Hľadanie: The girl in the spider's web
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.
The Last Bookshop in London : A Novel of World War II
August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London.
Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling to unite her community in ways she never dreamed--a force that triumphs over even the darkest nights of the war.
The road to Frontenac
A book about Denonville's expedition against the Iroquois.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Who Would Be King (EN)
Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan are two scruffy adventurers who are planning to conquer Kafiristan – a remote part of Afghanistan. The two men pretend to have signed a contract that neither of them will touch alcohol or women. However, disguised as a priest and his assistant, Dravot and Carnehan depart for Kafiristan, secretly carrying twenty riffles.
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Milionová loupež - The Million Dollar Bond Robery
V povídce Milionová loupež dojde během plavby zaoceánské lodi Olympia do New Yorku ke krádeži dluhopisů v hodnotě milion dolarů. Podezřelým je pan Philip Ridgeway, který dluhopisy převážel. Snoubenka pana Ridgewaye Esmée je přesvědčena o jeho nevině a prosí Hercula Poirota o pomoc. Vždyť jen tři lidé měli klíče od kufru s dluhopisy, řešení by tedy mělo být snadné… Jedno z oblíbených témat Agathy Christie a sice záhadné síly a moc starověkého Egypta se objevuje i v povídce Tajemství egyptské hrobky. Kdo jiný než Hercule Poirot je schopen s pomocí logiky a rozumu vyvrátit historky o prokletí? Ve třetí povídce Dívka ve vlaku cestuje poněkud bezstarostný mladý muž vlakem za novým životem, neboť byl zrovna svým strýcem vyhozen z rodinné fi rmy. Náhodné setkání s krásnou dívkou však jeho život navždy změní. Cesta vlakem tvoří pozadí i poslední povídky Ten čtvrtý. Na cestě do Newcastle se v jednom kupé sejdou kanovník, psychiatr a právník. V kupé však sedí i čtvrtý muž, který zjevně nevěnuje jejich hovoru žádnou pozornost. Nakonec se ukáže, že právě on dokáže tyto vzdělané muže něčemu naučit.
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The Tin Woodman of Oz
The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood.
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Stadiul terminal al vie?ii în psihologia sanata?ii
Stadiul terminal al vie?ii în psihologia sãnãtã? (Az élet végsõ szakasza az egészségpszichológiában) Cartea con? ine partea întâi a volumului "Moartea ca problemã a psihologiei", pu? in revizuitã, care trateazã într-un mod foarte captivant, problema mor? ii, din aspectele cardinale ale culturii ?i ?tiin?ei. Acest volum nu con?ine partea a doua a cãr?ii amintite, despre studiul psihologic ?i prelucrarea statisticã a acestuia, care era adresatã, mai ales speciali?tilor în domeniu. A "Moartea ca problemã a psihologiei" (A halál, mint a pszichológia nagy kérdése) c. könyv első, kissé átdolgozott részét tartalmazza a kiadvány, mely rendkívül érdekesen tárgyalja a halál kérdéskörét, a kultúra és a tudomány legfőbb szempontjaiból. Ez a kiadvány nem tartalmazza az említett könyv, inkább szakembereknek szóló, - pszichológiai felmérést és annak statisztikai feldolgozását bemutató - második részét. This book is the slightly revised first part of the volume "Moartea ca problemã a psihologiei" (Death as a Problem of Psychology), that treats in an exciting manner the problem of death from all the cardinal points of view of the culture and science. This volume leaves out the second part of the mentioned book, which described a psychological test and its statistical processing and was addressed mostly to specialists.
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The Light in Hidden Places
DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW.
DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW.
DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW.
DEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW.
One knock at the door could be the death of them all...
It is 1943, and sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgorska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, for four years. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - an engagement they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish.
But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Max Diamant has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that could destroy everything...
A powerful novel from a New York Times Bestselling author, based on the remarkable true story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during World War Two.
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The legend of the Golem
Příběh nadaného studenta z Heidelbergu, jenž se vydá do Prahy hledat tajemného Golema rabbiho Loewa a dostane se až k samotnému císaři Rudolfovi II. Poutavé vyprávění s faustovskou pointou, jehož dvojznačný konec je ponechán na čtenáři. Originální, uhrančivé ilustrace Petra Nikla.
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Charles Spurgeon's Meditations On The Easter Story (EN)
Beautifully and devotionally read by Christopher Glyn, this is a unique compilation of 21 readings from Charles Spurgeon's classic "Morning and Evening" devotionals on the theme of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Complimented with short instrumental interludes composed by Michael Dooley.
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful (EN)
In A Philosophical Enquiry. Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics. His definition of beauty as rooted in pleasure and sexuality, and the sublime in pain and survival, aligned him with the empiricists John Locke and David Hume, as he replaced the metaphysics of Plato’s aesthetics with a psychological and physiological perspective.
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The Catcher in the Rye
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s.
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield...
One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.
'A perfect novel ... it changed US culture forever' Independent
'It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him' Martin Amis
'He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was' Sunday Times
'His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now' Dave Eggers
Lacná kniha Chucpedie The Jewish Jokes Book (-25%)
Výbor méně známých židovských anekdot v česko-anglické jazykové verzi. Sestavili Julius Muller a Aaron Grunberg.
