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Scandinavian Design
Scandtastic! Scandinavians are exceptionally gifted in design. They are world-famous for their inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production. The marriage of beautiful, organic forms with everyday functionality is one of the primary strengths of Scandinavian design and one of the reasons why Scandinavian creations are so cherished and sought after. This all-you-need guide includes a detailed look at Scandinavian furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metalware and industrial design from 1900 to the present day, with in-depth entries on over 200 designers and design-led companies, plus essays on the similarities and differences in approach between Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark. Also included is a list of important design-related places to visit for readers planning to travel to Scandinavia. It includes: designers- Verner Panton, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Timo Sarpaneva, Hans Wegner, Tapio Wirkkala, Sigvard Bernadotte, Stig Lindberg, Ingeborg Lundin, Finn Juhl...It also includes: companies - Fritz Hansen, Artek, Le Klint, Gustavsberg, Iittala, Fiskars, Volvo, Saab, Orrefors, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Arabia, Marimekko, George Jensen.
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20,85 €
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Egypt Style
Ancient culture meets modern style in this wide-ranging selection of interiors throughout the magical land of Egypt. From an apartment in Cairo to a house at the foot of the pyramids, a casbah on the banks of the Nile, and an Arabian palace, the homes featured within offer us the chance to explore Egypt’s most unique interiors.
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9,42 €
9,92 €
The English Girl
Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the ancient city of Muscat with her fiance, Rory. Desperate to escape the pain of a personal tragedy, she longs to explore the desert fort of Jabrin and unearth the wonders held within. But Oman is a land lost in time, and in the midst of violent upheaval gaining permission to explore could prove impossible. Joan's disappointment is only eased by the thrill of meeting her childhood heroine, pioneering explorer Maude Vickery, and hearing the stories that captured her imagination and sparked her ambition as a child. The friendship that forms between the two women will change everything. Both have desires to fulfil and secrets to keep. As their bond grows, Joan is inspired by the thrill of her new friend's past and finds herself swept up in a bold and dangerous adventure of Maude's making. Only too late does she begin to question her actions - actions that will spark a wild, and potentially devastating, chain of events. Will the girl that left England for this beautiful but dangerous land ever find her way back? The English Girl is the stunning new novel from Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author Katherine Webb and is perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton and Santa Montefiore.
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10,40 €
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A History of the Arab Peoples
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial History up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth. In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.
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The Terror Years
Ten powerful pieces first published in "The New Yorker" recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning" The Looming Tower, " Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the 2006-11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in disparate values of human lives. Others continue to look into al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of terror in the world. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and a chief of the CIA. It ends with the recent devastating piece about the capture and beheading by ISIS of four American journalists and aid workers, and how our government failed to handle the situation.
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18,50 €
Pocketdoodles for Princesses
Doodling for Enchanted Princesses! Pocketdoodles for Princesses offers a treasure chest of doodling prompts for every girl who considers herself royalty! Here she can create many magical kingdoms and become any princess she wants to be, from a mermaid in the deep blue sea to an exotic Arabian princess; because fantasy and make believe is where every little girl and princess loves to dwell. This adorable children's activity book is filled with creative prompts that encourage girls to name their enchanted kingdom, decide on their princess name, draw their castle or cottage for all seasons, and much more! Writing prompts are accompanied by charming and imaginative illustrations drawn by Jennifer Kalis that also help set the stage for a young princess's doodles and drawings. Girls will love this small pocketbook that is just the right size to tote around to grandma's house, the babysitter, or wherever! Doodling Prompts Include: What does your summer castle look like and where is it located? Pirate Princess. Design a cute sailing outfit. A gypsy fortune teller just read your palm. What did she tell you? Princess Daydreams. Where does your imagination take you? Decorate your dream princess bedroom. Super Princess! What are your special powers? Princess Dreams--what's the best one you've ever had? Anita Wood and Jennifer Kalis are coauthors of Pocketdoodles for Girls. Anita lives in northern Utah, Jennifer lives near Columbus, Ohio.
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8,54 €
8,99 €
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
"New York Times "Notable Book of the Year * "Washington Post "Top Ten Book of the Year In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded. For Sonja, the arrival of Akhmed and Havaa is an unwelcome surprise. Weary and overburdened, she has no desire to take on additional risk and responsibility. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja s world will shift on its axis and reveal the intricate pattern of connections that weaves together the pasts of these three unlikely companions and unexpectedly decides their fate. A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena "is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader s guide and bonus content from the author."
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14,20 €
14,95 €
Angličtina - konverzace pro pokročilé - 3.vydání
Topic-based Vocabulary for Advanced Learners
Moderní učebnice prověřená mnohaletou praxí doplněná e-learningovou podporou
V ČEM SE TATO UČEBNICE LIŠÍ OD JINÝCH?
Jde s dobou, ale současně vychází z prověřených učebních metod.
