Hľadanie: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Safety Pin
An elderly man called Deane is murdered in an English town. Inspector Mellapont thinks it's a simple robbery, but others disagree, and Deane's business partner, an attractive young girl named Miss Pretty, offers a reward for information. No fewer than three rogues decide to improve their own prospects by investigating — the two Hackdale brothers, John and Simmons, working independently, and the town drunk James Bartlett, who sobers up rapidly when blackmail and extortion are in prospect. Attention centers on the mayor, Mrs. Champernowne; but when thieves fall out information gets into the hands of the police and a local solicitor, Francis Shelmore, and the plot unravels rapidly.
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0,88 €
Empires of the Normans
How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East?
It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence felt across all of western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land. In Empires of the Normans we discover how they combined military might and political savvy with deeply held religious beliefs and a profound sense of their own destiny. For a century and a half, they remade Europe in their own image, and yet their heritage was quickly forgotten - until now.
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21,38 €
22,50 €
The Rise And Fall of Athens
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work
What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall.
His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.
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20,85 €
21,95 €
Charles Spurgeon's Meditations On The Easter Story (EN)
Beautifully and devotionally read by Christopher Glyn, this is a unique compilation of 21 readings from Charles Spurgeon's classic "Morning and Evening" devotionals on the theme of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Complimented with short instrumental interludes composed by Michael Dooley.
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8,99 €
The Price of Time
All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and nations pay to borrow money.
In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law ' s ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century. We generally assume that high interest rates are harmful, but Chancellor argues that, whenever money is too easy, financial markets become unstable. He takes the story to the present day, when interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded - including the extraordinary appearance of negative rates in Europe and Japan - and highlights how this has contributed to profound economic insecurity and financial fragility.
Chancellor reveals how extremely low interest rates not only create asset price inflation but are also largely responsible for weak economic growth, rising inequality, zombie companies, elevated debt levels and the pensions crises that have afflicted the West in recent years - conditions under which economies cannot possibly thrive. At the same time, easy money in China has inflated an epic real estate bubble, accompanied by the greatest credit and investment boom in history. As the global financial system edges closer to yet another crisis, Chancellor shows that only by understanding interest can we hope to face the challenges ahead.
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30,35 €
31,95 €
What's Bred in the Bone
This was the top-prize-winning novel from 20,000 entries in one of the richest literary awards ever offered in Britain. Its convoluted and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the ancestry of the Waring twin brothers and of Elma Clifford. Elma comes on her mother's side from a line of gypsy snake dancers, and she displays a periodic urge to dance wildly with a feather boa in her bedroom. A murderous judge, multiple mistaken identities and scenes of tribal life in South Africa decorate this extraordinary novel, which is certainly a testament to Grant Allen's versatility and grasp of the popular market.Excerpt: "Elma felt sure she was mad that night. And, if so, oh, how could she poison Cyril Waring's life with so unspeakable an inheritance for himself and his children? She didn't know, what any psychologist might at once have told her, that no one with the fatal taint of madness in her blood could ever even have thought of that righteous self-denial. Such scruples have no place in the selfish insane temperament; they belong only to the highest and purest types of moral nature."In his biography of Allen, Professor Peter Morton says about this book: "Twice in his career Allen finds he has a great popular success on his hands. What's Bred in the Bone (1891), a sensational thriller written to order at top speed, secures him one of the largest literary prizes ever awarded in Britain: a thousand pounds from George Newnes, the publishers of the magazine Tit-Bits. What's Bred in the Bone comes first in a field of 20,000 entrants to take the prize. It sells hugely in its first year, goes into seventeen impressions, appears in the form of a silent film in 1916, and is translated into several languages, including Icelandic. Nothing demonstrates better Allen's cold-blooded judgment in analysing and meeting the popular taste." The novel was published serially in 1890 and 1891.(Reference: Peter Morton's website about Grant Allen https://sites.google.com/site/petermortonswebsite/.)
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The Gospel according to me
I've always been looking for Sense. It seems to be God. Despite people trying to write their opinions into the Bible, He managed to make sure that in His book there were such thoughts and indications for us that He wanted.
