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The Duchess
Orphaned. Betrayed. Determined.
Angelique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone.
At eighteen, Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and an envelope of money her late father pressed upon her. Unable to secure employment, Angelique desperately makes her way to Paris. To survive, she will need all her resources - and one bold stroke of fortune.
Angelique takes an unfamiliar and unimaginable path in setting up what becomes a highly successful business. But she lives on the edge of scandal; can she ever make a life for herself?
From England to Paris and New York, Danielle Steel paints a captivating portrait of a woman of unquenchable spirit in The Duchess.
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In the Shadow of the Gods
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors
For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman or divine authority. In practice they ran the gamut from being some of the most remarkable men who ever lived, to being some of the worst and least remarkable.
Dominic Lieven's marvellous new book, In the Shadow of the Gods, is the first to grapple seriously with this extraordinary phenomenon. Across the world peoples, willingly or unwillingly, fell into orbit around figures who reshaped or destroyed entire societies, imposed religions and invaded rivals. Lieven describes the anatomy of imperial monarchy and the principles by which it functioned. He compares the great emperors of antiquity, the caliphs and the warrior-emperors of the steppe before he turns to the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Mughal and Chinese emperors, packing the book with extraordinary stories, astute observations and a sense of both delight and horror at these individuals' antics. The entire breadth of extreme human behaviour is here - from warlords to patrons of the arts, from political genius to feeble incapacity and pathological violence.
As one of the great experts both on empires and on Russian history, Lieven is brilliantly qualified to write a book that brings to life a system of rule that dominated most of human history, as well as some of history's grandest and most dismaying figures.
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Lacná kniha The Illustrator (-90%)
For all those who thought digital heralded the end of an era: illustration is alive and kicking, and new tools have given the art renewed vigor and the illustrator greater stamina. Steven Hellerand Julius Wiedemannpresent a snapshot of “the new golden age of illustration,” rounding up 100 of the most talented artists around the world. We dare you to pick your favorites.
For the last ten years, Steven Heller and Julius Wiedemannhave traced the latest developments in illustration across the globe—and for all those who thought digital heralded the end of an era, they’re here to set the record straight.
There were extraordinary eras before mass media changed our viewing habits, back in the day when illustration was the most primary means of illuminating the word on paper, to today when we get our words and images on screens as small as a watch face. And in this environment, today’s designers and artists are holding their own brilliantly. Illustration is more free and varied than ever, and it is ubiquitous in all kinds of media from paper to screen, books, packages, clothing, cars, and restaurants.
This book celebrates the sheer quality, diversity, intensity, comedy, vivacity, and exceptionality of the work being created by illustrators right now. From veteran artists like Brad Holland, whose oblique and metaphorical paintings for the New York Times’ op-ed section revolutionized illustrative content in the 1970s, to up-and-coming stars like Robin Eisenberg, her pastel-skinned alien belles cruising in spaceships on indie-rock album covers, the 100 artists in this collection are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, but they represent a compelling snapshot of the styles, techniques, and use of color by artists across the world. We dare you to pick your favorites.
Includes:
an introduction and foreword by editors Julius Wiedemann and Steven Heller
600 pagesof brilliantly reproduced works
a biography for each artistdetailing their background, philosophy, motivations, and contact details
an index of illustration agencies
The editors
Steven Helleris the co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author Program. For 33 years he was an art director for The New York Times, and currently writes the “Visuals” column for The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of 120 books on graphic design, illustration, and satiric art.
Julius Wiedemannstudied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now!and Record Coversseries, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.
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Lacná kniha The carnivorous carnival
There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Carnivorous Ca
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Various - Gergaz 2008-2018 The Locals 2LP
Žánrovo pestrá 2xLP kompilácia slovenského vydavateľstva GERGAZ k 10 výročiu svojej existencie. Obsahuje najobľúbenejšie mená a skladby slovenskej a českej elektronickej alternatívy, ktoré sa na tomto vydavateľstve objavili a ktoré doposiaľ na vinyle nevyšli. Titul je limitovaný na 250 kusov.
