Hľadanie: Lost Worlds Short Stories
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Loki: Journey Into Mystery Prose
This truly epic adaptation of Kieron Gillen's Loki series spans the nine realms as the reborn trickster struggles to walk the hero's path and save the universe from an epidemic of fear. The god of lies has been reborn, but will young Loki be Asgard's savior? When Earth is plagued by an epidemic of fear, ancient prophecy says only Thor can stop the monstrous threat of the Serpent, but without help from Loki, Thor is certain to fail. Aided by a handmaiden from Hel and a demon puppy, Loki must risk everything to find redemption-or doom himself for eternity.
Either way, a Nightmare lies in wait hoping to rule the world and Loki will have to risk everything on his craziest scheme of all! Meanwhile, new gods threaten to disrupt the status quo, throwing everything out of balance. Loki must act as a responsible ambassador, but will the nine worlds end in Surtur's fire? In this brand-new prose novel inspired by the epic comic series by Kieron Gillen, young Loki must cross the realms to reclaim his own story, outwit ancient enemies, struggle to do the right thing, and avoid falling in love.
Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney
Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories she published in American Magazine between 1911 and 1913. The stories featured Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T. A. Buck's Featherloom skirts and petticoats. With one hand on her sample case and the other fending off advances from salesmen, hotel clerks, and other predators, Emma holds on tightly to her reputation: honest, hardworking, and able to outsell the slickest salesman. Like her compact bag of traveling necessities, Emma has her life boiled down to essentials: her work and her seventeen-year-old son, Jock. Her experience has taught her that it's best to stick to roast beef, medium--avoiding both physical and moral indigestion--rather than experiment with fancy sauces and exotic dishes. Yet she never shies away from a challenge, and her sharp instincts and common sense serve her well in dealing with the likes of Ed Meyer, a smooth-talking, piano-playing salesman; Blanche LeHay, prima donna of the Sam Levin Crackerjack Belles; and T. A. Buck Jr., the wet-behind-the-ears son of the founder of Featherloom.
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Powerwolf - Interlidium (Mediabook) 2CD
Tracklist:
CD1:
1 Wolves Of War
2 Sainted by the Storm
3 No Prayer At Midnight
4 My Will Be Done
5 Altars On Fire
6 Wolfborn
7 Stronger Than The Sacrament
8 Living On A Nightmare
9 Midnight Madonna
10 Bete du Gévaudan
Bonus CD: Communio Lupatum II
1 Wind Rose : Werewolves Of Armenia
2 Mystic Prophecy : Reverent Of Rats
3 Annisokay : Dancing With The Dead
4 Rage : Call Of The Wild
5 Ad Infinitum : Venom Of Venus
6 Korpiklaani : Sudenmorsian (Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone)
7 Eisbrecher : Stossgebet
8 Electric Callboy : Fire & Forgive
9 Warkings : Armata Strigoi
10 Lord Of The Lost : We Are The Wild
11 Unleash The Archers : Night Of The Werewolves
Beusker
- The first monograph by Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 Lars Beusker
- Touching black-and-white portraits of wild animals, photographed at close range
- Lars Beusker seeks eye contact with the animals and achieves a direct closeness
Look into my Eyes is a coffee-table book to dream about, marvel at, and sink into. The right read for animal lovers and lovers of aesthetic fine art photography. As one of the most important nature photographers of our time, Lars Beusker quite rightly received the title "Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 (first place)". He photographs wild animals in their natural environment at close range and almost always manages to make eye contact. Like a human portrait, Lars uses short focal lengths for which he approaches his models up to two meters. He consciously seeks the animal's attention and sensitively captures this intense moment with the camera. The viewer feels as if he can look directly into the animal's soul. The fascinating intimacy that the artist creates with giraffes, buffalo, and zebras is palpable. Beusker's photographs of wild elephants and big cats such as leopards, panthers and lions are also legendary. Animals that you would never get so close to as a human being under normal circumstances. The fascinating black-and-white photographs are bursting with detail. Every hair, every wrinkle and every muscle of the wild beauties is visible and in some pictures you have the feeling that the animal will jump out of the book at you in the next moment.
