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Lacná kniha BCC It - Casa Sulla Scogliera + CD
Un mistero si nasconde nella vita di Valeria, lě nella casa sulla scogliera. In paese si dice che č una casa ‘maledetta’, perché di notte si sentono grida e pianti e si vedono delle luci che si accendono e si spengono. Ma un giorno Valeria conosce Marco e da quel momento la sua vita subisce dei profondi cambiamenti. Riuscirŕ Valeria ad uscire da questo ‘incubo’ che le impedisce di vivere con serenitŕ la sua adolescenza?
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Lacná kniha Il fu Mattia Pascal (-70%)
Mattia Pascal è l'esemplare testimone di questa assurda condizione dell'uomo prigioniero delle maschere sociali
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Versace: Príbeh ikonickej módnej značky
Unikátny obrazový sprievodca históriou módnej značky Versace
Gianni Versace bol jedným z najvýznamnejších módnych inovátorov všetkých čias: hviezda medzi návrhármi a vizionár. Bol to umelec zanietený pre svoju prácu, ktorý sa nebál riskovať a porušovať pravidlá, aby vytvoril krásu na predvádzacom móle. Pripisuje sa mu aj vytvorenie konceptu supermodeliek, keďže na prehliadkach exkluzívne spolupracoval s významnými modelkami, ktoré zapájal aj do módnych kampaní. Jeho značka bola od začiatku rodinnou značkou, stala sa neoddeliteľnou súčasťou jeho úspechu a poskytla mu pevný základ a pocit identity. S hlbokými koreňmi v popkultúre stála na pozadí nezabudnuteľných momentov moderného štýlu, či už to boli šaty Elizabeth Hurleyovej zopnuté špendlíkmi, obálka časopisu Harper’s Bazaar s princeznou Dianou, alebo zelená róba Jennifer Lopezovej.
Knižka rozpráva príbeh ikonického módneho domu od jeho založenia Giannim Versacem až po dnešné kultové postavenie pod vedením Donatelly. Je úžasnou zbierkou viac ako 100 momentov z červeného koberca, kľúčových modelov a ohromujúcich módnych prehliadok. Text dopĺňajú desiatky starostlivo vybraných fotografií.
Z anglického originálu preložila Adriana Špilová.
Saját halál
"Mielőtt íróvá lett, Nádas sajtófotós volt. Valamennyi fény című, 1999-ben megjelent képes albuma óta ismerjük és becsüljük minden önhittségtől mentes fotográfusi látásmódját. Fotográfusként Nádas a tagadás esztétikáját gyakorolja, felvételei vizuális nyelven szólalnak meg. A Saját halál nagyszabású könyv. Könnyen olvasható, és szinte kimeríthetetlen. Klasszikus módszert követ: a legnagyobb dolgokról a legegyszerűbb szavakkal beszél. A köznyelv iránti szeretete ellenére a szerző sosem enged a túlzottan egyszerű fogalmazásmód kísértésének, tehát nem próbálja meg leplezni például azt, hogy van némi általános orvosi műveltsége..." (Wilfried Wiegand, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
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Júlia
Amikor Julie Jacobs egy kulcsot örököl egy páncéldobozhoz, amelyért Sienába kell mennie, megtudja, hogy a kulcs birtokában régi családi kincshez juthat. Hamarosan kanyargós és veszélyes útra indul őse, Giulietta élettörténetében, akinek egy Rómeó nevű ifjú iránti legendás szerelme alapjaiban rengette meg a középkori Sienát. Miközben sorra megismerkedik azoknak a családoknak a leszármazottaival, akik között véres viszály dúl Shakespeare drámájában, fokozatosan ráébred, hogy az átok -"Pusztuljon mindkét család!" - továbbra is él, s hogy ő a következő célpont. Balsorsától egyvalaki mentheti meg Julie-t, mégpedig Rómeó - de hol van ő?
