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The Sea-Wolf (EN)
Audiobook The Sea-Wolf written by Jack London. Humphrey van Weyden led a privileged existence during his early life, but suddenly finds himself cast into the sea, fighting for survival. Pitted against ruthless captain Wolf Larsen, van Weyden’s courage and determination allows him to fight adversity and learn valuable lessons along the way, in this American classic originally published in 1904.
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The Nature of Witches
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
In a world where witches control the climate and are losing control as the weather grows more erratic, a once-in-a-generation witch with the magic of all seasons is the only one who can save earth from destruction. But as her power grows, it targets and kills those closest to her, and when she falls in love with her training partner, she's forced to choose between her power, her love, and saving the earth.
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, but now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic; the storms, more destructive. All hope lies with Clara, a once-in-a-generation Everwitch whose magic is tied to every season.
In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It's wild and volatile, and the price of her magic-losing the ones she loves-is too high, despite the need to control the increasingly dangerous weather.
In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. Fires burn, storms rage, and Clara accepts that she's the only one who can make a difference.
In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. As her magic grows, so do her feelings, until she's terrified Sang will be the next one she loses.
In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she loves...before she loses Sang, her magic, and thrusts the world into chaos.
The Secret Garden (EN)
When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, her uncle’s estate, everybody said she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. Depressed and withdrawn, Mary stumbles upon an arched doorway into an overgrown garden. She later discovers her pampered invalid cousin, tucked away in a dark room.
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The Ghost
When Carl Foster, a young doctor, sees beautiful Rosetta Rosa at a London opera he is instantly captivated -- and almost as rapidly finds himself plagued by mysterious occurances. When another of Rosa's paramours un-expectedly dies, Carl begins to wonder if her glamour carries a deadly curse.
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The MicroBook
Cílem této učebnice je pomoci studentům lékařských fakult s učením, pochopením a vytvořením přehledu z rozsáhlého oboru lékařské mikrobiologie. Může sloužit také jako praktický společník pro lékaře různých oborů, kteří v ní mohou najít základní informace týkající se diagnostiky nejdůležitějších původců infekčních nemocí.
Text je zajímavý tím, že byl napsán pro studenty medicíny samotnými studenty medicíny. Jeho základ vznikl pod vedením doc. MVDr. Oto Meltera, Ph.D., který napsal některé kapitoly, uspořádal informace a pořídil originální fotografie. Většinu kapitol však sepsal tým studentů 2. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy pod vedením Rute Castelhano. Jazykovou úpravu provedla Shenali Amaratunga.
Autoři se domnívají, že původní fotodokumentace a diagramy pomohou studentům lépe pochopit probíraná témata. Učebnice je doplněna také kazuistikami, jejichž cílem je pomoci studentům procvičit si základní znalosti z oboru.
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The Cremator
Groteskní novela Spalovač mrtvol (1967) je psychologickým dramatem, příběhem o muži, který svou práci chápe jako poslání a který v přesvědčení, že činí dobro, ničí své nejbližší. Příběh z doby mnichovské dohody a holocaustu o malém člověku, který se pod vlivem svého mefistofelského přítele a s pocitem své nadřazenosti a nenahraditelnosti stává nástrojem záhuby, který je schopen pro vyšší myšlenku obětovat cokoli, zobrazuje komický obraz rozkladu lidské osobnosti. Tíživá atmosféra napjaté doby násobí všeobecný strach – tak autor zachytil morbidní atmosféru a až neskutečný svět panoptikálních postav.
Stejně jako Mefisto Klause Manna, o člověku šířícím záhubu, je i Spalovač mrtvol příběhem o kariéře jednoho muže.
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The Golden Age
Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors.
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Lacná kniha How Not To Be Wrong : The Hidden Maths of Everyday
The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface. In How Not to be Wrong, Ellenberg explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore, and when to change the equation entirely. Along the way, he explains calculus in a single page, describes Godel's theorem using only one-syllable words, and reveals how early you actually need to get to the airport.
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The House of Sorrowing Stars
How do you heal a broken house?
First you unlock its secrets.
Alone on an island, surrounded by flowers that shine as dusk begins to fall, sits an old, faded house. Rooms cannot be rented here and visits are only for those haunted by the memory of loss.
When Liddy receives an invitation, she thinks there must be some mistake - she's never experienced loss. But with her curiosity stirred, and no other way to escape a life in which she feels trapped, she decides to accept.
