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In the Lives of Puppets
From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
New for paperback! This paperback edition includes the poignant short story 'Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!' set in the same extraordinary world.
*A New York Times, Sunday Times and Indie Bestseller*
*Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction*
In a small home, built into the branches of a tree, live a human named Victor and three robots. These are a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, a small vacuum desperate for love and attention, and a fatherly inventor-android named Giovanni Lawson. Together they’re a family, hidden and safe.
Then Vic salvages an unfamiliar android labelled ‘HAP’. He learns that Hap and Gio share a dark past, where they hunted humans. And Hap unwittingly gives away Gio’s location. Before they know it, robots from Gio’s former life arrive – to capture and return the android to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams.
The rest of the unconventional family must travel across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommissioning. Or worse, reprogramming. Along the way, Vic must decide if he can handle his feelings for Hap – even if they come with strings attached.
Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
Slavné vily Polska
Slavné vily Polska o unikátní architektuře vil a rodinných domů našeho severního souseda. Nabízí procházku po polských vilách z různých období - od 16. století dodnes. Například po vile z 19. století, jakou je vila "Pod jedlemi" Jana Gwalberta Pawlikowského postavená podle projektu Stanisława Witkiewicze, nebo vilách vzniklých na počátku 20. století za časů velkých inovátorů architektury Le Corbusiera, Waltera Gropia, Ludwiga Miesa van der Rohe, ale také vilách současných, surových, asketických, postavených z betonu a skla jako "Bezpečný dům" v Okrzeszyně. V publikaci najdeme nejdůležitější příklady rodinné architektury, která vznikala na území současného Polska, rodinné domy ve Varšavě, v Krakově, Vratislavi, Poznani, Lodži i Katovicích, v Zakopaném nebo v Trzebiechově, architektury, kterou pro různé objednavatele navrhli vynikající architekti různých národností. Zvláštní pozornost si zasluhuje zejména dědictví modernismu a polské avantgardy z meziválečného a poválečného období, které se nepochybně stalo jedním z pilířů současné architektonické tvorby v Polsku. Publikace představuje mimo jiné díla architektů Szymona a Heleny Syrkusových, Bohdana Lacherta, Józefa Szanajcy, Stanisława a Barbary Brukalských nebo Jana Koszczyce Witkiewicze. Díky fotografiím, plánům a skicám můžeme nahlédnout do projektových ateliérů a prostřednictvím doprovodného textu se zase přenést do jiné historické reality, nechat se okouzlit geniem loci a seznámit se s ambicemi a senzitivitou majitelů uvedených domů. Šestnáct polských autorů ve spolupráci s kolektivem odborníků pod vědeckým vedením doktora inženýra architekta Ryszarda Nakonieczného zpracovalo do hodnotných a objevných a přitom čtenářsky poutavých příběhů 93 vil a rodinných domů ze všech polských vojvodství z celého Polska. Publikované vily a rodinné domy jsou dílem 105 architektů (78 polských, 20 německých, 5 italských, 2 holandských a 1 belgického). Mezi tvůrci najdeme taková jména světového věhlasu jako je Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Hans Poelzig, Max Berg, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Henry van de Velde, Ernst May ale také méně známé, přesto talentované projektanty, jakými jsou Stanisław Witkiewicz, Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Karol Schayer, Bohdan Pniewski, Robert Konieczny a mnoho dalších.
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Courting India
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE
A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS
When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified 'Great Britain' under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world.
In Nandini Das's fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, she offers an insider's view of a Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue and scandal, lotteries and wagers that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.
A major debut that explores the art, literature, sights and sounds of Jacobean London and Imperial India, Courting India reveals Thomas Roe's time in the Mughal Empire to be a turning point in history – and offers a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire.
The Other Pandemic
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world s first digital pandemic.
*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023*
Imagine a deadly pathogen that, once created, could infect any person in any part of the globe within seconds. No need to wait for travellers, trains, or air traffic to spread it, all you need is an internet connection. In this gripping investigation, Pulitzer Prize winner James Ball decodes the cryptic language of the online right and with a surgeon s precision tracks the spread of QAnon, the world s first digital pandemic.
QAnon began as an internet community dedicated to supporting President Trump and intent on outing a global cabal of human traffickers. A short, cryptic message posted by an anonymous user to a niche internet forum in 2017 was the spark that ignited a global movement. What started as a macabre game of virtual make-believe quickly spiralled into the spread of virulently hateful, dangerous messaging which turned into tragic, violent actions.
Incoherent, chaotic, free from agendas: QAnon is a one-size-fits all cult conspiracy. From a standoff at the Hoover Dam, to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021, to protesting COVID-19 lockdowns, this digital pandemic has spread globally and shows no signs of stopping.
