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What to Look For in Spring
Explore the beauty of spring in this new edition of What to Look For in Spring.
The natural world wakes from the long winter's sleep. Buds, blossoms and butterflies appear, marking the arrival of the season of rebirth. This book takes a closer look at bleating lambs, boxing hares, meteor showers and May Day celebrations as the secrets of the spring begin to appear in the world around us.
Follow the changing seasons with the other titles in the What to Look For... series:
What to Look For in Summer
What to Look For in Autumn
What to Look For in Winter
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Lacná kniha Anolisové (-90%)
Další kniha Anolisové z řady "abeceda teraristy" je tentokrát celá věnovaná anolisům.
Čtenář se zde dozví mnoho informací o vhodném bydlení, krmení, dorozumívání, chovu či odchovu mláďat a mnohé další praktické rady a informace potřebné k chovu těchto plazů. Jednotlivé kapitoly jsou bohatě doplněny množstvím zdařilých barevných fotografií a obrázků.
Autorka Mgr. Veronika Holaňová se narodila 11. 12. 1984 v Praze. Díky otci, který je vášnivý ornitolog, měla od dětství úzký kontakt s přírodou a zároveň podporu v lásce ke zvířatům. Od šesti let se věnuje chovu plazů. Prvním jejím plazem byla želva čtyřprstá, později přibyli gekončíci, leguán zelený a pak další a další druhy.
V dětství navštěvovala kroužek teraristiky ve Stanici přírodovědců na Smíchově v Praze, kde zůstala dodnes, ovšem už jako vedoucí terarijního kroužku. V roce 2009 dokončila magisterské studium na Přírodovědecké fakultě Univerzity Karlovy, kde nyní pokračuje v doktorském studiu. Studuje na katedře zoologie, obor ekologie a etologie se specializací na plazy, zejména herpetofaunu Kuby.
Dosud navštívila Kubu třikrát, kde pozorovala druhy svého hlavního zájmu - chameleolise a velké anolisy. Poznatky ze svého chovu nebo vědeckých studií publikuje v odborných i teraristicky orientovaných časopisech. Přes deset let je členkou Teraristické společnosti Praha. Dnes chová nemalé množství druhů plazů a daří se jí i úspěšně rozmnožovat, některé z odchovů jsou prvními daného druhu nejen v ČR. Také je členkou Anoline Lizard Specialist Group při IUCN SSC (Internetional Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission).
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Izrael
Osm měsíců v roce léto a vodní radovánky na nádherných plážích, navíc fascinující, přes 5000 let stará až do současnosti přesahující historie - Izrael je podivuhodně přitažlivým cílem pro dovolenou… MERIAN live! vás provede touto po všech stánkách výjimečnou zemí, kde naleznete pestrou směsici několika kultur - zemí s výraznými evropskými i orientálními rysy, zemí, kde se nalézá kolébka křesťanství, judaismu i islámu. Pozve vás k nezapomenutelné pouti starým městským jádrem Jeruzaléma, kde se zdvihají kamenné symboly tří světových náboženství, navštívíte s ním působivé podzemní křižácké město johanitů v Akko; budete putovat k biblickému Genezaretskému jezeru, nejkrásnějšímu a největšímu sladkovodnímu jezeru země, po stopách Ježíše. Unaveni přemírou dojmů jistě nepohrdnete osvěžující koupelí, abyste se mohli poté vydat do nejstarší části města Tel Aviv a vyhledat si z mnoha vytipovaných restaurantů ten svůj, věčně mladé duše jistě nadchne prohlídka akvária Coral Word s tisíci pestrými rybami a milovníkům historických filmů jistě nebude zatěžko se poté vžít do pocitů římských dobyvatelů, kteří stanuli tváří v tvář pevnosti Massada (zbroceni potem stejně jako vy!). Ach, jakou posléze okusíte slast, když se budete vznášet jako bez tíže v chladivých vodách Mrtvého moře… Také hledačům ojedinělých zážitků poskytne průvodce MERIAN live! ověřené tipy - poradí, jak se dostat například na beduínský trh v Beersheva či jak si zajistit bydlení v malém prázdninovém domečku v kibucu En Gev. Objevte Izrael, fascinující zemi mnoha tváří, zemi s pohnutou minulostí i současností - s MERIAN live!
