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Someday, Someday, Maybe
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead?and keep it together?in New York City.
It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway and doing “important” work. But all she has to show for her efforts so far is a part in an ad for ugly Christmas sweaters, and a gig waiting tables at a comedy club. Her roommates?her best friend Jane, and Dan, an aspiring sci-fi writer?are supportive, yet Franny knows a two-person fan club doesn’t exactly count as success. Everyone tells her she needs a backup plan, and though she can almost picture moving back home and settling down with her perfectly nice ex-boyfriend, she’s not ready to give up on her goal of having a career like her idols Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Not just yet. But while she dreams of filling their shoes, in the meantime, she’d happily settle for a speaking part in almost anything—and finding a hair product combination that works.
Everything is riding on the upcoming showcase for her acting class, where she’ll finally have a chance to perform for people who could actually hire her. And she can’t let herself be distracted by James Franklin, a notorious flirt and the most successful actor in her class, even though he’s suddenly started paying attention. Meanwhile, her bank account is rapidly dwindling, her father wants her to come home, and her agent doesn’t return her calls. But for some reason, she keeps believing that she just might get what she came for.
Someday, Someday, Maybe is a story about hopes and dreams, being young in a city, and wanting something deeply, madly, desperately. It’s about finding love, finding yourself, and perhaps most difficult of all in New York City, finding an acting job.
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“A winning, entertaining read . . . [Lauren Graham] has smartly mined just the right details from her own experience, infusing her work with crackling dialogue and observations about show business that ring funny and true.”—The Washington Post
“A charmer of a first novel . . . [Graham] has an easy, unforced style and, when the situation calls for it, a keen sense of the ridiculous.”—The Wall Street Journal
“With insight, care, and an abundance of humor . . . Graham demonstrates that her acting chops are not her only talent.”—Library Journal
“Thoroughly charming.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Sweet, funny, and full of heart . . . a dazzling debut.”—Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed and Where We Belong
“Warm and funny, charming and smart.”—Diane Keaton, New York Times bestselling author of Then Again
“Graham deftly captures what it’s like to be young, ambitious, and hopeful in New York City.”—Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries
“Fresh and funny and full of zingers, Lauren Graham’s charming writing style instantly drew me in.”—Meg Cabot, bestselling author of the Princess Diaries and Heather Wells Mystery series
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Human (and) nature. Epic journeys to the ends of the earth: Salgado's opus on our planet in its natural state. On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he had an epiphany: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward - though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer - the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who "always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white images," shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely. Having been raised on a rural farm in Brazil, far from civilization and without television, Salgado possessed a deep love and respect for nature; he was also particularly sensitive to the ways in which human beings are affected by their often devastating socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works Salgado has produced in his esteemed career, three long-term projects stand out: "Workers" (1993), documenting the vanishing way of life of manual laborers across the world, "Migrations" (2000), a tribute to mass migration driven by hunger, natural disasters, environmental degradation and demographic pressure, and this new opus, "Genesis", the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society - the land and life of a still-pristine planet. "Some 46 per cent of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis," Salgado reminds us. "We must preserve what exists." The Genesis project, along with Salgado's Instituto Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future. Over 32 trips - traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold and in sometimes dangerous conditions - Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in such shocking and intense beauty as to take one's breath away. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams, Salgado brings black and white photography to a new dimension; the tonal variations in his works, the contrasts of light and dark, recall the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Georges de la Tour. On the earth is instilled a glistening, textured fabric so intricate in its weave that even the most finite details seem to extend to infinity. What does one discover in "Genesis"? The ancient animal species and volcanoes of the Galapagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the Antarctic and South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; African lions, leopards, and elephants; the isolated Zo'e tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Kurowai people of West Papua; nimadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa and the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro and Jurua rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska...and beyond. Having gone, quite literally in some cases, where no man has gone before, and having spent so much time, energy, and passion dedicated to the making of this work, Salgado likens "Genesis" to "my love letter to the planet."
