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Republic of Lies
From UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy theories won over America.
In November 2017, a serial climate change denier and anti-vaxxer was elected President of the United States. The rise of Donald Trump marked the beginning of a new American epoch: the age of the conspiracy theorist.
Now, Anna Merlan goes undercover in America's sprawling network of conspiracy theorists and uncovers their secrets. She meets the UFOlogist who claims to have travelled to Mars with a young Barack Obama. She chats with the 'pizzagate' truthers who think Washington D.C.'s favourite pizzeria is run by a satanic paedophile ring. And she bumps into Alex Jones, the YouTube impresario who thinks the state is using chemical warfare to turn the population gay - and who happens to be on first-name terms with the leader of the free world.
Merlan reveals a world of innuendo and propaganda lying just beneath the surface of US culture. It might just help explain the political turmoil of our time.
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Japans Best Friend : Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun
In Japan's Best Friend, stunning photographs take readers to religious festivals and shrines that honor dog deities, to the streets of Tokyo where canines are a mainstay of kawaii culture, and inside the doors of cafes that make pup-themed latte art as well as facilities that train rescue dogs to be involved with therapy. Readers are introduced to SONY's iconic dog robot AIBO; to the loyal Akita Hachiko, whose statue is located next to the world's busiest pedestrian crossing; and to Doge, the Shiba Inu internet sensation. The book looks at how dogs are represented in Japanese traditions, as well as the extraordinary lengths to which they are exalted within pop culture. It includes Edo and Meiji-era woodblock prints, as well as dog-centric work by Pritzker Prizewinning architects and renowned contemporary artists. Interviews with craftspeople, illustrators, and stylists offer a fascinating glimpse into the human-to-animal connection. At turns adorable, funny, informative, and uplifting, this multi-faceted celebration investigates a phenomenon that will appeal to anyone obsessed with dogs, Japan, or both.
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Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'
In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- have to be relearned, until they become familiar again. This is the story of Samantha Cristoforetti's incredible journey to becoming an astronaut, and her journey beyond Earth.
Her voyage as an apprentice astronaut began when she was in her early thirties: five years of intense training around the world, from Houston to Japan to the legendary Star City in Russia. Countless hours spent in centrifuges, spaceship simulators and under water for spacewalk practice. Then, one day, a rocket was waiting for her on the launch pad. And after eight minutes of wild ascent, she was on orbit, crunched up with her two crewmates in a tiny spaceship that took them to the International Space Station.
With honesty and warmth, Cristoforetti chronicles the two hundred days she spent on the ISS, the joys and challenges of being in an extraordinary place, from the sublime sight of seeing Earth for the first time to more unusual concerns, such as mastering the art of floating. How do you find your bearings when there is no up and down? What is it like to run in weightlessness? And how do you cook in space?
This is an enthralling, inspiring and surprisingly down-to-earth story about what it really takes to pursue your dreams.
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A Cosmology of Monsters
"I loved it, and think you will, too."
--Stephen King
Stephen King's It meets Stranger Things in a tender and terrifying coming-of-age tale of haunted houses and the monster at the door.
Noah Turner's family are haunted by monsters that are all too real, strange creatures that visit them all: His bookish mother Margaret; Lovecraft-obsessed father Harry; eldest sister Sydney, born for the spotlight; the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a gifted writer and storyteller - the Turners each face their demons alone.
When his terminally-ill father becomes obsessed with the construction of an elaborate haunted house - the Wandering Dark - the family grant his last wish, creating themselves a legacy, and a new family business in their grief. But families don't talk about the important things, and they try to shield baby Noah from horrors, both staged and real.
As the family falls apart, fighting demons of poverty, loss and sickness, the real monsters grow ever closer. Unbeknownst to them, Noah is being visited by a wolfish beast with glowing orange eyes. Noah is not the first of the Turners to meet the monster, but he is the first to let it into his room...
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Book of Images
The Book of Images tells the story of 310 scenography produced by Images Vevey from 2008 to 2018. Throughout 400 pages and almost 1000 pictures, the reader finds monumental and unexpected installations on façades, underwater, on roofs, in gardens, basements, churches, prisons or luxury hotels of the town of Vevey.
Featuring 299 contemporary artists and photographers such as John Baldessari, René Burri, Christian Marclay, Lee Friedlander, Graciela Iturbide, JR, David Lynch, Daido Moriyama, Arnold Odermatt, Martin Parr, Alex Prager, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Roman Signer, Erwin Wurm, etc.
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The Story of the Nativity
A captivating retelling of the story of the very first Christmas from multi-award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. In the still heart of the night, the child was born. A boy.
Mary kissed him, washed him, wrapped him tightly and laid him in the wooden trough where the animals usually munched hay. She gave him a kiss. She gave him a name too - Jesus - just as the angel had told her to do.
