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The Ballet Master - Erotic Short Story (EN)
For Anya the ballet dancer, dancing means everything. Her body is her instrument, which she has mastered to perfection, and she never loses control of herself or her body. Up until a scorching summer, where she makes the acquaintance of a ballet master from New York, who sets her entirely off balance.
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Classic Tales Christmas (EN)
The stories in this collection are all about Christmas, but that does not mean that they are all happy and tranquil. Sincere and romantic ones like O. Henry’s meet the mysterious tales of Chesterton and Conan Doyle. A malevolent and nihilist gravedigger receives absolution from the most unlikely of creatures, while a poor shoemaker that has renounced God begins to look for His presence through his small window.
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Sanditon and Other Stories (EN)
In a new audio adaptation of some of Austen’s lesser known works, Avita Jay brings to life the wit and satire of one of England’s greatest authors. In Austen’s final and unfinished novel, Charlotte Heywood finds herself caught up in the comings and goings of the lively seaside resort "Sanditon". It is a story filled with a cast of colourful characters, from the widowed Lady Denham to wealthy Caribbean heiress, Georgiana Lambe, and the dashing, Sidney Parker.
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10 Hours to Go
Welcome to the highway of your nightmares in this fiery claustrophobic thriller for fans of Natalie D. Richards and Natasha Preston
Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even.
Lily needs a ride-a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha.
It's getting tense in the car, and it's not just about the past. There's smoke in the air, and with the wildfires nearby, staying on the road is becoming riskier by the hour. When Natasha and Elke decide to take a detour, Lily hopes it'll get them out of danger. She has no idea, though, what her former friends have planned for her.
But as night comes, the plans change again when it becomes all too clear that leaving the main road was a mistake. Now the three of them are trapped in the woods under a burning sky, with no easy way out. To survive, Lily must depend on Elke and Natasha-but after all that's happened, can she trust them with her life?
A Life on our Planet
I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.
I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future - the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake, and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.
We have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.
All we need is the will do so.
The Ultimate Digital Marketing Book
If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.
From effective SEO and Search marketing to mastering mobile and content marketing, THE ULTIMATE DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately.
Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises.
This is your complete course in digital marketing.
The Ski-Flirt - Erotic Short Story (EN)
In the past, Anya was the adventurous type who was always seeking fun and trouble. But since the breakup with Jonas, she has found herself in a dark place and she spends most of the time in bed. In order to put an end to her misery, Anya’s friend Maria persuades her to go on a ski-trip in the mountains outside of Barcelona.
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Klapzubova jedenáctka
Klasický humoristický román z roku 1922 o tom, jak chalupník Klapzuba vychová ze svých synů slavnou fotbalovou jedenáctku.
Základní dílo české humoristické prózy líčí osudy jedenácti bratrů, z nichž jejich otec sestavil a vytrénoval neporazitelné fotbalové mužstvo. Knihu lze číst jako oslavu ducha fair play, houževnatosti a sportovního nadšení, i jako dobově aktuální hříčku, která lehce ironizuje opojení českou kopanou a naráží na události v poválečné společnosti.
Eduard Bass, jinak též autor ještě známějšího díla Cirkus Humberto, tak vlastně napsal jistý druh moderní pohádky pro všechny generace o tom, jak se mladí chlapci z malé české vesnice nezaleknou nástrah velkého světa a kráčí statečně vstříc všem jeho nástrahám.
Roku 1938 natočil na motivy tohoto románu Ladislav Brom stejnojmenný film. Přesně o třicet let později se diváci dočkali i televizního seriálu.
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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1
We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?
The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story . . .
Have you ever wondered how we got here? From hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon?
It is because we are unstoppable. But what made us so? Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!).
And this has made us very powerful . . . but very deadly. Nothing stands in our way, and we always want more.
So get ready for the most amazing story there ever was - the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables. Find out how fire shrank our stomachs, how our ancestors spoke to animals, what football can tell us about being human, how we used our superpower for good and bad . . . and how YOU have the superpower to change the world.
With full-colour illustrations showing the relentless rise and rise of the human race, this is history like you've never experienced it before.
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1
We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?
The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story . . .
Have you ever wondered how we got here? From hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon?
It is because we are unstoppable. But what made us so? Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!).
And this has made us very powerful . . . but very deadly. Nothing stands in our way, and we always want more.
So get ready for the most amazing story there ever was - the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables. Find out how fire shrank our stomachs, how our ancestors spoke to animals, what football can tell us about being human, how we used our superpower for good and bad . . . and how YOU have the superpower to change the world.
