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Antifragile
In "The Black Swan", Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. What's more, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call "efficient" is not efficient at all? Why should you write your resignation letter before starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? "Antifragile" is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge and has led three careers around this focus, as a businessman-trader, a philosophical essayist, and an academic researcher. Although he now spends most of his time working in intense seclusion in his study, in the manner of independent scholars, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is "decision making under opacity," that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don't understand. His books "Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan" have been published in thirty-three languages. Taleb believes that prizes, honorary degrees, awards, and ceremonialism debase knowledge by turning it into a spectator sport.
The Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles 1)
The first book in a two part series from one of the greatest writers in the fantasy genre. Dragon Keeper returns fans to Hobb's best-loved world, full of dragons, magical ships and unforgettable characters. Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. Many have died along the way. With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive. People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. One such is Thymara. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching; as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons. But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly; some seem witless and bestial. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them. To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist...
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8,84 €
9,31 €
Life Expectancy
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson -- five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his 20th year, the second in his 23rd year, the third in his 28th, the fourth in his 29th, the fifth in his 30th. Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the moment of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height, weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly - the unexplained anomaly of fused digits on his left foot. Suddenly, the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous - a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
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3,79 €
3,99 €
Lacná kniha Life Expectancy (-90%)
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson -- five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his 20th year, the second in his 23rd year, the third in his 28th, the fourth in his 29th, the fifth in his 30th. Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the moment of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height, weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly - the unexplained anomaly of fused digits on his left foot. Suddenly, the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous - a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
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0,40 €
3,99 €
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The Complete Maus
"The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story. "The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust". ("Wall Street Journal"). "The first masterpiece in comic book history". ("The New Yorker"). "The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. "Maus" approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in 'drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust'". ("The New York Times"). "Maus" is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. "Maus" studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. This combined, definitive edition includes "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale" and "Maus II". Art Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the "New Yorker". His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "Maus", and a Guggenheim fellowship. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. His other books include: "Breakdowns: From Maus to Now, an Anthology of Strips"; "The Wild Party"; "Open Me, I'm A Dog"; "Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits"; "In the Shadow of No Towers"; "Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young!"; "Be a Nose"; "Jack and the Box" and "MetaMaus". He lives in New York.
Schůzky s erotikou
Rozdílně přistoupili k tématu `erotika` oslovení spisovatelé v devátém svazku edice Česká povídka. Někteří přinášejí barvité příběhy plné děje, jiní více nahlížejí do nitra svých hrdinů. Dvě věci je však spojují - otevřenost i časté překračování neurčité hranice mezi erotikou a sexem, kterou každý člověk vnímá trochu jinak. Slibný dotyk erotiky i záchvaty žárlivosti prožívá patnáctiletý kluk v povídce Petra Šabacha o první lásce. Irena Obermannová píše o ženě, kterou neuspokojuje její sexuální život, nedokáže však o svých pocitech promluvit s manželem, dlouho jenom sní o změně. Až hororovým koncem zvláštního milování na pronajaté nemocniční posteli překvapuje Ivan Klíma. Erotika a konzumní bezobsažný sex - to jsou protiklady, které vyznávají `hrdinové` strhujícího příběhu Edgara Dutky. Jako nit se vine erotický podtón textem Hany Andronikové o Češce cestující londýnským metrem. Velmi otevřeně zachycuje milostný prožitek dvou mladých žen Kateřina Rudčenková. Bouřlivé vzplanutí studenta
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6,65 €
7,00 €
Sum of all Men
In the first book of The Runelords, Raj Ahten, the Wolf Lord of Indhopal, uses magic to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. He seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule - destroying anything and anyone in his path. Standing in his way is Prince Gaborn Val Orden, who must fulfil a 2,000-year-old prophecy and become the Earth King, a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the earth itself. Only then will humanity have a chance to survive...
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10,55 €
11,10 €
Lady: My Life as a Bitch
A sexually active, rebellious teenager is transformed into a confused and frightened dog by a tramp with magical powers. Sandra has a lot of growing up to do quickly if she is to survive as a scrounging stray in a rough dogs' world. She experiences all the physical aspects of being a dog, including running with a pack and going on heat. She must decide whether she wants to recover her humanity, and if so how to do it - doubly difficult as her brain is reduced to the scattered consciousness of a dog.
