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The LGBTQ + History Book
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.
Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to Kinsey's modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures from Anne Lister to Audre Lorde.
Dive deep into the pages of The LGBTQ + History book to discover:
- Thought-provoking graphics and flow-charts demystify the central concepts behind key moments in LGBTQ+ history, from eromenos and erastes in the Ancient World to political lesbianism.
- Features insightful quotes from leading historians, philosophers, cultural commentators, economists, anthropologists, sociologists, activists, and politicians.
- Includes biography boxes and directory entries on the lives of important but lesser-known individuals, alongside well-known names including Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Anne Lister, Harvey Milk, and Marsha P. Johnson.
- Global in scope with a localizable directory.
The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history, such as the Stonewall Riots and first gender affirmation surgeries, as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution, from the Renaissance Italian "Night Police" to the 20th century "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. The book also includes major cultural cornerstones - the secret language of polari, Black and Latine ballroom culture, and the many flags of the community - and the history of LGBTQ+ spaces, from 18th-century "molly houses" to modern "gaybourhoods".
The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the long, proud - and often hidden - history of LGBTQ+ people, cultures, and places from around the world.
A Thousand Brains
For all we hear of neuroscience's great advances, the field has generated more questions than answers. We know that the brain combines sensory input from all over your body into a single perception, but not how. We think brains "compute" in some sense, but we can't say what those computations are. We believe that the brain is organized as a hierarchy, with different pieces all working collaboratively to make a single model of the world. But we can explain neither how those pieces are differentiated, nor how they collaborate.
Neuroscientist and computer engineer Jeff Hawkins argues that it's so hard to answer questions about the brain because our basic picture of how the brain works is wrong. In A Thousand Brains, Hawkins takes a radically new approach to the brain, with stunning implications.
Hawkins' proposal, called the Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence, is that your brain is organized into thousands upon thousands of individually computing units, called cortical columns. These columns all process information from the outside world in the same way, and each builds a complete model of the world. But because every column has different connections to the rest of the body, each has a unique frame of reference. Your brain sorts out all those models by conducting a vote. The fundamental job of the brain, therefore, is not to build a single thought, but to manage the thousands of individual thoughts it has every moment.
With this powerful new framework, Hawkins is able to reassess some of neuroscience's most stubborn problems, like why pain needs to be painful to be useful, how we can understand that our perspective of a thing changes as we move around it, and why we might be conscious but individual pieces of our body aren't.
And once you understand how the brain works, it is a lot easier to make one yourself. Hawkins is, above all, an engineer, and A Thousand Brains outlines how a new understanding of intelligence could lead to truly intelligent AI. Hawkins explores how we might create machines that can learn on their own, why we need not fear superintelligent systems, and how human and machine intelligence may someday merge.
Combining cutting-edge theoretical neuroscience with an ambitious program for tomorrow's digital minds, A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the study of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.
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Elliott Erwitt´s Kolor
Kolor is a subtle tribute to George Eastman (who liked words with the letter K because he thought people remembered them better) and his photography empire, Kodak. To select the color photographs for this vast project that have never been published in a book before, Elliott Erwitt sifted through his nearly forgotten ample archive of nearly half a million 35mm—primarily Kodachrome—film slides. Then he began the mammoth task of whittling it down to this epic collection of roughly 450 pages.
For most of these images, the color managed to stay miraculously preserved and every evocative detail is as crisp as the date they were developed, many nearly sixty years ago.
Whether world leaders or sassy showgirls, the subjects reflect Erwitt’s own wry and eclectic sensibility. To say the juxtapositions are intriguing would be an understatement. From marketplaces to military camps, Vegas to Venice, there’s a rich mixture of public pageantry and carefully observed private interactions.
The Secret History
With cloth binding and bespoke marbled endpapers, this gorgeous 30th-anniversary hardback edition of The Secret History is the perfect gift for fans!
'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
Lacná kniha That Will Never Work (-70%)
In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company - all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph.
Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. These were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997 when Marc Randolph had an idea. It was a simple thought - leveraging the internet to rent movies - and was just one of many more proposals, like personalised baseball bats and a shampoo delivery service, that Randolph would pitch to his business partner, Reed Hastings, on their commute to work each morning.