With full-colour illustrations showing the relentless rise and rise of the human race, this is history like you've never experienced it before.
The Bang-Bang Club
The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos.
Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working; Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine. Written by Greg and Joao, The Bang-Bang Club tells their uniquely powerful war stories. It tells the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid. An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book, and an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography. An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag.
Wet in the Swimming Pool (EN)
The young couple. The first time. Daring flirtations. The secret, forbidden meeting. The young student and the teacher. The older gentleman and the innocent virgin. You, me and a friend. This is a collection of erotic short stories from Cupido. The collection contains the following stories: "They met at the laundry.
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Soundtrack - Peaky Blinders 2CD
Tracklist:
CD1
1 Tommy: 'It's Not A Good Idea...'
2 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
3 The White Stripes - St James Infirmary Blues
4 Truce - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 1 (Score)
5 Tommy: 'Right I Have Bought You Hear Today...'
6 Dan Auerbach - The Prowl
7 Polly: 'There's Only One Thing...'
8 Jack White - Love Is Blindness
9 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
10 Alfie: 'I've Heard Very Bad, Bad, Bad Things...'
11 Black Rebel Motorcycle - River Styx
12 Post Irish Meeting - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 2 (Score)
13 PJ Harvey - Red Right Hand
14 Laura Marling - What He Wrote
15 Arthur: 'Do You Wanna Tell 'Em...'
16 Royal Blood - Come On Over
17 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
18 Tommy: 'I Love You...'
19 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Breathless
20 Radiohead - You And Whose Army?
21 Polly: 'A Woman Of Substance...'
22 PJ Harvey - This Is Love
23 Sons - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 3 (Score)
24 Tommy: 'You Can Change What You Do...'
25 Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch
26 The Last Shadow Puppets - Bad Habits
27 David Bowie - Lazarus
CD2
1 Tommy: 'Sex, Freedom, Whiskey Sours...'
2 Savages - Adore
3 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Live From KCRW)
4 Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - I Wish
5 Ballad Of Polly Gray - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 4 (Score)
6 Tommy: 'I'm Not A Traitor To My Class...'
7 Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes - Devil Inside Me
8 Foals - Snake Oil
9 Polly: 'It's In Our Gypsy Blood...'
10 Radiohead - Pyramid Song
11 Laura Marling - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
12 Ada: 'So, Tommy Shelby, MP...'
13 Black Sabbath - The Wizard
14 Anna Calvi - Papi Pacify
15 Joy Division - Atmosphere
16 Tommy: 'You Need To Understand...'
17 Anna Calvi - You're Not God
18 Arthur: 'There's A Bentley Outside...'
19 Jehnny Beth - I'm The Man
20 Idles - Never Fight A Man With A Perm
21 Tommy: 'I Will Continue...'
22 Richard Hawley - Ballad Of A Thin Man
Argylle
The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle , featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame.
One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special.
Enter Argylle. His life came to a crashing halt as a teenager. Since then he has been treading water, building barriers between himself and the world. Until one moment of compassion and brilliance will bring him to the attention of the most powerful woman in the secret world.
Coffey knows all about Argylle's dark past. She knows it haunts him. But she also knows it may give him the skills to join the team going up against one of the most powerful men in the world. His crash course in espionage will take him from the jungles of Thailand to the boulevards of Monaco, from the monasteries of Mount Athos to a forgotten cavern buried deep in the mountains.
It is a deathly rollercoaster ride that will either make him - or break him...
Lacná kniha Africký príbeh lásky (-90%)
Daphne Sheldricková je prvá žena na svete, ktorej sa úspešne podarilo odchovať novonarodené sloníča. Dlhé roky žila uprostred kenskej prírody a s úprimným záujmom sledovala tamojší život. Usilovala sa zistiť správne zloženie mlieka pre slonie mláďatá a zachránila ich tisícky, ktoré by inak uhynuli.
Vo svojej strhujúcej spomienkovej knihe zobrazuje vzťah k mnohým zvieracím sirotám, ktoré odchovala. Jej prvou láskou bol Bushy, antilopa s krásnymi očami. Potom trpasličí mungo Ricky-Ticky-Tavey, byvoliar bielohlavý Gregory Peck, krásna zebra Huppety a napokon majestátna slonica Eleanor, s ktorou Daphne prežila celých štyridsať rokov.
Daphne rozpráva aj nádherný príbeh o svojej láske k Davidovi Sheldrickovi, známemu správcovi Národného parku Tsavo. Ich láska bola nesmierne hlboká a plná vášne. David dokonale rozumel prírode a jeho náhla tragická smrť podnietila Daphne do ďalších aktivít. Zaslúžila sa o ochranu kenskej prírody aj o založenie svetoznámej Nadácie na ochranu prírody Davida Sheldricka. Okrem toho pomohla založiť škôlku pre zvieracie siroty v Nairobskom národnom parku, kde žije a pracuje dodnes.
