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The Principle of Moments
6066: In Emperor Thracin's brave new galaxy, humans are not citizens but indentured labourers, working to repay the debt they unwittingly incurred when they settled on Gahraan - a desert planet already owned by the emperor himself. Asha Akindele knows she's just another voiceless cog working the assembly lines that fuel his vast imperial war machine. Her only rebellion: studying stolen aeronautics manuals in the dead of night. But then a cloaked stranger arrives to deliver an impossible message, and her life changes in an instant.
1812: Obi Amadi is done with time-travelling. Never mind the fact he doesn't know how to cure himself of the temporal sickness he caught whilst anchoring his soul to Regency London, the one that unmakes him further with every jump. Or if the prince he loves will ever love him back. Or why his father disappeared. He is done. Until he hears about the ghost of a girl in the British Museum. A girl from another time.
When Obi's path tangles with Asha's and a prophecy awakens in the cold darkness of space, they must voyage through the stars, racing against time, tyranny, and the legacy of three heroes from an ancient religion who may be awakening, reincarnated in ways beyond comprehension.
A love letter to Black readers of science-fantasy, The Principle of Moments is a symphonic, centuries-spanning adventure - unmissable for fans of the spacefaring found family of Becky Chambers, the alternate London of V. E. Schwab, and the virtuosic climate-craft of N. K. Jemisin.
Why Sinead O'Connor Matters
A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.
In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. For many people—including, for years, the author—what they knew of O’Connor stopped there. Allyson McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our old judgments about Sinéad O’Connor and to expose the machinery that built her up and knocked her down.
Addressing triumph and struggle, sound and story, Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters argues that its subject has been repeatedly manipulated and misunderstood by a culture that is often hostile to women who speak their minds (in O’Connor’s case, by shaving her head, championing rappers, and tearing up a picture of the pope on live television). McCabe details O’Connor’s childhood abuse, her initial success, and the backlash against her radical politics without shying away from the difficult issues her career raises. She compares O’Connor to Madonna, another superstar who challenged the Catholic Church, and Prince, who wrote her biggest hit and allegedly assaulted her. A journalist herself, McCabe exposes how the media distorts not only how we see O’Connor but how we see ourselves, and she weighs the risks of telling a story that hits close to home.
In an era when popular understanding of mental health has improved and the public eagerly celebrates feminist struggles of the past, it can be easy to forget how O’Connor suffered for being herself. This is the book her admirers and defenders have been waiting for.
Art Is Life
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simply, “the art critic.”
Now, in Art Is Life, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points—from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today—Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz’s eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramović; and visionaries like Jackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures from Thomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a “failed artist,” and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.
With his signature blend of candor and conviction, Jerry Saltz argues in Art Is Life for the importance of the fearless artist—reminding us that art is a kind of channeled voice of human experience, a necessary window onto our times. The result is an openhearted and irresistibly readable appraisal by one of our most important cultural observers.
Glossy
'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help. This is just one of countless fascinating titbits in this zippy story of dizzying fortune, out-of this-world fashion, ingenuity, passion, sex and power.
And, this being fashion, some intense bitchiness too. Started as a gossip magazine for snobbish New Yorkers in 1892, Vogue is now one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Spanning London, New York and Paris, this is a high-speed, fun read full of fascinating though not always likeable people.' Daily Mail
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue.
Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness.
Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans 22 countries, has an international print readership upwards of 12 million and nets over 67 million monthly online users. Uncontested market leader for a century, it is one of the most recognisable brands in the world and a multi-million dollar money-making machine. It is not just a fashion magazine, it is the establishment. But what - and more importantly who - made Vogue such an enduring success?
Glossy will answer this question and more by tracing the previously untold history of the magazine, from its inception as a New York gossip rag, to the sleek, corporate behemoth we know now. This will be a biography of Vogue in every sense of the word, taking the reader through three centuries, two world wars, plunging failures and blinding successes, as it charts the story of the magazine and those who ran it.
