Hľadanie: Lucian Freud
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A gyönyör sötét hercege
Szépség és szörnyeteg...
Lucia, a gyönyörű, csábító valkűr, és Garreth MacRieve, Lykae hercege, a parázsló szemű, szenvedélyes vérfarkas elsöprő erejű románca titkokkal és veszélyekkel terhelt - pusztulást hozhat a lányra és szeretteire is. Ám a fékezhetetlen vágynak semmi sem állhatja útját, Lucia érintése felkorbácsolja Garreth érzékeit, míg a férfi csókjának ellenállni lehetetlen.
Garreth mindenáron birtokolni akarja ezt az őrjítő nőt, védelmezni szeretné, de hogyan tudná rávenni, hogy Lucia elfogadja őrzőjének?
Egyetlen megoldás kínálkozik: Garreth kihasználja a nő gyengeségét - azt, hogy olthatatlanul vágyik a szerelmére...
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Black Wings of Cthulhu 4
Through his collaborations with today's most talented and acclaimed practitioners of Lovecraftian fiction, editor S. T. Joshi has made the Black Wings of Cthulhu series essential for every library of horror and the macabre. Volume four offers up seventeen new masterpieces, each exploring the roots of fear employed so famously by the master himself, H. P. Lovecraft.Between these covers there lies a who's who of the supernatural, including Fred Chappell, Jason V Brock, Gary Fry, Richard Gavin, Cody Goodfellow, Lois H. Gresh, Caitli n R. Kiernan, Charles Lovecraft, Will Murray, John Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey, W. H. Pugmire, Ann K. Schwader, Darrell Schweitzer, Simon Strantzas, Melanie Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, and Stephen Woodworth.
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Winning Not Fighting
FT BOOK OF THE MONTH
'A wondrous book' - Alain de Botton
'A wholly new perspective to finding balance and success' - Nir Eyal
'I highly reccommend it' - Chief experience officer, Publicis Group and author of How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Digital Age
Smash your targets * Annihilate the competition * Choose your battles
Have you ever wondered why we use metaphors derived from war and conflict so often at work? What impact does that have on how we conduct business, our culture, our stress levels and ultimately our ability to succeed?
For too long war has cast a spell on how we think about business, with negative implications for us, the companies we work in and on the planet. Drawing on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art based on the idea that fighting is fundamentally bad, John Vincent and Julian Hitch challenge some of our deepest-held assumptions and show us how to unlearn many ideas and behaviours that are preventing our personal and professional growth. Instead of embracing force as the long accepted route to success, Winning Not Fighting offers as a transformational guide to work and life by inspiring positivity, simplicity and focus.
"Unites business and martial arts in a realistic, practical and intelligent way. It's capitalism, but not as we know it." - Benjamin Zephaniah
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The Man in the Red Coat
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life.
Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.
The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque - its heroes and villains, its writers, artists and thinkers - and a life of a man ahead of his time. Witty, surprising and deeply researched, the new book from Julian Barnes illuminates the fruitful and longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France, and makes a compelling case for keeping that exchange alive.
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Brian Frouds Faeries Tales
Following in the footsteps of his popular Trolls and faeries books, Brian and Wendy Froud lead readers deeply into the world of Faeries. Humans throughout history have always had special relationships and bonds with faeries, whether loving and helpful or at times destructive. This new book explores that complex relationship and the liminal state between the human and faery world where meeting and interaction occur. In Brian Froud's Faeries' Tales, readers encounter individual faeries, each with a story to uncover, as told by the faeries themselves. Many of the stories are familiar to humans, but the "true" story is told by the faeries. Similar to the Trolls fragments, the faeries' tales are coupled with portraits and interspersed with drawings and studies of the mysterious and enchanting folk who flit back and forth between the human world and theirs.
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast
'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg ...Highly recommended for those seeking a better understanding of American foreign policy in action' Jacob Sherman, Library Journal
'A behind-the-scenes look at the most shadowy corners of the American intelligence community...Well-sourced and well-paced, this book is full of surprises' Kirkus
'Annie Jacobsen takes us inside the darkest and most morally ambiguous corner of our government, where politicians ask brave men and women to kill-up close and personal-on America's behalf' Garrett M. Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of us Die
'This is a first rate book on the CIA, its paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins' New York Journal of Books
'Having already demonstrated her remarkable aptitude for unearthing government secrets in books like Area 51 (2011) and The Pentagon's Brain (2015), Jacobsen pulls back the curtain on the history of covert warfare and state sanctioned assassinations from WWII to the present...Jacobsen's work revealing a poorly understood but essential slice of warfare history belongs in every library collection' Booklist
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulizter Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain
Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the C IA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking out America's enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue-operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the House and Senate Select Committees. At the end of the day, it is the President, not the C IA, who is singularly in charge.