Incredibles
The city of Municiburg is protected by many superheroes, but its main champion is the ultra strong Mr. Incredible - who always works alone. But things go awry for Mr. Incredible and the rest of the supers when they are hit with a series of lawsuits brought by those they once saved. In an effort to diffuse the situation, the government steps in and creates a program to relocate the supers and put them into hiding in exchange for their promise never to use their powers again. Mr. Incredible is forced to resume the life of his secret identity - Bob Parr. But family life and the daily nine-to-five aren't enough for Bob, who takes to sneaking out and doing "super-hero work" in the evenings with his good friend Lucius who used to be known as Frozone. These evening outings cause problems for Bob at home. But things take an unexpected turn when Bob is contacted by a mysterious woman named Mirage who wants to recruit Bob for some top secret superhero work...
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Et si c´était vrai...
Lauren est dans le coma, c'est indéniable. Mais elle est aussi dans le placard d'Arthur, un peu comme un fantôme, cela est tout aussi indéniable... Arthur, en tout cas, est bien obligé de l'admettre : il la voit, l'entend, la comprend et finit même par l'aimer. Mais que peut-on espérer d'un fantôme que l'on est le seul à distinguer ? On ne tombe pas amoureux d'un mirage, on ne force pas son meilleur ami à dérober une ambulance pour kidnapper un corps dans le coma, on ne ment pas à la police pour sauver une ombre, et pourtant... Marc Lévy signe ici un premier roman particulièrement grisant, qui s'amuse du lecteur et de ses certitudes, toujours avec légèreté : comme Arthur, on se laisse prendre au jeu de Lauren, et comme lui, on finit par se dire, entre deux rebondissements : Et si c'était vrai.... Phénoménal succès de librairie dès sa sortie, ce roman trouvera bientôt une consécration sur grand écran puisque Steven Spielberg a décidé de porter cette invraisemblable histoire à l'écran. --Karla Manuele
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Kommunistához mentem feleségül
Philip Roth ebben a regényében is egy lebilincselő, a háború utáni amerikai történelemben mélyen gyökerező történetet mesél el a rá mindig jellemző fantasztikus profizmussal és részletgazdagsággal. Szembesülünk az amerikai életforma brutalizálódásával, az amerikai álommal, a zsidóság vállalásával és elutasításával, az ember alapvető megismerhetetlenségével - hisz nincs olyan borzalom, olyan árulás, olyan perverzió, amitől az ember visszariadna.
A történetet a hatvanöt éves író, Nathan Zuckerman meséli el, pontosabban hat estén keresztül beszélget egykori irodalomtanárával, akinek rég elhunyt öccse a mű főhőse: Iron Rinn, a kommunista rádiószínész, akinek kommunistasága mögött Nathan rettenetes titkot sejt - nem alaptalanul. Rinn ugyanis tizenhat éves korában gyilkossá válik, menekül, álnéven bányász lesz, majd egy véletlen folytán színész, Abe Lincoln megszemélyesítője, de közben van egy másik élete - a kommunista szervezkedés. Mindez a mccarthyzmus idején nem veszélytelen vállalkozás. Irát felesége, az öregedő színésznő képében éri utol a végzet; neki, az antiszemita zsidó sztárnak sikerül összeroppantania a Vasembert, amikor ország-világ elé öklendi: "Kommunistához mentem feleségül".
Philip Roth 1997-ben az Amerikai pasztorál-ért Pulitzer-díjat kapott. 1998-ban a Fehér Házban átvehette a National Medal of Arts nevű, legmagasabb állami művészeti díjat, 2002-ben pedig az Amerikai Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia legrangosabb kitüntetését, a Gold Medal in Fictiont, amelyet korábban többek között John Dos Passosnak, William Faulknernek és Saul Bellow-nak ítéltek oda. Kétszer nyerte el a National Book Awardot és a National Book Critics Circle Awardot, háromszor a PEN/Faulkner Awardot. 2005-ben az Összeesküvés Amerika ellen című könyvével elnyerte az Amerikai Történész Szövetség díját "2003-2004 kiemelkedő amerikai témájú történelmi regényéért".
Roth elnyerte a PEN két legrangosabb díját is: 2006-ban a Pen/Nabokov Awardot "következetesen eredeti és tökéletes mesterségbeli tudással megalkotott életművéért", és 2007-ben a PEN/Saul Bellow Awardot, melynek indoklása szerint "hosszú pályafutása során alkotott életművének minősége Philip Rothot... az amerikai irodalom legmagasabb csúcsára helyezi".