Text in English and German.
Love in the New Millennium
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee-whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.
Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises-satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling-against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
Awe
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe
Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. These conversations and his pioneering research into the science of emotion have convinced him that happiness comes down to one thing: finding awe.
Awe allows us to collaborate with others, open our minds to wonder, and see the deep patterns of life. In his new book, Keltner presents a radical investigation into this elusive emotion. Drawing on his own scientific research into how awe transforms our brains and bodies, alongside an examination of awe across history, culture and within his own life during a period of immense grief, Keltner shows us how cultivating wonder leads us to appreciate what is most humane in our human nature. The book includes intensely moving, deeply personal stories of awe from people all over the world - doctors and veterans, environmentalists and filmmakers, indigenous scholars and hospice workers, ministers and midwives, poets and prisoners.
At turns radical and profound, Awe is our field guide for how to uncover everyday wonder as a vital force within our lives.
The Green Planet
'David Attenborough's gobsmacking, awe-inspiring return' The Guardian
'The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans' New Scientist
There's something new under the sun
Plants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magical world and on their timescale. From the richest jungles to the harshest deserts, from the snowiest alpine forest to the remotest steaming swamp, Green Planet travels from one great habitat to the next, showing us that plants are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as the animals on our planet. You will discover agents of death, who ruthlessly engulf their host plant, but also those that form deep and complex relationships with other species, such as the desert cacti who use nectar-loving bats to pollinate. Although plants are undoubtedly the stars of the show, a fascinating new light will be shed on the animals that interact with them.
Using the latest technologies and showcasing over two decades of new discoveries, Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful life of plants like never before - a life full of remarkable behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes.
Svetová vojna Z
Ľudstvo takmer vyhladila dlhoročná vojna so zombie. Povojnová komisia Organizácie spojených národov, pre ktorú autor pracoval, nemala záujem o osobné rozprávania preživších, hoci o konflikte vypovedali ďaleko viac ako štatistické údaje o miliónoch mŕtvych a nakazených. Preto sa rozhodol spísať toto svedectvo.
Vznikol fascinujúci súbor príbehov, ktorý sa na globálnu epidémiu pozrel z najrôznejších uhlov. Opisuje prvý prípad nákazy v čínskej dedine Nový Ta-čchang, mesto živých mŕtvych pod Parížom, vzplanutie náboženského fanatizmu v Rusku či príbeh astronautov z vesmírnej stanice ISS, odkiaľ z výšky sledovali pravdepodobný zánik ľudstva.
Ľudia na nákazu reagovali rozmanito, mnohí spáchali samovraždu, iní hľadali záchranu na odľahlých miestach, objavili sa aj podivné prípady kolaborácie živých s nemŕtvymi. Brooksova správa hovorí o ľudskej psychike aj o vojenskej stratégii, pričom zachytáva politické aj kultúrne reálie – práve tie boli v mnohých prípadoch kľúčom k záhube či prežitiu.
Recenzie:
„Najväčšia udalosť svojho druhu od Wellesovej adaptácie Vojny svetov. Desivé a desivo dobre napísané.”
– Dallas Morning News
O autorovi
Max Brooks (1972) je americký spisovateľ a scenárista. Za veľmi dôkladnú prípravu k napísaniu románu World War Z možno považovať jeho prvú knihu The Zombie Survival Guide, podrobného sprievodcu svetom zombie, na ktorú nadväzuje komiksový dodatok o zaznamených útokoch zombie v ľudských dejinách.
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Glory Lane and the Humid Holiday
A Strange Case in a Strange Place
A chance to recapture past glory days gone awry.A cybercrime expert forced to endure warm, sunny weather in December.A South Florida holiday with two stressed-out techies ending up in the wrong place at the right time.Will Dana manage to crack the case before it goes from missing person to murder?