Once there, she meets Vivienne, a beautiful, austere woman whose glare leaves Liddy unsettled; Ben, the reserved gardener; and Raphael, the enigmatic Keymaker. If Liddy is to discover her true purpose in the house, she must find the root of their sorrow - but the house won't give up its secrets so easily . . .
Lou Reed: The King of New York
The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year.
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitues of the demimonde.
We witness Reed's complex partnerships with David Bowie, Andy Warhol, John Cale, and Laurie Anderson; track the deadpan wit, street-smart edge, and poetic flights that defined his craft as a singer and songwriter with the Velvet Underground and beyond; and explore the artistic ambition and gift for self-sabotage he took from his mentor Delmore Schwartz.
As Hermes follows Reed from Lower East Side cold-water flats to the landmark status he later achieved, he also tells the story of New York City as a cultural capital. The first biographer to draw on the New York Public Library's much-publicized Reed archive, Hermes employs the library collections, the release of previously unheard recordings, and a wealth of recent interviews to give us a new Lou Reed-a pioneer in living and writing about nonbinary sexuality and gender identity, a committed artist who pursued beauty and noise with equal fervor, and a turbulent and sometimes truculent man whose emotional imprint endures.
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Queen - A Night At The Opera LP
Tracklist:
Side 1
1 Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To...)
2 Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
3 I'm In Love With My Car
4 You're My Best Friend
5 '39
6 Sweet Lady
7 Seaside Rendezvous
Side 2
1 The Prophet's Song
2 Love Of My Life
3 Good Company
4 Bohemian Rhapsody
5 God Save The Queen
The Trial
The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime.According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925.
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Bowie David - Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders (50th Anniversary Edition) 2CD+BD
David Robert Jones (8. januára 1947 – 10. januára 2016), profesionálne známy ako David Bowie bol anglický spevák, skladateľ a herec. Popredná osobnosť v hudobnom priemysle je považovaný za jedného z najvplyvnejších hudobníkov 20. storočia. Bowie bol uznávaný kritikmi a hudobníkmi, najmä pre jeho inovatívnu prácu v 70. rokoch. Jeho kariéra bola poznačená reinvenciou a vizuálnou prezentáciou a jeho hudba a scénické umenie mali významný vplyv na populárnu hudbu.
V londýnskom Hammersmith Odeone ohromil David Bowie 5000 fanúšikov tým, že sa rozlúčil so Ziggym Stardustom, jeho najznámejším alter-egom. Teraz, pri spomienke na 50. výročie predstavenia, bude po prvý raz uvedený starostlivo zreštaurovaný film a soundtrack. Filmár D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back, Depeche Mode – 101) zachytil túto historickú príležitosť a zdokumentoval Bowieho a The Spiders From Mars v zákulisí aj na pódiu. Film teraz prešiel digitálnou obnovou 4K pod dohľadom jeho syna Frazera Pennebakera s remastrovaným zvukom.Napriek tomu, že bol nakrútený pred polstoročím, film zostal viac ako desaťročie prevažne nevidený. Avšak film a jeho soundtrack boli nanovo remastrované s mixom 'The Jean Genie/Love Me Do' a 'Round And Round' s legendárnym Jeffom Beckom – táto skladba sa vôbec prvýkrát objavila. Obe predstavenia novo namiešal dlhoročný Bowieho spolupracovník Tony Visconti.Počas šou Bowie predniesol svoj ikonický prejav tesne pred záverečným prídavkom „Rock 'n' Roll Suicide“, v ktorom prekvapil všetkých, vrátane členov svojej kapely, odhalením odchodu svojej osobnosti Ziggy Stardust. Toto významné oznámenie bolo prvým svojho druhu v histórii rock and rollu.
Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. Part 1 Introduction
02. Hang on to Yourself
03. Ziggy Stardust
04. Watch That Man
05. Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
06. All the Young Dudes
07. Oh! You Pretty Things
08. Moonage Daydream
09. Changes
10. Space Oddity
11. My Death
CD 2:
01. Part 2 Introduction
02. Cracked Actor
03. Time
04. The Width of a Circle
05. 05. Let's Spend the Night Together
06. Suffragette City
07. White Light / White Heat
08. Medley: the Jean Genie / Love Me Do/the Jean Genie
09. Round and Round (Feat. Jeff Beck)
10. Farewell Speech
11. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Blu-Ray:
01. Opening Credits / Introduction
02. Hang on to Yourself
03. Ziggy Stardust
04. Watch That Man
05. Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
06. All the Young Dudes
07. Oh! You Pretty Things
08. Moonage Daydream
09. Changes
10. Space Oddity
11. My Death
12. Cracked Actor
13. Time
14. Width of a Circle
15. Band Introduction
16. Let's Spend the Night Together
17. Suffragette City
18. White Light White Heat
19. Medley: the Jean Genie / Love Me Do/the Jean Genie
20. Round and Round (Feat. Jeff Beck)
21. Farewell Speech
22. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
23. End Credits
The Book of Vanishing Species
Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of.
