption et du profit ". Lindsay Boxer, inspectrice de la brigade criminelle, va demander ses trois amies - Jill, substitut du procureur, Claire, médecin légiste, et Cindy, journaliste au Chronicle - de l'aider dans son enqute, les crimes se succédant avec une effrayante régularité. Et le sommet du G8 approche... Dans ce troisime volet de la série policire qui met en scne le Women Murder Club, James Patterson, écrivant quatre mains avec Andrew Gross, mne l'intrigue un rythme endiablé, multipliant péripéties et coups de théâtre."
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La Venus d´Ille
Un fiancé, la veille de ses noces, passe l'anneau destiné sa future femme au doigt d'une statue de Vénus, et meurt assassiné dans la chambre nuptiale (La Vénus de l'Ille). Deux amants, échappés la surveillance du mari pour une nuit de bonheur dans un hôtel, épient les bruits de la chambre voisine, persuadés qu'un meurtre s'y accomplit (Let Chambre bleue). Un aristocrate raffiné est subitement pris d'un accs de cruauté bestiale qui justifie peut-tre les doutes dont s'entoure sa naissance : se pourrait-il qu'il soit le fils d'un ours (Lokis) ? Le présent recueil rassemble les nouvelles fantastiques les plus célbres de Mérimée. D'un style abrupt, dérangeantes, violentes parfois - Quand Mérimée atteint son effet", c'est comme " un coup de couteau ", disait Sainte-Beuve -, elles s'imposent, par leur concision, comme des modles du genre."
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River God
Ancient Egypt is the land of the Pharaohs, a kingdom built on gold as well as a legend shattered by greed. Now, the Valley of the Kings lies ravaged by war, drained of its lifeblood as weak men inherit the cherished crown. In the city of Thebes at the Festival of Osiris, loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather to pay homage to their leader. But Taita - a wise and formidably gifted eunuch slave, sees him only as a symbol of a kingdom's fading glory. Beside Taita stand his proteges, Lostris, daughter of Lord Intef, beautiful beyond her fourteen years; and Tanus, proud, young army officer, who has vowed to avenge the death - at Intef's hand - of his father, and seize Lostris as his prize. Together they share a dream - to restore the majesty of the Pharaoh of Pharaohs on the glittering banks of the Nile.
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All Tomorrows Parties
Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly runs the world and the apocalyptic technological transformation of, well, everything. William Gibson's new novel, set in the soon-to-be-fact world of "Virtual Light" and "Idoru", completes a stunning, brilliantly imagined trilogy about the post-Net world.
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Meurtre au Champagne
Trop belle, trop légre, trop riche Rosemary ! Quel désespoir secret a conduit au suicide cette femme environnée d’admirateurs et d’amants, volant de cocktails en parties de bridge et de dîners en bals, sous l’oeil résigné de George, son mari plus âgé ? Nul ne le sait. Mais la question commence se poser différemment le jour o ce dernier est informé par des lettres anonymes qu’on a assassiné son épouse. Cependant, le lecteur découvre, une une, les raisons qui auraient pu pousser diverses personnes de l’entourage de Rosemary vouloir se débarrasser d’elle. Toutes se trouvaient l le soir tragique o elle a bu une coupe de champagne additionnée de cyanure. Un nouveau dîner rassemblant les mmes convives permettra-t-il, comme George l’espre, de confondre le coupable ? Peut-tre... A condition qu’une nouvelle mort ne vienne pas compliquer l’affaire.
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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they have fascinated generations ever since, and their legacy of ideas and imagery has resonated through the centuries, inspiring Hollywood movies and great works of literature. Even today, to invoke the Crusades is to stir deep cultural myths, assumptions and prejudices. Yet despite their powerful hold on our imaginations, our knowledge of them remains obscured an distorted by time. Were the Crusaders motivated by spiritual rewards, or by greed? Were the Crusades an experiment in European colonialism, or a manifestation of religious love? How were they organized and founded? With customary flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman picks his way through the many debates to present a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades; bringing together issues of colonialism, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and the relationship between past and present.
Roaring Nineties
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Globalization and Its Discontents" comes a coruscating analysis of the boom and bust of the 1990s - how and why it happened, how the seeds of destruction were sown in the midst of apparent prosperity, and how America and the world are still failing to learn the lessons from what went wrong. "The Roaring Nineties" is in part the story of how the corrupt and greedy got their comeuppance. But Stiglitz also develops a convincing alternative to the free-market mantra. He shows why greed is not good and how if left unchecked it leads to deceptions, distortions and disasters. He argues that achieving the right balance between government and the market is the best way towards sustained growth and efficiency, and that both companies and economies must to some extent be regulated by trust and consideration for others. This isn't just good morality - it's good economics too.
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One Child
This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation -- except her teacher, Torey Hayden. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare -- and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey together -- an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.
