Hľadanie: The Language of Thorns
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The Queen of Attolia
Revenge, but at what price?
When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face.
So when Eugenides taunts her by brazenly breaking into her stronghold one more time, she is willing to do anything - even risk her country - to execute the perfect revenge . . .
Originek 1: The Darkest Star – A legsötétebb csillag
Ebben a könyvben aztán van minden – érzelem, romantika, akció, szerelem, barátság, hazugság és megtévesztés. – Star-Crossed Book Blog
A 17 éves Evie Dasher a saját bőrén tapasztalta meg az emberiség és az idegenek között kirobbant háború következményeit. Amikor egy razzia során pont az egyik hírhedt klubban tartózkodik, ahol az embereket és a túlélő luxeneket is szívesen látják, megismerkedik az éteri szépségű Luc-kel, akiről kezdetben azt feltételezi, hogy luxen… pedig valójában valami sokkal erősebb. Luc iránti vonzalma egyre mélyebbre sodorja egy számára eddig ismeretlen világba, ahol semmi sem az, aminek látszik…
Titkok, hazugságok és szerelem… ugorj fejest a luxenek elképesztő világába!
Root - The Temple In The Underworld (30th Anniversary Remaster) CD
KDO: Root je česká blackmetalová legenda. V jeho čele stál Jiří Valter přezdívaný Big Boss.
CO: Album The Temple In The Underworld vychází v 30. výročí původního vydání v remasterované podobě. Jedná se o analogový remastering z původních zdrojů.
CD
1. Intro
2. Casilda's Song
3. Temple In The Underworld
4. Aposiopesis
5. Solitude / instr.
6. Voices From ...
7. The Wall
8. The Old Ones
9. Message
10. My Name ...
11. My Deep Mystery
12. Freebee
The Chancellor : The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON
From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People
An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world.
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West.
Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor's inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel's success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she's cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.
Famously private, the woman who emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one's moral convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the most extraordinary women of our time.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Gloria Scott (EN)
Sherlock Holmes is still a student when he receives his very first case. While still in college, he is invited to the house of his good friend, Victor Trevor. There he meets Trevor’s father, who challenges Holmes to analyze him, so that he can test the young detective’s investigative skills. Holmes touches a nerve after mentioning a person with the initials "J.
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Lacná kniha The Brightest Star in the Sky (-90%)
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it – yet... One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most unexpected of ways…
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The Invention of Medicine
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented.
Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath and the many writings that survive under his name. He then focuses on seven core texts which give the case histories of named individuals, showing that books 1 and 3 belong far earlier than previously recognised. Their re-dating has important consequences for the medical awareness of the great Greek dramatists and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Robin Lane Fox pieces together the doctor's thinking from his terse observations and relates it in a new way to the history of Greek prose and ideas.
This original and compelling book opens windows onto many other aspects of the classical world, from women's medicine to street-life, empire, art, sport, sex and even botany. It fills a dark decade in a new way and carries readers along an extraordinary journey form Homer's epics to the grateful heirs of the Greek case histories, first in the Islamic world and then in early modern Europe.
Strummer Joe & The Mescaleros - Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years 7LP
KDO: Joe Strummer (rodným jménem John Graham Mellor; 21. srpna 1952 Ankara – 22. prosince 2002 Broomfield) byl britský kytarista a zpěvák punkové skupiny The Clash a později skupiny Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros. Skupinu The Clash založil roku 1976 spolu s basákem Paulem Simononem, kytaristou Keithem Levenenem a bubeníkem Terrym Chimesem. Dne 22. prosince 2002 ve svém domě zemřel na vrozenou srdeční vadu.
CO: Kompilace „Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years“ je prvním uceleným pohledem na tvorbu Joe Strummera v období spolupráce s kapelou The Mescaleros. Obsahuje tři společná alba „Rock Art and the X-Ray Style“ (1999), „Global a Go-Go“ (2001) a posmrtné „Streetcore“ (2003).
LP1
1. A1 Tony Adams
2. A2 Sandpaper Blues
3. B1 X-Ray Style
4. B2 Techno D-Day
5. B3 The Road To Rock 'N' Roll
LP2
1. C1 Diggin' The New
2. C2 Nitcomb
3. C3 Forbidden City
4. D1 Yalla Yalla
5. D2 Willesden To Cricklewood
LP3
1. E1 Johnny Appleseed
2. E2 Cool 'N' Out
3. E3 Global A GO-Go
4. E4 Bhindi Bhagee
5. F1 Gamma Ray
6. F2 Mega Bottle Ride
7. F3 Shaktar Donetsk
LP4
1. G1 Mondo Bongo
2. G2 Bummed Out City
3. G3 At The Border, Guy
4. H1 Minstrel Boy
LP5
1. I1 Coma Girl
2. I2 Get Down Moses
3. I3 Long Shadow
4. I4 Arms Aloft
5. I5 Ramshackle Day Parade
6. J1 Redemption Song
7. J2 All In A Day
8. J3 Burnin' Streets
9. J4 Midnight Jam
10. J5 Silver And Gold
LP6
1. K1 Techno D-Day (Demo)
2. K2 Ocean Of Dreams
3. K3 Forbidden City (Demo)
4. L1 X-Ray Style (Demo)
5. L2 Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll (Demo)
6. L3 Tony Adams (Demo)
7. L4 Cool ‘N’ Out (Demo)
LP7
1. M1 Global A Go-Go (Demo)
2. M2 Secret Agent Man
3. M3 All In A Day (Demo)
4. M4 London Is Burning
5. N1 Get Down Moses (Outtake)
6. N2 Fantastic
7. N3 Coma Girl (Outtake)
The Fifth Queen
His portrait of Catherine Howard, impulsive, warm-hearted, truth-speaking, yet daring admidst the most un-principled intrigue, is singularly attractive and life-like, making an admirable foil to the grimly-conceived Lady Mary.
