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A Little History of Economics
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and for all readers who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas. Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, chronological chapters that center on big ideas and events. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others, while examining topics ranging from the invention of money and the rise of agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral economics. The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world.
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20,43 €
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Star Wars - A Felkelés kora - Hősök - képregény
Az eredeti Star Wars trilógia hősei visszatérnek! Han Solo éppen átvette jól megszolgált jutalmát a felkelőktől, és készül visszatérni a csempészélethez, amikor új barátja egy utolsó szívességet kér tőle. Luke Skywalker a sötét oldal csábításával kényszerül szembenézni, amely örökre megronthatja a fiatal Jedi lelkét. Lando Calrissian egy nagy dobásra készül, hogy végre-valahára megteremthesse magának azt az életet, amire mindig is vágyott. Leia hercegnő cselt sző, hogy kiszabadíthassa szerelmét Jabba, a hutt fogságából ? vajon képes lesz eljátszani a fejvadász Boushh szerepét, hogy megmenthesse Han Solót?Ez a képregénygyűjtemény a MARVEL A Felkelés kora című sorozatának részeit foglalja magában. A kötetben található történeteket Greg Pak írta, Chris Sprouse és Karl Story rajzolta.
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15,30 €
16,10 €
Winter - (Seasons Quartet 2)
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter
It is strange that you exist, but you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pyjamas, a shoe. In my life that almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time.
In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it anew. While new life is on the horizon, the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about everything from the moon, winter boots and messiness, to owls and birthdays. Taking nothing for granted, he fills these everyday familiar objects and ideas with new meaning.
Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely beautiful, Knausgaard's writing is like nothing else. Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime.
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19,48 €
20,50 €
Oroszlánszívű testvérek
Astrid Lindgren meseregénye varázslatos, álombéli tájakra repíti hőseit. A kedves falusiak és az elszánt gonoszok rettentő küzdelme során a szerző úgy fogalmazza újra az élet, a halál és a hűséges szeretet örök kérdéseit, hogy a történetbe belefeledkező olvasó maga is új fényben látja ezeket.
Jonatan a legjobb testvér a világon. Akkor sem habozik, amikor öccse, Karl az égő házban reked: életét kockáztatva menti ki őt. Ezzel a tettével nyeri el az Oroszlánszívű nevet. És ezzel a tettével kezdődnek a fivérek kalandjai is a mesés Nangilaja hegyei közt, Cseresznyevölgyben és Vadrózsavölgyben. A helybéli lakosok békéjét ugyanis a teljhatalomra törő, gonosz Tengil fenyegeti.
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9,19 €
9,67 €
Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77
The creative team of Jeff Parker (BATMAN '66, AQUAMAN), Marc Andreyko (BATWOMAN, MANHUNTER), Karl Kesel (HARLEY QUINN) and David Hahn (Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane) bring the greatest superheroes in the history of the small screen together at last in BATMAN '66 MEETS WONDER WOMAN '77, an all-new adventure that effortlessly captures the thrills, chills and nonstop fun of two legendary TV series! The world knows them as Bruce Wayne, his youthful ward Dick Grayson, and American agent Diana Prince. To grateful citizens and fearful villains, they're none other than Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman. But the paths of the Dynamic Duo and the Amazon Princess have never crossed...until now!
The all-powerful enemy known as Ra's al Ghul and his League of Shadows are on the move, hunting for everlasting life and bent on world domination. Batman and Wonder Woman's quest to stop him will span the globe and the decades alike--from the time a 10-year-old Bruce Wayne faced the Nazi hordes, to the first full-fledged team-up between the heroes in 1966, to their reunion in the seventies, when Batman's former prot g s Robin and Batgirl have taken over their mentor's war on crime.
Can these incredible guardians of goodness stop an immortal madman? Tune in--er, we mean turn the page--and find out!
Collects BATMAN '66 MEETS WONDER WOMAN '77 #1-6.
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16,10 €
16,95 €
A Szent Grál
Mi a Szent Grál? Az a kehely, amely felfogta Krisztus vérét? Az a tál, amelyben felmutatták Keresztelő Szent János fejét? Az az edény, amelyből Jézus elköltötte az utolsó vacsorát? Vagy éppen hites felesége, aki gyermeknek adván életet, továbbvitte az égi vérvonalat?
