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Callas Maria - Assoluta: The Best Of 2 (Crystal) LP
KDO: Maria Callas (soprano), Francesco Albanese (tenor), Carlos Sagarmínaga (tenor), Tito Gobbi (baritone), Alberto Herrera (baritone), Franscisco Alonso (bass), Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Orchestre du Theatre national de l’Opera de Paris, Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductors: Erich Kleiber, Umberto Mugnai, Georges Pretre, John Pritchard, Gabriele Santini, Georges Sebastian, Tullio Serafin
CO: Řecko-americká sopranistka Maria Callas byla bezpochyby jedním z největších pěveckých fenoménů 20. století. Zasloužila se o renesanci zájmu o italské belcato začátku 19. století a jeho hlavní exponenty Rossiniho, Belliniho a Donizettiho a svým neobyčejným hlasem s obrovským rozsahem dokázala s udivující lehkostí přednést party od koloraturního sopránu přes dramatický soprán až po úlohy téměř altové. Proto se někdy také označuje jako "assoluta", tedy raritní typ hlasu, schopný obsáhnout role z různých hlasových oborů. Co je snad ještě podstatnější, že při vší hlasové virtuozitě jí šlo vždy především o dramaticky pravdivé vyjádření emocí a charakterů. Není divu, že si takto výjimečná pěvecká osobnost dokázala už za svého života vybudovat kultovní status, živený navíc ještě osobními skandály a aureolou divy.
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1. Bellini, Vincenzo: Norma - » Casta diva
2. Bizet, Georges: Carmen - » Habanera 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle' (Love is a rebellious bird) (Act 1)
3. Giordano, Umberto: Andrea Chenier - » La mamma morta
4. Puccini, Giacomo: Gianni Schicchi - » O mio babbino caro
5. La Boheme - » Si. Mi chiamano Mimi (Act 1)
6. Madama Butterfly - » Un bel di vedremo (Act 2)
7. Tosca - » Vissi d'arte (Act 2)
8. Turandot - » Signore, ascolta (Act 1)
9. Verdi, Giuseppe: I vespri siciliani - » Merce, dilette amiche
10. La Traviata - » Follie! Follie! ...Sempre libera
11. Rigoletto - » Gualtier Malde ...Caro nome (Act 1)
The History of Mr Polly
Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife’s nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman’s outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a bright new future – after he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a life of heroism, hope and ultimate happiness.
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Wieland: or, The Transformation
Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale is a Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown, first published in 1798. It recounts the terrifying story of how Theodore Wieland is driven to madness and murder by a malign ventriloquist called Carwin.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (EN)
The book that inspired the new Netflix series, "Lupin" with Omar Sy. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar" is the first collection of stories about the infamous thief, Arsene Lupin. Cunning, charming, and roguishly good-looking, Lupin leads the French police department on a merry dance across Belle Epoque Paris in these adventure-filled mysteries.
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Šaría pre nemoslimov
Islam je politický systém s vlastnou zbierkou zákonov, ktorá sa volá šaría. Šaría je založená na úplne iných princípoch ako náš právny systém. Mnohé z jej nariadení sa pritom týkajú aj nemoslimov. Čo znamená právo šaría pre našich občanov? Ako sa nás dotýka? Aké budú dôsledky, ak dovolíme moslimom riadiť sa šaríou a nie našimi zákonmi? Každá požiadavka moslimov je založená na myšlienke nastolenia šaríe v našej krajine. Mali by sme u nás šaríu povoliť alebo nie? A prečo? Ako môžu politici alebo úradníci rozhodovať o práve šaría, keď mu nerozumejú? Je to správne? V tejto knihe nájdete odpovede na všetky tieto otázky.
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
Follow the exciting adventures of Commissioner Nayland Smith as he pursues Dr. Fu Manchu across the opium dens of Thames-side London and various country estates.
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Planting The World: Joseph Banks And His Collectors
A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth.
Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival meant much more than improved flowerbeds - it offered a new scientific frontier that would transform Europe's industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and even fashion.
Joseph Banks was the dynamo for this momentous change. As botanist for James Cook's great voyage to the South Pacific on the Endeavour, Banks collected plants on a vast scale, armed with the vision - as a child of the Enlightenment - that to travel physically was to advance intellectually. His thinking was as intrepid as Cook's seafaring: he commissioned radically influential and physically daring expeditions such as those of Francis Masson to the Cape Colony, George Staunton to China, George Caley to Australia, William Bligh to Tahiti and Jamaica, among many others.