In The Other Pandemic Ball takes us into the niche pathways through which these digital pathogens spread, mutate and infect people all across the globe but he also argues that the prognosis doesn t have to be dire. He shows us that it is possible to treat and cure this virus in order to build up our digital immune systems, and be better prepared to survive the next wave.
The Daughter of Auschwitz
An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival.
'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.'
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.
During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.
As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited.
In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime.
Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Colour
Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color traces the experiments in color and black-and-white photography of the young Meyerowitz, a pioneer in the history of color photography.
An early advocate of color photography, Joel Meyerowitz has impacted and influenced generations of artists. For fifty-eight years, the master photographer has documented the United States’ ever-changing social landscape.
During the late 1960s, Meyerowitz carried two cameras: one loaded with monochrome stock, the other with color. Just how, when, and why American fine art photographers switched from black-and-white image-making, prized within the gallery system, to color photography, once seen as the preserve of tourist photography, has been the cause of much debate.
In Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color, Meyerowitz tells the story of his early days as a photographer when he was told that serious photographers took black-and-white pictures. "But why," he asked, "when the world is in color?" He then bought a color camera and various rolls of film and began to experiment with color techniques: a passion he continues to pursue.
194 illustrations / 120 in color
Going Mainstream
Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by a pandemic, global conflict and rapid technological change, their ideas are becoming more widespread: QAnon proponents run for U.S. Congress, neo-fascists win elections in Europe, and celebrity influencers spread dangerous myths to millions. Going Mainstream asks the question: What is happening here?
Going undercover online and in person, UK counter-extremism expert Julia Ebner reveals how, united by a shared sense of grievance and scepticism about institutions, radicalised individuals are influencing the mainstream as never before. Hidden from public scrutiny, they leverage social media to create alternative information ecosystems and build sophisticated networks funded by dark money.
Ebner's candid conversations with extremists offer a nuanced and gripping insight into why people have turned to the fringes. She explores why outlandish ideas have taken hold and disinformation is spreading faster than ever. And she speaks to the activists and educators who are fighting to turn the tide.
Going Mainstream is a dispatch from the darkest front of the culture wars, and a vital wake-up call.
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The Good Die Young
If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar activists, Kissinger personified the depravity of the US war machine. The Good Die Young assesses a career too frequently applauded in essays from respected scholars and journalists such as Gerald Horne, Carolyn Eisenberg, and Chip Gibbons, with an introduction from Bancroft Prize–winner Greg Grandin.
The world Kissinger wrought is one we live in today, where ideal investment conditions are generated from the barrel of a gun. Today, global capitalism and United States hegemony are underwritten by the most powerful military ever devised. Any political vision worth fighting for must promise an end to the cycle of never-ending wars afflicting the world in the twenty-first century. Breaking that cycle means placing the twin evils of capitalism and imperialism in our crosshairs.
The book follows Kissinger’s fiery trajectory across the globe, covering Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. More than any other public figure, the life and career of this man illustrate the links between capitalism, empire, and the feedback loop of endless conflict that plagues us today.
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Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death
An authoritative new publication that revisits Edvard Munch’s work in its entirety.
Edvard Munch occupies a pivotal place in artistic modernity. His work is permeated by a singular vision of the world, with a powerful symbolist dimension that goes beyond the masterpieces he created in the 1890s. For Munch, humanity and nature were united in the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, which is reflected in the recurrence of certain motifs and color combinations in his work. He wrote: “These paintings, which are, admittedly, relatively difficult to understand, will be...easier to grasp if they are integrated into a whole.”
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death presents about a hundred works?paintings, drawings, prints, and engraved blocks?reflecting the diversity of Munch’s practice. Seven essays explore the artist in his philosophical and scientific milieu and the places that shaped the man and his art, as well as offering a rare glimpse of Munch’s attempts at creative writing. They also examine the historical evolution of his monumental Frieze of Life series and the world-famous Scream. This publication invites readers to revisit the painter’s work in its entirety by following the thread of an ever-inventive pictorial thinking: a vision that is both fundamentally coherent, even obsessive, and at the same time constantly renewed.
