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Avedon, Baldwin Nothing Personal
Richard Avedon's State of the Union
Avedon and Baldwin's seminal book brought back to life
In 1964, Richard Avedon, at the time the world's most famous fashion photographer, and James Baldwin, America's best-known black writer collaborated on a searing portrait book Nothing Personal. This controversal classic from the Mad Men era explores the contradictions and extremities at the heart of the American experience, and is especially timely in the age of Donald Trump.
Avedon's subjects range from intellectuals, politicians, former slaves, newlyweds, society ladies, artists, and civil rights activists, shot in his signature formal and graphic black and white, often tightly cropped. The collection is all the more poignant through its direct juxtaposition of specific images, such as the Jewish and gay intellectual Allen Ginsberg placed opposite the American Nazi Party. Avedon's work with mental asylum patients, shot in a grainy documentary style, is equally harrowing, although he chooses to end Nothing Personal on a hopeful, positive note, with photographs of children and parents bonding together in the Californian ocean.
The photographs are complemented by four untitled essays by Baldwin, a stream of consciousness and critique of a society that he feels is unjust, alienating, divisive, and therefore in the midst of an existential crisis. In a highly personal and pertinent testimony, Baldwin openly writes about his own experience of harassment by a racist policeman on the streets of New York.
Designed by Marvin Israel, Nothing Personal is also an art-directed triumph. An "oversized" book in its own white slipcase, the minimal and striking placement of images and text alike revolutionized the packaging of photography books. This is a meticulous reprint of the original, which has long been out of print, produced in close collaboration with the Richard Avedon Foundation.
A 72-page accompanying booklet features never before seen outtakes, portraits of Avedon at work, correspondence, ephemera, and an essay by Balwin expert and Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als. Als traces the making of Nothing Personal and documents the personal and creative relationship between Avedon and Baldwin, who were high school friends in the 1940s.
Nothing Personal's dark, disturbing vision of America has inevitably divided critics, and Avedon in particular endured some harsh criticism. Some felt that a fashion photographer had no place in dabbling in social commentary, while others found his book to be an elitist statement by New York liberals, unrepresentative of the true feelings of "real" Americans. Sound familiar?
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A Secret Vice - Tolkien On Invented Languages
First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in 'A Secret Vice', 'the making of language and mythology are related functions". In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938-9, 'On Fairy-Stories', which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled 'A Hobby for the Home', where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: 'the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement'. This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as 'A Secret Vice' in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien's art of inventing languages. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his 'Essay on Phonetic Symbolism', goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien's mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature
CD-Maigret chystá léčku
Komisař Maigret vede pátrání po vrahovi mladých žen. Účinkují: Rudolf Hrušínský st., Vladimír Brabec, Jiří Adamíra, Miluše Šplechtová, Věra Kubánková, Bohumil Švarc, Jiří Plachý, Viktor Vrabec, Jana Drbohlavová a další...Dobrácký komisař s vizáží usedlého Pařížana a náklonností k dobrému jídlu i voňavé dýmce se záhy stal oblíbeným hrdinou mnoha čtenářů a Simenon ho oživil celkem v 84 románech a 136 povídkách. Poslední příběh s komisařem Maigretem publikoval v roce 1972, jmenoval se „Maigret a pan Charles“. První sérii „maigretovek“ v Českém rozhlase natočil Jiří Horčička v roce 1970 s Rudolfem Hrušínským v hlavní roli. Tyto nahrávky dodnes představují Hrušínského rozhlasové herectví ve vrcholné formě. Shodou okolností to byla v roce 1991 opět role slavného komisaře, s níž se Hrušínský s rozhlasových studiem navždy loučil...
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Smink - A szépség tanulható
"A sminkkönyv ötlete már régóta motoszkált a fejemben. Bárhová megyek, mindig figyelem az arcokat, és azon gondolkodom, hogyan tehetném őket szebbé. Nagyon sok nő nem is sejti, milyen szépség rejlik benne, ami egy kis segítséggel a felszínre hozható. Lenyűgöző a smink ereje - hogy ... Folytatás ›› a segítségével egy fáradt, szürkés arc is életre kel és kivirágzik. Van, hogy egy jól megválasztott rúzs vagy szempillaspirál jóvoltából egy másik nő köszön vissza a tükörben. Ezért határoztam el, hogy régóta dédelgetett vágyamat megvalósítom, és elkészítem ezt a könyvet. Azt szeretném, hogy a nők merjenek szebbek lenni, merjék sminkelni magukat a hétköznapokban, próbálkozzanak, kísérletezzenek, hogy mi áll nekik jól." (Véger Fibi)
A(z) Smink (Könyv) szerzője Véger Fibi, Zólyomi Norbert.
