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Úspešná šéfredaktorka najvychytenejšieho newyorského časopisu vedie hektický život osobností zo sveta módy medzi svojím honosným manhattanským domom a módnymi prehliadkami v Európe. So šatníkom prepchatým šatami najznámejších značiek, buldogom Sirom Winstonom, s ktorým sa delí o lôžko, a sluhom pobehujúcim po dome v zlatých sandáloch, Fiona už nemôže byť spokojnejšia so svojím životom. Až kým jedného sparného júnového dňa nevkročí do jej kancelárie vdovec John Anderson. Máloktoré miesto je pre zaľúbencov ideálnejšie ako romantický Paríž, kam Fiona pozve Johna po niekoľkých spoločných pracovných obedoch a večeriach. V duchu porekadla „protiklady sa priťahujú“ pôvabná Fiona je v Johnových očiach neodolateľná, aj keď ho odstrašuje svet zoženštených dizajnérov, vychrtnutých modeliek a extravagantných sluhov. Ani Johnove dve dcéry nie sú nadšené zistením, že otec si po smrti ich matky našiel novú partnerku. Konflikt spôsobený rozličnými životnými postojmi je na obzore a iba trpezlivosť a č
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Teach Yourself Danish (Book + CD)
Teach Yourself Danish is the book/CD course for anyone who wants to progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking and writing Danish with confidence. Although aimed at those with no previous knowledge, it is equally suitable for anyone wishing to brush up existing knowledge for a holiday or business trip. Key structures and vocabulary are introduced in 18 thematic units progressing from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations to talking about work and shopping for presents. Teach Yourself Danish follows the journey of George Wilson, a businessman, who travels to Denmark to establish a market there for his products. He has been invited to stay with his friends who live in Copenhagen. The emphasis is on communication throughout with important language structures introduced through dialogues on the accompanying recording. There are plenty of exercises to practise the language as it is introduced and tips throughout to help with grammar. Cultural information sections give useful advice and information for anyone planning a trip to Denmark. The new edition has been updated and is now accompanied by a double CD with extra audio material. Popular features of the previous edition have been retained: - English-Danish vocabulary - glossary of grammatical terms - a 'taking it further' section to direct learners to further sources of real Danish
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Slovenské rady, vyznamenania, čestné odznaky
Záujem o slovenskú faleristiku (faleristika - pomocná historická veda, zaoberajúca sa radmi a vyznamenaniami) v poslednom desaťročí je veľmi živý nielen v odborných kruhoch, ale aj v širokej verejnosti. Tento záujem je podmienený politickými a spo
ločenskými zmenami, ktoré nastali po roku 1989. Najmä vznikom Slovenskej republiky, dňom 1.1. 1993, sa začala písať nová etapa, ktorá zaznamenala úrodnú produkciu. Tradícia slovenskej faleristiky nie je bohatá na množstvo zhotovených insígnií v porov
naní s inými národmi, ale svojim námetom a výtvarným stvárnením zaujme aj neodborníka.
Faleristická tvorba odráža charakter národa, jeho tradície, dejinné udalosti. Štát prostredníctvom radov a vyznamenaní oceňuje tých, ktorí sa najviac zaslúžili o j
eho upevňovanie, šírenie dobrého mena, presadzovanie ľudskej spolupatričnosti, čestnosti, chrabrosti, hrdinstva a obety.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four) Penguin Modern Classics
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
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The Man from St Petersburg
Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but his most dangerous were the love of a innocent woman, and the passion of a lady demanding satisfaction. Against him were ranged the English police, a lord, and Winston Churchill himself.
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Lacná kniha Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (-90%)
L'homme est lui-m?me et ce qu'il se cache. Ce secret hanta Edgar Poe. Le descendant de la maison Usher qui croit sa soeur morte, l'assassin du chat noir et William Wilson sont victimes de leur double, le cousin de Bérénice l'est de sa névrose obsessionnelle, le peintre du portrait ovale, de son art. Dans ces nouvelles fantastiques, prolongement des Histoires extraordinaires, les cadavres se prom?nent, un sourire ironique aux l?vres, les femmes sont "belles comme un r?ve de pierre", et la mort clôt chaque récit. L'envo?tement est total, l'horreur atteint son point culminant et pourtant la réalité est l?, tangible, pour chasser l'irrationnel. Fasciné par cette oeuvre américaine, Baudelaire l'a traduite admirablement et rendue cél?bre dans le monde entier.
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Net Positive
These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together. Global partnership and leadership are lacking, free trade and globalization are under attack, and populism continues to breed intolerance and disruption.