The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet's most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender will be determined by the temperature of the sand it is born in. These species may have survived for hundreds of thousands of years by cleverly adapting to their environments, but their future remains far from certain.
The book brings to life red cranes as they dance and bow for the sheer joy of movement, trees that breathe out a haze of misty atmosphere for insects that only feast on one kind of flower, a deep-ocean snail quietly building its shell from iron... and each one of them is illuminated with an exquisite illustration. As you turn the pages, there emerges a network of life that stretches across and around the planet in a dazzling web of existence.
This is both a love letter to life on Earth, and an urgent summons to protect what is precious and lovely in this world.
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Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith
Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine's forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace.
Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol. The disturbance in the Force is undeniable... and Luke's worst fears are confirmed when his old friend Lando Calrissian comes to him with reports of a new Sith menace.
After Lando's daughter was stolen from his arms, he searched the stars for any trace of his lost child. But every new rumor leads only to dead ends and fading hopes-until he crosses paths with Ochi of Bestoon, a Sith assassin tasked with kidnapping a young girl.
Ochi's true motives remain shrouded to Luke and Lando. For on a junkyard moon, a mysterious envoy of the Sith Eternal has bequeathed a sacred blade to the assassin, promising that it will answer the questions that have haunted him since the Empire fell. In exchange, he must complete a final mission: Return to Exegol with the key to the Sith's glorious rebirth-Rey, the granddaughter of Darth Sidious himself.
As Ochi hunts Rey and her parents to the edge of the galaxy, Luke and Lando race into the mystery of the Sith's lingering shadow and aid a young family running for their lives.
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The Second Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The book is less well-known than the original.
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100 of the Worlds Best Bars
There will never be a shortage in demand for social meeting places, and the burgeoning bar industry reflects this need. The original pub or saloon bar has come a long way from its humble origins. Taday, people require more tailored spaces with their own individual identities. These new bars must cater to different customers, from small groups to office parties, and accomodate a broad range of entertainment facilities. In this exciting publication some of the latest trends in bars from around the world are revealed, including themed bars, exclusive drinking establishments and renovated traditional pubs. International architects draw on thier creative imagination and design skill to provide some truly inspired social spaces.
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Love of My Life: The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury
If you are one of the many millions who watched the Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody you may suppose that Mary Austin was the love of Freddie Mercury's life, the woman who he could never quite let go of. The truth is more complicated.
Respected biographer and music journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones explores Freddie's romantic encounters - from his boarding school years in Panchgani, India to his final days spent bed-ridden at his sumptuous Kensington home. Here the author reveals why not a single one of his lovers ever really perfected the art of being his life partner.
Love of My Life charts Freddie's many obsessions from Mary Austin, Barbara Valentin and final live-in lover Jim Hutton. From a string of male love interests to his chaste passion for Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe; from fellow rock stars Dave Clark, Elton John and his own co-band members in Queen, to 'cats and curios': his fascination for felines and his relentless extravagant shopping and collecting; from favourite cities around the world - New York, Montreux and Munich, in which he purchased lavish homes - to the 'food of love' - his music, and his voracious addiction to sex. Which of these was the real love of Freddie Mercury's life?
Based on personal interviews and encounters the author tells of Freddie Mercury's lesser known loves in order to paint a comprehensive picture of the legendary musician.
Published on the 30th anniversary of his death, and what would have been Freddie Mercury's 75th year.
The Prince Who Wanted Love (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 139) (EN)
Prince Serge of Tamrush, who himself had been sent a bride by Queen Victoria to save his Principality from invasion by the Russians, was now being asked by Prince Igor of Dubrik for the hand of his beautiful daughter Lavinia for the same reason. He decided not to tell Lavinia of Prince Igor’s request until after her birthday party.
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