Jordan Goodman's epic history follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as taking us back to the early years of Kew Gardens, which Banks developed devotedly across the course of his life, transforming it into one of the world's largest and most diverse botanical gardens.
In a rip-roaring global expedition, based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world.
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Long Live the King!
This is a story of love, intrigue and adventure in a European court. In this story Mrs. Rinehart combines mystery, heart interest, and excitement of her past successes into a story that will be hailed as the most interesting of all her stories.
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Ďáblův stůl
V odlehlých končinách v americkém státě Nové Mexiko se v roce 1947 stalo něco, co dodnes nedá spát nejen vědcům, politikům a vojákům, ale ani dychtivým zájemcům o nevysvětlitelné záhady. Archeoložka Nora Kellyová po kategorickém odmítání, které ji dokonce stojí místo v Institutu, souhlasí s tím, že se ujme vykopávek v místě, kde podle všeho dopadl neznámý objekt. Ale co to bylo? Právě to chce zjistit skvěle vybavený tým miliardáře Lucase Tappana, který Noru nakonec přemluví ke spolupráci.
Jenže slibně se rozbíhající výzkum brzy naruší podivné události: zmizení významného vědce, objev nečekaných pozůstatků, ale především nález předmětu, který vzbuzuje velké naděje i obavy. Takže se není co divit, že se Ďáblově stole objeví také agenti FBI – a Nora se znovu setkává se svými „starými známými“ Corrie Swansonovou a šerifem Homerem Wattsem. A to je teprve začátek, protože do hry se vzápětí zapojí tajemná vojenská organizace, která chce vykopávky zastavit – za každou cenu.
Under The Banner of Heaven
Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. In Under The Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: an incisive look inside isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities in America, this gripping work of non-fiction illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour.
Art and Animals
'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dion's natural history displays and Marco Evaristti's 'goldfish in a blender'. In this latest addition to the highly acclaimed 'Art and...' series, Giovanni Aloi surveys the insistent presence of animals in the world of contemporary art, exploring the leading concepts which inform this emerging practice. From exhibitions featuring live animals, to taxidermy, and interspecies communication, Giovanni Aloi explores how animals feature in modern art with a range of thought-provoking and innovative visual representations. Art and Animals challenges ideas of identity, 'otherness' and civilisation by explaining the role animals have occupied in our cultural development and illustrating their presence in the visual arts today.
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Dresden - The Fire and the Darkness
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
'Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
Published for the 75th anniversary
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won?
From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail.
Along the way we encounter, among many others across the city, an elderly air-raid warden and his wife vainly striving to keep order amid devouring flames, a doctor who carried on operating while his home was in ruins, novelist Kurt Vonnegut who never thought that his own side might want to unleash the roaring fire, and fifteen-year-old Winfried Bielss, who, having spent the evening ushering refugees, wanted to get home to his stamp collection.
Impeccably researched and deeply moving, McKay uses never-before-seen sources to relate the untold stories of civilians and vividly conveys the texture of contemporary life. Dresden is invoked as a byword for the illimitable cruelties of war, but with the distance of time, it is now possible to approach this subject with a much clearer gaze, and with a keener interest in the sorts of lives that ordinary people lived and lost, or tried to rebuild.
Writing with warmth and colour about morality in war, the instinct for survival, the gravity of mass destruction and the importance of memory, this is a master historian at work.
'Churchill said that if bombing cities was justified, it was always repugnant. Sinclair McKay has written a shrewd, humane and balanced account of this most controversial target of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign, the ferocious consequence of the scourge of Nazism' Allan Mallinson, author of Fight to the Finish
'Beautifully-crafted, elegiac, compelling - Dresden delivers with a dark intensity and incisive compassion rarely equalled. Authentic and authoritative, a masterpiece of its genre' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo
'Compelling . . . Sinclair McKay brings a dark subject vividly to life' Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent
'This is a brilliantly clear, and fair, account of one of the most notorious and destructive raids in the history aerial warfare. From planning to execution, the story is told by crucial participants - and the victims who suffered so cruelly on the ground from the attack itself and its aftermath' Robert Fox, author of We Were There
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A bástya - The Castle
„Gabriel Miller azzal hiteget, hogy az elefántcsonttornyában tökéletes biztonságban vagyok, holott az üldözőim folyton a nyomomban vannak, a ház körül ólálkodva alig várják, hogy végezzenek velem. Egy hadseregnyi biztonsági őr strázsál az udvaron, sőt, még a falakon belül is. Az ösztöneim azt súgják, a veszélyt mégis közelebb kell keresnem. Nem tudom, Gabriel a pártfogóm vagy ellenségem, a háza az én védelmező bástyám vagy a börtönöm. Nincs hová mennem. Senki sem maradt, akiben bízhatnék. A múlt elől azonban nincs menekvés. Rettegek, hogy megtalál az, aki egész életemben a sarkamban volt. Vajon Gabriel lesz a megmentőm?” A Bástya az Endgame-trilógia befejező kötete: bosszúról, csábításról, szerelmi játszmákról és az igaz szerelemről.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
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The Merchant of Venice (EN)
Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio’s own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father’s will, Portia’s many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets.