Tato učebnice je kolektivním dílem. K jeho vytvoření přispěla celá řada českých učitelů a rodilých mluvčích, kteří v průběhu několika desetiletí řešili stejný problém – jak naučit studenty mluvit anglicky tak, aby byli schopni komunikovat v každodenních situacích a byli připraveni úspěšně splnit požadavky jazykových zkoušek na vyšší úrovni (podle Společného evropského rámce úrovně B2 až C2).
V dnešní době se stále více lidí učí angličtinu i po ukončení studia na různých typech škol. Samostudium a využití možností, které nabízí internet, se stává součástí běžného života. Je proto třeba, aby i studijní a výukové materiály „šly s dobou“ a byly šity na míru dnešním studentům. Cvičení obsažená v původním vydání učebnice byla určena převážně pro práci ve třídě. Nyní je součástí učebnice také klíč a slovníček zahrnující nejdůležitější výrazy.
Důležitou součástí učebnice je e-learningová podpora na adrese:
http://go.phil.muni.cz/anglictina
nebo
http://psknihy.cz/anglictina-konverzace-pro-pokrocile
Umožňuje využívat online materiály, vytvořené přímo jako doplněk učebnice, jako například drilování slovíček pomocí aplikace Quizlet, dostupné i pro mobilní telefony a tablety. Najdete zde i řadu dalších studijních materiálů:
poslechová cvičení k učebnici ve formátu MP3
seznamy slovíček ke všem stranám učebnice s překlady pro snadnější přípravu na výuku či samostudium
glosáře kolokací s příkladovými větami seřazené podle témat
otázky a překladové věty ke všem tématům
interaktivní online testy
odkazy na další materiály na internetu
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19,87 €
20,92 €
Aladdin - Read it yourself level 3
Aladdin is a poor boy who lives with his mother. What happens when he meets a magician and finds a magical lamp? Based on the traditional Arabian folk tale. Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling reading series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each Read it yourself ebook is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of stories support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading. Children can also listen to the story being read by using the built-in voiceover option to give them confidence to tackle it themselves. Each ebook has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools. Aladdin is a Level 3 Read it yourself ebook, suitable for children who are developing reading confidence and stamina, and are eager to start reading longer stories with a wider vocabulary.
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2,80 €
2,95 €
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 €
One Thousand and One Nights
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. The tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising. The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. The great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless drama of human experience.
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16,72 €
17,60 €
Sex and the Citadel
Important, brave and necessary' Naomi Wolf As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at upheaval a little closer to home - in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful and engaging account of a highly sensitive, and still largely secret, aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion and tradition, politics and economics, gender and generations, so it makes the perfect lens for examining the region's complex social landscape. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, Sex and the Citadel takes a fresh look at the sexual history of the Arab region, and brings new voices to the debate over its future. This is no peep show or academic treatise. Sex and the Citadel is a highly personal, often humorous, account of one woman's journey to better understand Arab society at its most intimate, and in the process, better understand her own origins. Rich with five years of groundbreaking research from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, Tunisia to Qatar, Sex and the Citadel gives us unique and timely insight into everyday lives in a part of the world that is changing in front of our very eyes.
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10,93 €
11,50 €
Prisse d'Avennes - Arab Art
Monuments and marvelsA defining record of Islamic art and architectureEmile Prisse d Avennes (1807 1879), a French Orientalist, author, and artist, was one of the greatest pre-20th-century Egyptologists. As a youth he dreamed of exploring the Orient, and at 19 began traveling to Greece, India, and Palestine. Over the next 40 years he explored Syria, Arabia, Persia, and also spent periods living in Egypt and Algeria. Having converted to Islam, he traveled under the Arabic name Idris Effendi.With a keen eye for the symmetry, opulence, and complexity of local visual cultures, d Avennes recorded the art and architecture which he encountered on his travels. His work would later become one of the most outstanding surveys on Islamic art and architecture, Arab Art (L Art arabe d apres les monuments du Kaire), published between 1869 and 1877 in Paris.This TASCHEN edition revives Prisse d Avennes s magisterial chromolithograph survey in all its attention to detail, as well as to historical, social, and religious contexts. For further situational understanding, it includes his supplementary studies of the people and costumes of the Nile Valley, which he published as the Oriental Album (Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, the Valley of the Nile, London, 1848). It is a precious record not only of Islamic heritage but also of the history of thought and imagination between Europe and the Middle East.About the series: Bibliotheca Universalis Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.Bookworm s delight never bore, always excite!Text in English, French, and German"
Oman and UAE 1:1 400 000
This map shows its physical features and road network exceptionally well. The peninsula is also the home of various principalities, collectively known as the United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi, Bahrein, Dubai, Qatar, and other enclaves. In one sense, this is a regional map of this part of the Arabian peninsula, but it is also a picture of a part of the world very alien to what most of us take for granted. This is one giant travel adventure! Includes inset map of Dubai and Central Muscat.
