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1913 Year before the Storm
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence. Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Trieste, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow, their brief coincidences of existence telling of a darker future. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, in Munich an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes. Told with Illies's characteristic mixture of poignant evocation and laconic irony, 1913 is the story of the year that shaped the last century.
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Ultimate London Design
London has a well-deserved reputation as a premier European design and style center. This volume covers up-to-the minute London design from the worlds of architecture, interiors and fashion. This truly is a comprehensive survey with coverage of cultural, commercial and residential spaces. In addition, there’s an analysis of product design and other specialized areas. With a multitude of works from both Londoners by birth and those who’ve made their home there, this tome helps you stay in sync with all that’s happening in the British capital.
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46,99 €
49,46 €
Erika Foster nyomoz 1: Lány a jég alatt
Tágra nyílt szem. A száj mintha szólni akarna. Jégbe fagyott holttest… Nem ő az egyetlen.
Egy fiú munkába menet egy dél-londoni múzeum kerti tavában, a vastag jégpáncél alatt felfedez egy holttestet.
Az áldozat egy előkelő családból származó gyönyörű lány, aki látszólag tökéletes életet élt. Erika Foster nyomozó kezd vizsgálódni az ügyben, akinek egy korábbi esete személyes tragédiával végződött. Az asszony most bizonyítani akar, és meglepő nyomokra bukkan. Mind mélyebbre ás, annál szövevényesebbnek tűnik az eset.
Mit keresett a lány egy rossz hírű külvárosi kocsmában?
Mi dolga volt alvilági alakokkal?
Mi köze három meggyilkolt prostituáltnak a vízbe fojtott lányhoz?
A szálak magasabb körökbe vezetnek, és minél közelebb jut Erika a megoldáshoz, a gyilkos egyre közelebb jut hozzá
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13,57 €
14,28 €
Harry Styles
Find out all about Harry Styles - the sexiest member of the hottest boy band on the planet - in this fully up-to-date biography by Alice Montgomery. When Harry Styles auditioned for the X-Factor, little did he know he'd soon be leaving behind school, his Saturday bakery job, obscurity and an ordinary life. One Direction made it to the final and won a record deal, and it wasn't long before Harry's face covered bedroom walls up and down the country. But how did Harry cope with his new-found fame? And what happens when you take America by storm in a 'British Invasion'? With gorgeous green eyes and curls that send girls wild, Harry has found himself surrounded by beautiful women. But what's the truth behind the rumours? Here, his relationships with Caroline Flack, Taylor Swift and the married Lucy Horobin are laid bare. And what next for Harry and 1D? This book by Alice Montgomery will give you the low down on how Harry Styles and the rest of 1D are set to take on the world. Alice Montgomery works in London and is a freelance author. She has written several bestselling biographies, including Susan Boyle: Dreams Can Come True and Katy Perry.
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14,73 €
15,50 €
Hra Cluedo Sherlock (hra v angličtine)
The enigmatic series Sherlock retells the tale of Englands most celebrated detective, and now Sherlock Holmes and John Watsons adventures in 21st century London are the centrepiece for their own version of the classic mystery game of Cluedo! That darkly charasmatic Napolean of Crime Jim Moriarty has been murdered and his body found in London. But who killed Moriarty? Was it Mrs Hudson in the Tower of London with the wrench, or Irene Adler, in 221B with a candlestick? Youll need your wits about you to find out!