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The Vikings (EN)
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ‘go a’viking’ meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometimes this was a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid. Often it was both.
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8,00 €
Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja. From Aluk Todolo to
Kniha s názvem Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja; From Aluk Todolo to "New" Religions pojednává o etniku Toradžů, jež obývá provincie Tana Toraja a Toraja Utara v jižní části indonéského ostrova Sulawesi. Práce se zabývá jejich kulturou a soustředí se na nejvýznamnější soudobý toradžský rituál – pohřeb. Její jádro je rozděleno do dvou kapitol – první z nich představuje etnikum Toradžů a důležité aspekty jejich kultury, druhá kapitola je založena především na výsledcích terénního výzkumu autorky. Zabývá se tím, co se stane s duší zesnulého člověka podle náboženství Aluk Todolo, jak musí pozůstalí naložit s jeho tělem a do jaké míry společenský původ ovlivňuje ještě i v současnosti typ a délku funerálního rituálu.
Cílem této knihy je nastínit podobu funerálního rituálu v jeho původní formě a zachytit zásadní sociální a náboženské změny, ke kterým dochází v toradžské společnosti od počátku 20. století, kdy na jejich území vstoupili první nizozemští misionáři. Autorka knihy se snažila zjistit, do jaké míry jsou soudobé toradžské rituály synkretickým útvarem – snoubí se v nich totiž autochtonní víra Aluk Todolo a zvykové právo adat s nově přijatými náboženstvími. Práce tedy poukazuje na to, jak nově přijatá náboženství ovlivnila podobu rituálů, soustředí se zejména na jejich formální a principiální významové posuny.
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The War of Nerves
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears.
Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War, framing it for the first time from a psychological perspective. Revisiting towering personalities like Khrushchev, Kennedy and Nixon, as well as the lives of the unknown millions who were caught up in the conflict, this is a gripping account of fear itself - and in today's uncertain times, it is more resonant than ever.
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B. J. Harrison Reads Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg (EN)
When the wealthy English gentleman Bertie Wooster meets with his friend Francis "Bicky" Bickersteth, he hears that his friend is in a bit of a pickle. As usual, Bertie turns to his ever-trustworthy valet Jeeves for advice. In a game of pretend, the three try to solve Bicky’s problem but only end up complicating matters further.
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The Old Testament 29 - Joel (EN)
The genre of Joel is Narrative and Prophetic Oracle. The prophet Joel wrote it around 841-835 B. C. sometime before the fall and exiles of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. Key personalities are Joel and the people of Judah. Its purpose was to call the Southern Kingdom to repentance or prepare for the coming judgment.
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The Well-Beloved (EN)
Jocelyn Pierston, a successful sculptor, is helpless in the face of ‘the well-beloved’: the manifestation of perfect womanhood that seems to move like a will-o’-the-wisp from one acquaintance to the next. It shapes his whole life. Where his artistry involves permanence – cold stone objects – his heart is caught by ephemeral beauty.
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The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek culture.
From the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to the role of women, The Use of Pleasure is full of extraordinary insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds, showing how sex became a moral issue in the west.
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The Old Testament 31 - Obadiah (EN)
The book of Obadiah is a book of Prophetic Oracles. The prophet Obadiah wrote it. Its authorship is difficult to date but was possibly written about 853-841 B. C. or 605-586 B. C. The key personalities are the Edomites. The purpose of Obadiah is to show that God will judge all those who are against His children, His chosen people; Edom is used as the example of this truth.
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The Man Who Ended War
The Secretary of War of the United States receives a letter sent to his and all other nations, declaring that war has too long devastated the earth and the time has come for peace. It orders them to destroy their weapons of warfare and disband their militaries. The letter ends: "One year from this date will I allow for disarmament and no more. At the end of that time, if no heed has been paid to my injunction, I will destroy, in rapid succession, every battleship in the world. By the happenings of the next two months you shall know that my words are the words of truth." It is signed "The man who will stop all war."The government officials at first dismiss this as a letter from a crank. Then a few battleships vanish, one per week, without a trace. What new technology enables this man to carry out his threat? Can he be found and stopped? Will the major powers of the world agree to disarm or will they blame each other and start a war?Recipe: Take an American investigative reporter, add his science professor friend and the professor's beautiful intelligent sister, throw in some early 20th century quasi-science, some romantic longing, some detective work in London, and a good measure of suspense.
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Seduced in the Library (EN)
"He pushes her against the wall in the shower. She lifts her legs over his hips, making him carry her weight. She can feel the bulge in his trousers pressing against her pussy. It's as hard as his flexing biceps. " She knows that it's not appropriate. She knows that she shouldn't be reading this here, among all these other people.
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5,99 €