Hľadanie: Madness in Civilization EN
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BOOTH
In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability - moves to a remote cabin outside Baltimore with his wife, who bears him ten children.
Of the six who survive infancy, one is John Wilkes - the hot-tempered but much-loved middle son who, in 1865, fatally shoots Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theatre, changing the course of history.
What makes a murderer? His family or the world? And how can those who love him ever come to terms with his actions? Strikingly relevant to the world today, Booth is the story of one extraordinary family and the terrible act that shattered their bonds forever.
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Lacná kniha Greguerias (-90%)
La greguería, según el mismo Gómez de la Serna, es el resultado de la suma de metáfora más humor. Es un género que aspira a definir lo indefinible, a capturar lo pasajero, a acertar lo que no puede estar en nadie o puede estar en todos. Ramón Gómez de la Serna es uno de los autores más geniales de la literatura espanola. Dotado de gran originalidad de estilo y de pensamiento, su personalidad es una de las más fecundas e iconoclastas del panorama literario contemporáneo. Además de crear las greguerías, escribió artículos, cuentos, novelas, teatro, ensayos, biografías y conferencias, siempre con fino sentido del humor.El responsable de la edición, César Nicolás, profesor de la Universidad de Extremadura, ha seleccionado las mejores greguerías de Ramón Gómez de la Serna y explica su teoría y sentido.
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A nagy Gatsby - Trubadúr Zsebkönyvek 2.
"Én is Daisy koszorúslánya voltam, és fél órával az esküvő előestéjén rendezett vacsora előtt még egyszer benéztem hozzá. Ott hevert az ágyán, olyan gyönyörű volt a virágmintás ruhájában, mint az a júniusi este - és olyan részeg, mint egy majom. Egy palack Sauterne volt az egyik kezében, és egy levél a másikban."
Evelina
Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!'Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville.Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.
Megbánás 2: A szerelmünk gyümölcse
Az életed a kezemben van Tizenöt éves koromban egy puskagolyó megváltoztatta az életemet. Utána egy évtizeden keresztül próbáltam kiszakadni széteső múltamból, erős fallal vettem körül magamat, hogy elbújhassak az élet által rám zúdított sok szörnyűség elől. Végül, amikor megszereztem a világ összes kincsét, váratlanul újabb próba elé állított az élet. Egy napon egy hangosan síró, magára hagyott újszülöttet találtam a küszöbömön. Soha nem akartam apává válni. Sosem akartam továbbadni az ereimben áramló mocskot. A kislány azonban ott volt, rózsaszín arcával, vörös hajával, és tudtam, hogy az enyém. Bármennyire hihetetlen is, de a gyermek boldoggá tett. Nem fuldokolhattam tovább a múlt posványában, hisz én vagyok az egyetlen, aki megvédheti a lányom jövőjét. Ezért készen álltam a küzdelemre, amikor négy évvel később az anyja visszatért. Bárcsak valahogy elkerülhettem volna, hogy a harcunk során beleszeressek abba a nőbe!
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Changing World Order
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we've experienced in our lifetimes - but similar to those that have happened many times before.
A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realisation sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.
In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires - including the Dutch, the British and the American - putting into perspective the 'Big Cycle' that has driven the successes and failures of all the world's major countries throughout history.
Dalio reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what's ahead
Critical Role: Vox Machina Coloring Book
Immerse yourself in some of the best moments from Critical Role's celebrated Vox Machina campaign with a brand new coloring book!
Vex, Vax, Percy, Grog, Scanlan, Pike, and Keyleth--as well as fan-favorite NPCs--appear in 45 all-new coloring book images. Add your own spin to your favorite adventuring party as you color these specially selected scenes, drawn by a selection of fan-favorite artists!
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Project 3, 4th Edition - Pracovný zošit + CD
Project fourth edition uses the proven Project methodology in a new engaging format. Your students will love the redesigned cartoons, new compelling exercises, and innovative digital package. We’ve listened to feedback from teachers around the world and kept all the things you’ve loved from previous editions while enhancing and updating the material to make it more engaging than ever before.
