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The Poison diaries
A dark, gothic tale of romance... and murder. In the right dose, everything is a poison. Jessamine has spent her whole life in a cottage close to her father's apothecary garden, surrounded by medicinal plants and herbs that could kill her -- although her father has never allowed her into the most dangerous part of the grounds... the poison garden. And so she's never had reason to be afraid -- until now. Because now a newcomer has come to live with the family, a quiet but strangely attractive orphan boy named Weed. Though Weed doesn't say much in words, he has an instant talent for the apothecary's trade, seeming to possess a close bond with the plants of the garden. Soon, he and Jessamine also share a close bond. But little does Jessamine know that passion can be just as poisonous as the deadliest plants in the garden -- for behind Weed's instinctive way in the garden is a terrible secret.
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The Sonnets and a Lovers Complaint
An elaborately annotated edition of Shakespeare's masterpieces of wit and erotic word-play. When a volume of poetry entitled Shakespeares Sonnets. Never before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth, others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a "dark lady." Appended to the sonnets is "A Lover's Complaint," a beautiful poem in rhyme-royal in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer. While Shakespeare's biographers continue their investigations, readers may find the "secret" of the sonnets in the poetry itself. In this spirit John Kerrigan provides an illuminating Introduction to the volume as a whole, together with 258 pages of commentaries on the poems, a textual history, and suggestions for further reading. Edited with an Introduction by John Kerrigan.
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OWC House of the Seven Gables
In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in
a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries `God will give him blood to drink!' The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants in the crumbling
mansion for the next century and a half. Hawthorne called his novel a `Romance', drawing on the Gothic tradition which embraced and exploited the thrills of the supernatural. Unlike The Scarlet Letter, with its unrelentingly dark view of human natur
e and guilt, Hawthorne sought to write `a more natural and healthy product of my mind', a story which would show guilt to be a trick of the imagination. The tension between fantasy and a new realism underpins the novel's descriptive virtuosity.
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2,99 €
Dexter in the Dark
Dexter Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is. Soon it seems the dark passenger in Dexter's head has gone into hiding. And when something creeps out your friendly neighbourhood serial killer, you know it's serious ...As Halpern and Dexter are stalked by death, it looks like it's getting personal - especially as Dex now has a family to protect. Gradually, Dexter realises his stepchildren might share his extracurricular interest in death. Could he help them target their bloodlust, just as he steers his own? But to do that, Dex must cope with a certain mutilated sergeant from his past, and more importantly ...stay alive ...
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7,55 €
7,95 €
Two Towers
Building on the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
Best of Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp and Ghent
Belgium is booming and now’s the time to explore its four cities in one. Delve into Euro-culture in dynamic Brussels, stroll around the historic buildings of Bruges, find the sparkle in Antwerp’s diamonds and high fashion, and hide away in the bars of up-and-coming Ghent. Seek out the best of everything with our discerning guide.Be A Culture Vulture – our expert authors will show you fine art, comic heroes and Art Nouveau architectureDiscerning Eating Listings – whether you want a local bistro tucked away from the main drag or haute cuisine in the finest restaurant in townLay Back And Rest Your Head – with insider reviews of the best places to stayThe Best In Beer – learn to love Belgian brews with our fine selection of old pubs, classy bars and trendy clubsFind Your Way – grid-referenced gatefold maps and comprehensive travel information help you move around the cities with confidence
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16,37 €
17,23 €
The Future of the Universe
Experience the explosive and colourful future of the cosmos, zooming trillions of years ahead in time with Professor Raman Prinja, published in association with Royal Observatory Greenwich.
The Future of the Universe starts the future clock NOW and rockets readers along a forward time line to discover what scientists predict will happen to the Universe, including a shiny new ring on Mars, Earth's axis flip and a dramatic galaxy crash!
This is the first book of its kind for this age - putting all the future events into one place along a clear timeline for readers 9 and up, from the return of famous comets in a few decades, to the dark end of the Universe a nonillion years from now.
Professor Raman Prinja is the international, multi-award-winning Head of Department for Physics and Astronomy at University College London and a celebrated children's author of many books, including Planetarium and Wonders of the Night Sky.
Illustrator Jan Bielecki's action-packed, vivid artwork plucks these astonishing phenomena out of the distant future, and explodes them on the page - sizzling red giant stars and deep, mysterious dark energy; doomed moons and trailing comets - they're all inside The Future of the Universe!
Professor Prinja pens this unique look at the Universe's future, as seen on Sunday Brunch, as his follow-up to the definitive and exciting Wonders of the Night Sky, which introduces anyone with a patch of sky and a curious mind to exploring the marvels on display in today's Universe. The next generation of Universe explorers can easily engage with astronomy through these stunning books, no expensive equipment needed.