At this critical time in history, the imperative to reimagine our economies and companies could not be more urgent. Fortunately, many in the business community—from large corporations to microenterprises—are helping to solve our most profound challenges by deploying long-term, purpose-led business models that put people and planet first. And they are profiting on this new path with new tools, AI and data-driven transparency, and radical improvements in the economics of clean technologies.
The key question has flipped from Why would you do sustainability? to Why wouldn't you?In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable-business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take—that is, net positive companies. They bypass the last gasps of denial to show how purpose and profits are inextricably linked and how collective action can deliver the scale of change and transformation the world needs.
Net Positive outlines the principles and practices for surviving and thriving, based on the experience of one world-leading company, Unilever, and other groundbreaking global organizations. This essential book is for leaders, executives, managers, and professionals who want to succeed, but know that winning requires caring deeply about serving the world. Building a net positive company is the key, and this book shows the way.
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Coffee with Hitler
How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’.
Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding and poignant story, for the first time, of a handful of amateur British intelligence agents who wined, dined and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians and businessmen, they hoped to use the much mythologised Anglo-German Fellowship as a vehicle to civilise the Nazis. A pacifist Welsh historian, a Great War flying ace, and a butterfly-collecting businessman offered the British government better intelligence on the horrifying rise of the Nazis than anyone else.
Charles Spicer draws on newly discovered primary sources, shedding light on the early career of Kim Philby, Winston Churchill’s approach to appeasement, the US entry into the war and the Rudolf Hess affair.
Pád titánů
První část monumentální historické ságy Století, v níž bestsellerista Ken Follett (Pilíře země, Na věky věků) poutavým, jímavým a zároveň napínavým způsobem mapuje fiktivní osudy několika rodin v různých částech světa, jež byly dramaticky poznamenány moderními dějinami. Pád titánů přivádí na scénu příslušníky britské a německé aristokracie, velšské horníky, ruské dělníky i americké demokraty či zbohatlíky, aby několikrát propojil jejich životní cesty a vložil jim do nich zásadní překážku – první světovou válku. Sto let staré historické události – a v jejich skrytu příběhy lásky, přátelství, hrdinství, ale i beznaděje, ponížení či falše – znovu ožívají…
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The Eastern Front
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front.
In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires.
Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people - perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians - were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length.
Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs - many of which have never been translated into English before - Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918.
The Eastern Front paints a vivid and authoritative picture of a conflict that shook the world, and that remains central to understanding the tragic, blood-soaked trajectory of the entire twentieth century, including the current war in Ukraine.
Dobrodružstvo s delovou guľou DVD
Delostrelecká guľa uložená v zbierkach múzea na Červenom kameni je svedectvom o hrdinstve uhorských husárov za sedemročnej vojny Márie Terézie proti Prusku.
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Tato prosluněná knížka přímo přetéká vtipnými a optimistickými citáty. Je dokonale vhodná jak pro ty, kteří vidí svět skrz růžové brýle, tak pro ty, kteří potřebují to dobré jednou za čas připomenout.
„Sám jsem optimistou. Být čímkoliv jiným se mi zdá zbytečné.“
Winston Churchill
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Lacná kniha Wuthering Heights + CD (-90%)
Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family who, adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine Earnshaw becomes great friends with Heathcliff and they fall in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton since she feels it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. Desperate without his Catherine, Heathcliff runs away. But when he returns a few years later a series of events starts to destroy the relationship between the Lintons and the Earnshaws.
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A History of Water
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.
A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music – returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other – a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan – ends up as the national poet of Portugal.
The stories of Damiao de Gois and Luis de Camoes capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life.
Like all good mysteries, everyone has their own version of events.
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
A TLS Book of the Year 2022
Wading in Waist-High Water
Since the release of their breakout debut in 2008, Fleet Foxes and their frontman, singer-songwriter Robin Pecknold, have enjoyed international critical and commercial acclaim.
Drawing comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and the music of Brian Wilson, Grammy-nominated Fleet Foxes have reshaped the American indie-folk sound, crafting songs that are acoustically and melodically driven, steeped in gospel-like harmonies, and propelled by resonant and timeless lyrics. Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes contains Robin Pecknold's complete lyrics from 56 songs, capturing the poetic and inventive storytelling that is a hallmark of the band's music. These richly layered lyrics explore the complexity, darkness, and beauty of physical and emotional landscapes, both pastoral and modern.
Alongside the lyrics, Pecknold includes hand-written notes and candid observations on creative processes, inspirations, and motivations. With an introduction by celebrated author Brandon Taylor, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes is a moving and intimate look at the art of songwriting, the joy of music-making, and what it means to produce meaningful and memorable sound.