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Well of Loneliness
New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction. This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy. "The archetypal lesbian novel". (Times Literary Supplement). "One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature". (New Statesman). Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father's estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. Hall wrote many books but is best known for The Well of Loneliness, first published in 1928. She died in 1943 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. Maureen Duffy was born in 1933 and educated at Kings College London. She became a full-time writer in the 1960s, and has since written numerous screenplays, poetry and novels. A lifelong campaigner for gay rights and animal rights, Duffy is also president of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society.
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How to Play the Piano
Learn to play one of Bach's most exquisite preludes in just 6 weeks, even if you have never played the piano before.An accessible and inspiring book by the pianist and international bestselling writer James Rhodes, who promises that it gives anyone with two hands, a piano or an electric keyboard and just 45 minutes a day the tools they need to learn to play Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major in 6 weeks, even if they know nothing about music and have never even touched a piano before.How often do we convince ourselves that it's just too late - too late to learn how to ride a bike, too late to know how to meditate, too late to travel the world... As we get older and time slips through our fingers like water, we become resigned, almost defeatist, about abandoning our dreams. For James Rhodes, after the inevitable "How many hours a day do you practice?" and "Show me your hands", the most common thing people say to him when they hear he's a pianist is "I used to play the piano as a kid. I really regret giving it up". Where does this mourned and misplaced creativity go? For Rhodes, it's still there to be tapped into by all of us, at any point. This inspirational book gives us the means to do this, by breaking up Bach's seminal Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier into manageable segments, teaching us the basics of piano playing - how to read music, the difference between the treble and the bass clef, sharp and flat notes, how to practice etc.. - and encouraging personal interpretation in a way that is guaranteed to soothe the mind, feed the soul and unleash creative powers we didn't know we still had. All of this will culminate in an ability to perform one of Bach's masterpieces."If listening to music is soothing for the soul, then playing music is achieving enlightenment. It's going from kicking a ball around with a few pals to playing alongside Ronaldo."
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A holdvilág szűrei - Válogatás Móra Ferenc meséiből - CD
1. A századik könyv Bessenyei Ferenc
2. Mire anyuka felébred Ruttkai Éva
3. A páva Bitskey Tibor
4. Nagymosás volt nálunk Sinkó László
5. Nagyhatalmú sündisznócska Básti Lajos
6. A király kenyere Ruttkai Éva
7. A nyugtalan méhecske Darvas Iván
8. A láthatatlan prímás Horváth Sándor
9. Dióbél királykisasszony Bíkády György
10. Kéményseprő zsiráfok Ruttkai Éva
11. A holdvilág szűrei Avar István
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In Cold Blood
The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics. Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics. If you enjoyed In Cold Blood, you might like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs' And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ...By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers, Capote produces a stark image of the deep doubleness of American life ...a remarkable book' Spectatorshow less
Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay (1885 - 1979) is one of the most important female artists of the early twentieth century, whose contribution to the European avant-garde was fundamental. Russian-born, she moved to Paris in 1906 where she studied at the Academie de la Palette. Her early work was infl uenced by the bold Fauvist paintings of Matisse, Gauguin and Van Gogh among others. Shifting her interest to abstraction, she celebrated the modern world and urban life, exploring ideas of colour theory together with her husband Robert Delaunay. She also collaborated with artists and poets such as Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars with whom she created the acclaimed book Prose on the Transsiberian Railway and of Little Jehanne of France. After spending time in Spain and Portugal during the First World War, Delaunay returned to Paris in the 1920s where she translated her experiments in painting into the realm of fashion. She collaborated with the Metz & Co textile department in Amsterdam and Liberty in London and also produced individual items of clothing under commission. Her interest in fashion expanded into theatre and cinema, for which she created costumes and designs for film sets.
During the Second World War and soon after, she participated in the creation of the Salon des Realites Nouvelles (1939) and developed her interest in different media, creating mosaics, tapestries and lithographs. In the same period, her paintings and gouaches evoked a renewed interest in abstraction and colour, marking her seminal role in the development of postwar abstract and applied art. With over 250 illustrations and ground-breaking essays by prominent curators and art historians, this publication seeks to throw new light on the multifaceted work of this prolifi c artist.
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Oxford Companion to Wine
Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine presents almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine, from its origins to the present day. More than 180 esteemed contributors (including 58 new to this edition) range from internationally renowned academics to some of the most famous wine writers and wine specialists in the world.
