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Bitevní pole Země
Planetu Zemi ovládali po tisíc let obrovití nájezdníci z planety Psychlo, dýchajíci plyn. Nyní, na sklonku třetího tisíciletí, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler s hrstkou lidí, kteří přežili deset století nadvlády dobyvatelů a byli téměř vyhubeni, se statečně roz
hodne osvobodit svou zmenšující se zotročovanou společnost.
Je přitom chycen a zotročen Psychlem Terlem, bezohledným bezpečnostním pracovníkem. Jonnie později vyhledá pomoc malé skupiny houževnatých Skotů, s nimiž odvážně vyzve Psychly na konečný sou
boj. Utká se s dosud neporazitelnou mocí Psychlů. Jde mu o budoucnost Země... i celé galaxie!
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Maják
Příběh venkovského studenta, jehož život je poznamenán alkoholismem otce, je zrcadlem radostí i problémů české vesnice 30. let.
Námět na tento román mi poslal jistý čtenář, aniž by se podepsa. Snad to byl jeho vlastní příběh, protože mu dal nadpis - Žaluji." Prosil mne, abych jej věnovala všem, které mučí ďábel alkoholu. Ženám, které vlekou po boku opilých mužů svůj těžký kříž, a mužům, kteří hrozné neřesti otročí. Plním přání tohoto venkovana a připisuji román všem nešťastným a trpícím, jimž kletba alkoholu otravuje život. Mužům, aby svou neřest omezili a z toho prostého příběhu se poučili, ženám, aby byli statečné jako Meda a donesly svuj kříž až na smutnou Golgotu.
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Secret Keeper
This is the spellbinding new novel from the international bestselling author of The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours. 1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything. 2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. This is a tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds - Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and fatefully entwined. Shifting between the 1930s, the 1960s and the present, The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, theatre and thievery, murder and enduring love.
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Lacná kniha Nitky času
Klíčová osobnost poválečného světového divadla, režisér Peter Brook, vzpomíná ve svých pamětech na události, které určovaly jeho uměleckou dráhu - od šťastného dětství v rodině ruských emigrantů, přes dobrodružné divadelní i filmařské začátky ve válečném Londýně, ohromující rané úspěchy na poli operní i shakespearovské režie, až k experimentům, k nimž ho v šedesátých a sedmdesátých letech přivedla jeho neumdlévající touha dobrat se nejhlubších kořenů divadla. V knize nechybí vzpomínky na setkání (ale i tvůrčí střety) s velkými osobnostmi poválečného evropského divadla (např. S. Dalím, L. Olivierem, G. Jacksonovou, J. Moreauovou). Nejcennější na Brookově autoportrétu je však sám pokus o záznam vlastní vnitřní cesty hledajícího umělce.
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Wizard of Oz: Ladybird First Favourite Tales
The classic American story - The Wizard of Oz - from Ladybird! A brilliant introduction to the classic American tale. Find out what happens when Dorothy is transported from Kansas to the magical land of Oz and sets out on the Yellow Brick Road. Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds. Ladybird's First Favourite Tales series is hugely popular and is a great introduction to the most important fairy tales. With a new look and great covers the books are still just as fun to read as ever. Make sure you look out for the other tales in the series, too! Puss in Boots; Hansel and Gretel; The Ugly Duckling; The Elves and the Shoemaker; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; The Gingerbread Man; Little Red Riding Hood; The Three Little Pigs; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; Chicken Licken; The Enormous Turnip; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Little Red Hen; Little Red Riding Hood; The Magic Porridge Pot; The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen; and Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland.
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Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World
With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College.
Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements.
These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. What drove these remarkable women to cure previously incurable diseases, disprove existing theories or discover new sources of energy? Some were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for their pioneering achievements - Madame Curie, twice - others were not and, even if they had, many are not household names.
Despite living during periods when the contribution of women was disregarded, if not ignored, these resilient women persevered with their research, whether creating life-saving drugs or expanding our knowledge of the cosmos. By daring to ask 'How?' and 'Why?' and persevering against the odds, each of these women, in a variety of ways, has made the world a better place.
Astronomy
Henrietta Leavitt (United States of America) (1868-1921) - discovered the period-luminosity relation(ship) for Cepheid variable stars, which enabled us to measure the size of our Galaxy and the Universe.