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The Alps - High Mountains in Motion
On the trail of change
Lorenz Andreas Fischer's spectacular photographs show the fragile and ever-changing beauty of the Alps.
Extreme weather conditions, transitioning seasons, daytime and nighttime, erosion and deposition, melting and freezing, and avalanches: The Alps are a site of constant change, as much as a place of retreat, tranquility, and history. A site of yearning through the generations, the highest mountain ranges in Central Europe are forever shifting and creating breathtaking new landscapes, shapes, and colors.
Photographer Lorenz Andreas Fischer has traveled to the Alps for years, from the highest peaks in the west to the last eastern foothills. This photo book brings together his impressions, showing us the startling beauty of the Alpine mountains. As climate change increasingly disrupts the region's natural cycles and ecosystem, Fischer's photographs remind us just how important it is to protect this unique and beautiful landscape.
Finally, a book that succeeds in capturing every facet of the Alps.
With guiding essays by alpinists and experts on as well as lovers of this unique mountain realm.
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A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations Of An Optimist
In this serious attempt to forecast the changes ahead in the 20th century from the year 1906, the author deals with the accelerating rate of scientific progress, housing, travel, population, business, pleasure, newspapers, utilization of the sea, science, education, religion, economics, and law. He describes his intentions in the following manner in his Preface:"The following was at first intended to be no more than an attempt to foresee the probable trend of mechanical invention and scientific discovery during the present century. But as the work took shape it was seen to involve a certain amount of what may be called moral conjecture, since the material progress of the new age could not very well be imagined without taking into account its mental characteristics. In these expectations of an optimist, a great ethical improvement of the civilised human race has been anticipated, and a rate of progress foreseen which perhaps no previous writers have looked for. Both in regard to moral development and material progress, it has been the aim of the author to predict nothing that the tendencies of existing movement do not justify us in expecting. "An attempt of this kind is exposed to facile criticism. It will be easy for objectors to signalise this or that expected invention as beyond scientific possibility, that or the other moral reform as fit only for Utopia. But those who will consent to perpend the enormous and utterly unforeseen advance of the nineteenth century will recognise the danger of limiting their anticipations concerning the possibilities of the twenty-first. A fanciful description in (I think) Addison's Spectator of an invention by which the movements of an indicator on a lettered dial were imagined to be reproduced on a similar dial at a distance, and employed as a means of communication, must have seemed wholly chimerical to its readers; and even as recently as fifty years ago, anyone who predicted the telephone would have been laughed at. When the principle of the accumulator was already discovered a very competent practical electrician told the writer that he need not worry himself much about the idea : there was not the least likelihood that electricity could ever be "bottled up in cisterns"! On the whole there is more likelihood of error in timidity than in boldness when we attempt to foresee what will be attained after the increasingly rapid movement of scientific progress during this twentieth century shall have gathered full force. "For the rest, criticism of this sort is disarmed, because the reader has been in any case invited to enter a realm of more or less pure imagination. No one can exactly know with what births, monstrous or beautiful, the future may teem. Admitting a certain point of view — that of almost unrestrained optimism — the predictions here offered will, it is believed, be found to be along the line of existing progress." No details of the author's life have been found on the Internet, but he seems to have been British since his preface is signed with a city in England, he makes references to London as well as to US cities, and he uses British spellings. This book was published in 1906 in the United States, so it is in the public domain in the United States, and perhaps elsewhere. For information on copyright and the public domain, see http://www.publicdomainday.org/ .
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Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There)
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.
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The Rolling Stones - A rock 'n' roll királyai
"I know it's only rock 'n' roll but I like it!"
("Tudom, hogy csak rock 'n' roll, de akkor is szeretem!" - The Rolling Stones dalszöveg)
A Stones több mint ötven éve játssza magas oktánszámú rock and roll zenéjét. Szerte a nagyvilágban embermilliók előtt léptek fel, és lenyűgöző pályafutásuk során folyamatosan jelentették meg a sikerlistákat meghódító dalaikat.
Könyvünkben feltárul Mick és Keith elképesztő története. Megismerhetjük az 1962-ben megalapított bandájukat és a rendkívül népszerű zenéjüket.
Glenn Crouche, zenei szakíró - a Stones egykori termékmenedzsere a Virgin Recordsnál - munkáját nagyszerű eredeti fényképek és egy páratlan magángyűjtemény kizárólag ehhez a könyvhöz lefényképezett ritkaságai teszik igazán különlegessé.
Weeknd, The - Starboy LP
Tracklist:
1. Starboy [feat. Daft Punk]
2. Party Monster
3. False Alarm
4. Reminder
5. Rockin\'
6. Secrets
7. True Colors
8. Stargirl Interlude [feat. Lana Del Rey]
9. Sidewalks [feat. Kendrick Lamar]
10. Six Feet Under
11. Love To Lay
12. A Lonely Night
13. Attention
14 Ordinary Life
15. Nothing Without You
16. All I Know [feat. Future]
17. Die For You
18. I Feel It Coming [feat. Daft Punk]