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Gourmet Toure of France
Prominent restaurant critic Gilles Pudlowski leads the reader on a tour across the heartland of gourmet dining, sharing menu selections from his favorite restaurants along with the stories behind the accomplished chefs and their kitchens. The forty f
eatured restaurants have been selected based on the quality of the food, the beauty of the decor, and the restaurants unique history. Illustrated with Maurice Rougemonts enticing photographs, this finely researched bible of French gastronomy offers a
feast for the eyes. Featured chefs include Paul Bocuse, Alain Ducasse, and Guy Savoy, and each has divulged a few of their signature recipes to enjoy at home. A list of addresses to the restaurants completes the book for readers who want to embark o
n their own gourmet tour of the finest in French dining experiences.
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Lacná kniha Zap! B Class Book (-50%)
This is a two-level package for young learners that starts with listening and speaking but can move on to reading and writing as soon as your class is ready.
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Road Trip Journal Shore Stephen
Stephen Shore is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, best known for his photographs of vernacular America taken in the early 1970s two bodies of work entitled American Surfaces and Uncommon Places. These projects paved
the way for future photographers of the 'ordinary' and 'everyday' such as Martin Parr, Thomas Struth, and Nan Goldin. Shore is one of the most important artists working today, and his prints are included in collections of eminent museums and galleri
es around the world.
On July 3, 1973, Stephen Shore set out on the road again. This road trip marked an important point in his career, as he was coming to the tail end of American Surfaces and embarking on a body of work that is known as Uncommon Pl
aces. While traveling, in addition to taking photographs, Shore also distributed a set of postcards that he had made and printed himself. While passing through Amarillo, Texas, Shore selected ten of his own photographs of places of note, such as Doug
's Barb-B-Que and the Potter County Court House, and designed the back of the cards to look like a typical generic postcard. He sent these images to a well-known postcard printer and ordered 5,600 copies of each card. Then, driving from town to town,
Shore surreptitiously inserted his own cards into postcard racks in stores across the country, mixing his own work with 'real' postcards and giving unsuspecting shopkeepers new stock free of charge.
In a deadpan, unemotional style, Shore's month-lo
ng journal itemizes where he stayed, what he ate, which television programs he watched, what photographs he took, how many miles he drove, and how many postcards he distributed on each day of his trip. The journal also includes postcards of the towns
where he stayed as well as some of his own photographs alongside hotel, restaurant, and gas station receipts. As he traveled, recording his experiences in his journal, Shore photographed the towns and cities through which he passed, the people he me
t, the food he ate, the beds he slept in, and even the toilets he 'encountered', from New York to California and back again.
A Road Trip Journal marks the turning point between two major bodies of work in Shore's career and includes some classic por
traits from this pioneering color photographer. Each page of the journal is reproduced exactly and bound in a book that matches the format of the original book down to its cover. Following this, every photograph taken over the course of the trip is a
lso featured, whether a perfect composition or a slightly fogged negative of the same scene. A map marks Shore's journey and his own text on the history of the road trip in America is also included. The book also contains reproductions of a number of
postcards that Shore made on his trip, allowing the reader the chance to tear them out and use them, or keep them as a piece of 1970s Shore memorabilia.
A Road Trip Journal is a highly collectible publication for any photo book collector, photograp
hy enthusiast or student, or anyone with an interest in American culture of the 1970s. This limited edition book numbered and signed by the photographer is an exciting addition to Phaidon's ever-growing, highly popular Shore list.
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China - The Cookbook
The definitive cookbook bible of the world's most popular and oldest cuisine "China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable reference for many years to come." -Ken Hom OBE,Chef, author and tv presenter In the tradition of bestsellers including Mexico and The Nordic Cookbook comes the next title in the multimillion-selling national cuisine series, China: The Cookbook. Featuring more than 650 recipes for delicious and authentic Chinese dishes for the home kitchen, this impressive and authoritative book showcases the culinary diversity of the world's richest and oldest cuisines with recipes from the 33 regions and sub-regions. China: The Cookbook celebrates popular staples such as Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs and Dim Sum, as well as lesser-known regional classics like Fujian Fried Rice and Jiangsu's Drunken Chicken, and features additional selected recipes from star chefs from around the world.
Lazarillo de Tormes +CD
Lazarillo de Tormes está escrita en forma de carta, articulada en siete tratados en los que Lázaro cuenta sus andanzas. Se ha eliminado un gran número de explicaciones. Se ha evitado el uso excesivo de giros y locuciones.