Blue Lock 6
A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid Game–meets–World Cup manga, now available in print!
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I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability 1
Prince Lloyd wasn't always a prince...in a previous life, he was a sorcerer, of sorts. So when he was forced to reincarnate, he decided to continue his studies, prince of the realm or no! But his new life has its own sets of challenges...including being a 10-year-old! What's the 7th prince/sorcerer to do?!
The popular digital-first isekai adventure comes to print!
In his previous life, Lloyd only wished to study magic, but his status as a commoner lead him to an unfortunate end. After being ruthlessly done in by the very magic he so desperately desired to master, Lloyd opens his eyes to an amazing new existence as the 7th prince of the Kingdom of Saloum. This time, he's been born with unmatched magical potential! With a new lease on life and the resources to make any dream a reality, Lloyd sets out to become the best sorcerer in the world! There's just one small problem... He's only 10 years old! How is anyone going to take him seriously like this?
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Kronika válečníkova (Díl I.)
Zimní král je prvním svazkem čtyřdílného románu umělecky ztvárněných kronik a pověstí z okruhu legendárního krále Artuše. Vypravěč, někdejší Artušův válečník Derfel, rozvíjí dramatickou fresku událostí, k nimž došlo po smrti krále Uthera, o jehož syn
a a následníka, narozeného za mrazivé zimní noci, se střetávají britští velmoži pátého století našeho letopočtu, jejich saští protivníci, a stejně urputně i kněží nové, křesťanské víry se svými keltskými odpůrci, žárlivě střežícími věkovitá kouzla dr
uidů. Práva bezbranného prince Mordreda hájí přísahou vázaný královský levoboček Artuš, jehož láska k princezně Guineveře obohacuje román o věčný motiv sváru povinnosti a touhy po osobním štěstí.
V Cornwellově poutavém líčení, opřeném o hluboké a ro
zsáhlé znalosti historických událostí a dobových reálií, věrohodně ožívají postavy, které stály u zrodu jednotné britské říše a dodnes zůstávají symbolem středověkého rytířství. Preklad: Jana Svobodová
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Sklizeň před námi
„Posilněte svá srdce, vždyť příchod Páně je blízko.“ (Jakub 5:8)
Tématem této brožury je jedna z nejnaléhavějších výzev, aby dělníci vyšli na sklizeň posledních dnů.
Derek se ptá: „A co ty? Co pro tebe znamená život? Pro co žiješ? Jaké místo má Ježíš Kristus ve tvém životě? Ptáš se, jak může být efektivní poté, co do mého života byl vylit Duch Svatý? Odpověď: tím, že se spojíš s Božím záměrem.“
Derek Prince říká, že sklizeň je přímo přede dveřmi a Bůh bude potřebovat stovky dělníků, kteří hodí srp Jeho Slova a budou sklízet. Přišel čas sklízet, protože žeň země uzrála.
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Monkey Prince Vol. 1: Enter the Monkey
Meet the Monkey Prince, your new favorite DC character! (According to him, at least.) Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang introduce an all-new Chinese American superhero!
Introducing the newest hero in the DC Universe, the great sage, equal to the heavens, better than his predecessor the legendary Monkey King, even better than the Justice League—and definitely the Teen Titans—(actually, all the heroes combined), everyone put your hands together for…the Monkey Prince!
Marcus Sun moves around a lot because his adoptive parents are freelance henchpeople, so this month he finds himself as the new kid at Gotham City High School, where a mysterious man with pig features asks Marcus to walk through a water curtain to reveal his real self…someone who has adventured through The Journey to the West, can transform into 72 different formations, can clone himself using his hairs, and is called…the Monkey Prince!
From the team of New Super-Man and American Born Chinese writer Gene Luen Yang and Teen Titans and Green Lantern Corps artist Bernard Chang, meet an all-new Chinese American DC hero, with roots in centuries-old mythology and ties to the current DCU!
This volume collects The Monkey Prince #1-6, and a story from DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration.
