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Dragons at Crumbling Castle
Focus on a planet revolving in space ...Focus in on a small country in the northern hemisphere - Great Britain. Closer, closer ...and on the western edge of London you can see the county of Buckinghamshire. Small villages and winding country roads. And if you could go back in time to the mid nineteen-sixties, you might spot a young lad on a motorbike coming down one such lane, notebook and pen in his jacket pocket. This is me. A junior reporter for the Bucks Free Press, where I began writing stories for young readers that were published every week in the newspaper. The stories in this collection are a selection of those. There are wizards and mayors, carpet people and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats. And some of these stories even spawned my later novels. The deluxe slipcase edition is fully illustrated and includes: special foreword by Terry Pratchett; two bonus stories; critical commentaries to accompany each story; limited-edition colour print; and, additional content.
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Tree Houses
The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is surely as old as humanity. Tree houses are chronicled in ancient civilizations and their lore crosses through the history of every part of the world where trees grow. This stunningly-illustrated study offers a tour of the best tree houses in the world, some designed by architects, others the work of unknown craftsmen. A teahouse, a restaurant, a hotel, a playhouse for children, or a perch from which to contemplate life--the tree house can take as many forms as the imagination can offer. In times of concern for sustainability and ecological responsibility, the tree house may also be the ultimate symbol of life in symbiosis with nature. Whether rustic or contemporary in style, tree houses make the most of space. Climb into this trove of tree houses and enjoy a new perspective on the world. 50 tree houses from around the world.
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Blue Remembered Earth
One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel. Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything. Or shatter this near-utopia into shards ...
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Tibet
Tibet is the Roof of the World, a place where you feel that you are in the sky just as much are you are on the earth. The intense blueness of space contrasts sharply with the deep green of eastern Tibets rolling grasslands and the mineral colours of the west with its expanses of barren rock. For over a thousand years, Buddhist culture has been at the heart of Tibetan society, and anyone who has travelled across these high plateaux will understand how this contemplative civilization flourished in a landscape of such vastness. This book seeks to bear witness to all that survives of that ancient world a world capable of making a valuable contribution to contemporary life. It also aims to provide a glimpse of a unique culture that is desperately trying to preserve its authenticity, despite the major upheavals that have shaken the land of its birth. May the images that follow serve as an homage to inner beauty Matthieu Ricard, from the Introduction.
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Így lettem
Az Egyesült Államok egykori first ladyjének személyes, átütő erejű és inspiráló önéletrajza
Michelle Obama, jelentős ügyekkel fémjelzett és eredményes eddigi élete során korunk egyik ikonikus és lenyűgöző alakjává vált. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok első afroamerikai first ladyjének nagy szerepe volt abban, hogy a Fehér Házban soha nem látott nyitottság és elfogadó közeg alakuljon ki.
Ráadásul a nők erőteljes támogatójává vált szerte a világon. A családok egészségesebb és aktívabb életének szószólójaként hatalmas változásokat köszönhetünk neki. A férje mellett állt, miközben Barack Obama az ország történetének néhány leggyötrelmesebb pillanatában helytállt elnökként. Közben megtanított nekünk egy-két tánclépést, nagyot alakított a Carpool Karaokéban, és két lányát a könyörtelen rivaldafény ellenére józan szemlélettel nevelte.
Mélyről jövő vallomásokban és magukkal ragadó történetekben bővelkedő önéletrajzi könyvében Michelle Obama bepillantást enged élete kulcsfontosságú pillanataiba - a Chicago déli részén töltött gyerekkorától vezetői pozícióba kerüléséig. Beszámol többek között arról is, hogyan sikerült egyensúlyt teremtenie karrierje és az anyaszerep között, és hogy milyen volt az élete a Fehér Házban. Kíméletlen őszinteséggel és szellemes éleslátással ír az élet minden területén megélt győzelmeiről és kudarcairól, egész történetét elénk tárja - saját szavaival és saját szemszögéből. A Becoming lapjain szeretetteljes, bölcs, de kendőzetlen szókimondásának köszönhetően egy mélyen érző, kiváló teljesítményeivel a várakozásokat folyton felülmúló nő története bontakozik ki előttünk, aki épp ezért másokat is arra ösztönöz majd, hogy azzá váljanak, akivé szeretnének.
