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Slow Food, Fast Cars
Welcome to Casa Maria Luigia, Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore’s idyllic guest house in the Italian countryside
Lara Gilmore and Massimo Bottura – the renowned chef behind three-Michelin-starred restaurant Osteria Francescana – designed Casa Maria Luigia to celebrate the hospitality and wonderful, earthy cuisine of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. Their one-of-a-kind guest house boasts not only exquisite food, but gorgeous interiors filled with contemporary art, unique design objects, and an impressive collection of Italian cars and motorcycles.
Slow Food, Fast Cars captures the extraordinary sensory and culinary experience of staying at Casa Maria Luigia. Created in close collaboration with Lara and Massimo, the book collects 85 authentic, accessible recipes for breakfasts, brunches, and all-day snacks, including frittatas and focaccias, salads, cakes and pastries, jams and preserves and more. At Casa Maria Luigia the past collides with the contemporary, and home cooks will discover seasonal variations for each recipe, as well as information about the dish’s origins and ingredients. Evocative photography and personal essays tell the fascinating stories behind every element of this magical guest house, from the incredible food to the interior design, cars, vinyl collection, garden, and country landscape.
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Az elátkozott part - Rejtő Jenő összegyűjtött munkái
Rejtő Jenőt utánozhatatlan humora, mesteri mondatfűzése, egyedi, könnyed stílusa a magyar irodalom egyedülálló jelenségévé avatja. Rejtő a tündérmesék világának sajátos környezetbe ültetett változatát teremti meg, ahol az alvilág kétes figurái egytől egyig úriemberek, a koldusról többnyire kiderül, hogy álruhás koronaherceg, és ahol végül a szerelmesek mindig egymásra találnak. Az Alexandra Kiadó Rejtő Jenő műveit egyedi díszkötésben nyújtja át az Olvasóknak.
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Study for Obedience
A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.
Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*
The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin de siécle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals, labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.
Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.
A Winter Grave
From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.
A TOMB OF ICE
A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.
A DYING DETECTIVE
Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat.
AN AGONIZING RECKONING
Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose.
Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best.
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If You'll Have Me
Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who's always ready to lend a helping hand. She's introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people.
PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard.
An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together, kicking off the beginning of an awkward yet endearing courtship. With their drastically different personalities, Momo's overprotective friend, and PG's past coming back to haunt her, Momo and PG's romance is put to the test.
If You'll Have Me is beautifully-illustrated, irresistibly romantic graphic novel that explores and celebrates Sapphic first love, perfect for fans of Heartstopper and She Gets the Girl.
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Wolverine Epic Collection: To The Bone
Adamantium no more!
Magneto stripped the once-indestructible metal from Wolverine's bones, and his healing factor is almost gone. Is Logan dying on his feet? Either way, he's coming out fighting - with claws made of bone! Wolverine heads to Canada to see old friends - but Lady Deathstrike, Bloodscream, Cylla and Cyber are on his tail! Even with Alpha Flight and Excalibur's help, Logan is about to take a beating like never before! As his health worsens, Logan starts to put his affairs in order. But does he have enough gas left in the tank to rescue the X-Men from the alien Phalanx? Plus: Albert and Elsie-Dee unravel a time-spanning mystery! And Wolverine reunites with Ghost Rider, the Punisher and Nick Fury!
Collecting WOLVERINE (1988) #76-86, CABLE (1993) #16, WOLVERINE: EVILUTION, WOLVERINE & NICK FURY: SCORPIO RISING and GHOST RIDER/WOLVERINE/PUNISHER: THE DARK DESIGN.
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Ritual
WINNER OF THE CAROL R. EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLGY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE
From fire walking to funerals, the hidden science of the rituals that give life meaning
Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, thread in human culture. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society: from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery until now.
Today, a fearless new generation of anthropologists is venturing into this shadowy realm. Armed with cutting-edge technology and drawing on discoveries from a huge range of disciplines, they emerge with a powerful new perspective on our place in the world. Join the pathfinding scientist Dimitris Xygalatas on a tour of human culture at its strangest. In coronations, in silent prayer, in fire-walks and in all the bewildering variety of humanity's ritual life, Xygalatas reveals the deep and subtle mechanisms that bind us together.
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Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 4: Riddle Me This
Riddle me this…when is a criminal not a criminal?
The answer awaits you in Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 4: Riddle Me This!
The Riddler is back in Gotham City in a big way, becoming a media personality and using his newfound influence to wreak havoc on the Dark Knight. As Batman chases down clues to put an end to the Riddler’s machinations, the clock ticks away for the citizens of Gotham whom Edward Nygma has placed in the line of fire…
Then, in “Gotham Girl, Interrupted,” the superpowered Claire Clover returns to the city that helped ruin her life…to get psychiatric treatment at the new Arkham Tower. But when a murder mystery rocks Gotham Girl’s newfound semblance of normalcy, she finds someone unexpected at the heart of the crime…herself.
