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The Woman With the Cure
She gave up everything — and changed the world.
A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe.
In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god.
But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor –often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood.
This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine—and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.
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100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age
Just as Picassos Guernica or Géricaults Raft of the Medusa survive as powerful cultural documents of their time, there will be works from our own era that will endure for generations to come. But which ones? Which contemporary artworks best capture the zeitgeist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? This bold and engaging book, written by one of the freshest and most exciting new voices in cultural criticism, predicts which artists and artworks from the past two decades will come to define our age through their power to question, provoke and inspire. This is essential and enjoyable reading for all those working with and studying contemporary culture, as well as for the general art-lover keen to find a clear path through the maze of global contemporary art.
The Art of the Hobbit
A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit.
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit as first printed had ten black and white pictures, two maps, and binding and dust-jacket designs by its author. Later, Tolkien also painted five scenes for colour plates which are some of his best work. His illustrations for The Hobbit add an extra dimension to that remarkable book, and have long influenced how readers imagine Bilbo Baggins and his world.
The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is the complete collection of the artwork created by the author for his story. Including related pictures, more than one hundred sketches, drawings, paintings, maps, and plans are presented here, preliminary and alternate versions and experimental designs as well as finished art. Using fresh digital scans from the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and Marquette University in Wisconsin, Tolkien’s Hobbit pictures can be seen more vividly than ever before.
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, two of the world’s leading Tolkien scholars, have edited the book and provide an expert introduction and comments. Readers who have enjoyed The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien will find much of interest also in The Art of The Hobbit.
Beatles, The - The Beatles (Super Deluxe Ltd.) 7CD
V listopadu 1968 byly do všemožných hudebních obchodů světa vyslány miliony kopií eponymního devátého dvojalba jedné z nejlegendárnějších kapel hudební historie - Beatles. Albu, které po generace nepřestává lidstvo inspirovat, se později začalo přezdívat The White Album. Reedice desky vyjde 9. listopadu a bude obsahovat 30 Gilesem Martinem (syn George Martina) a Samem Okellem nově vysoce kvalitně zmixovaných písní (The White Album), 27 dřívějších akustických demo nahrávek (Esher Demos) a 50 z většiny dosud nevydaných nahrávek pocházejících ze studiových sessions (Sessions).
The White Album bude k dostání v několika verzích. Super deluxe verze s tradičním unikátním číslem bude obsahovat dva disky, na kterých je nahrané album, jeden disk s Esher Demos, tři disky Sessions, čtyři Blu-ray verze alba a je doplněna knihou plnou fotografií, plakátů, rukopisů, poznámek a textů. Deluxe varianta bude obsahovat výše zmíněné disky, 4LP limitovaný box set - klasické album a audio kolekci, která mj. obsahuje Esher Demos, 24stránkový booklet, plakáty a portréty. Standard verze potom obsahuje klasické původní 2LP.
Většina skladeb byla složena v meditačním centru Mahariši Maheš Jógiho poblíž indického Rišikeše, kam členové skupiny se svými manželkami odcestovali v únoru 1968, aby se zrekreovali a věnovali se meditacím. Na rozdíl od předchozího alba, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nebylo The White Album zamýšleno jako konceptuální album. Písně nespojuje žádné téma, střídá se i mnoho stylů hudby (blues, hard-rock, folk, ska a další). Je možné, že právě z důvodu takového množství nesourodých „škatulek” či „koutků” chtěli Beatles toto album původně nazvat Domeček pro panenky.
Obal desky navrhl renomovaný autor pop artu Richard Hamilton a je v kontrastu s obalem „Seržanta Peppera” stejně, jako je tomu v případě hudebního obsahu těchto dvou alb. Celá obálka má bílou barvu. Na obálce je pouze plasticky či v odstínech šedi vytlačen název alba.
Album se v Británii i Americe stalo okamžitým bestsellerem, který se umístil na prvních příčkách, kde se držel osm až devět týdnů. Deska se stala 19x platinovou a v roce 2000 byla uvedena do Grammy Hall of Fame jako „deska s neuvadající kvalitou a historickým významem”. „Jedná se o nejlepší album, které kdy Beatles vydali a jenom Beatles mohou udělat ještě lepší,” komentoval tehdy desku spoluzakladatel časopisu Rolling Stone Jann Wenner.
