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The Night Ocean
From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them. A tour-de-force of storytelling, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story "The Night Ocean"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself. As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.
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Blessed Are Those Who Thirst
The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl is brutally raped in her apartment, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is charged with solving the case. Hanne quickly notices strange similarities with the blood-stained crime scenes. But the victim's father has started an independent hunt for the rapist...and Hanne will have to race against time to prevent a victim becoming a vigilante.
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Mocskos meló
Charlie Asher egy normális fickó, aki kifejezetten jól érzi magát a saját kis normális életében. Ugyan kicsit neurotikus, és kicsit túlaggódja a dolgokat, de mindezt a normalitás határain belül teszi. Inkább bétahímnek lehetne nevezni őt, mint alfának, de Charlie már hozzászokott ehhez az állapothoz, ráadásul a felesége okos, csinos, bájos nő, aki pontosan azért szereti őt, mert annyira normális. Gyermekük születik, és úgy tűnik, a dolgok nem is alakulhatnának jobban. De aztán az emberek úgy kezdenek el hullani Charlie körül, mint a legyek. Sötét árnyak suttognak neki a csatornákból, ismeretlen nevek jelennek meg a noteszében, és bizonyos tárgyak vörösen izzanak a közelében. Minden jel arra mutat, hogy valamiféle titokzatos erők új munkakörre jelölték ki Charlie Ashert: mostantól ő lesz a Halál. Másoknak ez a vég. De neki csak a kezdet. Christopher Moore 2006-os regénye újabb mérföldkő a szórakoztató irodalomban a Biff evangéliumát követően: ezúttal a halál témáját dolgozza fel ördögi humorral. Az olvasó a kötet felújított kiadását tartja most a kezében.
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Superminds - The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds -- like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities -- have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond. And these collectively intelligent human groups are about to get much smarter. Using dozens of striking examples and case studies, Malone shows how computers can help create more intelligent superminds simply by connecting humans to one another in a variety of rich, new ways. And although it will probably happen more gradually than many people expect, artificially intelligent computers will amplify the power of these superminds by doing increasingly complex kinds of thinking. Together, these changes will have far-reaching implications for everything from the way we buy groceries and plan business strategies to how we respond to climate change, and even for democracy itself. By understanding how these collectively intelligent groups work, we can learn how to harness their genius to achieve our human goals. Drawing on cutting-edge science and insights from a remarkable range of disciplines, Superminds articulates a bold -- and utterly fascinating -- picture of the future that will change the ways you work and live, both with other people and with computers.
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Fundamentals of Illustrations
The Fundamentals of Illustration, Second Edition" is an update to the popular first edition of the same name, in which Lawrence Zeegen introduces students to the various aspects of illustration. This volume provides a fresh introduction to the key elements of the discipline and takes the student step-by-step through the key processes, themes and applications in illustration. This updated edition includes new and revised content and examples that reflects the changes and developments in the discipline over the past few years.
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Chorvatsko, Slovinsko 1:150 000 - autoatlas
Autoatlas obsahuje přehledné mapy celého území Chorvatska a Slovinska v měřítku 1:150.000, s praktickým značením, množstvím podrobných plánů chorvatských a slovinských měst a bohatým rejstříkem. Součástí je rovněž atlas Evropy v měřítku 1:3.500.000.
Legenda v jazycích: CH, DE, EN, FR, IT, NL, PL, SK, SLO, ES, CZ, HU
Spider-Man - Brand New Day - The Complete Collection Vol. 1
After his world was turned upside down by the events of "One More Day," Peter Parker puts the past behind him and sets forth on a Brand New Day! It's a status quo swing shift like no other, with new villains, new friends and some familiar faces, all making Peter's life crazier than ever before. If major changes at the Daily Bugle, blizzard conditions and the live-streaming foe Screwball weren't bad enough, the rampage of the furious Freak will have him calling his Avengers teammates for help! COLLECTING: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2007, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) 546-564, SPIDER-MAN: SWING SHIFT DIRECTOR'S CUT
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Two by Two
Sometimes the end is just the beginning ...Russell Green has it all: a loving family, a successful career and a beautiful house. But underneath his seemingly perfect world, cracks are beginning to appear ...and no one is more surprised than Russ when the life he took for granted is turned upside down. Finding himself single-handedly caring for his young daughter, while trying to launch his own business, the only thing Russ knows is that he must shelter his little girl from the consequences of these changes. As Russ embarks on this daunting and unexpected new chapter of his life, a chance encounter will challenge him to find a happiness beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
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Path of Minor Planets
It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways. Andrew Sean Greer's remarkable and sweeping novel is an exploration into chances taken and lost, of love found and broken, and of time's gravitational pull on the lives of everyday and extraordinary people.
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Driftwood
I feel like I'm losing my best mate . . .' Hannah and Joey have been best friends forever - just the two of them. But when Joey's new foster brother, Paul, turns up, everything changes. First Joey falls for Hannah's brother, Kit. Then Paul complicate
s things - with some kittens, a chocolate bar and a stripy pink bicycle. Hannah's world is turning upside down. Can you rescue a friendship when it's drowning? Can you save a friend in trouble - if they don't want to be saved?