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7,49 €
Hyam the Cat Who Talked Too Much (EN)
These are the tales of a cat – a very special cat in fact, he is a theatrical cat, a fastidious cat, a funny cat, but most of all, an adored cat. He is most famous for having talked himself out of a part at an audition for a West End production – for this cat is an actor. Here he tells his own story in a series of delightfully readable poems, a pleasure for all age groups.
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5,99 €
Lewis Huey & The News - Plan B CD
KDO: Americký zpěvák a hráč na foukací harmoniku v doprovodu skupiny The News, se kterou především v osmdesátých letech vytvořil většinu svých úspěšných nahrávek, rovněž také herec, kterého jsme mohli vidět například v úspěšném hollywoodském trháku "Návrat do budoucnosti".
CO: Reedice alba "Plan B" z roku 2001.
CD
1. We're Not Here for a Long Time (We're Here for a Good Time)
2. My Other Woman
3. I Ain't Perfect
4. When I Write the Book
5. I'm Not in Love Yet
6. Thank You, No. 19
7. Plan B
8. The Rhythm Ranch
9. Let Her Go and Start Over
10. I Never Think About You
11. So Little Kindness
The World's Least Interesting Master Swordsman: Volume 2
Master Suiboku's given Sansui his blessing, so in addition to guarding his mistress, Lady Douve, he's now offering instruction in swordsmanship. Not only is he teaching his fellow Japanese transferee Saiga and the foreign prince Tahlan, but he's somehow found himself teaching the city's ne'er-do-wells and the Royal Guard. Meanwhile, House Caputo, a Great House of the Arcana Kingdom, is fighting a war with the Kingdom's neighboring nation. Evidently, the army invading the Caputo lands is equipped with cheat items, but House Caputo's got a cheat of their own up their sleeve.
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5,86 €
Lost on the Moon
After learning of a diamond field on the Moon, our crew heads for the satellite, where they discover a petrified city populated by petrified people.
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0,88 €
The Leavenworth case (EN)
The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues.
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16,99 €
Accept - A Decade Of Defiance (Limited Earbook) 7CD
Accept je nemecká heavymetalová skupina zo Solingenu, ktorú založili v roku 1976 gitarista Wolf Hoffmann a bývalí členovia Udo Dirkschneider (spev) a Peter Baltes (basgitara). Ich začiatky siahajú do konca 60. rokov, kedy kapela začala pod názvom Band X. Zostava Accept sa v priebehu rokov menila a zahŕňala rôznych spevákov, gitaristov, basgitaristov a bubeníkov.Ich súčasnú zostavu tvoria Hoffmann, spevák Mark Tornillo, gitaristi Uwe Lulis a Philip Shouse, bubeník Christopher Williams a basgitarista Martin Motnik. Pred príchodom do svojej súčasnej zostavy, Accept prešli mnohými zmenami v zostave, Hoffmann bol posledným zostávajúcim pôvodným členom od svojho vzniku a je jediným členom kapely, ktorý sa objavil na každom albume.
7CD Deluxe Earbook: revízia všetkých albumov ACCEPT vydaných s dlhoročným partnerom vydavateľstva Nuclear Blast Records v rokoch 2010 až 2021 rozšírená o 44-stranovú knihu v tomto zberateľskom sete.„A Decade of Defiance“, limitovaná 7-disková antológia obsahuje 5 posledných albumov kapely s niekoľkými skladbami navyše plus 2-diskový live album „Symphonic Terror“. Je doplnená o 44-stranovú knihu obsahujúcu množstvo nevydaných fotografií a nový rozhovor s Wolf & Mark od Marka Bromena, je to limitovaná zberateľská súprava (1 000 kópií) ponúkaná iba v EU.
