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Staunch Könyvdíj, 2019 Walter Scott történelmi regénydíj, 2019 - jelölés Waterstones: az év könyvei, 2019 Hit, morál és az emberi természet örök ellentmondásai. 15. század, Anglia, Somerset megye. Oakhamet, ezt a kis falut széles folyó vágja el a világtól, még hídja sincs. Húshagyókedd hajnalán egy férfi holttestét sodorja partra a víz. Nem tudni, baleset, öngyilkosság vagy gyilkosság történt. A falu lelkésze, John Reve, gyóntatóként ismeri hívei életét, de vajon képes lesz kideríteni, mi okozta a falu leggazdagabb és legszorgalmasabb embere, Thomas Newman tragédiáját? Napról napra haladunk visszafelé az időben az áldozat halálának pillanatáig. A történetet a lelkész meséli el, aki türelmes pásztora tévelygő nyájának, de neki is vannak sötét titkai... „Katartikus, lélegzetelállító regény.” - New York Times Book Review „Életre kelti a középkori Angliát...” - Washington Post „Középkori whodunnit… valóságos időutazás. Hasonló élményt nyújt, mint Hilary Mantel könyvei.” - Financial Times „Irodalmi igényű detektívregény.” - Sunday Times „Samantha Harvey prózája fénylően gyönyörű.” - Daily Express
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The Truth Detective
From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it like one, with every day critical thinking.
In The Truth Detective, journalist and competitive poker player Alex O'Brien shows how we can survive and make better life decisions using the rules of the game. In a world full of uncertainty and incomplete information, this is a book about getting to the truth.
You'll meet a host of experts who break down the science of navigating a time in which fact and fiction are becoming increasingly hard to tell apart. With psychological research and insight from a range of professionals - from FBI agents and behavioural economists to poker aces and bounty hunters - O'Brien assembles strategies we can use to analyse the information that surround us in our day to day.
Tackle life like a poker player and let The Truth Detective guide your through the jungle of disinformation - and on to success in the game of life.
Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror (Green) 2LP
Blind Guardian je nemecká power metalová skupina založená v roku 1984 v Krefelde v západnom Nemecku. Často sú považované za jednu z kľúčových a najvplyvnejších kapiel v podžánre power metalu a speed metalu. Súčasťou zostavy kapely v jej histórii bolo deväť hudobníkov, v súčasnosti ju tvoria spevák Hansi Kürsch, gitaristi André Olbrich a Marcus Siepen a od roku 2005 bubeník Frederik Ehmke.
"Beyond the Red Mirror" je desiaty štúdiový album, vydaný 30. januára 2015 prostredníctvom Nuclear Blast.Koncepčný album a pokračovanie Imaginations from the Other Side, Beyond the Red Mirror opísal spevák Hansi Kürsch ako "príbeh medzi sci-fi a fantasy. [...] Dva opísané svety sa od r. Potom. Kým medzi svetmi existovalo niekoľko priechodov, teraz zostala len jedna brána: Červené zrkadlo. Treba ju nájsť za každú cenu.“
Tracklist:
A1. The Ninth Wave
A2. Twilight Of The Gods
A3. Prophecies
B1. At The Edge Of Time
B2. Ashes Of Eternity
B3. Distant Memories (bonus)
C1. The Holy Grail
C2. The Throne
C3. Sacred Mind
D1. Miracle Machine
D2. Grand Parade
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are clandestinely enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, parting company with the demons of his tragic, violent past.
But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems.
Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it?and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world?Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known.