Philip Roth az egyetlen élő amerikai író, akinek művei a Library of America gyűjteményes, mértékadó kiadásában megjelentek. 2011-ben a Fehér Házban átvehette a National Humanities Medalt, és ugyanabban az évben neki ítélték a negyedik alkalommal kiosztott Nemzetközi Man Booker-díjat.
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Ring Of Bright Water Trilogy
Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. With its small bay and islands, magical waterfall and encircling stream of vivid water, his remote home was a haven for wildlife. He na
med it Camusfearna and settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko.
Ring of Bright Water, the story of Gavin Maxwell's first ten years with the otters in this idyllic setting, touched the hearts of readers the world over, brilliantly evoking lif
e with these playful animals in this natural paradise. Two further volumes followed - The Rocks Remain and Raven Seek Thy Brother - bringing the story full circle and telling of the difficult last years and final abandonment of the settlement.
Here,
Gavin Maxwell's poignant and often comic memoir of his life with the otters has been collected into one volume so that at last it can be read as a single unbroken narrative.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus
, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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A fiatal és a középkorú Cohen hol gunyoros, hol cinikus vagy éppen játékos. És mintha nem is lenne egészen őszinte, talán még magával sem; olykor inkább szerepel, ahelyett hogy szívből szólna. De legalább következetesen érdekes, még ha ismétlésekbe, netán önellentmondásokba keveredik is. Aztán a 90-es évek végén eljön egy pillanat, amikortól kezd úgy viszonyulni mindahhoz, amit korábban mondott, mint valami "fedősztorihoz". Innentől egyre inkább lerántja magáról a leplet, sokkal nyíltabban beszél a depressziójáról, a kapcsolatairól és a pályafutásáról."
-Jeff Burger
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-Suzanne Vega
Leonard Norman Cohen (1934) kanadai költő, regényíró, énekes és dalszövegíró. Korunk egyik legjelentősebb előadóművésze.
Jeff Burger író, újságíró, szerkesztő, a Springsteen on Springsteen című könyv szerkesztője. Rendszeresen publikál a Barron's, a Family Circle, a GQ, a Los Angeles Times és a Reader's Digest magazinokban. Ridgewoodban (New Jersey) él.
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Pirouettes dans les ténebres
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KDO: Celtic Frost pocházeli ze Švýcarska a věnovali se extrémním formám metalu. Vznikli v roce 1981, název Celtic Frost však přijali až o tři roky později. V začátcích se nechali ovlivnit např. Venom, Black Sabbath nebo Judas Priest, ale inspiraci hledali i mezi gothic rockovými kapelami (Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees). Jejich první nahrávky byly klasifikovány jako trash, black nebo death metal, v pozdější fázi jsou Celtic Frost řazeni spíš mezi doom a gothic metalové spolky.
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LP2
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6. D1 Circle of the Tyrants
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LP4
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LP5
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LP7
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LP8
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MC
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2. P2 Messiah (1984 Rehearsal)
3. Q1 Procreation (Of the Wicked) (1984 Rehearsal)
4. Q2 Nocturnal Fear (1984 Rehearsal)
USB
1. Human (Intro)
2. Into the Crypts of Rays
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4. Dethroned Emperor
5. Morbid Tales
6. Procreation (Of the Wicked)
7. Return to the Eve
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16. Jewel Throne
17. Dawn of Meggido
18. Eternal Summer
19. Circle of the Tyrants
20. (Beyond the) North Winds
21. Fainted Eyes
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23. Necromantical Screams
24. Circle of the Tyrants (Emperor's Return EP)
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27. Journey Into Fear (Emperor's Return EP Recording Sessions)
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32. Inner Sanctum
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36. One In Their Pride (Porthole Mix)
37. I Won't Dance (The Elders' Orient)
38. Rex Irae (Requiem)
39. Oriental Masquerade
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41. The Inevitable Factor
42. In The Chapel, In The Moonlight (The Collector's Celtic Frost)
43. One In Their Pride (Re-Entry Mix)
44. The Inevitable Factor (Alternate Vox)
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Baghdad, 2003. An American army unit hunting down Saddam's inner
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této knihy se nebudou chtít stát profesionálními webdesignery, mnozí však mají své osobní webové stránky nebo plánují jejich přípravu. Kniha je určena všem, kteří se chtějí s tvorbou grafiky pro web seznámit nebo se v ní zdokonalit, třeba jen z toho
prostého důvodu, že mají potěšení z dobře vypadajících stránek. Kniha popisuje snad všechna témata z oblasti webdesignu od základních informací typu jak začít, jak vytvářet esteticky vypadající weby, jak plánovat webové projekty, jaké si stanovova