But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair - with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO - founded a company.
Now with over 150 million subscribers, Netflix's triumph feels inevitable but the twenty-first century's most disruptive start-up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to the now-infamous meeting when they pitched Blockbuster to acquire them, Marc Randolph's transformational journey exemplifies how anyone with grit, gut instincts and determination can change the world - even with an idea that many think will never work.
What emerges, however, isn't just the inside story of one of the world's most iconic companies. Full of counter-intuitive concepts and written in binge-worthy prose, it answers some of our most fundamental questions about taking that leap of faith in business or in life: How do you begin? How do you weather disappointment and failure? How do you deal with success? What even is success?
From idea generation to team building to knowing when it's time to let go, That Will Never Work is not only the ultimate follow-your-dreams parable but also one of the most dramatic and insightful entrepreneurial stories of our time.
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Lacná kniha Ukrajna története (-90%)
Első rész – UKRAJNA KÖZÉPKORI GYÖKEREI: A KEZDETEKTŐL A 15. SZÁZAD VÉGÉIG
BEVEZETÉS
1. Nép és ország – egykor és ma
2. Keleti szlávok és a sztyeppei nomádok
2.1. A szlávok megjelenése Kelet-Európában
2.2. A sztyeppe népei
2.3. A varég – vikingek térhódítása
I. A KÖZÉPKORI ÁLLAMISÁG MEGTESTESÍTŐJE: A KIJEVI RUSZ
1. Az államszervezés problémái
2. Vlagyimirtól Vlagyimirig
2.1. A dinasztikus uralom keresztény legitimációja: Vladimir és Bölcs Jaroszlav
2.2. A „triumvirátus”
2.3. A monarchia kísérlete: Vladimir Monomah
3. A részfejedelemségek formálódásának kora
3.1. Fejedelemség, részfejedelemség, állam?
3.2. Kijev és a perifériák
3.3. Kijev körüli harcok és a „duumviratus”
3.4. Önállósult déli területek a tatár hódítás előtt: Csernyigov és Halics–Volhínia
4. A gazdasági élet
4.1. A földrajzi környezet
4.2. Élelem, pénz, kereskedelem
4.3. Jövedelmek
4.4. Települések
5. A társadalom
5.1. A fejedelem és a kíséret
5.2. A szabadság és függőség típusai
5.3. A vecse
5.4. Az egyházi hierarchia
6. Életmód, mentalitás, művelődés
6.1. Pogány kultuszok és keresztény hit
6.2. Írásbeliség és művelődés
6.3. Jog és törvény
6.4. Építészet, ikonfestészet, zene
II. A RUSZ RÉGIÓI ÉS A SZTYEPPE
1. Kazárok, magyarok, besenyők, kunok
2. A kunok szerepe a részfejedelemségek formálódásában
2.1. Perejaszlavl
2.2. Csernyigov
2.3. Halics
3. Tatár támadás a 13. század közepén
4. Régiók-részfejedelemségek és tatárok
III. AZ EGYKORI RUSZ NYUGATI TERÜLETEI A 15. SZÁZAD VÉGÉIG
1. Halics – Volhínia rövid életű önállósága 1340-ig
1.1. Rex Daniel: tatár politika és nyugati orientáció
1.2. A lavírozási lehetőségek beszűkülése
1.3. Gazdaság, társadalom, fejedelmi udvar
2. Litvánia terjeszkedése kelet felé
3. Halics – Volhínia a Lengyel királyságban 1340–1386
3.1. Lengyel – litván hadakozás Russiáért
3.2. Nyugati hatások a keleti végeken
3.3. Az ortodox és a latin egyházszervezet a 14. század végéig
4. A Lengyel – litván állam keleti végvidéke
4.1. A térség politikai erőviszonyai a 15. században
4.2. A végvidékek bizonytalansága a 15. században
4.3. Lengyel – litván hatás az ukrán nyelv és kultúra létrejöttében
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Therapy - Vintage Minis
`I want to change, but not if it means changing,' a patient once said to me in complete innocence
What do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his twenty-five years' experience as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz ushers the reader through the door of his consulting room and into the minds of his patients. In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and in doing so, understand a little more about what it is to be human.