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Dead to Me
**'Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel' Woman Magazine** **'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' Best** Two very different women, one unlikely friendship. In the chaos of war-torn Britain, can any relationship survive? Dead to Me is a story about loyalty, love and the strength of friendship in the face of adversity, from international number one bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Spring 1935. Two girls meet by chance on Hampstead Heath. To an outsider, they could not appear more different. Verity is well-mannered and smartly dressed, living with her parents in a beautiful house close to the heath. Ruby is dishevelled and grubby, used to a life of squalor where she is forced to steal to survive. Yet there's an instant affinity between them, and when their fortunes are shockingly reversed, it is the strength of their friendship that keeps them resilient to the challenges and hardships they face. As Britain prepares for war, Ruby finds herself in Devon with the world at her feet and enjoying her first taste of romance.Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, Verity is forced to leave behind everything she has ever known and a shadow from the past threatens her chances of a new beginning. But through it all, the girls are always there for each other. Until the day Verity does the one thing that will break Ruby's heart. In a country torn apart by fighting, will Verity and Ruby survive long enough to find a way back to each other? Or do some betrayals go with you to the grave ...? Praise for Lesley Pearse 'Epic romantic drama set in post-war London' Heat Magazine 'A heart-warming and evocative tale that is a real delight to read' Sun 'A narrative that gallops along, this is quintessential Pearse that will delight her army of readers' Daily Mail 'Must have' Sunday Express 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express 'Utterly riveting, brilliant' Closer 'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home 'This gripping tale of war and friendship is perfect for a long day of beach reading.' Marie Claire
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A mélység
A Mélység London nyomornegyedéről szóló szociográfia, amelyben London kendőzetlenül sötét képet festett a gyári munkások, a munkanélküliek és a koldusok életéről. "London utcáin bárhol elkerülhetjük a szegények nyomorának megpillantását, míg ötpercny
i út akárhonnan a sikátorokba visz. De ahol most törtetett keresztül a kocsim, az a sikátorok végtelen szövevénye volt. Új, egészen másfajta nép hemzsegett a szűk kis utcákon, kicsire nőtt, nyomorult, sörtől átitatott alakok. Mérföldeket mentünk pusz
ta kőfal és omladékok között, és amerre néztünk a szomszéd utcákban, mindenütt ugyanazok a kövek, ugyanazon nyomorúság képe meredt reánk. Itt-ott egy-két részeg férfi vagy nő tántorgott el, a levegő verekedéstől, káromkodástól volt terhes. A piacon r
eszkető öreg emberek, asszonyok keresgéltek a sárba szórt szemétben rothadt krumplit, babot meg zöldséget, míg a gyerekek, mint a legyek, úgy gyűltek rá egy csomó rothadó gyümölcsre, vállig turkáltak a folyékony, romlott halomban, és ott nyomban leny
elték a morzsát, amit kihalásztak, a félig poshadt darabokat"
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7,06 €
7,43 €
Down and out in Paris and London
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984", published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in "Penguin Modern Classics". 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature.
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8,55 €
9,00 €
NY Times, 36 Hours USA & Canada, Northeast
The best of the American Northeast and Canada
The New York Times has been offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly “36 Hours” column since 2002. The many expert contributors have brought careful research, insider’s knowledge, and a sense of fun to hundreds of cities and destinations, always with an eye to getting the most out of a short trip. Based on the best-selling book 36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada, the Times and TASCHEN now bring together the best of the Northeast and Canada. From the great urban centers on everyone’s travel list to surprising locales with undiscovered character and charm, the paths lead to fashionable clubs in Manhattan, quaint New England towns, the French America of Quebec, and well beyond.
Featured destinations:
Bar Harbor, Maine • The Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick • Boston, Massachusetts • The Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania • Brooklyn, New York • Burlington, Vermont • Cambridge, Mass. • Cape May, New Jersey • Cooperstown, New York • East Hampton, New York • Halifax, Nova Scotia • Lake Placid, New York • Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. • Mont Tremblant, Quebec • Montreal, Quebec • Nantucket, Mass. • New London, Connecticut • Newport, Rhode Island • New York City, New York • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Portland, Maine • Portsmouth, New Hampshire • Princeton, New Jersey • Providence, Rhode Island • Provincetown, Mass. • Quebec City, Quebec • St. John’s, Newfoundland • Stowe, Vermont.
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10,97 €
11,55 €
Ladybird Tales - Dick Whittington
This beautiful hardback Ladybird edition of "Dick Whittington" is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, retaining all the key parts of the story beginning with Dick setting off on his London adventure through to the loss of his cat and the riches his cat eventually brings him. Other exciting titles in the "Ladybird Tales" series include "The Three Billy Goats Gruff", "Cinderella", "The Three Little Pigs", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Goldilocks and the Three Little Pigs", "The Gingerbread Man", "Hansel and Gretel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Rapunzel", "The Magic Porridge Pot", "The Enormous Turnip", "Puss in Boots", "The Elves and the Shoemaker", "The Big Pancake", "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Princess and the Pea". "Ladybird Tales" are based on the original Ladybird retellings by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail. Children have always loved, and will always remember, these classic fairy tales and sharing them together is an experience to treasure. Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children.