Physics
Lise Meitner (Austria) (1878-1968) - fled Nazi Germany in 1938, taking with her the experimental results which showed that she and Otto Hahn had split the nucleus and discovered nuclear fission.
Chien-Shiung Wu (United States of America) (1912-1997) - Chinese-American who disproved one of the most accepted 'laws of nature', that not all processes can be mirrored. She showed that the 'law of parity', the idea that a left-spinning and right-spinning sub-atomic particle would behave identically, was wrong.
Chemistry
Marie Curie (France) (1867-1934) - the only person in history to have won Nobel prizes in two different fields of science.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (United Kingdom) (1910-1994) - British chemist who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1964. Among the most prominent of a generation of great protein crystallographers. The field was revolutionized under her. She pioneered the X-ray study of large molecules of biochemical importance: the structures of cholesterol, penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, leading to DNA structure analysis by Franklin etc.
Medicine
Virginia Apgar (United States of America) (1909-1974) - of Apgar Score fame.
Gertrude Elion (United States of America) (1918-1999) - won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine in 1988 for developing some important principles for drug development.
Biology
Rita Levi-Montalicini (Italy) (1909-2012) - the so-called 'Lady of the Cells'. She won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine in 1986 for her co-discovery in 1954 of NGF (nerve growth factor).
Elsie Widdowson (United Kingdom) (1906-2000) - a pioneer of the science of nutrition who was instrumental in devising the WW2 diet, in part through self-experimentation.
Rachel Carson (United States of America) (1907-1964) - marine biologist and author of Silent Spring who is credited with having advanced the environmental movement.
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Vanity Fair 100 Years
Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book, the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years (after a 47-year hiatus), to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded--using wit, imagination, peerless literary narrative and bold, groundbreaking imagery. The most innovative voices in popular culture are all compiled within these pages (from Robert Benchley, Jacques Cocteau and Dorothy Parker, to William Styron, Christopher Hitchens and Dominick Dunne) along with the greatest magazine illustrators, artists and photographers of all time--most notably Edward Steichen and Annie Leibovitz, who, through Vanity Fair, virtually invented the modern celebrity portrait. Writers Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger contribute an essay on the incomparable Frank Crowninshield and the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair, Jim Windolf chronicles the magazine's rebirth in 1983, and Frank DiGiacomo gives the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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The Wizard of Oz
A tornado whisks Dorothy and her dog, Toto, to the land of Oz. To find the way back to Kansas they have to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City where the Wizard of Oz lives.
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Six Against the Yard
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - six 'perfect murder' stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved. Is the 'perfect murder' possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable - even to the most astute investigator? In this unique collection, legendary crime writers Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the CID then attempts to unravel...This clever literary battle of wits from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the experts from the Golden Age of detective fiction at their most ingenious. For true crime aficionados, this new edition includes an essay by Agatha Christie, one of the inaugural members of the Detection Club. Unseen since 1929, her article discusses the infamous Croydon Poisonings, a real-life perfect murder, the solution to which remains a mystery to this day...
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Lacná kniha Politika
Román Politika nie je vôbec o politike. O čom teda je? Predovšetkým o sexe v trojici, aj keď nie tak úplne. Sexom v trojici sa to začína, avšak ako nás poučí vševedúci rozprávač, sex v trojici vlastne nie je vôbec o sexe. Ani Politika vlastne nie je o sexe. Je o dobre, pretože ide o to, ako byť dobrý. Život v trojici vôbec nie je jednoduchý – ani jeden zo zúčastnených nevie, čo cítia tí druhí a výsledkom je jedno veľké nedorozumenie. Politika je vtipnou psychologickou štúdiou vzťahov medzi tromi postavami.
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The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum’s tale of a little girl who discovers that there’s no place like home is one of the most beloved novels ever written. When a cyclone carries Dorothy and her little dog Toto into the magical land of Oz, she and her three new friends – Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion – journey to the Emerald city where they hope the Wizard will grant their hearts’ desires. All that stands in their way is a wicked witch, flying monkeys, and a topsy-turvy world where normal rules don’t apply. This edition is evocatively illustrated with the original drawings of W W Denslow, and will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the popular film. The world's greatest works of literature are now available in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement, entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of these novels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalled period feel that will grace the library, the bedside table or bureau.
