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The Outsider
"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales."The Outsider" combines Horror, Fantasy, and Gothic Fiction to create a nightmarish story, containing themes of loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife. Source: Wikipedia
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Dark Star Trilogy Book 1
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman
In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine an ancient world, a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers...
'The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.'
Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy. Each of these companions is stranger and more dangerous than the last, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each has secrets of their own.
As the mismatched gang follow the boy's scent from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to the enchanted darklands and beyond, set upon at every turn by creatures intent on destroying them, Tracker starts to wonder: who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?
Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy.
'A game-changing modern fantasy classic' Financial Times
'Complex, lyrical, moving and furiously gripping... This new book will propel James into a new galaxy of literary stardom' Observer
'To call this novel original doesn't do [it] justice... James has thrown African cultures, mythologies, religions, histories, world-views and topographies into the mighty cauldron of his imagination to create a work of literary magic' New Statesman
The Book of Snakes
There are over 3,700 species of snake found on every continent except for Antarctica, ranging in size from Barbados' tiny threadsnake to Southeast Asia's massive reticulated python. More than any other creature snakes are surrounded by dark, compelling myths and legend, unsurprising since many constrict their prey to death, or kill with a venomous bite, using a diverse armory of venoms that affect the blood, tissues, organs, and respiration. However, it is especially true of snakes that the closer you observe them, the more exquisite they are in their intricate geometry of pattern, the fine texture of the overlapping scales, and the intricacies of their multifarious lifestyles. The Book of Snakes profiles 600 significant species from all 32 families-one in six of all known species-to create a beautiful collector's piece that is both a significant resource for enthusiasts and scholars, and the most visually stimulating guide on the market.
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Los Diecisiete Pasos Para Convertirse En Un Criador Profesional De Gatos Sphynx
Instrucciones paso a paso sobre cómo empezar y construir un programa para la cría profesional de gatos esfinge.
Este libro describe el proceso completo desde la compra de su primer par de gatitos hasta la venta de los cachorros.
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Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history-Henry Ford and Thomas Edison-and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called "energy dollars," and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison's view) of crippling the growth of socialism.The whole audacious scheme almost came off, with Southerners rallying to support what became known as the Ford Plan. But while some saw it as a way to conjure the future and reinvent the South, others saw it as one of the biggest land swindles of all time. They were all true.Electric City is a rich chronicle of the time and the social backdrop, and offers a fresh look at the lives of the two men who almost saw the project to fruition, the forces that came to oppose them, and what rose in its stead: a new kind of public corporation called the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the greatest achievements of the New Deal. This is a history for a wide audience, including readers interested in American history, technology, politics, and the future.
The Extended Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for the replication of genes. The book provoked widespread and heated debate, which in part led Dawkins to write The Extended Phenotype, in which he gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of
the gene as the unit of selection, as well as contributing his own development of this insight.
For the first time, The Extended Selfish Gene brings these two books together, by including two key chapters from The Extended Phenotype. These chapters provide Dawkins's detailed and powerful response to two issues raised by critics of The Selfish Gene: the accusations of genetic determinism (the idea that our behaviour is entirely determined by our genes), and of "adaptationism " (that all traits are indiscriminately perceived to be adaptations resulting from
natural selection). While written in particular for the biology community, Dawkins's clarity of expression allows these chapters to be accessible to all who are seriously engaged with the gene's eye view and its implications.
The imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant Selfish Gene not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as significant as on the day it was published. Along with the two extra chapters, The Extended Selfish Gene includes a new epilogue to The Selfish Gene from the author which highlights the
relevance of the gene's eye view to evolutionary biology today.
The Fashion Book
The iconic bestseller - showcasing more than 500 of fashion's greatest names from A- Z - now updated in a stunning new edition
Revised and updated, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning two centuries, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers, editors, creative directors and influencers. Marking significant changes on the fashion landscape, this edition features the new people who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion in recent years, including Virgil Abloh, Gosha Rubchinskiy, and Alessandro Michele, influential photographer Petra Collins, designer and contemporary icon Rihanna, and Leandra Medine, alongside fashion pioneers of the previous edition such as Coco Chanel, Issey Miyake, Kate Moss, Erdem, and Richard Avedon. The bestselling - and now updated - classic volume remains a comprehensive and definitive view of the fashion industry today.
