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Berlin Alexanderplatz
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a new translation by Michael Hofmann, translator of Alone in Berlin
Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again - until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall.
A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city.
Berlin Alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author Alfred Döblin, until then an impecunious writer and doctor in a working-class neighbourhood in the east of Berlin. Success at home was short-lived, however; Doblin, a Jew, left Germany the day after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, and did not return until 1945. This landmark translation by Michael Hofmann is the first to do justice to Berlin Alexanderplatz in English, brilliantly capturing the energy, prodigality and inventiveness of Döblin's masterpiece.
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Lenin on the Train
'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book...this is a jewel among histories' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings suffering the tragedies she writes about...[Lenin on the Train] combines diplomatic intrigue, spycraft, towering personalities, bureaucratic bungling, military history and ideology.' Economist A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the world By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home? Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years. Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.
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Twenty first century Jewellery Designers
21st Century Jewellery Designers: An Inspired Style' is a stunning survey of the contemporary jewellery that's being designed and created across the world today. From the great JAR, to James de Givenchy and Nicholas Varney in the West, and Michelle Ong, Wallace Chan and Bhagat in the East, Inspired Style is an exploration into the designers' worlds, helping the reader to discover the jewels that great jewellery artists are creating now. Interviews with each designer featured reveal their inspirations and passions, their favourite materials, designing processes, and how their personalities influence their designs. Designers include: JAR (France); Kaoru Kay Akihara (Japan); Walid Akkad (Lebanon/France); Lorenz Baumer (France); Bhagat (India); Sevan Bicakci (Turkey); Luz Camino (Spain); Wallace Chan (China); Edmond Chin for Etcetera (China); Lydia Courteille (France); Michele della Valle (Italy/Switzerland); Patrice Fabre (France); James de Givenchy for Taffin (USA); Vincente Gracia (Spain); Hemmerle (Germany); Anna Hu (USA/Taiwan); Michelle Ong for Carnet (China); Suzanne Syz (Switzerland); Nicholas Varney (USA); Stephen Webster (UK); Dickson Yewn for Yewn Heritage (China); Rami Abboud (Lebanon); Tomasz Donocik (UK); LaMouche (China/France); 10 Royale (France).
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Trinity
'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.
Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the following Cold War, the book traces how Peierls brought Fuchs into his family and his laboratory, only to be betrayed. It describes in unprecedented detail how Fuchs became a spy, his motivations and the information he passed to his Soviet contacts, both in the UK and after he went with Peierls to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944. Frank Close is himself a distinguished nuclear physicist: uniquely, the book explains the science as well as the spying.
Fuchs returned to Britain in August 1946 still undetected and became central to the UK's independent effort to develop nuclear weapons. Close describes the febrile atmosphere at Harwell, the nuclear physics laboratory near Oxford, where many of the key players were quartered, and the charged relationships which developed there. He uncovers fresh evidence about the role of the crucial VENONA signals decryptions, and shows how, despite mistakes made by both MI5 and the FBI, the net gradually closed around Fuchs, building an intolerable pressure which finally cracked him.
The Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear device in August 1949, far earlier than the US or UK expected. In 1951, the US Congressional Committee on Atomic Espionage concluded, 'Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of nations'. This book is the most comprehensive account yet published of these events, and of the tragic figure at their centre.
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Az irgalom egyháza
"Viseljétek el egymást szeretettel." (Szent Pál)
Ferenc pápa még püspökként amellett tett hitet, hogy legyen az egyház az "irgalom háza", amely éppolyan nyitottsággal és alázattal fordul a testi-lelki szegények, az üldözöttek, a kiszolgáltatottak, a menekültek felé, amilyen ... Folytatás ›› türelemmel Isten van az egyház tagjai iránt. Az egyház feladata pedig nem merülhet ki a szociális gondoskodásban: mindenekelőtt az ínségben élők emberi méltóságának elismerésére és elismertetésére kell törekednie. Ez a követelmény magától értetődik attól a pápától, aki az argentin katonai diktatúra éveiben jezsuita tartományfőnökként sok száz embert - elsősorban a szegények jogaiért küzdőket - mentett meg a biztos haláltól. Az egyház megújulásának, feladatának és jövőjének általa vallott felfogását, amelyet pápává választása óta két apostoli körlevélben is vázolt, ebben a könyvében fejti ki először részletesen. Katolikus hívőnek és másként gondolkodónak egyaránt tanulságos és megindító, ahogy Ferenc pápa Krisztus üzenetét felfejti. Ahogy Krisztus emberi arcát kibontja a holt betű rárakódott rétegei alól.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio az első latin-amerikai pápa, az első jezsuita pápa, és az első pápa Ferenc néven. Buenos Airesben született 1936. december 17-én. Olasz bevándorlók gyermeke. Vegyészdiplomát szerez, majd huszonkét évesen belép a Jézus Társasága noviciátusába. 1960. március 12-én leteszi első fogadalmait. Bölcsészettudományt hallgat, aztán 1964-től 1966-ig végzett filozófusként Santa Fében, majd Buenos Airesben tanít. 1969. december 13-án pappá szentelik. 1970-ben befejezi teológiai tanulmányait. 1973. április 22-én örök fogadalmat tesz. Még az év július 31-én az argentin jezsuiták tartományfőnökévé választják. 1980-tól 1986-ig a San José kollégium rektora. 1992. június 27-én megkapja a püspöki ordinációt. Püspöki mottója: Miserando atque eligendo. 2001. február 21-én II. János Pál bíborossá teszi. 2013. március 13-án pápává választják.
