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Helter Skelter : The True Story of the Manson Murders
The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in this harrowing, often terrifying book. Helter Skelter won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 1975 for Best Fact Crime Book.
On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. America watched in fascinated horror as the killers were tried and convicted. But the real questions went unanswered. How did Manson make his 'family' kill for him? What made these young men and women kill again and again with no trace of remorse? Did the murders continue even after Manson's imprisonment?
No matter how much you think you know about this case, this book will still shock you. For decades, this has been the definitive account of the Manson murders.
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10,44 €
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year
This is the scarcely believable - and wholly true - story of Christopher Columbus' bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his father's achievements by creating a universal library. His father sailed across the ocean to explore the known boundaries of the world for the glory of God, Spain and himself. His son Hernando sought instead to harness the vast powers of the new printing presses to assemble the world's knowledge in one place, his library in Seville.
Hernando was one of the first and greatest visionaries of the print age, someone who saw how the scale of available information would entirely change the landscape of thought and society.
His was an immensely eventual life. As a youth, he spent years travelling in the New World, and spent one living with his father in a shipwreck off Jamaica. He created a dictionary and a geographical encyclopaedia of Spain, helped to create the first modern maps of the world, spent time in almost every major European capital, and associated with many of the great people of his day, from Ferdinand and Isabel to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Durer. He wrote the first biography of his father, almost single-handedly creating the legend of Columbus that held sway for many hundreds of years, and was highly influential in crafting how Europe saw the world his father reached in 1492. He also amassed the largest collection of printed images and of printed music of the age, started what was perhaps Europe's first botanical garden, and created by far the greatest private library Europe had ever seen, dwarfing with its 15,000 books every other library of the day.
Edward Wilson-Lee has written the first major modern biography of Hernando - and the first of any kind available in English. In a work of dazzling scholarship, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells an enthralling tale of the age of print and exploration, a story with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of information revolution and Globalisation.
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12,83 €
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Republic of Arabic Letters
"Fascinating, eloquent, and learned...A powerful reminder of the ability of scholarship to transcend cultural divides, and the capacity of human minds to accept differences without denouncing them."?Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch and Liberty's Exile
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur'an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. The Republic of Arabic Letters reconstructs this process, revealing the influence of Catholic and Protestant intellectuals on the secular Enlightenment understanding of Islam and its written traditions.
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin sources, Alexander Bevilacqua's rich intellectual history retraces the routes--both mental and physical--that Christian scholars traveled to acquire, study, and comprehend Arabic manuscripts. The knowledge they generated was deeply indebted to native Muslim traditions, especially Ottoman ones. Eventually the translations, compilations, and histories they produced reached such luminaries as Voltaire and Edward Gibbon, who not only assimilated the factual content of these works but wove their interpretations into the fabric of Enlightenment thought.
The Republic of Arabic Letters shows that the Western effort to learn about Islam and its religious and intellectual traditions issued not from a secular agenda but from the scholarly commitments of a select group of Christians. These authors cast aside inherited views and bequeathed a new understanding of Islam to the modern West.
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Cseppben az élet
"A Béres Csepp megalkotójának, Béres Józsefnek kivételes élet jutott osztályrészül. Az útról, melyre a Gondviselés vezette, s melyet küldetésként vállalt, soha semmi nem téríthette el. Nem gyűrhették le őt a bürokrácia útvesztői, gyalázkodó féltékenység,előítélet és körmönfont politikai érdekek sem. A benne lakozó rendkívüli elhivottság már életében legendává nemesítette alakját.
"Egész életemben szorgalmasan, kitartóan dolgoztam. Sokat küzdöttem az igazamért, azért az igazságért, amiről tudtam, hogy mások javára fordítható. Amikor azt kérdezték tőlem hogyan tudtam kitartani, hogyan lehetett annyi ellenállással szemben bátorságom és erőm, éppen ebben találtam meg a feleletet. Úgy, hogy nem a magam hasznát kerestem, nem a magam érdekeit szolgálta a munkám, hanem eredményeimmel embertársaimon akartam segíteni."
Miközben a könyvben végigjárjuk Béres József életútját, átéljük a háború kegyetlenségét, a háború utáni évek bizonytalanságában élő ember útkeresését. Örülünk az első sikereinek, és szembesülünk a tehetetlenség kínjával, amikor eredményei tudományos megmérettetés helyett a politika játékává válnak. Megértjük, mit jelentett egy ellentmondást nem tűrő korszakban a tiltottak közé tartozni, és hogy mit ér a család, a barátság és a segítők támogatása. Láthatjuk a rendszerváltás körüli időszak új reményét, és hogy a kitartás végül elnyeri jutalmát.