Tracklist:
1 Cd1 - White Album 2018 Stereo Mix
2 Back In The U.S.S.R
3 Dear Prudence
4 Glass Onion
5 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
6 Wild Honey Pie
7 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bi (Ll)
8 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
10 Martha My Dear
11 I'm So Tired
12 Blackbird
13 Piggies
14 Rocky Racoon
15 Don't Pass Me By
16 Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
17 I Will
18 Julia
19 Cd2 - White Album 2018 Stereo Mix
20 Birthday
21 Yer Blues
22 Mother Nature's Son
23 Everybody's Got Something To Hide E (Xcept Me And My Monkey)
24 Sexy Sadie
25 Helter Skelter
26 Long Long Long
27 Revolution 1
28 Honey Pie
29 Savoy Truffle
30 Cry Baby Cry
31 Revolution 9
32 Good Night
33 Cd3 - Esher Demos
34 Back In The U.S.S.R. (Esher Demo)
35 Dear Prudence (Esher Demo)
36 Glass Onion (Esher Demo)
37 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (Esher Demo)
38 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bi (Ll Esher Demo)
39 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Esher (Demo)
40 Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Esher Demo ()
41 I'm So Tired (Esher Demo)
42 Blackbird (Esher Demo)
43 Piggies (Esher Demo)
44 Rocky Raccoon (Esher Demo)
45 Julia (Esher Demo)
46 Yer Blues (Esher Demo)
47 Mother Nature's Son (Esher Demo)
48 Everybody's Got Something To Hide E (Xcept Me And My Money Esher Demo)
49 Sexy Sadie (Esher Demo)
50 Revolution (Esher Demo)
51 Honey Pie (Esher Demo)
52 Cry Baby Cry (Esher Demo)
53 Sour Milk Sea (Esher Demo)
54 Junk (Esher Demo)
55 Child Of Nature (Esher Demo)
56 Circles (Esher Demo)
57 Mean Mr Mustard (Esher Demo)
58 Polythene Pam (Esher Demo)
59 Not Guilty (Esher Demo)
60 What's The New Mary Jane (Esher Dem (O)
61 Cd4 - Sessions
62 Revolution I (Take 18)
63 A Beginning (Take 4) / Don't Pass M (E By Take 7)
64 Blackbird (Take 28)
65 Everybody's Got Something To Hide E (Xcept Me And My Monkey Rehearsal)
66 Good Night (Unnumbered Rehearsal)
67 Good Night (Take 10 With A Guitar P (Art From Take 5)
68 Good Night (Take 22)
69 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (Take 3)
70 Revolution (Unnumbered Rehearsal)
71 Revolution (Take 14 Instrumental Ba (Cking Track)
72 Cry Baby Cry (Unnumbered Rehearsal)
73 Helter Skelter (First Version Take (2)
74 Cd5 - Sessions
75 Sexy Sadie (Take 3)
76 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acous (Tic Version Take 2)
77 Hey Jude (Take 1)
78 St Louis Blues (Studio Jam)
79 Not Guilty (Take 102)
80 Mother Nature's Son (Take 15)
81 Yer Blues (Take 5 With Guide Vocal)
82 What's The New Mary Jane (Take 1)
83 Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)
84 Back In The U.S.S.R. (Take 5 Instru (Mental Backing Track)
85 Dear Prudence (Vocal Guitar & Drums ()
86 Let It Be (Unnumbered Rehearsal)
87 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third (Version Take 27)
88 (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Car (E Studio Jam)
89 Helter Skelter (Second Version Take (17)
90 Glass Onion (Take 10)
91 Cd6 - Sessions
92 I Will (Take 13)
93 Blue Moon (Studio Jam)
94 I Will (Take 29)
95 Step Inside Love (Studio Jam)
96 Los Paranoias (Studio Jam)
97 Can You Take Me Back? (Take 1)
98 Birthday (Take 2 Instrumental Backi (Ng Track)
99 Piggies (Take 12 Instrumental Backi (Ng Track)
100. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Take 19)
101. Honey Pie (Instrumental Backing Tra (Ck)
102. Savoy Truffle (Instrumental Backing (Track)
103. Martha My Dear (Without Brass A Str (Ings)
104. Long Long Long (Take 44)
105. I'm So Tired (Take 7)
106. I'm So Tired (Take 14)
107. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bi (Ll Take 5)
108. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (Ta (Kr 5)
109. Julia (Two Rehearsals)
110. The Inner Light (Take 6 Instrumenta (L Backing Tracks)
111. Lady Madonna (Take 2 Piano And Drum (S)
112. Lady Madonna (Backing Vocals From T (Ake 3)
113. Across The Universe (Take 6)
114. Bluray Audio
115. Pcm Stereo (2018 Stereo Mix)
116. Dts-Hd Master Audio 5.1 (2018)
117. Dolby True Hd 5.1 (2018)
118. Mono (2018 Direct Transfer Of „The (White Album” Original Mono Mix)