For the first time, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen takes us deep inside this top-secret history. With unparalleled access to former operatives, ambassadors, and even past directors of the Secret Service and CIA operations, Jacobsen reveals the inner workings of these teams, and just how far a U.S. president may go, covertly but lawfully, to pursue the nation's interests.
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Lacná kniha Petit Larousse Illustre 2010 + CD-ROM (-90%)
Le Petit Larousse illustré 2010 150 000 définitions 59 000 noms communs 28 000 noms propres 5 000 illustrations Une chronologie Les célbres pages roses de citations, proverbes et mots historiques La liste des mots concernés par les rectifications de l orthographe Plus de 300 cartes en couleurs De nouvelles entrées 150 nouveaux noms communs 50 nouveaux noms propres De nouvelles planches illustrées Les coquillages, le mimétisme animal et végétal, les empreintes des animaux, les orchidées, les provinces et régions de l ancienne France, les souveraines mythiques, les instruments de la connaissance de l Univers. Une dimension pédagogique renforcée Un mémento de grammaire entirement remaquetté en quadrichromie, dans une optique périscolaire. Un « ascenseur alphabétique » dans les noms communs et les noms propres, pour un repérage facilité. A l occasion du 120e anniversaire de la Semeuse : un millésime collector Pour fter cet événement : 40 dessinateurs de renom ont illustré in-texte, dans la partie noms communs, 400 mots ou expressions, de façon humoristique, poétique, décalée... La « fine fleur » de la bande dessinée et du dessin de presse français a participé : Binet, Cabu, Druillet, Fred, Moebius, Lewis Trondheim, Wiaz, Willem, Wolinski... et mme Valérie Lemercier !
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Kamera által homályosan
Kamerák ?felszerelve. Indulhat a megfigyelés. De ki figyel meg kicsodát? Fred kábítószeres ügynök, aki eltökélten próbál a H-Anyag nevű illegális, bár bizonyos körökben roppant népszerűségnek örvendő szer nyomára bukkanni. Ezért a külsejét teljes mértékben megváltoztató maszkafander segítségével felveszi a drogdíler Bob Arctor személyiségét, és ebben a szerepben ő is komoly fogyasztójává válik a H-Anyagnak. A kábítószernek azonban súlyos mellékhatása van: kettéhasítja fogyasztója személyiségét. Fred – a kábítószeres ügynök – tehát a titokban elhelyezett kamerák képein keresztül figyeli Bob Arctort – a drogdílert –, és közben fogalma sincs róla, hogy saját maga után nyomoz. A rendőrök és a bűnözők mindig is szorosan függtek egymástól, de egyetlen regény sem dolgozta fel erőteljesebben ezt a perverz szimbiózist, mint Philip K. Dick 1977-ben született remekműve, amiből 2006-ban Richard Linklater kultikus filmet is forgatott Robert Downey Jr., Keanu Reeves és Woody Harrelson főszereplésével.
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Second World War: Closing The Ring
CLOSING THE RING covers the decisive 12 months between June 1943 and June 1944. Command of the seas had returned to Allied hands, the U-boats were mastered and the Luftwaffe beaten. These achievements made possible the 'closing of the ring' which was to extinguish Axis resistance and eventually end the war. The danger was no longer defeat but stalemate. Russian armies were driving the German invaders back into their own country, Italy was freed from the fascist yoke and Africa was cleared. However, before the Allies lay the formidable task of invading the aggressors in their own land. Frankly and unreservedly, Sir Winston Churchill reveals the tensions and divergences of opinions concerning how best to achieve this among the three great partners, Britain, USA and Russia.
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Das Alphabethaus
Der Absturz zweiter britischer Piloten hinter den feindlichen Linien … Ein Krankenhaus im Breisgau, in dem psychisch Kranke als Versuchskaninchen für Psychopharmaka dienen … Die dramatische Suche eines Mannes nach seinem Freund, den er dreißig Jahre zuvor im Stich gelassen hat … »Eine unfassbare Geschichte: die Schrecken des Krieges und das Schicksal psychisch zutiefst beschädigter Patienten einer Nervenheilanstalt auf der einen Seite, die Freundschaft zweier englischer Piloten und die Suche nach einem Verschwundenen auf der anderen, gehört zum Besten, was Jussi Adler-Olsen je geschrieben hat. Wie er das groteske Elend der Patienten einer Nervenklinik als Folge des Krieges schildert, ist anrührend und beklemmend zugleich. Man liest das Buch mit allen Sinnen.« Ingrid Brekke in ‚Aftenposten'
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Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 7: Batmen Eternal
They were the greatest team of crime-fighters Gotham City has ever known. Now that team has been shattered.