t cíle atd. přes informační architekturu, navigaci, problematiku přístupnosti, barev, pojednání o optimalizaci obrázků pro web, o webových souborech či typografii, až po praktické použití JavaScriptu, XHTML a CSS, zvuku a animací, obrázků, tabulek, r
ámců, fontů atd.Mimo výše zmíněného v knize najdete i užitečné informace o vytváření online komunit, o použitelnosti webových stránek, o standardech pro internetové prohlížeče nebo informace o tom, kde a jak hostovat své webové stránky a řadu dalších
zajímavých témat. Lynda Weinmanová vyučuje počítačovou grafiku již od roku 1984. Spolupracovala s mnoha institucemi, např. Art Center College of Design, UCLA, American Film Institute (AFI) a San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Program. Napsala řa
du článků pro časopisy MacWorld, MacUser, MacWeek, Step-by-Step Graphics a How. Přednášela na mnoha konferencích a pracovala jako poradce pro firmy Apple, Microsoft, Oracle a mnoho dalších společností. Více informací o ní a jejích projektech najdete
na stránkách www.lynda.com.
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The Last American Man
At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed he built, grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed and skinned before using their sinew as sewing thread. But he didn't stop there. In the years that followed, he stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges. He travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers; he scaled cliffs in New Zealand. One Christmas, he finished dinner with his family and promptly upped and left - to ride his horse across America. >From South Carolina to the Pacific, with his little brother in tow, they dodged cars on the highways, ate road kill and slept on the hard ground. Now, more than twenty years on, Eustace is still in the mountains, residing in a thousand-acre forest where he teaches survival skills and attempts to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature. But over time he has had to reconcile his ambitious dreams with the sobering realities of modernity. Told with Elizabeth Gilbert's trademark wit and spirit, this is a fascinating, intimate portrait of an endlessly complicated man: a visionary, a narcissist, a brilliant but flawed modern hero. The Last American Man is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. The Last American Man is a New York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
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Mao The unknown story
Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him - this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology, his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power, he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China, and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. Combining meticulous history with the story-telling style of Wild Swans, this biography makes immediate Mao's roller-coaster life, as he intrigued and fought every step of the way to force through his unpopular decisions. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court, and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behaviour towards his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time. This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.
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1000 Symbols
Symbols are an international language, but that language is far from universal. Different symbols mean radically different things in different contexts - a cross, a crane, or a swastika each have a distinct meaning for a Buddhist, an art historian, or a student of the occult.1000 Symbols offers a comprehensive directory of symbols in clear, detailed artworks, each accompanied by a definition of the symbol's history and its cross-cultural meanings.Beginning with an alphabetical, cross-referenced index, the book is then organized into groupings of related symbols:Geometrical Shapes-circle, square, triangle, pentagram, crescent, and spiral are just a few of the entries. The Universe and the Elements includes all the symbols for the world around us-earth, air, fire, and water, as well as times of day or month, and the planets. Characters and People details the symbolism attached to specific characters or to people and their general attributes. Living Creatures denotes the symbolism of animals, birds, fish, and insects. Flowers, Plants, and Trees highlights the symbolism of growing things, from the oak to the lotus. Mythical Beasts contains beasts from the myths and legends of all cultures, including hybrids such as the centaur. Objects and Artifacts includes made or manufactured objects of symbolism, from knot to labyrinth. Numbers and Colors outlines their symbolic attributes in different cultures and contexts. Whether you are baffled by the relevance of the winged staff held by Mercury in a classical painting or wonder about the number of branches on the Hebrew menorah, this comprehensive directory will give you the information you are looking for, and place the explanation in its historical and cultural context. 1000 illustrations in 2 colors
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OXF COMP PHILOSOPHY NOVE VYD.