Golfőrültek
P. G. Wodehouse eddig magyarul meg nem jelent golftörténeteinek első kötetét tarthatja kezében az olvasó, amelyben az író szeretetteljes iróniával figurázza ki az angolok egyik "régi mániáját", a golf iránti elvakult rajongást.
Kameň na dne mora/A Stone on the Seabed
Zbierka básní poézie držiteľa Nobelovej ceny, básnika, spisovateľa a umelca Dereka Walcotta. Ilustroval Daniel Brunovský. Derek Walcott sa narodil vo West Indies, bol dlhé roky profesorom na Bostonskej univerzite a pre jeho zbierku esejí, poézie a hier bol náležite považovaný za giganta americkej literatúry.
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Bezvýznamnosť
Martin je spisovateľ a politológ. Ako spisovateľ nemá o čom písať, pretože nie je o čom písať: všetko bolo napísané, je to priemyselná výroba, robota, inžinierstvo, nie umenie a sloboda. Osud spisovateľa ho ako mladého človeka oslovil ešte v čase komunizmu, kedy spisovateľ mal slovo, váhu a autoritu; v 21. storočí je to zamestnanie ako každé iné, autoritu majú iba najúspešnejší na trhu, nech píšu o čomkoľvek banálnom. Ako politológ Martin padol do pasce rutiny. Jeden banálny podnet jeho milenky ho vyprovokuje a rozhodne sa zapojiť do politiky. Netúžil po tom vždy? Osloví kamarátov v PR agentúrach. Zistí však, že je nikto, že nemá žiadne spoločenské postavenie, že nemá akademické tituly, že nie je úspešný podnikateľ a manažér, nemá peniaze, nepredral sa v spoločnosti. Jeho obraz v spoločnosti je úplne iný, ako sa domnieval. Nakoniec prejde úspešne skúškami a zapája sa do politiky ako poradca. Zisťuje, že politika je vlastne vykonávanie byrokracie, že robí podradnejšie práce, ako robil v doterajšom živote. Dostáva sa do absurdných a bizarných situácií, ktoré sú pre neho ponižujúce. Nakoniec získa dôveru a PR agentúra ho pošle do televíznej debaty. Tam zlyhá a jeho kariéra, meno, obraz sa rozpadne.
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Cigani
Keď pred časom vydal fotograf Tibor Huszár fotografickú výtvarnú publikáciu Cigáni, bolo ihneď zrejmé, že pohľad na cigánov žijúcich na Slovensku dostal celkom inú kvalitu a iné rozmery. Bolo to prakticky po prvý raz, čo sa život, zvyky, tradície,
lesk a najmä bieda tohto etnika zobrazili v takej vizuálnej podobe, v takej hĺbke, pestrosti, autentickosti, nefalšovanej sociálnej pravdivosti, silnej výtvarnej hodnote. Kniha sa vďaka svojej úprimnosti a originalite stala nielen ojedinelým zjavom,
ale svojím spôsobom bestsellerom, čo pri publikácii tohto typu nebýva zvykom.
Od vydania prvej knihy sa veľa zmenilo, zmenil sa aj Tibor Huszár. Prešiel ďalší kus cesty k majstrovstvu, fotografiu priblížil takmer na dotyk k absolútnu. Jeho prejav je
presvedčivejší ako realita, je pravdivejší ako život; je totiž pravdou o živote, nie jeho kopírovaním. Čiastočne sa zmenilo aj postavenie a spôsob existencie rómskeho etnika. Priepasť nedorozumenia s väčšinovým obyvateľstvom akoby sa prehlbovala. Od
cudzenie pramení z nepochopenia rómskej mentality, ich tradícií, zvykov a pocitov. Tibor Huszár pozná tieto tradície, zvyky a pocity pridobre, no aj tak sa zdalo, že o nich už viac nepovie.
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Ignorance - A Global History
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today’s hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors?
In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity’s ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance?genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious?from the willful politicians who redrew Europe’s borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits.