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Psychology Book
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature `The Psychology Book` clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where does language come from? With the use of powerful and easy-to-follow images, quotations from all the major thinkers, and explanations that are easily understandable, this book demystifies hard-to-grasp concepts and shows how these have shaped our knowledge of the human mind. All the schools of psychology are covered from cognitive to behavioural psychology making this ideal for students or for anyone with a general interest in this popular area. If you're fascinated by the human mind then `The Psychology Book` will get you thinking.
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity
Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pure physics and higher mathematics is able to fully understand them. In order to make a popular explanation of this far-reaching theory available, the present book is published.
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The Ravenhood - Exodus
„Azt ?tettem, amit a tolvajok: elloptalak”
Cecilia Horner unalmas évre számított, de ez lett élete legizgalmasabb nyara, miután megismerte a helyi rosszfiúkat, Seant és Dominicot, és a kapcsolatuk sokkal veszélyesebb fordulatot vett…
De elkábul a felismerésre, hogy a két fiú a Ravenhood titkos társaság tagja, amelynek élén egy Franciának nevezett férfi áll, aki nem szeretné, ha Cecilia az emberei vagy a küldetése közelébe férkőzne…
Ceciliának minden oka megvan rá, hogy gyűlölje, de a szerelmet csak egy hajszál választja el a gyűlölettől. És ha a Triple Fallsban eltöltött idő megtanította Ceciliát valamire, akkor az az, hogy nagyon is hajlandó ezt a vékony határvonalat átlépni..
Kate Stewart „Ravenhood” trilógiája elvarázsolta a TikTok közönségét világszerte.
A merész, szexi, romantikus, korunkba átültetett Robin Hood-történet lélegzetelállító fordulatai és elsöprő érzelmei magával ragadnak, és nem eresztenek.
Ez a szokatlan, és tabudöntögető szerelmi történet mindvégig töretlen izgalmat ígér, rejtélyekkel, szexiséggel, függőséget okozó rosszfiúkkal, akcióval és ÉRZELMEK SOKASÁGÁVAL.
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The Ravenhood - Falka
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"A szíved mélyén, ha nem kellene választanod, megtennéd?"
A tét egyszerű: a tizenkilencéves Cecilia Hornernek egy dolga van - át kell vészelnie egy évet Triple Falls kisvárosában, ahol a családjától különélő apjánál lakik és munkát kell vállalnia az apja gyárában. Cserébe az apja fizeti a főiskolai tandíját, és egy kisebb vagyont is biztosít, amiből Cecilia segítheti egyedülálló anyját.
De minden megváltozik, amikor az első munkanapján megismerkedik a helyi fiúval, a szexi Seannal. Sean összehozza összetartó baráti körével, köztük a titokzatos Dominic-kal. A társaság a saját törvényei szerint él, és ugyanolyan hollót ábrázoló tetoválásuk van...
Cecilia mindig is óvatos volt, de most elvakítják a Sean és Dominic iránti egyre erősödő érzései, és úgy dönt, kiélvezi az utolsó szabad nyarát, és nyit az új élmények felé, repítsék azok bárhova is...
Kate Stewart "Ravenhood" trilógiája elvarázsolta a TikTok közönségét világszerte.
A merész, szexi, romantikus, korunkba átültetett Robin Hood-történet lélegzetelállító fordulatai és elsöprő érzelmei magával ragadnak, és nem eresztenek.
Ez a szokatlan, és tabudöntögető szerelmi történet mindvégig töretlen izgalmat ígér, rejtélyekkel, szexiséggel, függőséget okozó rosszfiúkkal, akcióval és ÉRZELMEK SOKASÁGÁVAL.
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The Gentleman’s Seduction
‘Tis the season…for revenge.