Offering clear and reliable guidance to the ideas of philosophers from antiquity to the present day and to the major philosophical systems around the globe, he Oxford Companion to Philosophy is the definitive philosophical reference work for readers at all levels. For ten years the original volume has served as a stimulating introduction for general readers and as an indispensable guide for students and scholars. A distinguished international assembly of 249 philosophers contributed almost 2,000 entries, and many of these have now been considerably revised and updated in this major new edition, to these are added over 300 brand-new pieces on a fascinating range of current topics such as animal consciousness, cloning, corporate responsibility, the family, globalization, terrorism .Here is, indeed, a world of thought, with entries on idealism and empiricism, epicureanism and stoicism, passion and emotion, deism and pantheism. The contributors represent a veritable who's who of modern philosophy, including such eminent figures as Isaiah Berlin, Sissela Bok, Ronald Dworkin, John Searle, Michael Walzer, and W. V. Quine. We meet the great thinkers--from Aristotle and Plato, to Augustine and Aquinas, to Descartes and Kant, to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, right up to contemporary thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, Luce Iragaray, and Noam Chomsky. There are short entries on key concepts such as personal identity and the mind-body problem, major doctrines from utilitarianism to Marxism, schools of thought such as the Heidelberg School or the Vienna Circle, and contentious public issues such as abortion, capital punishment, and welfare. In addition, the book offers short explanations of philosophical terms (qualia, supervenience, iff), puzzles (the Achilles paradox, the prisoner's dilemma), and curiosities (the philosopher's stone, slime). Almost every entry is accompanied by suggestions for further reading, and the book includes both a chronological chart of the history of philosophy and a gallery of portraits of eighty eminent philosophers.An indispensable guide and a constant source of stimulation and enlightenment, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy will appeal to everyone interested in abstract thought, the eternal questions, and the foundations of human understanding.
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Incognito - Always Trere 1981-2021 40 Years Still Groovin (Box Set) 8CD
Tracklist:
Disco 1:
1
Parisienne Girl
2
Summer's Ended
3
Shine On (Live at Capital Session)
4
Incognito (12" Remix Version)
5
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
6
Still a Friend of Mine
7
Deep Waters
8
I Hear Your Name
9
Everyday
10
A Shade of Blue
11
Roots (Back to a Way of Life)
12
Talkin' Loud
13
Change (Bluey Remix) [feat. Stevie Wonder]
14
Colibri
Disco 2:
1
Always There (David Morales Remix) [feat. Jocelyn Brown]
2
Givin' It Up (Roger Sanchez Uplifting Edit)
3
Nights Over Egypt (Masters at Work Main Mix) [feat. Jocelyn Brown & Maysa]
4
Out of the Storm (David Morales Radio Edit) [feat. Maysa]
5
Morning Sun (Feat. Joy Rose)
6
Listen to the Music (Feat. Maysa)
7
It's Just One of Those Things (Feat. Maysa & Tony Momrelle)
8
That's Just the Way of the World (Short Version) [feat. Maysa & Carleen Anderson]
9
Step Aside (Feat. Joy Rose)
10
Lowdown (Feat. Chaka Khan & Mario Biondi)
11
Goodbye to Yesterday (Feat. Mo Bandis)
12
Silver Shadow (Feat. Vanessa Haynes)
13
Just Say Nothing (Feat. Vanessa Haynes)
14
After the Beat Is Gone (Feat. James Berkeley)
15
You Are in My System (Feat. Bluey)
Disco 3:
1
Crazy for You (Feat. Chyna)
2
Good Love (Feat. Pamela Anderson)
3
Labour of Love (Feat. Chris Ballin)
4
Always There (Feat. Jocelyn Brown)
5
Fountain of Life (Feat. Imaani)
6
Where Did We Go Wrong? (Feat. Joy Malcolm)
7
Cut It Loose (Feat. Dianne Joseph)
8
Stay Mine (Feat. Kelli Sae)
9