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The Ghost Wore Gray
What A Hunk! Too Bad He's  Dead...Sixth-grader Nina  Tanleven convinced her architect father to let her  best friend Chris go with them to stay in the old  inn he's restoring. On theafternoon they arrive,  the girls find a faded Civil War photograph of a  very handsome Confederate soldier. Nina and Cris  are stunned when the ghost of the young soldier  suddenly appears at the dinner table that night! They  realize he's the ghost who they've heard haunts the  inn.When he appears to them  again--no one else can see him--Nina and Chris know that  the ghost is trying to tell them something. But  what? To find out, the girls begin investigating  the old country inn. And soon they are swept up in  a frightening mystery that began more than one  hundred years ago--a mystery involving danger, greed,  a hidden room... and a buried treasure!
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Ben Hur
An 15. A Jérusalem, Ben Hur, jeune héritier d'une des plus grandes familles de l'aristocratie juive, est accusé injustement d'avoir voulu assassiner le procurateur de Judée, Valerius Gratus. Sa mre et sa sur sont jetées en prison, ses biens sont confisqués et il est envoyé aux galres. Des années plus tard, devenu citoyen romain, il retourne Jérusalem, agitée par la rumeur de l'apparition du Messie, tant attendu par les juifs. Il assiste la Passion du Christ et Sa mort sur la croix, et renonce alors ses projets de vengeance, devenant ainsi l'un des premiers chrétiens. Ce roman de Lewis Wallace connut ds sa publication en 1880 un succs jamais démenti, comme en témoignent les trs nombreuses éditions, traductions, adaptations la scne, et les deux célébrissimes transpositions l'écran (par Fred Niblo, pour un film muet, en 1925, et William Wyler, en 1959). Avec Les Derniers jours de Pompéi de Bulwer-Lytton (1834) et Quo vadis ? de Sienkiewicz (1896), il figure parmi les grandes uvres qu'ont inspirées l'Empire romain et les premiers temps du christianisme.
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An 15. A Jérusalem, Ben Hur, jeune héritier d'une des plus grandes familles de l'aristocratie juive, est accusé injustement d'avoir voulu assassiner le procurateur de Judée, Valerius Gratus. Sa mre et sa sur sont jetées en prison, ses biens sont confisqués et il est envoyé aux galres. Des années plus tard, devenu citoyen romain, il retourne Jérusalem, agitée par la rumeur de l'apparition du Messie, tant attendu par les juifs. Il assiste la Passion du Christ et Sa mort sur la croix, et renonce alors ses projets de vengeance, devenant ainsi l'un des premiers chrétiens. Ce roman de Lewis Wallace connut ds sa publication en 1880 un succs jamais démenti, comme en témoignent les trs nombreuses éditions, traductions, adaptations la scne, et les deux célébrissimes transpositions l'écran (par Fred Niblo, pour un film muet, en 1925, et William Wyler, en 1959). Avec Les Derniers jours de Pompéi de Bulwer-Lytton (1834) et Quo vadis ? de Sienkiewicz (1896), il figure parmi les grandes uvres qu'ont inspirées l'Empire romain et les premiers temps du christianisme.
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The Misfit's Manifesto
'If the road you came in on led through several hells and you walked it more alone than you'd ever want anyone to be, if you were a wolf who chewed off her own leg to escape where you started out, if you paved the road with broken things and crawled in on your knees, this is your book, full of your people. Welcome home.'
REBECCA SOLNIT, author of Men Explain Things to Me
'Quite frankly, everyone should read The Misfit's Manifesto. Inspired by her TED talk, Yuknavitch (who has truly been through the worst life can throw at someone) argues that the things which mark you out as different don't need to be bad thing: they're what make you, you. She's a privilege to read.'
Emerald Street
'It's filled with stories of how our differences might unite us rather than divide us. We could use the misfit know-how just now, as the world has become pretty chaotic.'
Metro
A manifesto that makes a powerful case for not fitting in - for recognizing the beauty, and difficulty, in forging an original path from Lidia Yuknavitch, one of the most celebrated TED speakers and a writer heralded for her brave and experimental writing.
A misfit is a person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly, or this: a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and environments. It's a shameful word, a word no one typically tries to own. Until now.
Lidia Yuknavitch is a proud misfit. That wasn't always the case. It took Lidia a long time to not simply accept, but appreciate, her misfit status. Having flunked out of college twice, with two epic divorces under her belt, an episode of rehab for drug use, and two stints in jail, she felt like she would never fit in. She was a hopeless misfit. She'd failed as daughter, wife, mother, scholar - and yet the dream of being a writer was stuck like `a small sad stone' in her throat.
The feeling of not fitting in is universal. The Misfit's Manifesto is for misfits around the world - the rebels, the eccentrics, the oddballs, and anyone who has ever felt like she was messing up. It's Lidia's love letter to all those who can't ever seem to find the `right' path. She won't tell you how to stop being a misfit - quite the opposite. In her charming, poetic, funny, and frank style, Lidia will reveal why being a misfit is not something to overcome, but something to embrace.
Lidia also encourages her fellow misfits not to be afraid of pursuing goals, how to stand up, how to ask for the things they want most. Misfits belong in the room, too, she reminds us, even if their path to that room is bumpy and winding. An important idea that transcends all cultures and countries, this book has created a brave and compassionate community for misfits, a place where everyone can belong.
The Misfit's Manifesto is an inspiring read that will captivate readers as much as Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic.
