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The Anatomy Lesson
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
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Survival Kit: Lifestyle
V štýle Afriky: Dnes už nie je neobvyklé vidieť pestré farby a počuť africké rytmy na prehliadkových mólach v Paríži, New Yorku alebo v Miláne. No napriek vplyvu módnych návrhárov zo Západu, sa africká móda stále snaží preniknúť do šatníkov. Mladí africkí módni návrhári sa rozhodli oslobodiť sa od očakávaní kombinovať etnické a folklórne prvky a začali nanovo objavovať mestskú módu. V tejto publikácii nájdete archívne zábery, ilustrácie a fotografie, vďaka ktorým dostanete živý obraz neustále meniaceho sa sveta. Zároveň sa vám v nej predstavia módni návrhári a značky, ako napríklad Alphadi, Xule Bet, Oumou Sy, Juliette Ombang, Mickael Kra a mnoho ďalších.
Koktejly: Koktejly majú v našej kultúre svoje nezameniteľné miesto a ich vývoj je rovnako nezastaviteľný ako vývoj ľudstva. V tejto bohato ilustrovanej publikácii odhalí Amy Sacco, najznámejšia znalkyňa koktejlov, ducha tohto sexi nápoja a podelí sa s vami o svoje obľúbené recepty z tých najlepších klubov, vrátane Lot 61 a Bungalow 8. Majiteľka baru a reštaurácie premenila New York na koktejlovú destináciu. Namieša vám tie najlepšie koktejly posledných desiatich rokov a podelí sa s vami o tipy, ako ich podávať so šarmom, pri akej príležitosti a do akých pohárov. Táto kniha je vynikajúci darček pre všetkých milovníkov koktejlov.
Jean-Paul Hevin: Už od pradávna bola čokoláda, produkt kakaovníka, považovaná za pokrm kráľov a bohov. V Paríži sa slovo „čokoláda“ automaticky spája s menom Jean-Paul Hevin. Vhodným pomerom cukru a smotany prelomil všetky tradície a čokoláde nastavil latku poriadne vysoko. Detstvo strávené na francúzskom vidieku ho priviedlo do kuchýň kulinárskych majstrov, až napokon zakotvil v Japonsku, v krajine, ktorá prahla po dokonalosti, a zároveň skromnosti, a vedela oceniť remeselnú zručnosť. Práve tu vytvoril Henvin filozofiu čokolády postavenú na očarení všetkých zmyslov. Dnes patrí čokoláda s menom Jeana-Paula Hevina medzi najvyhľadávanejšie sladkosti na svete. Ponorte sa do sveta čokolády spolu s ním prostredníctvom fotografií, receptov a príbehov plných bohatej arómy najkvalitnejšej čokolády. Objavte tajomstvo a vášeň v malom kúsku dokonalej čokolády.
Pólo: Pólo je prejavom skutočného umenia žiť a dnes už možno sledovať históriu jeho jednotlivých klanov, kódov a destinácií. Jeho pôvod je v Perzii a šírilo sa naprieč stepami strednej Ázie až do Indie. Britskí kolonialisti v ňom rýchlo našli záľubu a stal sa kráľovským športom a športom kráľov. Prenikol do západného sveta až na argentínske pampy. Dnes tímy póla cestujú po celom svete, z Windsoru do St. Moritz, z Dubaja do Buenos Aires a zúčastňujú sa na súťažiach, ktoré v mnohom pripomínajú rytierske zápasy. Cartier, šperkár kráľov, princov a maharadžov, je tiež nadšencom tohto športu a partnerom mnohých pozoruhodných svetových turnajov póla. Vo svojej tvorbe spája prvky vášne, odvahy, elegancie a kozmopolitného životného štýlu.
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Julie Morris konyhaművész több mint száz recepttel bizonyítja, hogy a természet sokszínűségét milyen fantasztikusan tudod hasznosítani a konyhádban és az életedben egyaránt!
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Bolt
This is a classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Jockey Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a ruthless business partner who wants to use the firm to manufacture arms. At the same time, some of the Princess' best horses are being killed - shot by a bolt. The only person the Princess can turn to is Kit - but he has problems of his own. His fiance Danielle has taken a shine to another man. And his old feud with Maynard Allardeck, racing steward and hereditary enemy of the Fieldings, might lose him his license to race. Between riding winners (and trying to save his impending marriage) Kit has somehow to find out and stop who is slaughtering the horses. But, as he's about to discover, the killer has more than horses in his sights...Praise for Dick Francis: "As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing". (Daily Mirror). "Dick Francis' fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end". (Sunday Telegraph). "The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care ...the entire story is a pleasure to relish". (Scotsman). "Francis writing at his best". (Evening Standard). "A regular winner ...as smooth, swift and lean as ever". (Sunday Express). Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott. During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best novel' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000. Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
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A szoptatás kézikönyve
Több mint tízéves szoptatási tanácsadói működésem alatt arra a következtetésre jutottam, hogy az alapvető ok egy félreértés: sokszor egyszerűen nem vagyunk tisztában azzal, hogy mi is az a szoptatás.