Eleven years ago during Christmas, Martin Banks’ family was thrown into the streets by wealthy landlord, Edwin Hartwell. Now this holiday season, Fate has handed Martin an unexpected gift. Vengeance. Defeating Hartwell at cards gives Martin the chance to financially ruin the man—but damn, instead of money, Hartwell offers his daughter as payment. And double damn, Martin stupidly accepts. How did retribution turn into seduction? Martin refuses to let himself fall in love, so there must be rules to this game.
And perhaps a bit of romance.
Desperate to save her father from ruin, Livvy Hartwell agrees to accompany Martin as his paramour. She long ago accepted that a penniless bluestocking like herself had no chance for a well-suited marriage. If a few passionate months with a man like Martin is all she’ll ever have as far as romance, it’s an opportunity she will take. But she must guard her heart. He might be handsome as the devil and tempting as sin, but she can’t be a typical mistress and doesn’t want Martin to call her such. In fact, she has a list of rules.
Livvy’s Rules:
~ Adventures outdoors such as horseback riding would be appreciated.
~ Evening meals should be eaten together to converse about the day’s events.
~ Allotted time alone to read gothic novels.
~ Kissing should be kept at a minimum.
Martin’s Rules:
~ Adventures are required—particularly indoors—and will be greatly appreciated.
~ Evening meals will sometimes be eaten in the bedroom, naked.
~ Allotted time together to act out the sensual gothic novels.
~ Kissing—a lot of it and in some very pleasurable spots — is required.
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Exodus - British Disaster: The Battle of '89 (Live At The Astoria) (Gold) 2LP
Exodus je americká thrash metalová skupina založená v roku 1979 v meste Richmond v Kalifornii. Jediným stálym členom skupiny po celú dobu jej existencie je gitarista Gary Holt. Skupina zatiaľ vydala jedenásť štúdiových albumov, dve živé nahrávky a dve kompilácie.Konečne k dispozícii po 35 rokoch „Fabulous Disaster“ je k dispozícii tretí štúdiový album
„Fabulous Disaster“ vydaný 30. januára 1989. V noci 8. marca 1989 bol zaznamenaný pamätný koncert, pri ktorom kapela zničila pódium v ??Astoria v Londýne! Noc, ktorá sa zapísala do histórie a stala sa legendárnou pre Exodus a všetkých fanúšikov Thrash po celom svete!Táto nahrávka zostala nezverejnená a starostlivo zachovaná dodnes!
Tracklist:
Side A:
01. The Last Act Of Defiance
02. Fabulous Disaster
03. 'til Death Do Us Part
04. Corruption
Side B:
05. The Toxic Waltz
06. A Lesson In Violence
07. Chemi-Kill
08. Piranha
Side C:
09. Like Father, Like Son
10. Deliver Us To Evil
11. Parasite
Side D:
12. And Then Ther Were None
13. Verbal Razors
14. Brain Dead
15. Strike Of The Beast
Amerikai költők a második ezredfordulón – American Poets at the Turn of the Second Millenium
A fordító huszonöt amerikai költő összesen százegy versét válogatta kétnyelvű antológiába. Olyan költők verseit, akik kortársaink a második ezredforduló tájékán. Igyekezett színes képet kapni – és mutatni – a magyar irodalomkedvelőknek híres költők változatos egyéniségéről, témájuk kavalkádjáról.A versfordítás örök dilemmája: mennyire legyen szolgai, mennyire legyen szabad. Jelen kötet fordítójának célja az arany középút megtartása volt, ellenállni a parttalan átköltés csábításának. A maga valójában mutatni meg az amerikai költészet tartalmi és formai sokszínűségét. Három-négy vers egy-egy költőtől, szellemi kóstoló, néhány felvillantott gondolat, kép, hangulat – távolról sem életművek, vagy korszakos kötetek bemutatásának igényével.A fordító azzal az ambícióval hízeleg magának, hogy férfi mivoltának dacára képes hitelesen tolmácsolni a szebbik nem érzéseit is.A versek kedvelőit szólítja meg ez az összeállítás, egyben hasznos – és remélhetőleg élvezetes – kirándulásra vezetheti azokat, akik az angol nyelvvel ismerkednek, vagy foglalkoznak. „Amerikás magyarjaink” is haszonnal vehetik kézbe. Nekik és gyermekeiknek a magyar szókincset segíthet őrizni és gyarapítani.