Selected from The Examined Life.
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Discover the Vintage Minis `Head Space' series:
Recovery by Helen Macdonald
Family by Mark Haddon
A pokolba és vissza – Európa 1914–1949
A 20. század első fele Európa katasztrófákkal átszőtt korszaka, az emberiség történetének példátlanul erőszakos, drámai és egyúttal lebilincselő időszaka. Ian Kershaw kötete átfogó tudósítást ad a történelem e sűrű szövésű periódusáról, az I. világháború kitörését megelőző időszaktól kezdve Hitler felemelkedésén keresztül a II. világháborút követő európai hatalmi berendezkedés sajátosságaiig. Bemutatja a történelemformáló karaktereket és a háborúk erőszakos sokkhatását az európai társadalmak történetére. A szerző négy fő tényezőt határoz meg az európai kataklizmák kiváltó okaként: az etnikai alapú nacionalizmust, a csillapíthatatlan revizionista törekvéseket, a feloldhatatlan osztályellentéteket, amelyek az oroszországi forradalomban konkrétan testet is öltöttek, valamint a kapitalizmus agóniáját. A metszően pontos, brilliánsan megírt mű bepillantást enged az európai történelem viharos korszakába, amely máig hatóan alakította nemcsak a kontinens, hanem az egész világ történetét is.
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Spice And Wolf 11 Novel
As with the first Side Colors volume, Side Colors II departs once more from Lawrence and Holo's travels north, taking the reader off the beaten path to explore three exquisite side stories. Remember, it's not so much about the destination, as it is the journey...
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The World of David Walliams
EIGHT hilarious and moving novels from bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams, in one SUPER-TASTIC box-set! GRANDPA'S GREAT ESCAPE: Many years ago Grandpa was a World War II flying ace. But when he is sent to old folk's home Twilight Towers - run by sinister Matron Swine - it's up to Grandpa and his grandson, Jack, to plot a daring escape. Little do they know, the wicked matron is on to them...AWFUL AUNTIE: Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily, Stella has a secret - and slightly spooky - weapon up her sleeve...DEMON DENTIST: Strange things were happening in the dead of night. When children put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, they would wake to find something creepy in its place. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it? RATBURGER: Can Zoe keep her beloved pet rat safe from the clutches of the dastardly Burt of Burt's Burgers? GANGSTA GRANNY: Ben's grandma is the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble and eat cabbage soup.But there are two things Ben doesn't know about her: 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels, and now she needs Ben's help...BILLIONAIRE BOY: Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. He has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there's just one thing he really needs: a friend...MR STINK: Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well...But there's more to this vagrant than meets the nose! THE BOY IN THE DRESS: Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book...
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Sapiens CD Audiobook
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us.
Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.
Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future. 'Here is a simple reason why Sapiens has risen explosively to the ranks of an international bestseller.
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Zbig
"A "kolléga és nagy rivális" Henry Kissinger munkásságáról könyvtárnyi irodalom jelent meg, semmi sem indokolja, hogy ennyire mellőzzünk egy olyan életutat, amely van annyira izgalmas, eredeti és hatékony, mint Kissingeré.
Charles Gati könyve egymásra szervesen épülő négy részből áll. Az elsőben azonosítják Brzezinski mára már állandósult helyét abban a befolyásos politikai és értelmiségi közegben, amelynek rálátása van az Egyesült Államok nagypolitikai döntéseire: itt születnek meg azok a koncepciók, amelyekre a döntések meghozatalakor a politikai szféra gyakran támaszkodik. A második rész tanulmányai történeti szempontból elemzik és értékelik a Nemzetbiztonsági Tanácsban eltöltött éveket. A harmadik az ezt követő időszakot mutatja be, amikor Brzeziski nem látványos, mégis a szó szoros értelmében sorsdöntő missziókat vállalt. Teljesen újszerűen, eddig ismeretlen tényeket felsorakoztatva mutatja be például II. János Pál pápa és Brzezinski "konspirációit", melyek mintegy felgyorsították a lengyel rendszerváltást. Az utolsó fejezet egyfajta személyes számadás a professzorról, az amerikai értelmiségiről és a lengyel hazafiról.
