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The Moving Picture Girls
Actor Hosmer DeVere and his daughters Ruth and Alice struggle to make ends meet while Mr. DeVere is between theatrical engagements. Things look up when he wins a leading role in an upcoming play, but he is suddenly afflicted with hoarseness just before the play opens. When his voice does not improve, he loses his role in the play and must seek other work. Russ Dalwood, a friend to Ruth and Alice, suggests that Mr. DeVere join his film company as an actor in the moving pictures. Considering the moving pictures to be vulgar and cheap, he refuses until the situation has become critical and the family is served with an eviction notice. Mr. DeVere gives in and accepts the job at the film company. Over time, Alice and Ruth also gain positions with the film company where they experience many adventures and help Russ prevent thieves from stealing his newly invented film stabilizer from him.
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The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island
The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Islandby Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery: The tale of the mutiny of His Majesty's armed ship Bounty, which led to the founding of the Pitcairn community, is well known. All that needs to be told here is from Tahiti with a cargo of breadfruit trees for planting in the West Indies, the master's mate, Fletcher Christian, and others of the crew mutinied. Casting adrift the Commander, Lieutenant William Bligh, and eighteen loyal officers in the ship's boat, the mutineers sailed the Bounty back to Tahiti, then to Tubuai in the Austral Group. There, relations with the inhabitants soon deteriorated and, spurred by the fear of discovery and arrest, eight of the mutineers set sail with Christian in search of an uninhabited island, secure from the outside world. To help them the men took with them six Tahitian men and, to look after them and be their consorts, twelve Tahitian women.
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Parnassus On Wheels
Parnassus on Wheels is Morley's first novel, about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-year-old Helen McGill, who is tired of taking care of her older brother, Andrew. Andrew is a former businessman turned farmer, turned author. As an author, he begins using the farm as his Muse rather than a livelihood. When Mifflin shows up with his traveling bookstore, Helen buys it--partly to prevent Andrew from buying it--and partly to treat herself to a long-overdue adventure of her own. The first of two novels to be written from a woman's perspective, as well as the prequel to a later novel (The Haunted Bookshop), Parnassus on Wheels was inspired by David Grayson's novel, The Friendly Road, and starts with an open letter to Grayson, taking him to task for not concerning himself (except in passing) with his sister's opinion of and reaction to his adventure.
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Sonic The Hedgehog, Vol. 1: Fallout!
The evil genius Dr. Eggman has been foiled--but the work of Sonic the Hedgehog isn't over yet! In the aftermath of the latest epic battle, rogue robots continue to attack small villages around the world. In order to succeed, Sonic will need the help of his friends Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, along with some new and surprising allies.
This new collection from acclaimed writer Ian Flynn features the blue blur like you've never seen him before. Gotta go fast!
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Strategic Decisions
Reminiscent of the classic movie, Bhowani Junction the story takes the reader back to the twilight of the British Colonial Empire. Shady politics, rebellion, emergence of racism, and all the ills of newly independent colonies are highlighted in this authentic novel, alas about an imaginary country. In the 1930's a young Hungarian lieutenant, Adam Halder kills a brother officer in a duel, and forced to resign his commission. The Governor of Santome, a mineral rich island off the West African coast, which recently acquired independence signs him as a mercenary, to train its army. Rebels, wishing to oust the white settlers attack their farms. Adam flying with a lady pilot of mixed blood, Mimi locates the rebel's camp, and leading his raw troops defeats the enemy. Two years later, on home leave in Europe, Adam has a sad love affair. Returning Santome, he falls for Ildiko, a Hungarian missionary. WW II breaks out, the governor cancels the elections, and rebellion flares up again. Adam's troops foil a German attempt to snatch the gold from the mining company's vaults. Rebels raid the Mission and rape Ildiko. Adam helps her to, leave the island... John Masters Bhowani Junction című regényének nagysikerű filmváltozatához (főszerepben Rock Hudson és Ava Gardner) hasonlóan a Strategic Decisions a felszabadult gyarmatok problémáit tárja az olvasó elé. A harmincas évek közepe táján Adam Halder, egy fiatal magyar katonatiszt párbajban megöli tiszttársát. A botrány elkerülésére tartalékállományba helyezik. Angliába utazik, ahol a család egy régi barátja segítségével leszerződik az újonnan felszabadult gyarmat, San Tomé hadseregéhez. Ádámnak a szinte mindennapos felkelésekkel, a faji megkülönböztetés csíráival és a második világháború okozta nehézségekkel kell megbirkóznia.
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A Coney Island of the Mind
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
Groundskeeping
Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course.
It's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't - a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home.
Exploring the boundaries between life and art, and how our upbringings affect the people we can become, Groundskeeping is at heart a love story - a novel about two very different people navigating the turbulence of an all-consuming relationship, and the complications which can ruin it.
