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Frontieres
Explore the food of France's borderlands with acclaimed chef Alex Jackson in his second cookbook Fronti?res.
This is a book about the cooking of France’s borderlands: from the geographical to the historical, linguistic and metaphorical. In it, Alex Jackson sets out to investigate the cooking of these borderland areas with a view to exploring the similarities between the food on either side of the borders. From the Riviera, where the border has shifted many times but the cooking remains of a delicious whole, to the Occitan valleys of the Italian Alps, the Franco-German cooking of Alsace, and Marseille, one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean, and its historic (and current) links with North Africa.
Alex explores how French cuisine has been influenced through history and that many of these dishes are part of a shared tradition of western European and Mediterranean cookery.
With over 80 mouth-watering recipes and fascinating introductions to each region, Frontieres will take you on a delicious gastronomic journey through France's varied borderlands, adding many interesting dishes to your repertoire along the way.
Locsifecsi királynő férjhez megy
Lizzie életében minden a lehető legjobban alakul: végre azt csinálhatja, amire mindig is vágyott (esküvőiruha-restaurálás), és a "nagy ő" váratlanul megkérte a kezét. A szalonban égnek a telefonok; Jill Higgins álomesküvője óta mindenki Miss Nichols-szal akar dolgoztatni. Így aztán nem csoda, ha Lizzie-nek épp a Chateau Miracban rendezendő saját esküvőjének előkészületeire nincs egy perc ideje sem... Az idilli állapot hamarosan rémálommá válik: Luke fantasztikus állásajánlatot kap - Párizsban; a Nichols családban szomorú esemény történik, Shari exbarátja, Chaz pedig - akivel Lizzie a szilveszter éjszakát töltötte - egyáltalán nem lelkesedik azért, hogy Lizzie Luke felesége legyen. És Lizzie-nek előbb-utóbb el kell gondolkodnia azon, hogy valóban ezt akarja-e...
A Brutal Reckoning
From the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of encroachment on the vast Native American territory in the Deep South, which gave rise to the Creek War, the bloodiest in American Indian history, and propelled Andrew Jackson into national prominence, as he led the US Army in a ruthless campaign.
It was a war that involved not only white Americans and Native Americans but also the British and the Spanish, and ultimately led to the Trail of Tears, in which the government forcibly removed the entire Creek people, as well as the neighbouring Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cherokee nations, from their homelands, leaving the way open for the conquest of the West. No other single Indian conflict had such a significant impact on the fate of the country.
Wonderfully told and brilliantly detailed, A Brutal Reckoning is a sweeping history of a crucial period in the destruction of America's native tribes.
Young Queens
WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots – three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.
Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions.
Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by soldiers intent on seizing the key to power in Florence – Catherine herself, a girl barely 11 years old. It ends with her as the controversial queen mother of France, a woman both revered and reviled.
Mary, Queen of Scots' story begins in Scotland and ends in England. A queen turned traitor, from the confines of her English prison she longs for the idyll of her childhood in France.
Elisabeth de Valois' story begins in France, where she is born the beloved daughter of a king. It ends tragically in Spain as a cherished queen consort and mother – one who must make the ultimate sacrifice for her kingdom.
Catherine, Mary and Elisabeth lived at the French court together for many years before scattering to different kingdoms. These years bound them to one another through blood and marriage, alliance and friendship, love and filial piety; bonds that were tested when the women were forced to part and take on new roles. To rule, they would learn, was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. A crown could exalt a young woman. Equally, it could destroy her.
Drawing on new archival research, Young Queens masterfully weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one, revealing their hopes, dreams, desires and regrets in a time when even the most powerful women lived at the mercy of the state.