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Ki 1 éves? Az állatok
A sorozat a legkisebbeknek szól, akik most ismerkednek a szavak és a tárgyak izgalmas világával. Az egy év körüli gyerekeket Brumi maci kalauzolja a tanyán, ahol számos érdekes állattal találkozhatnak. A könyvecskében található kérdések a kicsik megfigyelőképességét fejlesztik. Sok-sok színes kép, megannyi új szó!
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Ki 1 éves? Az első szavak
A sorozat a legkisebbeknek szól, akik most ismerkednek a szavak és a tárgyak izgalmas világával. Az egy év körüli gyerekek Brumi macival tanulhatják meg és ismételhetik az új kifejezéseket. A könyvecskében található kérdések a kicsik megfigyelőképességét fejlesztik. Sok-sok színes kép, megannyi új szó!
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Letisko
Kniha Letisko (Josef Švarc): Aký je váš názor? Povedzte ho ostatným návštevníkom ako prvý!
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Ema Destinová/ve stínu modré ruže
Rozsáhlý románový příběh E. Destinnové o lidských vztazích, citech a vášních, vydaný ke 125. výročí narození umělkyně v nezkráceném znění. Literární dílo Destinnové zahrnuje širokou škálu žánrů a útvarů. Vedle původních prozaických a básnických děl je autorkou či spoluautorkou překladů operních libret i jednotlivých árií a písní, které jako pěvkyně a hudební umělkyně překládala s nepochybnou znalostí specifických vlastností zpívaného textu. Některé z jejích vlastních básní byly zhudebněny (L. Blech) a naopak i ona sama se stala autorkou hudby k několika písním, např. První lásce na slova J. Švába, kterou vydala pod svým rodným jménem Ema Kittlová. Kromě vydaných básní, novel a časopiseckých příspěvků ve formě črt, článků či drobných vzpomínek byl před 1. světovou válkou na scéně Švandova divadla proveden rovněž jeden z jejích divadelních opusů, naturalistické drama Rahel. Čtyřdílný román Ve stínu modré růže, který vznikal v letech 1920 až 1929, je její nejrozsáhlejší prací v literárním oboru.
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The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be Vol. 1
In this shojo rom-com tale, a dashing female bodyguard pretends to be engaged to her childhood friend, the prince...but is their fake betrothal really just an act to him?
Christina, a.k.a. "Lady Chris," was born into a noble family and treated more or less like a boy growing up. Now a dashing young woman, Chris is not only captain of the imperial guards–she personally protects Prince Leonardo, who has been a dear friend since childhood. When his father, the king, demands he find a suitable girl to marry, Leo insists that he's already found one: Chris! Chris is shocked, but figures that Leo doesn't really love her like that; it's probably just some ploy to keep the king happy. Chris decides to play along, but as the charade goes on, she starts to wonder if maybe her princely pal has actually fallen for her!
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Vyvolená bohy Smrtící dotyk
Jsem dokonalá zbraň. Můj dotyk je smrtící.“ Twylla je dívka vyvolená bohy. Je zosobněním božské dcery a jako taková je zaslíbená princi. Za svoji výjimečnost ale draze platí: každý měsíc musí pozřít jed, a přinést tak důkaz o svém božském postavení. Její dotyk je však pro obyčejného člověka smrtící. Twylla proto není běžným členem královského dvora. Je královninou popravčí. Každý měsíc navštěvuje vězení a přikládá své ruce na ty, kteří jsou odsouzeni k smrti. Žije osaměle a izolovaně. Když ale nastoupí nový strážce, vše se změní. Spustí se kolotoč dvorských intrik, úkladů a vražd... Dokáže si dívka správně zvolit mezi královským snoubencem a přitažlivým, ale obyčejným smrtelníkem? Rozhodne se pro povinnost, nebo pro lásku?
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Lacná kniha Accidente (-90%)
En Accidente, Danielle Steel plasma a unos personajes que viven la vida que todos vivimos, pero estos personajes tan cercanos a nosotros de pronto ven transformadas sus existencias por un accidente de automóvil. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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