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Human Universe
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity. Clumps of atoms in a universe with more galaxies than people. And yet a human being is necessary for the question itself to exist, and the presence of a question in the universe - any question - is the most wonderful thing. Questions require minds, and minds bring meaning. What is meaning? I don't know, except that the universe and every pointless speck inside it means something to me. I am astonished by the existence of a single atom, and find my civilisation to be an outrageous imprint on reality. I don't understand it. Nobody does, but it makes me smile. This book asks questions about our origins, our destiny, and our place in the universe. We have no right to expect answers; we have no right to even ask. But ask and wonder we do. Human Universe is first and foremost a love letter to humanity; a celebration of our outrageous fortune in existing at all. I have chosen to write my letter in the language of science, because there is no better demonstration of our magnificent ascent from dust to paragon of animals than the exponentiation of knowledge generated by science. Two million years ago we were apemen. Now we are spacemen. That has happened, as far as we know, nowhere else. That is worth celebrating.
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The Secrets Sisters Keep
Sinead Moriarty's delicious tenth novel, The Secrets Sisters Keep, is the story of three sisters, three life-altering problems and one eternal truth: nobody knows you quite like a sister! Sinead's writing mixes the worldly wit of Jane Green with the down-to-earth warmth and insight of Marian Keyes and will remind people just how important their sisters - and their friends-who-are-like-sisters - are to them. The Devlin sisters rely on each other - but some things are just too painful to share, even when your sisters are your best friends...Mum-of-four Julie thought that if her family had more money, life would be easier. But now that they've inherited a fortune, her problems are only starting. Lawyer Louise is used to having life go exactly as she wants it to. So accepting that she cannot control everything in her world is beyond her. And former model Sophie can just about cope with getting older - that's until her ex-husband finds a younger model. All three women think that some battles are best fought alone. Maybe they need to think again...Praise for Sinead: "Moving, disarmingly honest and at times laugh-out-loud funny". (Sunday Times). "One of the brightest voices in modern women's fiction". (Bella). "Sinead Moriarty can bring readers from hilarity to heartbreak with great deftness". (Sunday Independent). "Touching, warm, funny and emotional. She has the gift of telling a very emotive story with grace and empathy". (Woman's Way). Sinead Moriarty lives with her family in Dublin. Her previous titles are: The Baby Trail; A Perfect Match; From Here to Maternity; In My Sister's Shoes; Keeping It In the Family (also titled Whose Life is it Anyway?); Pieces of My Heart; Me and My Sisters; This Child of Mine and Mad About You.
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Lacná kniha Komentované dokumenty k ústavním dějinám Československa I. (-70%)
Publikace je první částí čtyřdílné řady dokumentů, které mají vztah k československým ústavním dějinám. Obsahuje dokumenty z let 1918-1945. Vnitřně se člení do dvou kapitol. Vznik samostatného Československa a tzv. první Československá republika (28. 10. 1918- 29. 9. 1938) je předmětem části první. Část druhá - Doba nesvobody (30. 9. 1938 - 4. 5. 1945) - obsahuje dokumenty z tzv. druhé republiky, Protektorátu Čechy a Morava, období prozatímního státního zřízení v zahraničí a Sloveského štátu. Publikace je určena především právníkům, historikům a posluchačům právnických fakult.
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Haroun and Luka
Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it's up to me to put things right. If the water genie Iff can take me on the Hoopoe bird Butt all the way to Gup City then maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to persuade the Grand Comptroller to give my father his Story Water supply back. Trouble is, that is strictly forbidden, one hundred percent banned, no way Jose territory...
Luka: What do sea monsters eat?
The Old Man of the River of Time: Fish and Ships. Why was six afraid of seven?
Luka: Because seven eight nine.
Luckily, my father is the Riddle King and taught me everything I know. But the stakes are high in this riddle battle, couldn't be higher in fact! To save my father from Un-Life, I've got to beat the Old Man and steal the Fire of Life that burns at the top of the Mountain of Knowledge. Only problem is that nobody in the entire recorded history of the World of Magic has ever successfully stolen the Fire of Life...
Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can read an interview with the author and solve some fiendish riddles!
Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Americana
Don DeLillo's Americana - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design.
' "My life," I said, "is a series of telephone messages which nobody understands but me" '
David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.
'DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line' Rolling Stone
Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller /How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
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According to Yes
Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To YES. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It's a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays - unacceptable. Unruly behaviour - definitely not welcome. Fun - no thanks. This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham's kingdom. A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint. So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn't read the rule book. For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone starts saying ...yes? 'I adored According to YES. It's so different to anything I've read in forever, so charming, wise, brilliantly written. I loved it all' Marian Keyes 'There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It's impossible not to warm to Rosie, a funny and open-hearted woman who acts as a salve and comfort blanket for this unhappy, inhibited family. There's something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel, changing the lives of those around her for the better' Express 'French can spin a yarn ...which sets According to YES apart from the usual chick-lit template. Think the vicar of Dibley, without the dog collar. YES YES YES indeed' Independent Further praise for Dawn French: 'A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching ...page after page I laughed out loud' Mail on Sunday 'A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century' Sunday Express 'Extremely funny' Sunday Times 'Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on' Guardian 'Makes you laugh on every page' The Times 'A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life' Woman and Home 'Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant' Daily Mail
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21028 New York City
Osláv architektonickú rozmanitosť New Yorku vďaka detailnému modelu mesta z LEGO® kociek. Panoramatické modely z edície LEGO Architecture Skyline Collection môžeš vystavovať doma aj v kancelárii a sú určené pre všetkých tých, ktorí sa zaujímajú o cestovanie, architektúru, históriu a dizajn. Každá stavebnica je navrhnutá v presnom pomere s predlohovou budovou a presne odzrkadľuje jej farby. Táto stavebnica obsahuje budovy Flatiron Building, Chrysler Building™, Empire State Building, One World Trade Center a Sochu slobody. Súprava obsahuje dekoratívnu ceduľku „New York City“.
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Le Pere Goriot
Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot's treatment by his daughters would make Lear blanch.
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First Love And Others Novella
This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled", these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett...
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PHOTO OF THE TALL MAN PR3
Kelly Logan reads about the Tall Man in the newspaper. He's a dangerous criminal, but nobody knows what he looks like, except that he is very tall. But sixteen-year-old Kelly has her own worries -how will she get on in the big city? She's too busy to think about the Tall Man, until a late-night phone message makes her think again. Find out what happens next in this fast-moving thriller.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 4 Persuasion
At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell - just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried, but Captain Wentworth clearly prefers the company of the two Musgrove girls ...
Lennon John - Legend CD
1.Imagine
2.Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
3.Mother (Single Edit)
4.Jealous Guy
5.Power To The People
6.Cold Turkey
7.Love
8.Mind Games
9.Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
10.#9 Dream
11.Stand By Me
12.(Just Like) Starting Over
13.Woman
14.Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
15.Watching The Wheels
16.Nobody Told Me
17.Borrowed Time
18.Working Class Hero
19.Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
20.Give Peace A Chance
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein's new international bestseller This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. Once a decade, Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era. No Logo did so for globalization. The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity. In This Changes Everything , her most provocative and optimistic book yet, Naomi Klein has upended the debate about the stormy era already upon us, exposing the myths that are clouding the climate debate. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it - it just requires breaking every rule in the "free-market" playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap - or we sink. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era. "The most important book I've read all year - perhaps in a decade...crucially, she leaves the reader with a sense of optimism." (Stephanie Merritt, Observer, Books of the Year). "A book of such ambition and consequence it is almost unreviewable...The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring." (Rob Nixon, The New York Times). "Naomi is like a great doctor - she can diagnose problems nobody else sees." (Alfonso Cuaron). "Damn right, this changes everything...one of the greatest nonfiction works of all time...not just a book. It is a path of survival" (D. R. Tucker, Washington Monthly).