Kelta legenda vagy középkori mese-e a Grál-történetek előképe? Ki adta tovább, és miért? Létezett-e a valóságban Arthur király? És a Grál-kehely?
A kötet gondolatébresztő módon igyekszik választ adni ezekre a kérdésekre, miközben titokzatos tárgya nyomába ered. Az izgalmas olvasmányt a Grállal kapcsolatos szemgyönyörködtető műalkotások illusztrációi egészítik ki.
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3,80 €
4,00 €
The Crooked Sixpence
Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems . . . Dive head first into the world of Lundinor in this magical adventure story for anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their life. When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot imagine what adventure lies in store. Returning to Sylvie's house, they find it has been ransacked by unknown intruders - before a mysterious feather scratches an ominous message onto the kitchen wall. A very strange policeman turns up on the scene, determined to apprehend them . . . with a toilet brush. Ivy and Seb make their escape - only to find themselves in a completely uncommon world, where ordinary objects have amazing powers. The forces of evil are closing in fast, and Ivy and Seb must get to the bottom of a family secret . . . before it's too late. Complete with stunning interior illustrations by cover artist Karl Mountford.
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10,40 €
10,95 €
The Little Black Jacket
This book is Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfelds reinterpretation of Chanels iconic little black jacket. Lagerfeld has redesigned the jacket, transforming it into a modern, adaptable garment to be worn by both sexes of all ages. The Little Black Jacket contains Lagerfelds photographs of celebrities wearing the jacket with individual flair sometimes classic, sometimes irreverent, but always Chanel and each styled by Carine Roitfeld. A range of accomplished actors, musicians, designers, models, writers and directors gets the little black jacket treatment, including Claudia Schiffer, Uma Thurman, Kanye West, Tilda Swinton, Baptiste Giabiconi, Yoko Ono and Sarah Jessica Parker. This book shows the astounding versatility of Chanels vision in Lagerfelds hands, and ensures the little black jackets future as a timeless classic. Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, book dealer and publisher, began working as a photographer in 1987. Lagerfeld has received the Lucky Strike Design Award from the Raymond Lewy Foundation, the cultural prize from the German Photographic Society, and the ICP Trustees Award at the International Center of Photographys Infinity Awards in 2007. His recent exhibitions include Konkret Abstrakt Gesehen at the Langen Foundation, Neuss, and Metamorphoses of an American A Cycle of Youth, 20038 at Pace/MacGill, New York. Steidl has published most of Lagerfelds books, including Casa Malaparte (1998), A Portrait of Dorian Gray (2004), Room Service (2006) and The Beauty of Violence (2010). Carine Roitfeld is a fashion writer and stylist, and was editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 2001 to 2011. Roitfeld began her career as a model before moving to French Elle as a journalist and stylist. Meeting Mario Testino then marked the beginning of an ongoing collaboration that saw the pair create groundbreaking advertising campaigns and editorial shoots. Roitfeld worked as a consultant with Tom Ford during his time at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, and her book Irreverent was published in 2010.
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78,85 €
83,00 €
Career Paths Police SB
Career Paths English: Police is a new educational resource for people who are serving or intending to serve as professionals in law enforcement, and who want to improve their English communication skills in a profession-oriented environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in the key language components. Career Paths English: Police addresses topics including: description of people, vehicles and possessions, specific police operations, types of crime, police equipment, administration, organization and command, and many more. The series is organized into three levels of difficulty and offers over 500 vocabulary terms and phrases. Every unit includes a test of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and listening skills, and leads students through written and oral production.