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15,02 €
15,81 €
Bittersweet - Noma Bar limited edition
Here is a dazzling celebration of one of the most admired illustrators working today, with a specially produced print exclusive to this limited, slipcased edition. Noma Bar's innovative, playful style has made him one of the most sought-after illustrators working today, with a broad range of commissions from magazines and newspapers - including Empire, the New York Times, Wired, the Guardian and Time Out - and numerous private and advertising clients. His use of negative space and minimalist forms creates images with multiple readings that can delight and shock in equal measure. Each of Bar's illustrations tells a story that is hidden in the details, with the message revealing itself as you look more closely. Here, Noma Bar has handpicked his most iconic illustrations and favourite works, each one displaying the distinctive style that has established his reputation. The works are organized into thematic chapters such as 'Pretty Ugly' (portraits), 'In Out' (sex), 'Life Death' (conflict), and 'Less More' (daily life). Alongside the images, Bar reveals his working methods and the stories behind his often idiosyncratic inspiration for different illustrations, and reflects on how his life experiences have shaped him as an artist. As a collection, the whole is much greater than the sum of these many, many-layered parts. This limited, slipcased edition is destined to become a must-have reference source for all professionals in the worlds of graphic design and illustration, while also being an enthralling treasury for any follower of visual and popular culture.
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Two on a Tower
Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...' Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. "Two on a Tower" tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. Together, in an ancient monument converted into an astronomical observation tower, they create their own private universe - until the pressures of the outside world threaten to destroy it. This is the Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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6,64 €
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Home Series 25: Fusion Interiors
The new "Home" Series from Beta-Plus invites you to take a fascinating journey through the most beautiful and inspiring interiors. The thirty volumes in this series are thematically divided by room (living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and so on), and also by style (including designer homes, country houses and contemporary interiors). The reports in these books combine to create a unique voyage of discovery through modern trends in decoration and architecture, reflecting the lifestyle and outlook of people who live in these beautiful homes. "Home" series is a unique collection of thirty titles, eclectic and stylish, devoted to interior design and decoration, and presented in a handy format. Every book shows the finest projects by leading architects and interior specialists, in a kaleidoscope of styles and genres, and is packed with ideas for your own home. With over 100 colour photographs, this book provides the ultimate pocket guide to fusing design ideas from around the world into a coherent, lucid living space.
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10,93 €
11,50 €
A Confusion of Princes
A major standalone space opera, this is Garth Nix's first novel for older readers since the conclusion of the Old Kingdom trilogy! and it's worth the wait. A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes, A Confusion of Princes is also a page-turning action adventure. These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his own words, we follow him as he trains to become a Prince of the Empire, an enhanced human being, equipped with biological and technological improvements that make him faster, stronger and smarter than any ordinary person. Not to mention the ultimate benefit: should he die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn! Which is just as well, because no sooner has Prince Khemri graduated to full Princehood than he learns the terrible truth behind the Empire: there are a million princes, and all of them want each other dead, because there can only be one Emperor!
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Tadao Ando Complete Works
Philippe Starck describes him as a `mystic in a country which is no longer mystic.` Philip Drew calls his buildings `land art` that `struggle to emerge from the earth.` He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the greatest living architects. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. His designs include award-winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, as well as in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA. This book, created at the height of Ando's illustrious career, and thoroughly updated for this new 2010 edition, presents his complete works to date.