Zoznam skladieb:
1. GLGN - Where's My Money (edit)
2. Stratasoul – Sherryblossoms
3. Jimmy Pé & Tante Elze – Daydreams
4. Himalayan Dalai Lama - Coastline Blues
5. FVLCRVM - Unsung Heroes
6. Jimmy Pé - I wanna get ...
7. Fallgrapp - Ouagadougou (video version)
8. FVLCRVM - Hi!
9. nvmeri – Entropy
10. The High Corporation - Maj in June
11. nvmeri – Scales
12. Zorba že ja Buddha – Perpendicular
13. Keosz – Reminiscence
14. The Global Optimistic - Smooth Jazz
15. FORMA - Wichura (Marcin Cichy of Skalpel remix)
16. Jimmy Pé - Time Machine (feat. Fallgrapp & Tante Elze)
Cenzúra
Na označenie mocenského zasahovania do umeleckého diela, na jeho úplné zastavenie alebo na zníženie jeho dostupnosti nemáme praktickejší pojem ako cenzúra. Nezáleží pritom na vymedzení podľa obdobia (času, režimu) alebo krajiny, teritória. Kniha Cenzúra a dokumentárny film po roku 1989 sa venuje formám a prejavom cenzúrnych zásahov, ktoré sa na Slovensku po roku 1989 objavili v súvislosti s autorskym dokumentárnym filmom. Za najviac dotknuty žáner nielen u nás, ale napríklad aj v Spojenych štátoch pritom môžeme považovať investigatívny typ dokumentu. Autor najprv v krátkom historickom prehľade rekapituluje mechanizmy fungovania cenzúry riadenej štátom, ktoré sa v prípade filmovej tvorby uplatňovali v období prvej Československej republiky (1918 1938), za vojnovej Slovenskej
republiky (1939 1945) a v byvalom Československu (1948 1989). Rezíduá tychto foriem sa neskôr plynule objavili aj v demokratickej Slovenskej republike (od roku 1993), a to najmä vo forme politicky, nábožensky alebo osobne motivovaného tlaku na pôvodnú tvorbu a jej autorov zo strany predstaviteľov vládnych strán, ich nominantov, záujmovych skupín alebo sociálnych hercov vystupujúcich vo filme.
Pomocou interpretačnych nástrojov na analyzu tychto fenoménov konfrontuje autor situáciu u nás s porovnateľnou situáciou v USA (od roku 1968), kde do vyroby i distribúcie filmov aktívne zasahujú najmä organizácia MPAA a združenie CARA. Autor sa snaží nájsť odpoveď na otázku: Ak je cenzúra na Slovensku podľa zákona z roku 1990
neprípustná, prečo sa v súvislosti s dokumentárnou tvorbou termíny ako cenzúra a trezorovy film opakovane objavujú vo verejnom, v mediálnom a odbornom diskurze?
Martin Palúch je filmovy vedec a pedagóg. Od roku 2002 pôsobí ako samostatny vedecky pracovník v Ústave divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV v Bratislave. Zároveň prednáša na Fakulte dramatickych umení Akadémie umení v Banskej Bystrici a na Filmovej a televíznej fakulte VŠMU v Bratislave. Je spoluautorom monografie Herec Ivan Palúch (2008) a autorom dvoch knižnych publikácií Vnem v zrkadle fotografie a filmu (2010) a Autorsky dokumentárny film na Slovensku po roku 1989 (2015).
The War on the West
In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?
It's become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What's more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy.
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the world's most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murray's status as one of the world's foremost political writers.
Europe - Walk The Earth (Special Edition) 2CD
KDO: švédská rocková legenda
CO: 11. album
CD
1. Walk The Earth
2. The Siege
3. Kingdom United
4. Pictures
5. Election Day
6. Wolves
7. GTO
8. Haze
9. Whenever You're Ready
10. Turn To Dust
DVD
1. Europe At Abbey Road
Lacná kniha Krstný otec - Fascinujúci príbeh filmu (-50%)
Krstný otec je nepochybne jedným z najobľúbenejších a najuznávanejších filmov v histórii svetovej kinematografie. V opakovaných prieskumoch sa toto majstrovské dielo režiséra Francisa Forda Coppolu zaradilo medzi najvýznamnejšie filmy, aké sa kedy objavili na filmovom plátne. Jeho prezentácia, symbolika a slovník ovplyvnili celú generáciu filmárov a popkultúru všeobecne.
Táto kniha uznávaného odborníka Petra Cowieho prostredníctvom archívnych materiálov, fotografií z nakrúcania a zasväteného sprievodného textu rozpráva fascinujúci príbeh filmu, ktorý takmer neuzrel svetlo sveta. Prezentuje jednotlivé komponenty, ktoré – napriek všetkým očakávaniam – do seba tak skvelo zapadli, že tento film štúdia Paramount v roku 1972 dosiahol obrovský úspech a jeho popularita pretrváva do súčasnosti.