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9,37 €
9,86 €
Lacná kniha Sum of all Men (-70%)
In the first book of The Runelords, Raj Ahten, the Wolf Lord of Indhopal, uses magic to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. He seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule - destroying anything and anyone in his path. Standing in his way is Prince Gaborn Val Orden, who must fulfil a 2,000-year-old prophecy and become the Earth King, a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the earth itself. Only then will humanity have a chance to survive...
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3,33 €
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Záhady reinkarnace
Významná vědecká pracovnice jejíž jméno je většině Američanů známé, se před třemi desítkami let začala zajímat o reinkarnaci a to díky tříletému chlapci, který byl ve spontánním transu schopen hovořit plynně německy a persky. Tento jazyk jak on, t
ak i jeho rodiče za bdělého stavu neznali.Odborníci, kteří se chlapcem zabývali prohlásili,že hovoříněmčinou, která byla v Německu používána v šestnáctém století.Jeho perština byla o dvě století starší.
Pravdivost většiny životů popsaných během hypno
tické regrese nelze dokázat.Pokud se jistá tvrzení ukážou jako pravdivá, pak je snazší přijmout i zbytek poskytnutého materiálu v této knize.
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3,44 €
3,62 €
ISPAD Consensus Guidelines 2006-2009. Moderní dětská diabetologie
Soubor návodů na léčení dětského diabetu vydaný péčí ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes) je skutečně mezinárodním dokumentem, který odráží jak vývoj v léčbě dětského diabetu v posledním desetiletí, tak i inspiraci z
e všech dosud vydaných národních verzí pro léčení DM. Nejde však o striktní a závazné protokoly, ale spíše jako podklad pro individuální klinická rozhodnutí v kontextu konkrétní situace dětského pacienta. Autoři i překladatelé českého vydání věří, že
tyto doporučené postupy pomohou lékařům pečovat o diabetes svých dětských pacientů účinně, rychle, bezpečně a konzistentně, s využitím poznatků medicíny založené na důkazech.
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Free!
Chris Barez-Brown, author of Shine, brings us a new book which inspires you to set your own rules at work, and make your job work for you. 'Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary. When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day holds for you. Everything else in your life seems to have a glow about it, and you exude much more personal shine. My aim in writing this book is to help you feel like that every day. To help you make your work work for you. To feel truly free. Reading Free will: remind you that you are fantastic and have the ability to do amazing things; show you that work is your slave, not the other way round; help you make work your ticket to an extraordinary future and put you in the driving seat and show you a route to freedom.' "Buy this book and free your mind, life and career". (Shaa Wasmund, bestselling author of Stop Talking, Start Doing). "Successful people love what they do. You can too. Read Free and learn how to make work work for you". (Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There). Chris Barez-Brown is on a mission to bring creative leadership to the business world and beyond. After helping turn Carling Black Label into the first British billion pound brand, he joined? What If!, the innovation and ideas agency. There he helped some of the world's biggest businesses get better at innovating. In 2009 he founded Upping Your Elvis, a business whose sole focus is to release the genius of organisations by helping their people shine more brightly. He works with the likes of Coca-Cola, Nike, Diageo and WPP to help their teams make an extraordinary impact. His previous book, Shine: How to survive and thrive at work, found a global audience. As Seth Godin said, 'This book doesn't read: it buzzes.
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11,88 €
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The Gillian Flynn Collection
GONE GIRL - THE ADDICTIVE No.1 US BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? SHARP OBJECTS - When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming DARK PLACES - Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over 20 years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information on notorious murders, and they think her brother Ben is innocent. Was Ben capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful...