Ha most meglepődtél, akkor nem vagy egyedül! Egészen biztos vagyok benne, hogy az emberek többségének a szoptatás nem több, mint táplálás. Szerintem pedig - és nem a megszállott szakértő beszél belőlem - jóval több ennél. Ha eddig állandóan azon aggódtál, van-e elég tej a melledben, akkor most megnyugtathatlak, nem eleven cumisüveg, hanem a természet élő és virágzó csodája vagy! A bajok, problémák, kudarcok nagyobb része épp akkor keletkezik, ha nem erre gondolsz, amikor szoptatsz. Soha nem kell elcsüggedned, hiszen egyetlen korty is több a semminél, és semmi akadálya annak, hogy te és a babád mindketten élvezhessétek a szoptatást a magatok egyéni módján. Ebben szeretne segítségedre lenni ez a könyv.
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Időtlen utakon
"A vonat erdőkkel borított völgyeken át kanyargott, és engem elárasztottak az emlékek... A rozoga ajtók folyton kinyíltak, zörögtek; néhány ablak is be volt törve, beesett rajtuk a hó és megmaradt a padlón. Beburkolóztam a kabátomba, mélyen a fejembe nyomtam a kalapom, hogy megőrizzek valamit a testem melegéből. Útitársaim mosolyogtak, és megértőn egy korty cujkával, román szilvapálinkával kínáltak... Ha egy gyorsabb vonat húzott el mellettünk, a törött ablakokon beáramlott a hó, és ott kavargott a folyosón. Románia északi részébe tartottam, az ukrán határ felé, hogy betartsam egy öreg barátomnak tett ígéretemet. Még egy egész napra volt szükségem, hogy elérjem az Északi-Kárpátokban levő elszigetelt kis falut, de az ígéret - ígéret.
A vonat nagy csörömpöléssel haladt a dombokon át, és gondolataim visszakanyarodtak a mostani utazásomhoz. Hamarosan átkelünk a hóborította hágókon, és lassan, egyre lassabban, leereszkedünk a régi Máramaros völgyeibe"
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Mademoiselle
Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth century—throwing into dramatic relief an era of war, fashion, ardent nationalism, and earth-shaking change—here brilliantly treated, for the first time, with wide-ranging and incisive historical scrutiny. Coco Chanel transformed forever the way women dressed. Her influence remains so pervasive that to this day we can see her afterimage a dozen times while just walking down a single street: in all the little black dresses, flat shoes, costume jewelry, cardigan sweaters, and tortoiseshell eyeglasses on women of every age and background. A bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume is sold every three seconds. Arguably, no other individual has had a deeper impact on the visual aesthetic of the world. But how did a poor orphan become a global icon of both luxury and everyday style? How did she develop such vast, undying influence? And what does our ongoing love of all things Chanel tell us about ourselves? These are the mysteries that Rhonda K. Garelick unravels in Mademoiselle. Raised in rural poverty and orphaned early, the young Chanel supported herself as best she could. Then, as an uneducated nineteen-year-old café singer, she attracted the attention of a wealthy and powerful admirer and parlayed his support into her own hat design business. For the rest of Chanel’s life, the professional, personal, and political were interwoven; her lovers included diplomat Boy Capel; composer Igor Stravinsky; Romanov heir Grand Duke Dmitri; Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster; poet Pierre Reverdy; a Nazi officer; and several women as well. For all that, she was profoundly alone, her romantic life relentlessly plagued by abandonment and tragedy. Chanel’s ambitions and accomplishments were unparalleled. Her hat shop evolved into a clothing empire. She became a noted theatrical and film costume designer, collaborating with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Luchino Visconti. The genius of Coco Chanel, Garelick shows, lay in the way she absorbed the zeitgeist, reflecting it back to the world in her designs and in what Garelick calls “wearable personality”—the irresistible and contagious style infused with both world history and Chanel’s nearly unbelievable life saga. By age forty, Chanel had become a multimillionaire and a household name, and her Chanel Corporation is still the highest-earning privately owned luxury goods manufacturer in the world. In Mademoiselle, Garelick delivers the most probing, well-researched, and insightful biography to date on this seemingly familiar but endlessly surprising figure—a work that is truly both a heady intellectual study and a literary page-turner.
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The Front
Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology, and into partnership with senior officers at London's New Scotland Yard. And as Garano unearths deadly secrets from the past, his hard-nosed boss Monique Lamont is putting both their lives in jeopardy with her lust for power and success. With past and present colliding, the tension mounts with every page...
