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Princ William
Zrodenie moderného monarchu
Princ William, vojvoda z Cambridgea, je predurčený stať sa jedného dňa kráľom.
Je odhodlaný slúžiť svojej krajine tak, ako to po sedem desaťročí robila kráľovná Alžbeta, jeho stará matka. Stelesňuje milujúceho manžela a je oddaným otcom troch detí, ktoré vychováva s manželkou Catherine. Na verejnosti z neho vyžaruje pokoj, vyrovnanosť a odhodlanie. Jeho srdcovou záležitosťou je ochrana životného prostredia a pomoc ohrozeným druhom pred vyhynutím. S manželkou sa tiež neúnavne zasadzujú o odstránenie stigmy, ktorá sprevádza problémy duševného zdravia.
Tí, ktorí ho poznajú, však vedia, že napriek oddanosti korune sa v súkromí dokáže prejaviť aj inak, než len ako pokojný, rodinne založený muž. Jeho detstvo bolo poznačené tragickými udalosťami ? ostro medializovaným rozchodom rodičov aj tragickou smrťou matky. Posledné roky sa zas na verejnosti prepierali jeho naštrbené vzťahy s bratom Harrym, ktorý vykreslil budúceho kráľa v nelichotivom svetle. Tým sa jeho trápenia zďaleka nekončia.
Táto kniha prináša detailný pohľad na život vojvodu z Cambridgea a podrobne skúma charakter muža, ktorý bude jedného dňa vládnuť ako kráľ Viliam V.
Z anglického originálu William at 40 (Ad Lib Publishers, UK 2022) preložila Adriana Sýkorčinová.
Lectio mamina - Liturgický rok očima nevyspalé mámy
Maminky malých dětí většinou nepěstují pravidelné „lectio divina“ nad Písmem, což je jeden z pilířů života mnichů. Je pro ně náročné najít si čas na jakoukoli duchovní četbu. Autorka této knížky není výjimkou, svou víru se snaží žít uprostřed každodenního shonu. Pozdě večer, někdy až v noci si zapisuje své myšlenky o tom, jak souvisí její život s liturgickými dobami a svátky, které právě sviští kolem… Vtipné postřehy možná nastartují vaše vlastní přemítání, možná vám vyloudí úsměv na tváři, ne-li výbuch smíchu. Pozor – raději tedy nečíst při uspávání dětí!
Az ördög cimborája
Egy király, két légionista, három érthetetlen dolog és több lopott tárgy. Egy életveszélyes csirkefogó és egy háromcsõrû pávián. Megölheti-e a hadügyminisztert egy ábrándos, kék szemû lány? Felelet: Ez nem csupán ábránd és szemszín kérdése... "A király tûnõdött még egy darabig, hogy aláírja-e az okmányt, vagy nem. Végül hirtelen elhatározással döntött: nem írta alá. Ehelyett felállt az asztal mellõl, két tétova lépést tett, népére gondolt, és borongósan felsóhajtott. Ez a nagy uralkodók sajátsága. Ha a népükre gondolnak, borongósan felsóhajtanak. Ezek után óvatosan körülnézett, villámgyorsan ellopott egy töltõtollat, egy fél gramofonlemezt és két kombinált port, majd panyókára vetette vállán a királyi palástot, és kilépett az ablakon. Ami viszont nem a nagy uralkodók sajátossága..."
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Bujdosó könyv
"Ennek a könyvnek maga a sors adta a nevét. Bujdosó volt olyan idokben, mikor a halál fenyegetozött a magyar szenvedések minden hangja felett. Bujdosott és menekült a szüloi házból, magányos kastélyon, kisvárosi villán, falusi udvarházon át. Bujkált szétszedve, könyvek lapjai között, idegen tetok tövén, kéménykürtoben, pincegádorban, bútorok mögött és elásva a föld alatt. Házkutató titkos rendorök keze, vörös katonák csizmája járt felette. Csodára mégis megmaradt, hogy emlékeztessen, mikorra már behorpadt a kor áldozatainak a sírja, fu nott az egykori akasztófák gödrében és a kínzókamrák faláról lekopott a vér és a golyók írása.
Most, hogy a könyvet odaadom Nemzetemnek, sok olyan adatot és részletet kellett elhagynom, melyek még nem bírják el a napvilágot, melyek élo emberek titkai. Talán eljön az az ido, mikor megszólalhat, ami ma néma marad. Mióta napról-napra feljegyeztem az eseményeket, ido múlt felettünk és világos lett sok minden, ami megfoghatatlan és sötét volt. De nem nyúlok a lapokhoz, érintetlenül hagyom rajtuk az akkori órák érveréseit. Ha tévedtem, legyenek elnézoek, akik a könyvet olvassák. A tévedéseim is tükrök: a kor tévedéseinek a tükrei.
Nem a forradalmak történetét, nem is a politikai események szemtanújának a naplóját akartam megírni. Szóljon az én könyvem arról, amirol nem fognak tudni a jövo történetírók, mert azt át kellett élni. Szóljon arról, amirol nem tudhat az idegenbol behurcolt forradalmak felidézoi és politikai eseményeinek a szemtanúi, mert lelküktol távol állt minden, ami magyar."