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The Oldest Book in the World
A new translation of a philosophical and practical advice classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt four thousand years ago and still relevant for modern readers today.
Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings and twelve conclusions of The Teaching of Ptahhatp, vizier, or chief minister, to the Old Kingdom pharaoh Izezi (2390–2350 BCE). Manley’s expert commentary elucidates Ptahhatp’s profound yet practical philosophy, which covers such topics as ambition, fame, confrontation, sex, and wisdom, and offers a unique window onto ancient Egyptian life and society.
The Teaching of Ptahhatp ought to begin the list of the world’s classics of philosophy, yet it has been largely forgotten since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century. Manley’s new translation corrects this oversight, making accessible for the first time the Old Kingdom vizier Ptahhatp’s concise, helpful insights into the human condition.
New translations of two further texts?The Dialogue Between a Man and His Soul, in which a man asks himself, “What is the point of living?,” and Why Things Happen, the oldest surviving account of creation from anywhere in the world?demonstrate how Ptahhatp’s philosophy was founded in ancient Egyptian beliefs about truth and reality. Manley introduces the vizier and the world within which he operated, as well as the significance of the “oldest book of the world,” preserved in a scroll now known as the Papyrus Prisse in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Together these works by Ptahhatp provide a new perspective on the Pyramid Age and overturn traditional stereotypes about the origins of Western philosophy.
74 illustrations / 25 in color
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The Time Chamber Komnata času
Talentovaná umelkyňa zo Soulu vytvorila tieto nádherné "antistresové" maľovanky. Záhrada času (The Time Garden) a Komnata času (The Time Chamber) majú vyšší rozmer arteterapie. Nielenže sa ponoríte do kresby, navyše sa stanete aj účastníkom a zároveň tvorcom príbehu.
Maľovanky sú na kvalitnom 170 g/m papieri, ktorý zabraňuje presakovaniu či presvitaniu farieb a umožňuje použitie rôznych techník. Obálka je z veľmi silného kartónu, ktorý zabraňuje ohnutiu listov a chráni vašu prácu, keď si maľovanky beriete so sebou na cesty. Celá knižka má navyše luxusný farebný prebal so zlatou termorazbou, a tak si vás získa na prvý pohľad.
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The Short End of the Sonnenallee
Thomas Brussig's classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin WallThomas Brussig's slim novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin.Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side. "Look, a real Zonie. Can we take your picture?" Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street, Michael is batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border.
What chance does Michael have, and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her?Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly silly, Brussig's novel follows the bizarre, grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows, the ideas at its heart - freedom, democracy and life's fundamental hilarity - hold great relevance for today.
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Black Eyed Peas - Masters Of The Sun CD
Americká skupina z Los Angeles Black Eyed Peas vydává desku Masters of The Sun vol. 1, která vyšla 26. října. Objeví se na ní Nas, Phife Dawg, CL, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Posdenuos of de la Soul, Slick Rick a Nicol Scherzinger. Jedná se o sedmou desku, jejíž vydání předznamenal skladba Big Love, který jako jeden z prvních singlů reflektoval střelbu na amerických středních školách a věnoval se problematice odebírání dětí imigrantským rodinám. Výnosy z prodeje singlu putovaly na účet studentské aktivistické organizace March for Our Lives, která se zabývá ukončením epidemie masových střeleb na školách a organizace Families Belong Together, která bojuje proti Trumpově politice násilné separace rodin. Ve vyzývání statu quo Black Eyed Peas pokračují i na desce, kde se dále věnují aktuálním problémům černošských komunit, jakými je například kontrola zbraní, imigrační a vězeňská reforma a policejní brutalita.
Black Eyed Peas jsou uskupením, které se v průběhu své existence věnovalo hip hopu, popu, dance music i elektro žánru. Kapela se momentálně skládá z will.i.ama, apl.de.apa a Tabooa. V minulosti v kapele působila i zpěvačka Fergie. Black Eyed Peas stojí za hity, jako je Where Is The Love?, který se stal nejprodávanějším britským singlem roku 2003, nebo Pump It a se singly Boom Boom Pow a I Gotta Feeling se ve své době stali jednou z jedenácti kapel, které se podařilo obsadit první dvě příčky Billboard Hot 100 zároveň. V roce 2010 získali tři ceny Grammy.
