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Fabric : The Hidden History of the Material World
'Subtle, compendious and rich ... an emotive and serious work of what you might call history on the distaff side' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times
'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an education' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
'I am wildly impressed by the depth of her research and the stories she finds' - Alexandra Shulman, author of Clothes... And Other Things That Matter
How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?
Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town?
How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe?
What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny?
In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it.
She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form.
She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents - and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. The book became her journey through grief and recovery. It is her own patchwork.
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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey Of Angela Merkel
'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON
From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People
An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world.
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West.
Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor's inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel's success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she's cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.
Famously private, the woman who emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one's moral convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the most extraordinary women of our time.
Lacná kniha Sense & Sensibility (-50%)
Joanna Trollope's much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility will launch The Austen Project and be one of the most talked about books of 2013. 'It's hugely exciting to attempt the reworking of one of the best novels written by one of our greatest novelists. This is a project which requires consummate respect above all else; not an emulation, but a tribute.' Joanna Trollope The Austen Project is a major new series of six novels teaming up authors of global literary significance with Jane Austen's six complete works. The pairing of Joanna Trollope and Jane Austen received global coverage, from the NEW YORK TIMES to the TIMES OF INDIA. The Austen Project continues with Val McDermid's reworking of Northanger Abbey in Spring 2014 and Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride and Prejudice in Autumn 2014.
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Untold Tales of Spiderman The Complete Collection 1
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A former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. But it's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but!
Tatsu is ambushed by a yakuza with a beef, and there's only one way to settle things-an epic rap battle! But this throwdown is only a warm-up for the buffet battle yet to come, because when you're the Immortal Dragon, you don't choose the househusband life, it chooses you!
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The V&A Sourcebook of Pattern and Ornament
The wealth of surface pattern and three-dimensional ornamentation in the many objects that enrich our lives is testament to the inventiveness of designers and craftspeople around the globe and throughout history.
This richly illustrated, easy-to-navigate sourcebook presents more than 1,000 historic and contemporary examples of pattern and ornamentation from around the world, each one succinctly identified and explained. Arranged thematically, it is unique among pattern books, as it includes examples not only of surface pattern but also of three-dimensional ornamentation and embellishment.
Two-dimensional pattern is ubiquitous, no matter what the age of an object or where it was created. From Japanese kimono and William Morris fabrics to Chinese porcelain and contemporary furniture, such works reveal humanity's unceasing desire to combine pattern with design. Just as prevalent are examples of three-dimensional embellishments that go far beyond the requirements of their practical use: an acrylic handbag has a carved motif of insects and wildflowers, a cobalt-blue pottery ewer has a dragon's-head spout and an early 19th-century fruit plate is shaped like a seashell.
Designers working today are as fascinated and inspired by pattern and ornament as they have always been. This expertly compiled selection will appeal to designers, artists, illustrators and other creatives from all disciplines as well as anyone interested in visual and material culture.
With 1146 illustrations in colour
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The Reinvention of Humanity
The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century. Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist Franz Boas, these scientist-explorers - most of them women - made intrepid journeys into far-flung communities all over the world, where they documented radically different social approaches that overturned Western assumptions about human diversity andchallenged the era's scientific consensus. Here, the boundary-breaking lives and achievements of Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Deloria and Zora Neale Hurston are brought fully into light for the first time, showing how their trailblazing discoveries helped shape the moral universe we inhabit today.
A Bright Ray of Darkness
'Ethan Hawke is a true writer and his duality as an artist is skilfully reflected in A Bright Ray of Darkness. Hawke circles, descends, and crawls into his characters skin. Grimy shadows pass over the footlights, into the bowels of the theatre, where a struggling actor, perhaps mirroring the writer, seeks the vine of redemption, and claws his way into becoming. Bright Ray is a riveting work.' PATTI SMITH
The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director, A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak -- a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut just as his marriage implodes.
A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theatre, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before.
Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whisky and sex. What saves him is the theatre: in particular, the challenge of performing Shakespeare in his Broadway debut under the leadership of a brilliant director. Searing, raw, and utterly transfixing, A Bright Ray of Darkness is a novel about shame and beauty and faith, and the moral power of art.