Bangkok Transit (English edition)
Bangkok: a sizzling, all-embracing, exotic city where the past and the present intertwine. It’s a place where anything can happen… and anything really does happen. The paths of seven people cross in this metropolis. Seven seekers, for whom this city might be a final destination. Or perhaps it is only the start of a new journey? A successful businessman; a celebrated supermodel; a man who is forever the outsider; a young mother who suddenly loses everything; a talented surgeon, who could not give the woman he loved all that she desired; a brothel’s madam; and a charming young woman adopted at birth. Why these seven? Why did they come to Bangkok now, at the same time? Do chance encounters truly exist? Bangkok Transit is a Central European best-seller. The author, Eva Fejos, a Hungarian writer and journalist, is a regular contributor to women’s magazines and is often herself a featured personality. Bangkok Transit was her first best-seller, which sold more than 100,000 copies and is still selling. Following the initial publication of this novel in 2008, she went on to write twelve other best-sellers, thus becoming a publishing phenomena in Hungary According to accounts given by her readers, the author’s books are “therapeutic journeys,” full of flesh and blood characters who never give up on their dreams. Many readers have been inspired to change the course of their own lives after reading her books. “Take your life into your own hands,” is one of the important messages the author wishes to convey.
Try it for yourself, and let Eva Fejos whisk you off on one of her whirlwind journeys... that might lead deep into your own heart.
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The Museum of Lost Art
True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery
From the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery comes this dynamic narrative that tells the fascinating stories of artworks stolen, looted, or destroyed in war, accidentally demolished or discarded, lost at sea or in natural disasters, or attacked by iconoclasts or vandals; works that were intentionally temporal, knowingly destroyed by the artists themselves or their patrons, covered over with paint or plaster, or recycled for their materials. An exciting read that spans the centuries and the continents.
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Baby Touch and Feel Flamingo
You're never too young to start loving flamingos! Introduce little ones to these beautiful, pink-feathered birds with this sparkly, touch and feel book.
Babies and toddlers will enjoy the read-aloud text and delightful, touchy-feely photos of Mummy, Daddy, and fluffy Flamingo Chick.
Children will love meeting Mummy and Daddy Flamingo, feeling Mummy's webbed feet and fine feathers, touching Daddy's pointy beak, and learning how these amazing birds share the parenting, and build a bumpy mud nest. Soon their egg hatches and Fluffy Flamingo Chick arrives! At the end of the day, the flamingos are all together under a twinkling, starry night sky.
This small baby board book is a good size for little hands to hold. Babies and toddlers will soon be turning the pages themselves, which develops their fine motor skills.
Part of DK's popular Baby Touch and Feel series, Baby Touch and Feel Flamingo with its exciting sparkly jacket will appeal to little ones and stimulate their learning.
Takida - Falling From Fame CD
KDO: Švédská rocková skupiny založená vroce 1999 si nejprve podmanila celou Skandinávii, nyní její fanouškovská základna má vzrůstající tendenci i ve zbytku světa, především vněmecky mluvících zemích.
CO: Album „Falling From Fame“ navazuje na předchozí velmi úspěšné album „Sju“. Přináší jedenáct nových, solidních rockových, skladeb, jakou je třeba i úvodní singl „Goodbye“.
Tracklist:
01. Goodbye 02. WeWill Never Be 03. Meet Me Half of the Way 04. You Will Never Leave Us Behind 05. Feel You Falling Away 06. In Spite of Everything 07. Morning Sun 08. Let the Hammer Ring the Bell 09. For the Last Time 10. Reclaiming What Was Mine 11. What You Never Knew
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat...
Everyone's favourite family cat first appeared fifty years ago and is loved by children everywhere for her funny and warm-hearted escapades.
Mog the Forgetful Cat was first published in 1970 and has never been out of print! The classic picture book story of a very forgetful cat, her family, and a very exciting adventure is the perfect gift for families, boys, girls, and anyone who has ever known or loved a cat.
From Judith Kerr, the bestselling author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the beloved Mog stories still delight children all over the world. Celebrate this unforgettable cat's very first adventure with this beautiful cased board book, perfect for small hands!