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Harley Quinn - A Call to Arms Vol 4
Harley continues carving out her own path, with the help of guest stars Poison Ivy and Catwoman! Harley Quinn is on a mission to make the world a better place and get paid for it at the same time! Quinn and her Gang of Harleys are taking on do-gooding missions for a price, but sometimes that means they re biting off more than even a gang of semi-sane butt-kickers can chew. So when a simple search and rescue mission turns into a battle royale against an invulnerable alien-empowered sea captain that means it s time for a vacation! But no trip to Hollywood could ever be simple for Harley Quinn she s got a job to do, too. As she navigates a twisted web of movie producers, starlets, kidnappings and cults, Harley discovers that the bounty hunting business can be even more dangerous than being a hero-for-profit especially when you re trying to poach a bounty from Deadshot! This collection includes HARLEY QUINN #17-21 and HARLEY QUINN ROAD TRIP SPECIAL #1, from co-writers Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (STARFIRE) and artists including Chad Hardin (SUPERGIRL) and John Timms ("Nova")."
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Say Cheese (Charlie & Lola)
Lola is extremely very excited because the school photographer is coming and it is Lola's first ever school photo! Lola is completely sure that she can stay tidy and clean for one whole day - but she has so much fun playing in the playground, splashing in the water tray and finger-painting that soon she isn't tidy or clean at all! Poor Lola is very disappointed, but then Charlie saves the day by helping Lola make the most special photo of all.
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Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension and back into their own. Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family - and the battle for the fate of the world.
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Love is Blind
Love is Blindis William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life.
When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life.
In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth.
Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away.
At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.
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Deployable Structures
Deployable structures are structures that can undergo major changes to their configuration through expansion, unfolding and other means. In architecture, they can be used to create more flexible spaces or building elements that can adapt to changing functions or requirements. This book looks at the cutting edge of the subject, examining the different types of deployable structure, their materials and their properties. It also examines a variety of ways that such structures can be designed, drawing on natural processes and paper folding techniques. Filled with photographs, models, drawings and diagrams, the book is packed with inspirational ideas for architecture students and practitioners.
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The Definitive Jacques Tati
Oscar-winning French director/performer Jacques Tati (1907-1982) was a fiercely innovative and original filmmaker who found inspiration in the observation of life around him. By creating and playing unassuming characters thrown into the bustle of society-the hapless postman Francois and the maladroit Monsieur Hulot-Tati brilliantly exposed the ways in which class distinctions, social mores, architecture, and technology affect the basic ways that humans relate to one another.
Unlike Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, to whom he has frequently been compared, Tati took the everyday and recreated it, layered organically with visual and audio gags, for the audience to actively observe. His early work as a mime taught him how to generate laughter without words; in his films he used gestures, facial expressions, costumes, props, sets, sounds, music-everything but dialogue-to do the talking.
Tati's films are truly universal and accessible to anyone, anywhere, who can appreciate the comedy of modern life. Tati once said "I want the film to begin when you leave the theater." His greatest achievement was to show us that together, as the whole of humanity, we are characters starring in the greatest spectacle of all: life itself.
In 2000, Macha Makeieff and Jerome Deschamps founded Les Films de Mon Oncle with the late Sophie Tatisheff, daughter of Tati, to preserve and promote Tati's archives and legacy. This definitive exploration of Tati's life and work, made possible by the complete and unprecedented access to the archives that they provided TASCHEN, features hundreds of photographs and film stills, the complete screenplays, interviews, original essays, and a vast selection of documents, letters, sketches, and notes spanning five volumes.Designed by M/M (Paris), the set includes:
Volume I, 'Tati Films': stills from all six feature films
Volume II, 'Tati Writes': the complete screenplays, plus those of the unmade films The Illusionist and Confusion, illustrated by pages from Tati's original drafts
Volume III, 'Tati Works': a comprehensive survey of his life and work
Volume IV, 'Tati Explores': essays on important themes in his films
Volume V, 'Tati Speaks': quotations, interviews, and a previously unpublished memoir by Tati
Also available in a Collector's Edition limited to 112 copies
Centuries of Change
We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition. Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, Human Race is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted. But which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest changes in human history? History's greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, knows what answer he would give. But what's yours?
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Anansi fiúk
Kövér Charlie Nancy normális élete kizökken abban a pillanatban, ahogy apja meghal egy karaoke-színpadon Floridában. Charlie nem tudta, hogy az apja egy isten. És nem is sejtette, hogy van egy testvére. Ez a testvér most bekopogtat hozzá, hogy sokkal érdekesebbé tegye Kövér Charlie életét. És sokkal, de sokkal veszélyesebbé...
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Kövér Charlie Nancy normális élete kizökken abban a pillanatban, ahogy apja meghal egy karaoke-színpadon Floridában. Charlie nem tudta, hogy az apja egy isten. És nem is sejtette, hogy van egy testvére. Ez a testvér most bekopogtat hozzá, hogy sokkal érdekesebbé tegye Kövér Charlie életét. És sokkal, de sokkal veszélyesebbé...
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