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Viruses
Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, Crawford demonstrates how these tiny parasites are by far the most abundant life forms on the planet. With up to two billion of them in each litre of sea water, viruses play a vital role in controlling the marine environment and are essential to the ocean's delicate ecosystem. Analyzing the threat of emerging virus infections, Crawford recounts stories of renowned killer viruses such as Ebola and rabies as well as the less known bat-borne Nipah and Hendra viruses. Pinpointing wild animals as the source of the most recent pandemics, she discusses the reasons behind the present increase in potentially fatal infections, as well as evidence suggesting that long term viruses can eventually lead to cancer. By examining our lifestyle in the 21st century, Crawford looks to the future to ask whether we can ever live in harmony with viruses, and considers the ways in which we may need to adapt to prevent emerging viruses with devastating consequences.
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Lacná kniha Viruses
Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, Crawford demonstrates how these tiny parasites are by far the most abundant life forms on the planet. With up to two billion of them in each litre of sea water, viruses play a vital role in controlling the marine environment and are essential to the ocean's delicate ecosystem. Analyzing the threat of emerging virus infections, Crawford recounts stories of renowned killer viruses such as Ebola and rabies as well as the less known bat-borne Nipah and Hendra viruses. Pinpointing wild animals as the source of the most recent pandemics, she discusses the reasons behind the present increase in potentially fatal infections, as well as evidence suggesting that long term viruses can eventually lead to cancer. By examining our lifestyle in the 21st century, Crawford looks to the future to ask whether we can ever live in harmony with viruses, and considers the ways in which we may need to adapt to prevent emerging viruses with devastating consequences.
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Belyj Parokhod-l Dolshe Veka Dlitsia Den-Plakha
Vpletenie mifologii v realnuju zhizn v proizvedenijakh Ch. Ajtmatova (1928—2008) sozdaet osobyj nepovtorimyj avtorskij stil i pozvoljaet chetche sformulirovat nravstvennye problemy, muchajuschie cheloveka. Vsemirno izvestnyj kirgizskij pisatel issleduet problemy cheloveka v sovremennom mire, utrachivajuschego svjaz so svoim rodom, traditsijami, grozjaschie cheloveku razrushitelnymi posledstvijami. Avtora prezhde vsego interesuet vopros o puti tsivilizatsii, v kotoroj glavnoj dvizhuschej siloj stanovitsja vlast deneg, a chelovechnost, dobrota, miloserdie stanovjatsja abstraktnymi ponjatijami, prevraschajuschimisja v pustye slova. Mudrost i filosofichnost proizvedenij Ajtmatova neizmenno ostajutsja privlekajuschimi vnimanie chitatelej.
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Lacná kniha Belyj Parokhod-l Dolshe Veka Dlitsia Den-Plakha
Vpletenie mifologii v realnuju zhizn v proizvedenijakh Ch. Ajtmatova (1928—2008) sozdaet osobyj nepovtorimyj avtorskij stil i pozvoljaet chetche sformulirovat nravstvennye problemy, muchajuschie cheloveka. Vsemirno izvestnyj kirgizskij pisatel issleduet problemy cheloveka v sovremennom mire, utrachivajuschego svjaz so svoim rodom, traditsijami, grozjaschie cheloveku razrushitelnymi posledstvijami. Avtora prezhde vsego interesuet vopros o puti tsivilizatsii, v kotoroj glavnoj dvizhuschej siloj stanovitsja vlast deneg, a chelovechnost, dobrota, miloserdie stanovjatsja abstraktnymi ponjatijami, prevraschajuschimisja v pustye slova. Mudrost i filosofichnost proizvedenij Ajtmatova neizmenno ostajutsja privlekajuschimi vnimanie chitatelej.
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The Wizard of Oz - Read it Yourself with Ladybird Level 4
When Dorothy and her little dog Toto end up in the Land of Oz, they and their friends the scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion have many adventures on their way to see the Wizard of Oz! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading. Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools. The Wizard of Oz is a Level 4 Read it yourself title, ideal for children who are ready to read longer stories with a wider vocabulary and are keen to read independently.