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?' The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia and across galaxies. It is witnessed through the eyes of 'cosmic know-it-all' Qfwfq, an exuberant, chameleon-like figure, who takes the shape of a dinosaur, a mollusc, a steamer captain and a moon milk gatherer, among others. This is the first complete edition in English of Italo Calvino's funny, whimsical and delightful stories, which blend scientific fact, flights of fancy, parody and wordplay to show the strangeness and the wonders of the world. Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. Among his other works published in Penguin Modern Classics are Italian Folktales, Hermit in Paris, Into the War, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium and Why Read the Classics?If you liked The Complete Cosmicomics, you might enjoy Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The complete and definitive collection ... a masterpiece' Gilbert Adair, Evening Standard'Dazzling ... a book of revelation' Tim Adams, Observer 'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie'A landmark in fiction, the work of a master' Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2 Murders in Rue Morgue
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.
Bee Gees - One Night Only CD
1. Intro: You Should Be Dancing/Alone
2. Massachusetts
3. To Love Somebody
4. Words
5. Closer Than Close
6. Islands in the Stream
7. Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)
8. Night Fever/More Than a Woman
9. Lonely Days
10. New York Mining Disaster 1941
11. I Can't See Nobody
12. And the Sun Will Shine
13. Nights on Broadway
14. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
15. Heartbreaker
16. Guilty
17. Immortality
18. Tragedy
19. I Started a Joke
20. Grease
21. Jive Talkin'
22. How Deep Is Your Love
23. Stayin' Alive
24. You Should Be Dancing
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Metuzalémovy děti
Lidstvo se chystá vydat se ke hvězdám, ale ve svém jádru je stále stejné. Stejně sobecké, nepoučitelné, manipulovatelné a závistivé. Krycí nátěry jeho podstaty, veškeré hraní si na civilizované a osvícené bytosti, končí v okamžiku, kdy veřejnost zjistí, že mezi sebou mají skupinku lidí, jejichž doba života několikanásobně překračuje obvyklý průměr.
Nikdo se nehodlá spokojit s vysvětlením, že nejde o žádnou zázračnou kůru dlouhověkosti, ale o důsledek dlouhodobého genetického programu. Všichni jsou zajedno: Howardovy rodiny musí předat své žárlivě střežené tajemství dlouhověkosti všem!
Veškeré zákony na ochranu svobod jednotlivce, mezinárodní úmluvy i zvyklosti jdou stranou a stejná argumentace, jaká je vytvořila, nyní slouží k ospravedlnění jakýchkoli prostředků, potřebných k získání údajného tajemství. Práva sobecké menšiny musí ustoupit zájmům lidstva jako celku!
Politické strany i hnutí se předhánějí, kdo z nich získá více zásluh na daru dlouhověkosti pro všechny, komu z nich takovýto slib vynese více politického kapitálu a tím i momentální moci...
Až na to, že žádné takové tajemství, které by bylo možné podivínské hrstce zabavit, neexistuje. A zastavit již jednou rozjetou mašinerii nelze...
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Tenkrát na Východě
Fotografická publikace doprovází stejnojmennou výstavu v Galerii hlavního města Prahy. Ukazuje život obyčejných lidí v Československu za vlády komunistické strany. Známými i dosud nepublikovanými fotografiemi připomíná proměny, jimiž tato společnost za onu dobu prošla, především postupující zmar a devastaci skrývající se za pompézními komunistickými slavnostmi a manifestacemi oddanosti, jakož i všudypřítomné politické dusno posilované propagandou. Všímá si ale i její druhé, odvrácené strany - blahodárného soukromí v hospodách, na chatách a na chalupách, kde lidé teprve žili přirozeně a do jisté míry i svobodně. Kniha se tak stává živou, oživující vodou pro paměť toho, kdo tuto dobu zažil, a historickým dokumentem pro mladší generace, které tuto nejspravedlivější společnost nepoznaly. Obsahuje fotografie Josefa Koudelky, Dagmar Hochové, Jindřicha Štreita, Markéty Luskačové, Jana Lukase, Viktora Koláře, Gustava Aulehly a mnoho dalších významných fotografů.
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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