180 color illustrations
Ven nuevo 3 Libro del Alumno+CD
Se estructura en 12 unidades organizadas de acuerdo con unas secciones que responden a una clara idea del proceso de aprendizaje. Cada unidad empieza por secciones de compresión auditiva y de comprensión lectora de manera alternada en las que se trabajan diferentes tipos de textos y audiciones mediante actividades de control de la comprensión y trabajo del léxico. En la sección Lengua se consolidan las formas y estructuras gramaticales que aparecen en la unidad. En el Taller de escritura el alumno redacta diferentes tipos de escritos a partir de un modelo. En 8 de las 12 unidades aparece la Tertulia en la que los alumnos se expresan y debaten a partir del tema de la unidad. En las otras 4 unidades, el alumno descubre varias realidades socioculturales de Espaa a través de secuencias del vídeo Espaa en Directo. La cultura está presente en todas las secciones a través de los diferentes documentos que permiten analizar distintos fenómenos, usos o realidades de la cultura de Espaa o Hispanoamérica. Los temas se han seleccionado teniendo en cuenta los centros de interés del público meta. Se trata de temas de sociedad y cultura esencialmente en los que el alumno se siente implicado: Hispanos en América, Estar en forma, Nuevos estilos de vida, Justicia, Formación universitaria, Gastronomía, Festivales de cine, Relaciones personales, Ciencia y futuro, Consumismo, Medioambiente y Medios de comunicación.
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Ven nuevo 3
Se estructura en 12 unidades igual que el Libro del Alumno siguiendo la misma temática. Consta de las siguientes secciones: comprensión lectora y auditiva, presentadas bien en un mismo bloque bien por separado, que permiten trabajar nuevos textos dentro de la temática de la unidad para ampliar los conocimientos además de la capacidad de entender. El alumno dispone del CD Audio en el que están grabadas las audiciones. La sección gramática ofrece ejercicios que permiten seguir trabajando los puntos abarcados en el Libro del Alumno, se trata de reforzar lo adquirido mediante la práctica. La sección léxico da al alumno la posibilidad de ampliar su léxico a través de ejercicios variados. Por fin, una sección nueva en Nuevo Ven Ejercicios es la de frases hechas en la que se han seleccionado aquellas frases hechas más usuales y relacionadas con la temática de la unidad para que el alumno vaya familiarizándose con ellas para poder reutilizarlas.
Kathe Kollwitz
An extraordinary gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures focusing on themes of motherhood, grief and resistance
In the early 20th century, when many artists were experimenting with abstraction by way of colorful painting, Käthe Kollwitz remained committed to an art of social purpose through figurative, black-and-white printmaking and drawing. Through her work, she brought visibility to the hardships of the working class and asserted the female point of view as a necessary and powerful agent for change.
Published in conjunction with the largest exhibition of her work in the United States in more than 30 years, and the first major retrospective devoted to Kollwitz at a New York museum, this book surveys the artist’s career from the 1890s through the early 1940s. It features approximately 120 drawings, prints and sculptures drawn from public and private collections in Europe and North America. Examples of the artist’s most iconic projects showcase her political engagement, while rarely seen studies and working proofs highlight her intensive, ever-searching creative process. Essays explore crucial aspects of Kollwitz’s art, career and legacy, including her professional life and connections in Berlin, her groundbreaking approach to the subject of women’s grief and her work’s reception among artists in the US.
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). One of history’s most outstanding graphic artists, she was widely recognized for her art of social advocacy and compassion and was one of the few women artists of the early 20th century to achieve international renown in her own lifetime.
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
he Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history.
In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. 'Hi sister Sally, we need your help,' it read. 'We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.' More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy.
From there began a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations. The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU's bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn't it being widely reported?
At its heart, this is a book about people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
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Sustainability - A History
From one of the world's leading experts on the subject, a fully updated introduction to the sustainability movement from the 1600s to today
The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion-from permaculture to renewable energy to the local food movement-the ideas that underlie and define sustainability can be traced back several centuries.
In this illuminating and fascinating primer, newly revised and updated, Jeremy L. Caradonna does just that, approaching sustainability from a historical perspective and revealing the conditions that gave it shape. Locating the underpinnings of the movement as far back as the 1660s, Caradonna considers the origins of sustainability across many fields throughout Europe and North America. Taking us from the emergence of thoughts guiding sustainable yield forestry in the late 17th and 18th centuries, through the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, the birth of the environmental movement, and the emergence of a concrete effort to promote a balanced approach to development in the latter half of the 20th century, he shows that while sustainability draws upon ideas of social justice, ecological economics, and environmental conservation, it is more than the sum of its parts and blends these ideas together into a dynamic philosophy.
Caradonna's book broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.
