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A Napkirály és a hölgyek
A világhírű és hazánkban is népszerű, kiváló szépírói adottságokkal megáldott Antonia Fraser ezúttal XIV. Lajosról és a környezetébe tartozó nőkről fest színes és hű portrét. A Napkirály (1638-1715) szerencsés volt a szerelemben, s bámulatosan aktív szerelmi élete csak növelte a világ szemében személyes dicsőségét, amely oly fontos volt számára. Most közelről megismerhetjük azokat, akiknek eddig csak a nevét tudtuk: Marie Mancinit, Louise de La Valliere-t, Montespan márkinét, Madame de Maintenont és Angélique de Fontanges-t - hogy csak a leghíresebbeket említsük. Lajos rendkívül gáláns volt szeretőivel, a szakítás után is törődött velük, bőkezűen elhalmozta őket címekkel, ajándékokkal. Számos törvénytelen gyermekét törvényesítette, magas ranggal látta el, és komoly szerepet juttatott nekik dinasztikus terveiben. Sok szó esik két olyan hölgyről is, a sógornőjéről, Henrietta Annáról, és unokája feleségéről, Savoyai Adélról, akiket nem szerelmi viszony, "csak" mély és gyöngéd emberi kapcsolat fűzött a királyhoz. De feltárulnak előttünk Lajos magánéletének spirituális dimenziói is, mert miközben szabad utat engedett érzékiségének, katolikus uralkodóként, őszintén vallásos emberként megélte a szabadosság valláserkölcsi tilalmának, a nem titkolt egyházi rosszallásnak fájdalmát is.
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Tupac Shakur
The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more.
Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legend.
Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated, and influential figures in modern history. Drawing on exclusive access to Tupac’s private notebooks, letters, and uncensored conversations with those who loved and knew him best, this estate-authorized biography paints the fullest and most intimate picture to date of the young man who became a legend for generations to come.
In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America.
It is a story of a mother and son bound together by a love for each other and for their people, and the relationship that endured through their darkest times. It is a political story that begins in the whirlwind of the 1960s civil rights movement and unfolds through a young artist’s awakening to rage and purpose in the ’90s era of Rodney King. It is a story of dizzying success and its devastating consequences. And, of course, it is the story of Tupac’s music, his timeless, undying message as it continues to touch and inspire us today.
This Mortal Coil
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have lived?
University of Manchester Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at particular causes - from infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet - who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress.
This Mortal Coil is a thrilling story of growing medical knowledge and social organisation, of achievement and, looking to the future, of promise.
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Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.
But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi could play with his teeth, play with his guitar behind his back. It was that he could really play.
Journeying through the purple haze of idealism and paranoia of the sixties, Jimi Hendrix was the man who made Eric Clapton consider quitting, to whom Bob Dylan deferred on his own song 'All Along the Watchtower', who forced Miles Davis to reconsider his buttoned-down ways - and whose 'Star Spangled Banner' defined Woodstock.
And when his star, which had burned so brightly, was extinguished far too young, his legend lived on in the music - and the intrigue surrounding his death.
Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format, Two Riders Were Approaching is a fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix - and a journey into the dark heart of the sixties. While the groupies lined up, the drugs got increasingly heavy and the dream of the sixties burned in the fire and blood of the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the election of President Richard Nixon.
Acclaimed writer Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth, has drawn upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce an inimitable, novelistic telling of this tale - the definitive portrait of the Guitar God at whose altar other guitar gods worship.
Jimi Hendrix's is a story that has been told many times before - but never quite like this.
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15,15 €
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The Mill On the Floss
In this story the author recreates her own childhood through the story of the gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoilt, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this comic novel combines vivid images of family life with a portrait of the heroine.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press' portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films. Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. Alfred Hitchcock wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.
Es Begann in Der Melantrichgasse
Lebendige Porträts großer Autoren Lenka Reinerová - die letzte deutsch schreibende Literatin in Prag - erzählt von einstigen Freunden wie Kisch, Weigel und Seghers, mit denen sie arbeitete und Gefahren überstand. Sie alle gehörten zu einem weltumspannenden Netz von Schriftstellern und Intellektuellen, die selbst in Zeiten höchster Gefahr nicht nur ihr Leben retten, sondern ihm einen Sinn geben wollten.
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Batman 66 Vol 4
Back to the Swingin' 60s as DC Comics reimagines the classic Batman TV series in comics form. These all-new stories portray The Caped Crusader, The Boy Wonder and their fiendish rogues gallery just the way viewers remember them. In this volume, the Dynamic Duo team-up with Barbara Gordon to take on The Bookworm, a deranged zombie-creating Professor, The Queen of Diamonds, Lord Death Man and The Joker. It collects Batman '66: The Lost Episode numbered 1 and Batman '66 numbered 17-22.