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23,70 €
24,95 €
Games of Thrones 2 Graphic Novel
George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones is brought to life in the pages of this full-colour graphic novel. This is the second volume in what is sure to be one of the most coveted collaborations of the year. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. Novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson are not merely turning George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy A Game of Thrones into a graphic novel: They are meticulously translating one art form into another, and capturing the intricate nuances of Martin's novels just as HBO is doing with the blockbuster series. The Abraham/Patterson collaboration is more than just a faithful adaptation. It is a labor of love-and a thrilling masterwork in its own right. Now, in the second volume, the sweeping action moves from the icy north, where the bastard Jon Snow seeks to carve out a place for himself among bitter outcasts and hardened criminals sworn to service upon the Wall ...to the decadent south and the capital city of King's Landing, where Jon's father, Lord Eddard Stark, serves as the Hand of King Robert Baratheon amid a nest of courtly vipers ...to the barbarian lands across the Narrow Sea, where the young princess Daenerys Targaryen has found the unexpected in her forced marriage to the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo: love-and with it, for the first time in her life, power. Meanwhile, the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, accused by Lady Catelyn Stark of the attempted murder of her now-crippled youngest son, must call upon all his cunning and wit to survive when he is captured and imprisoned in the lofty dungeons of the Eyrie, where Lady Stark's sister-a woman obsessed with vengeance against all Lannisters-rules. But Catelyn's impulsive arrest of the Imp will set in motion a series of violent events whose outcome is fated to shake the world at the worst possible moment. For now is not the time for private feuds and bloodthirsty ambitions. Winter is coming ...and with it, terrors beyond imagining.
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Jelly Belly Harry Potter - Čokoládový lístok do Rokfortu, 42g
Na čokoládovom lístku Jelly Belly – Harry Potter si pochutnajú všetci malí aj väčší priaznivci Harryho Pottera. Tvorený je kvalitnou mliečnou čokoládou a chrumkavými ryžovými pufíkmi, ktoré spoločne zaistia lahodný zážitok. Čokoládový lístok do Rokfortu Jelly Belly – Harry Potter chutí skutočne skvele.
Zloženie:
Mliečna čokoláda 90 % (cukor, kakaové maslo, sušené plnotučné mlieko, kakaová hmota, emulgátor: E322 (sója), aróma, chrumkavá ryža 10 % (ryžová múka, cukor, soľ). Kakaová sušina v mliečnej čokoláde najmenej 25 %. Obsah mliečnej sušiny najmenej 14 %.
Výživové údaje na 100g:
Energetická hodnota: 2 259 kJ/541 kcal
Tuky: 32 g
– z toho nasýtené mastné kyseliny: 19 g
Sacharidy: 56 g
– z toho cukry: 45 g
Bielkoviny: 6,3 g
Soľ: 0,37 g
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6,00 €
Geschichte der Böhmischen Provinz der Gesellschaft Jesu
Více než sto let po vydání 1. dílu dějin České Provincie Tovaryšstva Ježíšova (Geschichte der Böhmischen Provinz der Gesellschaft Jesu, 1910) vychází konečně 3. a poslední díl. Jejich autor, Alois Kroess SJ byl členem Rakouské provincie obnoveného Tovaryšstva po roce 1814. Působil mimo jiné také v Bohosudově, v severozápadních Čechách, patřících tehdy do Rakousko-Uherské monarchie. Samostatná Česká provincie Tovaryšstva byla vytvořena teprve po 1. světové válce, v Československé republice. Kroess tedy psal dějiny České provincie z období tzv. „Prvního Tovaryšstva“ (1540–1773) a napsal je německy. Po obnovení České provincie a po Kroessově smrti (1928) se čeští jezuité snažili dokončit edici těchto dodnes jediných souhrnných dějin jezuitského působení v českých zemích do roku 1773. Před 2. světovou válkou vydali jejich 2. díl a vydání 3. dílu připravovali, ale nástup nacismu jejich snahu zmařil. V krátkém období mezi koncem války a nástupem komunismu se pak rovněž nepodařilo v této věci dosáhnout cíle. Z Kroessovy rukopisné pozůstalosti se nicméně podařilo sestavit potřebný souvislý text, který byl po pádu komunismu šťastně nalezen. Ten jsme připravili do tisku a předkládáme jej veřejnosti v německém jazyce tak, jak byly vydány oba předchozí díly. Je to ovšem kniha, kterou autor sám nedokončil a která je tedy v několikerém směru nedotažená; nicméně je to jediný úplný dokument o činnosti jezuitů u nás, a právě předkládaný 3. díl se týká období zhruba od Vestfálského míru do dočasného zrušení Tovaryšstva v roce 1773. Je to období systematické rekatolizace Českých zemí, na kterých se jezuité v intencích státních institucí a ve spolupráci s nimi podíleli, což je dodnes jednou ze závažných a diskutovaných záležitostí našich církevně-politických dějin. Kroess shromáždil obrovské množství dokumentačního materiálu, jehož nemalá část od té doby „díky“ nacismu a komunismu vzala za své. Mnohdy zůstalo jen to, co Kroess cituje, bohužel aniž by nám zanechal kromě osobních poznámkových zkratek přesnější údaje o původu těchto materiálů. O této nesnázi se zmiňujeme v ediční poznámce. Věříme, že uživatelé tohoto dokumentačního díla nám v našem trochu opovážlivém rozhodnutí vydat je v podstatě takové, jaké se k nám dostalo, dají za pravdu. Chceme tím přispět k nesnadnému navazování na naše opravdové, ideologií nefalšované dějiny, jak o to usilují od roku 1989 také mnozí jiní.