Mindeközben feltárulkozik előttünk az Ember: a bajtársaiért a halálbüntetést is felvállalni kész katona, a majdnemekkel soha meg nem elégedő kutató, az érzékeny, segítőkész, igazságos, igaz magyar ember, akinek messze világító, tiszta értékrendje kisugárzik azokból a fiatalkori írásaiból is, melyek a hagyatékából kerültek elő, és amelyeket ebben a könyvben közreadunk." (a Kiadó)
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13,57 €
Vampires and Volts
Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. It's Halloween and the Otherhands are enjoying the Annual Pumpkin Hunt. And there are preparations to be made
for the Great Halloween Ball. Minty is all a-fluster. Solstice is busy spraying fake cobwebs everywhere. Valevine is in charge of disorganising everyone's carefully laid plans, and Cudweed seems hungrier than ever and oddly preoccupied with 'fresh b
rains'. In fact when Silas, Valevine's long lost brother, turns up with Samantha, the Otherhands would be well-advised to check out their guests. It's not long before wily Edgar works out that there's a preponderance of vampires and not all of them h
ave false teeth. Just when he's about to solve the latest mystery at Otherhand Castle, the lights go out...Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk
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7,59 €
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Robert Pattison (HB)
Hollywood's hottest young star, Robert Pattinson, is set for global superstardom and in this book you can read all about him! From his early days as a model and his role as Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter series to his new incredible success as Edward Cullen, the gorgeous vampire in TWILIGHT! Read all about Robert's interests, his passion for music, and what it's like to be a heart-throb to millions! Get the inside gossip on TWILIGHT and read what drew Robert to the part of a 108-year-old vampire! Hear about plans for the sequel and what it was like to work with his co-stars. If you're a fan of Harry Potter or Twilight, this is the book for you. And with a free pull-out bedroom poster, this book has everything!
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8,08 €
8,50 €
Lacná kniha Robert Pattison (HB)
Hollywood's hottest young star, Robert Pattinson, is set for global superstardom and in this book you can read all about him! From his early days as a model and his role as Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter series to his new incredible success as Edward Cullen, the gorgeous vampire in TWILIGHT! Read all about Robert's interests, his passion for music, and what it's like to be a heart-throb to millions! Get the inside gossip on TWILIGHT and read what drew Robert to the part of a 108-year-old vampire! Hear about plans for the sequel and what it was like to work with his co-stars. If you're a fan of Harry Potter or Twilight, this is the book for you. And with a free pull-out bedroom poster, this book has everything!
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0,43 €
8,50 €
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Rotherweird
'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties,' Hilary Mantel 'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold' M.R. Carey Rotherweird is twisted, arcane murder-mystery with shades of Deborah Harkness, Hope Mirrlees, Ben Aaronovitch, Mervyn Peake and Edward Gorey at their disturbing best. The town of Rotherweird stands alone - there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history. For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it must never be rediscovered, still less reused. But secrets have a way of leaking out. Two inquisitive outsiders have arrived: Jonah Oblong, to teach modern history at Rotherweird School (nothing local and nothing before 1800), and the sinister billionaire Sir Veronal Slickstone, who has somehow got permission to renovate the town's long-derelict Manor House.Slickstone and Oblong, though driven by conflicting motives, both strive to connect past and present, until they and their allies are drawn into a race against time - and each other. The consequences will be lethal and apocalyptic. Welcome to Rotherweird!
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A családi otthon
Egy ház vagy lakás akkor válik igazi otthonná, ha olyan, mint a mindennapok zűrzavarától távol eső, békés kikötő. A szerző részletes útmutatást ad ahhoz, hogyan teremthetünk csekély karbantartási igényű, mégis jól működő, kényelmes otthont.
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46,44 €
Happy
`Deeply informative, moving, wise and full of love'Alain de BottonEveryone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawing on this vast body of work, in Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help's suggested routes to happiness and success - such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals - can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. This brilliant, candid and deeply entertaining book exposes the flaws in these ways of thinking, and in return poses challenging but stimulating questions about how we choose to live and the way we think about death.Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory. By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves, by remembering that `everything's fine' even when it might not feel that way, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily.
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Chaos
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.
Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta's conclusions, the threatening messages don't stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa's death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley.
She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta's surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can't explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief's judgment and "a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."
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The Raven
One of the most famous poems in the English language, "The Raven" first appeared in the January 29, 1845 edition of the "New York Evening Mirror." It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then his mid-thirties and a well-known poet, critic and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale.
