Hľadanie: They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky EN
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While Paris Slept
'I absolutely loved it. An ingenious plot, wonderful believable characters and it moved me to tears. A fabulous read' LESLEY PEARSE
'An amazing story of love, resilience and the human spirit' TRACY REES
'You'll have your heart in your mouth and tears on your cheeks as it reaches its rich, life-affirming conclusion... Had me completely and utterly enraptured' LOUISE CANDLISH
'Brace yourself for a brilliant read. This will tug at your heartstrings' BEST
'Made me think and cry and rage and smile at mankind's capacity for both terrible, heartbreaking cruelty and beautiful, selfless love' NATASHA LESTER
'A heartbreaking debut' JANET SKESLIEN CHARLES, AUTHOR OF THE PARIS LIBRARY
Paris 1944
A young woman's future is torn away in a heartbeat. Herded on to a train bound for Auschwitz, in an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger. All she has left now is hope.
Santa Cruz 1953
Jean-Luc thought he had left it all behind. The scar on his face a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi Occupation. Now, he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door.
On a darkened platform, two destinies become entangled. Their choice will change the future in ways neither could have imagined...
Beautiful. Powerful. Luminous. Unforgettable. A stunning portrait of the brutality of war and the tenacity of love. In the tradition of Virginia Baily's Early One Morning, M. L. Stedman's The Light Between Oceans and Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
The Birth of the State
This book targets the problems of emergence and stabilization of the earliest state bodies in the pristine statehood foci of the Old World - Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. Charvát takes his readers through the essential economic, political and intellectual transformations induced in those societies by their transformations into early states. The author also provides a comprehensive view over the entire range of the discussed problems, attempting to perceive the process of establishment of the earliest states of the Old World in its complexity. The book gives the word to ancient statesmen, as well as to men of religion and letters of yore, voicing their alarm in crisis situations of their states, when they feared collapse of what they understood as "civilized society". Addressing their admonitions to kings, managers, generals and, where possible, the widest circles of society, such thinkers urged their contemporaries to defend the ideals on which their civilizations wer e built. The book is addressed to all those interested in the emergence and development of humankind´s earliest states including university students of humanity disciplines.
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Cesta za hranice
Někteří lidé se radují z mála, jiným nestačí to, co mají. Jakmile přijde vážná nemoc, krize v práci nebo dokonce smrt, každý člověk svůj dosavadní život začne přehodnocovat. Pak teprve se vydá na úplně jinou cestu, na které hledá odpuštění jako Robert. Dokáže mu Jana, která nevěřila, že ta její cesta bude tak úžasná a plná zvratů, prominout jeho chybu? A jakou cestou se vydá Robertova krásná a mladá kolegyně Aneta, když přijdou vážné problémy ve firmě?
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Cytonic
Spensa's life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary.
She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell - the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. What's more, she travelled light-years from home as a spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home. Now, the Superiority - the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life - has started a galaxy-wide war. And Spensa has seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant.
Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator.
Except that Spensa is Cytonic. She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it. And maybe, if she's able to figure out what she is, she could be more than just another pilot in this unfolding war. She could save the galaxy. The only way she can discover what she really is, though, is to leave behind all she knows and enter the Nowhere. A place from which few ever return.
To have courage means facing fear. And this mission is terrifying.
Hry
V roku 2007 vydal Divadelný ústav divadelnú hru Kebab v edícii Vreckovky a dnes prichádza s vydaním troch nových divadelných hier Gianiny Cărbunariu, ktorá sa medzičasom naplno etablovala doma i v zahraničí ako divadelná autorka a režisérka. Zborník obsahuje divadelné hry Michaela, tigrica z nášho mesta (Mihaela, tigrul din oraşul nostru), Solitarita (Solitaritate), Work in Progress. Divadelné hry z rumunského originálu preložila Jana Páleníková. Úvod napísala teatrologička Kinga Boros a z maďarského jazyka preložila Renata Deáková.
Pre svoju hru Michaela, tigrica z nášho mesta, ktorá mala premiéru v roku 2012, ako aj pre všetky nasledujúce drámy používa Cărbunariu pomenovanie mockumentary play, čím sa pokúša upozorniť svojich čitateľov a divákov na hravý vzťah skutočnosti a diela. Ide teda o svojho druhu sebareflexívnu dokumentaristiku. Postavy jej hier sa napríklad v javiskových textoch často odvolávajú na výskumy, ktoré boli súčasťou ich tvorivej práce. Mockumentary alebo pseudo-dokumentárny film zobrazuje fiktívne udalosti prostredníctvom dokumentaristických metód. Divadlo Gianiny Cărbunariu práve naopak vychádza zo skutočnej referencie a prezentuje ju, akoby to bola fikcia, aby toto odcudzenie upozornilo diváka ak aj on chce na váhu udalostí tam vonku. Žiadať od tohto divadla vernosť skutočnosti je slepá ulička. Balansuje na hranici skutočnosti a fikcie, ako starosta z hry Solitarita na neviditeľnej hranici medzi hľadiskom a javiskom.
