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Wonder Woman: Chronicles of the Amazon Princess
Wonder Woman aficionado Steve Korte tells the adventures of the Amazon Princess in this deluxe box set of hardcover books, including:
Amazing Amazon: The Legend of Wonder Woman
Gods and Mortals: The Enemies of Wonder Woman
Powerful Princess: Amazonian Powers and Tools
Paradise Island: Home of the Amazons
Each book is hardcover, 48 pages and fully illustrated with full-colour artwork throughout. They come packaged in a handsome slipcase.
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18,95 €
19,95 €
The River of Consciousness
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life.
In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes-above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored-the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness-lie at the heart of science and of this book.
The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human.
End of Days Penryn and the End of the Days
End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee's bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They're both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn's sister. As they set off in search of answers, a startling revelation about Raffe's past unleashes dark forces that threaten them all. When the angels release an apocalyptic nightmare onto humans, both sides are set on a path toward war. As unlikely alliances form and strategies shift, who will emerge victorious? Forced to pick sides in the fight for control of the earthly realm, Raffe and Penryn must choose: Their own kind, or each other? 'Addictive. Seriously and completely addictive.' Glamour
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10,40 €
10,95 €
Star Wars - Az ébredő erő
A Csillagok háborúja közel negyven évvel ezelőtt robbant be a mozikba, és rövid időn belül meghatározó kulturális jelenséggé vált az egész világon.
A Strar Wars első hat részén generációk nőttek fel és százmilliók váltak a filmek rajongóivá.
2015. végén, több mint egy évtizednyi szünet után Az ébredő Erővel folytatódott a sorozat, megpróbálva rabul ejteni a régi és az új rajongókat egyaránt. Most végre kezünkbe vehetjük a hetedik epizódot regény formájában is, hála Alan Dean Fosternek, a sci-fi nagymesterének.
A történet visszarepít minket Leia hercegnő, Han Solo, Csubakka, C-3PO, R2-D2 és Luke Skywalker világába, közben pedig bevezet egy sor új, érdekes szereplőt. Lehet, hogy Darth Vader és a császár meghalt, de a béke még törékeny, és a Sithek gonoszságát nem könnyű eltörölni. Térjünk vissza abba a messzi-messzi galaxisba, és lássuk, mi történik, amikor az Erő ébredni kezd...
8 oldalon színes fotókkal, a mozifilm legjobb jeleneteiből!
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Bloc Life - Stories from the Lost World of Communism
There was life before the fall.
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered.
From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight.
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12,30 €
12,95 €
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The Lost Art of Scripture
In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. So what value, if any, can scripture hold for us today? And if our world no longer seems compatible with scripture, is it perhaps because its original purpose has become lost?
Today we see the Quran being used by some to justify war and terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective views. They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to contain eternal truths.
But as Karen Armstrong, a world authority on religious affairs, shows in this fascinating journey through millennia of history, this narrow reading of scripture is a relatively recent phenomenon. For hundreds of years these texts were instead viewed as spiritual tools: scripture was a means for the individual to connect with the divine, to transcend their physical existence, and to experience a higher level of consciousness. Holy texts were seen as fluid and adaptable, rather than a set of binding archaic rules or a `truth' that has to be `believed'.
Armstrong argues that only by rediscovering an open engagement with their holy texts will the world's religions be able to curtail arrogance, intolerance and violence. And if scripture is used to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways, we will find that it still has a great deal to teach us.
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17,05 €
17,95 €
The Book of Tapas
Back in print - the ultimate guide to the most-loved Spanish food, from the authors of the bestselling Spain: The Cookbook With its appetizing dishes of bite-sized food, usually eaten before dinner, tapas and tapas culture are a Spanish way of life... and the most popular and convivial way to enjoy Spanish food. Served in bars all over Spain, good tapas comes from the perfect marriage of food, drink, and conversation.
This complete guide contains over 250 easy-to-follow authentic recipes to serve with drinks in typical Spanish style, or to combine as a feast to share.
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37,95 €
39,95 €
Star Wars - trilógia díszdobozban
A Csillagok háborúja 1976-ban indult útjára, és a későbbi mozifilmek a sci-fi legnépszerűbb és legnagyobb hatású alkotásává tették, sikere évtizedeken átívelve, mindmáig töretlen. Az olvasó az eredeti regény újra szerkesztett, napjaink nyelvezetéhez és az azóta hatalmas méretűre nőtt Star Wars univerzumhoz pontosabban illeszkedő kiadását tartja a kezében.