A bevezetőt Charles Gati írta, ő maga válogatta a tanulmányokat, és ő kérte fel a szerzőket, akik között olyan, világszerte jól ismert személységek vannak, mint Francis Fukuyama filozófus vagy Adam Garfinkle, a The American Interest alapító főszerkesztője, aki a The National Interestet is szerkesztette korábban, vagy David J. Rothkopf, a Foreign Policy folyóirat igazgatója. Az előszőt Jimmy Carter jegyzi, akinek az elnöksége idején Brzezinski nemzetbiztonsági tanácsadóként élete legmagasabb közéleti pozícióját töltötte be." (Ara-Kovács Attila)
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Conquest
1066 – Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become known as the Battle of Hastings. The battle is hard fought and bloody, the lives of thousands have been spent, i
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Wolverine - Origin - the Complete Collection
The full story of Marvel's most mystery-shrouded mutant, revealed at last! Long before he became an X-Man, before he was transformed by Weapon X, he was a boy named James Howlett. But what tragedy could strike that would set him on the path to becoming the ferocious Wolverine? Follow young James from a life of privilege and that fateful fi rst "snikt," through the devastating events that rip him from his family and ultimately drive him into the wilderness. There, in the snowy wilds of Canada, the feral young man now known as Logan will encounter another mutant very much like him, also torn between man and animal. One who could be his greatest ally - or his fiercest foe. COLLECTING: ORIGIN 1-6, ORIGIN II 1-5
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This is Not Propaganda
* A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR *'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently chilling.' Herald'Shocking and entertaining.' Daily TelegraphWhen information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean.
As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising.
'The world's most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev.' Oliver Bullough'Through our current smog of smouldering bullshit, This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary, humane and dissident light.' Nick Rankin'Far more than just another take on today's chaotic information wars, this book argues that we will have to understand how propaganda seeks to shape our deepest thoughts before we can confront it.' Anne Applebaum
It's a Continent
'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising the individual majesty, the complexity, the beauty, the culture and the stories of the dozens of African countries. We owe it to ourselves and our history to put that right.' - Simon Reeve
Why is Africa still perceived as a single country?
How did African soldiers contribute to World War II?
Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Africa?
How did an African man become one of the wealthiest people in history?
There are (hi)stories you were never taught in school.
IT'S A CONTINENT delves into these stories and reveals an Africa as you've never read it before. Breaking down this vast, beautiful, and complex continent and exploring each nations' unique history and culture, IT'S A CONTINENT highlights the key historical moments that have shaped each nation and contributed to its modern global position.
Each chapter focuses on a different country and uncovers stories that mainstream education doesn't address at its peril.
This book aims to highlight the consequences of colonialism and how this legacy reverberates today, as well as how many African countries continue to re-build in its wake.
IT'S A CONTINENT is a bold and colourful corrective to the perception of Africa as a monolith. It reveals the fascinating, often overlooked, histories of its 54 nation states too often misrepresented, its inhabitants and its place in the world too often neglected.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems which have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work survived his death and has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from essays to one-line aphorisms, and from profundity to bitterness.
Marcus wrote to console himself in the face of the shortness of life, the shoddiness of the world, and the challenges of being human. He asks the very same questions that every thinking person must ask themselves today: Does the universe have a moral purpose, and what is my role in it? What exactly is it to be a good person, and how do I get there? Life is short: what does that mean for me? How can I get to know myself better? Anyone who is puzzled by such questions or searching for answers will profit from this timeless book, which is both an important historical document and a personal spiritual diary.
This annotated edition will be the definitive translation of this classic and much-beloved text, with copious notes that will illuminate one of the greatest works of popular philosophy for new readers and enrich the understanding of even the most hardcore Stoic.