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Dánsko - Merian 38 - 2.vydání
Není pochyb o tom, že Dánové mají rádi pohodlí. "Hygge" je dánský výraz pro klid, útulnost a pohodu - Dánové se zkrátka rádi rozmazlují, zvláště za dlouhých tmavých zimních večerů. Pivo, Aquavit, smorrebrod nebo "rodgrod med flode" - to je to pravé. A nemýlíte se, posledně jmenovaný pokrm je skutečně červená krupice se smetanou.
Nicméně i 5,2 milionů obyvatel tohoto malého království, věrných již po třicet let své vládkyni Margrethe II., si uvědomuje krok času a nelpí neměně na typických tradicích. Vždyť ani státu s nejstarší národní vlajkou na světě se nevyhýbá moderní pokrok. Mobilní telefon není jen symbolem společenského postavení, ale i pracovního zařazení. Je příznakem obchodnického ducha, díky němuž se firmy jako Bang&Olufsen, Lego, Carlsberg-Tubor nebo loděnice Marsk staly významnými hráči na světových trzích. V Kodani a jejím okolí se usídlily farmaceutičtí specialisté jako Novo Nordisk, v jejichž laboratořích se zároveň na budoucnost připravuje na 200 000 studentů. A budoucnost se vskutku blíží mílovými kroky: v létě 2000 byl otevřen 16 km dlouhý most přes Öresund, spojující Seeland a švédské Malmö a vytvářející tak nový hospodářský prostor pro jižní Skandinávii, jeho potenciál se plně projeví až za několik let. Další most, otevřený již roku 1998, zase přispěl k lepší komunikaci a dopravě v rámci samotného Dánska - spojuje totiž 2,5 milionů Dánů z Jutského poloostrova s jejich příbuznými žijícími na východních březích průlivu Store Baelt.
Ale žádný strach - při všech změnách a pokrocích si Dánsko zachovává svou veselou lehkost. Země, jejíž pobřeží čítá 7000 km, je na stálé změny zvyklé a dokáže s nimi moudře zacházet. Tím víc si cení starých dobrých věcí a památek. Dánsko se zkrátka otevírá světu - a přesto zůstává samo sebou: na podzim 2000 hlasovalo 53 procent obyvatel proti přijetí jednotné evropské měny. Dánská koruna se zkrátka lépe hodí pro království, jež trvá již více než 1000 let.
10 míst, která nesmíte vynechat:
Tivoli
Největší zábavní park v Kodani otevírá každý rok nové atrakce, přesto si zachovává svou útulnou atmosféru.
Grenen
Místo, kde se setkávají vody Severního a Baltského moře. Nejzazší výběžek pevniny s fascinujícím výhledem.
Muzeum Louisiana
Mekka moderního umění představuje díla velikánů od Beuyse po Warhola. Muzeum je situováno v architektonicky působivém komplexu.
Ristet Hotdog
Kolem typického stánku s občerstvením (polstervogn) nedokážete projít netečně: dánské hotdogy jsou výjimečnou kulinářskou lahůdkou!
Katedrála v Roskilde
Tato mohutná stavba je od r. 1355 místem posledního odpočinku všech dánských králů.
Mons Klint
Křídové útesy ostrova Mon září do dálky tou nejbělejší bělostí. V jejich okolí lze podniknout překrásné výlety.
Legoland
Pohádkový svět sestavený z malých pestrých stavebnicových kostek okouzlí nejen děti.
Nordsomuseet
Nejlepší ze všech vzrušujících akvárií se nachází na severu Jutského poloostrova – a je největší na světě.
Egeskov Slot
Nejkrásnější vodní zámek evropského kontinentu má neméně pěkný park.
Muzeum vikingských lodí v Roskilde
Pět lodí, jež se kolem roku 1000 potopily v ústí Roskilde fjordu, bylo po rekonstrukci umístěno v muzeu, kde se dozvíte mnoho zajímavostí o vikingských časech.
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7,78 €
8,19 €
Harry Potter Dark Arts Collectible Set
You don't have to be a Dark Wizard, Death Eater, or even a Slytherin to appreciate the Dark Arts!Spotlighting the magical darker side of the Wizarding World, this deluxe kit includes:
Keepsake box with molded Death Eater mask embedded into the top, and closing latch. (Mask is not removable.)5-1/4 x 8", 176-page, flexibound replica of Tom Riddle's diary. It features Dark Arts quotes, descriptions of the 7 horcruxes, and photos and illustrations throughout, plus plenty of space for writing. Also includes a reproduction of the messages between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle, as seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Basilisk fang pen.Metallic-ink Dark Mark stickers.
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37,95 €
39,95 €
Drag
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the utterly bizarre - through the twentieth century and up to the present day.
With witty text, dazzling photography, and corralled into thematic chapters, this is the first flamboyant and poignant survey of drag culture. Drag is not just for fabulous queens and drag enthusiasts, but for anyone interested in gender fluidity and the culture surrounding it.