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9,49 €
9,99 €
Allah lányai
Lát, Uzza és Manát: mindhárman nagy tiszteletnek örvendő bálványok, ők „Allah lányai". Ám egyszer csak jön valaki, és örökre megváltozik az életük. Milyen sorsot szán nekik az utolsó próféta? És milyen lesz az új hit, amely megfosztja őket rangjuktól és szeretett híveiktől? Az Allah lányai egy félárván maradt, nagyszüleivel felnövő gyerek szemén keresztül mutatja be az iszlám előtti Arábia hiedelemvilágát, az egyistenhit kialakulását és Mohamed próféta történetét. A legendákkal átszőtt, sokszólamú elbeszélés varázsszőnyege hol a Korán megjelenése előtti mítoszok világába, hol a középkori dervisek misztikus történeteibe, hol a „Nagy Háborúban" arabokkal küzdő nagyapa vívódásaiba, hol pedig egy hittől megbabonázott kisgyermek mindennapjaiba repíti az olvasót, bemutatva, hogy iszlám lényegesen sokrétűbb és bonyolultabb vallás, mint azt sokan - köztük a szerzőt perbe fogó fanatikusok - képzelik.
The Man Who Created The Middle East: The Life Of Sir Mark Sykes
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret pact drawn up in May 1916 between the French and the British, to divide the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the event of an allied victory in the First World War. Agreed without any Arab involvement, it negated an earlier guarantee of independence to the Arabs made by the British. Controversy has raged around it ever since.
Sir Mark Sykes was not, however, a blimpish, ignorant Englishman. A passionate traveller, explorer and writer, his life was filled with adventure. From a difficult, lonely childhood in Yorkshire and an early life spent in Egypt, India, Mexico, the Arabian desert, all the while reading deeply and learning languages, Sykes published his first book about his travels through Turkey aged only twenty. After the Boer War, he returned to map areas of the Ottoman Empire no cartographer had yet visited. He was a talented cartoonist, excellent mimic and amateur actor, gifts that ensured that when elected to parliament a full House of Commons would assemble to listen to his speeches.
During the First World War, Sykes was appointed to Kitchener’s staff, became Political Secretary to the War Cabinet and a member of the Committee set up to consider the future of Asiatic Turkey, where he was thirty years younger than any of the other members. This search would dominate the rest of his life. He was unrelenting in his pursuit of peace and worked himself to death to find it, a victim of both exhaustion and the Spanish Flu.
Written largely based on the previously undisclosed family letters and illustrated with Sykes' cartoons, this sad story of an experienced, knowledgeable, good-humoured and generous man once considered the ideal diplomat for finding a peaceful solution continues to reverberate across the world today.
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29,40 €
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Nevem Pilgrim
Eastside Inn, 89-es szoba.
Egy felismerhetetlenségig eltorzult fiatal nő lebeg a savfördőben.
Szaúd-Arábia.
Egy tudós férfi titkos üzenetet súg hóhérjának, mielőtt az lefejezi.
Damaszkusz.
Egy biokémikus kivájt szemmel várja szörnyű végzetét.
Afganisztán.
Három összeégett és mésszel leöntött testet találnak egy néptelen hegyi faluban.
Tökéletes BŰNtény készül az emberiség ellen.
A világ HARC nélküli elpusztítása.
Van azonban egy KÖNYV, amely nyomra vezetheti szerzőjét.
És van egy EMBER, aki megállíthatja a lavinát.
Ez az ember NEM létezik.
Ő PILGRIM.
A NEVEM PILGRIM korunk legmeghatározóbb bűnügyi regénye. Szokatlan és embert próbáló nyomozás, nyaktörő versenyfutás az idővel. Terry Hayes műve több mint HÚSZ országban vezette a sikerlistákat. A regényből nagyszabású filmadaptáció készül.
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13,57 €
14,28 €
Luxury Hotels Africa/Middle East
This volume of teNeues’s series in luxury hotels around the world takes the reader to hotels in Africa and the Middle East. Let your fantasy take flight as you browse intriguing photographs of Arabian palaces straight out of “1001 Nights”. Or, revel in the sumptuous surroundings of a lavishly appointed oasis hostelry. “Out of Africa” comes to life when you see a luxurious safari encampment in the midst of the African bush, sure to please even the pickiest of “big game hunters”. Also prominently featured are the exotic island resorts of Mauritius, the Seychelles, and Zanzibar.
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56,45 €
59,42 €
Princess
In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell you.
Think of a Saudi Arabian princess and what do you see? A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind the veil, she is a prisoner, her jailers her father, her husband, her sons.
'Sultana' is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the King. For the sake of her daughters, she decided that it was time for a woman in her position to speak out about the reality of life for women in her country, whatever their rank. She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one, until her husband decided to take a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants. In contrast to the affection and easy camaraderie amongst the women, she relates a history of appalling oppression against them, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: forced marriages, servants bullied into sex slavery, summary executions.
Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and great courage. By speaking out, 'Sultana' risked bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and upon the heads of her children. For this reason, she told her story anonymously.
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10,93 €
11,50 €