Dokumentaristika Gianiny Cărbunariu spočíva v tom, že k jej inscenáciám sa viaže úžasne hlboký prieskum tém, ktoré ju zamestnávajú, nech už ide o historickú udalosť, alebo o niektorý z aspektov súčasnej spoločenskej skutočnosti. Dokumenty a rozhovory vyhrabané z hlbín archívov, v ktorých sa delia jednotliví adepti o svoje vlastné zážitky a názory, sú však pre jej tvorbu len východiskom. Ich fragmenty sa potom v novej štruktúre, koncentrovanejšie objavia v inscenácii. Je to, akoby nám zmenila ,len` uhol pohľadu, a preto sa znova musíme zamyslieť nad tým, čo sme si mysleli, že vieme.
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Mrtví v Badger’s Drift
Pokud oběť znala svého vraha, určitě ho znáte i vy, a on zná vás.
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Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain Part I
She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites. In the seventy years that followed everything changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation with which she became synonymous.
While the Queen is the motif for this book, the story Engel tells is not about her - it is primarily about the British. Through original research, interviews with people who were there and his own memories of the time, Matthew Engel traces the transformation of life in Britain as never before.
Beginning with the death of King George VI and ending on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election, Engel not only covers all the major historical events but also explores everyday life - from the food we ate and where we shopped, to what we watched on television and the newspapers we read. In doing so, he brings these three decades to life with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
Lacná audiokniha Nineteen Eighty - Four - audiokniha (-50%)
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101...Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. Christopher Eccleston, Tim Pigott-Smith and Pippa Nixon star in this new drama, part of BBC Radio 4's The Real George Orwell season - a Radio 4 journey that explores the disjuncture between the man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell.
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Suit
44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN, BB Easton's bestselling memoir, is the inspiration for Netflix's new series: Sex/Life. BB had so much fun writing her award-winning memoir that she decided to give each of her four men his own steamy standalone. This is book four - the hilarious, heart-warming tale of how BB finally got over her bad-boy phase and found her happily ever after with . . . gasp . . . a guy in a tie.
'Since when are you into guys in ties? You only like guys who look like they rob guys in ties. At gunpoint.'
It was true. My type had been well-established. There might as well have been a giant sign on my heart that said, 'Good Guys Need Not Apply'.
Which is exactly why I had to friendzone Ken Easton. The man was a former football star, smelled like fresh laundry instead of stale cigarettes, and had more ties in his closet than tattoos on his knuckles. Pssh. BOR-ING.
But the more I got to know my hunky study buddy, the more questions I came away with. Questions like: why doesn't he date? Why does he avoid human touch? Why does he hate all things fun and wonderful? The psychology student in me became obsessed with getting inside Ken's head, while the spoiled brat in me became obsessed with getting inside his heart.
In 2003, I found the one thing I love more than bad boys . . .
A good challenge.
Život a doba gaunera
Zákaz prodeje dětem do 18 let i jejich rodičům. Vyprávění chlápka, co se sice narodil do důstojné katolické rodiny, ale… Narodil se také jako nádoba na pocit svobody. Ještě než prošel pubertou, začal on i jeho okolí chápat, že tohle nebude drncání na pouťovym koníkovi. Spíš šílená jízda z klece, co vás ale umí dostat i do šuplíku (tak on říká vězení). V patnácti začal kvůli svobodě vekslovat a vydělávat první socialistické bony, aby si už tenkrát koupil Saaba i s řidičem. V sedmnácti prvně seděl v Polsku za pokus o nedovolené opuštění republiky. Pak už si letěl ke hvězdám.
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30 let polemiky o Evropě
Před dvaceti lety rozhodlo dosud jediné u nás konané referendum výraznou většinou o přání občanů, aby se Česká republika stala součástí evropské unie. Veřejnost 15 let po pádu komunismu chápala vstup do EU jako potvrzení úspěšné transformace a jako vyjádření naší opětovné příslušnosti ke společenství normálních vyspělých evropských zemí. S tímto pocitem byla spojena i řada velkých, mnohdy značně naivních očekávání. Dnes, po dvaceti letech, můžeme oprávněně zdůraznit jejich iluzornost a naivitu.
Dnešní EU není dynamickým a výrazně prosperujícím uskupením, žije z podstaty a v mnoha ohledech už dávno není záchranou a nadějí, ale příčinou nebo součástí problémů, které se před námi vrší.
Václav Klaus naši politiku ve vztahu k EU nejenom formuloval a prakticky prováděl, ale také o ní od počátku své politické kariéry intenzivně a pravidelně veřejně diskutoval. Kniha 30 let polemiky o Evropě přináší texty přibližující pohled bývalého premiéra a prezidenta na unii. Čtenáři tak dostávají možnost posoudit, zda se ve svých pohledech na evropskou integraci a směřování EU mýlil, či nikoliv.
Black Hole Survival Guide
What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole? Black Holes are the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe, but they are a riddle that confounds our intuitions. Anything that enters them can never escape, and yet they contain nothing at all. They are bigger on the inside than the outside suggests.
They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. They invert time into space and space into time. Black Holes are found throughout the universe.
