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The History of the Jews and the Fate of the World
history of the Jews is possibly the greatest story that can be told. It is the story of mankind - at its most noble and at its most barbaric. Simon Schama believes that by the time of publication the Jewish epic will once again be the fulcrum on which the fate of the world turns - that a two-state solution brokered in the Middle East by the Obama administration will be under threat from militant fundamentalists, supported by two nuclear states, Iran and Pakistan, capable of inflicting catastrophic damage in the region and beyond. So that moment, loaded with peril for all humanity, will ultimately turn, as so often before, on the obstinacy and grandeur of Jewish history - on its will, against the odds, to endure. From the invention of a single deity and the killing of his embodied Son through to the production of urban modernity, so much of supreme importance for humanity bears the imprint of Jewish thinking and culture. As well as exploring that history, Simon Schama - as he did in The American Future - will report from the battlefronts of today. He will talk to Jews and non-Jews, to archaeologists, rabbis, soldiers, hedge fund managers, Israeli Arabs and Jews for Jesus, film-makers, cartoonists and comedians. This is in every sense a major book - in its chronological reach and its international scope, in its humour and its tragedy, in the depth of its drama, and in its ability to change the way in which we view the world.
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The Duchess
Orphaned. Betrayed. Determined.
Angelique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone.
At eighteen, Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and an envelope of money her late father pressed upon her. Unable to secure employment, Angelique desperately makes her way to Paris. To survive, she will need all her resources - and one bold stroke of fortune.
Angelique takes an unfamiliar and unimaginable path in setting up what becomes a highly successful business. But she lives on the edge of scandal; can she ever make a life for herself?
From England to Paris and New York, Danielle Steel paints a captivating portrait of a woman of unquenchable spirit in The Duchess.
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101 of the World's Tallest Buildings
Serves as a reference of the 101 world's tallest skyscrapers, including photos, plans, details on architects, engineers and technical data on each building.
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Slipknot - Day of the Gusano 3LP+DVD
Tracklist:
Sarcastrophe
Eeyore
Custer
(sic)
Me Inside
Psychosocial
Duality
Before I Forget
The Devil In I
Vermilion
Prosthetics
Metabolic
Spit It Out
The Heretic Anthem
Wait And Bleed
Surfacing
In the Shadow of the Gods
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors
For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman or divine authority. In practice they ran the gamut from being some of the most remarkable men who ever lived, to being some of the worst and least remarkable.
Dominic Lieven's marvellous new book, In the Shadow of the Gods, is the first to grapple seriously with this extraordinary phenomenon. Across the world peoples, willingly or unwillingly, fell into orbit around figures who reshaped or destroyed entire societies, imposed religions and invaded rivals. Lieven describes the anatomy of imperial monarchy and the principles by which it functioned. He compares the great emperors of antiquity, the caliphs and the warrior-emperors of the steppe before he turns to the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Mughal and Chinese emperors, packing the book with extraordinary stories, astute observations and a sense of both delight and horror at these individuals' antics. The entire breadth of extreme human behaviour is here - from warlords to patrons of the arts, from political genius to feeble incapacity and pathological violence.
As one of the great experts both on empires and on Russian history, Lieven is brilliantly qualified to write a book that brings to life a system of rule that dominated most of human history, as well as some of history's grandest and most dismaying figures.
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Lacná kniha Brilliance of the Moon
In the third volume of the phenomenal series that began with the best-selling ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR and then GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, the teenage lovers, Takeo and Kaede, are now married. But their destinies are determined by forces beyond their control. Takeo leads an army into battle, and Kaede, far from his protection, is treacherously betrayed. Their love will survive until death -- which, in the savage, beautiful world of the Otori, is only ever a lightning sword-stroke away. 'Lian Hearn is creating an imaginary world every bit as absorbing as Middle Earth and Hogwarts ...This is the same mysterious oriental landscape that beguiled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon audiences' Guardian 'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense since Philip Pullman.' Independent on Sunday
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Game of Thrones Ruled Journal: House of Targaryen
Enter the epic fantasy world of HBO s Game of Thrones with this stunning series of journals. Featuring the sigils of four of the Great Houses of Westeros Baratheon, Lannister, Stark, and Tagaryen these beautifully crafted journals are designed to evoke the qualities and ancient history of each noble family.
