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Palác na jezeře Ču-an- nové příběhy soudce Ti
Soudce Ťi kvůli povodni uvízne v malém městečku. Přijme pozvání svérázné rodiny, která žije v přepychovém paláci uprostřed půvabného jezera Ču-An, střeženém štědrou bohyní s rybím ocasem.
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London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
An exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city.
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, as well as a variety of prints and photographs.
Part of the new MCL series of gorgeous pocket-sized travel paperbacks, featuring Paris: A Literary Anthology.
An Illustrated History of Britain
This is an illustrated history of Britain from prehistoric times to the present day. The book analyzes the major political and military events in British history, and where appropriate, looks at these within a wider, international context. It also describ
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Porn: An Oral History
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. Soon, unfolding before her, was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter - not a traditional history, but the raw, honest truth about what we aren't saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.
An Italian Island Summer
Will one summer in Sicily change her life for ever?
After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily, Italy. Excited by a new adventure, she sets off at once.
At Residenza dei Tringali, Ursula receives a warm welcome from everyone except Alfio, son of the Tringali family. He gave up his life in Barcelona to help his mother Agata with the ailing business, and is frustrated with Ursula’s interference – and she in turn is less than impressed with his attitude. As they spend more time together, though, they begin to see each other in a different light.
But what with Ursula’s ex-husband on her tail, family secrets surfacing and an unexpected offer that makes Alfio question his whole life, there’s plenty to distract them from one another. Can she face her past and he his future, and together make the most of their Sicilian summer?
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Jimi Hendrix: An illustrated discography
Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience illuminates the life of the musical icon who pioneered a new generation in rock and roll with his explosive electric style. With exclusive access to the private family archives, co-authors Janie Hendrix and John McDermott tell the vibrant and unique story of Jimi's life, from his formative years in hardscrabble Seattle through his short-lived days in the eye of a fanatic and dedicated public, to the aftermath of his sudden death and the wake of his legacy.
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Even Silence Has an End
Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC, a terrorist guerrilla organisation. She was held captive in the depths of the jungle for six and a half years, chained day and night for much of that time, constantly on the move and enduring gruelling conditions. She was freed and reunited with her children and relatives in 2008. It is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this important and deeply moving book, telling in her own words the extraordinary drama of her capture and eventual rescue, and describes her fight to survive, mentally and physically. As she confronts the horror of what she went through, her story also goes beyond the specifics of her own confinement to offer an intensely intelligent, thoughtful and compassionate reflection on what it means to be human.
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An Animal a Day
A fascinating animal for every day of the year!
Dip in each day to discover a new animal to enjoy sharing with friends or family - make sure to find YOUR birthday animal!
Travel through the incredible ecosystems and habitats of our beautiful planet, and meet some of the most fascinating animals that call them home. Dive into the oceans to find whales and giant squid, journey across the icy poles with penguins and polar bears, race across the African savanna with lions and wildebeest - and so much more.
Each day's entry is filled with fascinating facts - learn about completely new animals, and find out some incredible new sides to animals you might see often in everyday life.
This stunning book is packed with breathtaking illustrations to bring each animal to life. It also features information about conservation, and how we can protect endangered animals and the places they call home.
The ULTIMATE gift for animal lovers aged 6 and up.
Winslow Homer : An American Vision
In this exciting new monograph, Professor Griffin provides fresh insight into the life and work of one of America's most-famous and best-loved artists. The author places Homer against a background of American nationalism fuelled by tensions between American self-identity and European sophistication. Finding in Homer's work the aspiration to create specifically American subjects and a specifically American character. It is testament to Homer's success that his influence is still echoed in every strand of America media almost 100 years after his death. Born in 1836, Homer began his career a magazine illustrator, soon becoming a regular contributor to Harper's Weekly, one of the America's most popular magazines. In the early 1860s, Homer was sent by his editor to the front lines of Civil War battles in Virginia. His woodcuts and lithographs of wartime encampments were widely distributed and served to make him highly popular with a large American audience. In the post war years Homer turned his attention to the American countryside and its people. It was during this period that he produced Snap the Whip, a piece thought by many Americans to be his best work. This and similar paintings were embraced by American critics as nationalist masterpieces, reaffirming precious American ideals and values that had been lost during the war. Griffin compares these contemporary feelings with later scholarship - which has suggested that Homer's works hold a deeper criticism of contemporary American life - to reassess Homer's aims and achievements during this period. In 1873, Homer began to paint using watercolours - the medium for which he is perhaps best known outside the USA - and in 1883 he moved to the New England fishing village of Prout's Neck, Maine. Here he began what was to become his best-known period of seascapes and nautical scenes. The overriding theme in much of his later work is the constant struggle between man and nature, a battle illustrated by the sailors in a stormy sea taking readings from a sextant in Eight Bells of 1886. In this new study however, Griffin expands this theme to discuss the often-overlooked idea that these works also react contemporary anxieties about loss of manhood control. Illustrating how the many all-male scenes - described by critics as 'strong meat for men'- affirm masculine authority and are charged with an underlying eroticism.