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The Nightingales are Drunk
'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in modern Iran. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Rumi (1207-73). Rumi's Selected Poems is available in Penguin Classics.
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Lacná kniha Ready Player Two (-90%)
AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.
Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible.
With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest: a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.
And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.
Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.
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The Double Clue - and Other Hercule Poirot Stories
A perfect introduction to Agatha Christie - four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for their readability and sense of adventure. A man is found shot through the head in a locked room. A wealthy banker vanishes while posting a letter. A thief disappears with a haul of rubies and emeralds. And, in the golden sands of Egypt, the men who discovered an ancient tomb are dying one by one ...Hercule Poirot, the fussy Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and immaculate moustache, solved some of the world's most puzzling crimes. This book contains four of the very best stories, selected by John Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, and Sophie Hannah, who wrote the brand new Hercule Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders. Includes the stories 'The Double Clue', 'The Market Basing Mystery', 'The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim' and 'The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb'.
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Roy Stuart, Embrace Your Fantasies
Between 1987 and 2001, Dian Hanson, then editor of Leg Show magazine, and photographer Roy Stuart collaborated on over 100 fetish photo shoots, producing an intensely sexual, socially transgressive body of work unmatched in contemporary erotic photography. Stuart, influenced by authors Angela Carter, William S. Burroughs, and Georges Bataille, was and remains passionately opposed to commercial pornography and insisted every photo story subvert and skewer some societally imposed sexual taboo. Women are portrayed with strength and sexual agency; men are often submissive; all are adventuresome and fluid. Hanson selected the wardrobe to appeal to a range of sexual tastes, including stocking, shoe, panty, nylon, and rubber fetishes. Viewed today, the styles and attitudes speak to the liberal hedonism of 1990s America, when, under the Clinton presidency, erotic artists were afforded more creative freedom.Power Play, the first volume in the series Roy Stuart: Embrace Your Fantasies, showcases photo stories addressing sexual power dynamics. All images are from the original transparencies, rescued from the Leg Show archives before the magazine's demise in 2012, and presented with Hanson's original magazine text.Join us in a trip back to the prosperous, optimistic 1990s to explore your fantasies-and perhaps some you never considered-with the richly produced sexual subversion of Roy Stuart and Dian Hanson.
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Légy mindig barát!
"Ha életed nehéz órájában elgyöngülnél, baráti szavaim adjanak erőt, tudván, hogy él a világ távoli pontján egy barát, akire bátran rábízhatod az életed... A barátság szent kötelék, hisz lélek lép szövetségre lélekkel... Kívánj hát jó barátot magadnak - én pedig azt kérem tőled: Légy mindig Barát!"
Lelkünket megérintő, őszinte vallomások a barátságról és az életről - a bölcsesség nagymesterétől, az ókor legnagyobb gondolkodójától.
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Guantánamói napló
A 2001. szeptember 11-i öngyilkos merényletsorozatra az Egyesült Államok válasza a terrorizmus elleni háború volt. Fő cél az elkövetéssel vádolt al-Káida szervezet teljes felszámolása lett. Megkezdődött a kapcsolati hálók felderítése. Mohamedou Slahit 2001-ben keveredett gyanúba, végül 2002. augusztus 5-én a kubai Guantánamói-öbölben lévő amerikai fogolytáborban börtönözték be. Amikor már három éve raboskodott, naplót kezdett írni, amiben kifejtette, milyen életet élt letartóztatása előtt, milyen a folytonos kihallgatásokkal és rabsággal teli jelenlegi élete, és hogyan telnek napjai a fogolytáborban. Naplója nemcsak egy igazán szemléletes feljegyzés az igazságszolgáltatás kudarcáról, hanem egy mély, őszinte és személyes emlékirat is – elborzasztó, sötéten humoros és meglepően könyörületes. A most először kiadott Guantánamói napló nemcsak egy, a történtek óriási jelentőségét igazoló dokumentum, hanem egy lebilincselő, mélyenszántó és feltáró olvasmány is.