They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our sun. Our solar system is currently orbiting a Black Hole 26,000 light years away at a speed of 200 km per second.
In Black Hole Survival Guide physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey into a black hole, explaining what would happen to you in there and why. In the process you'll come to see how their mysteries contain answers to some of the most profound questions ever asked about the nature of our universe.
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Adams Bryan - Anthology 2CD
DISC 1:
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1. Remember
2. Lonely Nights
3. Straight From The Heart
4. Cuts Like A Knife
5. This Time
6. Run To You
7. Somebody
8. Heaven
9. Summer Of '69
10. One Night Love Affair
11. It's Only Love - (with Tina Turner)
12. Heat Of The Night
13. Hearts Of Fire
14. I Do It For You, (Everything I Do)
15. Can't Stop This Thing We Started
16. There Will Never Be Another Tonight
17. Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven
18. Best Of Me
DISC 2:
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1. Please Forgive Me
2. All For Love - (with Sting/Rod Stewart)
3. Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman
4. Rock Steady - (live, with Bonnie Raitt)
5. Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
6. Let's Make A Night To Remember
7. Star
8. Back To You - (live)
9. I'm Ready - (live)
10. On A Day Like Today
11. Cloud Number Nine
12. Here I Am
13. This Side Of Paradise
14. Why Do You Have To Be So Hard To Love
15. Open Road
16. 18 Til I Die - (live)
17. When You're Gone - (with Pamela Anderson)
18. So Far So Good
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The Stories Old Towns Tell
A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history
Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story.
These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe’s ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history.
Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference.
Lacná kniha Keď vládzeš ísť, aj keď musíš nadísť
Výber z autorových textov, uverejňovaných v rôznych periodikách.
Prvú časť knihy tvorí cyklus V Prahe u Feldekovcov, v druhej časti O slovách sú texty publikované v denníku Pravda. Tretia časť Dnes píše
Je nazvaná podľa rubriky v denníku Sme. Posled
ná časť On the Road obsahuje texty z motoristického časopisu.
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Krátky čas na lásku
Život je nevyspytateľný a často nám do cesty kladie prekážky.
Jednu takú má aj pre Milana, keď mu do cesty postaví Luciu.
Ona ho bláznivo miluje, no on má však oči iba pre Ninu. Trojuholník sa ešte viac zamotá, keď sa Lucii podarí Milana zviesť.
Ten postupom času prichádza na to, že nie je žiadnou šedou myškou, za akú ju pokladal.
Milan si deň čo deň zvyká na jej spoločnosť, ale viazať sa nechce. A je známe, že keď to v začínajúcom vzťahu ťahá iba jeden, tak je takmer isté, že speje do záhuby.
Navyše si pre nich osud pripravil ešte jedno nemilé prekvapenie, kde sa čas stáva ich nepriateľom.
Napínavý príbeh o tom, kde pre nás život začína mať cenu vtedy, keď oň môžeme prísť.
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Helloween - My God-Given Right (White) 2LP
KDO: Němečtí Helloween jsou považováni za jedny z pionýrů power metalu. Skupina založili v roce 1983 Kai Hansen (kytara/zpěv), Michael Weikath (kytara), Markus Grosskopf (baskytara) a Ingo Schwichtenberg (bicí), ale pouze Michael Weikath a Markus Grosskopf v ní působí nepřetržitě dodnes.
CO: Reedice patnáctého studiového alba „My God-Given Right“ z roku 2015 vychází na vinylu v několika barevných mutacích.
2LP (white vinyl)
LP1
1. A1 Heroes
2. A2 Battle's Won
3. A3 My God-Given Right
4. A4 Stay Crazy
5. B1 Lost In America
6. B2 Russian Roulé
7. B3 The Swing Of A Fallen World
8. B4 Like Everybody Else
LP2
1. C1 Creatures In Heaven
2. C2 If God Loves Rock ’n’ Roll
3. C3 Living On The Edge
4. C4 Claws
5. D1 You, Still Of War
6. D2 I Wish I Were There
7. D3 Wicked Game
Sea Change
Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars.
Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction. Wading through memories of her youth, Ro has one last chance to come to terms with her childhood trauma, recommit to those around her, and find her place in an ever-changing world.
50 největších panovníků Evropy
Kdo pařil mezi nejvýznamnější panovníky Evropy? A kdo byl naopak nejmocnější? Kniha Největší panovníci Evropy vám umožní nahlédnout do zákulisí mocenských bojů, které po dlouhá léta utvářely podobu Evropy. A že to nebyla vždy cesta mírumilovná, ale politika šířící se i krví a mečem, je nasnadě. Kdo z panovníků tedy při snaze zvětšit svůj vliv preferoval boj, a kdo naopak třeba tzv. sňatkovou politiku? Kniha podrobně přináší vskutku barvitý a neotřelý pohled na životy těch nejznámějších panovníků či celých panovnických dynastií, které ve své době ovládaly Evropu. Poznejte jejich příbuzenské vztahy nebo před světem ukrývaná rodinná tajemství. Do detailu zpracované životopisy slavných vládců jsou napsány velice čtivou formou, jež vás vtáhne do děje a nepustí.