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Případy soudce Ti - Palác na jezeře Ču-an
V dalším příběhu soudce Ti, slavného vyšetřovatele a soudce působícího v Číně v 7. století za vlády dynastie Tchang, uvízne soudce se svým věrným sluhou kvůli povodni a neustávajícím lijákům v malém městečku. Jednoho rána přinese rozvodněná řeka až ke dveřím krčmy, v které je ubytován, mrtvé tělo. Ukáže se, že příčinou smrti nebylo utonutí. Soudce přijme pozvání svérázné rodiny, jejíž přepychový palác uprostřed jezera střeží tajemná bohyně s rybím ocasem. Brzy ale dojde k událostem, které bohyni rozhněvají…
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An Immense World
Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision.
We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.
Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the threads of scent, waves of electromagnetism and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world we don't need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.
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Towards an Environmental Society? - Směrem k environmentální společnosti?
Jak je patrné ze samotného názvu této knihy, posun společnosti směrem k environmentálnímu myšlení a výsledkům je vekou otázkou. Před několika lety jsme oslovili s touto otázkou kolegy z různých oborů, kteří podle našeho názoru mají co říci a jsou z různých center současného světa, tak aby se vytvořil malý model globální společnosti. Výsledkem diskuse je nakonec tato kniha. Posun k environmentální společnosti je zkoumán od teoretických myšlenek až po praktické výstupy a programy pro životní prostředí. V analýze současného stavu se objevují dvě hlavní témata - klimatická změna a zemědělství. Témata diskutovaná z mnoha stran a vnitřně logicky provázaná. Jak vypadá současný stav, se snaží popsat autoři z Kanady, Spojených států, Číny a Evropy. Ekonomické teorie, role informací, filozofické otázky etiky a vlastní vnímání environmentálního posunu samotnými obyvateli je rozvedením základních témat. Dochází tedy k posunu směrem k environmentální společnosti? Mnohostranný pohled ukazuje, jak je odpověď komplikovaná. Mnohem více vypovídá o nutnosti zapojení společnosti, společenských a humanitních věd do vztahu člověka k přírodě, než by dávala jednoznačné plus nebo mínus. Pozorný čtenář pozná, že nejde o vizionářské proklamace, co by se mělo dělat, ale o pokus popsat náš současný bouřlivě se měnící svět, který - ať chceme nebo ne - je stále závislý na stavu biosféry, na stavu ekosystémů, dnes možná více než kdykoli předtím.
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An Emotional Dictionary
Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them.
Here are 1001 terms everyone needs, whether it's the best kind of hug (CWTCH), the relief found in swearing (LALOCHEZIA), or the ability to endure till the end (PERTOLERANCE).
It's time to rediscover the lost positives of language (and be more GORM); find out how a stork gave us the word for the love between parent and child, and who the first MAVERICK was. Packed with unexpected stories and unforgettable words, on a mission to describe the indescribable, this life-enhancing book will deepen your vocabulary as much as it extends it.
Welcome to the first truly human dictionary, as idiosyncratic and unusual as you are.