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A Polyantha titka - Penelope of the Polyantha
This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Penelope of the Polyantha' is a crime novel by this pioneer of detective fiction. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter's School and the Board School, but after a frenetic teens involving a rash engagement and frequently changing employment circumstances, Wallace went into the military. He served in the Royal West Kent Regiment in England and then as part of the Medical Staff Corps stationed in South Africa. Whilst in the Balkans covering the Russo-Japanese War, Wallace found the inspiration for The Four Just Men, published in 1905. Over the rest of his life, Wallace produced some 173 books and wrote 17 plays. These were largely adventure narratives with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combined a bombastic sensationalism with hammy violence.
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The Heads of Cerberus
One of the first dystopian science fantasies, this novel features a grey dust from an ancient glass vial which is capped with a silver figure of Cerberus, the 3-headed mythological dog that guarded the gate to "Pluto's realm", that is, to Hades. The fine dust transports anyone who inhales it to a totalitarian Philadelphia of 2118 AD. It was written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett, the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction, has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy."
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Pán Atlasu
Vojenský lékař George ani jeho přítel dělostřelec Harry už neslouží v britské královské armádě. První odešel a léčí pacienty v malé londýnské ordinaci. Druhý obdržel za odvahu Viktoriin kříž, ale když přemluvil dceru jednoho generála, aby s ním utekla, zase mu ho odebrali a pod jinou záminkou ho propustili z armády. Stal se z něj opilec prohrávající své poslední peníze v kartách.
Zdá se, že nabídka dvou tisíc liber, kterou jim slibuje marocký sultán, představuje snadný a rychlý způsob, jak se oba mohou znovu postavit na vlastní nohy. Sultán je potřebuje, aby veleli obsluze tří starších děl, která získal pro svůj boj proti vzbouřencům vedeným jeho bratrem Bou Hamrou.
Jenže celý jejich podnik se brzy nepříjemně zkomplikuje. Ačkoli jsou poddanými britské královny, stanou se nezamýšlenými účastníky válečného tažení, jsou zajati a mučeni. Nejnebezpečnější část jejich mise začne, když se stanou rukojmími místního vládce přezdívaného Pán Atlasu. Muž se stále zahaleným obličejem totiž ukrývá tajemství, které všechno změní.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 25th Anniversary Edition
This glorious, Sunday Times bestselling collector's edition of J.K. Rowling's classic first story will take you on the magical journey of a lifetime.
Galloping gargoyles! 2022 is the silver anniversary of J.K. Rowling's magical classic Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone!
In celebration of 25 years of Harry Potter magic, Bloomsbury is proud to be releasing a special commemorative edition of the original story, with a wealth of special features and celebratory bonus content guaranteed to delight brand-new readers and long-time fans alike:
- Beautiful hardback edition for the perfect special gift
- Original front cover from the very first 1997 edition, illustrated by Thomas Taylor - one of the most iconic book covers of the twentieth century
- Available for one year only - get your copy while stocks last!
- Original drawings from J.K. Rowling's own archive
- Thomas Taylor's charming account of illustrating the cover for the first time, as a young artist
- Fully updated story text, with refreshed design, to provide the perfect reading experience
Harry Potter lives in the cupboard under the stairs at his uncle and aunt's house at number four, Privet Drive - until the day when a mysterious letter arrives from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a giant on a flying motorcycle arrives to change his life with four simple words: 'Harry - yer a wizard.'
Since its first publication, Harry Potter and his epic adventures have become a cultural phenomenon, bewitching millions of readers all across the globe. This irresistible anniversary edition will bring back treasured memories for the fans who remember the excitement when Harry's journey first began, as well as introduce a new generation to the unforgettable story of the Boy Who Lived.
A bestseller in The Sunday Times charts, June 2022.