A Dana Sanderson Short Mystery
An excerpt from Glory Lane and the Humid Holiday
Dana had always been more comfortable with codes and computers than people."We got a missing persons report on Rich Walters a couple of days ago," Michelle said. "Only had a plane ticket to go on. We've had the word out, but he disappeared after he flew into Miami. Not a trace until right here, last night."Michelle held up one of those evidence bags with a scuffed brown leather wallet inside, with a loose driver's license pressed against the plastic.Dana glanced the alley where a few uniforms still lingered, heads down. "He's not… Is he over there?"Michelle looked over her shoulder, then turned back to Dana with a grin."Don't worry, Dana. He's not dead, not that we know of. But Rich Walters isn't just missing. He's disappeared into thin air."
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P!nk - Trustfall (Deluxe) (Pink & Purple) 2LP
Alecia Beth Moore Hart (narodená 8. septembra 1979), profesionálne známa ako Pink, je americká speváčka, skladateľka a herečka. Počas dospievania bola Pink členkou dievčenskej skupiny Choice. Jej prvý sólový štúdiový album Can't Take Me Home (2000) získal v Spojených štátoch dvojitú platinu. Z albumu ovplyvneného R&B vznikli dve piesne v rebríčku Billboard Hot 100 v top desiatke: „There You Go“ a „Most Girls“. Pink získala ďalšie uznanie vďaka spoločnému singlu „Lady Marmalade“ od Moulin Rouge! soundtrack, ktorý sa umiestnil na popredných miestach mnohých svetových hitparád. Pink preorientovala svoj zvuk na pop rock s druhým štúdiovým albumom Missundaztood (2001). Z albumu sa celosvetovo predalo viac ako 13 miliónov kópií a priniesol medzinárodné hity „Get the Party Started“, „Don't Let Me Get Me“ a „Just Like a Pill“.
„Trustfall“ je deviaty štúdiový album, ktorý vyšiel 17. februára 2023 prostredníctvom RCA Records. Na svojom prvom štúdiovom albume od Hurts 2B Human (2019) Pink pracovala na produkcii a textoch s Fredom Again, Davidom Hodgesom, Maxom Martinom, Johnnym McDaidom a Shellbackom. Ako hosťujúci speváci vystupujú The Lumineers, Chris Stapleton a First Aid Kit.
Tracklist:
A1. When I Get There
A2. Trustfall
A3. Turbulence
A4. Long Way To Go Feat. The Lumineers
A5. Kids In Love Feat. First Aid Kit
A6. Never Gonna Not Dance Again
B1. Runaway
B2. Last Call
B3. Hate Me
B4. Lost Cause
B5. Feel Something
B6. Our Song
B7. Just Say I’m Sorry Feat. Chris Stapleton
C1. Dreaming (P!nk, Marshmello & Sting)
C2. Irrelevant
C3. All Out of Fight
C4. Just Like Fire/Heartbreakers (Live)
C5. When I Get There (Live)
D1. Nothing Compares 2 U (feat. Brandi Carlile
D2. No Ordinary Love (Live)
D3. Hate Me
D4. Cover Me In Sunshine with Willow Sage Hart
D5. What About Us (Live)
The Complete Old Testament (EN)
The Old Testament is a collection of thirty-nine books about the history and religion of the people of Israel. The authors of these books are unknown, and each book possesses a unique tone, style, and message. Individually, they include stories, laws, and sayings that are intended to function as models of religious and ethical conduct.