Clayface is dead, killed by Batwoman after his path to redemption led to disaster. The Bat-Family--Nightwing, Red Robin, Batgirl, the Red Hood, Robin and the Dark Knight himself--must decide what to do about their prodigal partner.
But Batwoman has been offered control of an army, with Batwing and Azrael following in her footsteps. Now these two rival forces are at each other's throats. As the family feud between cousins Bruce Wayne and Kate Kane threatens to tear Gotham City apart, Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown are caught in the crossfire.
And behind it all, a sinister cybernetic force is at work to transform Red Robin into the ultimate weapon, and therefore lock Gotham into its worst possible future.
To reunite his team and save his city, Batman must trust all those who wear the emblem of the Bat. Because fight or fall, they'll all do so together.
Featuring the art of Javier Fernandez, Eddy Barrows, Alvaro Martinez and more, writer James Tynion IV's epic saga of Batman and his allies reaches its incredible conclusion in these final chapters from Detective Comics #975-981.
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Andy Gotts: The Photograph
A 90-second shoot with Stephen Fry in 1989 launched the career of Andy Gotts, photographer to the stars. Through grift and graft and raw, honed talent, Gotts has become one of the most in-demand celebrity photographers working the circuits of Hollywood, British media, and the music industry. Gotts's dramatic black-and-while style turns faces into artworks of shadow and light, while his colour portraits capture his subjects' ineffable humanity.
For the first time Andy Gotts reveals the incredible depth of his archive, showing his most famous portraits and many rare images alongside. The book focuses on Andy's contact sheets, which reveal the process behind capturing the perfect image. Accompanying texts from Andy shed light on his craft and delve into the stories behind these captivating photographs. This really is the definitive, career spanning book, produced to the highest standards.
The book also contains personal testaments from a cross-section of the celebrities who Gotts has worked with: Alan Cumming, Gene Simmons, Ian McKellen, Jeff Bridges, Kylie Minogue, Michael Caine, Peter Capaldi and Simon Pegg.
Andy Gotts gathers the best and boldest portraits from Gotts's 30-year career: Adam Ant, Al Pacino, Alan Cumming, Alan Rickman, Alice Cooper, Annie Lennox, Anthony Hopkins, Boy George, Brad Pitt, Byran Ferry, Caine Boarder, Cate Blanchett, Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Martin, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken, Claudia Schiffer, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Daniel Craig, Dolly Parton, Eddie Redmayne, Elle Macpherson, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Emma Thompson, Erin O'Connor, Gene Simmons, George Clooney, Gillian Anderson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Heath Ledger, Matt Damon, Hugh Grant, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Irons, John Hurt, Johnny Depp, Jose Carreras, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, Julian Assange, Julie Christie, Kate Moss, Kate Winslet, Kevin Kline, Kirk Douglas, Kylie Minogue, Lauren Bacall, Lester Piggott, Mads Mikkelsen, Malcolm McDowell, Mark Hamill, Matthew Broderick, Meryl Streep, Michael Lansdale, Mickey Rourke, the Monty Python members, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Campbell, Nicole Kidman, Oliva de Havilland, Olivia Colman, Orlando Bloom, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Newman, Pele, Penelope Cruz, Pierce Brosnan, Quentin Crisp, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Harris, Rita Ora, Robert De Niro, Rod Steiger, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Sharon Stone, Sidney Poitier, Steven Tyler, Sting and Susan Sarandon.
"Andy's contact-sheets give us what feels like a VIP pass to spend time with his subjects. We see their beauty, their flaws, charisma, humanity and even a glimpse into their thoughts and process. We see the person in these people and are touched by their being." Kylie Minogue
"Above all Andy Gotts allows his subjects to shine through, untouched. His artistry does not come afterwards, in Photoshop and all the supposedly flattering trickery technology has taught us to expect. His skill is there in each frame, each moment, in the relationship he has built with his sitter, no matter how short a time they have shared, and the trust he has engendered in them because he is, quite simply, a good man. Anyone who encounters him can sense immediately his openness and kindness and I think this book is most of all a testament to those qualities." Alan Cumming
"With this amazing book, you will see why Andy is as much a star as his subjects." Gene Simmons
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Ein Ganzes Halbes Jahr
Lou & Will Louisa Clark weiß, dass nicht viele in ihrer Heimatstadt ihren etwas schrägen Modegeschmack teilen. Sie weiß, dass sie gerne in dem kleinen Café arbeitet und dass sie ihren Freund Patrick eigentlich nicht liebt. Sie weiß nicht, dass sie schon bald ihren Job verlieren wird - und wie tief das Loch ist, in das sie dann fällt. Will Traynor weiß, dass es nie wieder so sein wird wie vor dem Unfall. Und er weiß, dass er dieses neue Leben nicht führen will. Er weiß nicht, dass er schon bald Lou begegnen wird. Eine Liebesgeschichte, anders als alle anderen. Die Liebesgeschichte von Lou und Will. Der Sensationserfolg: monatelang auf Platz 1 der Bestsellerliste - von Millionen Lesern geliebt. Jetzt mit Emilia Clarke ("Game of Thrones") und Sam Claflin ("Die Tribute von Panem") verfilmt.