'Since her debut in 1970, Mog has become... a national hero.' Junior Magazine
'A firm favourite on children's bookshelves' The Telegraph
'Mog is a star, she really is. I can't recommend her highly enough. Someone should give that cat a medal, or an egg for breakfast.' The Bookbag
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Stooges, The - The Stooges (Yellow) LP
KDO: Americká rocková kapela z Michiganu vystupovala též pod názvem Iggy & the Stooges. Proslavila se syrovým, až primitivním rockovým stylem, věhlasné byly zejména její divoké koncerty, na kterých se zpěvák Iggy Pop často sebepoškozoval. Kapela vydala dvě desky a rozpadla se, aby se znovu v pozměněné sestavě nakrátko sešla a natočila třetí desku Raw Power (1973). Další reunion prožila v roce 2003. Styl The Stooges je často označován jako proto-punk, jenž je ovlivněn punk rockem, heavy metalem či alternativním rockem. V roce 2010 se skupina dočkala pozvánky do rock’n’rollové Síně slávy, časopis Rolling Stone ji zároveň zařadil mezi stovku nejdůležitějších kapel historie.
CO: Vinylová reedice debutové desky americké proto-punkové kapely. Album původně vyšlo v roce 1969 a Iggy Pop a spol na něj zařadili i populární skladbu I Wanna Be Your Dog.
LP1
1. 1969 [04:05]
2. I Wanna Be Your Dog [03:07]
3. We Will Fall [10:15]
4. No Fun [05:15]
5. Real Cool Time [02:29]
6. Ann [03:00]
7. Not Right [02:49]
8. Little Doll [03:21]
Everybody
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' - Observer
'A free-wheeling and joyful exploration of the works and lives of a range of artists and thinkers who brought libidinal and creative energy together with spectacular results' - Jack Halberstam
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.
Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.
Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Everybody is an examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph
The Collage Ideas Book
Collage allows your creativity to run riot. It lets you juxtapose disparate elements, styles, and media against each other and create something entirely novel, bizarre, arresting, beautiful, ironic, or unsettling. Old and new can be fused together; the digital and hand-made can be combined.
What you can create with collage knows no bounds.
This little book is full of big ideas from contemporary collage artists to inspire you to think differently.
With a new idea on every page, you will discover fresh ways of tackling the medium to create work that is original and exciting.
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12,95 €
Assassin's Creed: Eretnekség
Új, az Assassins Creed univerzumában játszódó történet a New York Times bestsellerszerzőjétől, Christie Goldentől! A magas rangú templomos, Simon Hathaway miközben egy Jeanne dArc oldalán harcoló őse emlékeit éli újra, lassanként a múlt olyan titkaira bukkan, amelyek veszélyes következményekkel járhatnak nem csak rá, hanem az egész Templomos Rendre nézve.
Végtelen összecsapás. Ősi bűn. Új felfedezés.
Simon, mint a templomosok Belső Szentélyének tagja hideg fejjel és a szokott gyakorlatias hozzáállásával lát munkához az Abstergo Industry történelemkutatási részlegének új vezetőjeként.
Azonban csillapíthatatlan kíváncsiságának köszönhetően magával ragadja a lehetőség, hogy őse, a legendás Jeanne dArc mellett harcoló Gabriel Laxaart emlékein keresztül első kézből tapasztalja meg a történelmet.
Amikor első projektje részeként belép egy újonnan tervezett Animusba, meglepő tényekre bukkan arról, hogy milyen mélyen húzódik a templomosok és az orgyilkosok közötti konfliktus, és hogy mi mindenre képes Gabriel a nőért, akit egyszerre szeret és csodál.
És köztük a legveszélyesebb igazságra: Hogy ki az eretnek és ki az igazhitű.
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Lacná kniha American realism (-70%)
The unconventional movement of American Realism allowed artists to break free from the established traditions of art in America and enabled the birth of a true national artistic identity. Through detailed descriptions of both the strong personalities and the artistic exchanges marking this movement, Souter shows the reader how these artists radically altered the art of their time and forever impacted the history of art.
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Cassia - Why You Lacking Energy? CD
KDO: Indie-popová skupina Cassia ve své tvorbě kombinuje indie-pop podobný skupinám Foals nebo Vampire Weekend s jazzem a afrobeatem inspirovaným interprety jako Fela Kuti nebo Ebo Taylor. Skupinu tvoří Rob Ellis – zpěv / kytara, Lou Cotterill - baskytara a Jake Leff – bicí. Její členové říkají, že skládají hudbu, aby mohli „kontrolovat své emoce“.