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Erinnerungsorte+CD
Europäischer Referenzrahmen: B1-C1 Was empfinden Deutsche, wenn sie an die Berliner Mauer denken? Was verbinden sie mit der Paulskirche? Erinnerungsorte lädt ein zu einem Streifzug durch Deutschland. Die Lernenden besuchen geschichtsträchtige Orte, die
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The Kingdom of Sweets
Light and dark - this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed on them by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favourite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister's shadow. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge. For Drosselmeyer has returned and brought with him the Nutcracker, an enchanted present which offers entry to a deceptively beautiful world: the Kingdom of Sweets.
In this land of snow and sugar, Natasha is presented with a power far greater than Drosselmeyer: the Sugar Plum Fairy, who is also a giver of gifts . . . and a maker of dread-filled bargains. As Natasha uncovers the dark destiny laid before her birth, she must reckon with powers both earthly and magical . . . and decide to which world she truly belongs.
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Fijian Phrasebook & Dictionary 4
Lonely Planet's Fijian Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Fijian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Book hikes along inland trails and order local cuisine with ease and all with your trusted travel companion.
With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!
Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!
- Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings
- Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder
- Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips
- Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary
- Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology
- Meet friends with conversation starter phrases
- Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides
Inside Lonely Planet's FijianPhrasebook and Dictionary:
Full-colour throughout
User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories
Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance, on-the-fly cues
Convenient features
5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go
10 Ways to Start a Sentence
10 Phrases to Sound like a Local
Listen For - phrases you may hear
Look For - phrases you may see on signs
Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases
QandA - suggested answers to questions asked
Covers
Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules
Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport
Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather
Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions
Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet's Fijian Phrasebook and Dictionary, a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance; great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.
Check out our Fast Talk Phrasebook mobile app for on-the-go language needs. (Available languages: German, Latin Spanish, European Spanish, French, and Italian.)
Sweat and Soap Manga Box Set 2
Collect the acclaimed romance manga between a perfume prodigy and a woman with a unique scent, in the first of two deluxe box sets!
Includes Vol. 7-11 of Sweat & Soap, plus exclusive paper soap!
In an office romance, there's a fine line between sexy and awkward... and that line is where Asako — a woman who sweats copiusly — met Koutarou — a perfume developer who can't get enough of Asako's, er, scent. Don't miss a romcom manga like no other!
Asako's living her dream, working at the toiletry maker Liliadrop. But she has a secret: The reason she loves the company so much is that she's ashamed of her body odor, and their soap is the only thing that's ever helped her. So when the company's lead product developer, a perfuming genius, approaches her in the lobby and wonders what "that smell" is, she's terrified—but could it be that he likes it? That he likes her? And most surprising of all, she might just like him back...
This premium-quality box set includes the final five volumes of the series, plus an exclusive personal case of paper soap (yes, actual soap)!
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The Porcelain Maker
Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history
A daughter’s search for the truth
Germany, 1929.
When Max, a Jewish architect, and Bettina, a beautiful and celebrated German avant-garde artist, meet at a party their attraction is instant. In love with each other and the art they create, their talent transports them to the dazzling lights of Berlin. But Germany is on the brink of terrible change, and their bright beginning is soon dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism.
When Max is arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp, it is only his talent at making the exquisite porcelain figures so beloved by the Nazis that stands between him and certain death. At first, Bettina has no idea where Max has been taken but when she learns of his fate, she is determined to rescue him whatever the cost.
Now, a lifetime later, Bettina’s daughter, Clara, sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about her identity. As she weaves together the fabric of her past, she discovers the terrible secret her mother wanted hidden forever.
For fans of Heather Morris and Kristin Hannah, The Porcelain Maker is a sweeping, epic story of love, betrayal and art, set across Europe from the 1920s Weimar Republic, to dark and glittering 1930s Berlin.
Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death
An authoritative new publication that revisits Edvard Munch’s work in its entirety.
Edvard Munch occupies a pivotal place in artistic modernity. His work is permeated by a singular vision of the world, with a powerful symbolist dimension that goes beyond the masterpieces he created in the 1890s. For Munch, humanity and nature were united in the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, which is reflected in the recurrence of certain motifs and color combinations in his work. He wrote: “These paintings, which are, admittedly, relatively difficult to understand, will be...easier to grasp if they are integrated into a whole.”
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death presents about a hundred works?paintings, drawings, prints, and engraved blocks?reflecting the diversity of Munch’s practice. Seven essays explore the artist in his philosophical and scientific milieu and the places that shaped the man and his art, as well as offering a rare glimpse of Munch’s attempts at creative writing. They also examine the historical evolution of his monumental Frieze of Life series and the world-famous Scream. This publication invites readers to revisit the painter’s work in its entirety by following the thread of an ever-inventive pictorial thinking: a vision that is both fundamentally coherent, even obsessive, and at the same time constantly renewed.