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13,21 €
13,90 €
The Tale of the Heike
The "Tale of the Heike" is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of "The Tale of Genji". First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century, "The Tale of the Heike" is Japan's Iliad - a grand-scale depiction of the wars between the Heike and Genji clans. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, it is also a work filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist themes of suffering and separation, as well as universal insights into love, loss and loyalty. The narrative moves back and forth between the two great warring clans, between aristocratic society and street life, adults and children, great crowds and introspection. No Japanese work has had a greater impact on subsequent literature, theatre, music and films, or on Japan's sense of its own past. Royall Tyler's new translation is the first to capture the way "The Tale of the Heike" was originally performed. It re-creates the work in its full operatic form, with speech, poetry, blank verse and song that convey its character as an oral epic in a way not seen before, fully embracing the rich and vigorous language of the original texts. Beautifully illustrated with fifty-five woodcuts from the nineteenth-century artistic master, Katsushika Hokusai, and bolstered with maps, character guides, genealogies and rich annotation, this is a landmark edition. Royall Tyler taught Japanese language and literature for many years at the Australian National University. He has a B.A. from Harvard University and a PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin. His translation of "The Tale of Genji" was acclaimed by publications such as "The New York Times Book Review".
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30,88 €
32,50 €
Vans: of the wall
"Off the Wall", the first book from Vans, tells the multi-generational story of Vans' do-it-yourself community, which encompasses boards, bikes, art and music, as well as the one shoe keeping it all together. With oral histories from Tony Alva, Joel Tudor, Neckface, Shepard Fairey, Sunny Garcia, Marc Jacobs, Steve Caballero, Stacy Peralta, Robert Williams, Oliver Peck, and others, "Off the Wall" provides an intimate, visually-stunning account of how the company changed the face of popular culture, since its founding in 1966. The book features photography by the top action-sports photographers in the world, including Bryce Kanights, Grant Brittain, Jeff Divine, and Trevor Graces, presented with an energetic design that evokes both punkzine aesthetic and California coastal cool.
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16,10 €
16,95 €
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
Clarice Bean is back and starring in her second novel! By Children's Laureate Lauren Child.
There are so many things in life you can't explain. Like why isn't YOU spelt U? Why isn't WHY spelt Y? And why can just opening your mouth get you into some very BIG trouble?
Clarice Bean is in non-stop trouble these days - almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, and he is the naughtiest boy in school. Clarice just wants to star in the school play and impress Mrs Wilberton in the spelling bee, but things aren't quite going to plan . . .
'Witty and charming. We can't get enough of Clarice Bean.' - Independent
Lauren Child is a Kate Greenaway Medal winner and the creator of the bestselling Charlie & Lola series.
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9,98 €
10,50 €
Bodies
Vertigo rings you a graphic novel with four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies - all set in London. Edmond Hillinghead is an 1890's over achiever who's trying to solve a murder no one cares about while hiding his own secret. Karl Whiteman is our dashing 1940's adventurer with a shocking past. Shahara Hasan is 2014's kickass female Detective Sergeant, who walks the line between religion and power. And Maplewood, an amnesiac from post-apocalyptic 2050, brings a haunting perspective to it all. Si Spencer (Hellblazer: City of Demons, The Vinyl Underground) executes a centuries-spanning murder mystery like nothing you've ever seen before, with four sensational artists illustrating a six-page chapter in each issue: Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, and Tula Lotay. Collects Bodies numbered 1-8, the complete mini-series.
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13,78 €
14,50 €
Winnetou öröksége II.
Karl May elbeszélésében 1908-as amerikai körútjának élményét mondja el.
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7,27 €
7,65 €
Superman The Final Days of Superman TP
It's a new chapter in the Man of Steel's life that will change everythingyou know in the epic eight-part SUPERMAN: THE FINAL DAYS OF SUPERMAN, allwritten by Peter J. Tomasi (BATMAN AND ROBIN)! Superman... is dying. Hisnever-ending battles have finally taken their toll on Kal-El, and with timeshort he reaches out to unite his friends and loved ones for what comes next.Meanwhile, a new sinister force's machinations will see to it that Man of Steelwill not go quietly into the night, but instead enter into a life and deathstruggle with another being forged from the very energies of the Kryptonian'ssolar flare power now claiming to be the true Superman! SUPERMAN: THE FINAL DAYSOF SUPERMAN ushers in a completely new era for the Man of Steel in anunforgettable graphic novel that is NOT to be missed. Collects SUPERMAN #51-52,BATMAN/SUPERMAN #31-32, SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN #28-29, and ACTION COMICS#51-52.