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5,23 €
5,50 €
Tillmans, Neue Welt
Over the period of more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fourth book with TASCHEN, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for several years by focusing his lens on the outside world-from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea. He describes this new phase simply as "trying out what the camera can do for me, what I can do for it." The result is a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles. Says Tillmans, "My travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I'm in." The book features a fascinating conversation between the artist and Beatrix Ruf, director of Kunsthalle Zurich.
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32,25 €
33,95 €
Rolling Stones
Ladies and gentlemen...the Rolling Stones! This is the definitive, authorized illustrated history of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band. The kind of fame and success the Rolling Stones have achieved in their 50-year career is completely without parallel; their most famous riffs and catchiest lyrics are indelibly engraved in our collective memory. With their bluesy rock 'n' roll and mesmerizing stage presence, the Stones redefined the music of the 1960s and paved the way for rock as we know it today. Produced in collaboration with the band, this book charts the Stones' remarkable history and outrageously cool lifestyle in around 600 pages of photographs and illustrations, many previously unseen, gathered from archives all over the world. Unprecedented access to the Rolling Stones' own archives in New York and London adds an equally extraordinary, more private side to the Stones' story. For Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie this is their official photographic record. Features: Over 500 pages of incredible images from some of the world's greatest photographers, including David Bailey, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, Gered Mankowitz, Helmut Newton, Bent Rej, and Norman Parkinson. A foreword written by President Bill Clinton. Three new essays from award-winning writers David Dalton, Waldemar Januszczak, and Luc Sante. Appendix including Stones in the media, a Stones timeline, a discography, and photographers' biographies. This is a standard TASCHEN edition.
Vault
Don't forget,' Wexford said, 'I've lived in a world where the improbable happens all the time.' However, the impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case. The bodies of two women and a man have been discovered in the old coal hole of an attractive house in St John's Wood. None carries identification. But the man's jacket pockets contain a string of pearls, a diamond and a sapphire necklace as well as other jewellery valued in the region of GBP40,000. It is not a hard decision for Wexford. He is intrigued and excited by the challenge, and, in the early stages, not really anticipating that this new investigative role will bring him into extreme physical danger.
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8,08 €
8,50 €
Just Send Me Word
From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of "A People's Tragedy", "Just Send Me Word" is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged thousands of secret letters as Lev battled to survive in Stalin's camps. Using this remarkable cache of smuggled correspondence, Orlando Figes tells the tale of two incredible people who, swept along in the very worst of times, kept their devotion alive. Orlando Figes was granted exclusive access to the thousands of letters between Lev and Sveta that form the foundation of Just Send Me Word, and he was able to interview the couple in person, then in their nineties. These real-time and largely uncensored letters form the largest cache of Gulag letters ever found. Reviews: "One is overcome with admiration for the kindness, bravery and generosity of people in terrible peril...It is impossible to read without shedding tears". (Simon Sebag Montefiore, "Financial Times"). "This powerful narrative by a distinguished historian will take its place not just in history but in literature". (Robert Massie). "Electrifying, passionate, devoted, despairing, exhilarating...a tale of hope, resilience, grit and love". ("The Times"). "Moving...a remarkable discovery". (Max Hastings, "Sunday Times"). "The gulag story lacks individuals for us to sympathise with: a Primo Levi, an Anne Frank or even an Oskar Schindler. "Just Send Me Word" may well be the book to change that". (Oliver Bullough, "Independent"). "Immensely touching...a heartening gem of a book". (Anna Reid, "Literary Review"). "The remarkable true story of a love affair between two Soviet citizens...as much a literary challenge as a historical one: the book can be read as a non-fiction novel". ("Telegraph"). "Remarkable...Figes, selecting and then interpreting this mass of letters, makes them tell two kinds of story. The first is a uniquely detailed narrative of the gulag, of the callous, slatternly universe which consumed millions of lives...The second is about two people determined not to lose each other". (Neal Ascherson, "Guardian"). "A quiet, moving and memorable account of life in a totalitarian state ...The book often reads like a novel...captivating". ("Evening Standard"). "Orlando Figes has wrought something beautiful from dark times". (Ian Thomson, "Observer"). "A heart-rending record of extraordinary human endurance". ("Kirkus Reviews"). "A remarkable tale of love and devotion during the worst years of the USSR...Figes' fine narrative pacing enhances this moving, memorable story". ("Publishers Weekly"). About the author: Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of "Peasant Russia", "Civil War", "A People's Tragedy", "Natasha's Dance", "The Whisperers" and "Crimea". He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Triumph of the City
Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can't my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them. 'A masterpiece' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics 'A brilliant read: persuasive and provocative' Time Out 'Replete with lightly borne learning, this is a tremendous book' Bryan Appleyard, Literary Review 'Fascinating' Sunday Telegraph 'Comprehensive, compelling and strongly recommended" Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and Adapt 'A hymn to the city' Metro
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11,39 €
11,99 €
Pigeon English
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.