Discover the tale of Mary and Joseph, the Angel Gabriel, the shepherds, the wise men and the arrival of the Baby Jesus, retold in simple, lyrical language. Illustrated with enchanting silhouette artwork by Laura Barrett, this is a book to be shared and treasured by every family at Christmas time.
The Meaninig of Mariah Carey
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it's been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else's lens, largely satisfying someone else's assignment to define me.
This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side.
Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing. My sincere hope is that you are moved to a new understanding, not only about me, but also about the resilience of the human spirit.
Love,
Mariah
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Frogs & French Kisses (Magic In Manhattan)
Rachel has finally come to terms with the outrageously unfair fact that her younger sister, Miri, has inherited magical powers from their mom. But now the whole witchcraft thing is spiraling out of control. Mom is a magicaholic, Miri’s on a Save the World kick, and the one teeny tiny love spell that Rachel begged for has gone embarrassingly, horribly wrong.Suddenly, the fate of everything is in Rachel’s hands.Her family.The world.Senior prom.From the Hardcover edition.
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.
Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research - begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss - and the foreshadowing of a nation's worst fears. As the spectre of Fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor's obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.
With rigour, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of historical narrative non-fiction Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor's enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.
The Fine Art of Invisible Detection
Tokyo, Japan
Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork.
That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.
London, England
Nick Miller never knew his father, and was always told he wasn't missing much. But when an old friend of his late mother says there are things that Nick needs to know about his parents, he can't ignore it.
When a chance encounter brings Wada and Nick together, they couldn't know the series of violent events set off by their investigations. And when they discover Nick's father might have been the only witness to a dark secret forever buried, they realise there are some powerful people who will do whatever it takes to keep it that way...
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The Lives of the Stoics
For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today's chaotic world. But who were the Stoics?
In this book, Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practiced it. Through short biographies of all the famous, and lesser-known, Stoics, this book will show what it means to live stoically, and reveal the lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. The result is a treasure trove of insights for anyone in search of living a good life.
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The Correct Order of Biscuits
'There is a theory that humans made lists before we invented writing. Adam Sharp's exquisitely arranged, addictively witty book of lists is the reasons why. He is the poet laureate of lists'
John Mitchinson, Senior QI Elf
'So much to disagree with in this book. And I mean that as a huge recommendation' Richard Osman
'Very funny and highly addictive. Adam Sharp, you weird genius' Russell Kane
A list of ways to start a conversation with a cat in different countries
5. Pss-pss-pss (England)
4. Kac-kac-kac (Lithuania)
3. Pish-pish-pish (Iran)
2. Ming-ming-ming (Philippines)
1. Bellowing "What's new pussycat, whoa, oh whoa" (Wales)
Are you feeling down in the dumps? Is the chaotic, disordered nature of modern existence freaking you out? Are you feeling...listless?
Then this collection of fascinating, hilarious and brilliantly odd lists is the remedy you need. Packed full of incredible facts, from what people say instead of cheese when they're taking a photo in Bulgaria, to what a platypus is called in Mandarin, everything under the sun is here.
In order.
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The Last Days of John Lennon
The Last Days of John Lennon is the amazing story of John Lennon's life and career, from his earliest days up to his last seconds. It tells the story of the most profound rock-and-roll genius of all time - and of the consummate Nowhere Man who took him from us.
JOHN LENNON ACHIEVED WITH THE BEATLES A LEVEL OF SUPERSTARDOM THAT DEFIED CLASSIFICATION. 'WE WERE THE BEST BLOODY BAND THERE WAS,' HE SAID. 'THERE WAS NOBODY TO TOUCH US.'
In the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of The Beatles, Lennon signed with a new label and hired a top producer to recruit the best session musicians, ready to record new music for the first time in years. They were awestruck when Lennon dashed off '(Just Like) Starting Over'. Lennon was back in peak form, with his best songwriting since 'Imagine'.
Even before Lennon left The Beatles, becoming a solo artist and making a life with Yoko Ono in New York City, Mark David Chapman had become obsessed with murdering his former hero. Chapman was convinced that Lennon had squandered his talent and betrayed fans with messages of hope and peace. In December 1980, Chapman quit his security job in Hawaii, signing out as 'John Lennon', and boarded a flight to New York with a handgun and bullets stowed in his luggage. He was never going home again.
Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is a true-crime drama about two men who changed history. One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day, and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger.