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18,53 €
19,50 €
Japanese Woodblock Prints
From Edouard Manet's portrait of naturalist writer Emile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh's meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe-but often remains misunderstood as an "exotic" artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.
The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art-including, as Karl Marx put it, that "all that is solid melts into air"-were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.
This book lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood art form by presenting the 200 most exceptional Japanese woodblock prints in their historical context. Ranging from the 17th-century development of decadent ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world," to the decline and later resurgence of prints in the early 20th century, the images collected in this edition make up an unmatched record not only of a unique genre in art history, but also of the shifting mores and cultural development of Japan.
From mystical mountains to snowy passes, samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows, each piece is explored as a work of art in its own right, revealing the stories and people behind the motifs. We discover the four pillars of the woodblock print-beauties, actors, landscapes, and bird-and-flower compositions-alongside depictions of sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, or enticing courtesans-rock stars who populated the "floating world" and whose fan bases fueled the frenzied production of woodblock prints. We delve into the horrifying and the obscure in prints where demons, ghosts, man-eaters, and otherworldly creatures torment the living-stunning images that continue to influence Japanese manga, film, and video games to this day. We witness how, in their incredible breadth, from everyday scenes to erotica, the martial to the mythological, these works are united by the technical mastery and infallible eye of their creators and how, with tremendous ingenuity and tongue-in-cheek wit, publishers and artists alike fought to circumvent government censorship.
Three years in the making, this XXL edition presents reproductions of the finest extant impressions from the vaults of museums and private collections across the globe-many newly photographed especially for this project. Some 17 stunning fold-outs invite us to study even the subtlest details, while extensive descriptions guide us through this frantic period in Japanese art history.
Features:
The work of 89 artists, from the world-renowned to the unfamiliar
7 chapters organized chronologically to trace the history of the medium from 1680 to 1938
17 fold-outs, which had to be hand-folded due to their size and specifications
Exclusive reproductions from museums and private collections
An appendix listing all artists and works
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156,75 €
165,00 €
Communist Manifesto
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, they produced an incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state, arguing that the exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. This vision provided the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions. The Communist Manifesto still remains a landmark text: a work that continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class. Gareth Stedman Jones' extensive and scholarly introduction provides an unique assessment of the place of The Communist Manifesto in history, and its continuing relevance as a depiction of global capitalism. This edition reproduces Samuel Moore's translation of 1888 and contains a guide to further reading, notes and an index. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in Trier, Germany and studied law at Bonn and Berlin. He settled in London, where he studied economics and wrote the first volume of his major work, Das Kapital (1867, with two further volumes in 1884 and 1894). He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), as well as his collaboration with Marx, was the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), based on personal observations and research. If you enjoyed The Communist Manifesto, you might like Marx's Capital, also available in Penguin Classics. "The words of the Communist Manifesto flare like the fiery writing on the wall above the crumbling bastions of capitalist society: socialism or barbarism!" (Rosa Luxemburg).
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems. Popper's highly accessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of the thought of great philosophers and the recent resurgence of totalitarian regimes around the world are just three of the reasons for the enduring popularity ofThe Open Society and Its Enemies, and for why it demands to be read both today and in years to come.This is the first of two volumes of The Open Society and Its Enemies.
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16,10 €
16,95 €
The Song of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien's Themes, Symbols and Myths
Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Song of Middle-earth takes a fresh look at The Lord of the Rings, digging deep into the foundations of Tolkien's world to reveal the complex tapestry of history and mythology that lies behind his stories. The charge that Tolkien's work was merely derivative - that he extracted elements from other mythologies and incorporated them into his own fiction - is dismissed in favour of a fascinating examination of the rich historical background to Middle-earth. From the mythic tradition of the Tales told in The Book of Lost Tales: I to the significance of oral storytelling throughout the history of Middle-earth, this book examines the common themes of mythology found within Tolkien's work. In doing so, The Song of Middle-earth demonstrates how Tolkien's desire to create a new mythology for England is not only apparent in his writing, but also realised.
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10,93 €
11,50 €