Winner of the 2016 James Beard Award for Beverage, this exhaustively updated fourth edition incorporates the very latest international research to present 300 new entries on topics ranging from additives and wine apps to WSET and Zelen. Over 60 percent of all entries have been revised; and useful lists and statistics are appended, including a unique list of the world's controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, as well as vineyard area, wine production and consumption by country.
Illustrated with almost 30 updated maps of every important wine region in the world, many useful charts and diagrams, and 16 stunning colour photographs, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in all of its wider contexts--notably historical, cultural, and scientific--and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.
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Organický osviežujúci zázvorový nápoj bez alkoholu, mango-marakuja
Zloženie: zázvor 25%, voda, trstinový cukor, mangové pyré 12,5%, marakujové pyré 12,5%, citrónová šťava. z ekologického poľnohospodárstva.
Náš organický zázvorový koncentrát sa vyrába v Quai Sud, vo Francúzsku.
Je ručne vyrobený, bez alkoholu, konzervantov a farbív.
Príprava:
pite ako "shot",
zrieďte vodou (neperlivou alebo perlivou),
v kombinácii s ovocnými šťavami (jablko / liči / banán).
Ako príloha k vašim exotickým jedlám alebo dezertom (toppingom), prekvapíte svojich hostí!
Priemerné nutričné hodnoty na 100 g nepripraveného nápoja. Energia: 551 kJ / 130 kcal; Tuky: 1,1 g z toho Nasýtené mastné kyseliny: 0,1 g; Sacharidy: 29 g z toho Cukry 28 g; Bielkoviny: 0,5 g; Soľ: 0,18 g.
Môže obsahovať stopy orechov, sezamu, sóje, horčice.
Skladujte na suchom mieste. Minimálna trvanlivosť 12 mesiacov od dátumu výroby. Objem: 500ml.
Výrobca: Quai Sud, Avenue de Madrid, 838 70 Signes, Francúzsko
Distribútor: Panta Rhei s.r.o., Kúpeľná 2, 932 01 Veľký Meder, Slovenská republika
100 legendás óra
Ez a könyv időutazásra hívja az Olvasót, melynek során felfedezheti a legnagyobb márkák titkait 100 különleges, eredeti, ritka, híres vagy rendkívül összetett modell bemutatásával.
Breguet, Breitling, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lange & Söhne, Lip, Longines, Patek Philippe, Rolex, Seiko és Tag Heuer kinyitják előttünk varázslatos birodalmuk kapuit.
Üdvözöljük, Kedves Olvasó, a múló idő királyságában!
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Světoválka III – Zvrácení rovnováhy
Od Varšavy přes Moskvu až po okupované Zakázané město v Číně byly národy světa donuceny uzavřít nedobrovolné spojenectví proti drtivé převaze nepřítele.
Ve Velké Británii a v Německu vytáhli z úkrytů zásoby kdysi zakázaných zbraní a proti nepříteli použili dříve nemyslitelnou taktiku. I když nedostatek pohonných hmot přinutil lidstvo vrátit se ke koním a kočárům, fyzikové horečně pracovali na vytvoření první lidmi vyrobené jaderné bomby – s děsivými výsledky. Město za městem se mění v atomovou pohřební hranici a planeta vybuchuje v ohnivých troskách. Taktika odvážných partyzánů se stává stále důmyslnější, zatímco zoufalá odveta nepřítele se stává stále děsivější.
Dosud nikdo Spojené státy a celý svět takovému nebezpečí nevystavil. Nevymaže krveprolití a ničení celé lidstvo z povrchu Země?
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Daemonica 2. - Elszabadult vágyak
Runa Wagner egyáltalán nem akart beleszeretni a jóképű idegenbe, aki mintha ismerte volna a legtitkosabb vágyait. De nem tudott ellenállni a hihetetlen szenvedélynek, amely lángra lobbant közöttük, és ami elhamvadt, amikor Runa rájött, hogy a férfi megcsalja. És furcsa változásokat is érzett saját magán...
Megfogadta, hogy bosszút áll a férfin, aki tönkretette az életét, és a nyomába eredt, ám ez oda vezetett, hogy Shade leggonoszabb ellensége foglyul ejtette őket.
Shade, a seminus démon, akin szerelmi átok ül, remélte, hogy sosem látja többé Runát. Ám mikor egy sötét tömlöcben ébredt a mérges és titokzatos erőt sugárzó Runa mellett, rájött, hogy a nő még veszélyesebb hatással van rá, mint valaha. Rabtartójuk varázslata arra kényszerítette őket, hogy átessenek a nászszertartáson, így egy életre egy párként kénytelenek élni. Együtt vették fel a harcot az őrült ellenséggel, akinek nem csak velük voltak tervei...
