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Lacná kniha Across the River and into the Trees (-50%)
The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has 'a profile that could break your or anyone else's heart'. Cantrell is embittered, war-scarred and old enough to be Renata's father, but he is overwhelmed by the selflessness and freshness of the love she is offering. But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some, the longed-for peace has come too late.
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Vanished Man
A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protegee to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
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Byl jednou jeden král... (digipack) DVD
Byl jednou jeden král a ten si říkal Já První. Chtěl odevzdat vládu té ze tří dcer, která ho má nejraději. Drahomíra ho má ráda jako zlato, Zpěvanka jako zlato v hrdle a nejmladší Maruška jako sůl. Krále přirovnání k obyčejné soli rozhněvá, vyžene Marušku ze zámku a rozkáže všechnu sůl v království zničit. Brzy však zjistí, že bez soli se nedá žít, a uzná, že Maruška měla pravdu. Všechny princezny si mezitím najdou ty pravé ženichy - zahradníka, dudáka a rybáře. A protože i král pozná, že se mu bude lépe žít ve dvou, vezme si vdovu Kubátovou.
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Byl jednou jeden král... DVD
1954, Československo, 107 min.,
Režie: Bořivoj Zeman,
Hrají: Miloš Kopecký; Jan Werich; Vlasta Burian; Milena Dvorská,
Zvuk: Dolby Digital 2.0 (surround):česky, Dolby Digital 5.1:česky,
Obraz: 4:3,
Titulky: anglicky, česky pro neslyšící.
Filmové zpracování známé české pohádky Sůl nad zlato je jedním z nejoblíbenějších pohádkových příběhů v historii naší kinematografie.
Byl jednou jeden král a ten se jmenoval Já I. Měl tři dcery a chtěl odevzdat vládu té dceři, která ho má nejraději. Drahomíra jej měla ráda jako zlato, Zpěvanka jako zlato v hrdle a nejmladší Maruška jako všechnu sůl v království. Po čase však zjistil, že bez soli se nedá žít a také se mu stýskalo po Marušce. Když uznal svou chybu, tak na radu babky kořenářky Marušku našel u rybáře. I princezny si našly pravé ženichy a král si vzal vdovu Kubátovu, tak pohádka končí velikou společnou svatbou.
Bonus:
biografie,
filmografie,
fotogalerie,
rozhovory
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Manhattan is my Beat
Jeffrey Deaver knows how to hook readers and keep them guessing with suspenseful, twisty plots. This early Deaver effort, originally published in 1988, will not disappoint fans dazzled by his subsequent, high-profile Lincoln Rhyme series (The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, The Empty Chair.) Manhattan Is My Beat takes its name from the (invented) 1947 film noir watched obsessively by murder victim Robert Kelly. Our heroine, Rune, (a punk with a heart of gold) works for Washington Square Video. On a routine pickup to retrieve Manhattan Is My Beat, she discovers Kelly just shot dead, the target of a professional hit. Rune and a woman jogger glimpse the presumed killer as he speeds off in a green car. While cops drag their heels in solving the mystery, Rune takes matters into her own hands, convinced that the motive for the murder is a missing suitcase stuffed with one million dollars--the subject, not coincidentally, of the film that Kelly and Rune both admired. An avid fan of fantasy novels and prone to see life through the prism of magic and quests, Rune takes up the challenge of finding the lost money and catching Kelly&aposs killers. But the formidable hit team is intent upon destroying both possible witnesses to the murder, and their nimble crosses and double-crosses--some of which the reader sees, some of which are revealed at the end--make for fun reading. Plotting moves briskly in this novel, except for a slowdown in the story--Rune&aposs ambiguous romance with downtown poseur Richard has little to do with catching killers. The conclusion, while neatly wrapped, is marred by the sudden appearance of a crucial detail that Deaver produces like a fancy dish under the waiter&aposs silver dome. But the gimmick to offset the conclusion&aposs predictability feels like a cheat rather than a revelation. All in all, however, the novel is excellent mind candy, a thrilling romp lead by an agile, street-smart heroine. i Deaver writes with clarity, compassion, and intelligence, and with a decidedly human and contemporary slant -- -- Publishers Weekly /i
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Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western CD
Thin Lizzy sú írska hardrocková skupina založená v Dubline v roku 1969. Thin Lizzy spočiatku tvorili basgitarista, hlavný spevák a hlavný skladateľ Phil Lynott, bubeník Brian Downey, gitarista Eric Bell a organista Eric Wrixon, hoci Wrixon po niekoľkých mesiacoch odišiel. Po Bellovom odchode na konci roku 1973 skupina čoskoro prešla na dvoch hlavných gitaristov: Scotta Gorhama, ktorý zostal s kapelou až do jej rozpadu v roku 1983, a Briana Robertsona, ktorého v roku 1978 nahradil Gary Moore. Garyho striedavo nahradil Snowy White v roku 1980 a John Sykes v roku 1982. Zostava bola rozšírená klávesákom Darrenom Whartonom v roku 1980. Single "Whiskey in the Jar" (1972), "The Boys Are Back in Town" (1976) a „Waiting for an Alibi“ (1979) boli medzinárodné hity a niekoľko albumov Thin Lizzy sa dostalo do prvej desiatky v Spojenom kráľovstve. Hudba skupiny odráža širokú škálu vplyvov, vrátane blues, soulovej hudby, psychedelického rocku a tradičnej írskej ľudovej hudby, ale vo všeobecnosti je klasifikovaná ako hard rock alebo niekedy heavy metal.