Momo Arashima Breaks the Mirror of the Sun
Discover the second book in a thrilling new fantasy series for readers aged 9+ - perfect for fans of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, Dragon Mountain and Mia and the Lightcasters!
Momo Arashima just wants an ordinary life. But she's about to become legendary . . .
After vanquishing a demon king, saving her mum, and reconnecting with her friend Danny, Momo ought to be living the life she's always wanted. But lately Danny has been ditching her to hang out with mean-girl Ryleigh - and groups of children have begun vanishing without a trace. So when a whole group from Ryleigh's exclusive birthday party becomes the latest to disappear, Momo and her friends (including Niko the fox) are left to fight a dangerous new enemy from Shinto legend.
This time they are up against Tamamo-no-mae - beautiful, bloodthirsty and manipulative, she's the ultimate mean girl of the Kami-verse. To defeat her, Momo must travel to the Sky Kingdom and steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun. But if she's going to survive monster ambushes, escape giant snakes, and pull off the heist of the millennium, Momo will have to find a way to work with her team (even Ryleigh), and grapple with the growing power that connects her with her storm god grandfather and her greatest foe - Izanami the Destroyer . . .
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.
But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi could play with his teeth, play with his guitar behind his back. It was that he could really play.
Journeying through the purple haze of idealism and paranoia of the sixties, Jimi Hendrix was the man who made Eric Clapton consider quitting, to whom Bob Dylan deferred on his own song 'All Along the Watchtower', who forced Miles Davis to reconsider his buttoned-down ways - and whose 'Star Spangled Banner' defined Woodstock.
And when his star, which had burned so brightly, was extinguished far too young, his legend lived on in the music - and the intrigue surrounding his death.
Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format, Two Riders Were Approaching is a fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix - and a journey into the dark heart of the sixties. While the groupies lined up, the drugs got increasingly heavy and the dream of the sixties burned in the fire and blood of the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the election of President Richard Nixon.
Acclaimed writer Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth, has drawn upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce an inimitable, novelistic telling of this tale - the definitive portrait of the Guitar God at whose altar other guitar gods worship.
Jimi Hendrix's is a story that has been told many times before - but never quite like this.
Making Money
The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is...
Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.
The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it’s time for a change of management.
There are a few problems that may arise with the job . . . The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire – there's something nameless in the cellar and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. Meanwhile, people actually want to know where the money’s gone. It's a job for life.
But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, that life is not necessarily a long one.
He’s about to be exposed as a fraud, but if he’s lucky the Assassins’ Guild might get him first. In fact, a lot of people want him dead. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies.
Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies.
Thief Of Time
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is...
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop.
The Monks of History have the glamorous job of time management in the Discworld. They store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.
But with the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time begins for History monk for Lu Tze and his suspiciously talented apprentice Lobsang Ludd.
Because a truly accurate clock will stop time.
And when time stands still, everything in human existence stops with it. Then, there really is no future.
Giant
'Readers will be laughing and crying all at once. This book is an astonishing, unique feat of the imagination' i News From critically acclaimed author Nicola Skinner, her most brilliant book yet - a darkly comic story about staying true to yourself and the people you love, even if it means tearing everything down . .
. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Minnie's island. Nothing, that is, apart from the earthquakes, which pull buildings and schools and houses down on a regular basis.
Luckily, the island's inhabitants have found a way to fix their crumbling walls: giants. Giants look after human children, like eleven-year-old Minnie. When Minnie turns twelve, she'll kiss her giant, turning her into a stone statue forever.
The stone will be used to repair buildings. And there's nothing wrong with that either . . . or so Minnie thinks. But when a dreadful earthquake strikes, Minnie realises she's not quite ready to say goodbye to her giant - not forever - not yet.
So Minnie goes on the run, betraying her parents and everyone she knows. The secrets she uncovers on her journey threaten to pull everything down: and so begins a desperate race against time in which she will confront the truth about her island, her giant . . . and ultimately herself.