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Twenty Five Thousand Days of Memories
Architekt, profesor a autor mnoha odborných publikací M. Rajniš se rozhodl sepsat vzpomínky ze svého života plného cestování, netradičních zvratů, úspěchů i pádů. Jako buřič a provokatér, který si celý život razí svojí cestu, chce čtenáři ukázat, že i člověk, nýmand, kterého málem strčili do pomocné školy, může žít bezvadný život. Přál bych si, aby se čtenář při mým vyprávění odvázal, začal mluvit slangem a vychutnal si krásně vyslovený český nadávky, který se skví jako pralinka na dortu.
Prof. Ing. arch. Martin Rajniš (* 16. května 1944, Praha) je český architekt a urbanista, spoluzakladatel České komory architektů, několika architektonických kanceláří a zakladatel ateliéru Huť Architektury. Jako pedagog působil na VŠUP v Praze a na Technické univerzitě v Liberci. Je známý především jako autor nové Poštovny na Sněžce nebo Majáku a muzea Járy Cimrmana v Jizerských horách. Věnuje se experimentální architektuře a vztahu architektury k přírodě a k lidské společnosti.
Martin Rajniš o knize Skutečně mám dobrou paměť a už řadu let mě připadalo potřebný podělit se o příběhy, který jsem za posledních 70 let zažil. Osud mi do cesty přihrál milý stvoření, Magdu (Křížkovou) Šebestovou, která mý košatý zhruba, 100 hodinový vyprávění převedla do 900 stran textu, z kterejch posléze vznikl na 120 stranách týhle knihy koncentrovanej elixír toho, podle nás, nejlepšího. Myslím, že čtenáře budou bavit i krásný fotky, mimo jiný i z mejch četnejch exotických cest, kterých tam bude víc než stovka. Dílo se jmenuje 25 344 dnů vzpomínek, což vystihuje 71 let mého života, během něhož jsem toho zažil skutečně hodně dětství ve staré Praze s nejrůznějšími výchovnými experimenty svého otce, časy chudoby a vzdoru proti bolševikovi, byl jsem dvanáctkrát v kriminále. Strávil jsem čtyři roky na moři, přeplul na malé lodi s jednou krásnou holkou Atlantik. Projezdil jsem stovky tisíc kilometrů po pouštích, divočinách, pralesech, projel jsem horní toky Amazonky, byl jsem v nejzapadlejších koutech Nové Guiney. Ale zároveň jsem řídil jako architekt velké ateliéry a rukama mi prošlo ve stavebních nákladech skoro 14 miliard korun. Zažil jsem Paříž coby bezdomovec i jako nositel světové ceny za architekturu
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d ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy appeared soon after. Each of the four plays printed here defines the problems of the revenge genre, o
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but increasingly fragile social hierarchy. Under the General Editoriship of Dr Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is
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The Chancellor : The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON
From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People
An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world.
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West.
Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor's inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel's success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she's cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.
Famously private, the woman who emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one's moral convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the most extraordinary women of our time.
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My Encyclopedia of Very Important Oceans
This exciting introduction to oceans will take curious minds on incredible adventures across the seven seas!
This charming children's encyclopedia is full to the brim with fascinating facts about life on and under the waves. Little learners can dive in and learn the most important things about the curious creatures that call the oceans home, their habitats and how to conserve them.
Inside the pages of this ocean encyclopedia, you'll find:
- A vibrant encyclopedia for curious 5-9-year-olds filled with fun facts about weird and wonderful ocean creatures, unbelievable deep-sea adventures, essential conservation efforts, and much more!
- The perfect balance between text and images while seamlessly blending photography with illustration
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From the birds that fly high about the sea down to the tiny creatures lurking on the ocean floor, this sea book for children will take kids on an adventure into the great unknown! My Encyclopedia of Very Important Oceans is an exciting introduction to life in earth's oceans. Little adventurers can explore forgotten shipwrecks, swim with fabulous fish and other weird and wonderful underwater animals!
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With bits of Buffy, Game Of Thrones and Outlander, this is a glorious series of total joy - Stylist
Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly - proud, swift to anger and slow to forgive. And since the war - since being made High Fae against her will - she's struggled to forget the horrors she endured and find a place for herself within the strange and deadly Night Court.