Fordította: Sajó Tamás
Olvasson bele: Részlet a könyvből
A Könyvjelző magazin 2014. novemberi számában megjelent cikk: Pápa a metrón
A(z) Az irgalom egyháza (Könyv) szerzője Ferenc pápa (Jorge Mario Bergoglio).
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Honneur et courage
En août 1941, la jeune Hiroko quitte son japon natal pour poursuivre ses études en Californie, où elle découvre la liberté et l'indépendance. Mais quelques mois après son arrivée, l'aviation japonaise anéantit la flotte américaine à Pearl Harbor. La guerre est déclarée. Hiroko va alors partager le sort réservé à la population nippone installée sur le territoire des Etats-Unis...
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11,97 €
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Asterix La serpe d´or
Dans cet album, la vie lutécienne est en vedette : cohues et invectives dans les ruelles, pollution, tavernes pour soirées débridées, brigands, guide touristique de la "cité lumière", premier séjour en prison pour Astérix et Obélix, et même la découverte d'une forêt touffue et peuplée de loups dont on ne sait pas encore qu'elle deviendra, bien plus tard, le bois de Boulogne.
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Lacná kniha Asterix La serpe d´or
Dans cet album, la vie lutécienne est en vedette : cohues et invectives dans les ruelles, pollution, tavernes pour soirées débridées, brigands, guide touristique de la "cité lumière", premier séjour en prison pour Astérix et Obélix, et même la découverte d'une forêt touffue et peuplée de loups dont on ne sait pas encore qu'elle deviendra, bien plus tard, le bois de Boulogne.
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Winter of the World pb
Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to go so far as to betray their country? Such people are closely watched by Volodya, a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence. The international clash of military power and personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in London's East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to Stalingrad, from Dresden to Hiroshima. At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy Werner from afar. But nothing will work out the way they expect as their lives and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and cruellest war in the history of the human race. Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying trilogy 'The Century'. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.
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Jackdaws
A brand new thriller from the master storyteller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. It is May, 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain...Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail...
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
In Neither Here nor There" Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student 20 years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein."
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500 Handmade Books
Interest in bookbinding and the related arts has exploded in the past decade, inspiring artists to explore the unlimited possibilities of the form. This title showcases a beautiful range from the intricacies of an exotic Ethiopian binding with a show-stopping open spine to others that resemble mysterious puzzle boxes. The sublimely talented contributors include Jeanne Germani who displays her own handmade papers, made from such varied materials as recycled denim, thistle and other plant matter, Chris Bivin whose codex-style volume features curious, tiny, found objects and Laura Wait presents a piece with handsome raised-cord binding connecting a pair of stained-cedar covers with abstract aluminum letterforms attached. This new and provocative on-the-page gallery, richly illustrated with hundreds of breathtaking photographs, will appeal to a large and discerning audience.
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Erdőlakók - Mutasd és mond!
"Kik laknak az erdőben, nézzük csak! A huncut róka, a kedves kis süni, a félénk nyuszika... a csicseri kismadár. A többit meséljétek el ti úgy, ahogy én, tegyétek hozzá a tulajdonságaikat is. Melyik meséből, történetből ismeritek őket? Netán láttatok már erdőlakót? Kirándulások alkalmával figyeljétek meg a lombot, avart, rajzoljátok le jegyzetfüzetetekbe, és hallgassatok bele az erdő zenéjébe, hangjaiba, majd otthon próbáljátok meg felidézni ezt a gyönyörű, szabad világot.
Szókincsfejlesztő képes könyvünket óvodásoknak ajánljuk."
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Szuperkupa-döntő Rágcsáliában
Kedves rágcsálóbarátaim! Ismeritek a könyveimet?
