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Oxford Dictionary of Zoology (Oxford Paperback Reference)
This is the only available paperback dictionary of zoology. This dictionary is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of the study of animals. Now, with over 5,000 entries, it is ideal for students and will be invaluable to amateur naturalists and all those with an interest in the subject. It is illustrated with clear line drawings, and supported by useful appendices on the genetic code, endangered animals, and SI units. It features wide coverage, including animal behaviour, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, evolution, Earth history, and zoogeography. Full taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals is provided. It is completely revised to incorporate the discovery of 'extremophiles' - organisms living in environments formerly considered impossibly hostile - and the toxonomic reclassification that this has entailed. It features entires on genetics, evolutionary studies, and mammalian physiology.
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Hume: A Very Short Introduction
Hume is one of the greatest of all British philosophers, and even in his own lifetime was celebrated as one of the pivotal figures of the Enlightenment. A central theme of his philosophy is the conviction that questions traditionally thought of as completely independent of the scientific realmDSquestions about the mind, about morality, and about God, for exampleDSare actually best explained using the experimental methods characteristic of the natural sciences. Hume's 'naturalist' approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories about perception, self-identity, causation, morality, politics, and religion, all of which are discussed in this stimulating introduction by A J Ayer, himself one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. Ayer also gives an account of Hume's fascinating life and character, and includes generous quotations from Hume's lucid and often witty writings.
Isaac Bashevis Singer : Collected Stories Vol. 3 (LOA 151)
In the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories written in Yiddish decades earlier. Stretching back to "The Jew from Babylon," a story first published in 1932, and gathering tales such as "Brother Beetle" and "There are No Coincidences" from the 1960s, the works collected in this Library of America volume, the third of three, serve as a retrospective view of Singer's achievement as a storyteller. Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah also contains ten stories published in English translation for the first time, selected from the extensive collection of Singer's papers at the University of Texas. Ranging from "Between Shadows," an evocative, naturalistic sketch set in Warsaw, to the bittersweet melodrama "Morris and Timma," to the beguiling fable "Hershele and Hanele, or The Power of a Dream." These stories enrich our understanding of Singer as a writer. The volume also includes "The Bird," "My Adventures as an Idealist," "and "Exes," stories published in magazines that were not included in any of Singer's collections. Complementing the seventy-eight stories gathered here is the introduction to Gifts (1985), a version of a lecture Singer had delivered since the early 1960s--sometimes called "Why I Write as I Do"--which illuminates his biography, philosophical outlook, and literary aims. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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La Bete Humaine
Des Batignolles Auteuil, un mécanicien de locomotive erre, le couteau en main, hanté par une idée fixe : tuer une femme... Dans le train qui mne au Havre, un couple poignarde sauvagement un notable du régime impérial, avant de le jeter sur la voie. A la Croix-de-Maufras, lieu-dit reculé, un garde-barrire empoisonne son épouse, dans l'espoir de mettre enfin la main sur son magot. La Bte humaine n'est pas seulement le grand roman ferroviaire du maître du naturalisme : c'est aussi son grand roman du crime - un Dahlia noir signé Zola, o chaque personnage semble tre tour tour le traqueur et la proie. En 1888, au moment d'entamer ce qui allait devenir l'un des volumes les plus célbres du cycle des Rougon-Macquart, Zola écrivait : Je voudrais quelque chose d'hallucinant, d'effroyable [...], qui reste jamais dans la mémoire, qui donne un cauchemar toute la France. ""
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A sorozatgyilkos - 30 eset krónikája
Kedves Robert! Úgy érzi, felkészült arra, hogy végighallgassa visszaemlékezésemet sok évtizedre visszanyúló tetteimről, emberek saját kezűleg történő megöléséről és beszámolóimat áldozataim utolsó szavairól, elhomályosuló tekintetéről és holttestük látványáról? Fel fogja tudni dolgozni, amit hallani fog?
- Igen, Mr. Tot. Azt hiszem, menni fog...
Andy Tot a világot járt öreg bűvész rászánja magát, hogy elmesélje az író Robertnek élete borzalmakkal teli kalandjait. Kevés olyan ember enged betekintést életébe, akit például egy törpe növésű férfi elevenen való megfőzésével gyanúsítanak. Andy az interjúk során egymás után tárja fel dermesztően naturális részletességgel elkövetett gyilkosságai helyszíneit, több mint húsz, gyakran szadista kegyetlenséggel meggyilkolt női és férfi áldozatainak haláltusáját, miközben Robert a rendőrség bevonásával titokban nyomozásba kezd, hogy megtudja, minden úgy történt-e, ahogy az eddigi ügyeit rendre megúszó öreg sorozatgyilkos elmeséli. Eközben borzalmas dolgokra derül fény, amelyek azelőtt legrosszabb rémálmaiban sem merültek még fel...