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Óz, a nagy varázsló
L. Frank Baum varázslatos meséje a szeretetről, a bátorságról, a barátságról, és az útkereséséről nem csupán a gyerekek számára tanulságos történet. Dorothy napja egy átlagos napnak indul, aztán egy tornádó a kislányt akarata ellenére messzire repíti otthonától, és hirtelen egy nagy összevisszaságba csöppen. A valós életben az embert nem ilyen hurrikánszerűen lepik meg a teendők, és a mindennapokat nem borítja fel mindig egy váratlan esemény? Dorothy útitársai mind vágynak valamire: a Madárijesztő észre, a Bádogember szívre, az Oroszlán pedig bátorságra. Azonban ezeket a tulajdonságokat mégsem külső segítséggel érik el, mindvégig ott lapulnak bennük, saját magukból kell azokat elővarázsolniuk. A történet gyönyörű tanmeséje annak, hogy az élettapasztalatok alapján fejlődve, és önmagunkban bízva meg tudjuk találni a célunkat az életben.
A meséhez készült varázslatos illusztrációk nem csak magával ragadják a gyerekeket, hanem segítik is őket megérteni a sorok mögött rejlő emberi utat, a felnövés, az önmagunk megismerésének és elfogadásának a csodáját.
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On the Waves of TSF
The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (19011986) and Karel Teige (19001951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves o
f TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and founding members of the artists group Devětsil. Karel Teige laid out the verses of his friend Jaroslav Seifert as striking typ
ographical poems. Purportedly, he depleted nearly all the font cases he could find at Obzinas printing shop. In any case, he faithfully fulfilled the precepts of poetism about the world and poetryto be multisensory. Imbued with all the beauties
of the world, Seiferts verses are introduced with a mischievously reversed paraphrase of Karel Hynek Máchas (18101836) famous words: Light grief on the face / Deep laughter in the heart. With the effortlessness mimicking wireless transmission, Sei
fert and Teige transport us to Paris (Seifert visited the City of Light with Teige in 1924), to places where pineapples grow, to Australia, Marseille, New York, to distant ocean shores, and back to the banks of the Vltava river in Pragueall this fac
ilitated, as it were, by Télégraphie sans fil (literally from French: wireless telegraphy). To be sure, the greatest concern of the lyrically gloomy narrator is joyfully unambiguous honeymoon destinations; if die we must, let us die of love... In sub
sequent editions (1938), Seiferts youthful manifesto was titled Svatební cesta (Honeymoon). Understandably so, because the changed circumstances of Czech poetry hardly allowed for stepping into the same river twice; the former associates parted ways
in their creative endeavors. Teige became a multifaceted art theoretician and embraced surrealism. After breaking with the communist party in 1929, Seifert became a lifelong social democrat and devoted himself primarily to newspaper journalism. The
first edition of Na vlnách TSF gradually became rare until only reprints allowed us to explore the sources of this visual, almost hedonistic poetry. As a reprint, the collection is appearing for the fifth time, this time in its most faithful facsimil
e incarnation and in two independent permutationsin the original Czech version and as an English-Czech remake by Zdeněk Trinkewitz, translated by Dana Loewy. The Czech-born translator lives in the United States where early in her career, she won a s
tudent translation prize by the American Translators Association (1992). Subsequently, she received an honorary mention by the foremost Czech translators association and her translations of Jaroslav Seiferts early work were published in 1997 by Hydr
a Books, a division of Northwestern University Press.
Hrdinství pro začátečníky
Království Deserae je vnejstrašnějším nebezpečí ze všech strašných nebezpečí. Drahocenný magický talisman Prastarý artefakt model sedm padl do rukou tyranského zloducha lorda Voldmetera (Toho, kterého musíme jmenovat).
Jen jediný muž ho může za
stavit (a získat tak ruku přírodou velice štědře obdařené princezny Deserae). Bohužel, nemá vtom směru žádné praktické zkušenosti. Ale princ Kevin Timberline je odhodlán proniknout do pevnosti zmaru (možná přes obchod supomínkovými předměty?), odol
at svádění vkůži oděné dominy sbičem (což zase nemusí být tak zlé) a postavit se armádě ničeho se neštítících hrdlořezů (tohle je zlé) vyzbrojen pouze čistým srdcem, diskutabilní odvahou a hlavně výtiskem Rukověti praktického hrdinství
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