Az én történeteim könnyebbek, mint a friss mozzarella, kívánatosabbak, mint az edami, és ízesebbek, mint az érett parmezán... szavamra, igazán bajuszemelő olvasmányok
Ezer mozzarella, remegnek a bajuszszálaim az izgalomtól! Elérkezett a Szuperkupa-döntő napja, és a kedvenc csapataim játszanak! Ám a pályán különös dolog történik, és nekem kell kiderítenem, hogy mi áll a furcsa események hátterében...
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Diár 2021 Paperblanks Dreamscapes
Every human mind contains hidden rooms that house our ability to dream, imagine and embark on flights of fancy. German artist Catrin Welz-Stein’s dreamlike digital art embodies those places and awakens them in delighted onlookers.
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German Fantasia
A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war.
An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man's name.
A young woman takes up a job in a care home, spending monotonous days scrubbing floors and yearning to dance at the local nightclub.
The artist Franz Marc lives on in an imagined life as a patient at an asylum, before falling victim to Hitler's policy of Gnadentod.
Finally, a young Jewish girl, the life she once knew destroyed, holds her memories close as she finds refuge in wreckage of her homeland.
And throughout there is the shadowy presence of Viktor - one man or many? A looming figure in Germany's own reckoning with its past.
Through these five interconnected stories, Philippe Claudel reflects on Germany's complex history and the experiences of its people, dismantling the idea of "a nation" or "a people" and exploring the malleability of memory.
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Faeryland
From the author of the bestselling book Pirates and our own How To See Faeries (with Brian Froud) comes a wonderful interactive book about Faeries. The book includes faeries of the British Isles as well as those of Scandinavia, Germany, North America and even the Asian, Arab and African worlds. The book is divided into 13 sections: among them A Brief History of Faeries; Who's Who of Faeries; Good Faeries vs Bad Faeries; Faerie Courts; Faerie Spells; Faerie Places, Faerie Sightings; Faerie Gold; Faerie Children; Faerie Good and Bad Fortune; and Faerie Music. The book is illustrated with new art from talented faerie artist Matt Dangler as well as other celebrated contemporary artists alongside classic art by William Blake, Henry Fuseli, William Turner and others. An important aspect of the package will be the striking memorabilia included: A Handbook for Faery Hunters; a small manual of how and where to look for fairies; an envelope of real faery photos; a 19th century faery pull out map (currently housed in the Library of Congress!) and more.
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Štvou vás kolegové? Už nebudou!
Je něco horšího, než štvát se celý den v práci? Schůzky, termíny... nesnesitelní kolegové! Taky vás dohánějí k zuřivosti a raději předstíráte telefonické hovory či se ukrýváte na toaletě, jen abyste se jim vyhnuli? Existuje i lepší způsob, jak se s nimi vypořádat. S humorem a nadsázkou vás o tom přesvědčí autor této knížky. Představí vám 50 nejprotivnějších typů lidí, kteří vám jdou v práci na nervy: Stěžovatel, Sukničkář, Dinosaurus, Vlezprdelka, Drbna, Tyran, Práskač, Jízlivý bastard – ti všichni nám dělají dennodenně z práce peklo – ale odteď už nebudou. U každého Protivy naleznete jeho přesný popis a míru jeho nepříjemnosti, vtipnou ilustraci, ale i konkrétní návod, jak na něj. Pozorujte, čtěte se tužkou v ruce, dělejte si poznámky, vyplatí se to. Kniha je dokonalým pomocníkem a skvělým dárkem pro každého!
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Hry a pohádkové cestování
Kniha plná celé řady originálních a nápaditých her na téma cestování spojených s pohádkovými příběhy je věnována učitelům MŠ a ZŠ, ti určitě přivítají a rychle využijí náměty k hrám s dětmi od 5 do 8 let. Kniha předkládá poutavé a zajímavé nápady na trávení volného času s dětmi, které dosud nebyly publikovány. Motivy jsou čerpány z dobře známých pohádkových příběhů, proto se děti s nimi rychle a rády ztotožní. Knihou provází dva cestovatelé, šašek Vašek a šašek Smíšek, kteří se v této knize vydali pohádkovým vláčkem do Světa her, pohádek a fantazie. Při tomto putování objeví nové úkoly, hry, soutěže a výtvarné činnosti, poznají nové příběhy, veršovánky a říkadla. Jedinečné náměty pro tvořivou práci učitelů dokonale rozvíjí dětskou fantazii, představivost a myšlení. Děti s nimi zažijí spoustu legrace a zábavy.
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