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Aaaahhh!
A big noise echoes around the world, causing chaos and confusion. What could it be? A strange force from another world? An out-of-tune saxophonist? A meteor crashing into a horn factory? And where does it comes from? Everyone's in for a big surprise when the truth comes out!
What's at the Top?
What's at the top of the ladder? Is it the string of a kite on a meteorite, that's attached to a whale who's delivering mail, to a moose in suit who's delivering fruit, while a sloth eating soup, parachutes through a hoop, for a group of iguanas in purple pyjama . . . ?
Young readers will keep guessing the answer to this humorous conundrum until the end - but be prepared for a twist!
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Toulky českou minulostí 1-50
Toulky českou minulostí 1-50 ve formátu mp3 na 2 CD. obsahují: CD1 : O nejstarších obyvatelích českých zemí / člověk vzpřímený - Svět kamene / člověk neandrtálský - Člověk cromagnonský - Od lovců k nejstarším zemědělcům - Nejstarší zemědělci / první revoluce dějin - Člověk doby bronzové - Člověk doby železné - Keltové na jevišti dějin - Keltská města / o obyvatelích keltských oppid - Keltové mezi námi - Germáni na scéně dějin - Naši Germáni - Markomani a Kvádové - Stěhování národů - Stěhování národů a Slovanů s nimi - Lid praotce Čecha (nejstarší Slované) - Slované a Avaři - Říše kupce Sáma - Meteor na nebi Evropy? - Svědectví rozpadlých pevností - Čtyři velkomoravští panovníci - Konstantin (Cyril) a Metoděj - Staré pověsti moravské aneb Jak se hledá Metodějův hrob - Staré pověsti české aneb Causa praotce Čecha - SPČ aneb O Krokovi a jeho dcerách - SPČ aneb O sestrách LibušinýchCD2: SPČ aneb Libuše a Přemysl - SPČ aneb Dívčí válka - SPČ aneb Horymír a Šemík - SPČ aneb Lucká válka - SPČ aneb Ještě o lucké válce a hlavně o Durynkovi - Mezi pověstmi a historií aneb Legendární knížata - Nejstarší přemyslovský kníže - Bořivoj - O kněžně Ludmile, jejích synech, snaše a vnucích - Vražda kněžny Ludmily - Kníže Václav - Život knížete Václava - Atentát na hlavu státu - Pondělí 28.září, časně ráno, Stará Boleslav - Knížecí vražda - Soukromá podobizna knížete českého sv. Václava a blah. Podivena - Boleslav I., řečený Ukrutný - Boleslav II., řečený Pobožný - Slavníkovci - Vyvraždění Slavníkovců sv. Vojtěch - Osud svatého Vojtěcha Slavníkovce - Od Boleslava k Boleslavovi - Český stát v ohrožení - Boleslav III. Ryšavý, Jaromír, Oldřich - Vyvraždění Vršovců, Jaromír a Oldřich - Oldřich - Břetislav I.Na počátku byla kniha Petra Hory – Hořejše „Toulky českou minulostí“. Pozoruhodný pokus o moderní, dokumentárně bohatý a čtenářsky přitažlivý výklad zásadních událostí českých dějin. Když přišel redaktor brněnského studia Českého rozhlasu Josef Veselý s nápadem vytvořit její rozhlasovou podobu, jistě netušil, že se seriál – dnes čítající více než 650 dílů – stane jedním z nejúspěšnějších rozhlasových pořadů. A protože mnozí z posluchačů se ke „svým“ příběhům rádi vracejí, vzniklo i toto CD.Autor: Josef VeselýRežie: Jaromír OstrýÚčinkují: Iva Valešová, Věra Zástěrová, František Derfler, Igor Bareš, Josef Veselý.