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Kurs mezinárodního ekonomického práva
Předkládaná publikace je první českou učebnicí mezinárodního ekonomického práva - jednoho z nových odvětví mezinárodního práva veřejného. Jeho bouřlivý rozvoj a změna celkové podoby za posledních padesát let se staly podnětem pro vznik nových odvětví. Učebnice je věnována problematice pojmu, pramenů a subjektů mezinárodního ekonomického práva a úpravě mezinárodního obchodního systému. Zabývá se rovněž odpovědností, donucením a řešením sporů v mezinárodním ekonomickém právu, mezinárodním právem rozvoje a úpravou mezinárodních investic. Jde o zcela novou, původní práci, která nenavazuje na žádnou starší učebnici. Je určena především studentům právnických fakult pro výuku výběrového předmětu, ale i dalším zájemcům o toto nové odvětví mezinárodního práva.
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14,74 €
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The Incredible Human Journey
Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans. When our ancestors set out from Africa there were already two other species of human on the planet: Neanderthal in Europe and Homo erectus in Asia. Both (contrary to popular perception) were intelligent, adept at making tools and weapons and were long adapted to their environments. So, Alice asks, why did only Homo sapiens survive? Part detective story, part travelogue, and drawing on the latest genetic and archaeological discoveries, Alice examines how our ancestors evolved physically in response to these challenges, finding out how our colour, shape, size, diet, disease resistance and even athletic ability have been shaped by the range of environments that our ancestors had to survive. She also relates how astonishingly closely related we all are. As a lecturer in Anatomy at Bristol University, Alice Roberts is eminently qualified to write this book. As a talented artist, she is perfectly qualified to illustrate it, and dotted throughout this lively book are many of the sketches and photographs from her travels.
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21,76 €
22,90 €
The Off Bits stavebnica LietadloBit
Lietadlo vo veľkom štýle! PiperBit je elegantné jednomotorové lietadlo pre vášho robota. Vďaka sortimentu koliesok a dielov dostane svojho robota do nových výšin. Popustite uzdu svojej fantázii. Táto sada umožňuje vytvorenie jediného modelu s nekonečnými možnosťami pre vaše vlastné kreatívne nápady. Jedná sa o hračku, ktorá pomáha mladým ľuďom rásť v oblastiach vedy, technológie, inžinierstva, umenia a matematiky. Hračky OffBits taktiež podporujú rozvoj jemnej motoriky, priestorovej predstavivosti, riešenia problémov a nápaditej hry.
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PiperBit plus nekonečné množstvo jedinečných výtvorov, ktoré môžete postaviť pomocou svojej fantázie. Máte okolo seba kartón, skrutky alebo iné zábavné materiály? Vylepšujte s predmetmi každodennej potreby a vytvorte aj svoje vlastné jedinečné vynálezy.
Hlavné vlastnosti:
• obsahuje náradie pre zostavenie stavebnice
• kompatibilnosť s každodennými predmetmi
• rozvoj kreativity, jemnej motoriky i logického myslenia
• vhodné od šiestich rokov
• obtiažnosť: 2/5
• rozmery: 8.7x6.5x4.4 cm