El loco y la monja
La dramaturgia de Witkiewicz se caracteriza por una continua recurrencia de motivos que se encadenan y entrelazan. Los temas recurrentes de la creacion de Witkiewicz, que sobrevienen en sus dramas con una reiteracion a veces obsesiva, estan inseparablemente unidos a la filosofia del artista, que expuso no solo en sus escritos teoricos, sino tambien en sus novelas.
Los dramas ponen de relieve el motivo de la insaciabilidad frente a la vida: en un mundo donde la vida espiritual es aniquilada por la crisis profunda, y hasta por la degeneracion de la cultura y la civilizacion, el hombre víctima del tedio y del marasmo tanto intelectual como emocional, se obstina en perseguir su búsqueda desesperada de respuestas a las cuestiones fundamentales sobre el sentido de su existencia, intenta penetrar el Misterio de la Existencia.
Las piezas de Witkacy evocan con asombrosa intensidad la angustia suscitada por el proceso de mecanizacion, que despoja a la sociedad de su caracter humano. Los dos rostros de esa angustia son el miedo a la dictadura de las masas y el temor de la nivelacion social.
Es como profeta comprometido, augurando el declinar de la civilizacion, como Witkiewicz se deja abordar mas facilmente. Apoyandose en argumentos originales, predijo, como muchos otros, el declive del arte, la supresion de la individualidad, la extinción del sentido metafisico, que seran suplantados por la democratizacion de la vida y la llegada de una sociedad de robots, tan felices como intercambiables (Jan Błonski Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz como dramaturgo, Cracovia 1973).
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Tested és lelkem
Semmi bajom a meztelenséggel. Hogyan is lenne? Igazából nincs is annál jobb, mint eljutni oda a lánnyal, hogy meztelenül láthasd. De mi van akkor, ha nemcsak te láthatod? Hanem az összes haverod, az egész iskola, és hirtelen mindenki azt hiszi, hogy jár neki belőle egy darab. Ez nem lehet a valóság. Mert ha az, nem biztos, hogy el bírom viselni. De ha én nem bírom elviselni, mi lesz Lucával? Kemenes Bálint élete boldog. Ő a focicsapat ünnepelt sztárja, egyre sikeresebb a YouTube-csatorna, amit a barátaival csinál, és még egy gyönyörű lánnyal is flörtöl. Igaz, az a lány a legjobb haverja barátnője… De hát miért nem szakít Luca Áronnal? Talán fél a fiú bosszújától? Orosz Luca az egyik legvidámabb, legmagabiztosabb lány az osztályban. Szeret olvasni, szívesen bulizik a barátaival, jól tanul és másoknak is segít. Aztán egy nap megtörténik vele az elképzelhetetlen: olyan képek kerülnek fel róla az internetre, amiket csakis egyetlen embernek szánt. Hogyan lehet ezután folytatni az életet? Ugyanaz az ember tud maradni, aki eddig volt? Kire számíthat, kibe kapaszkodhat? Bálint és Luca közös kalandja éppen csak elkezdődik, de a képek mindent megváltoztatnak. Bimbózó szerelmüket letöri egy olyan bosszú, aminek talán sohasem lépnek túl a következményein. Mit hajlandó Bálint feláldozni azért, hogy Luca mellett kiálljon? És vajon mennyit ér ez a szerelem? Te kitartanál a végsőkig is? Tudnál ítélkezés nélkül segíteni?
Tarts Bálinttal ezen a különleges úton, és ismerd meg a fiúk lelkének mélységeit!
Lacná kniha The Clicking of Cuthbert
A Golf collection. The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides. Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He's helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his holes in one when she's in thrall to Culture and prefers rising young writers to winners of the French Open? But enter a Great Russian Novelist with a strange passion, and Cuthbert's prospects are transformed. Then look at what happens to young Mitchell Holmes, who misses short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. His career seems on the skids - but can golf redeem it? The kindly but shrewd gaze of the Oldest Member picks out some of the funniest stories Wodehouse ever wrote.