Tracklist:
01. Mama Nature Said 4:52
02. The Hero And The Madman 6:08
03. Slow Blues 5:14
04. The Rocker 5:12
05. Vagabond Of The Western World 4:44
06. Little Girl In Bloom 5:12
07. Gonna Creep Up On You 3:27
08. A Song For While I'm Away 5:10
09. Whiskey In The Jar 5:44
10. Black Boys On The Corner 3:21
11. Randolph's Tango 3:49
12. Broken Dreams 4:26
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Valašský král
Tato publikace vyšla v polovině ledna 2008 v reedici po 78 letech. Pohádku veršem frenštátského básníka Josefa Kaluse poprvé vydal Josef Hladký v Hranicích na Moravě jako devátý svazek knihomilské edice Amfora v nákladu 350 výtisků. Z toho bylo 50 na ručním a 300 na dokumentním papíru. Knihu vyzdobil Jožka Baruch osmi dřevoryty a vytisklo ji Družstvo knihtiskárny v Hranicích písmem starého Medievalu na jaře 1929.
Lacná kniha Hrady zámky a tvrze království českého díl devátý (-50%)
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Interwar
British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War.
At the time of his death in 2017, Gavin Stamp, one of Britain's leading architectural critics, was at work on a deeply considered account of British architecture in the interwar period, correcting what he saw as the skewed view of earlier historians who were unable to see past modernism. Beginning with a survey of the modern movement after the armistice, Interwar untangles the threads that link lesser-known movements like the Egyptian revival with the enduring popularity of the Tudorbethan, to chronicle one of Britain's most dynamic architectural periods. The result is more than an architectural history - it is the portrait of a changing nation.
As an account of the period that still shapes much of Britain's towns and cities, Gavin Stamp's final work is the definitive history of British architecture between the Great War and the Blitz.
In the Long Run
Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no longer open?
In this eye-opening history of ideas, Jonathan White investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future, from the birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the neoliberal age.
As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics, White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope and sharply observed, In the Long Run is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again.
Exhausted
Burnout is said to be the defining feeling of the post-pandemic world - but why are we all so exhausted? Some of us struggle with perfectionism, while others are simply overwhelmed by the demands of modern life. But whatever you're feeling, you are not alone - and this liberating, enlightening guide to exhaustion in all its forms will help you find the energy to beat burnout and weariness.
From confronting our inner critics to how our desire to be productive stops us from being free, Anna Katherina Schaffner, cultural historian and burnout coach, brings together science, medicine, literature and philosophy to explore the causes and history of exhaustion and burnout, revealing new ways to combat stress and negativity.
Inventive and freewheeling, full of comfort, solace and practical advice, Exhausted is an inspiring guide to getting control of your own exhaustion - and rediscovering happiness along the way.
Astonish Me!
Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow us to see ourselves in new ways.
It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history.
Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and fresh canon. He begins in New York in 1963, as Lorraine Hansberry remakes American theatre and a nation's perception of race. And then, as the lights go up, we find ourselves in Renaissance Florence, watching Michelangelo's David being hauled into the Piazza della Signoria. The dust settles and we are transported to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens - and then to Paris to meet with Diaghilev and Stravinsky for the Rite of Spring. We witness kabuki's creation, as a radical women's performance, in Kyoto; the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain at Manchester's Free Trade Hall; and watch as Hitchcock directs Psycho.
x+y
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to make the world a better place.
Using precise mathematical reasoning to uncover everything from the sexist assumptions that make society a harder place for women to live to the limitations of science and statistics in helping us understand the link between gender and society, Cheng's analysis replaces confusion with clarity, brings original thinking to well worn arguments - and provides a radical, illuminating and liberating new way of thinking about the world and women's place in it.
World History in Figures
What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?
We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. Radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer draw on their own Seshat project - a staggeringly ambitious log of demographic and econometric information for every society that has ever existed - to find the large-scale patterns in Figuring Out the Past. Join them now for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past.
Bhután
Prvá slovenská obrazová publikácia o himalájskom kráľovstve poskytuje celkový a aj detailný pohľad na krajinu. Fotografie zozbierané z viacerých ciest hovoria dvojjazyčne o mestách, tradíciách, náboženstve, prírode, ľuďoch...
Tajomstvo kráľovstva
Knihu možno čítať ako hociktorý spomedzi autorových preslávených historických románov. Ako strhujúci príbeh a pestrofarebnú fresku konkrétneho historického obdobia. Pozornejší čitateľ však nájde niekedy až veľmi priliehavé a na zamyslenie nútiace paralely s časmi, v ktorých žila Waltariho generácia nielen vo Fínsku, ale aj v celej Európe. A tak Tajomstvo kráľovstva nie je iba literárnym stvárnením štyridsiatich dní od Ježišovho ukrižovania po Kristovo nanebovstúpenie, ale i nahliadnutím do zrkadla.
Od predchádzajúcich slovenských vydaní Waltariho kníh sa táto naša pôvodným prekladom z fínskeho jazyka (predchádzajúce knihy boli preklady prekladov najmä z nemčiny), o ktorý sme požiadali významného prekladateľa Andreja Rádyho. V jeho autorskom pretlmočení, zase priamo z fínčiny, pripravujeme aj voľné pokračovanie knihy Nepriatelia ľudstva, ktoré plánujeme vydať v roku 2023. Knihou chceme pripomenúť aj významného slovenského výtvarníka Stana Dusíka (* 6. jún 1946, Boleráz 6. december 2019, Florencia), ktorého diela sme použili ako ilustrácie a nim sme podriadili aj celkový vzhľad publikácie. Vychádza v edícii TERRA.