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Ocelové století
Ocelové století mapuje sociální historii Ruska od revolučních let 1917–1921 do rozpadu Sovětského svazu v roce 1991. Autor popisuje politickou snahu SSSR „dohnat a předehnat“ Západ za každou cenu a sociální odpor lidových mas proti „shora“ vnucenému kurzu. Sleduje postupný vývoj forem sebeorganizace a vzdoru námezdních pracujících a rolnictva, ukazuje jejich sílu i slabost. Věnuje pozornost i změnám ve vládnoucí třídě sovětské společnosti a roli těchto procesů v rozpouštění a destrukci monolitního industriálně-kapitalistického modelu „koncernu SSSR“.
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Lacná kniha Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange (-90%)
On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.' Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.
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Praha jinak
Praha jinak, Praha „jinohledem“. Praha poskládaná jako noviny z éry mezi dvěma válkami. Dramaticky i vesele. Informačně a zábavně. Slovem i obrazem.
Kolážovaný dokument doby, kdy se dělaly moderní česk(oslovensk)é dějiny. Co se tehdy o městě psalo, co se tady dělo, jak se měnila řeč, jak se měnila vizualita míst? To všechno přehledně ve dvanácti třaskavě nabitých kapitolách: první strana, z domova, ze zahraničí, společnost, kultura, sport, zdraví, zábava, móda, černá kronika, inzerce – a samozřejmě literární příloha. A spíš než středem jede tato kniha po okrajích, po výjimkách, po periferii. Prostě jinak. Poznejte jak!
Kafka on the Shore
The most unusual and mesmerising novel yet from Japanese cult author, Haruki Murakami
Lacná kniha The Valhalla Exchange (-70%)
The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game. On the 30th April 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going? Berlin was in ruins a
s the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi adminstration had been destroyed. But one man, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's secretary and eminence grise had a daring plan to escape. Far away to the south--w
est , at Schloss Arlberg above the River Inn, five prisoners of war were contemplating their fate. Would they be murdered by their captors or liberated by the Russians? Unbeknown to them Bormann has his own plans. They are about to become part of a m
ystery that has fascinated the world for over sixty years. What exactly did happen to Bormann and his prisoners?
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Milk and Honey
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose; deals with a different pain; heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere ifyou are just willing to look.
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Chcete vědět, jak žil člověk, který objevil to, pro co byl stvořen, a dělal to? Pokud ano, pak je pro vás odpovědí první ucelený životopis legendárního běžce Emila Zátopka.Vypráví o jeho dětství v početné rodině, o mládí v baťovském Zlíně, o době, kdy se u nás rodil běžecký sport, o respektovaných soupeřích i přátelích, o armádě a disciplině, o manželství a také o politice. Ale především a stále o běhání. Kniha je připomenutím osudu člověka, kterému se jako jedinému atletovi v historii světového běžeckého sportu podařil zlatý hattrick na olympijských hrách v roce 1952. Je potvrzením toho, že pokud děláte cokoliv na sto procent, není možné, abyste neuspěli, i když zrovna nezískáte olympijské zlato. A pod zátopkovským heslem Nemůžeš? Přidej! je také inspirací k amatérskému běhání nás všech.
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Marco Polo: Korfu
Naprakész információk, bárhová utazunk: friss címekkel, telefonszámokkal, email-címekkel és nyitva tartással! Egy tökéletes nap: kihagyhatatlan élmények 24 órába sűrítve. Best of: olcsó, tipikus, esős és lazítós programok. Érdekesség: a legújabb helyi trendek. Címszavak az adott hely megismeréséhez. Főfejezetek: látnivalók, étkezés, vásárlás, este és szállás - mindegyik témához kiemelt Marco Polo ajánlatok, biztos tippek és spórolós ötletek. A kötet végén tematikus fejezetek: sport és aktív pihenés; utazás gyerekekkel; ünnepek és események; linkek, blogok, appok és egyebek; praktikus tanácsok az áramtól a vámig. Két nyelvű szószedet, részletes úti térkép és mutató zárja az egyes köteteket. Újdonság: élménytúrák szemléltető térképpel, részletes útitervvel, időbeosztással és költségvetéssel.