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Various - It's Christmas 3CD
Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (2006 - Remaster)
02. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (Single Version)
03. Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas (2017 - Remaster)
04. Pretenders - 2000 Miles
05. David Essex - A Winter's Tale
06. Elaine Paige - Walking in the Air
07. Alfie Boe - Amazing Grace
08. Bobby Darin - Christmas Auld Lang Syne
09. The Drifters - White Christmas
10. The Cadillacs - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
11. Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby
12. Christina Perri - Merry Christmas Darling
13. Katie Melua - River
14. Vera Lynn - Sleigh Ride
15. Alma Cogan - Christmas Cards
16. Adam Faith - Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop)
17. Mud - Lonely This Christmas
18. Matt Monro - Mary's Boy Child
19. Pilot - It's Christmas
20. The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)
CD 2:
01. CeeLo Green - What Christmas Means to Me
02. Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
03. Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby
04. Luther Vandross - At Christmas Time
05. Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz It's Christmas
06. The Impressions - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
07. The Salsoul Orchestra - Merry Christmas All
08. Ashley Tisdale - Last Christmas
09. Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know
10. Gabrielle Aplin - The Power of Love
11. Musiq Soulchild - The First Noël
12. Yolanda Adams - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
13. Blake Shelton - Jingle Bell Rock
14. Randy Travis - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
15. Kathie Lee Gifford - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
16. Errol Brown - Family Christmas Time
17. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Christmas Song
18. Boyzone - The Hour Before Christmas
19. Clannad - Christmas Angels
20. Straight No Chaser - Silent Night
CD 3:
01. The Blossom Street Singers - Once in Royal David's City
02. Oxford St. Peter's Choir - In Dulci Jubilo
03. The Blossom Street Singers - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
04. The Blossom Street Singers - O Come All Ye Faithful
05. The Blossom Street Singers - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
06. The Blossom Street Singers - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
07. The Blossom Street Singers - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
08. The Blossom Street Singers - Ding Dong Merrily on High
09. The Regency Youth Choir - Little Drummer Boy
10. The Blossom Street Singers - I Saw Three Ships
11. The Blossom Street Singers - The Holly and the Ivy
12. The Blossom Street Singers - Coventry Carol
13. The Regency Youth Choir - O Holy Night
14. The Regency Youth Choir - Jingle Bells
15. The Blossom Street Singers - Away in a Manger
16. The Blossom Street Singers - O Little Town of Bethlehem
17. The Blossom Street Singers - We Three Kings
18. The Blossom Street Singers - In the Bleak Midwinter
19. The Blossom Street Singers - The First Noël
20. The Regency Youth Choir - Twelve Days of Christmas
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The Last Hours: Chain of Thorns
James and Cordelia must save London — and their marriage — in this thrilling and highly anticipated conclusion to The Last Hours series from the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare. Chain of Thorns is a Shadowhunters novel.
Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her.
In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.
After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.
Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. The long-kept secret that Belial is James and Lucie’s grandfather has been revealed by an unexpected enemy, and the Herondales find themselves under suspicion of dealings with demons. Cordelia longs to protect James, but is torn between a love for James she has long believed hopeless, and the possibility of a new life with Matthew. Nor can her friends help — ripped apart by their own secrets, they seem destined to face what is coming alone.
For time is short, and Belial’s plan is about to crash into the Shadowhunters of London like a deadly wave, one that will separate Cordelia, Lucie, and the Merry Thieves from help of any kind. Left alone in a shadowy London, they must face Belial’s deadly army. If Cordelia and her friends are going to save their city — and their families — they will have to muster their courage, swallow their pride, and trust one another again. For if they fail, they may lose everything — even their souls.
Talking to Strangers
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox.
Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?
Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.
Love Theoretically
From the author of tiktok sensations and global bestsellers The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom.
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favourite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but... those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she's with him? Will falling into an experimentalist's orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
Szeretetmozaik
"A szeretet határtalan. Ezáltal megnevezhetetlen és leírhatatlan; nevet és formát csak az emberi elme által kap. S noha a vallási fanatikusok, a mindent megmagyarázó ultra-egoisták és a hatalommániás diktátorok mindenkire ráerőltetik az általuk elfogadott szeretetformát, az intelligens ember pontosan tudja, hogy a szeretet határtalan.