Podzemní Praha
Velká evropská města mají svoji zjevnou tvář plnou památek a turistů, ale rovněž pokračují hluboko pod zem, kde vytvářejí neviditelná podzemní města. Paříž je pověstná svými podzemními lomy a průzkumnými štolami, které měly zabezpečit stabilitu paláců. Řím ve svých pahorcích obsahuje rozsáhlá města mrtvých a antické stoky. Neapol je známá systémem podzemních vodovodů a cisteren. Berlín válečné doby proslul plány na vybudování systému velkolepých podzemních komunikací a krytů. Podzemí měst je individuální a odráží nějaký zvláštní či výrazný rys jejich historie. Má-li k něčemu blízko, pak to je podvědomí města. Obě města to na povrchu i to dole mají své památky a svá pravidla. Jsou jako bytost a její stín. Tato kniha podává přehled hlavních podzemních objektů na území zlaté Prahy a jejího okolí. Popisuje její jeskyně, ponorné toky, těžbu nerostných surovin stejně jako sklepy, katakomby, středověké podzemí nebo kanalizační systém z počátku 20. století. Zavádí nás do podzemí Pražského hradu i do renesanční štoly císaře Rudolfa II. Provádí nás štolami železnorudných dolů i podzemními pískovnami. Ukazuje, jaké má podzemí vliv na současný chod města a obrací se k němu i jako ke zdroji snů, strachů a inspirací. Kniha sleduje dvě linie – první je věcná a praktická. Zabývá se tím, kde leží podzemní prostory budované po dobu jednoho tisíce let, k čemu sloužily a jak vypadají. Druhá linie je příběhová a symbolická. Pojednává o průzkumu podzemí, ale také čím je pro nás podsvětí – zda temnou říší mrtvých, anebo zda zde plane jemné světlo, které J.W. Goethe i Novalis nalézali v úzkých podzemních štolách. Možná, že pod sférou démonů skutečně tepe Nietscheovo „zlaté srdce Země“. Kniha je doprovázena archivními materiály a skoro dvěma stovkami fotografií, jež pořizoval po dobu několika let celý tým lidí a které patří ke špičce evropské podzemní fotografie. Hlavním rysem podzemí je kontrast mezi vnitřkem a vnějškem. Podzemní svatyně náleží vnitřnímu prostoru, usebrání, meditaci a cestě ke kořenům bytosti. Rovněž sny, vize a proměny času se líhnou někde uvnitř, ale zjevení přicházejí z nebe. Proto má jeskyně víc do činění s osobním růstem a hora s životem celé komunity. Svatyně na kopcích jsou plné světla, zástupů, vycházení ze sebe, duchovního výdechu. Vyjdeme ven, rozhlédneme se po krajině a obejmeme prostor se všemi kopci, stromy, staveními a lidmi. To je Svatá hora. Ale svatá jeskyně, jaká například leží pod kostelem ve Svatém Janu pod Skalou, to je opatrný nádech, mysterium ticha, vědomí ne-li zápasu, tak alespoň existence mocných sil a také chuť smrti, která je delší než pozemský život. Skrze podzemí přicházíme sami k sobě, ale z druhé strany.
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Guitar - The World's Most Seductive Instrument
Celebrate the world's most seductive instrument. An obsessive, full-colour gift book, Guitar captures the soul, the significance, the history, the magic, the raw mojo of the guitar in all of its beauty and variety.
Written by David Schiller, author of Guitars and the Guitars wall calendar, here are 200 instruments in stunning detail. Iconic instruments - Leo Fender's history-making "Broadcaster," Les Paul's log, the Gretsch Country Gentleman, the trio of Martins (D-18, D-28, OM-28) collected, coveted and also copied by every important guitar builder since. Historic instruments - Eric Clapton's Brownie, George Harrison's hand-painted Rocky, Prince's Yellow Cloud, Willie Nelson's Trigger, the Hauser that was inextricably bound up with Andres Segovia's preeminent artistry. Hand-carved archtop jazz guitars, pinnacles of the luthier's art, from John D'Angelico to Ken Parker. There are instruments from a new wave of female builders, including Shelley D. Park, Joshia de Jonge, and Rosie Heydrich of England, with a guitar she built out of 5,000 year-old wood retrieved from a peat bog. And quirky, one-of-a-kind guitars, like Juha Ruokangas's steampunk masterpiece, "Captain Nemo," and Linda Manzer's Pikasso II built for Pat Metheny - four necks, 72 strings, and a thousand pounds of pressure.
Marrying pure visual pleasure with layers of information, Guitar is a glorious gift for any guitar lover.
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