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Maestra
Judith Rashleigh works as an assistant in a prestigious London auction house, but her dreams of breaking into the art world have been gradually dulled by the blunt forces of snobbery and corruption. To make ends meet she moonlights as a hostess in one of the West End's less salubrious bars - although her work there pales against her activities on nights off. When Judith stumbles across a conspiracy at her auction house, she is fired before she can expose the fraud. In desperation, she accepts an offer from one of the bar's clients to accompany him to the French Riviera. But when an ill-advised attempt to slip him sedatives has momentous consequences, Judith finds herself fleeing for her life. Now alone and in danger, all Judith has to rely on is her consummate ability to fake it amongst the rich and famous - and the inside track on the hugely lucrative art fraud that triggered her dismissal. Set in the exotic palaces and yachts of Europe's seriously wealthy, MAESTRA is a shockingly original thriller.With a heroine as wickedly perceptive as Amy Dunne and as dangerous as Lisbeth Salander, this marks the beginning of a razor-sharp and meteoric sequence of novels that will have readers around the world on the edge of their seats and holding their breath.
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All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days
Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment - a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.
She recruited Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. During a hastily convened trial at the Reichskriegsgericht - the Reich Court-Martial - a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On 16 February 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded.
Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research and newly discovered documents in her family archives in this astonishing work of nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, political thriller and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors' testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
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Beyond the Ice Limit
BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed. But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly..
Lacná kniha Beyond the Ice Limit (-90%)
BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed. But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly..
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Chaos Machine
From a New York Times investigative reporter, this "authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media" (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement-and profits-at all costs fractured the world.
The Chaos Machine is "an essential book for our times" (Ezra Klein).
We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear.
His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it's too late.
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Atmosféry
Kniha zachycuje přednášku, kterou proslulý švýcarský architekt proslovil v červnu 2003 na literárně-hudebním festivalu „Cesty krajinou“.
V devíti kapitolách se autor zamýšlí nad tím, co vytváří pro člověka příjemnou atmosféru, prostor, v němž se člověk dobře cítí, a v jakém smyslu a míře k ní přispívá právě architektura. Na atmosféru, která člověka obklopuje, působí mnoho dílčích impulsů, z nichž některé jsou ryze individuální nebo momentální a některé lze do jisté míry zevšeobecnit. Klade si otázky, jak vymyslet domy, v nichž i v jejich blízkosti by bylo člověku dobře – k tomu bere v úvahu nejrůznější detaily, které ho mohou inspirovat – jsou to obrazy, hudba, dojmy z četby, pohled na krajinu, osvětlení, nahodilé kompozice, vzájemné působení různých materiálů, proporce,… Jak s tím vším zacházet, jak to převést do jazyka architektury? V čem vězí ona magie, která udělá postavený dům krásným a příjemným k pobývání? Autorovo zamyšlení je podáno stejně spontánně, jak byla přednáška proslovena, a ke každé stránce je autorem přiřazena fotografie ilustrující architektovy úvahy.
Peter Zumthor se narodil v roce 1943 v Basileji; vyučil se truhlářem, vystudoval návrhářství a architekturu na Uměleckoprůmyslové škole v Basileji a na Prattově institutu v New Yorku. Od roku 1979 vede vlastní architektonický ateliér v Haldensteinu ve Švýcarsku.
Nejdůležitější stavby: Zastřešení římských vykopávek na archeologickém nalezišti, Chur, 1986; Kaple sv. Benedikta, Sumvitg, 1988; Bydlení pro seniory, Chur-Masans, 1993; Termální lázně, Vals, 1996; Muzeum umění Bregenz, 1997; „Klangkörper“, švýcarský pavilon na Expo 2000, Hannover, 2000; Dokumentační centrum Topografie teroru, 1997, Berlín, rozestavěná stavba byla z rozhodnutí spolkové země Berlín zbourána; Muzeum umění Kolumba, Kolín nad Rýnem, 2007; Polní kaple bratra Klause, Mechernich-Wachendorf, Německo, 2007; obytné domy Annalisy a Petera Zumthorových – „Unterhus“ a „Oberhus“, Vals-Leis, Švýcarsko, 2009.
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Frida Kahlo, Paintings
Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkacsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th century art.
After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929 placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her work garnered praise from the poet Andre Breton, who added the Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso, Kandinsky, and Duchamp.
We access the intimacy of Frida's affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, letters, and an extensive illustrated biography featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida's home and the center of her universe.