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Avengers - Unleashed Vol. 1
The time has come! Their ranks shattered by Civil War, their spirits weighted down by a toll both personal and spiritual, Earth's Mightiest Heroes must find the resolve to stand united one final time against their greatest foe! The Avengers will assemble once more: Captain America! Thor! The Vision! The Wasp! Spider- Man! Hercules! But when the dust settles, will any of these valiant warriors make it out alive from...Kang War One? And when the Vision sets out hell-bent on revenge against the Conqueror, if the Avengers can't hold the synthezoid back, all of history is in jeopardy! COLLECTING: AVENGERS 1-6
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Eu Evrop.Prac.Trhy A Pr.Vztah
Nezaměstnanost je jev, který se ČR začíná s příchodem tzv. tržního hospodářství dotýkat stále více a více. Pomocí jakých prostředků lze zastavit její nebezpečně stoupající křivku a hlavně kdy už k tomu dojde, těmito otázkami se zabývá nejen stát,
ale i řadoví lidé, kterých se tento problém týká přímo sami nezaměstnaní i nepřímo ti, kteří s nezaměstnanými žijí nebo mohou o práci taktéž přijít. V rámci EU existují samozřejmě vyspělejší země, které se stačily naučit čelit nezaměstnanosti o
kamžitými nápravnými ale především dlouhodobějšími koncepčními prostředky. A o tom, jaký je charakter a úroveň evropských pracovních trhů a jak si mezi nimi stojí ČR, je i tato publikace.Autoři Jiří Winkler a Mirka Wildmannová, vysokoškolští učitel
é Ekonomicko-správní fakulty v Brně analyzují jak pojem trh práce, tak jednotlivé interpretace nezaměstnanosti, ale především se zabývají vývojem pracovního trhu v EU a přístupy jednotlivých zemí k problémům nezaměstnanosti. Rozebírají důležitost rol
í tzv. pasivní politiky (dávky v nezaměstnanosti) i role aktivní politiky (vytváření nových pracovních příležitostí). Zamýšlejí se i nad úrovní institucionálního, organizačního a legislativního zabezpečení zaměstnanosti v ČR oproti EU i nad budoucnos
tí, kterou integrace států EU v oblasti pracovních příležitostí přinese. Na závěr posuzují úroveň dovedností a znalostí českých manažerů ve srovnání se světem co by měli čeští manažeři na své práci vylepšit. Kniha je jednou ze sedmi z tzv. řady EU
vstup do Evropy se stává stále hmatatelnější skutečností a vyvolává řadu otevřených otázek v oblasti ekonomiky, obchodu, práva ad. Na požadavek jejich komplexnějšího zpracování reagovali autoři odborníci z vysokých škol v Brně a následně potom i
vydavatel Computer Press a.s.
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Mr. Holmes
1947-et írunk. A 93. életévében járó, régóta visszavonult Sherlock Holmes egy parasztházban él a távoli Sussexben házvezetőnőjével és annak serdülő fiával. Mindennapjaiban méhészkedik, naplót vezet és elméje gyengülése ellen hadakozik.
Holmes nem sejti, hogy élete alkonyán még egy eset vár rá. Egy eset, melynek megoldásához vissza kell tekintenie a múltba, ahol válaszokra lelhet olyan kérdésekre is, amiket még sosem tett fel magának. Válaszokra az életről, szerelemről és az elme képességeinek határáról.
Mitch Cullin csodálatos története a feledés elleni küzdelemről lenyűgözte a kritikusokat, a kötetből Bill Condon rendezésében és Ian McKellen főszereplésével nagy sikerű film is készült.
100 Documents That Changed the World
100 Documents That Changed the World brings together the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history. The documents included here have changed the course of history by rewriting laws, granting freedoms and laying out constitutions. But as well as official charters and presidential proclamations, there are also the hand-written documents that have gone on to shape the way we think, the scrawled notes that mark breakthroughs in the worlds of science and technology, and the annotated manuscripts that have become literary landmarks.Documents included: Magna Carta (1215); Shakespeare's First Folio (1623); Declaration of independence (1776); Constitution of the United States (1787); Louisiana Purchase (1803); Darwin's Evolutionary Tree (1837); Gettysburg Address (1863); Treaty of Versailles (1919); German Surrender (1945); Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech (1963); First Website (1991); Edward Snowden Files (2013).
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Ať se tužka zapotí!
Jak asi vypadá hladový mazlíček pana Julia?
Co si nechal námořník Hercules vytetovat na záda?
Co objeví zubař Lauře po dvou letech v ústech?
Učitel Fišer bude rozdávat poznámky. Za co asi?
Fifi se dívala na zakázaný film. Na jaký?
Je to na tobě!
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a Dutková a Martin Kubát vám přinášejí dokreslovací sešit. Na každé straně sešitu se ocitnete v situaci, kterou je potřeba dokreslit. Stop klasickým omalovánkám či pracovním sešitům alá nauč se kreslit koně podle předlohy. Vkročte do světa své fantaz
ie!
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