Figyelem: felnőtteknek szóló tartalom!
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Motherless Child
Timed for release around Clapton's 70th birthday, MOTHERLESS CHILD will be the ultimate celebration and definitive biography of one of the most influential musicians alive today. From the 1960s graffiti proclaiming 'Clapton is God', to his seminal work in supergroup Cream and his phenomenally successful solo career, Eric Clapton has achieved the status of bona fide living legend and enduring icon. Now in his sixth decade in the music business, he occupies an exulted position at the pinnacle of the rock world thanks to songs like Layla, Wonderful Tonight and Tears In Heaven, and for many is considered the greatest guitarist who ever lived. This book will chart his rise to stardom in the 60s and his unparalleled success since walking out of t
he Yardbirds as a 20-year-old to follow his chosen path of the blues with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and later with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in supergroup Cream, as well as his successful solo career. However, his success has come at a price. Once a happy well-adjusted boy, the young Clapton was devastated by the realisation at the age of nine that the woman he thought was his sister was in fact his mother, and that the couple he thought were his parents were his maternal grandparents. His treatment by his mother was also to shape his future turbulent relationships with the women in his life, including his failed first marriage to model Pattie Boyd, who was married to Clapton's close friend George Harrison when he fell for her. Motherle
ss Child also chronicles his battles with the demons of drugs and alcohol, his successful journey to sobriety, and examines his legacy as one of the most influential musicians of his generation. This is essential reading for any Clapton fan.
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On Photography
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. "Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites". (The Times). "A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves". (Washington Post). "The most original and illuminating study of the subject". (New Yorker). One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.
Metallica - Back To The Front
Metallica: Back to the Front tells the amazing, fully authorized story of the band s seminal Master of Puppets album and tour.
Released on March 3, 1986, Metallica s Master of Puppets album became an instant classic and announced the band as the most electrifying new voice in rock. Thirty years later, this six-time platinum album is considered to be the high-water mark of Metallica s incredible career, with songs like Battery, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), and the title track, Master of Puppets, still a staple of their sell-out live shows. Sadly, this hugely successful period for Metallica was marred by a tragedy that shook the band to its foundation: the death of bassist Cliff Burton in a tour bus accident on September 27, 1986.
For the first time, Metallica: Back to the Front tells the fully authorized story of the creation of theMaster of Puppets album and the subsequent tour. Featuring new and exclusive interviews with band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, this is the definitive account of the most venerated period of Metallica s history, from the incredible highs of touring in support of Ozzy Osbourne to the lows of losing a key member of the band and crucial part of the Metallica sound.Metallica: Back to the Front will also feature interviews with other important figures in the band s history, including managers Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch, Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin, Anthrax band members Scott Ian and Charlie Benante, and many, many more.
Filled with hundreds of never-before-seen images from the band s personal archives, this deluxe volume will combine an in-depth narrative with stunning visuals, taking fans further into this defining period of the band s career than ever before. Released to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the Master of Puppets album and tour, Metallica: Back to the Front is created with the full cooperation and support of the band. The result is a treasure trove of stories, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs that legions of Metallica fans will cherish for generations to come.
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Eames
Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design. Though they are best known to the general public for their furniture, the husband and wife duo of Charles and Ray Eames (1907-78 and 1912-88, respectively) were also forerunners in the fields of architecture, industrial design, photography, and film. This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to their work for Herman Miller and films such as the seminal short, Powers of Ten.
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Conan a Pán stříbrného netopýra
Po krátkém pobytu u svých pokrevenců v Cimmerii vyráží Conan opět do jižních zemí. Navštěvuje Arenjun a setkává se s dcerou, o jejíž existenci dosud nevěděl.
Hyrkánský princ Sesamus se snaží obnovit spojení své země s Khitájí. Tím začne ohrožovat zájmy šiřitelů stygijského kultu Starých bohů. Conan se dozví o hrozícím nebezpečí, uniká ozbrojencům arenjunského krále a vyráží příteli na pomoc.
Před rozhodujícím střetem s knížetem Semkem, Pánem stříbrného netopýra, čekají oba dva střety s čarodějnicemi i příšerami; společně proniknou až do tajemné Khitáje. Nakonec do hry vstoupí i ti, v jejichž rukou je kníže Semko pouhou loutkou...
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