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Aspekte 2 AB + CD
Aspekte B2 - Orientierung am Referenzrahmen - Modularer Aufbau ermöglicht einen flexiblen Unterricht - Hör-Seh-Verstehen mit authentischen Filmen auf der DVD Aspekte B2 Lehrbuch - Attraktive Auftaktseiten für einen schnellen Einstieg ins Thema - Integrierte Prüfungsvorbereitung - Spannende landeskundliche Porträts - Übersicht zu Redemitteln und Grammatik - Wahlweise mit DVD Aspekte B2 Arbeitsbuch - Vertiefendes Übungsmaterial zu Wortschatz, Strukturen und Fertigkeiten mit Lösungen - Angebot zur Selbstevaluierung - Transkript, Wortschatzseiten und Wortlisten zum Lehrbuch - Übunqstests auf CD-ROM zur Prüfungsvorbereitung Weitere Materialien - 3 Audio-CDs zum Lehrbuch - Lehrerhandreichungen - DVD
How I Discovered Poetry
A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement. A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure."
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Isztambul
Pamuk memoárregénye egy történelemmel, rejtélyes hangulattal és művészi érzékenységgel átitatott város káprázatos portréja, egy letűnt civilizáció nosztalgikus megidézése és meditáció az élet legintimebb kérdéseiről.
A városportré egyben önarckép is: miközben a szerző Isztambul különös sorsán mereng, régi metszeteket és fényképeket nézegetve megidézi birodalmi múltját, fájdalmas szeretettel szemléli romos jelenét, csodálja nagyszerű íróit, s próbálja megfejteni a minden isztambulira jellemző melankólia, a hüzün érzését, a saját lelkébe is mind mélyebbre hatol.
Miért érezte magát mindig idegennek a saját életében? Miért gondolta, hogy van benne egy másik világ, és létezik egy másik, igazibb Orhan? Miből fakadt a bűntudat érzése és az érzékenység, mely a művészi pályára vezette - anyja minden tiltakozása ellenére?
Pamuk Isztambulja a világirodalomban páratlan módon meséli el egy város és egy ember lelkének fájdalmasan szép összefonódását.
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15,32 €
16,13 €
Adrift
From deep winter to late autumn, from east to west, Adrift takes the reader on a tour of the people, politics, history and wildlife of London's canals and rivers. Blending nature writing, social observation and memoir, Helen Babbs invites you on an eye-opening journey into a different side of the city. From Walthamstow Marsh in the east to Uxbridge in the west, Helen Babbs journeys along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, putting down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. Taking in the River Lea and the Lee Navigation, the Regent's Canal and the Grand Union, she explores the London landscape in all its guises: marshland, wasteland, city centre and suburb. Adrift charts a year of Helen's life on Pike, exploring the changes wreaked by the seasons as well as by developers, and recounting the practical trials of living aboard. It is a story of mapping and discovery, of escape and opting out, but also of making connections and finding home. Just as the coots and cormorants dodge the detritus of a large city, so too does Helen wend through the beauty and the dirt to reveal an intimate and unusual portrait of London and of life.
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Lacná kniha Növények a szobában és az erkélyen (-90%)
Rastliny sú oživením bytu a pomáhajú udržovať zdravé prostredie v interiéroch. nie sú len neživým dekoračným prvkom,ale vždy tak trochu nevýpočitateľnými živými organizmami,ktoré vyžadujú starostlivosť a lásku.
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ednotlivých rastlín si ich milovník môže vybrať optimálne rastliny pre individuálne podmienky svojho bytu či domu a zoznámiť sa s ich vlastnosťami a potrebami.Nádherné farebné fotografie všetkých rastlín majú už na prvý pohľad svoje osobité čaro.
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L´Obelisque Noir
1923-1924 : deux années folles en Allemagne, o une inflation démentielle ruine les salariés et enrichit les affairistes. Employé la firme Henri Kroll et fils, monuments funéraires ", Louis vend des pierres tombales et des sculptures commémoratives. Le moment est favorable ceux qui vivent de la mort des autres. Les aventures sont portée de main et, quand la tristesse s'empare des hommes, la virée au bordel, o Fritzi ou le " cheval de fer " proposent des services trs spéciaux, fait passer le vague--l'âme. Mais, peu peu, Louis comprend ce que ces facilités de la vie lui avaient masqué : l'amour est ailleurs, et pourquoi pas auprs de son amie internée dans un hôpital psychiatrique ? Ce récit de la transformation d'un homme dans une Allemagne gangrenée par la corruption et les débuts du nazisme se lit, comme tous les grands livres, plusieurs niveaux. Pour le préfacier Lionel Richard, " la technique romanesque de Remarque consiste dégager sur un arrire-fond réaliste, d'une écriture souvent la hache et au vitriol, un plan qui le contrecarre : il poétise les insatisfactions, les rves, les aspirations de certains de ses personnages. Et il y parvient efficacement parce qu'il s'identifie eux. ""
La France du XXe siecle : Documents d´histoire
Cet ouvrage, qui clôt la série Nouvelle Histoire de la France Contemporaine, est un recueil de documents portant sur les événements politiques français de 1871 2002. Le principe qui a présidé au choix de ces textes, souvent fondamentaux et souvent introuvables, a été d'en offrir au moins un pour chaque année civile depuis 1871. La présente édition est enrichie des textes allant de 1995 2002.
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