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Gigi
'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!'
This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions. Bored and unconvinced by what she's taught, Gigi surprises everyone with her earnest approach to love.
In this classic turn-of-the-century novella, Colette unveils Gigi's journey into womanhood in rich and supple prose.
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
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Holmes, Margaret and Poe
A compulsive and entertaining contemporary mystery featuring a team of unique private investigators - perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Knives Out.
Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe run the most in-demand private investigation agency in New York City.
The three detectives make a formidable team, solving a series of seemingly impossible crimes which expose the dark underbelly of the city - from a priceless art theft, high-stakes kidnapping and a decades-old unsolved murder, to a gruesome subterranean prison and corruption and bribery at the highest levels of power.
But it's not long before their headline-grabbing breakthroughs, unconventional methods - and untraceable pasts - attract the attention of the NYPD and the FBI.
After all, it's no surprise that there's a mystery or two to unravel in the city that never sleeps . . . not least, who really are Holmes, Margaret and Poe?
The Midnight Game
Rules of The Midnight Game:
Do not turn on the lights.
Do not go to sleep.
Do not leave the building.
When a group who have met on a creepy Deddit thread decide to meet in real life, they only have one plan in mind: they are going to summon the Midnight Man. And once you start the Midnight Game, you must finish it - there's no other way out!
Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors?
From thriller-horror YA queen, Cynthia Murphy, author of Last One To Die and TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT Win Lose Kill Die, comes her third nail-biting novel about CreepyPasta.
Perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Kathryn Foxfield and slasher horror movies like Candyman.
With six-character points-of-view, Deddit threads, newspaper articles and DMs, this pacy thriller will keep you awake and guessing until the very last page.
Taxtopia
In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naif to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear.
In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world's biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the Duke of Westminster often pay less tax than you do.
Written with sharp wit and over-brimming with inside secrets, the anonymous author shows us that not only does the global tax system encourage dubious practice which favours the rich, but that it was specifically founded with that in mind.
If you suspect that tax is a rigged game, a con, designed to fleece the little guy, you are about to find out just how shockingly true that really is.
Welcome to TAXTOPIA.
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Sneaker Freaker. World's Greatest Sneaker Collectors
Simon “Woody” Wood, founder and editor-in-chief of Sneaker Freaker magazine, has spent the last two decades analyzing the global cult of footwear fanatics. That experience directly inspired World’s Greatest Sneaker Collectors, a stonking 752-page journey into the priceless stockpiles and obsessive minds of prominent aficionados.From Tokyo to New York, via London, Philadelphia, Melbourne, and Stjordal, no crumbled midsole is left unturned as over 2,500 vintage classics, unique athlete SMUs, unobtainable samples, handmade 1-of-1 prototypes, stratospherically priced colabs, and Player Exclusives and game-worn Jordans with multi-million-dollar price tags are lauded with gusto.
The endless quest for “Holy Grails” is both blessing and curse as our collectors fiend, scheme, and dream of “the one” shoe they don’t yet own!Luxuriously photographed profiles are augmented with a series of informative “How-to” guides stuffed with pro tips on sneaker photography, storage, insurance, cleaning, and avoiding the counterfeit curse. The expertise is priceless. The stories will entertain for days as we seek out the fundamentals of what it means, and takes, to define yourself as a “true collector.”
Alien The Official Cookbook
Delight your friends with a journey through the Xenomorph's terrifying life cycle. Alien: The Official Cookbook collects together 50 recipes inspired by the cult Alien franchise; featuring recipes such as avocado Xenomorph eggs and chicken facehugger cordon bleu, there's something to whet every appetite, no matter how monstrous.
Whether you're a fan of the Alien franchise, or you're just looking for the perfect quirky appetizers, this cookbook will thrill the eyes and the tastebuds. At last, it is your turn to be space's greatest apex predator.
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Run Away - from `the modern master of the hook and twist'
"Run Away confirms one of the world's finest thriller writers is at the very top of his game." PETER JAMES
"Coben never, ever lets you down - but this one is really special." LEE CHILD
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YOU'VE LOST YOUR DAUGHTER.
She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. You haven't seen her in six months.
Then you find her busking in New York's Central Park.
But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is frail, filthy, terrified, and in more trouble than you ever imagined.
You don't stop to think. You approach her. You beg her to come home.
SHE RUNS.