Eldorádó, az elveszett város
Egy rejtély, mely évtizedekig szerepelt az újságok címlapjain. Az egész világ őrá figyelt: Percy Fawcett-tet, az utolsó viktoriánus fölfedezőt a Brit Királyi Földrajzi Társaság támogatta. 57 éves korában a világ elé tárta elképzelését, miszerint Amazóniában létezett egy hatalmas, elfeledett civilizáció, melyet Z-nek nevezett el. Saját fiát és annak egy barátját vitte magával, mert Fawcett mindenki másnál jobban tudta, mibe vág bele. Csak egy kisebb csoportnak van esélye életben maradni az őserdőben, túlélni a maláriát, a vérszívó bogarakat, a kannibálokat, megmenekülni az indiánok mérgezett nyilaitól, az éhezéstől és az őrülettől. Többé nem látták őket. David Grann újságíró a legenda nyomába eredt: kiadatlan kéziratokat és leveleket böngészett át, és megjárta az őserdőt is. Felfedezők érdekfeszítő naplóiból és saját kalandjaiból végül összerakta az amazóniai legendát és azoknak a megszállottaknak a történetét, akik az elveszett civilizáció után kutattak.
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A félvér
?Winnetou ezüstpuskája még soha sem adott le hibás lövést, nincs párja a maga nemében. Old Shatterhand medveöloje olyan, mint egy ijeszto szörnyeteg, rettenetes nagy távolságról is eltalálja és megsemmisíti célját. Hát még a Henry-puskája! Gondolja csak el, Sir: huszonöt lövés fél perc alatt!?
Tomboló vihar áztatta oserdoben lovagolnak a Timple vagyon örökösei. Jogos jussuk felkelti egy gyanús kinézetu félvér bandita figyelmét, ki ?hu? kíséroül ajánlkozik. Ráadásul útjuk az ellenséges komancs indiánok földjén vezet, ahol Toku Keva indiánfonök korlátlan hatalommal rendelkezik. Mikor a bandita összefog az indiánfonökkel az örökösök kifosztásáért, úgy látszik nem menekülhetnek. Szerencsére az utolsó pillanatban érkeznek régi barátaik, Old Shatterhand és Winnetou. A komancsok egy mindent elsöpro támadást indítanak? Bízzunk Old Shatterhand és apacs barátja óriási tapasztalatában és fegyvereik erejében?
Na stiahnutie
1,94 €
Art Is Life
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simply, “the art critic.”
Now, in Art Is Life, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points—from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today—Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz’s eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramović; and visionaries like Jackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures from Thomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a “failed artist,” and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.
With his signature blend of candor and conviction, Jerry Saltz argues in Art Is Life for the importance of the fearless artist—reminding us that art is a kind of channeled voice of human experience, a necessary window onto our times. The result is an openhearted and irresistibly readable appraisal by one of our most important cultural observers.
Stretol som anjela - červená
Darčeková publikácia plná nádherných fotografií a vzácnych myšlienok od známych filozofov, spisovateľov a svätcov. Je vhodná ako malá pozornosť či povzbudenie na ceste životom alebo ako prejav vďaky.
V sérii Perly ducha ďalej vyšli:
Vďaka za priateľstvo
Milému človeku
Teš sa zo života
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Thomas, a gőzmozdony - Havas meglepetés
Karácsony előtt egy nappal Sodoron a nagy hóvihar elzárja a hegyi falvakban élőket a külvilágtól, ezért segítségre van szükségük. Thomas, Percy és barátaik összefognak, hogy közösen tisztítsák meg az utakat. Vajon sikerül nekik még a nagy ünnep előtt a falubeliekhez eljutni?
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Thomas a gőzmozdony: Mókás arcok - matricázó könyv
Látogasd meg Thomast és barátait Sodoron, ahol most új játék vár rád! Kedvenc szereplőid arcát tetszés szerint változtathatod a matricák segítségével. Számtalan új arcot adhatsz a mozdonyoknak, attól függően, hogy éppen milyen hangulatban vannak. Találd ki, milyen Thomas, Percy, James és a többiek, ha unatkoznak, boldogok, szomorúak vagy éppen izgatottak.
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Absolute Dark Nights: Death Metal
When the Earth is enveloped by the Dark Multiverse, the Justice League is at the mercy of the Batman Who Laughs—who is reborn as the Darkest Knight!