Brought to you by writers MARIKO TAMAKI, NADIA SHAMMAS, and SINA GRACE with artists IVAN REIS (Green Lantern), DANNY MIKI (Spawn, Eternals, Moon Knight), and DAVID LAPHAM (Deadpool Max, Fables).
Collects Detective Comics #1059-1061!
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27,50 €
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The Universe in a Box
Illuminating, provocative and bold, The Universe in a Box is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos
How do scientists study the entire universe?
How can we make sense of its vast, intricate workings?
We are part of an incredible chain of events stretching 13.8 billion years into the past and even further into the future. But what does that future hold? And will we ever truly understand our cosmic home?
The Universe in a Box is Andrew Pontzen's tribute to simulations - the remarkable computer codes that, over the last century, have allowed us to understand the distant past and far future of the universe. It reframes what we think we know about galaxies, black holes and matter itself. And it reveals the stories of the pioneering scientists who unlocked the mysteries of space, from redshift to improbable dark materials that pass, ghostlike, through solid rock.
Illuminating, provocative and bold, this is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.
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18,95 €
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The Sandman Book Five
Neil Gaiman’s award-winning masterpiece The Sandman continues here, filled with the art from the medium’s most gifted talent.
Sandman Book Five collects Sandman Midnight Theatre, Sandman Endless Nights, and Sandman: The Dream Hunters!
Sandman Midnight Theatre takes place in the late 1930’s. A mysterious suicide leads the Golden Age Sandman (Wesley Dodds) to a dark circle of mystics known as the Order of Ancient Mysteries. The Order holds a number of disturbing secrets…and the greatest of these is Morpheus, the imprisoned Dream King!
In Sandman Endless Nights Neil Gaiman explores the seven brothers and sisters of the Endless, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction.
Sandman: The Dream Hunters is a love story, set in ancient Japan. Telling the story of a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox who find themselves romantically drawn together. As their love blooms, the fox learns of a devilish plot by a group of demons to steal the monk’s life. With the aid of Morpheus, the King of All Night’s Dreamings, the fox must use all of her cunning and creative thinking to foil this evil scheme and save the man that she loves.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities, and yet are gifted with unusually acute artistic or mathematical talents. If sometimes beyond our surface comprehension, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.
A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Cat Kid Comic Club 4: Collaborations
The perfect present for Dog Man fans - starring some of your favourite characters from the series!
The Cat Kid Comic Club learns to collaborate in this creative, funny, and insightful graphic novel by Dav Pilkey. Excitement and imagination run wild as Naomi, Melvin, Poppy, Gilbert, Curly, and their siblings get back to making comics with originality and laughter. But wait - have they cleaned their rooms yet?! After their chores, the rambunctious group presents even more amazing mini-comics: a thrilling ride in "Chubbs McSpiderbutt", an action-packed romp in "Frogzilla", reflective haikus in "In the Autumn Pond", a candy-coated mystery in "Mallo Cop", and much, much, more. By working together, the baby frogs discover that small things can have a huge impact. In this innovative graphic novel series, award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey employs a variety of techniques - including origami, acrylic paints, colored pencils, photography, collage, gouache, watercolors, and more - to capture the creative and joyful spirit of collaboration. The variety of art styles, paired with Pilkey's trademark storytelling and humour, inspires imagination and innovation for readers of all ages.
- Readers of all ages will be inspired to dream up their own stories and unleash their own creativity as they dive into this pioneering graphic novel adventure from Dav Pilkey
- Full colour pages throughout make it a fun and bright read!
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Grand Hotel Europa
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.
‘The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case for the hotel where I am staying and the continent after which it is named, the best time is behind me and that I have little more to expect from the future than to live on my past.’
A writer takes residence in the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about where things went wrong with Clio, with whom he fell in love in Genoa and moved to Venice. He reconstructs a compelling story of love in times of mass tourism, about their trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre and their thrilling search for the last painting of Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of Grand Hotel Europe and gets more and more involved with the memorable characters who inhabit it, and who seem to come from a more elegant time. All the while, globalisation seems to be grabbing hold even on this place frozen in time.
Grand Hotel Europa is Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s masterly novel on the old continent, where so much history resides that there is no place left for a future and where the most realistic future perspectives are offered in the form of exploiting the past in the shape of tourism.
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One Midsummer's Day
It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird.
The bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Counrtry Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts.
Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivated, Mark Cocker sets out to capture their essence.
Over the course of one day in midsummer he devotes himself to his beloved black birds as they spiral overhead. Yet this is also a book about so much more. Swifts are a prism through which Cocker explores the profound interconnections of the whole biosphere.
From the deep-sea thermal vents where life was born to the 15 million degrees at the core of our Sun, he shows that life is a singular and glorious continuum. These birds without borders are a perfect symbol to express the unity of the living planet. But they also illuminate how no creature, least of all ourselves, can be said to be alive in isolation. We are all inextricably connected.