Tracklist:
CD1: Blood Of The Nations
01. Beat the Bastards
02. Teutonic Terror
03. The Abyss
04. Blood of the Nations
05. Shades of Death
06. Locked and Loaded
07. Time Machine
08. Kill the Pain
09. Rollin' Thunder
10. Pandemic
11. New World Comin'
12. No Shelter
13. Bucket Full Of Hate
14. Land of the Free
CD2: Stalingrad
01. Hung, Drawn and Quartered
02. Stalingrad
03. Hellfire
04. Flash to Bang Time
05. Shadow Soldiers
06. Revolution
07. Against the World
08. Twist of Fate
09. The Quick and the Dead
10. Never Forget
11. The Galley
CD3: Blind Rage
01. Stampede
02. Dying Breed
03. Dark Side of My Heart
04. Fall of the Empire
05. Trail of Tears
06. Wanna Be Free
07. 200 Years
08. Bloodbath Mastermind
09. From the Ashes We Rise
10. The Curse
11. Final Journey
12. Thrown to the Wolves
CD4: The Rise of Chaos
01. Die by the Sword
02. Hole in the Head
03. The Rise of Chaos
04. Koolaid
05. No Regrets
06. Analog Man
07. What's Done Is Done
08. Worlds Colliding
09. Carry the Weight
10. Race to Extinction
11. Dark Side of My Heart (live)
CD5: Symphonic Terror - Live at Wacken 2017
01. Die by the Sword
02. Restless and Wild
03. Koolaid
04. Pandemic
05. Final Journey
06. Night on Bald Mountain
07. Scherzo
08. Romeo and Juliet
09. Pathétique
10. Double Cello Concerto in G Minor
11. Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
CD6: Symphonic Terror - Live at Wacken 2017
01. Princess of the Dawn
02. Stalingrad
03. Dark Side of My Heart
04. Breaker
05. Shadow Soldiers
06. Dying Breed
07. Fast as a Shark
08. Metal Heart
09. Teutonic Terror
10. Balls to the Wall
CD7: Too Mean to Die
01. Zombie Apocalypse
02. Too Mean to Die
03. Overnight Sensation
04. No Ones Master
05. The Undertaker
06. Sucks to Be You
07. Symphony of Pain
08. The Best Is Yet to Come
09. How Do We Sleep
10. Not My Problem
11. Samson and Delilah
12. Life's a Bitch
The Weapon is Love (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 146) (EN)
The Earl of Rockhaven calls on his friend the Vicar, the Reverend Simon Wolverham, to ask if his beautiful daughter, Lucinda, will pretend to be his own daughter, Muriel, who is away in Scotland staying with her aunt. tFortunately the girls have similar looks and Lucinda could easily be taken for Muriel.
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10,99 €
The Surprise - and other erotic short stories from Cupido (EN)
Stories about a dominant woman or man, a couple or strangers exploring the boundaries of their sexuality with role play, BDSM, swinging or orgies of sexual mystery. The collection contains following short stories:No InhibitionsHoliday HeavenChristine’s New TwistFrom Now On We Play Properly! Hands and feetGolden ShowerPoker FaceThe SurpriseElisabeth’s DayBlind passion.
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13,99 €
Life On The Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River. In the second half, the book describes Twain's return, many years later, to travel on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, the new, large cities, and his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the U.S. and in England, it is said to be the first book composed on a typewriter. (Source: Wikipedia)
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0,88 €
The Road to Oz (EN)
"Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them. " A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, but the two of them end up getting lost on their way and decide to proceed to Oz instead. For once not chased by danger, they arrive just in time for Princess Ozma‘s birthday party where a great assortment of colourful characters awaits.
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10,99 €
The Wonderful World of James Herriot
The perfect gift for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot’s much-loved books, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim.
With astute observations and boundless humour, country vet Herriot captures the spirit of the Yorkshire Dales and of rural communities on the cusp of change, before tractors and machines had taken over and modern medicines and antibiotics transformed veterinary work. Along the way a beloved cast of characters emerges, from the squabbling brothers Tristan and Siegfried to Herriot’s hapless courtship and eventual family life with Helen Anderson. But it’s the animals which are at the heart of Herriot’s stories.
Whether he’s dodging a raging bull on a risky artificial insemination assignment, becoming pen pals with Tricki Woo the spoilt Pekingese pooch, or the inevitable trials and tribulations of lambing season, there’s never a dull moment in Herriot’s company.
At times moving and often laugh-out-loud funny, The Wonderful World of James Herriot will delight fans old and new.
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14,20 €
14,95 €
B. J. Harrison Reads The Velveteen Rabbit (EN)
It is Christmas and a little boy receives a gift – a velveteen rabbit. Although the other toys look down on him, the rabbit is happy to be with the boy. They are constant companions and it seems like nothing can worsen their days. But then the boy gets sick and the doctor insists that all the toys get burned because they may be infected.
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5,99 €