A díszdobozos kiadás az alábbi köteteket foglalja magába:
- George Lucas - Csillagok háborúja
Réges régen, egy messzi-messzi galaxisban... Luke Skywalker a nagybátyja farmján dolgozik a félreeső Tatuin bolygón. A hétköznapi munka unalma helyett izgalmas csillagközi kalandokról ábrándozik. Kalandokról, melyek a legtávolabbi galaxisok idegen világaiba vezetnék. Luke álma hamarosan teljesül: titkos üzenet birtokába jut, miszerint a gyönyörű Leia hercegnőt Darth Vader, a hatalmas és gonosz sith nagyúr tartja fogva. Eddig soha nem hallott a nőről, de tudja, hogy meg kell mentenie, méghozzá késlekedés nélkül. Összetalálkozik a jedi Ben Kenobival, akinek az útmutatójával, a tőle kapott fénykarddal és bátorsággal felfegyverkezve Luke hirtelen a valaha volt legkegyetlenebb űrháború kellős közepén találja magát, és hamarosan egy elkeseredett összecsapásban vesz részt a Birodalom rettegett űrállomása, a Halálcsillag ellen...
- Donald F. Glut - A birodalom visszavág
Luke Skywalker kalandjai nem értek véget a Halálcsillag elpusztításával... Noha a Lázadó Szövetség megnyert egy fontos csatát, a Birodalom elleni háború csak most kezdődött el. Az ellenség bosszújától tartó Lázadók felépítettek egy rejtett bázist a Hoth nevű jégbolygón, de még azon a távoli, jelentéktelen helyen sem tudnak sokáig elbújni Darth Vader kutató tekintete elől. A sötét nagyúr alattvalói hamarosan a nyomukba szegődnek, így Han Solo, Leia hercegnő és társaik ismét menekülni kényszerülnek, míg Luke Skywalker a Dagobah mocsárvilágot keresi fel, hogy új Jedi-mesterétől, Yodától tanuljon...
- James Khan - A Jedi visszatér
Nehéz idők járnak a Lázadó Szövetségre... A karbonittömbbe fagyott Han Solo a rettegett csempészfejedelem és gengszter, Jabba, a hutt kezére jut. Luke Skywalker és Leia hercegnő egy kockázatos küldetés keretében beszivárognak a kegyetlen bűnöző tatuini sivatagi palotájába, hogy bármi áron megmentsék. Ezzel egy időben Darth Vader és Palpatine császár egy új és még erősebb Halálcsillag építésén dolgozik, hogy egyszer s mindenkorra elpusztítsák a Lázadó Szövetséget. A Birodalom a félig elkészült űrállomás védelme érdekében az addig érintetlen Endor bolygón épít pajzsgenerátort, amely a Halálcsillag egyetlen gyenge pontja. A Lázadók végső esélye, ha egyesítik flottáikat és létrehoznak egy gigantikus armadát... hogy egy hősies, utolsó leheletig tartó harcot vívjanak a galaxis leghalálosabb fenyegetése ellen.
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27,08 €
28,50 €
Nietzsches Philosophy of Science
“One could argue that the philosophy of science is one of the most important issues in contemporary culture. Babich, looking at the problem through the lens of Nietzsche, argues persuasively that it will not do to try to theorize science on the basis of its own value system, since the result will always be one form or another of self-validation. With Nietzsche’s help, she proposes to frame science from the point of view of aesthetics?“science in the light of art”?in order to provide a different, possibly more enlightening perspective on the claims and aspirations of science. I like Babich’s tough, at times even racy, rhetoric. ” ? Clayton Koelb, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“One of the more important issues raised is the assertion that Nietzsche’s perspectivism, far from dooming the scientific enterprise, energizes it. Another important claim is that Nietzsche is a proper philosopher because he, like other philosophers, is driven by the desire for knowledge. But the most important claim, the most contentious, and the one that most deserves a hearing and discussion, is the assertion that Nietzsche is a serious philosopher of science.” ? Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University
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42,70 €
44,95 €
Tool of War
From Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Paolo Bacigalupi comes the third companion novel in the dystopic Ship Breaker universe. Set in a future swamped by rising seas, depleted resources, corporate government, and civil war, this novel stars the most provocative, most talked-about, most controversial character from Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed books Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities, and pulls no punches in exploring the gray areas between what it means to be human--and animal.
An attack on the Drowned Cities leaves Tool, a part-human, part-animal super-soldier with heightened physical abilities, on the run. His pack of compatriots is destroyed, and his only allies are humans whom he can't afford to trust. But now he must resist his bioengineered impulse of loyalty toward his masters and embark on an all-out war against those who have enslaved him.
Star Wars - Új hajnal
A háborúnak vége. A szeparatistákat levertük, és a Jedik államcsínyét meghiúsítottuk. Új korszak küszöbén állunk.
- Palpatine császár
Amióta a Jedikre kimondták a halálos ítéletet, és menekülniük kellett a Coruscantról, Kanan Jarrus a Galaxist járja, és alkalmi munkákból tartja fenn magát. Szinte csak az életben maradásra koncentrál ahelyett, hogy az Erőt szolgálná. Ám akarata ellenére belekeveredik a kegyetlen birodalmiak és néhány mindenre elszánt forradalmár konfliktusába. Barátja szörnyű halála után a volt Jedinek választania kell: enged a félelmeinek, vagy felveszi a harcot a birodalmiakkal...