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39,99 €
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Cute Graffiti
El Street Art convierte las calles de las grandes ciudades en exposiciones de arte al aire libre, produciendo un importante impacto socio-cultural que permite una comunicación más universal, pues personas que nunca antes habían pisado un museo quedan absorbidas por esta macro-exposición artística. En las páginas de este libro encontraremos todo tipo de personajes unidos entre sí por un concepto que definimos con la palabra ?CUTE?, en español ?MONO?. Recopilamos una selección de obras realizadas en las calles de diferentes ciudades del mundo: Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Venecia, Rio de Janeiro, Nueva York, Bilbao, Istambul, Atenas, San Pablo, Madrid..., por una amplia selección de algunos de los mejores artistas de la escena del arte urbano y de sus personajes más cute: FAFI, TVBOY, SAVAGE GIRL, CHU, 1980 CREW, MISS VAN, DIVA, LOLO, PEZ, NANO 4814, FLYING FORTRESS, D?FACE, LYLEA, BIRDIE, RING, RITA, BTOY, SIXEART, XUPET NEGRE, MEGAN, SPACE INVADERS, MONSIEUR ANDRÉ, KORALIE, CHANOIR, KEFLI, THELONDONPOLICE, OBEY GIANT...
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12,34 €
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Exploring the Universe
There are few topics more awe-inspiring than cosmology. What is the universe? How does it work? Where did it come from? These fundamental questions intrigue adults and children alike. This accessible guide brings alive humanity s attempts to explain the existence of everything and explores the latest and best theories on how the universe came into being. With approachable text, assuming no previous knowledge, and uniquely in such an illustrated book, the reader is taken beyond the certainties to explore the strange concepts that fill modern cosmology. Is the universe a hologram? Is everything we know part of a membrane floating in multidimensional space? Could we be living in a computer simulation? It sounds like science fiction, but these are among the ideas cosmologists seriously propose for the nature of reality. This book is for students, amateur astronomers, and anyone who has looked up at the sky and wondered about our place in the universe.
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Flight or Fright
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.
Stephen King hates to fly.
Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like - gulp! - a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight."
Book a flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Stephen King
Cargo by E. Michael Lewis
The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson
The Flying Machine by Ambrose Bierce
Lucifer! by E.C. Tubb
The Fifth Category by Tom Bissell
Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons
Diablitos by Cody Goodfellow
Air Raid by John Varley
You Are Released by Joe Hill
Warbirds by David J. Schow
The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury
Zombies on a Plane by Bev Vincent
They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald Dahl
Murder in the Air by Peter Tremayne
The Turbulence Expert by Stephen King
Falling by James L. Dickey
Afterword by Bev Vincent
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Ómama nyaklánca
?szerző megtalálta az Elixírt, amit mindenki keres, megfejtette az örök élet titkát, s olyan egyszerű, hétköznapi szavakkal tárja elénk családja történetén keresztül, ahogyan csak egy háziasszony tud fogalmazni, amikor a konyhájában egy kávé mellett jó ismerősnek mesél. A titkot Ómama nyaklánca hordozza, ami először az 1800-as évek második felében bukkan fel egy budafoki bálon, Foltrauer Anna nyakában, s ma az ő dédunokájának az unokája viseli.
A szerző, Silingi Terézia évekig ápolta férje nagyanyját, majd férje édesanyját, tőlük tudja, hogyan lehet túlélni járványokat és világháborúkat, forradalmakat és családi viszályokat, honnan merít erőt az ember ahhoz, hogy mindig talpra álljon, és ha kell, újrakezdje az életét. Tőlük tudja: a következő generációk hosszú sora a vérében hordozza majd életünk minden egyes mozzanatát. Regénye 1847 és 199o között játszódik, történései igazak, szereplői valódiak, csak a mese kedvéért kerekítette ki itt-ott a szerző fantáziájával a hiányzó részeket. Száz-százötven éves születési anyakönyvi kivonatok és régi fényképek, a család által a zsidóüldözés során bújtatott emberek, többek közt Szerb Antalné, az iró felesége és Bálint Endre festőművész nyilatkozatai, ÁVH-s dokumentumok és régi levelek támasztják alá, hogy a regény lapjain valós történések és igazi szereplők elevenednek meg.
Ám ez a regény nemcsak egy család története: lehetne bárkié, hiszen mindannyiunk elé hasonló próbatételeket hoz a sors, és valamennyien magunkban hordozzuk a közös történelmünket.