Drawing deeply on science, history, literature and a lifetime of close observation, One Midsummer's Day is a dazzling and wide-ranging celebration of all life on Earth by one of our greatest nature writers.
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24,65 €
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A nagy, a kicsi és az emberi elme
Roger Penrose eredeti és provokatív elképzelései a világegyetem nagyléptékű fizikájáról, a kvantumfizika kisléptékű világáról és az elme fizikájáról nem ismeretlenek a magyar olvasók számára. Ezeket az elképzeléseket fejtette ki többek között A császár új elméje és a Stephen Hawkinggal közösen írt A tér és az idő természete című nagy sikerű könyveiben. A nagy, a kicsi és az emberi elme összegzi, felfrissíti és aktualizálja Penrose gondolatait e komplex területekről. Mesteri összefogást ad a fizika azon részeiről, ahol lényeges megoldatlan problémákat lát. Ennek során gyökeresen új fogalmakat vezet be, amelyeket különösen hasznosnak gondol az agyműködés és az emberi elme természetének megértéséhez. Elgondolásairól három jeles szakértő mond véleményt különböző szempontokból - Abner Shimony és Nancy Cartwright mint tudományfilozófusok és Stephen Hawking mint elméleti fizikus és kozmológus. A kötet végén a szerző válaszol tudóstársai gondolatébresztő kritikáira. Penrose lelkesedése, éleslátása, jó humorérzéke az átlagos olvasó számára is könnyen felfoghatóvá teszi a modern fizika problémáiról írt beszámolóját
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Witch Hat Atelier 7
A beautifully-illustrated story about a girl who longs for magic in her life and learns that, on the inside, she already is what she wishes she could be. Reminiscent of Studio Ghibli, this lushly-drawn story was voted one of the top 10 manga of the year in 2018 by the Japanese manga industry.
THE PRICE OF KNOWLEDGE
As the new trial comes to an end, one of Coco's rewards from Beldaruit the Wise is the story of Qifrey's past and how he came to desire the mysteries of magic. Feeling a connection with her own desire to save her mother, Coco departs for the source of all answers: the Tower of Tomes. But it is a perilous journey to make on her own, and the secrets held within could sway even the most virtuous of witches...
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Far Sector
The first murder in 500 years. Twenty billion suspects. One hope. The City Enduring, a booming metropolis at the edge of the universe, hasn t experienced a violent crime in generations. The Emotion Exploit has erased its citizens full range of feelings, allowing three resident races to overlook their turbulent history and coexist peacefully until now. Rookie Green Lantern Sojourner Jo Mullein is still adjusting to her assignment to protect this strange world when a brutal murder rattles its social order, threatening to undo centu r ies of controversia l pro gress . As the populace rises up against the legacy of the Emotion Exploit and leaders grapple for power under threat of a new war, Jo must rely on her unique instincts as a Green Lantern and the only human in this sector to solve the crime and guide the City Enduring toward a more promi sing future. Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin joins bestselling Naomi artist Jamal Campbell in the Eisner Award-nominated sci-fi murder mystery Far Sector, collecting all 12 issues, concept art and character designs, and an introduction by Gerard Way.
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A lét elviselhetetlen könnyűsége
Milan Kundera regénye a szűkebb értelemben vett sztori, valamint filozófiai-történelmi-politikai eszmefuttatások mesteri ötvözete, amely azonban mindig megőrzi szépirodalmi jellegét. Főhőse egy jó nevű sebész, Tomás, nagy szoknyabolond, naponta váltogatja szeretőit. S egy szép nap e Don Juan-i figura mögött felsejlik egy másik legendás férfialak, Trisztán; hősünk beleszeret egy kisvárosi pincérnőbe, Terezába, s feleségül veszi. Korábbi gazdag és mozgalmas szexuális életéről azonban nem tud és nem akar lemondani, jóllehet ezzel elmondhatatlan fájdalmat okoz az egyetlen valóban szeretett lénynek. Tomás ellentmondásos alakja mögé háttérnek Kundera felrajzolja a "prágai tavasz" eseményeit, majd 1968 drámáját, az orosz inváziót, az első napok euforisztikus gyűlöletét, végül a "normalizáció" éveinek megaláztatásait. Tomás és Tereza a nemzeti remények bukásával Svájcba költözik, de később hazatér, hogy otthon vállalja sorsát. Sabina, a festőnő, Tomás egyik szeretője, az emigráció útját választja, megkapaszkodik odakint, de minden kötöttségtől megszabadulva a lét elviselhetetlen könnyűségét érzi. Jellemző életérzés ez korunkban, amikor a történelem és a technika a világot olyan jövő felé vezeti, melyet az ember sem alakítani, sem előre látni nem képes.
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10,23 €
10,77 €