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In Memory of Memory
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.
In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms?essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents?Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
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Demagoguery and Democracy
A clear-eyed guide to demagoguery--and how we can defeat it
What is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them.
Why is it dangerous? Demagoguery is democracy's greatest threat. It erodes rational debate, so that intelligent policymaking grinds to a halt. The idea that we never fall for it--that all the blame lies with them--is equally dangerous.
How can we stop it? Demagogues follow predictable patterns in what they say and do to gain power. The key to resisting demagoguery is to name it when you see it--and to know where it leads.
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Menekülés
Amikor Archie, Betty, Veronica és Jughead kocsiba szállnak, hamar rájönnek, hogy kis városuk problémái úgy tűnik, mindenhová követik őket, amerre csak mennek. Archie-t gyilkossággal vádolják, és a bizonyíték ellene szól. Betty, Veronica és Jughead tudják, hogy Hiram Lodge akarja rákenni a fiúra a szörnyű tettet, de nem tudják, hogyan bizonyíthatnák. A banda utolsó mentőövként kitalálja, hogy vissza kell menniük a bűntett helyszínére, hogy ott szerezzenek valamit, ami alátámasztja a szavaikat. Vissza kell menniük tehát Shadow Lake-hez. Azonban a Lodge család erdei kabinját minden oldalról veszély és fenyegetés övezi. Vajon sikerül a csapatnak találnia valamit, amivel tisztázhatják Archie nevét? És ami még fontosabb: visszajutnak Riverdale-be élve?
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Tintenblut
Eigentlich könnte alles so friedlich sein. Doch der Zauber von "Tintenherz" lässt Meggie nicht los. Und eines Tages ist es soweit: Gemeinsam mit Farid geht Meggie in die Tintenwelt, denn sie will den Weglosen Wald sehen, den Speckfürsten, den Schönen Cosimo, den Schwarzen Prinzen und seine Bären. Sie möchte die Feen treffen und natürlich Fenoglio, der sie später zurückschreiben soll. Vor allem aber will sie Staubfinger warnen, denn auch der grausame Basta ist nicht weit.
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Dombey and Son
Paul Dombey is an ambitious, calculating London merchant. He pins all his hopes for the future of his shipping firm on his fragile son whilst his daughter, Florence, goes unnoticed and neglected. It is only when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey is staring at a life of desolate solitude that Florence may finally be valued. Can this heartless businessman be redeemed? "Dombey and Son" is a delicious and lively satire about pride and its downfall. Paul Dombey is an ambitious, calculating London merchant. He pins all his hopes for the future of his shipping firm on his fragile son whilst his daughter, Florence, goes unnoticed and neglected. It is only when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey is staring at a life of desolate solitude that Florence may finally be valued. Can this heartless businessman be redeemed? "Dombey and Son" is a delicious and lively satire about pride and its downfall. Hide
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The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy's Graphic Novel 2)
Freddy is back - with a twist - in this sinister
graphic novel adaptation of the bestselling YA novel Five
Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones!
It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's
Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement
of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by
nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets.
Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies
are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly
familiar she finds herself drawn back into the world of her
father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie,
and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go.
With electrifying art from Eisner Award-nominated
artist Claudia Aguirre, and even more horror than ever before, fans
won't want to miss this graphic novel adaptation straight from
the mind of Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon.
Bosch. The Complete Works
An exhaustive exploration of one of art history’s most mysterious masters, Hieronymus Bosch. This monograph, based on the XXL edition which saw TASCHEN commission new photography of recently restored works, unravels his oeuvre through accessible texts, a special chapter on The Garden of Earthly Delights, a fold-out of The Last Judgment, and details reproduced so impeccably that they become paintings in themselves.
A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine drawings to his name, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) secured his place as a pillar of art history. To this day, the painter par excellence of hell and its demons continues to puzzle and enthrall scholars, artists, designers, and musicians alike.
Based on the best-selling XXL edition, which saw TASCHEN commission new and exclusive photography of details and recently restored works, this large-scale monograph presents Bosch’s complete oeuvre. Texts from art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer dissect the many compelling elements that populate each scene, from hybrid creatures of man and beast to Bosch’s pictorial use of proverbs and idioms. By tying together the elusive threads of his oeuvre into one exhaustive overview, this book reveals just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential.
Features:
Impeccable full-page reproductions celebrating the artist’s staggering compositional scope
Enlarged details unveiling the most intricate and bizarre scenes as much as the unsuspected technical minutiae, from subtle brush-strokes to the grain of the canvas
A fold-out spread drawn from the legendary Last Judgement
A special chapter focusing on Bosch’s most famous work, the mesmerizing and terrifying triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights
The author
Stefan Fischer studied art history, history, and classical archaeology in Münster, Amsterdam, and Bonn. In 2009 he completed his doctoral thesis “Hieronymus Bosch: Malerei als Vision, Lehrbild und Kunstwerk.” His specialist fields are Netherlandish painting of the 15th to the 17th centuries and museology.
Ball Lightning
'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics.
Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat.
Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy.
Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired
Village Teacher
An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's - 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels.
In the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition, one man has dedicated his life to igniting a passion for maths and science in the hearts of the peasant children around him. Now his life is coming to its end, he draws his students around him so he can impart knowledge on them to his final breath.
All the while, in a far corner of outer space, fifty thousand light-years away, an interstellar war that has waged for thousands of years is coming to an end. The victor plans to perform the full-scale extermination of any low-intelligence lifeforms that remain in what is now his solar system.
In order to gauge the intelligence of a planet, the victor devises a test - posed to a group of lifeforms selected at random by a computer - of science and mathematics. On a green-and-blue planet nestled in a spiral arm of the Milky Way, the computer's selection falls to a group of children, in the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition...
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The Invention of the Jewish People
Best-selling analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian with a new preface
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd'hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.
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Die geheime Treppe
Am Strand entdecken die drei Detektive zufällig eine verschlüsselte Botschaft auf einem Stück Holz: Es ist der Hilferuf eines Entführungsopfers, das in einem Haus ganz in der Nähe festgehalten wird. Zwar kann das Opfer schnell befreit werden. Der eigentliche Fall fängt damit jedoch erst an. Denn die Entführung ist nur ein kleines Puzzleteil in einem weit größeren Rätsel, bei dem eine geheime Treppe, eine düstere Bibliothek und ein alter Schatz der Löwenritter eine Rolle spielen
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7,51 €
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Coming Home to Island House
From Erica James, bestselling author of Summer at the Lake, comes an enchanting tale of one family coming together and finding their way. It's the summer of 1939, and after touring an unsettled Europe to promote her latest book, Romily Temple returns home to Island House and the love of her life, the charismatic Jack Devereux. But when Jack falls ill, his estranged family are called home and given seven days to find a way to bury their resentments and come together.
With war now declared, each member of the family is reluctantly forced to accept their new stepmother and confront their own shortcomings. But can the habits of a lifetime be changed in one week? And can Romily, a woman who thrives on adventure, cope with the life that has been so unexpectedly thrust upon her?
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10,40 €
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
An expert and lavishly illustrated guide to the World's best known dinosaurs,together with many lesser known species from the Triassic,Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of Earth's history..Includes non-dinosaurs such as placodonts,nothasaurs,plesiosaur
s,ichthyosaurs,..and more...Features an account of the evolution of the earth's geology and the development of life on Earth culminating in the Age of Dinosaurs..Includes more than 900 watercolours,maps,time lines and photographs.
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6,64 €
6,99 €
Lacná kniha The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (-70%)
An expert and lavishly illustrated guide to the World's best known dinosaurs,together with many lesser known species from the Triassic,Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of Earth's history..Includes non-dinosaurs such as placodonts,nothasaurs,plesiosaur
s,ichthyosaurs,..and more...Features an account of the evolution of the earth's geology and the development of life on Earth culminating in the Age of Dinosaurs..Includes more than 900 watercolours,maps,time lines and photographs.
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2,10 €
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Cast Iron
THE NEW FRONTLIST THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF COFFIN ROAD AND THE BLACKHOUSEIn 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime.No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone-cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to solve.Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a Pandora's box that not only raises old ghosts but endangers his entire family.
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" ist ohne Zweifel eines der Schlüsselwerke der politischen Philosophie. Bis heute wird es kontrovers diskutiert und immer wieder rücken seine Thesen ins Blickfeld einer breiten Öffentlichkeit. Weitgehend ungelöst scheinen demnach die Fragen, denen sich Marx in seiner scharfsichtigen Analyse widmet: Wie schafft es der Mensch, in einer kapitalistisch organisierten Gesellschaft die Zügel in der Hand zu behalten? Und was ist nötig, damit er hinter ihren offenbar rätselhaften Prozessen nicht gänzlich "verschwindet"?
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15,20 €
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Stencil 101
Embellish everything, from walls and floors to clothes, bed linens, and even cake with this awesome value pack of 25 reusable stencils from Ed Roth, stencil maverick behind the popular Web site stencil1.com. At front we've included inspiring project photo and how-to. At back we've bound in 25 removable, reusable stencils featuring designs ranging from urban-cool boom boxes, power lines and turntables, to naturally fanciful sparrows, branches and deer.
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17,58 €
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Hitzefrei
Spritzig, böse, herzzerreißend!Wenn Elisa Sellmayer eines auf die Nerven geht, dann als alleinerziehend bezeichnet zu werden. Dafür hat sie nicht studiert und beschlossen, das Leben mit Haltung zu meistern. Ebenso wenig mag sie Sommerferien mit ihrer unmoralischen Schwester Mimi. Doch dann trifft an einem drückend heißem Julitag Leo aus London zusammen mit einer Hitzewelle ein … Erotische, familiäre und existenzielle Verwicklungen nehmen ihren Lauf.Für die Leserinnen von Sibylle Weischenbergs „Ich hasse den Sommer“
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14,73 €
15,50 €
Understanding Comics
The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this book." - Neil Gaiman Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.
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26,55 €
27,95 €