Tracklist:
1 „Back 2 Hiphop” (featuring Nas) 05:18
2 „Yes or No” 05:04
3 „Get Ready” 04:10
4 „4ever” (featuring Esthero) 03:48
5 „Constant pt.1 pt.2” (featuring Slick Rick) 05:03
6 „Dopeness” (featuring CL) 04:38
7 „All Around the World” (featuring Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Posdnuos) 05:01
8 „New Wave” 04:54
9 „Vibrations pt.1 pt.2” 04:21
10 „Wings” (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) 05:17
11 „Ring the Alarm pt.1 pt.2 pt.3” 05:58
12 „Big Love” 04:35
The Ship Beneath the Ice
The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022
On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all 28 men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship that bore them to the brink of the Antarctic was considered forever lost.
A century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatched. The Ship Beneath the Ice gives a blow-by-blow account of the two epic expeditions to find the Endurance. As with Shackleton’s own story, the voyages were filled with intense drama and teamwork under pressure. In March 2022, the Endurance was finally found to headlines all over the world.
Written by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on both expeditions, this captivating narrative includes countless fascinating stories of Shackleton and his legendary ship. Complete with a selection of Frank Hurley’s photos from Shackleton’s original voyage in 1914–17, as well as from the expeditions in 2019 and 2022, The Ship Beneath the Ice is the perfect tribute to this monumental discovery.
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The Funniest Boy in the World
Billy Plimpton took to the stage and captivated the crowd at the triumphant ending to The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh, and in the sequel, he's going to go viral. Celebrity comedian Leo Leggett takes Billy under his wing, as his new sidekick: when Leo tweets a clip of his stand-up act, Billy suddenly becomes the most famous boy in the country.
At first, this is GREAT - all the kids at school think he's cool and he gets to appear on his favourite morning TV show. But Leo's motives turn out to be shady and Billy must turn the tables in a very public way...
The idea for this story came from Helen Rutter's son, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him. packed with brilliant jokes and one-liners to make kids roar with laughter a book to encourage empathy and kindness in young readers.
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Lacná kniha Penguin Readers Level 4: How High The Moon (-70%)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
How High the Moon, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.
Ella lives in a small, Southern town in the 1940s. In the USA at this time, black people are treated badly by white people. Ella's mother lives in Boston, but Ella does not know who her father is. When Ella visits her mother, she learns more about herself and the world.
Visit the Penguin Readers website
Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.
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U2 - The Joshua Tree Super Deluxe 4CD
Tracklist:
CD: 1 - 2007 Remastered Album
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With Or Without You
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. In God's Country
8. Trip Through Your Wires
9. One Tree Hill
10. Exit
11. Mothers Of The Disappeared
CD: 2 - The Joshua Tree Tour 1987, Madison Square Garden
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. Trip Through Your Wires
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For*
5. MLK
6. Bullet The Blue Sky*
7. Running To Stand Still
8. In God's Country
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Exit*
11. October
12. New Year's Day
13. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
14. With Or Without You
15. Party Girl
16. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
17. "40"
CD: 3 – The Joshua Tree 2017 Remixes
1. One Tree Hill 2017 Remix (St Francis Hotel)
2. Bullet the Blue Sky 2017 Remix (Jacknife Lee)
3. Running To Stand Still 2017 Remix (Daniel Lanois)
4. Red Hill Mining Town 2017 Mix (Steve Lillywhite)
5. With or Without You 2017 Remix (Daniel Lanois)
6. Where The Streets Have No Name 2017 Remix (Flood)
CD: 4 – The Joshua Tree B-sides / Outtakes
1. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
2. Walk To The Water
3. Spanish Eyes
4. Deep In The Heart
5. Silver And Gold
6. Sweetest Thing
7. Race Against Time
8. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – Lillywhite Alternative Mix ’87
9. One Tree Hill Reprise (Brian Eno 2017 Mix)
10. Silver and Gold (Sun City)
11. Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience
12. Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
13. Desert Of Our Love
14. Rise Up
15. Drunk Chicken/America
The Girl by the Bridge
Over 18 million copies sold worldwide. The bestselling Icelandic author of all time.
When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective Konrád.
Still looking for his own father's murderer, Konrád agrees to investigate the case.
But digging into the past reveals more than he set out to discover, and a strange connection to a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavík city pond decades ago recaptures everyone's attention.
A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.