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Le liseur
A quinze ans, Michaël fait par hasard la connaissance, en rentrant du lycée, d'une femme de trente-cinq ans dont il devient l'amant. Pendant six mois, il la rejoint chez elle tous les jours, et l'un de leurs rites consiste a ce qu'il lui fasse la lecture a haute voix. Cette Hanna reste mystérieuse et imprévisible, elle disparaît du jour au lendemain. Sept ans plus tard, Michaël assiste, dans le cadre de ses études de droit, au proces de cinq criminelles et reconnaît Hanna parmi elles. Accablée par ses coaccusées, elle se défend mal et est condamnée a la détention a perpétuité. Mais, sans lui parler, Michaël comprend soudain l'insoupçonnable secret qui, sans innocenter cette femme, éclaire sa destinée, et aussi cet étrange premier amour dont il ne se remettra jamais. Il la revoit une fois, bien des années plus tard. Il se met alors, pour comprendre, a écrire leur histoire, et son histoire a lui, dont il dit : «Comment pourrait-ce etre un réconfort, que mon amour pour Hanna soit en quelque sorte le destin de ma génération (...) que j'aurais moins bien su camoufler que les autres ?»
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Innovative Architecture Strategies
This book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces. Diverse, innovative design approaches with complex programme are combined with socially and financially sustainable strategies. It shows design approaches with complex programmes, innovative and socially and financially sustainable approach. Innovative Architecture Strategies aims to help understand the different design approaches that can be followed when called to propose a concept and design an innovative mixed-use building. It's also a guide, point of reference, and inspiration book. The book demonstrates an analytical and clear way to conceptualize, explain and present a mixed-use design project. Each project in the book is selected for its different form, function, technique and design intent. They all offer a clear example of a design project. The diverse design approaches are presented in ten chapters. Each chapter begins with explaining the main concept behind the specific design approach and with a reference to a built precedent.
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Nicolas le Floch Affair
This novel opens at the beginning of the year 1774, the last year of Louis XV's reign. Over fifteen years have passed since the first novel in the series, THE CHATELET APPRENTICE, and Nicolas is by now well established in his police career, and in his position as a trustee of King Louis XV. The only fly in the ointment is his fraught relationship with a wealthy widow, Julie de Lasterieux. When Julie is found dead in suspicious circumstances following an argument with Nicolas, he quickly becomes the prime suspect. Although the King and his police boss, Sartine, believe in his innocence, Nicolas has many enemies keen to strengthen the case against him. To deflect attention, Nicolas is sent on a secret Royal mission to London to negotiate the silence of the publisher of a number of scurrilous pamphlets about the King's mistresses. When an attempt is made on his life en route to London, Nicolas starts to wonder whether the attempt to frame him for murder is part of a wider political conspiracy. On his return to Paris, Nicolas has to continue the fight to clear his name and unmask the culprit, as well as helping attend the ailing King. This novel is an intelligent and well-researched historical thriller, crammed with details about the food, politics and social conditions of the time. Parot doesn't stint on showing us the mud, muck and degrading living conditions of the poor in pre-revolutionary France, in contrast to the luxurious life enjoyed by the Royal family and their courtiers at Versailles. In the character of the more working class detective Bourdeau, Nicolas' assistant, Parot neatly depicts the growing tension between the people and the privileged aristocracy. At times though, the plot can seem a little slowed by discussions of food and recipes by the characters, and by the political gossip, which can be a touch confusing notwithstanding the useful provision of a dramatis personae at the beginning of the book. Overall, THE NICOLAS LE FLOCH AFFAIR maintains the high standards of the series, but would not be the obvious starting point for a reader new to the series.
Szünet
Tudom, hogy rettentően elfoglalt vagy. Tudom, a legtöbb napod úgy telik, hogy egyik feladat jön a másik után, elvégzed, amit kell, de a valódi vágyaidhoz sosem kerülsz közelebb. Taposómalom, amelyből nincs kiszállás. Mintha lehetetlen lenne leállni, ugye? Mintha minden szétesne, ha lelassítanál.
Tudom, és bizonyára te is emlékszel, volt ez másképp is, amikor könnyebb volt levegőt venni. Valamikor réges-régen, de az emléke máig benned él. Volt idő, amikor még volt nevetés és tánc, könnyedség és áramlás az életedben. De valahogy, valamikor ez az áramlás elveszett.
Megakasztották a teendők listái, a végtelen e-mailek és megbeszélések, amelyek túlságosan régóta uralják az életedet. Mindig minden sürgős, de valójában nem fontos. Vagyis nem igazán. Mostanra pedig már nagyon nehéz levegőt venni, megpihenni és kikapcsolni. A mellkasod feszül, a tested fáj, az éjszakáid álmatlanul telnek, és ott az a folyamatos tompa fejfájás, amely mintha sosem akarna elmúlni.
Folyton ugrásra készen állsz, miközben alvajáróként éled az életed. Ha magadra ismersz, semmi baj, én megértem. Valaha ez volt az én történetem is. Egyszer talán majd elmesélem.