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Batman: The Dark Knight: Master Race
One of the most highly anticipated sequels of all-time is finally here in BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT: MASTER RACE!
In 1986, Frank Miller introduced his iconic take on Batman and changed the face of comics forever. Now, three decades after BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, Miller himself has returned with a third chapter to his groundbreaking saga.
It’s been three years since the Batman defeated Lex Luthor and saved the world from tyranny. Three years since anyone has seen Gotham City’s guardian alive. Wonder Woman, Queen of the Amazons…Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern…Superman, the Man of Steel…all of the Dark Knight’s allies have retreated from the front lines of the war against injustice.
But now a new war is beginning. An army of unimaginable power led by Superman’s own daughter is preparing to claim Earth as their new world.
The only force that can stop this master race—Batman—is dead.
Long live the new Batman…
Collecting the full nine-issue miniseries and its mini-comic tie-in issues, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT: MASTER RACE features incredible artwork from comics icon Andy Kubert (FLASHPOINT), as well as Klaus Janson (THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS), John Romita Jr. (ALL-STAR BATMAN), Eduardo Risso (100 BULLETS) and Frank Miller himself!
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Az Ackroyd-gyilkosság
Roger Ackroyd túl sokat tudott.
Tudta, hogy a nő, akit szeret, megmérgezte az első férjét. Tudta, hogy valaki zsarolja az asszonyt, és azt is tudta, hogy ezért lett öngyilkos.
Az esti postából pedig azt is megtudta, ki a titokzatos zsaroló - ám még mielőtt végigolvashatta volna a levelet, valaki elvágta a torkát...
Hercule Poirot visszavonult. Úritököt termeszt a békés, álmos falucskában, King's Abbotban. Az Ackroyd-gyilkosság azonban ismét mozgásba hozza "a kis szürke agysejtjeit", és a legendás nyomozó a tettes nyomába ered...
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Losing it
Love. Romance. Sex. There's a first time for everything...As far as Bliss Edwards can tell, she's the last virgin standing, certainly amongst her friends. And she's determined to deal with the 'problem' as quickly and simply as possible. But her plan for a no-strings one night stand turns out to be anything but simple. Especially when she arrives for her first class and recognises her hot new British professor. She'd left him naked in her bed just 8 hours earlier...
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Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction. Tyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, King Joffrey, has escaped from King's Landing with a price on his head. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. But Jon has enemies both inside and beyond the Wall. And in the east Daenerys Targaryen struggles to hold a city built on dreams and dust.
Hindu bölcsességek
Ez a lenyűgöző képeket és magvas gondolatokat tartalmazó exkluzív kötet szemet és lelket gyönyörködtető olvasmány, emellett remek lehetőség arra, hogy megajándékozzuk szeretteinket, barátainkat.
Részlet a műből:
O, Almighty, let everybody be happy. Let everybody be healthy. Let everyone behave like good human being and let there be no deprivation and unhappiness anywhere.
Ó, Mindenható, legyen mindenki boldog. Legyen mindenki egészséges. Viselkedjék mindenki jó emberhez méltón és szűnjön meg a nélkülözés meg a boldogtalanság szerte a világon.
(védikus ima)*
He is the cause of each and everything; He is the quality and form of all the elements. He transforms all these elements into various forms and shapes and He alone rules and resides in all of them.
Ő minden dolog és létező oka; Ő ad minden elemnek minőséget és formát. Ő az egyedüli, aki uralkodik mindenen és az egyedüli, aki ott rejlik mindenben.
(Svétásvatara-upanisad 5/5)
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8,39 €
The Last Days of New Paris
A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Mieville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new. "Beauty will be convulsive. . . ." 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer - and occult disciple - Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever. 1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
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16,10 €
16,95 €
A Novel Journal - Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables has delighted readers for over 100 years. The award-winning book, which relates the story of an adopted orphan on Prince Edward Island, spawned an eight-book series popular with children and adults alike. Throughout, the beloved Anne exudes undying optimism and enthusiasm that proves to be thoroughly contagious. A Novel Journal: Anne of Green Gables infuses new life into this classic novel by inviting writers to pen their own thoughts and ideas between the lines of this time-honored story. Printed in tiny type, the entire text of the novel makes up the lines of this journal, so the words of a celebrated author are always right at your fingertips. Packaged with a deluxe Svepa cover, brilliant endpapers, colored edges, and matching elastic band, this journal will appeal to all readers, whether they're rehashing daily events or penning dialogue as thoughtful as Anne's. And the compact size makes this journal easy to slip into a purse, briefcase, or backpack so you can record and revisit your thoughts on the go.
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10,40 €
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