Ich Dachte an Goldenen Zeiten
Aus der Sicht seiner Frau erzählt der tschechische Autor Bohumil Hrabal die Geschichte seiner eigenen Ehe und damit die einer ganz und gar ungewöhnlichen Liebe. Während er, ein lange erfolgloser Schriftsteller, endlich den Durchbruch schafft, sieht sie, seine Frau, nur seine Schwächen und seine unmöglichen Freunde, bei denen er der Champion ist, die Nummer eins, besonders in der Kneipe Zum Goldenen Tiger". Das Buch ist gleichzeitig ein burlesker Gesellschaftsroman mit einer unkonventionellen Schilderung des Prager Frühlings."
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An Illustrated History of the Usa
This is a companion volume to An Illustrated History of Britain. It traces the history of the USA from the time of the Amerindians, through to the arrival of the Europeans, to the present day. Topics covered include colonial life, the Civil War and t
he American involvement in Vietnam. Each chapter consists of two or three double page spreads with inset material highlighting some of the characters or events mentioned in the main text.
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are clandestinely enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, parting company with the demons of his tragic, violent past.
But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems.
Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it?and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world?Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known.
An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth
Explore the beauty and majesty of planet Earth in this compendium, with more than 100 incredible stories and images.
The world is so much more complex than young minds can fathom, from molten-hot rock and smouldering volcanoes to icy glaciers and bubbling springs. This book about the Earth for kids aged 7+ unlocks all the mysteries of our living, breathing planet.
An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth looks at our constantly changing planet, with striking images and scientific ideas that are easy for children to understand. Starting at the centre of the Earth, the book examines each layer in forensic detail: from Earth's metallic core, drilling through Earth's tough crust until emerging out onto the planet's surface, with its lush green rainforests, sparkling oceans, and snow-capped mountains, before sailing up into Earth's airy atmosphere.
This detailed planet earth book for kids offers:
- More than 100 stories about planet Earth, from snowflakes to cave pearls, each one accompanied by a photograph and delightful illustration.
- Creative photography that presents planet Earth in surprising and remarkable ways, capturing nature in action or showing intriguing features up close.
- Beautiful gold foil, gilded edges, and a ribbon for keeping your place.
- In-depth feature pages that examine each layer of Earth.
This striking book won't fail to excite budding geologists, geographers, environmentalists, and all-round planet Earth enthusiasts everywhere.
With foil on the cover, gilded edges, and a ribbon for keeping your place, this earth book makes an attractive gift for any child who is fascinated by our planet. With engaging information and absorbing images, this anthology is great for children to explore by themselves or for bedtime stories.
More in the Series
An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth is part of DK's beautiful and informative Anthology series. Complete the series and nurture your child's curiosity as they explore the natural world with The Wonders of Nature, let them walk with the dinosaurs who ruled the earth before them in Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric Life, or dive into the deep with An Anthology of Aquatic Life.
Lacná kniha Madonna: Like an Icon (-90%)
Madonna is the biggest female pop star in the world yet there is no serious biography of her, and no biography at all by a woman. Existing books are either gossipy style manuals or rehashes of press cuttings and they all end in 2001 with Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie. Yet her story hardly ends there, as evinced by her two record breaking world tours since then...Lucy O'Brien's extensive and well-researched biography will look at Madonna the artist, giving detailed analysis of her music, complete with revealing interviews with musicians and producers.It will focus on her cultural impact and the way she uses cinema, photography, visual art, theatre and dance in her work. It will take an in-depth look at how - and, more to the point, why - Madonna has reinvented herself through her twenties, thirties, forties and will no doubt do so again in her fifties. It will also look at the wider context and include interviews with similarly crusading female artists like Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson, Jeanette Winterson and Tracey Emin. This will be, quite simply, the definitive Madonna biography.
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Der Mord an Harriet Krohn
Charles Olav Torp konnte es selbst nicht begreifen: Harriet Krohn lag vor ihm auf dem Boden ihrer Wohnung, tot. Im Grunde war es ihre eigene Schuld, sie hätte nur stillhalten müssen. Wenn das hier alles gutgehen sollte, durfte Torp jetzt keine Fehler mehr machen … Karin Fossum, eine der erfolgreichsten skandinavischen Krimiautorinnen, präsentiert einen neuen Fall für Kommissar Sejer – eine abgründige Geschichte von Schuld und Sühne und das Porträt eines beunruhigend alltäglichen Mörders zugleich.
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