Most azonban rajtad a sor, hogy Szünetet tarts.
"A lelassítás folyamata és a kapcsolódás azzal, amire vágyunk, és amerre az élet vezet, olyan élmény, ami mindent megváltoztat - ha van bátorságunk megállni, lélegezni és befelé figyelni."
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Lacná kniha The Book of Mini: Inside the Big World of Tiny Things (-90%)
Embrace the not-so-small world of minis--and your own tiny book!
From teeny burritos and miniscule Chanel handbags to furniture no larger than a quarter, this mind-blowing collection of squeal-worthy miniatures features more than 250 of the tiniest creations from all over the world.
Kate UEnver, a lifelong collector of nearly 1,000 items, has curated unique and extraordinary miniatures on her Instagram account, @dailymini, since 2012. In The Book of Mini, she selects hundreds of pieces of artwork--many of which have never been seen before--and organizes them into sections on tiny food, diminutive wildlife, petite pottery, and more. Also included are interviews with collectors and artists exploring their methods, influences, and how they came to adore everything mini.
Featuring hundreds of photographs and a collectible miniature book, The Book of Mini is a must-have book for the tiny lover in your life.
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Turbulence
Discover the brilliant new short story collection from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is
*Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019*
Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next.
In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay's diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane journeys, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers and parents, children and siblings, or nobody at all.
Along the way, Szalay deftly depicts the ripple effect that, knowingly or otherwise, a person's actions have on those around them, and invites us to consider our own place in the vast and delicately balanced network of human relationships that is the world we live in today.
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GUARDIAN DE LOS ARCANOS
En el año 70 despuĂ©s de Cristo, los judĂos se sublevaron contra los romanos. La revuelta terminĂł cuando las legiones del general Tito irrumpieron en el templo de JerusalĂ©n, matando a los Ăşltimos resistentes y saqueando sus tesoros. Poco antes, sin embargo, el sumo sacerdote habĂa entregado el objeto más sagrado, el sĂmbolo de Israel, al joven David. Desde aquel momento, y hasta que llegara la señal que Ă©l habĂa profetizado, David y sus descendientes serĂan los guardianes del secreto del templo. En diciembre de 1944, un alto oficial nazi ocultaba en una antigua mina una misteriosa y pesada caja de madera traĂda desde Francia. Nadie, ni siquiera los prisioneros que tuvieron que cargar con ella a travĂ©s de la nieve, supo jamás lo que realmente contenĂa.Hasta que en la actualidad…El inspector Yusuf Jalifa (uno de los protagonistas de El enigma de Cambises) está visitando una tumba en el Valle de los Reyes cuando recibe aviso de que, en una necrĂłpolis cercana, se ha encontrado el cadáver de un anciano europeo. Cuando lo ve, y se fija en los detalles, Jalifa asocia esta muerte con el primer caso en el que trabajĂł en su vida: el asesinato de una mujer israelĂ, antigua prisionera de los campos de concentraciĂłn, asesinada en un templo egipcio. Parece que al final ha descubierto a su asesino. Y cuando el inspector registra la casa del muerto, se encuentra con otra sorpresa: en el sĂłtano se amontonan piezas arqueolĂłgicas y libros de historia. ÂżQuiĂ©n era este hombre? ÂżPor quĂ© asesinĂł a la mujer israelĂ? Para averiguarlo, tendrá que solicitar la colaboraciĂłn de un policĂa israelĂ, con quien se lleva mal desde el principio.Mientras, en JerusalĂ©n, una periodista palestina investiga una carta anĂłnima que ha recibido. En ella se adjunta fotocopia de un documento medieval y, cuando lo descifra, le pone sobre la pista de un tesoro de poderes mĂsticos que, en el año 1100, fue transportado desde JerusalĂ©n al castillo de Castelombres, en tierra de los cátaros.Un objeto sagrado, de gran poder mĂstico, cuyo paradero se desconoce desde hace siglos. Un tesoro por el cual ha sido asesinada gente. Un objeto cuyo descubrimiento podrĂa ser manipulado para empeorar la conflictiva situaciĂłn entre israelĂes y palestinos. Un policĂa resuelto a descubrir la verdad, cueste lo que cueste.
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Moments that Made the Movies
In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridges pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard and The Red Shoes to the unexpected The Piano Teacher, Burn After Reading immersing the reader via a groundbreaking marriage of imagery and the authors accompanying narrative. David Thomsons evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film and art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema.
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