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15,30 €
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Parisian Chic
Celebrity model Ines de La Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure. Ines de La Fressange Frances icon of chic shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from
decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Her step-by-step dos and donts are accompanied by fashion photogr
aphy, and this book is personalized with her charming drawings. Ines also shares how to bring Parisian chic into your home, and how to insert your signature style into any space even the office. The ultra chic red volume is flexi-bound with a wrapper
band and features off set aquarelle paper. Complete with her favorite addresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items, this is a musthave for any woman who wants to add a touch of Paris to her own style.
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A szimpatizáns
1975 ?áprilisában Saigonban teljes a káosz. Az utcán a kijárási tilalom ellenére emberek rohangálnak, mindenki elkeseredetten próbál menekülni, mielőtt végképp elszabadulna a pokol. Eközben pazar villájában a dél-vietnami hadsereg egyik tábornoka whiskyt tölt magának, és hűséges századosa segítségével összeállítanak egy listát, amely sokak számára az életet jelentheti: egy listát azokról, akik felkerülhetnek az utolsó repülőgépre, amely elhagyja Saigont. Az évtizedes harcokban megedződött tábornoknak fogalma sincs arról, hogy a menekültek között egy kém is velük tart, a vietkongok kettős ügynöke, aki minden lépéséről informálja az ellenséget. Azt pedig végképp nem sejti, hogy ez az ember pont az, akit mindenkinél lojálisabbnak hitt.
Viet Thanh Nguyen Pulitzer-díjas regénye nem véletlenül aratott világszerte elsöprő sikert. Graham Greene-t idéző lenyűgöző prózája mély együttérzéssel beszél a háború embertelenségéről és a hazájuktól elszakadt bevándorlók identitásválságáról, ugyanakkor megsemmisítő humorral tárja fel Kelet és Nyugat ambivalens kapcsolatát. A szimpatizáns erőteljes, gondolatébresztő alkotás, amely kíméletlenül szembesíti az olvasót korunk talán legfontosabb társadalmi problémáival.
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Textile Futures
Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space. High-performance fabrics are being reconceived as immersive webs, structural networks and information exchanges, and their ability to interface with technology is changing how the human body is experienced and how the urban environment is built. Today, textiles reveal their capacity to transform our world more than any other material. Textile Futures highlights recent works from key practitioners and examines the changing role of textiles. Recent developments present new technical possibilities that are beginning to redefine textiles as a uniquely multidisciplinary field of innovation and research. This book is an important tool for any textile practitioner, fashion designer, architect, interior designer or student designer interested in following new developments in the field of textiles, seeking new sustainable sources, or just eager to discover new works that reveal the potency of textiles as an ultramaterial.
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40,80 €
42,95 €
Graphic design for non-designe
At some point, almost everyone will produce a piece of graphic design. It might be a birthday card for a relative, a poster for a neighborhood event, or an advert for the office notice board. There are thousands of DIY graphic designers out there who have neither the time nor the inclination to study graphic design formally, but do want to know how to get results that move their projects beyond the amateurish. Graphic Design for Nondesigners is the book for them, offering an accessible, jargon-busting guide to getting professional-looking results.
The book explains the basic principles of graphic design, such as use of space and structure, color, and type. It will feature do’s and don’ts, hints, tips, box-outs, comparative examples, and specially-commissioned illustrations. The book includes 20 step-by-step projects for everyday design items, such as adverts, logos, business cards, letterheads, menus, gift wrap, invitations, posters, CD and DVD packaging, websites, blogs, newsletters, and T-shirts.
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26,55 €
27,95 €
Doctor Who - I Am a Dalek
Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up, Apollo mission-style, on the Moon. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens. Until now...An archaeological dig has turned up a Roman mosaic, circa AD 70, depicting mythical scenes, grapes and a Dalek. A few days later a young woman, rushing for work, is knocked over and killed by a bus, then comes back to life. It's not long before all hell breaks loose, and the Doctor and Rose must use all their courage and cunning against an alien enemy and a not-quite-alien accomplice who are intent on destroying humanity. Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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5,65 €
5,95 €