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Cocktail Time
This is an Uncle Fred novel. Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable. Unfortunately things don't end there. The sprightly earl finds that his action has inspired a scandalous bestseller and a film script - but this is as nothing compared with the entangled fates of the couples that surround him and which only his fabled sweetness and light can unravel.
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The Truth Machine
From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's next big thing: the blockchain.
Many of the `legacy systems' once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task; big banks have grown more entrenched, privacy exists only until the next hack, and credit card fraud has become a fact of life. However, there is a way past all this-a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionise our economy: the blockchain.
In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society's faith in itself. They reveal the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With a balanced perspective, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes-moving humanity forward, not backward.
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Michael Stipe - Volume 1
Volume 1 is the first in a series of publications presenting different aspects of Michael Stipe's multifaceted artistic practice. Volume 1 includes a focused presentation of 35 images, bringing together 37 years of Stipe's practice of creating and collecting photographic materials, in addition to posing as a subject in the photographs of others. The book centers around his unconventional and deeply personal understanding of queerness, conflating figures in his own life with those in American history and popular culture. Throughout the book, the formal qualities of images often relate in a poetic or lyrical way, allowing for unlikely juxtapositions and connections to emerge between subjects. These relationships transcend logical associations between time, place, and social structures. Volume 1 is produced in collaboration with artist Jonathan Berger and designer Julian Bittiner.
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The Burning Room
In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random.
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Elevation
Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confide only in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition: he's losing weight, without getting thinner, and the scales register the same when he is in his clothes or out of them, however heavy they are. Scott also has new neighbours, who have opened a 'fine dining experience' in town, although it's an experience being shunned by the locals; Deidre McComb and her wife Missy Donaldson don't exactly fit in with the community's expectations.
And now Scott seems trapped in a feud with the couple over their dogs dropping their business on his lawn. Missy may be friendly, but Deidre is cold as ice. As the town prepares for its annual Thanksgiving 12k run, Scott starts to understand the prejudices his neighbours face and he tries to help.
Unlikely alliances form and the mystery of Scott's affliction brings out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others. From master storyteller Stephen King, our 'most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work' (Guardian), comes this timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Compelling and eerie, Elevation is as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
A szerzetes, aki eladta a Ferrariját
Julian Mantle sztárügyvéd, akinek szigete, repülőgépe, Ferrarija van, mindkét végén égeti a gyertyát, ötvenhárom évesen hetvennek látszik. Zaklatott, zűrös életvitele csaknem végzetes kimenetelű infarktushoz vezet. Mantle kap egy lehetőséget az élettől, amelyet jól használ fel. Eladja mindenét, kiszáll a jövedelmező ügyvédi irodából, és nekivág Indiának, hogy a lét értelmét keresse. Három évvel később hazatér. Barátja, John meghökken változásán, hiszen egy harmincasnak tűnő férfi áll előtte. Keleten tett spirituális utazása során Mantle a szerzetesektől tanult bölcs és gyakorlati tanítások segítségével hatékony módszert sajátít el szellemi, fizikai és lelki képességei felszabadítására. A nyugati gondolkodást a keleti filozófiával ötvözve, a szerző biztos utat mutat az olvasónak, hogy miként élhet bátrabban, kiegyensúlyozottan és boldogan.
Robin Sharma a Sharma Leadership International vezérigazgatója, 15 éve a világ legkiemelkedőbb tanácsadóinak egyike a szervezeti és személyes életvezetés terén. Olyan cégek és szervezetek kérték fel, mint a Microsoft, a GE, a Nike, a FedEx, a NASA, az IBM, a Fiatal Elnökök Szervezete.
A szerző könyvei 60 ország 75 nyelvén, öt millió példányban jelentek meg.
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12,23 €