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Lord Sunday
In this seventh and last book of THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, the mysteries of the House, the Architect, the Trustees, the Keys and the Will are revealed, and the fate of Arthur, our Earth, and the entire Universe is finally decided. Arthur has wrested the Sixth Key from Superior Saturday, but has fallen from the Incomparable Gardens, fallen not to the Upper House but to somewhere completely unexpected. Alone in enemy territory, as his mind and body are further transformed by the power of the Keys, Arthur must struggle with himself as much as with his many enemies. Meanwhile, Arthur's friend Suzy Blue plots an escape from her prison in Saturday's tower, as battle rages above and below. Saturday's elite force is pressing on into the Incomparable Gardens, while her massed sorcerers fight a desperate rear-guard action against the Piper and his Newnith army. On earth, Leaf has to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear strike. Responsible for all the Sleepers in Friday's private hospital, she needs all the help she can get, particularly as Leaf herself has become a target for intruders from the House. And the tide of Nothing continues to rise, destroying everything in its path ...
Ramones, The - It's Alive 2LP
KDO: Americká skupina patří k nejvlivnějším punkovým spolkům sedmdesátých a osmdesátých let. Proslavila se divokými koncerty a nekompromisními postoji. Ramones se objevují v mnoha přehledech nejdůležitějších kapel hudební historie, časopis Spin je dokonce v roce 2002 zařadil na druhé místo za Beatles.
CO: Kampaní Start Your Ear Off Right vydavatelství Rhino tradičně vítá nový rok. V rámci aktivit pro rok 2020 jsou k dispozici vinylové reedice celé řady desek, které jsou z historického hledicka vnímány jako důležité až zásadní. Jedná se o alba skupin The Replacements, Deep Purple, Devo, Ramones, MC5, Bad Company, Sex Pistols, Uncle Tupelo nebo interpretů jako Van Morrison, Stevie Nicks, Waren Zevon či soundtrack k seríálu Twin Peaks.
LP1
1. Rockaway Beach (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:24]
2. Teenage Lobotomy (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:53]
3. Blitzkrieg Bop (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:06]
4. I Wanna Be Well (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:23]
5. Glad to See You Go (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:50]
6. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:36]
7. You're Gonna Kill That Girl (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:33]
8. I Don't Care (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:39]
9. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:15]
10. Havana Affair (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:34]
11. Commando (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:41]
12. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:54]
13. Surfin' Bird (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:19]
14. Cretin Hop (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:52]
LP2
1. Listen to My Heart (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:34]
2. California Sun (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:45]
3. I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:22]
4. Pinhead (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:50]
5. Do You Wanna Dance? (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:38]
6. Chainsaw (Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:28]
7. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:02]
8. Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77; 2019 Remaster) [02:02]
9. Judy Is a Punk (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:13]
10. Suzy Is a Headbanger (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:52]
11. Let's Dance (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:06]
12. Oh, Oh, I Love Her So (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:38]
13. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [01:20]
14. We're a Happy Family (Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, 12/31/77) [2019 Remaster] [02:09]
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Lady Friday
Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House. The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nix's best selling fantasy series,The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligon's adventures in the House get ever more perilous as the week unfolds. On the fifth day, there was fear! Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Initial Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door. Arthur can't even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is that Leaf isn't on earth any more. She's missing and so are hundreds of other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private institution run by a 'Doctor Friday'. From there they have been taken somewhere else in the Secondary Realms, for Lady Friday's own horrible purposes. Amid all this trouble, Arthur's mother is also missing, and he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize -- before Superior Saturday or the Piper beats him to it.
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Broken Homes - The Fourth PC Grant Mystery
Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the bestseller list with his superb London crime series. A unique blend of police procedural, loving detail about the greatest character of all, London, and a dash of the supernatural.A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil - an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common garden serial killer?Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load. So far so London.But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on an housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate. Is there a connection?And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River? Full of warmth, sly humour and a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London, Aaronovitch's series has swiftly added Grant's magical London to Rebus' Edinburgh and Morse's Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra.
Aesops Illustrated Fables
As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesops fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesops most entertaining and enduring stories, from 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' to 'The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs' and 'The Wolf in Sheeps Clothing'. Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human type, from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice and grateful lions, these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humour, insight and wit, the tales in Aesops Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.
Alice in Wonderland
The classic story - Alice in Wonderland - from Ladybird! A brilliant introduction to the much-loved story of Alice in Wonderland. Find out what happens when Alice goes down a rabbit hole and meets all sorts of crazy characters. Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds. Ladybird's First Favourite Tales series is hugely popular and is a great introduction to the most important fairy tales. With a new look and great covers, the books are just as fun to read as ever. Make sure you look out for the other tales in the series, too! Puss in Boots; Hansel and Gretel; The Ugly Duckling; The Elves and the Shoemaker; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; The Gingerbread Man; Little Red Riding Hood; The Three Little Pigs; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; Chicken Licken; The Enormous Turnip; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Little Red Hen; Little Red Riding Hood; The Magic Porridge Pot; The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen; and The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella.