The person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred, winged warrior who is there at Nesta's every turn. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. And when they are forced to train in battle together, sparks become flame.
As the threat of war casts its shadow over them once again, Nesta and Cassian must fight monsters from within and without if they are to stand a chance of halting the enemies of their court. But the ultimate risk will be searching for acceptance - and healing - in each other's arms.
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Messi - Bůh, který sestoupil na Zemi
"Bůh sestoupil na Zemi a jmenuje se Messi." Vzkázal světu Lionelův bývalý spoluhráč a střelec Barcelony Samuel Eto´o krátce po té, co Messi zapsal už před dvěma lety v El Clásiku proti Realu svůj barcelonský gól s číslem 500, a navíc gól vítězný.
Ovšem dnes už je na více než 700 vstřelených brankách při dosažení 50 hattricků ve všech soutěžích, mimořádností nejsou ani čtyři góly v zápase. Suma sumarum 50 branek za sezonu, více než gól v jednom zápase! Podobně jako Cristiano Ronaldo. Oba si na posledních dvanáct let podmanili fotbalový i sportovní svět. Větších celebrit v něm zřejmě nenajdeme. Oproti skvělému Portugalci má však ve vlastnictví o jeden čerstvý klenot navíc. Na sklonku roku 2019 získává už svůj šestý Zlatý míč pro nejlepšího fotbalistu planety a poprvé obdrží Cenu Laureus, je vyhlášen nejlepším sportovcem světa.
Lionel, dnes společně právě s Cristianem - po boku Pelého, Maradadony a Cruijffa - jeden z nejlepších fotbalistů historie a technicky nepochybně nejvybavenější hráč, nepřestává za svou úžasnou kariéru děkovat také dvěma obyčejným a zároveň výjimečným ženám. Matce, a především babičce. Obě nesou pro Lea vzácné jméno Célia.
"Posílám vzkaz mojí babičce, která mě k fotbalu přivedla, ale už se nemůže dívat, kam jsem se díky němu dostal."
Maminka, vynikající kuchařka, o své matce, tedy oné skvělé babičce, mimochodem umné cukrářce, prozradí: "Trvala na tom, aby Leovi dovolili hrát, když ještě neměl věk, byl nejmladší a nejmenší. ‚Přihrajte Lionelovi, tomu malému chlapci, protože on umí střílet góly,' vykřikovala vždycky. "A byla to ona, přesvědčila nás, abychom mu koupili kopačky."
Cesta, jakou Leo, dodnes v podstatě skromný kluk, k velké slávě ušel, se podobá příběhu z fantastického filmu. Jejím základem bylo, že od svých čtyř let miloval balon. "Drobek", jak mu říkali, v jedenácti míč ovládá jako nějaký kouzelník, ve škole s ním všichni chtějí hrát, protože střílí nejvíc gólů.
Jenže - jak fotbalová nebesa nadělí Leovi talent, tak mu v předpubertálním věku ubírají na výšce. Nedostává se mu růstového hormonu a ve dvanácti třinácti zůstává sotva na sto třiceti centimetrech! Trpasličí chlapec, navíc často nemocný, byť se jeví jako génius, přece nikdy nedoroste do velkého fotbalu, vidí trenéři. Fyzicky hru prostě nezvládne. Mají strach Lea vůbec postavit, hrozí, že ho mnohem urostlejší protihráči zadupou do země. Kdo si tohle vezme na triko?
Nejdříve tradiční klub z Rosaria, Atlético Newell´s Old Boys. Když chlapec oblékne jeho červenočerné barvy, má sedm let, ovšem tehdy ještě nikdo o jeho budoucích strastech netuší. Válí jako fotbalový bůžek, takže se nad jeho chatrným růstem pomalu nikdo nezamýšlí. První otazníky přicházejí a jejich rébus nastává po Leových desátých narozeninách. Resumé vyhlíží jednoznačně. Pokud se chce jedinečný talent prosadit, musí podstoupit náročnou hormonální léčbu. Kdo ji ale zaplatí, když rodiče, pomalu zoufalí Célie a Jorge, prostředky nemají? Po složitých peripetiích přelétne třináctiletý Lionel deset tisíc kilometrů do akademie Barcelony, výjimečné líhně La Masia. Modročervení "blaugranas" v roce 2000 zatím spíše pouze tuší, že získávají unikátní talent, ale že se stávají vlastníky nejcennějšího fotbalového klenotu současnosti, poznávají až o pár let později. Leo zatím pod dohledem nejlepších odborníků vyroste k 169 centimetrům.
