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Lacná kniha Worlds Strangest Creepycrawlies (-50%)
Enter the weird and wonderful world of creepy-crawlies. Our animal experts have unearthed 40 of the planet’s most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each creature’s seriously strange characteristics and the unusual ways they hunt, eat or defend themselves.
They’re sometimes hard to spot, but there are a mind-boggling 10 billion billion bugs on the planet. Inside World’s Strangest Creepy-Crawlies, kids will discover the tiny terror that blows itself up to save its friends, a creature so well disguised even its own species can’t see it, and a giant spider the size of a dinner plate. And with our ‘strange-o-meter’, they can compare each animal based on its creepiness, fight factor and superpowers!
Creepy-crawlies include:
Elephant beetle
Hickory horned devil
Happy-face spider
Zombie snail
Leafcutter ant
Froghopper
Spiny devil katydid
Goliath birdeater spider
Giant weta
Asian giant hornet
Scorpion
Death’s-head hawkmoth
Bird-dung crab spider
Exploding ant
Other titles in the series include:
- World’s Strangest Predators
- World’s Strangest Places
- World’s Strangest Ocean Beasts
About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let’s start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place – inspiring children at home and in school.
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
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Slávny životopis renesančného sochára a maliara Michelangela Buonarrotiho v úplné novom elektronickom vydaní, doplnenom o množstvo fotografií diel Michelangela Buonarrotiho.
Kniha opisuje život slávneho talianskeho sochára, maliara a architekta Michelangela Buonarrotiho a tiež politickú a náboženskú atmosféru prelomu 15. a 16. storočia. V priebehu príbehu sa čitateľ stretne aj s ďalšími významnými osobnosťami, ako príklad možno uviesť Niccola Machiavelliho, Lorenza Magnifica alebo Leonarda Da Vinciho. Román vykresľuje dobové pomery v cirkvi, ktorá je pevne spätá so šľachtou a tvorí akoby jej druhú odnož. Cirkev zhromažďuje majetok, územie a peniaze, jej najvyšší hodnostári žijú v hriechu (majú napr. množstvo mileniek) a obklopujú sa bohatstvom, zatiaľ čo rozpútavajú búrky intríg, ktoré vedú k podvodom, vraždám a neustálym lokálnym vojnám.
Príbeh románu je postavený na reálnych udalostiach a osobnostiach len na niektorých miestach je doplnený fikciou. Silnou stránkou románu je premyslenosť a obrazovosť. Autor pôvodne plánoval napísať románovú trilógiu, ale stihol dokončiť len prvý diel "V záhradách Mediciovcov" a z druhého pod názvom "Pápežská omša" existujú iba dve kapitoly. Príbeh končí v okamihu, keď je Michelangelovi približne 30 rokov.
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Railways
The advent of railways in Britain was a fundamental part of its economic and social revolution in the 19th century, with technical advances that were the envy of the world and chronicled from the beginning through meticulous drawings. Detailed plans were created of locomotives, carriages and wagons, as well as of stations, bridges and tunnels, to facilitate the manufacturing process and the maintenance of the rapidly expanding railway network.
Miraculously, about a million of these magnificent drawings have survived and are held in the National Railway Museum in York. Christopher Valkoinen has selected over 130 examples that tell the engineering history of great innovations and triumphs, such as the Forth Bridge, and reveal the work of famous pioneers, including Richard Trevithick, George Stephenson, and Nigel Gresley of Flying Scotsman fame. Other plans range from Queen Victoria's royal saloon and a travelling post office to a station tea-room at York and modern experiments with a hovertrain. There are also drawings for railways around the world: the USA, Russia, Japan, India, Australia and Egypt, among others, as well as contemporary photographs and posters.
Throughout, Valkoinen provides valuable insights into the social and political impact of the railways. He also reveals how these drawings are more than a reference tool for the historian or modelmaker; they are exquisite works of art, painstakingly produced by highly skilled artists, which can be appreciated in their own right.