Jarrus azonban nincs egyedül. Hera Syndulla, a rejtélyes ügynök, valamint egy furcsa szövetségesekből álló kis csapat csatlakozik hozzá, hogy szembeszálljanak a Birodalomma
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12,89 €
13,57 €
Fall of the House of Usher and Other St
There are five stories in this book. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Barrel of Amontillado’ are stories of madness; ‘The Maelström’ describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in ‘The Murders of the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Stolen Letter’ meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe’s famous Parisian detective.
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5,80 €
6,10 €
Intangibles - Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry
Intangibles : Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry
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17,05 €
17,95 €
World Atlas of Wine 8th Edition
Few wine books can be called classic, but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history when it appeared in 1971. It is recognized by critics as the essential and most authoritative wine reference work available. This eighth edition will bring readers, both old and new, up to date with the world of wine.
To reflect all the changes in the global wine scene over the past six years, the Atlas has grown in size to 416 pages and 22 new maps have been added to the wealth of superb cartography in the book. The text has been given a complete overhaul to address the topics of most vital interest to today's wine-growers and drinkers.
With beautiful photography throughout, Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson, the world's most respected wine-writing duo, have once again joined forces to create a classic that no wine lover can afford to be without.
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59,80 €
62,95 €
Universal Methods of Design, Expanded and Revised
This expanded and revised version of the best-selling Universal Methods of Design is a comprehensive reference that provides a thorough and critical presentation of 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human-centered design.
The text and accompanying photos and graphics of this classic resource are delivered in a concise and accessible format perfect for designers, educators, and students. This new, expanded edition includes updated information on scenarios, secondary research, territory maps, and other chapters. The addition of 25 new chapters brings fresh relevance to the text with innovative design methods that have emerged since the first edition, such as backcasting, behavioral design, horizon scanning, and transition design.
Universal Methods of Design, Expanded and Revised distills each method down to its essence, in a format that helps design teams select and implement the most credible research methods suited to their design culture. Each method is presented in a two-page format. The left-hand page contains a concise description of the method, accompanied by references to further reading. On the right-hand page, images and case studies for each method are presented visually. The relevant phases for design application are highlighted as numbered icons along the right side of the page, from phases 1 (planning, scoping, and definition) through 5 (launch and monitor).
Build more meaningful products with these methods and more: Affinity Diagramming, Behavioral Mapping, Bodystorming, Contextual Design, Critical Incident Design, Directed Storytelling, Empathy Maps, Graffiti Walls, Image Boards, Parallel Prototyping, Simulation Exercises, Touchstone Tours, and Weighted Matrix.
This essential guide:
Dismantles the myth that user research methods are complicated, expensive, and time-consuming
Creates a shared meaning for cross-disciplinary teams
Illustrates methods with compelling visualizations and case studies
Characterizes each method at a glance
Indicates when methods are best employed to help prioritize appropriate design research strategies
Universal Methods of Design, Expanded and Revised is an essential resource for designers of all levels and specializations.
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33,20 €
34,95 €
The Shape of the Ruins
It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired Garcia Marquez's General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections of 1948. Separated by more than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as the novel progresses Vasquez reveals how between them they contain the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since.
The Shape of the Ruins is Vasquez's most ambitious, challenging and rewarding novel to date. His previous novel, The Sound of Things Falling, won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award.
Winner of the Premio Literario Casino da Povoa 2018
Finalist for the Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa 2016
Finalist for the Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane 2017
Finalist for the Prix Femina
Finalist for the Prix Medicis
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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13,78 €
14,50 €
Little People, Big Dreams: Rudolf Nureyev
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Rudolf Nureyev, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of all time.
Rudolf fell in love with dance as a child. But he was not allowed to go to ballet school until he was 17. There, he had to make up for lost time and hone his skills to compete with the other dancers. As a professional, he dazzled audiences with sensational performances and star power. He went on to become a world-renowned choreographer and master of perfection in dance. This inspiring book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the dancer's life.
Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling biography series for kids that explores the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.
Gears of War Omnibus 1
Defeat the Horde! The comics saga of the best-selling video game series begins here. Discover what happens in the wake of the original game! Bridging the gap between Gears of War 1 and 2, follow the brutal adventures of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad in the battle against the Locusts! Find out what happened after the Lightmass Bombing and how the Locusts will react to this devastating weapon.
Collects issues #1-13 of the DC Comics series.
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24,23 €
25,50 €
The Little Book of Cleanfulness
Find joy in cleaning your home (yes, really).
Put away the bleach.
Breathe.
Open this little book.
And find out why cleaning is the new Zen.
April, a.k.a. The Secret Cleaner, offers simple, no-fuss ways to clean your space with minimal products, time and effort AND how to reframe the way you think about cleaning.
Chapters include: The Rage Clean and Redirecting The Rage Clean, Going Minimal, Making Cleanful Choices and 9 Things Your Forgot to Clean.
Also includes The Secret Cleaner's Cleanful Recipes - quick to make, using natural ingredients, powerful and kind to you and the planet