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Hip Hop Immortals
From street shots of Kool Herc and Kurtis Blow to elaborate stage shoots of Lil' Kim and Eminem, hip-hop photography has been the foundation for some of the most stylish photographs of the past two decades. Iconic images like Ice T’s menacing affront to the camera while donning a full LAPD uniform, Flava Flav of Public Enemy sporting his trademark alarm clock around his neck and flashing his personalized gold teeth, and Notorious B.I.G. counting his loot, are placed side-by-side with lesser-known and previously unpublished photographs of hip-hop’s biggest figures. Text by hip-hop historian Bonz Malone is laid out between full-bleed photographs from forty celebrated photographers, including David LaChapelle, Mark Seliger, Nitin Vadukul, Jesse Frohman, Christian Witkin, and Michel Comte. Nearly 200 color and black-and-white photographs are featured throughout.
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Cez prsty DVD
Příběh filmu Přes prsty se odehrává na beach volejbalových hřištích, ale nejen na nich. Linda (Petra Hřebíčková) a Pavla (Denisa Nesvačilová) jsou parťačky, které obětují beach volejbalu všechno. Tedy skoro všechno. Mladší Pavle tak trochu začínají tikat biologické hodiny a s přítelem Hynkem (Vojta Dyk) chce co nejdříve otěhotnět. To starší svobodná a bezdětná Linda nechápe. Zvlášť, když se jim podařilo kvalifikovat na mistrovství Evropy… Všechno ale stejně nakonec zamotá svérázný správce hřiště se zajímavou minulostí Jíra (Jiří Langmajer).
Komedie / Sportovní
Česko, 2019, 101 min
Režie: Petr Kolečko
Scénář: Petr Kolečko
Kamera: Petr Bednář
Hudba: Viliam Béreš, Marcel Procházka
Hrají: Petra Hřebíčková, Jiří Langmajer, Denisa Nesvačilová, Vojtěch Dyk, Jakub Prachař, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Radka Pavlovčinová, Kristína Greppelová, Marek Taclík, Leoš Noha, Igor Chmela, Jan Komínek, Jakub Gottwald, Marián Miezga, Ján Jackuliak, Markéta Krejčová, Barbora Mudrová, Martin Uhlíř
Zvuk: CS 5,1
Titulky: CZ titulky
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7,99 €
Designing Interactions
A pioneer in interaction design tells the stories of designers who changed the way people use everyday things in the digital era, interviewing the founders of Google, the creator of The Sims, the inventors and developers of the mouse and the desktop, and many others.
Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews—including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop—have been instrumental in making a difference in the design of interactions. Their stories chart the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology.
Moggridge and his interviewees discuss such questions as why a personal computer has a window in a desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO—how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.
Designing Interactions is illustrated with more than 700 images, with color throughout. Accompanying the book is a DVD that contains segments from all the interviews intercut with examples of the interactions under discussion.
Interviews with:
Bill Atkinson, Durrell Bishop, Brendan Boyle, Dennis Boyle, Paul Bradley, Duane Bray, Sergey Brin, Stu Card, Gillian Crampton Smith, Chris Downs, Tony Dunne, John Ellenby, Doug Englebart, Jane Fulton Suri, Bill Gaver, Bing Gordon, Rob Haitani, Jeff Hawkins, Matt Hunter, Hiroshi Ishii, Bert Keely, David Kelley, Rikako Kojima, Brenda Laurel, David Liddle, Lavrans Lovlie, John Maeda, Paul Mercer, Tim Mott, Joy Mountford, Takeshi Natsuno, Larry Page, Mark Podlaseck, Fiona Raby, Cordell Ratzlaff, Ben Reason, Jun Rekimoto, Steve Rogers, Fran Samalionis, Larry Tesler, Bill Verplank, Terry Winograd, Will Wright
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
This classic biography is the story of seven men--a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician--who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year's Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, "You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk--and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes."
The rest of this book tells the story of TR's irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved.
His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR's pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. "It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves," the author writes, "and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people."
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A bálnák útja A Felesküdöttek sorozat 1. kötete
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szország hatalmas üstjében pedig Szvjatoszláv, majd Vlagyimir, végül Bölcs Jaroszláv alatt lassan formát ölt a rusz nemzet.
Ebben a forrongó, kaotikus korszakban élik fénykorukat a varjazik, a pénzért bérelhető északi harcosok. Kalózok, rablók, porty
ázó fosztogatók, ám csak ők merészkednek ki hajóikkal a nyílt tengerre, a bálnák útjára.
Egy ilyen csapatba, a Felesküdöttek közé kerül az ifjú Medveölő Orm is. A harcosokat mindhalálig szóló eskü köti egymáshoz, melynek megszegése balsorsot hoz mind
annyiukra, legyenek bár a Fehér Krisztus, vagy a régi istenek hívei.