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The World of The Great Gatsby
Piece together one of Jay Gatsby’s notorious parties, where figures both real and fictional from Fitzgerald’s life and work are hidden among the enigmatic guests. Find Daisy Buchanan weeping over a pile of silk shirts, Gatsby gazing towards the green light of his dreams, Ernest Hemingway working at his typewriter and the all-seeing eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg surveying the wreckage as you puzzle towards the story’s tragic conclusion.
PART OF THE WORLD OF JIGSAW PUZZLE SERIES which immerse puzzlers in the worlds of their favourite writers and works.
FEATURING AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION packed with detail and a large poster with an introduction to the novel by Kirk Curnutt, executive director of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
1000-PIECE PUZZLE that measures 48.5 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) when completed.
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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 Photography - The Masters (-90%)
The book delineates the evolution of photography from its invention until the 21st century, through the main figures who have done the history of this modern art. The appearance of photography have led to a revelation in the art and culture's world.
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The Brand Gap
The Brand Gap - audiokniha obsahuje české vydání nejkoncentrovanější knihy o brandingu.
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Lacná kniha The Lost Art of Scripture (-90%)
In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. So what value, if any, can scripture hold for us today? And if our world no longer seems compatible with scripture, is it perhaps because its original purpose has become lost?
Today we see the Quran being used by some to justify war and terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective views. They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to contain eternal truths.
But as Karen Armstrong, a world authority on religious affairs, shows in this fascinating journey through millennia of history, this narrow reading of scripture is a relatively recent phenomenon. For hundreds of years these texts were instead viewed as spiritual tools: scripture was a means for the individual to connect with the divine, to transcend their physical existence, and to experience a higher level of consciousness. Holy texts were seen as fluid and adaptable, rather than a set of binding archaic rules or a `truth' that has to be `believed'.
Armstrong argues that only by rediscovering an open engagement with their holy texts will the world's religions be able to curtail arrogance, intolerance and violence. And if scripture is used to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways, we will find that it still has a great deal to teach us.
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U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (20th Anniversary Reissue) 2LP
Tracklist:
01.Beautiful Day 04:07
02. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of 04:32
03. Elevation 03:47
04. Walk On 04:56
05. Kite 04:26
06. In A Little While 03:39
07. Wild Honey 03:46
08. Peace on Earth 04:48
09. When I Look at the World 04:17
10. New York 05:30
11. Grace 05:31
12. The Ground Beneath Her Feet 03:43
Who, The - Live in Texas´75 DVD
Tracklist:
1 'Substitute'
2 'I Can't Explain'
3 'Squeeze Box'
4 'Baba O'Riley'
5 'Boris The Spider'
6 'Drowned'
7 'However Much I Booze'
8 'Dreaming From The Waist'
9 'Behind Blue Eyes'
10 'Amazing Journey'
11 'Sparks'
12 'Acid Queen'
13 'Fiddle About'
14 'Pinball Wizard'
15 'I'm Free'
16 'Tommy's Holiday Camp'
17 'We're Not Going To Take It' / 'See Me, Feel Me' / 'Listening To You'
18 'Summertime Blues'
19 'My Generation'
20 'Join Together'
21 'Naked Eye'
22 'Roadrunner'
23 'Won't Get Fooled Again'
24 'Magic Bus'
25 'My Generation Blues'
The Man from the Future
An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann.
Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. His colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet - bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory. He created the first ever programmable digital computer. He prophesied the potential of nanotechnology and, from his deathbed, expounded on the limits of brains and computers - and how they might be overcome.
Taking us on an astonishing journey, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through so many different fields of science, sparking revolutions wherever he went.
Insightful and illuminating, The Man from the Future is a thrilling intellectual biography of the visionary thinker who shaped our century.
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Simple Minds - Walk Between The Worlds CD
KDO: skotská rocková / novovlnná skupina
CO: nové studiové album
CD
1. Magic
2. Summer
3. Utopia
4. The Signal and the Noise
5. In Dreams
6. Barrowland Star
7. Walk Between Worlds
8. Sense of Discovery
The Age of The Strongman
'Timely, laser-sharp and unsettling... A must read' - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
We are in a new era.
Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington.
These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to stand up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. These leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy.
While the EU referendum and election of Donald Trump in 2016 mark a watershed, the new era started at the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia. How and why did this new style of strongman leadership arrive? How likely is it to lead to war or economic collapse? And what forces are in place not only to keep these strongmen in check but to reverse the trend?
From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, The Age of the Strongman provides the first truly global treatment of the new nationalism and offers a bold new paradigm for understanding our world
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Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Hooks, Helps and Hurts Us
Most people can't get through the day without a hit of caffeine. Chances are you're one of them. But do you really know what that daily coffee or coke is doing to you? Caffeine is a powerful stimulant. It wakes us up, boosts our mood, and offers the potential to improve both our athletic performance and our intellectual prowess. But did you know that caffeine can play a role in health problems such as obesity and anxiety, depending on how it is delivered to the body? Many purveyors of caffeine-based products have ducked regulation for decades - how have they been allowed to get away with this? And are you aware of how caffeine is used to reinforce buying patterns, sharpening our craving for it? From the coffee farms of Guatemala to the world's largest synthetic caffeine factory in China, Murray Carpenter draws on the latest research to reveal the little-known truths about this addictive, largely unregulated drug that we consume every day in coffee, energy drinks, teas, colas, chocolate, and even painkillers.
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The Phantom of the Opera+CD
A gothic romance set in the twilight world of Paris in the 1870s.
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Hamlet, dánský princ/ Hamlet, the Princ of Denmark
V úvodní studii se Hilský věnuje vzniku a výkladu této slavné tragédie. Následují anglický originál hry a jeho český překlad, které jsou uspořádány na stránkách proti sobě a vybaveny poznámkami pod čarou. Anglické poznámky fungují jako malý shakespearovský slovníček, české poznámky upozorňují čtenáře na klíčové souvislosti. Následuje Příběh Amleta, prince jutského od Saxa Grammatica v překladu Heleny Kadečkové. Svazek uzavírá studie Daniela Přibyla Hamlet v českém divadle a Soupis českých inscenací Hamleta.
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Lacná kniha Reading Material for the Graduation Exam (-90%)
Tvůrčím způsobem a velice nápaditě zpracovaná konverzační témata k maturitě.
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Lacná kniha Reading about the English-speaking countries (-90%)
Brožura je určena středoškolákům - studentům angličtiny, kteří zatím n učebnice, z nichž by mohli čerpat ucelené informace o anglicky mluvících zemích - o geografii, historii, vzdělávacím a politickém systému, turisticky atraktivních mí literatuře a
způsobu života ve Velké Británii a USA, jakož i základní informace o Kanadě, Austrálii a Novém Zélandu. Brožura jim umožňuje čtení v angličtině na středoškolské úrovni, seznamuje je se životem zemí, které možná brzy sami poznají. Zároveň pokrývá asi
12 maturitních okruhů. Brožura může pomoci i učitelům při přípravě lekcí s touto tematikou.
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