Daphne neopisuje v knihe len svoju lásku k manželovi a prírode, približuje aj nekonečné únavné výpravy proti pytliakom a metódy ochrany kenskej prírody. Často porovnáva vlastnosti zvierat s ľudskými. Svojou starostlivosťou prispela k tomu, aby sa siroty mohli vrátiť do voľnej prírody.
Africký príbeh lásky je nielen rozprávanie o láske a súcite, ale aj plný humoru. Prináša nezvyčajný pohľad do života jednej z najpozoruhodnejších žien na svete.
Z anglického originálu An African Story. Love, Life and Elefants (Viking,
an imprint of Penguin Books, London 2012) preložila Miriam Ghaniová.
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Lacná kniha The Adulteress
Nicholas is running away, both from his marriage and an unfaithful wife, and the comfortable life he has known in Dublin. He buys a run down house in rural Cavan, right in the heart of Ireland, and embarks on a huge renovation project. While he is there, the house seems to speak to him - there are voices coming from an untraceable source, the seductive smell of baking seeps through the walls, and there is the unmistakable ethereal presence of a woman from the past. She is June Fanning, an English woman who lived in the house in 1941. As her narrative combines with Nicholas's, the story of The Adulteress is revealed - and Nicholas begins to discover exactly what went wrong with his own marriage.
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Lacná kniha Sontag: Her Life
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world.
Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the conflicted meanings of a most conflicted word: modernity. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began and the Berlin Wall came down, in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based, exploring the private woman hidden behind the formidable public face.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from Manhattan to Sarajevo - and featuring nearly one hundred images, many never seen before - Sontag is the first book based on the writer's restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about her, including Annie Leibovitz. It is an indelible portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, who lived one of that century's most romantic - and most anguished - lives.
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The Silmarillion Illustrated Deluxe Edition
For the first time ever, a beautiful slipcased edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in colour by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, with the complete text printed in two colours and with many bonus features unique to this edition. The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor.
But the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within his iron crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism, against the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part.
The book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindale, a myth of the Creation, and the Valaquenta, in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age, and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. This deluxe slipcased edition contains the complete text, which is printed in two colours and features, for the very first time, more than 50 colour paintings, illustrations and designs drawn by J.R.R.
Tolkien himself as he composed this epic work. Unique to this edition are two poster-size, fold-out maps revealing all the detail of Beleriand as the tales grew, an illustrated booklet featuring 'A Brief Account of The Silmarillion and its Making' by Christopher Tolkien, and a printed art card reproducing 'Taniquetil'. It is additionally quarterbound in blue leather, with raised ribs on the spine, stamped in three foils on black cloth boards, and housed in a custom-built clothbound slipcase.
The pages are edged in silver and include a ribbon marker.
Výstava jako médium. České umění 1957–1999
Jak se výstavy výtvarného umění promítají do jeho psaných dějin? A jak by vypadaly dějiny českého umění druhé poloviny 20. století, pokud bychom se na ně dívali právě z tohoto pohledu?
Zatímco tradičně bývají dějiny umění koncipovány jako dějiny stylů a zaměřují se na jednotlivé osobnosti a díla, v publikaci Výstava jako médium jsou pojímány z pohledu tzv. exhibition histories, které se na Západě na přelomu milénia staly novou uměnovědnou disciplínou. České umění druhé poloviny 20. století je tak představováno na pozadí přelomových výstav, které v letech 1957–1999 spoluformovaly jeho vývoj.
Publikace na více než 1000 stranách rekonstruuje 60 pečlivě vybraných výstav, a to jak skrze texty, tak obrazovou dokumentaci. Výstava je v knize chápána jako autonomní formát kulturní produkce, ale zároveň i jako nástroj k prosazení určitých podob umění, jeho funkcí a veřejné legitimizace. Archiv rozdělený do pěti období uvádějí tři samostatné studie, které sledují metodologii aktuálního výstavního diskurzu, dějiny výstav a proměňující se institucionální podmínky vystavování daného období i dosud nezpracované téma autorů a organizátorů výstav, později označovaných jako kurátoři/kurátorky.
Kniha přináší nové pohledy na dosavadní interpretace vývoje českého výtvarného umění po roce 1957. Přestože se zabývá historií, klade si otázky, které bezprostředně vycházejí z podoby současného umění a jeho aktuálních problémů.
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