Brutto
The much-anticipated follow-up title to Russell's award- winning and bestselling Polpo, showcasing simple Florentine recipes.
Brutto ma buono - ugly but good. This is the food of Florence - rigorously simple, few ingredients, exceptionally good.
Anchovy with cold butter and sourdough; Penne with tomato and vodka; Sausages with braised lentils and mustard; Roasted squash with borlotti bean and salsa verde; Country-style bread and tomato salad; 3-ingredient meringue hazelnut cookies. The food of Florence rests on humble ingredients - not many - brought together in the rough-and-ready style of everyday cooking with flavor at its heart.
This stunning brand-new cookbook offers outstanding recipes from Russell Norman's acclaimed new restaurant, Trattoria Brutto, alongside an ode to one of Italy's most beloved city's, Florence, and specifically the bohemian district of Santo Spirito.
Including Russell's captivating stories and insider advice, Brutto is a proudly fuss-free recipe book to use every day, wherever you are, and an joyous tribute to Italy's greatest rustic cuisine.
Includes metric measures.
Public Management in the Context of Contingency Theory
Does public management, i.e. the management of public interest organisations, differ from business management, i.e. the management of profit-oriented organisations, and if so, in what way? This is the question that the book in the hands of the reader seeks and provides possible answers to. It is framed by the contingency theory, which assumes that there is no single best solution and method that is equally applicable in all circumstances; that there is a need for flexibility in the methods to be applied; and that the methods to be applied in a given situation must be adapted to the circumstances. Public Management in the Context of Contingency Theory addresses the issue of situational management in public administration organisations, as their specific environment – its complexity, dynamics and changes – also implies a need for their managers to adapt; one possible means of doing so is the adaptive use of contingency theory.
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Csoda az Ötödik sugárúton
Imádja a karácsonyt Eva Jordan, a menthetetlenül romantikus gasztroblogger. A mostani azonban másmilyennek ígérkezik, mint az eddigiek: ezt egy luxuslakásban fogja tölteni New York legelőkelőbb részén, az Ötödik sugárúton – átmenetileg ugyanis házvezetőnői munkát vállal Lucas Blade-nél, a sikeres krimiszerzőnél. Megpróbálja széppé varázsolni az ünnepet a mogorva, titokzatos, bár bizsergetően vonzó férfi számára, de a feladat minden, csak nem egyszerű… Utálja a karácsonyt Lucas Blade, és idén sem kér belőle. Mivel közeledik felesége halálának évfordulója és egy fontos határidő, a férfi bezárkózik a lakásába. Nem akar karácsonyfát, süteményt és angyalkákat, nem akar ünnepi hangulatot – egyet akar: azt, hogy hagyják nyugodtan dolgozni. Egy hatalmas hóvihar miatt azonban kénytelen hosszabb ideig elviselni Eva, a szép és bohókás házvezetőnő társaságát. S ahogy telnek a napok, kezdi visszanyerni hitét a boldogságban…
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21st Century Houses
"21st Century Houses: 150 of the World's Best" offers a bumper selection of outstanding contemporary designs in gorgeous, glossy colour spreads. From modest to massive and everything between, all the houses feature the latest trends in building and interior design and provide a revealing glimpse of what it's like to live in some of the most spectacular houses in the world. Locations include the USA, UK, India, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Norway, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Netherlands, Japan, the Bahamas, Mexico, Canada, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, UAE, Slovenia, Argentina, South Africa, Austria, Malaysia, and more. This title features 150 of the world's most prominent architects, including US architects Swatt Miers, Marmol Radziner, OSKA, LPA Inc, and Moore Ruble Yudell; European architects Jarmund Vigsnaes, Paul de Ruiter, Antonino Cardillo, Marc Kohler Architects, Damiliano Studio, and K-M Architects; and, South American architects Marcio Kogan, Una Arquitectos, FGMF, BAK Arquitectos, and Artadi Arquitectos.
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The Christmas Wish
Newly single lawyer Gwen Baker is hoping that a family Christmas—countryside, a mountain of food and festive films—will salve the sting of her career hanging by a thread and her heart being trampled on. Because everyone else has their life sorted: even Dev, her boy-next-door crush, is now a tall, dark and handsome stranger with a fiancée. She can’t help wishing her future was clearer.
Then Gwen wakes up to discover it’s Christmas day all over again. Like Groundhog Day but with eggnog. And family arguments. On repeat.
As she figures out how to escape her own particular Christmas hell, Dev is the one bright spot. He might be all grown-up but underneath he’s just as kind and funny as she remembers.
Maybe, just maybe, her heart can be mended after all.
