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How is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new chapter, this is the eye-opening new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson.
Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about AI, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.
With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points - from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections between humans and non-human helpers to whether it's time to leave planet Earth.
Utas és holdvilág - Hangoskönyv MP3
Felolvassa: Kulka János. Ajánljuk mindazoknak, akik szeretnének többet olvasni, de vagy nincs elég idejük, vagy fáradt, rossz a szemük. A Hangos Regény hallgatása irodalmi élményt nyújt házimunka, vezetés, utazás, sport, kézimunkázás, kertészkedés, vagy pihenés közben. Nászút, melynek során az ifjú házasok útja elválik. A gazdag, elvált polgárasszony rég vágyott kalandokat keres Párizsban. Az örök kamasz pedig engedve nosztalgiájának ifjúságát próbálja megtalálni Olaszországban. Szerb Antal remekműve nem csupán egy utazás történte, hanem csodálatos utazás az emberi lélek, a férfi, nő, gyermek és ifjú lelkének zegzugos útvesztőiben. Minden szereplő telitalálat, olyan finom iróniával megrajzolva, hogy bárki ráismerhet ? a szomszédjára. Kulka János avatott előadásában maradandó élményt nyújt fiataloknak és idősebbeknek egyaránt. Teljes szöveg, 9 óra \(536 perc) hanganyag. Megjelent 1 CD-n MP3-as tömörítéssel, DVD tokban. Lejátszható MP3-as CD és DVD lejátszókon és számítógépen.
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A Ballet of Lepers
An uncovered novel from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen.
In A Ballet of Lepers Leonard Cohen explores themes that would come to permeate his later works - shame stemming from feelings of unworthiness; sexual desire, in all its sacred and profane dimensions; and longing, whether it be for love, family, freedom or transcendence. A haunting examination of these elements in tandem, this novel and stories are about toxic relationships and the lengths we go to maintain them.
Meditative and surprising, A Ballet of Lepers offers a playful, provocative and penetrating glimpse into the world-weary lives of Cohen's characters, and a window into the early art of a storytelling master.
About the Author
Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels, and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena-performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
Lacná kniha Smrt dokonalého bilingvisty
Autor se narodil roku 1970 v Bruselu. Do současné doby se mu podařilo uveřejnit tři knihy, za něž obdržel několik významných belgických literárních cen. Čtenářskou veřejnost zaujal především díky své realistické a nezkrotné fantazii a zvláštnímu druhu pesimistického přístupu k látce. Ve svém prvním trpce ironickém románu popisuje zemi, která se nachází uprostřed válečného konfliktu a která není nepodobná bývalé Jugoslávii. Hlavní postavou je mladý muž, který má mnoho společného nejen s postavami comicksů, ale i s osobou Franze Kafky. Stejně podivné jsou však i charaktery ostatních postav, záporných hrdinů, námezdných žoldáků a vrahů, kteří milují a zároveň projevují instinktivní krutost, k níž je dovádí pud sebezáchovy.
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The Age of Innocence
'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'
Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Bewilderment
A father. A son. A bewildering world.
Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory.
'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' Guardian
Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. But after a violent outburst from Robin at school, the strength of their close bond will be tested to its limits...
What can a father do, when those around him refuse to understand his rare and troubled child? And how can he reveal to his boy the truth about our beautiful, bewildered world?
Goodbye to Berlin
'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'
Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
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Save Me The Waltz
'We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet'
One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Fiesta
'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?'
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Jazz
'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas.
At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Mrs Dalloway
'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
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Persuasion
Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne Elliot remains one of the literature's most unforgettable confessions. It is the jewel at the heart of PERSUASION, Jane Austen's captivating story of second chances and enduring love. Throughout the story, letters, newspapers, maps, and other paper ephemera reveal the characters' deepest motivations and shape their destinies. Anne's snobbish father obsesses over a written history of their noble family, and a page from the Bath Chronicle reveals the elaborate social scene of the town where the lovers are finally reunited.
This deluxe edition brings all of this and more to life. As you read the novel, you will find pockets throughout containing replicas of thirteen items from the story, re-created with exquisite calligraphy and painstaking attention to historical detail. For anyone who loves Jane Austen or still cherishes the joy of letter writing, this book deepens the experience of a favorite story in an entirely new way.
The Great Gatsby
'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This first volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove.
Prelomový pôst
Tieto denné pôstne meditácie sa zrodili na púšti ako dar pre nás všetkých. Richard Rohr, jeden z najprorockejších hlasov dneška, nás pozýva na cestu seba-odhalenia sa Bohu, hľadania svojho pôvodného obrazu a podoby, a to cez samotné stretnutie s ním vo Svätom písme, ktoré je vždy fascinujúce.
Zistil som, že v duchovnom živote je menej vždy viac. Dlhé pasáže z Písma alebo ich priveľký počet jednoducho bránia potrebnému zameraniu a účinku. Nevieme, na čo uprieť svoj zrak, až napokon skončíme tak, že sa nepozeráme nikde a zostávame v nábožnom zmätku. Malý kúsok Božieho slova zvládne dlhú cestu.
Crossroads
It's 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents - Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife - tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.
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World of Warcraft Ashbringer
Všechno, co jste kdy chtěli vědět o osudu Azerothu, se v nyní dočtete. Však za tím také stojí odborníci na slovo vzatí! Scénář napsal Micky Neilson z Blizzard Entertainment a za ilustrace jsou zodpovědní Ludo Lullabi (Lanfeust Quest, World of Warcraft Book One ) a Tony Washington.
Království Loraeronu si snad ani na jeden rok neodpočine. Když zrovna lidé nevyhlásí válku orkům, tak jsou to šiky nemrtvých, které roznášejí na prohnilých kopytech lidská města, anebo tajemná partička bytostí z jiné dimenze, které nechtějí nic menšího, než převzít vládu nad světem. Válka není složena jen z odletujících hlav – válku dělají lidé. A právě osudům rytířů Řádu Stříbrné ruky, který se rozpadá na Bělostný úsvit a Šarlatové křižáky, se věnuje kniha World of Wacraft: Ashbringer .
Our Missing Hearts
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic - including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can turn a blind eye to the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power - and limitations - of art to create change in the world, the lessons and legacies we pass onto our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.