Wizard of Oz: Ladybird First Favourite Tales
The classic American story - The Wizard of Oz - from Ladybird! A brilliant introduction to the classic American tale. Find out what happens when Dorothy is transported from Kansas to the magical land of Oz and sets out on the Yellow Brick Road. Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds. Ladybird's First Favourite Tales series is hugely popular and is a great introduction to the most important fairy tales. With a new look and great covers the books are still just as fun to read as ever. Make sure you look out for the other tales in the series, too! Puss in Boots; Hansel and Gretel; The Ugly Duckling; The Elves and the Shoemaker; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; The Gingerbread Man; Little Red Riding Hood; The Three Little Pigs; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; Chicken Licken; The Enormous Turnip; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Little Red Hen; Little Red Riding Hood; The Magic Porridge Pot; The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen; and Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland.
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Beartown
New York Times bestseller - The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream--and the price required to make it come true. "You'll love this engrossing novel." --People "Backman is a masterful writer, his characters familiar yet distinct, flawed yet heroic....There are scenes that bring tears, scenes of gut-wrenching despair, and moments of sly humor....A thoroughly empathetic examination of the fragile human spirit." --Kirkus Reviews People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.
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Lights Out in Wonderland
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destina
tion is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, "Lights Out In Wonderland" documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursu
it of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowe
ls of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes. "Lights Out In Wonderland" carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel's voice, which is at
once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre's third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as
a joyful expression of the human spirit.
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Finders Keepers
The second book in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch), an AT&T Audience Original Series, now in its second season!
"Stephen King's superb new stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery" (The Washington Post)-the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.
"Wake up, genius." So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn't released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein's unpublished work...including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away-the money and the manuscripts no one but Gold ever saw-before being locked up for another horrific crime. But upon Morris's release thirty-five years later, he's about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure-and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance...
Not since Misery has Stephen King played with the notion of a reader and murderous obsession, filled with "nail biting suspense that's the hallmark of [his] best work" (Publishers Weekly).
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Let Me Tell You
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist. 'The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ...The whole of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind, which was ruminant and generous ...For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses' - Paul Theroux, New York Times 'Shirley Jackson made a reputation with a short story in 1948. Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short stories from the New Yorker, and never forgot it. Let Me Tell You is a rich, enjoyable compendium of her unpublished short fiction and occasional writings, kicking off with a story of a dozen pages, 'Paranoia', which I won't forget, either' - Tom Stoppard, TLS Books of the Year
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Fashion Designers A-Z Massoni
From Azzedine Alaia, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel, to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, a century’s worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology are celebrated in this limited-edition volume. Photographs of over 500 garments selected from the Museum’s permanent collection illuminate each of the featured designers, while texts by the curators explain why each designer is important in fashion history and what is special about the individual pieces featured. In her introductory essay, director and chief curator Valerie Steele writes about the rise of the fashion museum, and the emergence of the fashion exhibition as a popular and controversial phenomenon; and both Steele and contributor Suzy Menkes provide a history of this museum’s role in the world of fashion scholarship and preservation.
Fashion Designers A–Z is available as a series of six Designer Editions. Each edition (a total of 11,000 copies) is bound in a fabric created by one of six designers—Akris, Etro, Stella McCartney, Missoni, Prada, and Diane von Furstenberg—and comes in a Plexiglas box. Crafted by hand at a bindery in the heart of Italy, and stamped with a unique number, every copy is an instant classic, and an addition to your fashion library that is truly one-of-a-kind.
For the covers of the Missoni Edition, limited to just 2,000 numbered copies, the Missoni family selected a colorful array of 20 different zigzag-striped knit from its vast archives. The fabrics exemplify the company’s optimistic, playful approach to pattern since the 1970s. Due to the high number of fabric options, not all are pictured here.