A váratlan fordulatok, a halálos nyugalommal és elképesztő részletességgel elmesélt gyilkosságok tettes általi leírásának tucatjai szolgálják az alapját ennek a nem mindennapi és hiteles pszicho-triller könyvnek.
A könyvben 30 elkövetett gyilkosság részleteit borzonghatjuk végig, nem mellékesen betekintést nyerve egy, az emberölés részleteit szenvtelen nyugalommal mesélő sorozatgyilkos pszichéjébe.
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
This classic biography is the story of seven men--a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician--who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year's Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. One visitor remarked afterward, "You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk--and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes."
The rest of this book tells the story of TR's irresistible rise to power. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved.
His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR's pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive. "It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves," the author writes, "and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people."
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Zola - Contes et Nouvelles 1
Zola conteur et nouvelliste ? La réponse a de quoi surprendre: on ignore le plus souvent que l'auteur des Rougon-Macquart, tout au long de sa carrire, s'est adonné l'écriture de récits brefs aux tonalités variées. Ce volume rassemble prs de trente textes rédigés pendant ses jeunes années de bohme et de journalisme. A leur lecture, c'est un Zola méconnu qui surgit soudain : fantaisiste, lorsqu'il met en scne l'errance dans Paris d'un lion et d'une hyne échappés du zoo (Une cage de btes féroces) ou lorsqu'il raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui décide, un beau matin, de faire commerce de femmes laides (Les Repoussoirs), mais aussi promeneur inspiré et satiriste engagé... Qu'on ne s'y trompe pas : le romancier est déj l tout entier. Qu'il croque le bourgeois (Villégiature) ou parodie l'engouement du public pour le roman populaire (Les Disparitions mystérieuses), qu'il s'indigne de la misre (Le Chômage) ou raille la montée en puissance de la publicité (Une victime de la réclame), le tempérament éclate toutes les pages. Par la richesse de leur inspiration, ces petits chefs-d'uvre révlent un auteur plus insaisissable et naturel que ne le laissent supposer les professions de foi naturalistes.
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Lacná kniha Zola - Contes et Nouvelles 1
Zola conteur et nouvelliste ? La réponse a de quoi surprendre: on ignore le plus souvent que l'auteur des Rougon-Macquart, tout au long de sa carrire, s'est adonné l'écriture de récits brefs aux tonalités variées. Ce volume rassemble prs de trente textes rédigés pendant ses jeunes années de bohme et de journalisme. A leur lecture, c'est un Zola méconnu qui surgit soudain : fantaisiste, lorsqu'il met en scne l'errance dans Paris d'un lion et d'une hyne échappés du zoo (Une cage de btes féroces) ou lorsqu'il raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui décide, un beau matin, de faire commerce de femmes laides (Les Repoussoirs), mais aussi promeneur inspiré et satiriste engagé... Qu'on ne s'y trompe pas : le romancier est déj l tout entier. Qu'il croque le bourgeois (Villégiature) ou parodie l'engouement du public pour le roman populaire (Les Disparitions mystérieuses), qu'il s'indigne de la misre (Le Chômage) ou raille la montée en puissance de la publicité (Une victime de la réclame), le tempérament éclate toutes les pages. Par la richesse de leur inspiration, ces petits chefs-d'uvre révlent un auteur plus insaisissable et naturel que ne le laissent supposer les professions de foi naturalistes.
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Elemi részecskék
"Ez a könyv az európai Psycho" - írta a regény egyik méltatója 1999-ben, amikor Houellebecq műve megjelent Franciaországban. Az Elemi részecskék kegyetlen regény egy testvérpárról. Michel híres tudós, Bruno irodalomtanár és író. Bruno a szexben keresi az élet értelmét, Michel pedig a tudományba zárja magát. Kapcsolatokkal vagy kapcsolatok nélkül, az eredmény végtelen magány. Az író a magány laboratóriumi körülményei közé helyezi hőseit, és tanulmányozza az egyedüllét és szeretet nélküli gyerekkor hatásait. A testvérek beszélgetéseikben a 20. század második felének társadalmi vátlozásait, az emberi kapcsolatok változását elemzik, megpróbálják megfejteni sorsuk titkát. Houellebecq kiváló humorérzékkel festi le new age-s világunkat, a hitek, filozófiák, ezoterikus tanok kavalkádját, megváltásunk megannyi előfizethető segédeszközét.
Az izgalmas, helyenként merészen naturális könyvből mégsem hiányzik a remény. Az utópiába csapó történetben Michel a mikrobiológiában megtalálja a választ az örök kérdésre: legalább elvileg van-e lehetőség normális emberi kapcsolatokra, lehet-e családban és szeretetben élni.