You follow. What choice do you have? And as you descend into the dark, dangerous world she's lost herself in, you quickly find yourself out of your depths. Down here, no-one is safe - and now both of you might never make it out alive...
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"The modern master of the hook and twist" DAN BROWN
"A twisty thriller that'll keep you up way past any sensible lights out time" HEAT
"[Coben's] writing and storytelling are firing on all cylinders and the seemingly straightforward tale takes a sharp turn when it's least expected" DAILY MAIL
"Run Away is Harlan Coben at the height of his narrative mastery... as a thriller it's a narcotic... unmissable." SHOTS MAGAZINE
"The award-winning Coben once again gets his hook into you and twists to keep you snared." RTE GUIDE
"Few of Harlan Coben's thrillers are anything less than gripping, but every now and again he writes one that exceeds his own high standards. Run Away is one." THE TIMES ONLINE
"A twisty, disturbing and poignant thriller" WOMAN
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Monthly Girls Nozakikun 12
Yuzuki Seo will never give up! Although her past attempts at confessing to
Wakamatsu were met with...well, not a positive response...she will keep trying
until they get across! But before her next attempt, Mashima and Hori-senpai
agree to teach her about love. Might they come to some new realizations
themselves? Meanwhile, on the Nozaki front, Sakura is the model for a new shoujo
manga...which might reveal Nozaki's true feelings for her...
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Coco Chanel - The Legend and the Life
SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL.
Justine Picardie’s definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden beneath the shimmering surface of a fabled fashion icon. Unveiling remarkable details about Coco Chanel’s traumatic childhood and her flight into unconventional adulthood, this beautifully constructed portrait reveals her passionate and painful past, her turbulent loves and losses, her quest for fame and fortune, and how she transformed herself into her own most powerful creation.
Feared and revered by her contemporaries, Chanel died in 1971, but her legacy lives on as an enduring global brand. Drawing on interviews with her last surviving friends and relatives, and unprecedented archival research, Justine Picardie brings Chanel out of hiding, unpicking the seams between reality and myth, and telling a timeless story that uncovers the true art and heart of fashion.
This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the greatest designer in the world. Adding fresh insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives.
Captain America trilogie 1.-3. 6BD (3D+2D)
Kolekce obsahuje:
Captain America: První Avenger (2Blu-ray 3D+2D)
2011 / Akční / 124 minut / USA
Limitovaná 3D edice
Full HD 3D televizor + kompatibilní 3D brýle + Blu-ray 3D přehrávač + vysokorychlostní HDMI kabel
Captain America bojuje za svobodu v akcí napěchovaném trháku! V hlavní roli ničivé zbraně proti zlu Chris Evans. Když začne lidstvo ohrožovat strašlivá síla, pouští se světový supervoják do boje se zločinnou organizací Hydra vedenou padouchem jménem Rudá lebka (Hugo Weaving, Matrix). Film Captain America: První Avenger, který nabízí „čiré vzrušení, poctivou akci a ryzí zábavu“*, si získal uznání diváků i kritiky.
Hrají: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Stanley Tucci a další
Režie: Joe Johnston
Zvukové formáty: česky Dolby Digital 5.1 / anglicky DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 / polsky Dolby Digital 5.1 / rusky Dolby Digital 5.1 / thajsky Dolby Digital 2.0
Titulky: české, anglické, čínské, kantonské, korejské, mandarínské, polské, ruské, thajské
Obrazové formáty: 16:9
Captain America: Návrat prvního Avengera (2Blu-ray 3D+2D)
2014 / Akční, Dobrodružný / 130 minut / USA
Po katastrofických událostech, které Avengers prožili v New Yorku, žije Steve Rogers neboli Captain America poklidně v ústraní ve Washingtonu, D.C. a snaží se přizpůsobit modernímu světu.
Když však dojde k napadení jeho kolegy z organizace S.H.I.E.L.D, musí se Captain America (Chris Evans) znovu zamotat do sítě intrik, které sužují celý svět. Spiknutí i vzájemná nedůvěra se prohlubují a Captain America, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) a Falcon (Anthony Mackie) musí spojit své síly, aby mohli porazit zatím nejzákeřnější, nejsilnější a nejzáhadnější zbraň nepřítele - Winter Soldiera.
Užijte si tuto vysoce akční podívanou ve 3D!