'I cried when I read Lidia Yuknavitch's The Misfit's Manifesto. Lidia has created a safe space for those of us that have never fit in, for whom the world often seems an impossible place. This remarkable book is a house for people that didn't believe they had a home.'
STEPHEN ELLIOTT, author of The Adderall Diaries
'This book will save lives.'
CHELSEA CAIN, New York Times bestselling author
'The best characters are misfits. Lidia Yuknavitch is a conduit for these voices. The ultimate misfit, she's a seer and a seed, brave and tender, humble and humanitarian, a poet in the ancient sense of the word. Thank the stars for her. And this book.'
SARAH GERARD, author of Sunshine State
'This book is nothing less than a life-changer. Lidia Yuknavitch is a miracle of a writer who makes you see the messes we make as a deeper, richer, more ravishing way of being alive together.'
CAROLINE LEAVITT, author of Cruel Beautiful World and the New York Times bestseller Pictures of You
'A beautifully written field guide to being weird.'
Kirkus Reviews
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My Life Next Door - Életem a szomszédban
Garrették megtestesítenek mindent, ami Reedékre nem jellemző. Hangosak, rendetlenek, szeretetteljesek. Samantha Reed a magasleséből minden nap azt kívánja, bárcsak egy lenne közülük… egészen addig, amíg egy nyári éjjel Jase Garrett fel nem mászik mellé és meg nem változtat mindent.
Miközben ők ketten szenvedélyesen egymásba szeretnek az első szerelem minden ügyetlenségén és nagyszerűségén át botladozva, Jase családja befogadja Samanthá-t – még ha ő titkolja is Jase-t a saját családja előtt. Ekkor valami elképzelhetetlen történik, és Samantha lába alól kicsúszik a talaj. Hirtelen egy lehetetlen döntés elé állítja a sors. Melyik tökéletes család fogja megmenteni őt? Vagy talán itt az ideje, hogy saját magát mentse meg?
Egy magával ragadó első könyv családról, barátságról, első szerelemről, és arról, hogyan légy hű az egyik emberhez, akit szeretsz, anélkül, hogy elárulnád a másikat.
„Jase és Samantha között olyan románc bontakozik ki, amire minden lány vágyik.”
- Simone Elkeles, Tökéletes kémia sikerszerzője
Samantha és Jase között serceg a kémia. A regényben megjelenő első szerelem gyöngéd, ügyetlen, szexi, boldogságtól szédülő ábrázolása az, ami igazán szárnyalóvá teszi a történetet.” —The Horn Book
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Night world 2: A sötétség lányai
Volt valami különös abban a három lányban, akik beköltöztek a falu szélén omladozó ódon, viktoriánus udvarházba. Az oregoni Briar Creek lakói soha nem láttak Rowanhez, Kestrelhez és Jade-hez fogható, szinte természetfölötti szépségeket. Nem csoda, hogy a szomszédban lakó Mark Carter azonnal és halálosan beleszeret a legfiatalabba. A nővére, Mary-Lynette azonban sötét és véres tettekre képesnek tartja őket, és egy rémálomszerű éjszakai élmény látszólag be is igazolja félelmeit. Pedig a három nővér azért jött ide, hogy kiszabaduljon az Éjszaka Világából. A bátyjuk, Ash akit már megismerhettünk a sorozat előző kötetéből, - A titkos vámpírból - azért jött utánuk, hogy visszavigye őket mindenáron. Ám amikor találkozik Mary-Lynette-tel, villámcsapásként éri őket a felismerés: ő, a vámpír és az emberlány lelki társak! Az éjszaka lányai, a Night World sorozat második kötete különös konfliktusra épül: olyan vámpírokról szól, akik meghasonlottak a vámpírsággal, és új életet akarnak kezdeni. Ám ez azzal jár, hogy meg kell szegniük a Törvényeket, meg kell küzdeniük a vámpírvilág poroszlóival, egy ellenséges vérfarkassal, s ami a legnehezebb: önmagukkal.
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EX-GIRLFRIENDS
Stop the presses - Dean Paul Lockhart, America's favourite bachelor, is getting married! The news is sending shock waves through the tabloids - not to mention the three former gal pals who also just happen to be his...ex-girlfriends. For Lara Ward, it's a reason to go wild. She has her own party planning firm and the trappings of success that go with it. What Lara doesn't have is a man. But when she spies hot Latin polo player Joaquin Cruz, she sees a perfect opportunity...For society shutterbug Babe Mancini, it means revenge. Snapping candid's of the glitterati has taught her the power of the right picture. And she's got some very personal photos of Dean Paul that her new beau, cable news hell-raiser Jake James, would love to make public...For Gabrielle Foster, it's time to panic. She's buried her privileged past and reinvented herself as rap priestess Brown Sugar. With thug impresario AKA Bomb Threat on her arm, her street cred is complete - unless a rival rapper (and this wedding) blows her cover...Faster than you can say high-strung Japanese Olsen twins, gay walkers, PDH's (personal diamond handlers), breathy psychics, and high-profile fistfights, three former best friends are about to reunite for the wedding of the century - and the ride of their lives. ..
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