Humanity struggles to survive in a hellish landscape twisted beyond recognition, and Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman are trapped in nightmare worlds within the Dark Multiverse! It all comes down to the Darkest Knight versus Wonder Woman, in the most metal-est DC event of all time—paving the way for the future of the DC Universe!
This brilliant Absolute edition collects Dark Knights: Death Metal #1-7!
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109,25 €
115,00 €
My Life Next Door
Addictive first love romance at its very best. Perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Emily Henry and Colleen Hoover.
The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them … until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs the trellis to sit by her and changes everything.
My Life Next Door is the most emotional romantic read of 2023 – and the first in three uttery addicitve contemporary romances by Huntley Fitzpatrick.
Voted one of the top 100 Young Adult Reads of All Time on the goodreads blog. This is romance at its most immersive.
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Jóga az irodában
A kötet egy túlélő kézikönyv. Egy nagyszerű útmutató, amelyet írója azzal a céllal állított össze, hogy megszabadítson az ülő munka előbb-utóbb kivétel nélkül mindenkinél jelentkező ártalmaitól: az ízületi és izomfájdalmaktól csakúgy, mint a stressztől és kimerültségtől. A könyv lapjain jobbára olyan mozdulatsorokat találunk, amelyek az íróasztal mellett is végezhetők, és pár perc alatt kifejtik jótékony, frissítő hatásukat. A szerző - számos irodai jógatanfolyam tapasztalatával a háta mögött - meggyőződéssel állítja: tartós frissesség és jó közérzet lesz a jutalmunk, ha követjük nagy erőfeszítést nem igénylő tanácsait.
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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023
A SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST BOOK OF THE MONTH
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH (HISTORICAL FICTION)
A CHURCH HOUSE BOOKSHOP BOOK OF THE WEEK
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent
In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich.
Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.
Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.
The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more the powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.
Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.
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12,95 €
The Long View
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.
Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species. Yet modern-day technology and capitalism have supercharged our short-termist tendencies and trapped us in the present, at the mercy of reactive politics, quarterly business targets and 24-hour news cycles.
It wasn't always so. In medieval times, craftsmen worked on cathedrals that would be unfinished in their lifetime. Indigenous leaders fostered intergenerational reciprocity. And in the early twentieth century, writers dreamed of worlds thousands of years hence. Now, as we face long-term challenges on an unprecedented scale, how do we recapture that far-sighted vision?
Richard Fisher takes us from the boardrooms of Japan - home to some of the world's oldest businesses - to an Australian laboratory where an experiment started a century ago is still going strong. He examines the psychological biases that discourage the long view, and talks to the growing number of people from the worlds of philosophy, technology, science and the arts who are exploring smart ways to overcome them. How can we learn to widen our perception of time and honour our obligations to the lives of those not yet born?
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Blue Machine
All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.
Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history & culture.
In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean's complex, interlinked system.
Timely, elegant and passionately argued, Blue Machine presents a fresh perspective on what it means to be a citizen of an ocean planet. The understanding it offers is crucial to our future. Drawing on years of experience at the forefront of marine science, Helen Czerski captures the magnitude and subtlety of Earth's defining feature, showing us the thrilling extent to which we are at the mercy of this great engine.
The House of Mirth (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.' Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living in New York City, relies on beauty and charm to ensure economic survival. Determined to marry into wealth to support her expensive lifestyle, Lily denies her feelings for Lawrence Stern due to his modest income. She turns instead towards young millionaire, Percy Grace. During her pursuit of money and status, Lily becomes the agent of her own undoing. Events take a tragic turn and her reputation is ruined by scandal. She is unwilling to adhere to the standards of New York's social elitism, which leads to devastating consequences. Wharton's stunning and disturbing commentary on the role of women in this irresponsible, hedonistic society will delight those enchanted by her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Age of Innocence'.
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Study for Obedience
A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.
Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
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Horse
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner tells a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamour of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.
Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse-one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America's greatest stud sire, Horse is an original ,gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.
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