With 300 illustrations
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Clash, The - Hits Back (Rematered) -HQ- 3LP
Tracklist:
Side A
1. London Calling
2. Safe European Home
3. Know Your Rights
4. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
5. Janie Jones
6. The Guns Of Brixton
Side B
1. Train In Vain
2. Bankrobber
3. Wrong 'Em Boyo
4. The Magnificent Seven
5. Police On My Back
6. Rock The Casbah
Side C
1. Career Opportunities
2. Police & Thieves
3. Somebody Got Murdered
4. Brand New Cadillac
5. Clampdown
6. Ghetto Defendant
Side D
1. Armagideon Time
2. Stay Free
3. I Fought The Law
4. Straight To Hell
5. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
6. Garageland
Side E
1. White Riot
2. Complete Control
3. Clash City Rockers
4. Tommy Gun
Side F
1. English Civil War
2. The Call Up
3. Hitsville UK
4. Radio Clash
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
With this treasury of his time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of "the sailing, amphibious city", and for every new visitor.
Because he is a master storyteller with an inexhaustible curiosity, and always with a suitcase of books (to which new discoveries are added), he brings vividly and poetically to life not only the tumultuous history of the Republic but along the way its doges, its villains, its heroes, its magnificent painters, its architects, its scholars, its skies, its canals and piazzas and alleyways, and on his expeditions its "bronze voices of time".
Those who know and love this city and its literature will recognise Nooteboom - in Laura Watkinson's fine translation - as the dazzling heir and companion to Montaigne, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Ruskin, Proust, Brodsky, and Donna Leon. His homage to Venice is a generous introduction, learned and enchanting, and worthy of its magnificent subject.
Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson
A festőművész - Öt érzék - Színek
Színes karakterek, ragyogó tájak és izgalmas kalandok:
egy festőnő története a reneszánsz Firenzéből
Bianca Gorini egyszerre mondhatja magát kivételesen szerencsés és szerencsétlen fiatal lánynak. Szerencsés, mivel Guliano de Medici törvénytelen lányaként és Lorenzo, a Magnifico unokahúgaként olyan tudáshoz juthat hozzá, amihez a kor ifjú hölgyei közül kevesen. Sőt, nagybátyja nagylelkűségének hála - aki korán felfedezi a lányban a tehetséges festőt -, a korszak legnagyobb mestereitől tanulhat. Természetesen titokban...
De Bianca szerencsétlen is, mert a Pazzi-összeesküvés során nemcsak apját veszíti el, de a felfordulást kihasználva anyjával is végez annak régi szerelme, aki sosem heverte ki a visszautasítást, amiben része volt. Felserdülve pedig kénytelen végignézni, amint imádott városának lakóit - akik nem sokkal korábban még az öröm, a szépség és a művészetek iránti rajongásnak éltek - megbabonázza a különc szerzetes, Girolamo Savonarola, aki hadat üzen nemcsak a Medicieknek, de a művészeteknek és a művészeknek is. És így magának Gorini kisasszonynak is, akinek menekülnie kell a nemrég virágzó nagyvárosból.
Budai Lotti nagy sikerű Öt érzék-sorozatának második kötete ismét az érzékek és érzékszervek világába csábít minket, a történelem egyik legmeghatározóbb időszakába. A színeken, a látáson és a festészeten keresztül a 15. századi Itália titkai tárulnak fel az olvasók lelki szemeit előtt.
Elliott Erwitt's Rome
For centuries, Rome has exerted a magnetic spell on inhabitants and travelers alike. Elliott Erwitt delves into the heart of this enduring magnetism.
With careful precision, he lays bare the unflagging spirit of a magnificent metropolis. Undaunted by history, Erwitt portrays the distinctive mix of ancient glory and casual indifference which is uniquely Roman. With a blend of science and artistry, Erwitt captures forms, textures and—the mark of the true artist—atmospheres. A wonderful addition to the Elliott Erwitt series by teNeues.
Phaenomena
A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas.
Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas Coelestis, this spectacular guide to the heavens is also a superb introduction to the fundamentals and history of astronomy.
Charting constellations, planets, comets and moons, Doppelmayr's Atlas presents the ideas and discoveries of many famous and influential astronomers, including Copernicus, Riccioli, Kepler, Newton and Halley, in intricate colour plates that interweave annotated diagrams and tables with figurative drawings and ornamental features. Here, you can appreciate the beauty of those exquisite astronomical and cosmographical plates and comprehend the details, which are also presented in step-by-step deconstructed form. Astronomer Giles Sparrow elucidates the scientific ideas inherent in each plate, expertly decoding and analysing the complex information contained in them and placing Doppelmayr's sumptuous Atlas in the context of the ground-breaking discoveries made during the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods.