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Waters Roger - Is This The Life We Really Want? CD
Tracklist:
1. When We Were Young
2. Déja Vu
3. The Last Refugee
4. Picture That
5. Broken Bones
6. Is This The Life We Really Want?
7. Bird In A Gale
8. The Most Beautiful Girl
9. Smell The Roses
10. Wait For Her
11. Oceans Apart
12. Part of Me Died
Lacná kniha The Adventures of the Wishing-chair (-90%)
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair - When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a chair that can fly and grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some marvellous adventures - to a cas
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The War on the West
In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?
It's become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What's more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning; however, some is part of a larger international attack on reason, democracy, science, progress and the citizens of the West by dishonest scholars, hatemongers, hostile nations and human-rights abusers hoping to distract from their ongoing villainy.
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows the ways in which many well-meaning people have been lured into polarisation by lies, and shows how far the world's most crucial political debates have been hijacked across Europe and America. Propelled by an incisive deconstruction of inconsistent arguments and hypocritical activism, The War on the West is an essential and urgent polemic that cements Murray's status as one of the world's foremost political writers.
Various - Gergaz 2008-2018 The Locals 2LP
Žánrovo pestrá 2xLP kompilácia slovenského vydavateľstva GERGAZ k 10 výročiu svojej existencie. Obsahuje najobľúbenejšie mená a skladby slovenskej a českej elektronickej alternatívy, ktoré sa na tomto vydavateľstve objavili a ktoré doposiaľ na vinyle nevyšli. Titul je limitovaný na 250 kusov.
Zoznam skladieb:
1. GLGN - Where's My Money (edit)
2. Stratasoul – Sherryblossoms
3. Jimmy Pé & Tante Elze – Daydreams
4. Himalayan Dalai Lama - Coastline Blues
5. FVLCRVM - Unsung Heroes
6. Jimmy Pé - I wanna get ...
7. Fallgrapp - Ouagadougou (video version)
8. FVLCRVM - Hi!
9. nvmeri – Entropy
10. The High Corporation - Maj in June
11. nvmeri – Scales
12. Zorba že ja Buddha – Perpendicular
13. Keosz – Reminiscence
14. The Global Optimistic - Smooth Jazz
15. FORMA - Wichura (Marcin Cichy of Skalpel remix)
16. Jimmy Pé - Time Machine (feat. Fallgrapp & Tante Elze)
The Beginning After the End, Vol. 3 (comic)
FIND OUT WHAT FUTURE AWAITS ART IN THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF THIS HIT FANTASY COMIC, NOW IN PRINT!
Having successfully rescued elf girl Tessia from slave traders, Art accompanies her home to the elven kingdom…where he promptly finds out his new friend is the princess! While the king and queen express their gratitude toward Art and welcome him in, Art knows he’s better off departing as soon as possible-his parents still aren’t aware he’s alive, and the troubled history between elves and humans spells bad news for his continued presence there. The only problem? Art’s been experiencing weird pains ever since heand Sylvia parted, and the remedy may lie in the very place he’s trying to leave…
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The Future of the Universe
Experience the explosive and colourful future of the cosmos, zooming trillions of years ahead in time with Professor Raman Prinja, published in association with Royal Observatory Greenwich.
The Future of the Universe starts the future clock NOW and rockets readers along a forward time line to discover what scientists predict will happen to the Universe, including a shiny new ring on Mars, Earth's axis flip and a dramatic galaxy crash!
This is the first book of its kind for this age - putting all the future events into one place along a clear timeline for readers 9 and up, from the return of famous comets in a few decades, to the dark end of the Universe a nonillion years from now.
Professor Raman Prinja is the international, multi-award-winning Head of Department for Physics and Astronomy at University College London and a celebrated children's author of many books, including Planetarium and Wonders of the Night Sky.
Illustrator Jan Bielecki's action-packed, vivid artwork plucks these astonishing phenomena out of the distant future, and explodes them on the page - sizzling red giant stars and deep, mysterious dark energy; doomed moons and trailing comets - they're all inside The Future of the Universe!
Professor Prinja pens this unique look at the Universe's future, as seen on Sunday Brunch, as his follow-up to the definitive and exciting Wonders of the Night Sky, which introduces anyone with a patch of sky and a curious mind to exploring the marvels on display in today's Universe. The next generation of Universe explorers can easily engage with astronomy through these stunning books, no expensive equipment needed.