Mivel fanatikus, egoista, de még diktátor sem vagyok, e könyvben nem fogom meghatározni a szeretet fogalmát. Nem erőltetek semmilyen hangzatos elvet vagy gyémántkeményre csiszolt elméletet: a különféle stílusú-ritmusú szövegmozaikokkal a valóságot próbálom átadni, azt a végtelent, amelyben nincs más, csak te és a szeretet.
Ezt a könyvet nem én írtam. A Lét, a Végtelen és a szeretet hozta össze, csak fogtam a tollat, amit a mindenség forgatott. Életed végéig még sokszor fogod hallani, hogy igazából nem tudsz szeretni, hogy a szereteted nem valódi. Kérlek, mi több, könyörgöm, ne fogadd el a többség lekicsinylő véleményét, mert a szíved nem az elvárásuk szerint dobban. Számodra az a valódi szeretet, amit valódinak élsz meg - ne hagyd, hogy mások döntsenek a lelked értékéről.
A következő oldalakon beszélni fogunk a szeretetről. Mindketten. Ne tévesszen meg a látszat, hogy csendben olvasol; amikor megérinted a lapokat, találkozunk, amikor értelmezed a sorokat, kérdezel. Tőlem és magadtól, a szívedben létező emberektől, a már eltávozott szeretteidtől...
Ha mindezt megértetted, a szeretet benned van.
Ha nem, akkor is."
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A banda 3: Reign of Brayshaw - A Brayshaw uralom
Azt hiszi, eltitkolhatja az igazságot. Nagyot téved.
"Azokban bízz, akik kiérdemlik!" Olyan elv, amit gondolkodás nélkül követek, csakhogy ezúttal több következménnyel jár, mint valaha.
Egy döntés, öt élet, három jövő. Ez a tét.
Egy éjszaka, egy választás, négy megtört Brayshaw.
Ez következik.
Hacsak meg nem állítom. Meg kell állítanom.
Emlékeztetnem kell apámat arra, amit el akar felejteni.
Az én városom. Az én döntésem. Az én befejezésem.
Az erkölcsileg korrupt tinédzserek világában csak a legerősebb maradhat életben...
Vesd bele magad a záró történetbe!
Cliffs (Five Nights at Freddys: Fazbear 7)
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...
Some things must be learned the hard way ... Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son. Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe of Five Nights at Freddy's, there's always an education in pain.
In this seventh volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favourite artist LadyFiszi.
Readers beware: this collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
Spinning Out
Spinning Out is an urgent, eye-opening study by leading climate change activist, researcher and writer that draws on the latest research and evidence to unravel systemic ways that climate change is driving people mad - and show how we can find inspiration in that madness.
In 2019, climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young attempted suicide, following a succession of breakdowns. He jumped off a six-storey building, resulting in the loss of both legs. He spent a month in a coma, lost his flat and woke up without a job. In rebuilding his life physically and emotionally, Charlie saw that the climate crisis and mental illness are inextricably linked and, equally, little understood.
In this reflective, wise and darkly humorous account of his own recovery, he explores how his bipolarity was largely driven by climate change and identifies the ways in which our culture has led to the current crisis. He shows how climate chaos is ubiquitous, unpredictable and mediated through vast inequalities of power; how climate disaster is responsible for many times more mental health conditions than physical ailments; how our minds aren't built to deal with such threats; and how modern society isn't fit to support those suffering as a result.
Spinning Out is more than a call to arms - it's a manual for anyone who wants to fight for a better world and avoid the pitfalls of despair. It draws on the experience of dozens of activists, organisers and researchers across every habitable continent - from radical psychiatrists and youth organisers to co-operative builders in flooded Pakistan, activists in Nigeria and earth defenders in indigenous Mexico - to outline models for recovery and post-traumatic growth.
It shows how meaningful action - action that aims to change not just our emissions but our entire way of life - can be a powerful means of both psychological recovery and planetary renewal. Climate-related mental health issues are crippling millions.
Spinning Out points to a better way forward - towards wedding the needs of the earth with the needs of the human mind, towards new-found meaning, connection and belonging.