A spectacular, revelatory celestial compendium to the cosmos, Phaenomena expands on and explains Doppelmayr's original, awe-inspiring Atlas and reflects upon its influence on the development of the science of astronomy to the present day.
A Portrait of Love (EN)
Audiobook A Portrait of Love, written by Barbara Cartland. Fedora Colwyn’s ailing father is a great restorer of paintings and valuable works. Their home is lined with a magnificent collection, but paintings don’t fill stomachs and with her father unable to work, they both face destitution. When the Earl of Heversham approaches the elderly Colwyn with a lucrative offer to restore his private collection at Heversham Castle, Fedora agrees on his behalf, intending to undertake the work herself.
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The Moon and Stars (EN)
Audiobook The Moon and Stars written by Jenna Warren. Loosely inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and Cyrano de Bergerac, this warm and witty debut novel is the perfect read for fans of David Nicholls. Matthew Capes, struggling with chronic stage fright, has not sung in front of an audience for eight years. A classical tenor with a magnificent voice, he only dares sing late at night on the empty stage of the Moon and Stars theatre.
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The Centurions (EN)
Audiobook The Centurions written by Damion Hunter. Against the mighty splendour of the glorious Roman Empire, unfolds the magnificent new saga, perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden. Correus and Flavius. Half-brothers, sons of a brilliant general. One, son of a slave woman, is a born warrior destined to excel. The other, a nobleman by birth, must struggle relentlessly to succeed.
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The World's Fairest Rose (EN)
There was once a queen who possessed a magnificent garden, filled with many varied flowers. One day, she fell ill and her doctors had little hope of a recovery. Only one of them said that a cure existed: the loveliest rose in the world. If it was found and brought to the queen, she would be saved.
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The Little Green Ones (EN)
A short time ago, the rose bush next to the window was still magnificent, but since the invasion of an army of greenies, it is rather worse for wear. We men, we are not very fond of these invaders, but the other day I had a conversation with one of them who taught me a few things.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Phantom of the Opera (EN)
Poor little Christine’s father dies and she is left to be raised by a protective angel in the Paris Opera House. After some time she begins hearing a voice who teaches her how to sing. Christine grows to be a magnificent singer with a beautiful voice. One day her childhood friend visits the Opera and he falls in love with her.
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Love Cannot Fail (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 155) (EN)
Following the death of her husband, the Countess of Wenlock was living in her magnificent house in London with her son, Donald, and her beautiful daughter, Salvia. One day out of the blue Donald suddenly drops a bombshell. He tells his mother and Salvia that he has lost all their money by trusting an American acquaintance of his who claimed that he would invest it all safely and produce big profits for the family.
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The Nightingale (EN)
A long time ago, the Emperor of China lived in a magnificent palace made of fine china and surrounded by a splendid garden that was so big that even the gardener did not know it all of it. One day, the Emperor read a book that said that the most marvellous bird was the nightingale and so he asked his court to find him one because he wanted to hear it sing that very evening.
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B. J. Harrison Reads Behind the White Brick (EN)
Have you ever wondered what hides inside the big chimney which Santa Claus goes through every Christmas Eve? Jem is about to find out. Inside the chimney, she notices a magnificent white brick, but this brick is special; it lets Jem into a magical world full of toys. Do you want to join Jem’s journey to Santa Claus’ wonderland? Grab "Behind the White Brick" and come along.
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The Nightingale (EN)
A long time ago, the Emperor of China lived in a magnificent palace made of fine china and surrounded by a splendid garden that was so big that even the gardener did not know it all. One day, the Emperor read a book that told him that most marvellous bird was the nightingale and so he asked his court to find him one because he wanted to hear it sing that very evening.
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The Lion House
Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its throat.
From the palaces of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of central Europe and the scorched coasts of north Africa, The Lion House tells the true story of two civilisations in an existential duel and the rise of the most feared man of the sixteenth century. It is a tale of the timeless pull of power, dangerous to live with, deadly to live without.