Az Elemi részecskéket az év legjobb regényének választották Franciaországban.
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Anatómiai atlasz
Jelen kötet a nagy sikerű, immár fogalommá vált Donáth-féle atlasz tizedik kiadása. Olyan anatómiai atlasz, amely a részletek mellőzésével az emberi test valamennyi régióját ábrázolja. Fő célkitűzése, hogy használójának egyetlen kötet keretében olyan ábragyűjteményt nyújtson, amelyben a munkája során felmerülő legkülönbözőbb anatómiai kérdésekre képi választ találhat. A képi ábrázolás, a vizuális élmény a szervezet valós térbeli megismerésének nélkülözhetetlen eszköze, hiszen csak szöveges leírásból az emberi test felépítését nem lehet megismerni. Az atlasz 162 ábrája naturális, lényeget kiemelő és egyben művészi munka, Kálmánffy János festőművész alkotása. Az ábrák jelölései a nemzetközi igényeknek megfelelően latin nyelvűek. A latin indexek egyidejű számozása azonban biztosítja, hogy az egyes ábraaláírások alatt a megfelelő anyanyelvi elnevezéseket minden esetben könnyen megtalálja az olvasó, és azonosítani tudja azokat. Az atlasz tehát valójában kétnyelvű: magyar és latin. Kiválóan szolgálja nem csak az orvostanhallgatók és gyakorló orvosok, hanem az egészségügy legkülönbözőbb területein dolgozó szakemberek, számos természettudományi, sőt humán tudományterület, így a pszichológia, pedagógia, testnevelés-tudomány, képzőművészet stb. művelőinek igényeit, sőt mindenkiét, aki munkájához vagy hobbijához igényli az emberi test szerkezetének speciális koncepciójú, integratív ismeretét.
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Symbolism
"To clothe the idea in perceptible form," proposed the poet Jean Moréas in his 1886 Manifesto of Symbolism. It was in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged headlong into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and by the operas of Wagner. Symbolist painters sought not to represent appearances but to express "the Idea," and the imaginary therefore plays an important part in their work. "Dream" was their credo&894 they execrated, with a fanatical hatred, impressionism, realism, naturalism, and the scientistic. The main principle of Symbolism, that of "correspondences," was to attain harmony between all the different arts, or even to realise the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) that Wagner had dreamt of creating. What we rediscover today, after a period of neglect, is this: Symbolist painting is essential to our understanding of modern art, not only because it spread across the world like wildfire, creating disciples from Russia to the United States, from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, but because it was the source of a series of mutations without which modern art would not be what it is.
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Jungles
Jungles are mysterious and even threatening places, among the least explored landscapes on the earth--and just the sort of place, therefore, that you might expect to find the ever-intrepid wildlife photographer Frans Lanting. "The tropical forest may be a naturalist's paradise," he writes, "but for a photographer it can be a nightmare. Once you are inside it is all blood, sweat, and leeches. Whatever you take into the forest becomes part of the food chain, whether it is your equipment or yourself." But difficult conditions come with the work. In this oversized portfolio of 120 full-color images made over two decades on four continents, Lanting chronicles the life of the world's jungles, organizing the work by themes (water and light, color and camouflage, anarchy and order, form and evolution). As befits the jungle's manic pace, few of the images are static, as Lanting captures macaws and butterflies and even frogs in flight, orangutans brachiating their way from vine to vine, turkeys and snakes scrambling and slithering. Some of the images are nothing short of astonishing, among them views of an otherworldly cloudforest lobelia thicket in Hawaii and of treetop expanses that exhibit the phenomenon called "canopy shyness," an arboreal version of animal territoriality. Admirers of Lanting's previous books, such as Okavango and Eye to Eye, will prize his new collection, while rainforest devotees will find much to inspire them in the images he brings before us. --Gregory McNamee
Van Gogh (Art & Ideas)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) has become, in the century following his death, a man on first-name terms with the world. His brief but eventful life has inspired the scrutiny of other painters, film-makers, psychologists and novelists, and his personal celebrity outstrips even the substantial fame of his works. While the popular appeal of such pictures as Sunflowers" or "Starry Night" resides in their seemingly emotion-fuelled spontaneity, they are in fact the products of a reflective and idea-driven man who was profoundly interested in and inspired by all manner of literary, musical and artistic sources (as his huge body of correspondence reveals). Van Gogh's artistic career spanned the 1880s, and was born of a failed attempt to become a preacher. After his early work in the Netherlands, he arrived mid-decade in Paris, the cultural capital of the Western world and site of heated artistic debate. In 1888 he relocated to the south of France, where he worked in Arles (along with Gauguin), St-Remy and finally Auvers-sur-Oise, producing animated studies of peasants and the surrounding countryside. His painting changed radically in the course of this brief and peripatetic career, moving from an early "naturalistic" style to one of animated brushstrokes, stylized forms and intense, high-keyed colours. Van Gogh lived in poverty, however, and sold only one painting during his working life. Having suffered numerous nervous crises, and spent time recuperating in an asylum, he sank further into acute depression and shot himself in July 1890. Although he was almost unknown among the art world at the time of his death, his fame soon began to grow; the 20th century saw a romanticizing of his life into a legend of a tortured, impulsive genius. The author draws extensively on Van Gogh's own letters in order to illuminate his artistic development and the personal vision that lies behind his work, providing a balanced yet sensitive account of this most innovative and influential of artists. "
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Une vie
Une vie, le premier roman de Maupassant, raconte une vie parmi d'autres – n'importe laquelle, celle de n'importe qui, la vie. L'histoire banale d'une jeune fille qui, sortant du couvent, trouve l'amour, se marie et découvre la jouissance sexuelle, avant de s'apercevoir que son époux désire ailleurs, et de faire peu a peu le deuil de ses illusions... De la premiere a la derniere page de ce récit naturaliste exemplaire, Maupassant dévoile la profondeur sublime d'une existence ordinaire.