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Leopardí bojovník
V roce 1990, kdy se éra apartheidu konečně chýlila ke konci, se mladému bělošskému zdravotníkovi v jihoafrické armádě, který se jmenoval John Lockley, zdál velmi živý sen. On sám ho popisuje jako sangomské volání, jelikož se stal začátkem neobyčejné pouti za hranice rasy, kultury a víry, do světa šamanů. Z hor Jižní Koreje, kde studoval u zenového mistra Su Bonga, ho přivedl na africký venkov Východního Kapska k tradičním léčitelům sangomům, kteří potvrdili pravdivost jeho snu. Leopardí bojovník vypráví pozoruhodný příběh o tom, jak se John Lockley jako jeden z prvních bělochů v moderních dějinách stal zasvěceným sangomou tradičním knězem a léčitelem jihoafrického národa Xhosů, z něhož pocházeli i Nelson Mandela a Desmond Tutu.
Ve svých memoárech John čtenářům představuje Cestu leoparda, šamanskou cestu k probuzení intuice a spojení s duchovním světem. Přibližuje starobylou moudrost spojenou se sny, obřady, duchovními strážci a předky a jako inspirativní učitel nás vede po radostné cestě do samého středu naší síly a smyslu existence v tomto světě, k naší vrozené lidskosti (ubuntu).
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist.
'Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close'
Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence.
This is an atlas of nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book fails to do that. And that is mainly because most of these dead nations (and a lot of the ones that are still alive) are so weird or borderline nonsensical that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff.
The life stories of the sadly deceased involve a catalogue of chancers, racists, racist chancers, conmen, madmen, people trying to get out of paying tax, mistakes, lies, stupid schemes and General Idiocy. Because of this - and because treating nation states with too much respect is the entire problem with pretty much everything - these accounts are not fussed about adding to all the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags are.
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Hilarious World of Depression
A funny, honest book about depression, and what you can do despite it. --Neil Gaiman Candid and funny and intimate. --Susan Orlean For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast, struggled with depression; it plagued his family and claimed the life of his brother in 2007. As Moe came to terms with his own illness, he began to see similar patterns of behavior and coping mechanisms surfacing in conversations with others, including high-profile comedians who'd struggled with the disease. Moe saw that there was tremendous comfort and community in open dialogue about these shared experiences and that humor had a unique power. Thus was born the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression. Inspired by the immediate success of the podcast, Moe has written a remarkable investigation of the disease, part memoir of his own journey, part treasure trove of laugh-out-loud stories and insights drawn from years of interviews with some of the most brilliant minds facing similar challenges. Throughout the course of this powerful narrative, depression's universal themes come to light, among them, struggles with identity, lack of understanding of the symptoms, the challenges of work-life, self-medicating, the fallout of the disease in the lives of our loved ones, the tragedy of suicide, and the hereditary aspects of the disease. The Hilarious World of Depression illuminates depression in an entirely fresh and inspiring way.
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King of Scars
The much-anticipated first book in a brand-new duology by New York Timesbestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.
Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war - and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.
Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built.
With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren't meant to stay buried--and some wounds aren't meant to heal.
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The World of Roald Dahl
Welcome to the wondercrump world of all things Roald Dahl, filled with fantastic facts, exciting extras, quirky quizzes and much more!
Join Roald Dahl's best-loved characters for a bumper book of...
*Marvellous extra material
*Fantastic quizzes
*Curious characters
*Amazing activities
*Funny factfiles
*. . . and much more!
The perfect companion to the iconic world of Roald Dahl's stories, fun for young and old!
Ambulance BD
2022 / Akční, Kriminální, Drama / 136 minut / USA
V akčním thrilleru režiséra Michaela Baye se veterán Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman), který zoufale potřebuje peníze, obrátí s prosbou o pomoc na svého nevlastního bratra Dannyho (Jake Gyllenhaal, End of Watch). Danny, charismatický gauner, mu místo toho nabídne účast na největší bankovní loupeži v dějinách Los Angeles. Když se ale jejich dokonalý plán zvrtne, jedinou únikovou cestu představuje únos sanitky se zraněným policistou a záchranářkou Cam (Eiza González, Baby Driver). Will a Danny musí setřást armádu mužů zákona, udržet svá rukojmí naživu a nějak se pokusit nezabít se navzájem, a to vše při nejbláznivějším útěku, jaký kdy LA vidělo.
Hrají: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, Eiza Gonzáles, Devan Long
Režie: Michael Bay
Kamera: Roberto De Angelis
Hudba: Lorne Balfe
Scénář: Chris Fedak
Zvukové formáty: česky Dolby Digital 5.1 / anglicky Dolby Atmos / polský komentář Dolby Digital 5.1 / portugalsky (Brazílie) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 / thajsky Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 / španělsky (Kastilie) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 / španělsky (Latinská Amerika) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Titulky: české, anglické pro neslyšící, kantonské, korejské, mandarínské, polské, portugalské, španělské, thajské
Obrazové formáty: 16:9 / 2,35:1 / 1080p
Bonusy:
• Bayhem
• Pedál na podlaze
• Hledání AMBULANCE
• Hlavní město automobilových honiček
• Letecký útok
• Lidé v první linii