But how do you fall in love with someone who can’t remember you from one day to the next?
Terorismus
Pojem terorismus se pevně usídlil v našem každodenním životě. Ačkoliv Česká republika v současné době nečelí útokům teroristů, neznamená to, že bychom byli proti tomuto nebezpečí zcela imunní. Tento poznatek stál u zrodu sborníku, který si klade za c
íl analyzovat terorismus jako novodobý fenomén a popsat jeho podoby v různých částech světa. Autoři definují terorismus, rozebírají historický vývoj fenoménu protistátního terorismu a věnují se také psychologii teroristického jednání. Kniha přináší ř
adu poznatků o dynamice a příčinách moderních asymetrických hrozeb. Lze v ní dále nalézt rozbor protiteroristických opatření v České republice a v Evropské unii i úlohy zpravodajských služeb v boji proti terorismu. Jsou zde také příspěvky, které spec
ifikují jednotlivé typy teroristických aktivit definovaných podle motivace pachatelů. Několik textů se zabývá problematikou náboženského terorismu, s důrazem na vztah islámu a terorismu, a současnou americkou válkou proti teroru. Autoři rovněž analyz
ují fenomén etnicko-separatistického terorismu na Korsice a v Kosovu, jakož i problematiku ultralevicového terorismu (v západní Evropě i v Latinské Americe). Publikace vhodným způsobem doplňuje mezeru v české odborné literatuře. Představuje zdařilou
symbiózu teoretických informací, podaných čtenářsky atraktivní formou, a dílčích případových studií. Tři z textů knihy jsou publikovány v angličtině, všechny ostatní jsou v češtině. Kniha je vhodnou pomůckou nejen pro bezpečnostní a vojenské odborník
y z profesionálních i akademických kruhů, ale také pro politiky, studenty mezinárodních či strategických studií a příbuzných oborů i pro zájemce z řad široké laické veřejnosti.
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar: Volume 9
With Yuuto back in Yggdrasil, now it’s his turn to retaliate!At last, our hero has returned to Yggdrasil. Having turned Stein?órr’s army away with his “Empty Fortress” strategy, Yuuto sets out to attack and drive off the invading Panther Clan immediately.“I can’t afford to dawdle at a time like this.”Back from Japan with new tools and tactics in hand, it’s time for Yuuto to raise the banner of counterattack, in this intense whirlwind of a ninth volume!!
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The Siren's Realm
The war has begun. The Dragons are gaining power, and the Gray Clan stands alone. Desperate to find a way to stop the Pendragon, Emilia is forced to seek answers from someone who hasn't been seen in seventeen years… Her mother. Embarking on a magical journey filled with witches, wizards, centaurs and a dangerous and powerful Siren, Jacob and Emilia must take a leap of faith to a land neither could have ever imagined … and hope they can find their way home.
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The Three-Body Problem Boxset
The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series?The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End?by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.
A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens?and succeeds.
Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth.
News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost.
The Three Body Problem trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
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Anatomy Of Design
An iconic collection of design work presented in fresh and useful format.Designers are conceptual pack rats. They pack as much raw material in their brains as possible and then use that to build their own unique designs. The Anatomy of Design is what, in the butcher business, they call a "side of beef." The authors selected fifty examples of graphic design that will be dissected, piece by piece, tissue by tissue, revealing an array of influences and inspirations. These are not necessarily the most well-known or celebrated objects of graphic design, though many contain the genetic codes of some canonical works. Instead, these represent contemporary artifacts that are well conceived, finely crafted, and filled with hidden treasures. Some are overtly complex and their influences are somewhat easy to see with the naked eye. Others are so simple that it is hard to believe there is a storehouse of inspiration hidden underneath.The selections include all kinds of design work including posters, book and record covers, packages, catalog covers, and more. Each exhibit is selected based on its ubiquity, thematic import, and aesthetic significance, and every page is a means to show how great work is derived from various inspirational and physical sources, some well-known, some unknown. Each design is presented on a gate-fold showing the featured design and and other works that share the key influences with extended captions explaining the whys and wherefores.
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The Jumping Frog
Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." Containing the original story (in english), a french translation which was published in la Revue des Deux Mondes and which Twain finds to be a travesty of the original text, and Twain's re-translation of the french back into english, word for word (this is where things degenerate). A masterpiece of babelfishien nonsense dating from well before babelfish was even a gleam in the binary code of its creator (1903). Best appreciated if you can read both French and English, but even if you skip the french version it's truly brilliant. If you have ever translated random text using babelfish just because it's funny, don't miss this book.As good old Samuel Clemens himself put it in his foreword "I cannot speak the French language, but I can translate very well, though not fast, I being self-educated."
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A Christmas Carol (EN)
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.
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10,99 €