A Felesküdöttek vezére, Fekete Einar azonban egy legendás kincs utáni kutatás megszállottjává válva Ruszföldre vezeti csapatát, és esküje megszegésével mindannyiukra a legsötétebb v
égzet fenyegetését hozza...
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11,53 €
Still Life
From his innovative and ongoing work for the editorial pages of Vogue magazine to the harsher personal work of his later years, which explores the visual intrigue of such inconsquential objects as litter, bones and cigarette butts, his work has a wit, simplicity and edginess that sets it apart. John Szarkowski, in his introductory essay, notes that 'for more than forty years Penn's pictures celebrated the pleasures of this life, even while always acknowledging the worm in the apple...Some of his more recent still lifes seem in contrast to have less to do with pleasure than with something like cultural reportage'. Irving Penn has personally overseen every detail of this elegant book's design and production. An extraordinary effort has been made to create on the printed page reproductions that have a fidelity to the briliance of the colour images and the nuances and subtlety of the platinum prints.
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109,21 €
Polaris 2006: výrocní sbírka povídek
Výroční antologie povídek a novel nakladatelství Polaris. Žádná z těchto povídek u nás dosud nevyšla a některé existují i v domovině jejich autorů pouze v rukopise. V některých případech se jedná o dílka doplňující autorovy u nás vycházející knižní cykly (např. novely Služba Meče Davida Webera a Dcera Rudé ruky Williama Kinga nebo povídky Turaj v Obskurii Johna Morressyho a Noční strana, pochopitelně Simona R. Greena), v jiných se odehrávají ve stejném světe (Bledý zabiják Jamese Bibbiho, Střevíce pro čarodějku Johna Moora nebo Veterán Neila Ashera), nebo naopak ukazují jinou stránku autorovy tvorby (povídky Kam odcházíš, když zhasnou světla Marka Chadbourna, Pod vedením Galatey Alexandera Irvina nebo ,Lovecraftovský horor´ Briana Lumleyho Dagonův zvon). R. C. Wilson naznačí ve své povídce Děleno nekonečnem že vesmír nemusí být čím se být zdá a Neil Gaiman zase v povídce Problém se Zuzanou vyjádří svůj názor na některé aspekty Lewisových Rukopisů Narnie.
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Yves St. Laurent
In collaboration with Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent.Yves Saint Laurent’s signature style intertwines references from the art world with those of popular culture and social revolution. Since its establishment in the 1960s by the designer and Pierre Bergé, the Yves Saint Laurent haute couture house has redefined femininity, creating arguably the most famous (and sexiest) suit for women, “Le Smoking” tuxedo, and innovative collections with names such as Pop Art, Ballet Russes, and Picasso.  This retrospective book is the first to cover the forty years of Yves Saint Laurent and highlights the inventive character of the designer’s work. Over 160 of his finest designs and accessories, all taken from the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent collection, are presented. The book is the companion volume to an exhibition that will travel to The Montreal Museum of Fine Art and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
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Iris
John Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage to the great novelist Iris Murdoch takes us on a journey, from their love affair's comically inauspicious beginnings in the Oxford of the early fifties (Bayley courted Iris on account of her unchallenging plain looks and their first date consisted of a revolting dinner followed by a disastrous dance when Iris sprained her ankle) to its slow and painful closure when the onset of Alzheimer's more than forty years later, which should be devastating. Yet as Bayley charts the gradual dissolution of Iris's remarkable intellect side by side with the detail of their gloriously eccentric and profoundly satisfying life together, what emerges is the complex portrait of an enigmatic and brilliant woman and of a marriage of quite extraordinary, unforced happiness, and some remarkable insight into the richly mysterious symbolism of Iris Murdoch's novels. Wry, intelligent, and unexpectedly hilarious, IRIS is an unforgettable inquiry into the nature of love and identity and a uniquely moving articulation of loss.
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The First Forty-Nine Stories
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.' This is a collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light of the World", and the "Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Winner Take Nothing" and "Men Without Women" collections.
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Ramses 5 Under The Western Acacia
After bringing outstanding prosperity to Egypt, Ramses had hoped to enjoy a serene old age. But he must continue to rule. Above all, Ramses must strive to preserve Egypt's hard-won peace. But under threat of a new war, the Hittite Emperor is exhorting him to wed his daughter, and the Libyans, greedy for revenge, are rebelling...Ramses is still the miracle worker, the Son of the Light, but the passing of the last forty years of his reign, has robbed him of one after another of his lifelong friends, leaving him more and more isolated as he confronts Egypt's enemies. And when, in his old age, the time to meet his final enemy comes, Ramses goes to sit in the shade of the Western acacia to prepare for his final journey. Only then can the scribe Ahmeni, who has faithfully served his sovereign for the sixty-seven years of his reign, lay down his brush...
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