180 color illustrations
The Meaningful Modern Home
A collection of nine contemporary homes by architect Celeste Robbins, who imbues her modern designs with warmth and emotion
In her first monograph, Chicago-based architect Celeste Robbins of Robbins Architecture proves that contemporary design can be inviting, comfortable, and graciously responsive to how we live. Illustrating Robbins’s holistic vision, which integrates architecture, interior design, and landscape, The Meaningful Modern Home features nine significant projects across the United States realized in different styles and natural materials. All offer living proof of how modernism can be warm and rooted in a vivid sense of place.
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Twilight Out of Focus 2
Jin, third-year director, lead actor, and president of the film club, and second-year director Giichi see eye-to-eye on very little. Jin is flashy, flirty, and focused on keeping everyone happy, while Giichi expects the best from himself and others, and will compromise nothing to see his vision through.
Constantly at each other’s throats, the two can hardly stand to be in the same club. But what will happen when family trouble forces them to share the same dorm room? Will their common interests bring them closer as friends, push them further apart as rivals—or something else entirely?
18+
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The Path to Paradise
Say 'Coppola' and The Godfather immediately comes to mind. But Coppola isn't Corleone — he's more than that.
He's a visionary who predicted that digital cameras - no larger than one's hand - would allow anyone to make movies. And then set up a studio, Zeotrope, to make his dreams a reality.
The book presents the highs and lows of both his personal and professional life, as Coppola sets out to transform the process of making movies.
Sam Wasson masterly captures the larger-than-life figure of a man who pursued a vision of the world of movies and all the wonder of what that would be.
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The Essential Harlem Detectives
A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic crime fiction series for which he is best known, featuring detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones.
Himes wrote nine novels in the Harlem Detectives series, and in these four popular, accomplished instalments, his cold, wise-cracking sleuths are thrown into a brutal, murderous world peopled with conniving con men, gut-toting gangsters and opium-smoking preachers. Himes's vision of Harlem's criminal underground, enriched by deft plotting and scintillating dialogue, is both riotous entertainment and penetrating enquiry into the fraught tensions of race in postwar America.
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Bruce Gilden: Cherry Blossom
Bruce Gilden first set foot in Japan in 1994. On that trip and subsequent others, he explored the meandering streets of a country that had long fascinated him. From Tokyo to Osaka, he laid Japan bare in his own inimitable photographic style. Each image is a very close and powerful encounter with a story behind it. As ever, Gilden makes his approach, talks, tells stories, takes photographs, and paints a portrait of a unique street scene. In search of personalities as strong as his own, Gilden drew on the details around him to transcribe his vision of Japan: one man's suit, another's hat, or a woman's posture. All of these elements, which give strength to the images, form a captivating ensemble - on the margins, just like him.
In Cherry Blossom, Gilden tells the story of these voyages and the ties he maintains with Japan in a rare introductory text. The stories told alongside these pictures - whether an anecdote or a dialogue with their characters - render the American photographer's vision even more contemporary than ever.
With 60 illustrations
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Anthro-Vision
A revelatory model that explains how we buy, sell, work and live.
For over a century, anthropologists have immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures, uncovering the hidden rituals that govern how people act. Now, a new generation of anthropologists are using these methods in a different context - to illuminate the behaviour of businesses and consumers around the globe.
In Anthro-Vision, Gillian Tett - bestselling author, Financial Times journalist, and anthropology PhD - reveals how anthropology can make sense of the corporate world. She outlines how anthropology helps explain consumer behaviour - revealing the 'webs of meaning' that underpin our shopping habits, and unpicking the subtle cultural shifts driving the rise of green business. She explores how anthropology can shed light on the workplace, identifying the hidden tribes within the office, and pinpointing which rituals are binding together a team. And she shows how we can all use anthropology in our own lives, too: helping us make better decisions, navigate risk - even work out what our peers are really thinking.
Along the way, Tett draws on stories from Tajik villages and Amazon warehouses, Japanese classrooms and Wall Street trading floors, all to reveal the power of anthropology in action.
The result is a wholly new way to understand human behaviour. In a short-sighted world, we can all learn to see clearly - using the power of Anthro-Vision.
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New Tattoo Artists
Artists from disciplines commonly seen as far removed from tattooing embrace it with a different look and approach.
Artists from graphic design, photography, illustration, painting and sculpture have found in tattooing a new tool to express themselves and give way to their distinctive language. And they do it with a fresh look and extraordinary results, often far removed from the traditional tattoo. New Tattoo Artists presents the work of 25 tattoo artists from around the world, taking us on an exhilarating journey through this “new art of tattooing”. Their work is nurtured by many sources, resulting in a rich, diverse and especially unique book that offers a revitalized vision of an ancient art along with the artists’ own reflections and personal experiences.
Folk Music
Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen.
In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan’s story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus’s point of departure is Dylan’s ability to “see myself in others.” Like Dylan’s songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan’s continuing presence and relevance through his empathy - his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own.
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