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Vogue The Editor`s Eye
In September 2012, Vogue, the world's most influential fashion magazine, will celebrate its 120th Anniversary. Many of Vogue's hundreds of gorgeous images have remained timeless. With work by photographers such as Steichen, Horst, Avedon, Penn, Newton, Leibovitz, Testino, Weber, among others, Vogue: The Editor's Eye is a visual journey through the choices and images that have shaped fashion and the way it is interpreted inside and outside of the industry. On the other side of the lens, this book pays homage the models who are celebrated for their charisma and versatility, including Suzy Parker, Lisa Fossagrives, Jean Shrimpton, Linda Evangelista, Natalia Vodianova; the most memorable, have become pop culture touchstones that have far outlasted their context and influenced fashion for generations. What remains unexamined is the unseen but critical role of the Fashion Editor in creating the world's best fashion images. The Editor's Eye sets out to change this, bringing fascinating new insight to the study and appreciation of fashion. With the same photographer, the same model and the same clothes, three different Fashion Editors would produce three vastly different images. This book defines the role the fashion editor plays in the conception, tone and look of a published photograph, bringing an entirely new vantage point to the study and appreciation of fashion. Drawing on Vogue magazine's exceptional archive, and selecting 8 of Vogue's all time great Fashion Editors: Polly Mellen, Babs Simpson, Grace Coddington, Tonne Goodman, Camilla Nickerson, Phyllis Posnick and others, The Editor's Eye delivers a chapter on each editor and includes photo portfolios, essays and interviews. Writers include Judith Thurman, Vince Aletti and Michael Roberts.
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Angličtina - konverzace pro pokročilé - 3.vydání
Topic-based Vocabulary for Advanced Learners
Moderní učebnice prověřená mnohaletou praxí doplněná e-learningovou podporou
V ČEM SE TATO UČEBNICE LIŠÍ OD JINÝCH?
Jde s dobou, ale současně vychází z prověřených učebních metod.
Tato učebnice je kolektivním dílem. K jeho vytvoření přispěla celá řada českých učitelů a rodilých mluvčích, kteří v průběhu několika desetiletí řešili stejný problém – jak naučit studenty mluvit anglicky tak, aby byli schopni komunikovat v každodenních situacích a byli připraveni úspěšně splnit požadavky jazykových zkoušek na vyšší úrovni (podle Společného evropského rámce úrovně B2 až C2).
V dnešní době se stále více lidí učí angličtinu i po ukončení studia na různých typech škol. Samostudium a využití možností, které nabízí internet, se stává součástí běžného života. Je proto třeba, aby i studijní a výukové materiály „šly s dobou“ a byly šity na míru dnešním studentům. Cvičení obsažená v původním vydání učebnice byla určena převážně pro práci ve třídě. Nyní je součástí učebnice také klíč a slovníček zahrnující nejdůležitější výrazy.
Důležitou součástí učebnice je e-learningová podpora na adrese:
http://go.phil.muni.cz/anglictina
nebo
http://psknihy.cz/anglictina-konverzace-pro-pokrocile
Umožňuje využívat online materiály, vytvořené přímo jako doplněk učebnice, jako například drilování slovíček pomocí aplikace Quizlet, dostupné i pro mobilní telefony a tablety. Najdete zde i řadu dalších studijních materiálů:
poslechová cvičení k učebnici ve formátu MP3
seznamy slovíček ke všem stranám učebnice s překlady pro snadnější přípravu na výuku či samostudium
glosáře kolokací s příkladovými větami seřazené podle témat
otázky a překladové věty ke všem tématům
interaktivní online testy
odkazy na další materiály na internetu
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Vondráčková Helena - Zlatá kolekce: Nejen o lásce 3CD
Tracklist:
CD1
Červená řeka
Pátá
Přejdi Jordán
Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít
Proč mě nikdo nemá rád
Slza z tváře padá
Vzdálený hlas
Dvě malá křídla tu nejsou
Místy (live nahrávka)
Prázdný rám (live nahrávka)
Lásko má, já stůňu
Ty máš tu moc fajn moc
Smíš dál
A ty se ptáš, co já
Copacabana
To je štěstí
Doufám, že to víš
Vodopád
Nahrávám
Sladké mámení
Dlouhá noc
CD2
Ještě světu šanci dej
Čas je proti nám
Stébla snů
Sprint
Sblížení
Zánovní růže
Jsem, jaká jsem
Kam zmizel ten starý song
Tak mi piš dál
Elixír
Hello, Dolly!