V necelých osmnácti oblékne dres prvního týmu Barcy a současně přivede Argentinu k titulu mistrů světa dvacetiletých. Už v roce 2009, ve svých dvaadvaceti, poprvé získá Zlatý míč pro nejlepšího fotbalistu planety. Vystřídá na trůnu Cristiana Ronalda a pak nejcennější individuální trofej zvedne jako první fotbalista historie nad hlavu hned šestkrát (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 a 2019)!
Lionel a Christiano, novodobí giganti fotbalu, pořádají střelecké dostihy. Co na tom, že Ronaldo vstřelí v jedné sezoně za Real Madrid 60 branek, když Messi jich v Barce zapíše 73, a překoná i legendu Gerda Müllera. Leo se v jediném ročníku Champions League raduje čtrnáctkrát, aby ho pak Cristiano v roce 2014 překonal hned sedmnácti zásahy. Lionel by se mohl pyšnit celou řadou fantastických statistik, chlapec z Rosaria však jen skromně řekne: "Lámání rekordů je výsledkem několika věcí: ve fotbale se to však stane, když vám k tomu pomůže tým. Myslím si, že se pořád učím nové věci, a určitě tady bude vždycky něco, co se dá zlepšit."
Messi a Ronaldo jsou z jiné planety. Přemohli to, co bylo, a předběhli i to, co bude. A Diego Maradona, mistr světa z roku 1986, už o osmnáctiletém Leovi bez obav prohlásí: "Viděl jsem hráče, který převezme mou úlohu v argentinském fotbale. Jeho jméno je Messi a je mým nástupcem. On mě jednou nahradí a bude nejlepší na světě."
Diegova předpověd se naplňuje, až na jediné. Zatímco Leo vyhraje s Barcelonou vše, co je možné, krom jiného deset španělských titulů a čtyřikrát Champions League, jako kapitán Albicelestes zatím dosáhne "jen" na světové stříbro na Mondialu v Brazílii. A tak toužebně vzhlíží k zisku Světovému poháru na MS v Kataru 2022 a myslí na svůj největší sen. "Chtěl bych se stát s Argentinou mistrem světa."
Vydejme se na Messiho neuvěřitelnou cestu dlážděnou výsostným uměním velkého hráče a posetou fotbalovými diamanty.
The Life of Raphael
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo, it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of individual masters.
This illustrated standalone edition of Vasari's Life of Raphael offers a new translation of this rich and remarkable 'Life', elegantly rendering Vasari's literary text in modern terms. A work of authoritative skill and precision, the translation preserves Vasari's compelling narrative, while beautifully reproduced illustrations bring it newly to life. Editors Paul Joannides and Rick Scorza bring together the original and expanded Italian editions of 1550 and 1568, with succinct commentary drawing upon their expert knowledge of Raphael's career.
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
A twisting new thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair.
In the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of four murders. Two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott crack the case and identify the killer. Then, twenty years later and just as he is on the point of taking early retirement, Rosenberg is approached by Stephanie Mailer, a journalist who believes he made a mistake back in 1994 and that the real murderer is still out there, perhaps ready to strike again. But before she can give any more details, Stephanie Mailer mysteriously disappears, and Rosenberg and Scott are forced to confront the possibility that her suspicions might have been proved true. What happened to Stephanie Mailer? What did she know? And what really happened in Orphea all those years ago?
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A Short History of Russia
Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future.
Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'other'. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.
In this essential whistle-stop tour of the world's most misunderstood nation, Mark Galeotti takes us behind the myths to the heart of the Russian story: from the formation of a nation to its early legends - including Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great - to the rise and fall of the Romanovs, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, Chernobyl and the end of the Soviet Union - plus the arrival of an obscure politician named Vladimir Putin.
Sorcery of Thorns
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library's most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she's been taught-about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
The heir apparent to Diana Wynne Jones, no one can match Rogerson's dark whimsy or joyous magic. This book is sheer delight."Jessica Cluess, author of the Kingdom on Fire trilogy
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