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Waters Roger - Is This The Life We Really Want? 2LP
Tracklist:
LP 1
1. When we were young
2. Deja vu
3. The last refugee
4. Picture that
5. Broken bones
6. Is this the life we really want?
LP 2
1. Bird in a gale
2. The most beautiful girl
3. Smell the roses
4. Wait for her
5. Oceans apart
6. Part of me died
The Short End of the Sonnenallee
Thomas Brussig's classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin WallThomas Brussig's slim novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin.Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side. "Look, a real Zonie. Can we take your picture?" Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street, Michael is batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border.
What chance does Michael have, and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her?Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly silly, Brussig's novel follows the bizarre, grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows, the ideas at its heart - freedom, democracy and life's fundamental hilarity - hold great relevance for today.
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The Ship Beneath the Ice
The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022
On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all 28 men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship that bore them to the brink of the Antarctic was considered forever lost.
A century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatched. The Ship Beneath the Ice gives a blow-by-blow account of the two epic expeditions to find the Endurance. As with Shackleton’s own story, the voyages were filled with intense drama and teamwork under pressure. In March 2022, the Endurance was finally found to headlines all over the world.
Written by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on both expeditions, this captivating narrative includes countless fascinating stories of Shackleton and his legendary ship. Complete with a selection of Frank Hurley’s photos from Shackleton’s original voyage in 1914–17, as well as from the expeditions in 2019 and 2022, The Ship Beneath the Ice is the perfect tribute to this monumental discovery.
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Black Eyed Peas - Masters Of The Sun CD
Americká skupina z Los Angeles Black Eyed Peas vydává desku Masters of The Sun vol. 1, která vyšla 26. října. Objeví se na ní Nas, Phife Dawg, CL, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Posdenuos of de la Soul, Slick Rick a Nicol Scherzinger. Jedná se o sedmou desku, jejíž vydání předznamenal skladba Big Love, který jako jeden z prvních singlů reflektoval střelbu na amerických středních školách a věnoval se problematice odebírání dětí imigrantským rodinám. Výnosy z prodeje singlu putovaly na účet studentské aktivistické organizace March for Our Lives, která se zabývá ukončením epidemie masových střeleb na školách a organizace Families Belong Together, která bojuje proti Trumpově politice násilné separace rodin. Ve vyzývání statu quo Black Eyed Peas pokračují i na desce, kde se dále věnují aktuálním problémům černošských komunit, jakými je například kontrola zbraní, imigrační a vězeňská reforma a policejní brutalita.
Black Eyed Peas jsou uskupením, které se v průběhu své existence věnovalo hip hopu, popu, dance music i elektro žánru. Kapela se momentálně skládá z will.i.ama, apl.de.apa a Tabooa. V minulosti v kapele působila i zpěvačka Fergie. Black Eyed Peas stojí za hity, jako je Where Is The Love?, který se stal nejprodávanějším britským singlem roku 2003, nebo Pump It a se singly Boom Boom Pow a I Gotta Feeling se ve své době stali jednou z jedenácti kapel, které se podařilo obsadit první dvě příčky Billboard Hot 100 zároveň. V roce 2010 získali tři ceny Grammy.
Tracklist:
1 „Back 2 Hiphop” (featuring Nas) 05:18
2 „Yes or No” 05:04
3 „Get Ready” 04:10
4 „4ever” (featuring Esthero) 03:48
5 „Constant pt.1 pt.2” (featuring Slick Rick) 05:03
6 „Dopeness” (featuring CL) 04:38
7 „All Around the World” (featuring Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Posdnuos) 05:01
8 „New Wave” 04:54
9 „Vibrations pt.1 pt.2” 04:21
10 „Wings” (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) 05:17
11 „Ring the Alarm pt.1 pt.2 pt.3” 05:58
12 „Big Love” 04:35
Europe - Walk The Earth (Special Edition) 2CD
KDO: švédská rocková legenda
CO: 11. album
CD
1. Walk The Earth
2. The Siege
3. Kingdom United
4. Pictures
5. Election Day
6. Wolves
7. GTO
8. Haze
9. Whenever You're Ready
10. Turn To Dust
DVD
1. Europe At Abbey Road
Lacná kniha Penguin Readers Level 4: How High The Moon (-70%)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
How High the Moon, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.
Ella lives in a small, Southern town in the 1940s. In the USA at this time, black people are treated badly by white people. Ella's mother lives in Boston, but Ella does not know who her father is. When Ella visits her mother, she learns more about herself and the world.
Visit the Penguin Readers website
Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.
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