The Vanquishers
The first book in a bitingly brilliant and fangtastically feisty debut middle-grade series by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron. Fans of The Breakfast Club Adventures, Goosebumps and Stranger Things will devour this fun, thrilling and heartfelt vampire adventure.
In the world of the Vanquishers, vampires were history ... until now.
Malika “Boog” Wilson and her best friends have grown up idolising the Vanquishers, a group of heroic vampire hunters who wiped out the last horde of the undead decades ago. Nowadays, most people don't take even the most basic vampire precautions - the days of garlic wreaths and early curfews are long gone - but Boog's parents still follow the old rules, much to her embarrassment.
When a friend goes missing, Boog isn't sure what to think. Could it be the school counsellor, Mr Rupert, who definitely seems to be hiding something? Or could it be something more dangerous? Boog is determined to save her friend, but is she ready to admit vampires might not be vanquished after all?
No one ever expected the Vanquishers to return, but if their town needs protection from the undead, Boog knows who to call ...
Unprocessed
We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored.
Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Yet mental health disorders are overwhelmingly treated as 'mind' problems as if the physical brain - and how we feed it - is irrelevant. Someone suffering from depression is more likely to be asked about their relationship with their mother than their relationship with food.
In this eye-opening and impassioned book, psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on startling new research - as well as her own work in prisons, schools and hospitals around the country - to reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health: from how the food a woman eats during pregnancy influences the size of her baby's brain, and hunger makes you mean; to how nutrient deficiencies change your personality.
We must also recognise poor nutrition as a social injustice, with the poorest and most vulnerable being systematically ignored. We need to talk about what our food is doing to our brains. And we need decisive action, not over rehearsed soundbites and empty promises, from those in power - because if we don't, things can only get worse.
Holtak könyvtára
Titokzatos bűnesetek borzolják New York város lakóinak kedélyét. A kilenc áldozat halálának körülményei teljesen különbözőek, látszólag függetlenek egymástól. Ami mégis egybekapcsolja őket, az egy hátborzongató küldemény: minden áldozat egy koporsót ábrázoló képeslapot kap, halálának dátumával. Az FBI Will Piper különleges ügynököt bízza meg a nyomozással, aki nagy elszántsággal áll neki a munkának, ám a szálak mind jobban összegubancolódnak... Vajon milyen titokzatos kapcsolat köti össze a tértől és időtől független eseményeket? Létezik-e valami misztikus összefüggés a 21. század eleji gyilkosságok, az első században íródott Jelenések könyve, egy középkori brit apátság, Winston Churchill, az amerikai haditengerészet, a nevadai sivatag 51-es körzete és a hollywoodi filmforgatókönyvek között? Vajon a saját démonaival küszködő Piper ügynöknek sikerül-e fényt derítenie a föld alatti könyvtárak titkaira? Beteljesedik-e a hetedik fiú hetedik fiának misztikus sorsa? Vajon közeleg-e már az utolsó ítélet napja? A titkos társaságok és az összeesküvés-elméletek terén nagy jártasságról tanúbizonyságot tevő Glenn Cooper lebilincselően izgalmas, történelmi korokon átívelő regénnyel lepi meg olvasóit, akik most magyarul is kezükbe vehetik az eddig húsz nyelven megjelent nemzetközi bestsellert.
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The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook
'Mickey's authentic journey with her autoimmune disease flavours her recipes from beginning to end. Anyone on an AI wellness 'trek' knows that simplicity, earthiness and a gentle, nourishing approach to food (and beyond) are absolutely key. This book should be part of every wellness traveller's kit!' Sarah Wilson, best-selling author of I Quit Sugar
'Mickey's nutrient-rich recipes are very much staples in our home and will no doubt become staples in yours. So if you're keen to heal your body, nourish your soul and enjoy delicious, wholesome food, this is definitely the book for you.' Pete Evans, best-selling author of Going Paleo
One in five of us will be diagnosed with an autoimmune disease at some point in our lives; a condition that occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own tissue. Conventional medicine has yet to find a cure, so is there anything you can do to help yourself?
In an effort to alleviate the symptoms of her own autoimmune conditions, author Mickey Trescott began following a version of the paleo diet specifically designed for those struggling with autoimmune diseases. By eliminating certain food groups and embracing others, Mickey finally rediscovered her health and vitality.
The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook features 115 of Mickey's most delicious recipes as well as lots of clear information for anyone who wants to explore this version of the paleo diet. Guidelines for the diet are clearly outlined and there are four-week meal plans as well as tips for shopping, batch cooking and preparing ahead. This book is a fantastic first step towards taking control of your health and happiness.