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7,59 €
7,99 €
Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture
This book provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern timber architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, the book features 50 of the most recently completed and influential timber designs for both residential and commercial architecture. Each project is presented with colour photographs, site plans and sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project, including the location, client, architectural project team, main consultants and contractors. This book includes a free CD-ROM contains all drawings in both EPS and DWG (generic CAD) formats. It includes an index includes the contact details for each featured architect. This is an excellent reference work for practising architects as well as Invaluable book for both students and professionals Unprecedented, detailed examination of the best of recent timber architecture All drawings are styled in the same consistent way and are presented at standard architectural scales for easy comparison Includes free CD-ROM with all drawings Virginia McLeod has worked for a number of private practices in London and was also the editor of The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. She currently works as a freelance writer and editor, specialising in contemporary architecture. She is the author of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture, Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design and Detail in Contemporary Bathroom Design.
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28,98 €
30,50 €
The Phantom Atlas
The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology are all brought together to create a colourful tapestry of monsters, heroes and volcanoes; swindlers, mirages and murderers. Sometimes the stories are almost impossible to believe, and remarkably, some of the errors were still on display in maps published in the 21st century. Throughout much of the 19th century more than 40 different mapmakers included the Mountains of Kong, a huge range of peaks stretching across the entire continent of Africa, in their maps - but it was only in 1889 when Louis Gustave Binger revealed the whole thing to be a fake. For centuries, explorers who headed to Patagonia returned with tales of the giants they had met who lived there, some nine feet tall. Then there was Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish explorer who returned to London to sell shares in a land he had discovered in South America. He had been appointed the Cazique of Poyais, and bestowed with many honours by the local king of this unspoiled paradise. Now he was offering others the chance to join him and make their fortune there, too - once they had paid him a bargain fee for their passage...The Phantom Atlas is a beautifully produced volume, packed with stunning maps and drawings of places and people that never existed. The remarkable stories behind them all are brilliantly told by Edward Brooke-Hitching in a book that will appeal to cartophiles everywhere.
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30,35 €
31,95 €
Cult Street Wear
From its origins in American workwear, via west coast subcultures, extreme sports and subsequent commercialism, streetwear has become to fashion as hip-hop has to music: a global phenomenon. Incorporating cultural codes of dress, the best in graphic
design, as well as exemplary brand-building - the products not of corporate giants but cottage/tenement industries - the leading streetwear brands have become influential beyond the sphere of fashion alone. Streetwear may form a fundamental look for
out-of-office-hours dress for teenagers and middle youth alike, but its leading lights have connections with the worlds of art, advertising, music and interiors that make them as potent as 'designer' brands many times their size. Showcasing over 30 o
f the most exciting and - importantly - pioneering of streetwear brands, this book focuses not on the endless me-too labels, but those that have shaped the market since the late 1980s. Cult Streetwear tells the stories of the people behind the brands
- from entrepreneurs to graffiti writers, DJs to surf dudes to sneaker nuts, from LA to NYC, London to Berlin and Tokyo. It explores each brand's cultural resonance, and explains why so many have gained a cult following while continuing to break new
ground in a market with unlimited scope for innovation.
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12,34 €
12,99 €