This large-format XXL book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo's paintings like never before, including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80 years, forming the most extensive study of Kahlo's work and life to date.
Boom
Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art world would never be the same.
From the early days on 57th Street, to the rise of SoHo in the 60s, to the emergence of Chelsea as the hotbed of art galleries, we see the meteoric rise and the devastating falls of the most renowned dealers: Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth. With unparalleled access, the longtime Vanity Fairreporter tells us the story of contemporary art through the people who coddled, supported, and funded the likes of Jeff Koons, and Cy Twombly.
It's a story of backstabbing, betrayals, fruitful partnerships, genius, and ever larger sums of money. The world of contemporary art is inextricable from the wild wealth and naked financial opportunism that surrounds it.
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Endgame 1 The Calling
THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING. PLAY NOW. OR WE ALL LOSE. After centuries waiting in secret, twelve unbroken bloodlines, armed with hidden knowledge and lethal training, are called to take humanity's fate into their hands...The first book in a game-changing new series by bestselling author, James Frey. Bryan High School, Omaha, Nebraska: Sarah stands at her graduation ceremony - perfect SATs, a star athlete, her life ahead of her. Then a meteor wipes out half her school. But Sarah is not hurt and not surprised. Because she is the Player of the 233rd line - the Cahokian. And she knows what this means. Endgame is here. Juliaca, Puno, Peru: Jago walks the streets after the meteor hits. There's looting and violence but he's not scared. He is the Player of the 21st line - the Olmec. And he's ready. Endgame is here. China, Australia, Turkey...Twelve meteors fall. Cities and people burn. The news is full of the end of the world. But Sarah, Jago and ten others are already plotting and planning for the fight. They are the Players and Endgame is here. All but one of them will fail. But that one will save the world. We hope...Written into this book is a puzzle. Solve the puzzle, and you will find the key to open a case of gold. Read the Books. Find the Clues. Solve the Puzzle. Who will Win? Google Niantic is building a mobile location-based augmented reality videogame inextricably tied to the books and mythology, a major prize will be tied to a puzzle in each book, and Twentieth Century Fox has bought the movie rights.
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The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars
Mars is never far from our news Mars is never far from our news headlines or imaginations: there has never been a better time to acquaint never been a better time to acquaint ourselves with its dramatic history and astonishing present.
The history of Mars is drawn not just on its surface, but also down into its broken bedrock and up into its frigid air. Most of all, it stretches back into deep time, where the trackways of the past have been obliterated and there is no discernible trace of where they started from or how they travelled, only where they ended up.
From the planet’s formation 4.5 billion years ago, through eras that featured cataclysmic meteor strikes, explosive volcanoes and a vast ocean that spanned the entire upper hemisphere, to the long, frozen ages that saw its atmosphere steadily thinning and leaking away into space, Dr Simon Morden presents a tantalising vision of our nearest neighbour.
Piecing together the latest research, data, theories and informed speculation, The Red Planet is as close as we can get to an eye-witness account of this incredible place.
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The Autobiography of James T. Kirk
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life (2233-2293), in his own words. From his birth on the U.S.S. Kelvin, his youth spent on Tarsus IV, his time in the Starfleet Academy, his meteoric raise through the ranks of Starfleet, and his illustrious career at the helm of the Enterprise, this in-world memoir uncovers Captain Kirk in a way Star Trek fans have never seen.
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So Much Things to Say
Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the story of Marley's childhood abandonment, his formative years in Trench Town, his seemingly meteoric rise to international fame and his tragic death at 36. Weaving together the voices of Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer-as well as band members, family and friends-Steffens reveals extraordinary new details, dispels myths and highlights the most dramatic elements of Marley's life; his psychic abilities and his overriding commitment to the peace and love message of Rastafari. This landmark work will reshape our understanding of this legendary performer.
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The Autobiography of James T. Kirk
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life (2233-2371), in his own words. From his youth spent on Tarsus IV, his time in the Starfleet Academy, his meteoric raise through the ranks of Starfleet, and his illustrious career at the helm of the Enterprise, this in-world memoir uncovers Captain Kirk in a way Star Trek fans have never seen.
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