Hrají: Chris Evans, Samuel L.Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Macke, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Maximiliano Hernández, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Stan Lee, Callan Mulvey, Jenny Agutter
V českém znění: Libor Bouček - Chris Evans (Steve Rogers / Captain America), Jitka Moučková - Scarlett Johansson (Nataša Romanoffová / Black Widow), Michal Holán - Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson / Falcon), Jiří Štěpnička - Robert Redford (Alexander Pierce), Filip Jančík - Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier), Pavel Rímský - Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Tereza Chudobová - Cobie Smulders (Maria Hillová), Kateřina Petrová - Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carterová), Marek Holý - Frank Grillo (Brock Rumlow / Crossbones), Václav Knop - Toby Jones (Arnim Zola), Jiří Valšuba - Maximiliano Hernández (agent Jasper Sitwell), Jolana Smyčková - Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carterová / Agent 13), Bohuslav Kalva - Garry Shandling (senátor Stern), Ladislav Županič - Dale Coffman (Rockwell), Svatopluk Schuller - Dominic Cooper (Howard Stark), Jiří Prager - Thomas Kretschmann (Baron Wolfgang von Strucker), Ludvík Král, Petra Tišnovská, Alena Procházková, Zbyšek Horák, Ivo Novák, Regina Řandová, Jakub Saic, Jan Szymik, Petr Neskusil, Libor Terš, Bohdan Tůma, Petr Vágner, Miloš Vávra, Luděk Čtvrtlík a další...
Režie: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Kamera: Trent Opaloch
Hudba: Henry Jackman
Scénář: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Produkce: Victoria Alonso, Mitchell Bell, Louis D´Esposito, Kevin Feige, Alan Fine, Michael Grillo, Stan Lee, Nate Moore
Zvukové formáty: česky Dolby Digital 5.1 / anglicky DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 / anglický komentář 2.0
Titulky: české, anglické
Obrazové formáty: 16:9 / 2,40:1
Bonusy:
• NEPOVEDENÉ ZÁBĚRY
• VYSTŘIŽENÉ SCÉNY:
- HON ZA KAPITÁNEM AMERIKOU
- HILLOVÁ A SITWELL MLUVÍ O LOAJALITĚ
- KRUH NICKA FURYHO
- BLACK WIDOW ODHLAUJE SVOU MINULOST
• KRÁTKÉ DOKUMENTY:
- V PŘEDNÍ LINII: ZÁKULISNÍ POHLED NA BOJIŠTĚ KAPITÁNA AMERIKY
- NA SCÉNĚ S ANTHONYM MACKIEM
- ZÁPISNÍK STEVEA ROGERSE
Captain America: Občanská válka (2Blu-ray 3D+2D)
2016 / Akční, Sci-Fi, Dobrodružný / 294 minut / USA
Výbušná roztržka otřásla dějinami Marvelu. V převratném příběhu Captain America: Občanská válka jsme svědky toho, jak snaha vlády udržet Avengers pod kontrolou způsobí hluboký rozkol mezi Captain Americou (Chris Evans) a Iron Manem (Robert Downey Jr.). Z nejlepších přátel jsou rázem úhlavní nepřátelé.
Na pozadí dobrodružství dvou rozkmotřených front, tajemných padouchů a nových spojenců se odehraje finální bitva zásadní pro budoucnost Avengers i celého lidstva.