Simon Doonan is a former drag queen who impersonated Queen Elizabeth. A veteran in the fashion industry, he has won every fashion award on Earth including the CFDA Award. Today, Simon is the Creative Ambassador for Barneys New York and a judge on the NBC television show Making It, co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman.
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36,05 €
37,95 €
Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two
Gotham City is changing. After Mayor Hill is killed by a mysterious assailant, Batman finds himself tracking down an ancient order that s long been buried under the streets of Gotham: the Court of Owls. But what does this group have to gain from the death of Mayor Hill and how can Deadman help the Dark Knight? Will the clues lead Batman to an ancient Gotham City legend? Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Ty Templeton, and Monica Kubina return to comics for an all-new season that picks up where the classic animated series left off. Includes Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #1 7.
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20,95 €
Lacná kniha Little Dorrit (-90%)
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.
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1,39 €
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Dark Persuasion
A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
"Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to today's misinformation, cyberbullying and cultlike behavior on the Internet."-Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post
This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control.
Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story-one that hasn't yet ended.
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26,13 €
27,50 €
Black Clover, Vol. 31
In a world of magic, Asta, a boy with anti-magic powers, will do whatever it takes to become the Wizard King!
Asta is a young boy who dreams of becoming the greatest mage in the kingdom. Only one problem-he can't use any magic! Luckily for Asta, he receives the incredibly rare five-leaf clover grimoire that gives him the power of anti-magic. Can someone who can't use magic really become the Wizard King? One thing's for sure-Asta will never give up!
Noelle and her family have finally taken revenge against the devil who killed their mother, but they can't celebrate just yet. One member of the Dark Triad remains and it'll be up to Yuno to put an end to this battle once and for all!
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11,35 €
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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.
Everything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your nearest green space.
Featuring Olafur Eliasson, Etel Adnan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Fonda & Swoon, Judy Chicago, Black Quantum Futurism Collective, Vivienne Westwood, Cauleen Smith, Marina Abramovic, Karrabing Film Collective, and many more.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
An intrepid professor must uncover faerie secrets in the delightful and heart-warming second instalment of the Sunday Times bestselling Emily Wilde series.
Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore, and has catalogued many secrets of the Hidden Folk in her encyclopaedia with her infuriatingly charming fellow scholar, Wendell Bambleby, by her side.
But Bambleby is more than just a brilliant and unbearably handsome scholar. He's an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, in search of a door back to his realm.
By lucky happenstance, Emily's new project, a map of the realms of faerie, will take them on an adventure to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby's realm, and the key to freeing him from his family's dark plans.
But with new friendships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.
The Leviathan
'It's hard to believe that such an accomplished novel could be a debut - The Leviathan is a gloriously dark story that sweeps you along to its harrowing yet satisfying conclusion. Superb' Susan Stokes-Chapman, number one bestselling author of Pandora
'Darkly compelling and dripping with atmosphere... bewitching' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FAMILIARS
A beguiling tale of superstition, myth and murder, perfect for fans of The Binding, The Essex Serpent and Once Upon a River.
SHE IS AWAKE...
Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister, who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father. By the time Thomas returns home, his father is insensible, felled by a stroke, and their new servant is in prison, facing charges of witchcraft.
Thomas prides himself on being a rational, modern man, but as he unravels the mystery of what has happened, he uncovers not a tale of superstition but something dark and ancient, linked to a shipwreck years before.
Something has awoken, and now it will not rest.
Richly researched, incredibly atmospheric, and deliciously unsettling, The Leviathan is set in England during a time of political and religious turbulence. It is a tale of family and loyalty, superstition and sacrifice, but most of all it is a spellbinding mystery and a story of impossible things.
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16,50 €
My Ultramarine Sky
From the creator of My Summer of You comes a high school romance about two friends who've always been in the same class, but when a new school year separates them, they realize that their feelings for each other might run deeper than friendship… From their first year of middle school to their second year of high school, Kai and Ren have not only always been in the same class-they've also always sat next to each other. But in their last year of high school, the boys are assigned to two separate classes, and with each passing day, Kai feels as if he's slipping further and further away from Ren… One day, when Kai finds Ren sleeping in a classroom after school, he whispers the feelings that he can't bring himself to say out loud… and Ren hears him. Will Kai's confession draw them further and further apart, or will it be the spark that brings them back to each other once more?
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14,73 €
15,50 €
Butcher and Blackbird
Discover the serial killer romance thriller everyone is talking about!
This viral TikTok friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and sizzling chemistry is unlike anything you've read before . . .
Even serial killers deserve a meet-cute.
When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive - the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.
Stalking across the country, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country.
But as their friendship develops into something deeper, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their new-found romance.
Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?
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12,14 €
13,95 €