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Hřbitovy mimozemšťanů - Vetřelci na Sibiři - Mumie z Marsu - Jezero koster - Trosečníci z Kasskary - Město trpaslíků - Příliš podivný soused - Tajemná mořská světla - Podivná zkáza Sodomy - Války bohů, zrůd a lidí - Vrazi z neznáma. Knížka plná fascinujících záhad, které dokazují, že vesmír je podivné a zázračné místo, kde realita pokaždé předčí i nejživější fantazii.
The Crack of Doom
The rough notes from which this narrative has been constructed were given to me by the man who tells the story. For obvious reasons I have altered the names of the principals, and I hereby pass on the assurance which I have received, that the originals of such as are left alive can be found if their discovery be thought desirable. This alteration of names, the piecing together of somewhat disconnected and sometimes nearly indecipherable memoranda, and the reduction of the mass to consecutive form, are all that has been required of me or would have been permitted to me. The expedition to Labrador mentioned by the narrator has not returned, nor has it ever been definitely traced. He does not undertake to prove that it ever set out. But he avers that all which is hereafter set down is truly told, and he leaves it to mankind to accept the warning which it has fallen to him to convey, or await the proof of its sincerity which he believes the end of the century will produce. (Often quoted as being the first reference to the idea of an atomic bomb.)
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In the Penal Colony
The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.
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The Adventures of Captain Horn
This was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1895. It begins:"Early in the spring of the year 1884, the three-masted schooner Castor, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm, which rose with frightful suddenness, was of short duration, but it left the Castor a helpless wreck. ..."The Castor was an American merchant-vessel, commanded by Captain Philip Horn, an experienced navigator of about thirty-five years of age. Besides a valuable cargo, she carried three passengers—two ladies and a boy. ..."But when the storm had passed, and the sky was clear, and the mad waves had subsided into a rolling swell, there seemed no reason to believe that any one on board the Castor would ever reach Valparaiso. The vessel had been badly strained by the wrenching of the masts, her sides had been battered by the floating wreckage, and she was taking in water rapidly. Fortunately, no one had been injured by the storm, ...."All of the row boats had been blown off of the ship, but the crew was able to retrieve two of them from the sea; and "...in less than three hours after the vessel had been struck, the two boats, containing all the crew and the passengers, besides a goodly quantity of provisions and water, and such valuables, clothing, rugs, and wraps as room could be found for, were pulling away from the wreck."The adventure thus begins, lost at sea somewhere off of the unsettled coast of Peru with only a vague idea of where they are.
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Pod hladinou
SEVERSKÁ KRIMI Z OPRAVDOVÉHO SEVERU…
Loď Avilda pohřešuje dva členy posádky. Lov krabů patří na Aljašce k nejnebezpečnějším povoláním a vrtkavé počasí si na moři každoročně vyžádá desítky životů, ale zmizení Christophera Alcaly a Stuarta Browna je i na aljašské poměry podezřelé.
Bez mrtvol, motivu a důkazů mají však policisté i vyšetřovatelé z úřadu státního návladního svázané ruce, proto do hry znovu vstupuje jejich bývalá kolegyně Kate Shugaková.
Kate se nechává najmout jako pomocná síla na palubu Avildy a vydává se na divokou plavbu, jež ji zavede z přístavu Dutch Harbor do zrádných vod Aleutských ostrovů. Pokud ji nezabije samotný lov a drsné počasí, pak se o to možná postarají členové posádky, kterým by se obzvlášť hodilo, kdyby některá tajemství zůstala hluboko pod hladinou Beringova moře…
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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The Iliad of Homer
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The World Set Free
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The Battle of Life
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The Elements Magnet Set: With Complete Periodic Table!
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Life On The Mississippi
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The Necessity of Atheism
Excerpts:"There are no problems related to human progress and happiness in this age which any theology can solve, and which the teachings of freethought cannot do better and without the aid of encumbrances. ... Agree or disagree with this contention you may, but only when you are made aware of the facts that can be brought to the aid of this conviction. ... The supernaturalist's armamentarium of God, Bible, Heaven, Hell, Soul, Immortality, Sin, The Fall and Redemption of Man, Prayer, Creed, and Dogma, leave as much impression on the mind of intelligent man as would an arrow against a battleship."The author reviews the effects of religious thinking upon various aspects of human history and human thought: science, medicine, morality, witchcraft, warfare, slavery, women, labor, philosophy. He quotes many persons who have written on this subject, both in distant past and in recent years. He argues that the decline of religion and the rise of atheism are inevitable.Copyright note: This book was first published in the United States in 1933 with notice: "Copyright, 1933 BY FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION". The copyright was not renewed, according to the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, therefore the copyright has expired. Thus this book is in the public domain in the United States. However, the author died in 1994 and therefore the book may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions not applying the "rule of the shorter term" to U.S. works. Consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_shorter_term and the copyright law in your country before downloading this eBook. (Reference: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:David_Marshall_Brooks).
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Poustevník z Eytonského lesa
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Okolnosti se změní úmrtím lorda Ludela z Eatonu, jehož syn Richard se pod záštitou kláštera věnuje studiu. Nyní by se ovšem měl ujmout svého dědictví, tvrdí Richardova babička Dionisie, a nejlépe ho i rozmnožit díky dohodnutému sňatku. Co na tom, že je chlapci teprve deset let…
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The Art of War
The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtu, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents.Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties.
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The Pineapple Strategy - Networking for every Type of Person
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We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
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Lord of the World
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Riders of the Silences
The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter McGurk.
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The 28th Gate: Volume 3
Hunter is back in Season II with more guns, more ships, and more advanced tech than before!
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