Hrají: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo
V českém znění: Libor Bouček - Chris Evans (Steve Rogers / Captain America), Aleš Procházka - Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark / Iron Man), Jitka Špiková Moučková - Scarlett Johansson (Nataša Romanovová / Black Widow), Filip Jančík - Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier), Michal Holán - Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson / Falcon), Jan Čenský - Don Cheadle (Plukovník James Rhodes / War Machine), Pavel Tesař - Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton / Hawkeye), Filip Čapka - Chadwick Boseman (T'Challa / Black Panther), Radek Valenta - Paul Bettany (Vision), Helena Dvořáková - Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximovová / Scarlet Witch), Dalibor Gondík - Paul Rudd (Scott Lang / Ant-Man), Jolana Haan Smyčková - Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carterová), Miroslava Pleštilová - Marisa Tomei (May Parkerová), Adam Mišík - Tom Holland (Peter Parker / Spider-Man), Marek Holý - Frank Grillo (Brock Rumlow / Crossbones), Roman Štabrňák - Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross), Jiří Štěpnička - William Hurt (Ministr vnitra Thaddeus Ross), Jakub Wehrenberg - Daniel Brühl (Zemo), Miloš Vávra - John Kani (Král T'Chaka), Petra Tišnovská - Kerry Condon (Friday), Simona Vrbická - Hope Davis (Maria Starková), Zdeněk Hruška - John Slattery (Howard Stark), Dalimil Klapka - Stan Lee (Pošťák), Tomáš Juřička - Jim Rash (Prostředník M.I.T.), Otakar Brousek ml., Jakub Hejdánek, Nina Horáková, Martin Janouš, Ludvík Král, Stanislav Lehký, Zuzana Mixová, Jiří Panzner, Milan Slepička, Martina Šťastná, David Voráček, Tomáš Gibiš
Režie: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Kamera: Trent Opaloch
Hudba: Henry Jackman
Scénář: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Produkce: Victoria Alonso, Mitchell Bell, Ari Costa, Louis D´Esposito, Kevin Feige, Alan Fine, Christoph Fisser, Stan Lee, Henning Molfenter, nate More, Trinh Tran, Patricia Whitcher, Lars P.Winther, Charlie Woebcken
Zvukové formáty: česky Dolby Digital 5.1 / anglicky 7.1. DTS-HD HR
Titulky: české, anglické pro neslyšící
Obrazové formáty: 16:9 / 2,39:1
Bonusy:
2D Krátké filmy:
• Společně zvítězíme, rozděleni padneme. - Jak se natáčel Captain America: Občanská válka -1.část
• Společně zvítězíme, rozděleni padneme. - Jak se natáčel Captain America: Občanská válka -2.část
• Captain America: Cesta k Občanské válce
• Iron Man: Cesta k Občanské válce
• Otevři svou mysl: Doctor Strange - Exkluzivní ukázka
• Vystřižené a prodloužené scény
• Přežblepty
Grúň Dušan - Dušan Grúň/Starý rodný dom - 2CD
Tracklist:
CD1: DUŠAN GRÚŇ
1: NEZÍVAJTE PROSÍM
2. PÄŤ DÁM
3. PRÍDEM K VÁM
4. SMIAL BY SOM SA, SMIAL STO DNÍ
5. ČAKÁM
6. PÔJDEME NA VÝLET
7. V ŠTÁTE MEXIKO
8. LÁSKA BÝVA VRTOŠIVÁ
9. KÝM JAVOR ZNIE
10. PONÚKAM TI NÁPEV
11.SLOVÁ HOLUBOV
12. MÁŠ TUCET CHÝB
13. DNES HRÁ TVOJ TIEŇ
CD2: STARÝ RODNÝ DOM
1. KAŽDÝ DEŇ
2. ZAJTRA
3. ZAJTRA MUSÍŠ ZABUDNÚŤ
4. VRAVIŠ MI, PRÍĎ
5. LETNÉ RÁNO
6. TY NIE SI GOTICKÁ
7. TÚLAVÉ NOHY
8. MOJA LÁSKA
9. ACH, TÁ RIA
10. BIELA BRIEZKA
11. DOMCE V TÔNI LÍP
12. MAL ŠESŤ ŽIEN
13. STARÝ RODNÝ DOM
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Magisteria
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.
The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It's about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it's about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say - a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.
From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.
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Water
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.
But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes?
Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.
Can you ever truly wash away your past?
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.
From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms: the world of everyday and the world of supernatural.
It was a time and place where men could be brought down by karmic forces or lured into deadly danger by ghostly apparitions, and where the land held sorrowful secrets or stories that long-awaited an opportunity to reveal them and seek reparation.
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales brings together some of the best and scariest tales that endured across centuries of folk lore in one new beautiful hardback collection. Finally commited to writing during the turn of the twenieth cenutry by a unique set of folklorists, the ghost stories presented in this new anthology will transport readers to a time of magic and mystery, and let them relish in the spine-tingling traditions of Japanese culture largely lost now to modernity.
