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Lost and Found
Samantha Smythe has her hands full with three active young sons, an au-pair who eats all the food in the fridge and an absent husband who’s drinking champagne for breakfast in London. And she’s tying herself in knots trying for a longed-for baby girl … And then out of the blue, Samantha’s old friend Naomi turns up and deposits her daughter with her. Samantha finds she just can’t say no, either to Naomi, or to the glamorous but rackety former footballer who runs over her dog. Can Samantha continue to be everything to everyone or is she finally going to have to put her foot down and just say no for once?
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Lacná kniha The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means (-50%)
This is the bestseller on the credit crunch. In this brilliant short book, Vince Cable, 'the sage of the credit crunch' (
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Stealing The Wave: The Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw And Mark Foo
In the winter of mid-eighties, 2 surfers are battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, home to the biggest waves in the world. Ken Bradshaw commands respect with his fearlessness. Mark Foo is the icon of the younger generation. One day at Sunset Beach, Foo steals a wave from under Bradshaw's nose, sparking a feud that lasts for over 10 years.
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1984
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed.
Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history. But Winston dreams of freedom, and of rebellion. It is here that he falls in love with Julia, and starts a secret, forbidden affair with her - but in this world nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.
A dystopian masterpiece, this is the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century.
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Lacná kniha Beating of His Wings (-70%)
The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series.
Thomas Cale has been running from the truth.
Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose - to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself - Cale has been hunted by the very man who made him into the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco.
Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those created him, he has already used his breathtaking talent for destruction to bring down the most powerful civilisation in the world.
But Thomas Cale is weak. His soul is dying. As his body is wracked with convulsions he knows that the final judgment will not wait for a sick boy. As the day of reckoning draws close, Cale's sense of vengeance leads him back to the Sanctuary - and to confront the person he hates most in the world. Finally Cale must recognise that he is the incarnation of God's rage and decide if he will stand against the Sanctuary of the Redeemers and use his unique skill of laying waste to all things.
The fate of mankind rests on Cale's decision.
The Beating of his Wings is the third and final instalment in Paul Hoffman's epic Cale and the Sanctuary of the Redeemers trilogy, following The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things. Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials meets Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, and fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series.
Praise for Paul Hoffman:
'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden
'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph
'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express
Paul Hoffman is the author of four previous novels: the two previous Thomas Cale titles, as well as The Golden Age of Censorship, a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor and The Wisdom of Crocodiles, which predicted the collapse of the world financial system.
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The Lonely Hearts Lido Club (EN)
Audiobook The Lonely Hearts Lido Club, written by Charlie Lyndhurst. Three strangers all caught in the deep end. but can they help each other float through? After tragically losing her husband and being left a single mother to two children, Gabriella has only one escape for herself - swimming at a local London lido to clear her mind. A constant stream of both new and familiar faces visit the lido like Gabriella, but she doesn't suspect any are suffering quite like her until she meets Helen - who swims to escape her emotionless husband, and Ian - who feels lost in the deep end after becoming unemployed and unable to tell his husband.
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LIVING AND EATING
Living and Eating is above all a cookery book, packed with 'luscious recipes' (Marie Claire), with food that has been selected to be simple and delicious. The intention is to narrow the gap between how we eat on a daily basis and how we entertain, recognizing that the most relaxed form of entertaining is simply about inviting people to join you at your table. The collection of recipes is designed to cater for all seasons and occasions, and gives attention to making the best ever version of everyone's favourites: there are recipes for roast chicken, the definitive tomato salad, tagliatelle a la carbonara, apple tart and summer pudding. The book goes beyond the food itself to look at the whole context in which we enjoy it - the plates and glasses we eat and drink from, the equipment we use to prepare the food and the kitchen in which we cook. Exquisitely designed and produced, and illustrated with stunning food photography and photographs of John Pawson's London house, Living and Eating is an unparalleled, much praised guide to a simple yet utterly seductive way of cooking, eating and living.
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The Hawthorne Legacy
Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the global bestselling The Inheritance Games. Perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson.
A DEADLY GAME. A PUZZLE TO SOLVE. A FORTUNE AT STAKE.
One step forward.
Avery thought that solving the riddle left by billionaire Tobias Hawthorne would reveal why he left her - a complete stranger - his entire fortune.
Two steps back.
But as the cryptic clues tale an unexpected twist and the handsome and enigmatic Hawthorne grandsons continue to pull her in different directions, Avery can't help but wonder who she can really trust and who is just looking out for themselves.
What happens when the truth just hides more secrets?
Soon Avery realizes this game is no longer just about money and power. Now she's playing for her life.
Financial English in Use with Key
Professional English in Use Finance is suitable for intermediate students and above. It includes 50 units covering all aspects of financial vocabulary from Accounting to Borrowing and Lending, Central Banking to Venture Capital and many more areas including financial idioms and metaphors. Primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, it can also be used for classroom work and one-to-one lessons. This book is a must for both trainers and learners of ESP and Business English who need to use English in a financial environment.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images
For millennia, the culture of the ancient Egyptians has fascinated historians and spiritual seekers. The 20th anniversary edition of this seminal work includes all-new material analysing the progress in modern Egyptology. Written some 3,500 years ago, the Papyrus of Ani is the best-preserved example of Egyptian thought. Including full-colour hieroglyphic images paired with an acclaimed translation and two gatefold spreads that showcase the papyrus's elaborately bordered images. This sumptuous edition brings to life one of humanity's finest spiritual treasures.
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Poems for Love
A complex and truly timeless emotion, love – whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation – has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by bestselling author, and Romantic Novelist Association prize-winner, Joanna Trollope.
There has always been love, and we have been writing poetry about it for over 4,000 years. From John Donne and William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, the very best classic love poetry is collected in this elegant anthology, Poems for Love. That we still read and enjoy these heartfelt poems today is a testament both to their individual genius and to the enduring power of love.