The translator has selected, for inclusion in this anthology, a total of one hundred and one poems written by twenty five American poets at about the turn of the last century. These tr anslations are intended to convey the color and personality of each poet for Hungarian readers, while still respecting and preserving the essential style of each poet — and while also avoiding the temptation to rewrite.American poetry has so much diversity of form and content that a translator has to attempt, for each individual poet, to include representative works that express unique tastes, thoughts, images and humors, in acceptance of the fact that comprehensive treatment of each poet is not reasonably within reach in this volume.A sincere effort has been made to faithfully present the work of a number of American women, at least as well as a mere man can do.Throughout, the chosen works all reflect an overriding purpose of fur-thering a love of poetry while also serving as an effective tool for learning English. Hungarians abroad, and their families, it is hoped, will also find that this anthology will help them to increase and broaden the vocabulary of their native language.
A kötetben szereplő költők:
Wendell Berry, Michael Burch, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denise Duhamel, Stephen Dunn, Russel Edson, Maggie Estep, Gary R. Ferris, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, Erica Jong, Sharon Esther Lampert, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, Sharon Olds, Wanda Phipps, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Reeser, Charles Simic, Belinda Subraman, James Tate, Marilyn L. Taylor, Joseph Mayo Wristen, Cecilia Woloch
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Teen Eli Readers - English: The Call of the Wind, bez CD
When The Call of the Wild was published the first printing of 10,000 copies sold out immediately and it is still one the best known stories written by an American author. Buck, a happy, quiet dog living in sunny California, is kidnapped and sent north to begin a new hard life as a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. Read about his adventures and the many problems he has to face in this new cruel world. Discover how he begins to change and how he responds to the Call of the Wild.
Prvých 10 000 kusov knihy The Call of the Wild (Volanie divočiny) sa vypredalo ihneď a dodnes je to jedným z najznámejších príbehov napísaných americkým autorom.
Pokojného a šťastného psa Buck zo slnečnej Kalifornie unesú a pošlú na sever, kde sa začína nový ťažký život – ťahá snežný záprah počas zlatej horúčky na Klondiku. Prečítajte si o dobrodružstvách a mnohých problémoch, ktorým musel čeliť v novom, krutom svete. Zistite, ako sa začína meniť a čeliť volaniu divočiny.
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The Panchronicon
A novel about time travel.Excerpt:"Don't have to keep count," he replied. "See that indicator?" he continued, pointing to a dial in the ceiling which had not been noticed before. "That reads May 3, 1898, now, don't it? Well, it's fixed to keep always tellin' the right date. It counts the whirls we make an' keeps tabs on every day we go backward. Any time all ye hev to do is to read that thing an' it'll tell ye jest what day 'tis."
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Flip the Script
Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles. Flip the Script offers a close look at the role of hip hop in Europe, where it has become a politically powerful and commercially successful form of expression for the children and grandchildren of immigrants from former colonies.
Through analysis of recorded music and other media, as well as interviews and fieldwork with hip hop communities, J. Griffith Rollefson shows how this music created by black Americans is deployed by Senegalese Parisians, Turkish Berliners, and South Asian Londoners to both differentiate themselves from and relate themselves to the dominant culture. By listening closely to the ways these postcolonial citizens in Europe express their solidarity with African Americans through music, Rollefson shows, we can literally hear the hybrid realities of a global double consciousness.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
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The Mysterious Rider
He came to the Belilounds ranch, no one knew from where; a man of middle age, gentle, kindly, but so terrible a gunfighter that they called him "Hell Bent" Wade. He played the part of fate in all their lives, and only when the inevitable tragedy came and teh Mysterious Rider made the great sacrifice did they know - and out of that tragedy came the light of love.
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