Dumy samotářského chodce
Ve svém Vyznání, předcházející Dumám, píše na úvod Jean-Jacques Rousseua: „Odhalil jsem své nitro, jak pouze tys je viděl, Věčná Bytosti! Shromáždi kolem mne nespočetný zástup mých bližních: nechť naslouchají mému vyznání, nechť hořekují nad mými nízkostmi, nechť se rdí nad mými ubohostmi. Nechť však každý odhalí též svoje srdce u stupňů tvého trůnu stejně upřímně a potom nechť jediný odváží se mi říci: Byl sem lepší onoho muže.“ Ve svých protivenstvích nalézá Rousseau v Dumách, obklopen již jen přírodou, svůj konečný klid – podroben „jhu nutnosti“, zachován svému srdci, ztotožněn s řádem, jemuž byl zaslíben. Vypořádává se se vším, co musí zpracovat citlivé srdce, nechce-li být pokořeno, ba spíše zmařeno, vědom si, že účel života přesahuje pletichy a zlo těch, kteří jsou podrobeni svým slepým tužbám a zlobě, jichž neváhají, s potěchou jim vlastní, vůči člověku kdykoli použít. Kniha je dokladem, věčným dramatem a kontrapunktem mezi Člověkem a společností (Královstvím božím a královstvím z tohoto světa), pochopením života v nitru člověka, je-li po něm současně bytostně voláno. Je věčným zápasem Východu Slunce; rozporem, který navždy upomíná, že skutečná vznešenost je pronásledována temnotou lůzy, jejíž duch na sebe bere jen jiná těla a podoby, nenávidějící však stále vše přímé a vpravdě vznešené, co nabývá skutečného květu života. Chce-li kdo pochybovat, nechť učiní onu mez v dějinách, kdy se lži vykázalo místo, jíž jí přísluší, a pravda povznesla se v základ společenského pořádku! Nechť rozváže tak kdo kolo, cítí-li se, a učiní z něj přímku, kde vymezí onen bod! – Či raději nechť mlčí, nechce-li být směšný, kdo je unášen na křídlech Molocha, na drobtech pomíjivého prospěchářství, za nějž je placen – jemuž je zaprodán na křídlech servilnosti vůči zlu! Ačkoli lze dočasně bránit Světlu, aby zářilo (a zakrývat jej pouhou jeho nápodobou, čemuž říkáme veřejný pořádek a morálka), nelze zadržet jeho konečného vítězství, jeho paprsků, razící si cestu ranními červánky. Obě entity mají nárok na své bytí; nelze vytrhnout hloží, aniž bychom tím nevytrhli i pšenice. Nechť se naplní a dokoná osud spravedlivých i nespravedlivých! Ovšem jen ve světle nabývá člověk své hodnoty a své sebeúcty. Jen ve světle nebude nakonec požrán služebníky, kteří se domáhají zadusit všeho života; stejně jako jejich bůžkem, kterému slouží a jemuž jsou sami vydáni za potravu. Toto je lidské drama ve svém cyklu, v božském dramatu, který se píše a opakuje od počátku věků. Vydaná kniha uchovává, až na výjimky, pravopis doby a je zároveň revizí a opravou místy nepřesných překladů prvního českého vydání z roku 1913. Toto vydání si neklade za cíl vystavět monument onomu velkému muži, jímž je Jean-Jacques Rousseau – takové pomníky nebývají pravdivé, a proto ani trvalé – nýbrž je pouhým jeho uznáním. Toto uznání však více než v řeči může nabývat významu u každého Jedince až ve skutku a myšlení: oprostí-li se od lži, postaví-li se sám nejen za sebe, ale za každého člověka, trpě společně s ním, který se nalézá či nalézal v poutech; v člověku, který se sám zbaví krve – má-li ji na rukou společně s celou generací lidí, sloužící Molochu; a přijme-li tím následně neméně důsledně jako Rousseau: své „jho nutnosti“.
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Turn a Blind Eye
Turn a Blind Eye is the third instalment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles.
William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation.
Meanwhile, a notorious drug baron goes on trial, with the prosecution case led by William's father and sister. And William's wife Beth, now a mother to twins, renews an old acquaintance who appears to have turned over a new leaf, or has she?
As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye.
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Matisse. Cut-outs. 40th Ed.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line.
This edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau, with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law Georges Duthuit.
In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
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TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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How to handle everything (and everyone) around you when all hell breaks loose, from the international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots.
Not everything goes the way we want it to - the world or people around us sometimes just spin out of control. Just consider the Covid pandemic for starters. Or how about that mad neighbour you have living next-door to you? Or when work seems to be going down the toilet when the competition keep outsmarting you? So how do you handle everything life throws your way when you'd really prefer to tell everyone to get stuffed?
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