CO: Druhé album severoanglické kapely Cassia dostalo název „Why You Lacking Energy?“. Najdeme na něm vše od atmosférických klavírních balad po rychlé kytarové vypalovačky říznuté syntetizátorem. Prvním singlem je nadýchaná skladba „Motions“, ze které máte pocit, jako by vám písek protékal mezi prsty.
CD
1. Morning's Coming
2. Similar
3. 16-18 (Why You Lacking Energy?)
4. Motions
5. Colossal Happiness
6. Seasons
7. Boundless
8. Dreams of My Past
9. Drifting
10. Not Enough Time to Think
11. Right There
12. See Myself
Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time
A revelatory new volume on the American modernist's lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first time
Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, "I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and not knowing where the idea came from." These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next 40 years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation "specials." While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper reappeared--including charcoal flowers of the 1930s, portraits of the 1940s and aerial views of the 1950s.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this richly illustrated volume highlights the drawings of an artist better known as a painter, and reunites individual sheets with their contextual series to illuminate O'Keeffe's persistently sequential practice.
Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) first received critical attention when her breakthrough charcoal drawings were exhibited in New York in 1916. Two years later, she moved to the city to work full time on her art. Beginning in 1929, O'Keeffe spent summers in New Mexico, where she would relocate in 1949. The most famous female artist of her age, she thought of herself not as "the best woman painter" but as "one of the best painters."
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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories + Mp3
Classic/British English In these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.
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8,30 €
A. Wong - The Cookbook
gorgeous cookbook filled with passion and soul' - Ken Hom From Lotus root crisps, Taiwanese popcorn chicken with basil and Baked pork buns to Crispy aromatic duck, Chilli barbecued five-spiced Dover sole and Singapore noodles, A. Wong - The Cookbook offers a host of new and exciting authentic Chinese recipes. Andrew Wong's philosophy is simple: maintain the fundamentals of the original Chinese recipes whilst adding an unmistakably 'Wong' spin to it. For Andrew Wong, cooking is all about inclusiveness; cooking and creating a meal is an act of love and friendship, which is perhaps why his restaurant in London's Victoria is so incredibly popular. This unmissable new cookbook introduces a way of eating Chinese that is unlike any other. Praise for A.Wong: 'The joy of A. Wong...and it is a joy - is in the detail' - Lisa Markwell, The Independent 'You know what this is? This is Modern British Chinese, and I think the first of it I have ever seen' - Giles Coren, The Times 'Presentation is delicious. A nest of shredded filo cradles slow-cooked, tea-smoked eggs dusted with satay powder. If that's not sensory overload enough, a burning stick of cinnamon breathes scented smoke over it' - Marina O'Loughlin, Guardian
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36,95 €
Nelson Willie - Milk Cow Blues 2LP
Willie Hugh Nelson (narodený 29. apríla 1933) je americký spevák, skladateľ, hudobník, politický aktivista a herec. Bol jednou z hlavných postáv outlaw country, subžánru country hudby, ktorý sa vyvinul koncom 60. rokov ako reakcia na konzervatívne obmedzenia zvuku z Nashvillu. Kritický úspech jeho albumu Shotgun Willie (1973) v kombinácii s kritickým a komerčným úspechom skladieb Red Headed Stranger (1975) a Stardust (1978) urobili z Nelsona jedného z najuznávanejších umelcov country hudby. Nelson hral vo viac ako 30 filmoch, bol spoluautorom niekoľkých kníh a bol zapojený do aktivizmu za používanie biopalív a legalizáciu marihuany."Milk Cow Blues" je 48. štúdiový album vydaný 19. septembra 2000 na labeli Island Records.
Tracklist:
Side A:
1. Milk Cow Blues
2. Outskirts Of Town
3. Black Night
4. Funny (How Time Slips Away)
Side B:
5. Rainy Day Blues
6. Crazy
7. The Thrill Is Gone
8. Wake Me When It's Over
Side C:
1. Kansas City
2. Fool's Paradise
3. Ain't Nobody's Business
4. Night Life
Side D:
5. Sittin' On Top Of The World
6. Lonely Street
7. Texas Flood