Fear And Trembling
Amelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, but working there turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement. Disturbing, hilarious and totally convincing Fear and Trembling displays an elegant and shrewd understanding of the intricate ways Japanese relationships are made and spoiled.
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Free Fall: A Sniper´s Story from Chechnya
Free Fall tells the brutal engrossing story of the Second Chechen War, through the eyes of a young Russian Soldier. Nicolai Lilin was trained as a sniper in an unorthodox Russian Special Forces regiment called the Saboteurs. This hardened and close-
knit band of brothers, operating beyond the control of military code, faced mercenary fighters, anti-personnel mines and torture of the most extreme kind. Free Fall offers a sniper's-eye view of one of the most controversial wars in living memory. It
is unflinching, unforgiving and unputdownable.
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Within Temptation - Enter & The Dance (Numbered Edition With Bonus Track) CD
Tracklist:
1. Restless
2. Enter
3. Pearls Of Light
4. Deep Within
5. Gatekeeper
6. Grace
7. Blooded
8. Candles
The Dance EP:
9. The Dance
10. Another Day
11. The Other Half (Of Me)
12. Remix Restless
13. Remix Candles & Pearls Of Light
Bonus:
14. Restless (Classical Version)
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Geddes-Brown/Plants and Places
The artist Angie Lewin has a unique vision of the natural world. Her hugely popular prints depict in intricate detail the native flora of a variety of environments, from salt marsh and Highland loch to flower-strewn meadow and wild garden. Lewin finds beauty in each landscape, whatever the season, and is particularly inspired by plant forms: slender reeds, stately goatsbeard, spiky teasels and sculptural seed heads. Plants and Places presents over 70 of Lewin’s beautifully crafted linocuts and wood engravings.The works are grouped according to habitat – such as coast, woodland and hedgerow, and garden – together with drawings, paintings and collages from Lewin’s sketchbooks of grasses, seed pods, seaweed, shells and other objects that she has collected on her walks. In an engaging introduction, Leslie Geddes-Brown meets Lewin in her studio, discusses her artistic inspiration and her fascination with plants, and describes how she creates her prints.
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Bukovacova panna / Bukovac’s Virgin
Figurína malířské panny naslouchající Allenu Ginsbergovi, hrající si s bratry Čapky, jako postava obrazu Františka Kupky, společnice Vítězslava Nezvala či Jiřího Koláře, ale také jako Salome nesoucí hlavu svého tvůrce – samotného malíře. Tomáš Císařovský získal pro svůj nejnovější cyklus zdatnou múzu. Navíc věčnou, je totiž nesmrtelná, protože nikdy nebyla ani živá. Císařovský ji objevil ve svém bývalém ateliéru v pražských Dejvicích, který před ním na počátku minulého století užíval malíř a profesor na pražské Akademii výtvarných umění Vlaho Bukovac. A právě této téměř stopadesátileté bezejmenné panně daroval Císařovský vlastní život a nechal ji důvěrně vstoupit do svých děl. V žádném jiném cyklu obrazů Tomáš Císařovský nespojil svůj trvalý zájem o dějinné události a postavy s důsledným ohledáváním všeho lidského i nelidského v nitru člověka i umělce samotného.
A painter’s mannequin listening to Allen Ginsberg or playing with the Čapek brothers, depicted as a figure in a painting by František Kupka, a companion to Vítězslav Nezval or Jiří Kolář, but also as Salome holding the head of her creator – the painter himself. Tomáš Císařovský has acquired a capable muse for his latest series, an eternal and immortal one, in fact, for she was never alive in the first place. Císařovský discovered her in his former studio in Prague’s Dejvice district, which at the beginning of the last century was used by Vlaho Bukovac, a painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. Císařovský has given this almost 1500-year-old nameless mannequin its own life, letting it enter intimately into his works. In no other cycle of paintings has he combined his enduring interest in historical events and figures with a thorough examination of all that is human and inhuman within man and himself.
Lacná kniha A Prisoner of Birth (-70%)
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the bosss daughter,
and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queens Counsel of his
generation.
Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums.
Their lives will never
be the same again.
For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecutions chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašl
eme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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Inverting the Pyramid
The fifteenth anniversary edition, fully revised and updated, of Jonathan Wilson's modern classic.
In the modern classic, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, when chaos reigned. Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport, and probes why the English, in particular, have proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract.
Fully revised and updated, this fifteenth-anniversary edition analyses the evolution of modern international football, including the 2022 World Cup, charting the influence of the great Spanish, German and Portuguese tacticians of the last decade, whilst pondering the effects of football's increased globalisation and commercialisation.
Thamara And Juda
t's a brief and confusing biblical tale. The chapter dedicated to ONAN in the Bible is more an enigma than an explicit tale. This painted comic book suggests several tracks to be followed across the Neguev desert in order to solve dilemmas that the Semites faced during the old ages in order to adopt JudaĂŻsm or on the contrary that of the eternal absence of guilt leading to the " Paradise " of those who kill . When population is scarce and the desert is huge , man must give women a descendance ( specially if they are young and beautiful ) . It ' s a father ' s duty in such a place , that their sons have an attractive and stimulating wife . Those are Juda ' s whishes . Even if he finds his daughter-in-law irresistible , he chooses to remain a good father . Yet , the obscure memories of the past (Sichem) torture and kill Juda ' s sons after marrying Thamara . Thus , she becomes twice a widow . Fearing the same fate for his third son Juda decides not to marry him to Thamara breaking thus the sacred law . In the end, Thamara re-establishes the law of this beautiful and rude land broken by Juda. She will enable him to recover self-respect by giving again meaning and incarnation to his words.
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