Ainsi que l'écrit Annie Ernaux, Une vie est "un roman magnifique, d'une lucidité noire et d'une profonde compassion pour la condition humaine".
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Šílenec a jiné temné příběhy/Un fou et autres contes noirs
Výber z bohaté povídkové tvorby slavného francouzského prozaika Guy de Maupassanta. Dvojjazyčná, francouzsko-česká verze, nezkrácený text. Stejně jako ve své románové tvorbě i v povídkách akcentuje autor, který usiloval o to, aby jeho díla působila jako „kurzy lidské existence vyrvané ze skutečnosti“, erotické vztahy, pojímané v duchu naturalismu.
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Oxford Dictionary of Plant Science (Oxford Paperback Reference)
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. It contains over 5,500 clear and concise entries on all aspects of botany, including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and the earth sciences. Classification is comprehensive and wide ranging: approximately one-third of the entries are devoted to taxonomic groups from bacteria and fungi, to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants. This fascinating dictionary is invaluable to students, amateur botanists and naturalists, and essential reading for anyone with an interest in plants and their environments. It will also provide a useful reference tool for students and others with interests in agriculture, horticulture, physical geography, and related fields.
Lacná kniha Oxford Dictionary of Plant Science (Oxford Paperback Reference) (-70%)
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. It contains over 5,500 clear and concise entries on all aspects of botany, including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and the earth sciences. Classification is comprehensive and wide ranging: approximately one-third of the entries are devoted to taxonomic groups from bacteria and fungi, to the main groups of flowering and non-flowering plants. This fascinating dictionary is invaluable to students, amateur botanists and naturalists, and essential reading for anyone with an interest in plants and their environments. It will also provide a useful reference tool for students and others with interests in agriculture, horticulture, physical geography, and related fields.
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Lacná kniha Contes Grivois
Il y a un Maupassant satiriste, un Maupassant fantastique, un Maupassant pote, un Maupassant naturaliste... Il y a aussi un Maupassant peintre de la vie charnelle, dans ses joyeusetés et ses fureurs, ses bonheurs et ses singularités. C'est celui qu'on rencontrera dans ce livre. Des bordels ordinaires aux alcôves des demi-mondaines, des rives de la Seine (Mouche) au décor normand (Une partie de campagne), jusqu'en Afrique et mme au cimetire Montmartre (Les Tombales), les contes rassemblés ici font l'inventaire des heurs et malheurs du désir dans tous les âges et travers toutes les couches sociales. Truculent ou féroce, d'une étonnante hardiesse et cependant jamais vulgaire, l'auteur de Boule de suif et de Bel-Ami est ici ce qu'il est toujours : le peintre éclatant et généreux de la Vie sous toutes ses formes.
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Deep Blue
Take a deep breath
Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark, while on holiday with his family in Malaysia. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with these 'lords of the sea', and the oceanic life around them. His career as one of the world's most popular naturalists and explorers has taken him to countless underwater places, many never before seen by others. And he's also been witness to the startling decline in fortune of our oceans' wild inhabitants over the past fifty years.
Deep Blue is a book a lifetime in the making: a remarkable blend of memoir, travel, and marine and environmental science that takes us on an unforgettable tour of the many worlds of aquatic life: from underwater deserts and rainforests to the evolution of ocean heroes like the sea turtle and the Great White, from the genesis of ocean life to the rapidly declining state of white polar seas and coral reefs. It's both a love letter to our precious oceans and rallying cry for what we must to do save them.