Či je lokál
Růže kvetou dál
Slunce (duet s Jiřím Kornem)
Dokud tě přijde slunce hřát
Vím málo
To tehdy padal déšť
Tvou vůni cítím dál
Já půjdu dál
Stín po nás dvou
CD3
Call Me
The Heat Is On
Liebelei
13 jours en France
Nie spoczniemy
A Golden
Treasure Island
Nas ně razlučit’
Archimedes
Speak Softly
Love
Free Again
I’m Sorry
Die Frau für’s Leben
New York, New York
Ich liebe dich, so wie du bist
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Night and Day
Somewhere
Take The Train 1978 (live nahrávka)
Mr. Paganini (live nahrávka)
BONUS: NOVÉ NAHRÁVKY
Čas dál nech spát (duet s Davidem Deylem)
Fuoco nel Fuoco (duet s Davidem Mattiolim a Andreou
Andrei)
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19,19 €
Fashion Designers A-Z Etro xl
From Azzedine Alaia, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel, to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, a century's worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology are celebrated in this limited-edition volume. Photographs of over 500 garments selected from the Museum's permanent collection illuminate each of the featured designers, while texts by the curators explain why each designer is important in fashion history and what is special about the individual pieces featured. In her introductory essay, director and chief curator Valerie Steele writes about the rise of the fashion museum, and the emergence of the fashion exhibition as a popular and controversial phenomenon; and both Steele and contributor Suzy Menkes provide a history of this museum’s role in the world of fashion scholarship and preservation.
Fashion Designers A–Z is available as a series of six Designer Editions. Each edition (a total of 11,000 copies) is bound in a fabric created by one of six designers—Akris, Etro, Stella McCartney, Missoni, Prada, and Diane von Furstenberg—and comes in a Plexiglas box. Crafted by hand at a bindery in the heart of Italy, and stamped with a unique number, every copy is an instant classic, and an addition to your fashion library that is truly one-of-a-kind.
Paisley: it's practically synonymous with the Etro name, and the five Paisley motifs selected by Veronica Etro for the Etro Edition of 2,000 numbered copies are classic examples. For decades the company has explored and reinterpreted the classic droplet-shaped vegetable decoration, rich in history and meanings, through experimentation and technology, drawing from the past into the present with timeless international style. Orders placed online will be fulfilled with one of the pictured Etro fabrics.
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Beowulf
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf 'snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is 'a mere treasure story', 'just another dragon tale'. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is 'the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history' that raises it to another level. 'The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The "treasure" is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.' Sellic Spell, a 'marvellous tale', is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the 'historical legends' of the Northern kingdoms.
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13,95 €
Travel Anthology
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term Lonely Planet collaborator Don George. The 35 impassioned stories included in this collection - of fortune tellers, tribal baboon hunters, a friendly Japanese family, and other notable characters - span a worldwide spectrum of themes, styles and settings, but all show how travel in its unexpected turns tests and teaches us, making us aware that we are resilient, that we are not alone, and that there is so much love and connection to be had if we open ourselves up. This collection affirms that if we follow the compass of the heart, we will always find our way. Whether you read the book on the road or in an armchair at home, these tales are sure to entertain, amuse and inform you, and resonate long after the book is finished. 'As you travel through these pages, may your mind be widened, your spirit enlivened, and your own path illuminated by these worldly word-journeys.' ---Don George With sparkling contributions from some of the most acclaimed names in contemporary fiction and travel writing plus some new voices from around the world, including: Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, TC Boyle, Karen Joy Fowler, Pico Iyer, Torre DeRoche, Blane Bachelor, Rebecca Dinerstein, Jan Morris, Elizabeth George, Jane Hamilton, Alexander McCall Smith, Keija Parssinen, Mridu Khullar Relph, Yulia Denisyuk, Emily Koch, Carissa Kasper, Jessica Silber, Candace Rose Rardon, Marilyn Abildskov, Shannon Leone Fowler, Robin Cherry, Robert Twigger, Porochista Khakpour, Natalie Baszile, Suzy Joinson, Anthony Sattin, LH McMillin, Bridget Crocker, Maggie Downs, Bishwanath Ghosh, Jeff Greenwald, James Dorsey and Tahir Shah. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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11,88 €
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Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood is a Level Two Read it Yourself book from Ladybird. Read it yourself is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers, they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales and exciting stories will amuse children and encourage them to progress further with this series and become confident readers. Each book in the Read it yourself with Ladybird series is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear, beautiful pictures for extra support and interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with comprehension. This Read it yourself version of Little Red Riding Hood is a level 2 title and so suitable for children who can read short, simple sentences with help. The story is told simply, with frequent repetition of the main story words and phrases. Trust Ladybird to help your child learn to read and become a confident reader. Level 1 Rumpelstiltskin; The Enormous Turnip; The Ugly Duckling; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Cinderella; Little Red Hen; The Magic Porridge Pot; The Three Billy Goats Gruff Level 2 Chicken Licken; Sly Fox and Red Hen; Town Mouse and Country Mouse; The Gingerbread Man; Little Red Riding Hood; Sleeping Beauty; The Three Little Pigs; Level 3 Rapunzel; Hansel and Gretel; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Elves and the Shoemaker Level 4 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Heidi; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and The Wizard of Oz.
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4,28 €
4,50 €