On the Road (Part Two) [feat. Jack Kerouac)
10
Nights Over Egypt (Bluey's Mix) [feat. Maysa & Jocelyn Brown)
11
Inside Life (Feat. Linda Muriel)
Disco 4:
1
Feel So Good (Feat. Maysa)
2
Neon Mountain
3
That's the Way It's Gonna Be
4
Passage for the Message
5
Stay (See Me Through) [feat. Ian WIlliam Hoare]
6
All That You Want Me to Be (Feat. Maysa)
7
Celebrate Your Life (Feat. Maysa)
8
Freedom Town (Feat. Mark Brown)
9
Glide
10
Port Luis
11
Release Yourself
12
Samba to Coda
13
Step Into My Life
14
The Padded Duke
15
Pick Up the Pieces (Live in Japan)
Disco 5:
1
Fearless
2
Jacob's Ladder
3
After the Fall
4
Need to Know
5
Dark Side of the Cog
6
L'arc En Ciel De Miles
7
Love Is the Colour
8
One Step to a Miracle
9
Tribal Vibes
10
Rivers Running Black
11
Millenium
12
Black Rain
13
Solar Fire
14
She Wears Black
Disco 6:
1
She Rises in the East (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
2
Solar Fire (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
3
Lavour of Love (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
4
I Love What You Do for Me (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
5
Talkin' Loud (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
6
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
7
Out of the Storm (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
8
Dark Side of the Cog (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
9
Beneath the Surface (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
10
Colibri (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
11
Deep Waters (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
12
Everyday (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
13
Roots (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
14
Always There (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
15
Still a Friend of Mine (Live in the Garden Hall, Yesibu, Tokyo, 14th December, 1996)
Disco 7:
1
Always There (Master at Work Remix 96)
2
Pieces of a Dream (Roger Sanchez's Sambra Sensational Remix)
3
On the Road (Danny Krivit Re-edit)
4
I Can See the Future (Ski's Main Mix)
5
It Ain't Easy (Tom Middleton Cosmos Remix)
6
Fearless (Blaze Shelter Dub)
7
I Hear Your Name (Roger Sanchez Factory Dub)
8
Everyday (Masters at Work Everyday Dub)
9
Jacob's Ladder (Nu Yorican Dub)
10
Good Love (CJ Mackintosh's Dub)
Disco 8:
1
Out of the Storm (C's Planet E Special Mix)
2
Still a Friend of Mine (Gilles Peterson and Paul Martin's Singing Loud Remix)
3
Can You Feel Me (Dealt With Bass Remix)
4
Roots (Pete Rock Remix)
5
Wild and Peaceful (K-Dope Remix)
6
Get Into My Groove (Jazzanova Regroove)
7
Castles in the Air (IG Culture Remix - Dreamers Schemers Re-dub)
8
Nights Over Egypt (MJ Cole Remix)
9
Slow Down (Get a Grip) [Groove Chronicles Remix]
10
Barumba (Daniel Maunick's Remix)
11
Reach Out (Alex Attias Straight Funk Dub Version)
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Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (Extended Edition) 3CD
KDO: Švédská skupina Opeth patří k legendám progresivního metalu. Na scéně působí od roku 1990, natočila řadu alb a postupně do své hudby vstřebala řadu zajímavých vlivů od folku, blues, přes klasiku k jazzu.
CO: Rozšířená reedice zatím posledního alba Opeth „In Cauda Venenum“ z roku obsahuje anglickou a švédskou verzi alba a na třetím disku 3 bonusové skladby, a to opět jak v anglickém, tak i švédském jazyce.
CD1
1. Garden Of Earthly Delights
2. Dignity
3. Heart In Hand
4. Next Of Kin
5. Lovelorn Crime
6. Charlatan
7. Universal Truth
8. The Garroter
9. Continuum
10. All Things Will Pass
CD2
1. Livets Trädg?rd
2. Svekets Prins
3. Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör
4. De Närmast Sörjande
5. Minnets Yta
6. Charlatan
7. Ingen Sanning Är Allas
8. Banemannen
9. Kontinuerlig Drift
10. Allting Tar Slut
CD3
1. The Mob
2. Width of a Circle
3. Freedom & Tyranny
4. Pöbeln
5. Cirkelns Riktning
6. Frihet & Tyranni